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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#10151

Leysia Palen

#92518

Overall Influence

Leysia Palen is an American computer scientist known for her contributions to human–computer interaction and disaster informatics. She is a professor of computer science, professor of information science, and founding chair of information science at the University of Colorado Boulder. At Colorado, she directs a research project titled "Empowering the Public with Information during Crisis", and is co-director of the Center for Software & Society. She also holds an adjunct affiliation with the University of Agder, and is a member of the CHI Academy.

#10152

John J. Zhang

#80101

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

John Jin Zhang is a medical scientist who has made contributions in fertility research, and particularly in in vitro fertilization. He made headlines in September 2016 for successfully producing the world's first three-parent baby using the spindle transfer technique of mitochondrial replacement. Having obtained an M.D. from Zhejiang University School of Medicine, an M.Sc. from University of Birmingham, and a Ph.D. from University of Cambridge, he became the founder-director of New Hope Fertility Center in New York, USA.

#10153

Russell Van Gelder

#152612

Overall Influence

Russell Van Gelder is an American clinician-scientist and a board-certified ophthalmologist. He is most known for his work in the mechanisms of uveitis disease, his research on non-visual photoreception in the eye, and on vision-restoration methods for retinal degenerative disease.

#10154

Francisco José Ramos

#148250

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Francisco José Ramos is a Puerto Rican philosopher, poet, and retired university professor. He is the author of the philosophical trilogy Aesthetics of Thought. He is also a numerary member of the Puerto Rican Spanish Academy.

#10155

Keith Sykes

#124209

Overall Influence

1925 - 2019 (94 years)

Sir Malcolm Keith Sykes was an English consultant anaesthetist. Early life and education Sykes was born in Clevedon, Somerset, the only son of economist Joseph Sykes and Phyllis Mary Greenwood. He studied at Magdalene College, Cambridge, then underwent training in anaesthetics while serving in the Royal Army Medical Corps, and at University College Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital.

#10156

Alan L. Schiller

#38799

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Alan L. Schiller, M.D. is an American clinical pathologist and an expert in the effects of space and weightlessness on bone structure. Schiller has served on the Space Science Board of the Committee on Space Biology and Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and as a member of the Life and Microgravity Sciences and Applications Advisory Committee of NASA. He currently serves on the board of directors of the National Space Biomedical Research Institute.

#10157

Leona Baumgartner

#70298

Overall Influence

1902 - 1991 (89 years)

Leona Baumgartner was an American physician. She was the first woman to serve as Commissioner of New York City's Department of Health . She was a strong advocate of health education and a pioneer in promoting health services among New York's immigrant and poverty-stricken population.

#10158

Brian Glenney

#119884

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (52 years)

Brian Glenney is an American Philosopher and Graffiti Artist most known for co-founding a street art project turned movement known as the Accessible Icon Project. The movement re-designed the International Symbol of Access to display an active, engaged image with focus on the person with disability. “It was intended as a kind of radical statement,” says Elizabeth Guffey, author of Designing Disability: Symbols, Space, and Society and professor of art history at SUNY Purchase. “The very oddity of it is people started taking it seriously as a new symbol, and it’s such a weird life that it’s liv...

#10159

José Barata-Moura

#141355

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

José Adriano Rodrigues Barata-Moura, GOSE is a Portuguese philosopher, and a prestigious actual figure of the Portuguese culture. Dedicating his thought to many philosophical subjects such as politics, ethics and, most of all, to ontology. From May 7, 1998 until May 22, 2006, Barata-Moura served as the Rector of the University of Lisbon. He graduated from the University of Lisbon as a philosophy student in 1970. Nowadays, José Barata-Moura teaches Ancient Philosophy, the Philosophy of the German Idealism and Marxist Philosophy in the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon. Still very ...

#10160

Yehuda Sarna

#99772

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Rabbi Yehuda Sarna is Chief Rabbi of the Moses Ben Maimon Synagogue of the Abrahamic Family House in Abu Dhabi, UAE. He is also Executive Director of the Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life at New York University , Adjunct Assistant Professor of Public Administration at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and University Chaplain at NYU.

#10161

John Shannon Hendrix

#89599

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

John Shannon Hendrix is an architectural historian and philosopher who has written and lectured extensively on the subjects of architecture, art, philosophy, aesthetics, psychoanalysis, science, culture and history. Much of his work focuses on connections among those topics, such as interactions of vision, perception, and sensation with the arts and architecture, the relationships between psychoanalysis and architecture, physical sciences and architecture, and philosophy and architecture. His career focuses on research and writing about "mostly European precedents in architecture and philos...

#10162

Blake Papsin

#168791

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Blake Croll Papsin, FACS is a Canadian otolaryngologist who has worked at the Hospital for Sick Children since 1996. Following his graduation from the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine, he worked at Mount Sinai Hospital as an associate professor, and following surgical training in cochlear implants, he became known for implantation of those techniques. In 2014 he led the team that discovered that putting infants too close to an improperly used white noise machine could put infants at a high risk of developing hearing loss.

#10163

Julia Steinberger

#170112

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

#10164

Ramon Lobato

#113755

Overall Influence

Ramon Lobato is an author, researcher, and scholar of cultural industries. The focus of his research is on video distribution networks, and how they structure audience access, discovery, and content diversity. He is currently Associate Professor of Media and Communication at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia.

#10165

Mark Dyer

#90524

Overall Influence

1930 - 2014 (84 years)

James Michael Mark Dyer was bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Bethlehem from 1982 to 1995. Early life Dyer was born on June 7, 1930, in Manchester, New Hampshire, the son of James M. Dyer and Anna Mahoney, both of Irish descent. He was baptised as a Roman Catholic in the Church of St Anne in Manchester, New Hampshire, on June 21, 1930. He was educated at St Joseph's Cathedral High School and graduated in 1948. During the Korean War, he served in the US Navy. He was discharged on November 18, 1954, and studied at the American College of the University of Louvain in Belgium, where he studied contemporary philosophy between 1957 and 1959.

#10166

Rolf Kreienberg

Rolf Kreienberg

#84705

Overall Influence

1946 - 2021 (75 years)

Rolf Kreienberg was a German gynaecologist and obstetrician. Life From 1966 to 1971, Kreienberg studied medicine at the universities of Mainz, Germany and Vienna, Austria. After his preliminary examination he temporarily stayed at the University of Vienna, Austria. In 1971, he passed the state medical examination in Mainz and completed his doctoral thesis in 1972, earning his license to practice medicine in 1973.

#10167

Kenneth L. Schmitz

#168473

Overall Influence

1922 - 2017 (95 years)

Kenneth L. Schmitz was a Canadian philosopher. He was a president of the Metaphysical Society of America . See also Francis Martin

#10168

Norbert Pallua

#70228

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Norbert Pallua is a surgeon noted for contributions to plastic surgery, including facial reconstruction using flaps, regeneration, and burn rehabilitation. Works He treated Sergei Filin for facial burns after the latter's acid attack. He was head of the Department of Plastic Surgery, Hand and Burns Surgery at the Uniklinikum Aachen until July 2017.

#10169

Phil Ramone

#24398

Overall Influence

1934 - 2013 (79 years)

Philip Rabinowitz , better known as Phil Ramone, was a South African-born American recording engineer, record producer, violinist and composer, who in 1958 co-founded A & R Recording, Inc., a recording studio with business partner Jack Arnold at 112 West 48th Street, New York, upstairs from the famous musicians' watering hole, Jim & Andy's, and several doors east of Manny's Music. The success of the original A & R Recording allowed it to expand into several studios and a record production company. He was described by Billboard as "legendary", and the BBC as a "CD pioneer".

#10170

Alexander Litschev

#115976

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Alexander Litschev is a Bulgarian historian and university lecturer in philosophical anthropology and the history of philosophy at the University of Düsseldorf. Biography Early life and work In 1967 Litschev began to study history and philosophy at the University of Sofia. After graduating in 1973, he worked for two years as an assistant for the history of philosophy at the University of Sofia. From 1976 to 1990 he worked as a research assistant at the Institute of Philosophy. From 1988 to 1990, he taught as a professor of the history of philosophy and philosophical anthropology at the Unive...

#10171

Ian Angus

#161924

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Ian Henderson Angus is an interdisciplinary philosopher and social critic who writes on continental philosophy, Canadian studies, communication theory, social movements, ecological thought, and the university.

#10172

Philip Hugh-Jones

Philip Hugh-Jones

#131379

Overall Influence

1917 - 2010 (93 years)

Philip Hugh-Jones FRCP was a British respiratory physician and Medical Research Council researcher who during the Second World War investigated the effects of gun fumes on tank operators in Dorset and the effect of coal dust on Welsh coal miners with particular relevance to pneumoconiosis. This work led to future post-war pioneering research in lung physiology, the effect of asbestos on the lungs and lung diseases including emphysema.

#10173

Toto Cutugno

#47567

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Salvatore "Toto" Cutugno was an Italian pop singer-songwriter and musician. He was best known for his worldwide hit song, "", released on his 1983 album of the same title. Cutugno also won the Eurovision Song Contest 1990 held in Zagreb, SFR Yugoslavia, with the song "", for which he wrote both the lyrics and music. He has been described as "one of the most popular singers in Italy and a symbol of Italian melody abroad", as well as "one of the most popular Italian performers on a global scale" and "one of the most successful Italian songwriters of all time", selling over 100 million records ...

#10174

Selahattin Özmen

#36033

Overall Influence

Selahattin Özmen is a Turkish plastic surgeon and a full professor of plastic surgery at the Koç University School of Medicine, department of plastic surgery and American Hospital Department of Plastic Surgery in İstanbul. he performed Turkey's third face transplant in 2012 at Gazi University / Ankara.

#10175

Paul Raushenbush

#82823

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Paul Brandeis Raushenbush is a US writer, editor, and religious activist. He currently serves as president and CEO of Interfaith Alliance and formerly served as Senior Advisor for Public Affairs and Innovation at Interfaith America . He was Senior Vice President and editor of Voices at Auburn Seminary. From 2009 to 2015 he was the Executive Editor Of Global Spirituality and Religion for Huffington Post's Religion section, and formerly served as editor of BeliefNet. From 2003 to 2011, Raushenbush served as Associate Dean of Religious Life and the Chapel at Princeton University, and served as President of the Association Of College and University Religious Affairs from 2009 to 2011.

#10176

Dean Moyar

#170245

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Dean Moyar is an American philosopher and professor of philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. He is known for his expertise on Kant and German Idealism. Books Hegel's Value: Justice as the Living Good The Oxford Handbook of Hegel Hegel's Conscience The Routledge Companion to Nineteenth Century Philosophy ,Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit: A Critical Guide

#10177

Michael J. Graham

#24013

Overall Influence

Michael J. Graham is an American Jesuit priest and educator who was the president of Xavier University between 2001 and 2021. Early life and education Michael Graham was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Graham graduated from Cornell College with a Bachelor of Science. Additionally, Graham earned a Master of Arts degrees in American Studies and psychology, and a doctorate in American Studies from the University of Michigan. Graham was ordained a priest in 1988.

#10178

Hiroshi Mori

#170277

Overall Influence

#10179

Joe G. N. Garcia

#62379

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Joe G. N. "Skip" Garcia is an American pulmonary scientist, physician and academician. Biography and career Garcia was born in 1954 in El Paso, Texas and completed his B.S. in Biology at the University of Dallas in 1976. He received his M.D. from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in 1980. He completed internship and residency training in Internal Medicine at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics and fellowship training in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Albany Medical College .

#10180

Serdar Nasır

#38121

Overall Influence

Serdar Nazif Nasır is a Turkish plastic surgeon. An associate professor at the Hacettepe University Medical School in Ankara, he led the team that performed in February 2012 the second full face transplant in Turkey.

#10181

Wolfram Steinbeck

#112548

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Wolfram Steinbeck is a German musicologist. Life Steinbeck was born in Hagen. He studied musicology, philosophy and modern German literature at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. He received his doctorate in 1972 from Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht with a dissertation on The Minuet in the Instrumental Music of Joseph Haydn. In 1972, he became assistant at the musicological institute of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, where he habilitated in 1979 with the work Struktur und Ähnlichkeit. Methoden automatisierter Melodienanalyse .

#10182

Lynn Schofield Clark

#89335

Overall Influence

Lynn Schofield Clark is an American media critic and scholar whose research focuses on media studies and film studies. She is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Media, Film, and Journalism Studies at the University of Denver. She is author of several books and articles on the role social and visual media play in the lives of diverse U.S. adolescents. In her 2017 book co-authored with Regina Marchi, Young People and the Future of News, Clark and Marchi utilize an ethnographic approach to tell the stories of how young people engage with social media and legacy media both as producers and consumers of news.

#10183

Dieter Misgeld

#107289

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

Dieter Misgeld is a retired professor in the department of Theory and Policy Studies at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education , University of Toronto. He is known for his research on social theory, human rights, political philosophy, hermeneutics and the philosophy of Jürgen Habermas and Hans-Georg Gadamer.

#10184

Herbert Schilder

Herbert Schilder

#146647

Overall Influence

1928 - 2006 (78 years)

Herbert Schilder was a dental surgeon. Schilder is best known for the improvements he made to root canal therapies in the 1960s when he taught at the Boston University School of Dental Medicine. Herbert Schilder received his D.D.S. from New York University, and taught at Tufts University and Temple University prior to permanently joining Boston University in 1958. In his early years after joining Boston University, he founded the specialty program in endodontics to train dentists to become endodontists. He also developed a new technique to fill root canals after disinfection, now known as "S...

#10185

Ron Walters

#27304

Overall Influence

1938 - 2010 (72 years)

Ronald W. Walters was an American author, speaker and scholar of African-American politics. He was director of the African American Leadership Institute and Scholar Practitioner Program, Distinguished Leadership Scholar at the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership, and professor in government and politics at the University of Maryland.

#10186

David Serwadda

#43960

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

David M. Serwadda is a Ugandan physician, medical researcher, academic, public health specialist and medical administrator. Currently he is a Professor of Public Health at Makerere University School of Public Health, one of the schools of Makerere University College of Health Sciences, a semi-autonomous constituent college of Makerere University, the oldest university in Uganda. Serwadda is also a founding member of Accordia Global Health Foundation's Academic Alliance.

#10187

Craig R. Smith

#170345

Overall Influence

#10188

Yves A. Lussier

Yves A. Lussier

#59473

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Yves A. Lussier is a physician-scientist conducting research in Precision medicine, Translational bioinformatics and Personal Genomics. As a co-founder of Purkinje, he pioneered the commercial use of controlled medical vocabulary organized as directed semantic networks in electronic medical records, as well as Pen computing for clinicians.

#10189

Tsion Avital

#127526

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Tsion Avital is an Israeli philosopher of art and culture. Biography Tsion Avital was born to Avraham and Preciada Dorit Avitbol Avital, and grew up in the town of Sefrou in Morocco. Avital immigrated to Israel with his family in January 1951, when he was eleven. He studied philosophy and psychology at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and then pursued an MA in philosophy focusing on aesthetics, taking additional courses in the Department of Art History. His master's thesis, "An Outline of Artonomy," was supervised by Yehuda Elkana and Eddy Zemach. While studying for his doctorate, he spent 1971–1972 at the University of Toronto in Canada.

#10190

Bill Reid

#10838

Overall Influence

1920 - 1998 (78 years)

William Ronald Reid Jr. was a Haida artist whose works include jewelry, sculpture, screen-printing, and paintings. Producing over one thousand original works during his fifty-year career, Reid is regarded as one of the most significant Northwest Coast artists of the late twentieth century.

#10191

Dietrich Kämper

#105585

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

Dietrich Kämper is a German musicologist. Life Born in Melle, Niedersachsen, Kämper studied at the University of Cologne and University of Zurich with research stays in Bologna, Florence and Rome. He received his doctorate in 1963 with a dissertation Franz Wüllner – Leben, Wirken und kompositorisches Schaffen at the University of Cologne, where he habilitated in musicology in 1967. Since 1986 he was the holder of the newly established chair for musicology at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln. In 1995 he was finally appointed to the University of Cologne. His main areas of research were R...

#10192

Erkki Salmenhaara

#123966

Overall Influence

1941 - 2002 (61 years)

Erkki Olavi Salmenhaara was a Finnish composer and musicologist. Personal life Salmenhaara was born in Helsinki, Finland, and married Anja Kosonen in 1961. They had two sons, but divorced in 1978. Salmenhaara died in Helsinki on March 19, 2002.

#10193

Gérard Krause

#122109

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Gérard Krause is a German epidemiologist. He is currently based at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research in Braunschweig. Career After obtaining a doctoral degree in tropical medicine at the University of Heidelberg and several stints as medical doctor and specialist in tropical medicine, Krause moved in 2000 to the Robert Koch Institute, where he worked as an epidemiologist. In 2005 he obtained his habilitation at the Charité in the fields of epidemiology and hygiene. He participated in the successful containment of the Western African Ebola virus epidemic of 2014/2015. As of 2017, he led the SORMAS project at the HZI.

#10194

Bernd Enders

#87156

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Bernd Enders is a German musicologist and from 1994 until his emeritus in 2015, University Professor for Systematic Musicology at the University of Osnabrück. Life Born in Siegen, Enders studied at the and at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln. He graduated with a state examination in several subjects. In 1980 Enders received his doctorate in musicology, philosophy and pedagogy at the University of Cologne and began his teaching career as Studienrat. Since 1981 he was a lecturer in the field of music/musicology at the University of Osnabrück where he received his habilitation in 1986. Fr...

#10195

Asrat Woldeyes

#35790

Overall Influence

1928 - 1999 (71 years)

Asrat Woldeyes was an Ethiopian surgeon, a professor of medicine at Addis Ababa University, and the founder and leader of the All-Amhara People's Organization . He was jailed by the Derg and later by the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front . After his death, The Guardian described him as "successively Ethiopia's most distinguished surgeon, physician and university dean, most controversial political party leader and best known political prisoner".

#10196

Shang Fa Yang

#23347

Overall Influence

1932 - 2007 (75 years)

Shang Fa Yang was a Taiwanese-American botanist. He was a professor at the University of California, Davis. He was awarded the 1991 Wolf Prize in Agriculture and was elected a member of the US National Academy of Sciences the year before.

#10197

Cinzia Casiraghi

#71439

Overall Influence

Cinzia Casiraghi is a Professor of Nanoscience in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Manchester and National Graphene Institute in the UK. Education Casiraghi's undergraduate studies took place at the Politecnico di Milano in Italy, where she obtained a BSc and an MSc in Nuclear Engineering. She completed her PhD in electrical engineering at the University of Cambridge in 2006.

#10198

Ruth Macklin

#115200

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

Ruth Macklin is an American philosopher and retired professor of bioethics. Education Ruth Macklin studied philosophy at Cornell University then received Ph.D. in philosophy from Case Western Reserve University.

#10199

Stuart W. Jamieson

Stuart W. Jamieson

#57283

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Stuart William Jamieson is a British cardiothoracic surgeon, specialising in pulmonary thromboendarterectomy , a surgical procedure performed to remove organized clotted blood from pulmonary arteries in people with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension .

#10200

Gösta Rooth

#99696

Overall Influence

1918 - 2008 (90 years)

Gösta Rooth was a Swedish physician and a pioneer of perinatal medicine. He graduated as a physician at Lund University in 1945 and obtained his PhD, also at Lund, in 1949. He became reader at Lund University in 1958. In 1973, he became Professor of perinatal medicine at Uppsala University Hospital, as the first person to hold a chair in that discipline in Europe.

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