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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

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Victor Aboyans

#137432

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Roman Z. Jaeschke

#137442

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Arthur Z. Eisen

#137445

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Joan Donovan

#22952

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Joan Donovan is an American social science researcher and assistant professor at the College of Communication, Boston University. She was previously a researcher and lecturer at Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University, an affiliate at Data and Society, and was research director of the Technology and Social Change Research Project at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy.

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Murray M. Pollack

#137454

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Al-Tabarani

873 - 971 (98 years)

Abū al-Qāsim Sulaymān ibn Aḥmad ibn Ayyūb ibn Muṭayyir al-Lakhmī al-Shāmī al-Ṭabarānī was a Sunni scholar and jurist known for the extensive volumes of hadith that he published. Biography Imam Al Tabarani was born in 260AH in Tabariya, ash-Sham. He narrated hadiths from more than one thousand scholars . He travelled extensively to many regions to quench his thirst of knowledge which includes Syria, Haramayn Tayyibayn, Yemen, Egypt, Baghdad, Kufa, Basra, Isfahan, etc. He wrote many hadith books . Sayyiduna Abul ‘Abbas Ahmad Bin Mansoor states: I have narrated three hundred thousand Ahadees from Imam Tabarani.

#10157

Haridas Bhattacharya

1891 - 1956 (65 years)

Haridas Bhattacharyya was a Bengali Indian philosopher, author and educationist, known for his works on comparative religion. Early life He was born in an orthodox Brahmin family on 7 November 1891, at Bhatpara, West Bengal to Pandit Ramprasanna Bhattacharyya, a scholar at the princely court of Krishnanagar and a Sanskrit scholar.

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Javad Sharifi‐rad

#137475

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Douglas D. Koch

#137478

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J. Donald Woodruff

#137492

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Dimitrie Cuclin

Dimitrie Cuclin

1885 - 1978 (93 years)

Dimitrie Cuclin was a Romanian classical music composer, musicologist, philosopher, translator, and writer. Biography Early life Dimitrie Cuclin was born in the city of Galaţi, a port on the left shore of the Danube. His father was an immigrant from czarist Bessarabia, from the village of Cucleni, near the town of Izmail. He had studied music at the Theological Seminar of Izmail and at the Universities of Iaşi and Bucharest. At the time of Dimitrie's birth he was a music teacher at the Vasile Alecsandri High School in Galați. His mother was of peasant origin, from the village of Pechea, located about 25 miles from Galați; she was a housewife.

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Stephen Butterfill

Stephen Andrew Butterfill is a British philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick. He is known for his research on philosophical issues in cognitive and developmental psychology.

#10163

Jasvinder K Gambhir

#27012

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Jasvinder K Gambhir is an Indian doctor, researcher and professor in the fields of clinical biochemistry, diabetology and cardiology. Dr Gambhir completed her master's in biochemistry in 1972 from Punjab University and PhD from Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research She has an experience in the field of over 40 years. She is Senior professor and Head of Department, Biochemistry at University College of Medical Sciences, New Delhi and Senior Professor at School of Medical Sciences and Research Noida. Dr. Gambhir is also a member of American Association of Clinical Chemistry ...

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Daniel R. Rudman

#137530

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Alfred A. Rimm

#137536

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Otto-martin Hess

#137548

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David L. Robertson

#137552

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Gerald M. Rosen

#137560

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Gary Gerstenblith

#137562

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Steven M. Gorelick

#137581

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M. F. Cleugh

1913 - 1986 (73 years)

M.F. Cleugh was a philosopher and educationalist. For many years she worked at the University of London in their Education department. On retirement she went to live in Shropshire. She is most known for her 1936 PhD work The problem of time, with special reference to its importance for modern thought also at the University of London, which was published in 1937 by Methuen and which has been reprinted several times. Her later work took a psychological slant on the education of those with particular difficulties... the old, the mature or the "slow" learners. She led a one-year course for teach...

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Heinrich Adolf von Bardeleben

Heinrich Adolf von Bardeleben

1819 - 1895 (76 years)

Heinrich Adolf von Bardeleben was a German surgeon born in Frankfurt . He studied medicine at the Universities of Heidelberg, Giessen, Paris and Berlin, receiving his doctorate in 1841 with a thesis on the construction of ductless glands. In 1848 he became an associate professor at Giessen followed by an appointment as a full professor of surgery at the University of Greifswald . In 1868 he returned to Berlin, where he worked at the Charité until his death on 24 September 1895. he was rector of the University of Berlin in 1876–1877.

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Ross Honeywill

#50969

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1949 - Present (77 years)

Ross Honeywill is an Australian social scientist. His books have been published in the US, China, Australia and New Zealand. An Adjunct Associate Professor in business and economics, Honeywill is Chairman of the Social Intelligence Lab, based in Melbourne Australia. He has a PhD from the University of Tasmania.

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Gert Riethmüller

#137591

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Osamu Ogawa

#137593

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Charlotte Werndl

#120181

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Charlotte Werndl is an Austrian philosopher. She holds a chair in logic and philosophy of science at the University of Salzburg and a visiting professorship at the London School of Economics. Werndl is known for her works on philosophy of science and is a winner of Cushing Memorial Prize in History and Philosophy of Physics .

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Jonathan Van-Tam

Jonathan Van-Tam

#17400

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1964 - Present (62 years)

Professor Sir Jonathan Stafford Nguyen Van-Tam is a British healthcare professional specialising in influenza, including its epidemiology, transmission, vaccinology, antiviral drugs and pandemic preparedness.

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Alan N. Houghton

#137623

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Richard von Volkmann

Richard von Volkmann

1830 - 1889 (59 years)

Richard von Volkmann was a prominent German surgeon and author of poetry and fiction. Some of his works were illustrated by his son, Hans, a well known artist. Biography He was born in Leipzig on 17 August 1830, the son of physiologist A.W. Volkmann. Richard entered medical school in Berlin and graduated in 1854. In 1867 he was appointed Professor of Surgery and Director of the Surgical Clinic at Halle where he remained until retirement. He was one of the most prominent surgeons of his day. He died in Jena.

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Georges de La Tour

Georges de La Tour

1593 - 1652 (59 years)

Georges de La Tour was a French Baroque painter, who spent most of his working life in the Duchy of Lorraine, which was temporarily absorbed into France between 1641 and 1648. He painted mostly religious chiaroscuro scenes lit by candlelight.

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David Rae Harder

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Karol Sikora

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1948 - Present (78 years)

Karol Sikora is a British physician specialising in oncology, who has been described as a leading world authority on cancer. He was a founder and medical director of Rutherford Health, a company that provided proton therapy services, and is Director of Medical Oncology at the Bahamas Cancer Centre.

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Robert Lewins

1817 - 1895 (78 years)

Robert Lewins was a British army surgeon and philosopher. He is best known for his collaboration with Constance Naden on their philosophical theory called hylo-idealism. Army career Robert Lewins was a Surgeon Lieutenant Colonel who served with the 63rd Regiment in the Crimean War and the Indian Mutiny among other campaigns. According to his obituary in the British Medical Journal, Lewins was also 'in the expedition to the north of China in 1865 in charge of the hospital ship Mauritius, and was present at the capture of the Taku Forts, receiving the medal'.

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J. R. Anthony Mitchell

#137714

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Sandro Barni

#137724

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June Purvis

#15226

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1940 - Present (86 years)

June Purvis is an emeritus professor of women's and gender history at the University of Portsmouth. From 2014-18, Purvis was Chair of the Women’s History Network UK and from 2015-20 Treasurer of the International Federation for Research in Women’s History. She organized at the University of Portsmouth on 31st August–1st September 2018 the Women's History Network Annual conference on the Campaigns for Women’s Suffrage: National and International Perspectives. She edits the journal Women's History Review.

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Angelo Auricchio

#137751

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Theodore H. Stanley

#137767

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Peeyush K. Lala

#137770

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Grigore T. Popa

Grigore T. Popa

1892 - 1948 (56 years)

Grigore T. Popa was a Romanian physician and public intellectual. Of lowly peasant origin, he managed to obtain a university education and become a professor at two of his country's leading universities. An anatomist by specialty, Popa worked on popularizing modern science, reforming the medical and higher education systems, and, in war hospitals, as a decorated and publicly acclaimed practitioner. His work in endocrinology and neuromorphology was valued abroad, while at home he helped train a generation of leading doctors.

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Sondra Crosby

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Sondra Crosby is an American medical doctor and Professor of Medicine at Boston University, specializing in internal medicine. She is also a faculty member of the Health Law, Bioethics and Human Rights department at the Boston University School of Public Health. Crosby is notable for being one of the first doctors allowed to travel to Guantanamo to independently examine Guantanamo captives.

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Wendy Demark-Wahnefried

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Wendy Demark-Wahnefried is currently employed as a professor, the chair of nutritional sciences, and the associate director for cancer prevention at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. In the past she was employed in the Medical Center at Duke University. Demark-Wahnefried’s training is rooted mostly in biochemistry, behavioral science, and genetics. She graduated from the University of Michigan in 1978 where she earned her bachelor's degree in Nutritional science and Biochemistry. She currently serves as a member of different panels that are very prominent in the field of cancer research.

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Michael J. Solomon

#137798

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Michael Field

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1933 - 2014 (81 years)

Michael Field was an American gastroenterologist celebrated for his work on diarrhea. Biography Born in London and raised in Hamburg until the age of 5, Field and his family fled Germany the day before Kristallnacht and relocated to Pueblo, Colorado. He obtained his medical doctorate from Boston University Medical School in 1959, after first completing a degree in English literature at the University of Chicago, and conducted postdoctoral research at Harvard Medical School before joining the faculty as associate professor of medicine. Field returned to the University of Chicago as professor i...

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Horst-Eberhard Richter

Horst-Eberhard Richter

#22234

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1923 - 2011 (88 years)

Horst-Eberhard Richter was a German psychoanalyst, psychosomatist and social philosopher. The author of numerous books was also regarded by many as the große alte Mann of the Federal German Peace movement.

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Esther M. John

#137822

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Jens Volkmann

#137852

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1967 - Present (59 years)

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Matthew M. Davis

#137856

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Joachim Yahalom

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Abu Hatim Ahmad ibn Hamdan al-Razi

801 - 933 (132 years)

Abū Ḥātim Aḥmad ibn Ḥamdān al-Rāzī was a Persian Ismaili philosopher of the 9th century, who died in 322 AH . He was also the Da'i al-du'at of Ray and the leader of the Ismaili da'wah in Central Persia.

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