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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#10401

Hiroshi Furukawa

#172424

Overall Influence

#10402

Mark Pretorius

#116824

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Mark Pretorius is an evangelical theologian, philosopher and metaphysician. He holds the following degrees: a BTh , a BTh Hons , an M.A. in biblical studies , and a PhD in systematic theology . Pretorius was a senior academic at the South African Theological Seminary, and currently a research associate in the department of systematic theology at the University of Pretoria.

#10403

Giovanni Di Chiro

#172429

Overall Influence

#10404

Øyvind Ellingsen

#45652

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Øyvind Ellingsen is a Norwegian Professor of Cellular Cardiology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology , a Consultant Physician at the Department of Cardiology, St. Olavs Hospital, Trondheim, Norway, and is currently Head of the Department of Circulation and Medical Imaging. He received his MD and PhD at the University of Oslo, Norway, and had a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

#10405

Rafael Gambra Ciudad

#102519

Overall Influence

1920 - 2004 (84 years)

Rafael Gambra Ciudad was a Spanish philosopher, a secondary education official, a Carlist politician and a soldier. In philosophy he is considered key representative of late Traditionalism; his works fall also into theory of state and politics. He is best known as author of books focusing on secularisation of Western European culture in the consumer society era. As a politician he is acknowledged as a theorist rather than as an active protagonist, though after 2001 he briefly headed one of the Carlist branches.

#10406

Susan Elderkin

#77643

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Susan Elderkin is an English author of two critically acclaimed novels, her first, Sunset Over Chocolate Mountains won a Betty Trask Prize and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction, her second, The Voices was shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize and longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. She was one of Granta Magazine's 20 Best Young British Novelists in 2003 and won the 2007 Society of Authors Travel Award. She is the author, with Ella Berthoud, of The Novel Cure: An A-Z of Literary Remedies and The Story Cure: Books to Keep Kids Happy, Healthy and Wise.

#10407

Henry Spotnitz

#25253

Overall Influence

Henry M. Spotnitz is George H. Humphrey II Professor of Surgery, chairman of the Columbia University Medical Center Conflict of Interest Committee, co-chair of the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Information Systems Clinical Advisory Committee, chair of the Information Technology Committee of the Faculty Practice Organization, and Vice-Chair for Research and Information Systems in the Department of Surgery.

#10408

Oliver Wrong

#63895

Overall Influence

1925 - 2012 (87 years)

Professor Oliver Murray Wrong was an eminent academic nephrologist and one of the founders of the speciality in the United Kingdom. From a background as a "salt and water" physician, he made detailed clinical observations and scientifically imaginative connections which were the basis of numerous advances in the molecular biology of the human kidney. Wrong himself contributed to much of the molecular work after his own "retirement". He dictated amendments to his final paper during his final illness in his own teaching hospital, University College Hospital , London. Though academic in his lea...

#10409

Martin Marshall

#89795

Overall Influence

Martin Marshall is a British medical academic and a general practitioner. He was chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners from 2019 until 2022. He works as a GP in Newham, East London. Career He was appointed as a deputy Chief Medical Officer for England in March 2006, In late 2007 he left this post and was director of clinical quality of the Health Foundation.

#10410

Robert B. Downs

Robert B. Downs

#48322

Overall Influence

1903 - 1991 (88 years)

Robert Bingham Downs was an American writer and librarian. Downs was an advocate for intellectual freedom, and spent the majority of his career working against literary censorship. Downs authored many books and publications regarding the topics of censorship, and on the topics of responsible and efficient leadership in the library context.

#10411

Sverre Dick Henriksen

Sverre Dick Henriksen

#110978

Overall Influence

1906 - 2001 (95 years)

Sverre Dick Henriksen was a Norwegian professor of medicine. Biography He was born in Skien, and took his examen artium in 1925. The cand.med. degree at the University of Oslo followed in 1931, and from 1931 to 1933 he worked at various Norwegian hospitals. After starting a specialist education in microbiology in 1933, at the Bacteriological Laboratory of the Norwegian Armed Forces, he took the dr.med. degree in 1936 on the thesis Studies on the Bacterial Flora of the Respiratory Tract in Acute and Chronic Bronchitis, Bronchial Asthma and Lung Gangrene. He spent the period 1937 to 1938 as res...

#10412

Gary Smith

#116445

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Gary Smith is an American philosopher and culture manager. Early life and education Smith grew up in Austin, Texas. After graduating from high school in 1972, he went on to study philosophy and German in Houston and Boston as well as in Frankfurt as a DAAD scholarship recipient. After completing a dissertation on Walter Benjamin, Smith earned his doctorate in 1989 from Boston University.

#10413

Alex Battler

#85702

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Alex Battler , known in Russia under the pen name Oleg Alekseyevich Arin , is a Soviet-born Russian-Canadian scholar and political writer. He is a member of the organization «Defend Science» . Life and career Alex Battler was born in Astrakhan. In 1966 he entered the Faculty of Oriental studies of the A. Zhdanov Leningrad State University. After graduating in 1971, he enrolled in the post-graduate school at the Institute of the Far Eastern Studies in Moscow. In 1975 he was conferred the Degree of Candidate of Science , and in 1988 his Doctor of Science dissertation in the specialty "history of...

#10414

George Panthanmackel

#144984

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

George Panthanmackel is professor of philosophy at Suvidya College, Bangalore. He has also been a visiting professor to several other Institutes teaching both graduates and postgraduates. Biography In 2009–2010 he worked at Indira Gandhi National Open University as senior consultant of philosophy and organized its BA Philosophy Syllabus, especially by editing the entire 238 Units . He has published about 70 research papers and articles in national and international Journals. He has learned 11 languages and one dialect: Greek, Latin, Hebrew, German, English, French, Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Mala...

#10415

Moshe Prywes

#13788

Overall Influence

1914 - 1998 (84 years)

Moshe Prywes was a Polish-Israeli physician and educator. He was the first President of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev . Biography Prywes was born in Warsaw, Poland. He studied medicine for two years at the University of Tours in France, and graduated from the University of Warsaw in 1939.

#10416

Moncef Chelli

#114080

Overall Influence

1936 - 1994 (58 years)

Moncef Chelli , , was a Franco-Tunisian philosopher and writer. Biography He arrived in France after completing secondary school at Sadiki College in Tunis to begin higher studies in philosophy at the Sorbonne, as well as Arabic and mathematics. He was awarded the rank of docteur d'État of letters and humanities in 1979.

#10417

Bao Jingyan

#151144

Overall Influence

Bao Jingyan or Pao Ching-yen was a Chinese, libertarian/anarchist philosopher and Taoist who lived somewhere between the late 200's AD and before 400 AD. Political thought A successor of Laozi and Zhuang Zhou strain of libertarian Taoism, Pao Ching-yen was, according to Etienne Balazs, "China's first political anarchist."

#10418

Krista Kostial-Šimonović

#116268

Overall Influence

1923 - 2018 (95 years)

Krista Kostial-Šimonović was a Croatian physician and academic who researched the effects of human exposure to heavy metals and toxicity. She was elected as an associate member of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts in 1981 and became a full member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, when the country gained its independence from Yugoslavia in 1991. In 1996, she was honored with the Order of Danica Hrvatska in recognition of her scientific work.

#10419

Paul Klotman

#149674

Overall Influence

Paul E. Klotman is an American physician-scientist and academic administrator. He is the president, CEO and executive dean of the Baylor College of Medicine, a position he began on Sept. 1, 2010. He is the fifth person to serve as president of the College, located in Houston in the Texas Medical Center, which operates as a health sciences university with four schools: Medical School, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, School of Health Professions and National School of Tropical Medicine. Klotman joined Baylor at a time when it was experiencing great financial difficulties, and led a succ...

#10420

Nabil F. Saba

#59124

Overall Influence

Nabil F. Saba is an American oncologist. He is currently Professor and Vice-chair of Hematology and Medical Oncology, and Professor of Otolaryngology at the Winship Cancer Institute at the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia. He is a specialist in the field of head and neck oncology. Saba has authored more than 200 peer-reviewed articles. He is the inaugural Lynne and Howard Halpern Chair in Head and Neck Cancer Research.

#10421

Philip L. Townes

#48430

Overall Influence

1927 - 2017 (90 years)

Philip Leonard Townes was an American physician, human geneticist, embryologist and developmental biologist who identified Townes–Brocks syndrome in 1972 while a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Rochester.

#10422

John Carlo Bertot

#134569

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

John Carlo Bertot is a professor and co-director of the Information Policy & Access Center at the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland, where he is also Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs.

#10423

John Stuart

#172589

Overall Influence

#10424

Bryn Williams-Jones

Bryn Williams-Jones

#132658

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Bryn Williams-Jones is a Canadian bioethicist, professor and director of the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine at the School of Public Health, Université de Montréal. He is co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Canadian Journal of Bioethics/Revue canadienne de bioéthique, the first open access bilingual bioethics journal in Canada , and co-director of the Ethics branch of the International Observatory on the Social Impact of AI and Digital Technology . Williams-Jones is a member of the Centre for Research in Public Health , the Centre for Ethics Research , the Institute for Applied...

#10425

Luigia Carlucci Aiello

#111460

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Luigia Carlucci Aiello is an Italian computer scientist, emeritus professor of artificial intelligence at Sapienza University of Rome. Education and career Aiello is originally from Fabriano. After earning a diploma from the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa in 1968, Aiello became a researcher for the National Research Council , in Pisa, also working in the 1970s with John McCarthy at Stanford University, following the death of her husband, computer scientist Mario Aiello, in 1976.

#10426

Noëlle McAfee

#146583

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Noëlle McAfee is professor of philosophy and affiliated faculty in women's, gender, and sexuality studies and psychoanalytic studies at Emory University, where she has taught since 2010. McAfee previously taught at several other universities, including serving as Allen-Berenson Visiting Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at Brandeis University. She has worked extensively in democratic theory, new media, and psychoanalytic theories of the public sphere. McAfee is currently the co-chair of Public Philosophy Network, associate editor of the Kettering Review, and has spent a nu...

#10427

Philip J. Kain

#162229

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Philip Joseph Kain is an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at Santa Clara University. He is known for his works on post-Kantian philosophy. Books Schiller, Hegel, and Marx: State, Society, and the Aesthetic Ideal of Ancient Greece. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1982.Marx' Method, Epistemology, and Humanism: A Study in the Development of His Thought. Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 1986.Marx and Ethics. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988. Paperback edition 1991.Marx and Modern Political Theory: From Hobbes to Contemporary Feminism. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1993.Hegel and the Other: A Study of the Phenomenology of Spirit.

#10428

Alex Callinicos

#172713

Overall Influence

#10429

Maged N. Kamel Boulos

#26383

Overall Influence

Maged N. Kamel Boulos is a British health informatician, scientist and Full Professor of Digital Health with Sun Yat-sen University , having worked before that at the Alexander Graham Bell Centre of Digital Health, University of the Highlands and Islands, at the University of Plymouth, at the University of Bath and at City University London. Other held affiliations include Universidade de Lisboa . He is particularly known for his research into Geographic Information Systems applications in health and healthcare, which received wide news media coverage. He is credited with coining the phrases ...

#10430

Mari Ruti

#138679

Overall Influence

1964 - 2023 (59 years)

Mari Ruti was a Finnish-Canadian philosopher. She had served as Distinguished Professor of Critical Theory and of Gender and Sexuality Studies on the graduate faculty at the University of Toronto in Toronto, Canada, and as an Undergraduate Instructor at their Mississauga campus. She was an interdisciplinary scholar within the theoretical humanities working at the intersection of contemporary theory, continental philosophy, psychoanalytic theory, cultural studies, trauma theory, posthumanist ethics, gender, and sexuality studies.

#10431

David C. Grossman

#70100

Overall Influence

David C. Grossman is an American pediatrician who practices at Kaiser Permanente Washington. He is the chairperson of the United States Preventive Services Task Force , a senior investigator at Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, and a professor of health services and an adjunct professor of pediatrics at the University of Washington. He is known for his research on injury and suicide prevention. He is also known for his research on disparities in health among Native Americans, for which he received the Native American Child Health Advocacy Award from the American Academy o...

#10432

David ben Yom Tov ibn Bilia

#116404

Overall Influence

David ben Yom Tov ibn Bilia was a Portuguese Jewish philosopher who lived in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Ibn Bilia was the author of many works, the greater part of which, no longer in existence, are known only by quotations. Among them were: Me'or 'Enayim, a commentary on the Pentateuch, quoted by Caspi, Levi ben Gershon, and chiefly by the author's countryman Samuel Zarza, who often criticized Ibn Bilia's interpretations as being too mystical; and Yesodot ha-Maskil, published, with a French translation by S. Klein, in the collection Dibre Ḥakamim, Metz, 1849.

#10433

Jason C. Kovacic

#121167

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Jason C. Kovacic is an Australian-born cardiologist and physician-scientist; the Robert Graham Chair and Professor of Medicine, University of New South Wales; Executive Director of the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute in Sydney, Australia; and Professor of Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York.

#10434

Arnold B. Rabson

#89288

Overall Influence

Arnold B. Rabson is an American physician-scientist. He is the director of the Child Health Institute of New Jersey and the Laura Gallagher Chair of Developmental Biology at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Rabson is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

#10435

Gunther O. Hofmann

Gunther O. Hofmann

#31606

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Gunther O. Hofmann is a German surgeon, biophysicist, and professor. Early life and education Gunther O. Hofmann was born in 1957 in Landshut, Bavaria. Hofmann attended medical school and earned a Staatsexamen and a doctorate from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Thereafter, he moved to the Technical University Munich, wherefrom he graduated in 1984 with a Dr. rer. nat. in physics.

#10436

Charles Frederick George

#93274

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Sir Charles Frederick George is an English physician and academic. George was born in Birmingham to William Hubert George and Evelyn Pryce, and was educated in Oundle. He graduated from Birmingham University with an Intercalated BSc in Anatomy in 1962, and a MBChB in Medicine in 1965.

#10437

Warren Warwick

#123605

Overall Influence

Warren J. Warwick was an American pediatrician, notable for co-inventing a chest wall oscillation device called the Vest Airway Clearance System, or "The Vest", a mechanical vest for clearing the lungs of children with cystic fibrosis. He was a professor of pediatric pulmonology at the University of Minnesota, where he was a faculty member for more than 50 years. He served as director of the Cystic Fibrosis Center at the University of Minnesota 1962 to 1999, recognized by peer institutions as among the best in the United States.

#10438

Ullrich Haase

#128620

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Ullrich Michael Haase is a British philosopher and Principal Lecturer in Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and the Managing Editor of the Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology. Haase is known for his expertise on the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche.

#10439

Julie Leask

#115793

Overall Influence

Julie Leask or Julie-Anne Leask is an Australian social scientist and professor in the Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney. Leask is a leading researcher on social and behavioural aspects of vaccination and infectious disease prevention. Leask’s research focuses on vaccine uptake, communication, strengthening vaccination programs and policy. Leask’s flagship project is Knowledge About Immunisation - a vaccination communication package designed to improve vaccination conversations between parents and health care workers. Additionall...

#10440

Alastair Campbell

#131115

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

Professor Alastair Vincent Campbell MA, BD, Th.D., FRSE is a British theologian and bioethicist. He was the founding editor of the Journal of Medical Ethics and received the Henry K. Beecher award from the Hastings Centre in 1999.

#10441

Carol J. Clover

#14437

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Carol Jeanne Clover is an American professor of Medieval Studies and American Film at the University of California, Berkeley. Clover has been widely published in her areas of expertise, and is the author of three books. Clover's 1992 book, Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film achieved popularity beyond academe. Clover is credited with developing the "final girl" theory in the horror genre, which has changed both popular and academic conceptions of gender in horror films.

#10442

Annalee Yassi

#172803

Overall Influence

Annalee Yassi is a Canadian health scholar, currently a Canada Research Chair in Global Health and Capacity Building at University of British Columbia.

#10443

V. S. Sangwan

#99606

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Virender Singh Sangwan is an Indian ophthalmologist and the Dr. Paul Dubord Chair professor and director of the L. V. Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad. Known for his research on limbal stem cells, Sangwan is the founder secretary and an adviser of the Uveitis Society of India. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards for his contributions to Medical Sciences in 2006.

#10444

J. I. P. James

#107157

Overall Influence

1913 - 2001 (88 years)

John Ivor Pulsford James was a British orthopaedic surgeon. He was professor of orthopaedic surgery at the University of Edinburgh from 1958 to 1979. Most commonly known as "JIP", he was secretary then president of the British Orthopaedic Association which later awarded him its honorary fellowship. James attracted orthopaedic specialists to work in Edinburgh, encouraging them to develop an interest in a specialist area of orthopaedics, and in this way he was able to establish a comprehensive regional orthopaedic service. He made contributions to hand surgery and surgical treatment of scolio...

#10445

Laurence Houlgate

Laurence Houlgate

#145239

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

Laurence D. Houlgate is an American philosopher, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and former department chair at California Polytechnic State University. He specializes in the history of Western philosophy, social ethics, philosophy of law and political philosophy. Houlgate was one of the first philosophers in the 20th century to theorize about the moral foundations of children's rights and the ethics of family relationships. After his retirement, Professor Houlgate wrote a popular series of eight study guides on the classical philosophers for beginning philosophy students. Houlgate also ...

#10446

Jane E. Henney

#60038

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Jane Ellen Henney is an American physician who was the first woman to serve as commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Appointed by President Bill Clinton, she served at the FDA from 1999 to 2001.

#10447

Todd Hedrick

#172905

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (48 years)

Todd Hedrick is an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at Michigan State University. He is known for his works on Hegel's philosophy and critical theory. Books External links Todd Hedrick at MSU

#10448

Felicity Goodyear-Smith

#98365

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Felicity Anne Goodyear-Smith is a medical doctor, academic, and public health advocate from New Zealand. She is Academic Head of Department & Goodfellow Postgraduate Chair of General Practice & Primary Health Care in the Faculty of Medical and Health Science at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

#10449

Michael F. Chiang

#98141

Overall Influence

Michael F. Chiang is an American pediatric ophthalmologist serving as the director of the National Eye Institute. His research focuses on the interface of biomedical informatics and clinical ophthalmology in areas such as retinopathy of prematurity , telehealth, artificial intelligence, electronic health records, data science, and genotype-phenotype correlation.

#10450

Deborah Birx

#30642

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Deborah Leah Birx is an American physician and diplomat who served as the White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator under President Donald Trump from 2020 to 2021. Birx specializes in HIV/AIDS immunology, vaccine research, and global health. Starting in 2014, she oversaw the implementation of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief program to support HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention programs in 65 countries. From 2014-2020, Birx was the United States global AIDS coordinator for presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump and served as the United States special representative for global health diplomacy between 2015 and 2021.

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