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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#10501

Martha L. Daviglus

#140450

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#10502

Michael J. Reardon

#140457

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#10503

Clemens Prof. Dr. Sorg

#140464

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#10504

Assen V. Jablensky

#140476

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#10505

J. I. Lieberman

#140480

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#10506

Norio Taira

#140493

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#10507

Mary Eugenia Rinella

#140494

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#10508

John Nicholas Wood

#140499

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#10509

S. Shiva Shankaran

#140500

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#10510

Rolf Arno Stahel

#140515

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#10511

Doff B. Mcelhinney

#140526

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#10512

Michael A. Choti

#140546

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#10513

John S. Greenspan

#140569

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#10514

Stefan Kunze

#94969

Overall Influence

1933 - 1992 (59 years)

Stefan Kunze was a German musicologist. Life Born in Athens, Kunze, son of the classical archaeologist Emil Kunze, studied musicology from 1952 with his godfather Thrasybulos Georgiades in Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, besides classical philology, flute and conducting, the latter with Kurt Eichhorn. In 1961 he received his doctorate in Munich with the thesis Die Kanzonen und Sonaten G. Gabrielis, in 1970 he was habilitated in Munich. From 1973 until his death he was Professor of Musicology at the University of Bern. The focus of his research...

#10515

Aladdin Malikov

Aladdin Malikov

#112397

Overall Influence

1982 - Present (44 years)

Aladdin Malikov is a teacher, Azerbaijanian religion philosopher, Assistant to the President of ANAS. Who works primarily in the fields of philosophy, logic, epistemology, philosophy of religion, history of philosophy, orientalist, and translator. Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Metafizika, Doctor of Philosophy, associate professor.

#10516

Peter C. Taylor

#140594

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#10517

Konstanze Döhner

#140595

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#10518

Henning T. Mouridsen

#140599

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#10519

Lisa Lix

#126508

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Lisa Marie Lix is a Canadian health scientist and biostatistician at the University of Manitoba, where she holds a Canada Research Chair. Topics in her research have included cohort studies and the analysis of variance as well as bowel disease and disease-related bone fracture risk.

#10520

Judy H. Cho

#140635

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#10521

Malek Hosseini

#98791

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Malek Hosseini is an Iranian philosopher and a former professor of philosophy at the Iranian Research Institute of Philosophy and the Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran. He is known for his expertise on Ludwig Wittgenstein's thought and his Persian translations of Wittgenstein's works . Hosseini is a recipient of Iran's Book of the Season Award for his book Wittgenstein und Weisheit.

#10522

Ignác Jan Hanuš

Ignác Jan Hanuš

1812 - 1869 (57 years)

Ignác Jan Hanuš or, in German, Ignaz Johann Hanusch was a Czech philosopher and librarian. Life and work He studied at the grammar school in Staré Město, where one of his teachers was Josef Jungmann. This encounter created an interest in philosophy, which he studied at Charles University, graduating in 1831. In order to have more time for contemplation, he entered the Order of the Premonstratensians at Strahov Monastery. This experience failed to meet his expectations, so he left to study law at the University of Vienna. After 1835, he worked there as an adjunct. A year later, he received his doctorate and became a full Professor at the University of Lemberg; aged only twenty-four.

#10523

Henri Wallon

1879 - 1962 (83 years)

Henri Paul Hyacinthe Wallon was a French philosopher, psychologist , neuropsychiatrist, teacher, and politician. He was the grandson of the historian and statesman Henri-Alexandre Wallon. Career Henri Wallon conducted two parallel careers. As a convinced Marxist, he took up political duties while carrying out scientific work in the field of developmental psychology.

#10524

Jan A. Hillert

#140653

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#10525

Ruth Lynfield

#140657

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#10526

Alston Callahan

Alston Callahan

#52206

Overall Influence

1911 - 2005 (94 years)

Alston Callahan was a prominent American medical doctor who practiced ophthalmology. A pioneer in the field of reconstructive eye surgery, he established the Eye Foundation Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama and also served as the first Chairman of the Ophthalmology Department at the University of Alabama School of Medicine.

#10527

A. T. Thorstensson

#140671

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#10528

Harvey Jay Cohen

#140720

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#10529

Susan Buchbinder

Susan Buchbinder

#100212

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Susan Buchbinder is an American physician who is best known for her work in HIV prevention and as a researcher in the HIV Vaccine Trials Network. In 2011, she was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She is Clinical Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco.

#10530

Ernst‐otto Riecken

#140734

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#10531

Bente Pakkenberg

#140741

Overall Influence

1949 - 2023 (74 years)

#10532

Carlo Renato Capella

#140746

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#10533

Dai Jinhua

#53092

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Dai Jinhua is a Chinese feminist cultural critic. She is a Professor in the Institute of Comparative Literature and Culture, Peking University. Her research interests include popular culture, film studies, and gender studies.

#10534

David Carter

#79678

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Sir David Craig Carter is a surgeon who was Chief Medical Officer for Scotland from 1996–2000. Early life and education David Craig Carter was born on 1 September 1940 to Mary Florence and Horace Ramsay Carter. He attended Cockermouth Grammar School, and went on to study medicine at the University of St Andrews, graduating with an MB ChB in 1964 and continuing on to receive his MD.

#10535

Roland Otto Buhl

#140771

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#10536

Alessandro Piccolomini

Alessandro Piccolomini

1508 - 1579 (71 years)

Alessandro Piccolomini was an Italian humanist, astronomer and philosopher from Siena, who promoted the popularization in the vernacular of Latin and Greek scientific and philosophical treatises. His early works include Il Dialogo della bella creanza delle donne, o Raffaella and the comedies Amor costante, and Alessandro, which were sponsored and produced by the Sienese Accademia degli Intronati, of which he was a member and an official. Much of his literary production consisted of translations from the Classics, of which Book XIII of Ovid's Metamorphoses and book VI of the Aeneid are early examples.

#10537

Apollonius of Tyre

50 BC - Present (2076 years)

Apollonius of Tyre , was a Stoic philosopher. Strabo describes him as living "a little before my time," and says he wrote "a tabulated account of the philosophers of the school of Zeno and of their books," and which appears to have been a short survey of the philosophers and their writings from the time of Zeno. He is mentioned by Diogenes Laërtius as the author of a work on Zeno. Whether this Apollonius is the same as the one who wrote a work on female philosophers, or as the author of the chronological work of which Stephanus of Byzantium quotes the fourth book, is uncertain.

#10538

Stanhope Bayne-Jones

Stanhope Bayne-Jones

1888 - 1970 (82 years)

Stanhope Bayne-Jones was an American physician, bacteriologist, medical historian and a United States Army medical officer with the rank of brigadier general. Early life and education Bayne-Jones was born on November 6, 1888, in New Orleans as the son of physician. His grandfather Joseph Jones was also a physician and served in the medical department of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. In this way, Bayne-Jones was influenced in his future career choice.

#10539

Lois Salamonsen

#136319

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Lois Adrienne Salamonsen is an expert in uterine and endometrium biology. Her research focuses on the mechanisms underlying endometrial remodelling. She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science.

#10540

Marcus Musurus

1470 - 1517 (47 years)

Marcus Musurus was a Greek scholar and philosopher born in Candia, Venetian Crete . Life The son of a rich merchant, Musurus became at an early age a pupil of Janus Lascaris in Venice. In 1505, Musurus was made professor of Greek language at the University of Padua. Erasmus, who had attended his lectures there, testifies to his knowledge of Latin. However, when the university was closed in 1509 during the War of the League of Cambrai, he returned to Venice where he filled a similar post.

#10541

Stefan Kiechl

#140809

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#10542

Marwan Noel Sabbagh

#140816

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#10543

Robert M. Nakamura

#140837

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#10544

Josef Prof Dr Dr Krieglstein

#140839

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#10545

Hermann Heimpel

#10546

David Rodowick

#103107

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

David Norman Rodowick is an American philosopher, artist, and curator. He is best known for his contributions to cinema and media studies, visual cultural studies, critical theory, and aesthetics and the philosophy of art. He became a French citizen in 2002 though retains dual citizenship with the United States.

#10547

Javid J. Moslehi

#140880

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#10548

Charles Patin

1633 - 1693 (60 years)

Charles Patin was a French physician and numismatist. He was the son of Guy Patin, dean of the school of medicine in Paris, and a friend of Jacob Spon. Trained first by his father, he obtained a law degree and then chose to study medicine. He became best known for his numismatic work. He married the moralist author Madeleine Patin: their daughter Gabrielle-Charlotte Patin became a painter and numismatist, and their daughter Charlotte-Catherine Patin became a writer.

#10549

Nicarete of Megara

400 BC - 300 BC (100 years)

Nicarete or Nicareta of Megara was a philosopher of the Megarian school, who flourished around . She is stated by Athenaeus to have been a hetaera of good family and education, and to have been a disciple of Stilpo. Diogenes Laërtius states that she was Stilpo's mistress, though he had a wife.

#10550

Richard T. De George

#117425

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (93 years)

Richard Thomas De George is an American philosopher and University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, of Russian and East European Studies, and of Business Administration, and Co-Director of the International Center for Ethics in Business at the University of Kansas. He is a former president of the Metaphysical Society of America .

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