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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#10551

Raju S. K. Chaganti

#140903

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#10552

M. Amin Arnaout

#140933

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#10553

Herbert Ballentine Carter

#140940

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#10554

Jan Kajstura

#140944

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Jacques Mallet

#140952

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#10556

Christian Bohr

1855 - 1911 (56 years)

Christian Harald Lauritz Peter Emil Bohr was a Danish physician, father of the physicist and Nobel laureate Niels Bohr, as well as the mathematician and football player Harald Bohr and grandfather of another physicist and Nobel laureate Aage Bohr. He married Ellen Adler in 1881.

#10557

Janusz Kochanowski

#140961

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#10558

Naomi F. Rothfield

#140968

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#10559

Gerald G.. Krueger

#140977

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#10560

Larry Sanger

#68617

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Lawrence Mark Sanger is an American Internet project developer and philosopher who was the editor-in-chief of the online encyclopedia Nupedia and co-founded its successor Wikipedia along with Jimmy Wales. Sanger coined the name 'Wikipedia', and wrote many of Wikipedia's early guidelines, including the "Neutral point of view" and "Ignore all rules" policies. Sanger later worked on other encyclopedic projects, including Encyclopedia of Earth, Citizendium, and Everipedia, and advised the nonprofit American political encyclopedia Ballotpedia.

#10561

Elizabeth Manias

#140989

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#10562

Marylin Maeso

#92058

Overall Influence

1988 - Present (38 years)

Marylin Maeso is a French philosopher and teacher, known as a specialist on Albert Camus. She is an antiracist. Education Maeso was born in Montpellier. A graduate of the École normale supérieure where she completed an agrégation in philosophy.

#10563

Christiane Marth

#141011

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#10564

Wilson H. Jr Miller

#141017

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#10565

Dietrich Prof Dr Dr Seidel

#141020

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#10566

Bahman Guyuron

#141030

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#10567

Nicholas D. Smith

#120209

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1949 - Present (77 years)

Nicholas D. Smith is an American philosopher and James F. Miller Professor Emeritus of Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at Lewis & Clark College. He won the “Outstanding Academic Book for 1994” award for his book Plato’s Socrates . Smith is known for his research on Ancient Greek philosophy.

#10568

Jürgen Unützer

#141033

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#10569

Masaki Mori

#141039

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#10570

Melvin Dwaine Reuber

#141044

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#10571

Roberto Bergamaschi

#78301

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Dr. Roberto Bergamaschi is a colorectal surgery specialist, Chief of Colorectal Surgery Department at Westchester Medical Center, previously Professor of Division of Colorectal Surgery at State University of New York in Stony Brook, NY

#10572

Kevin Folta

#21569

Overall Influence

Kevin M. Folta is a professor of the horticultural sciences department at the University of Florida. From 2007 to 2010 he helped lead the project to sequence the strawberry genome, and continues to research photomorphogenesis in plants and compounds responsible for flavor in strawberries. Folta has been active as a science communicator since 2002, especially relating to biotechnology. He has faced controversy over what his critics say are his industry connections. In 2017 he was elected as a fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry.

#10573

Elena Osipova

#61249

Overall Influence

1927 - 2018 (91 years)

Elena Vladimirovna Osipova is a Russian philosopher and sociologist. Education and career Elena Osipova graduated from the Lomonosov University in 1950, where she went on to obtain a candidate degree in 1954. For her candidate degree, she performed research in the philosophy of Enlightenment in Poland. In 1974, she successfully defended her thesis “Sociology of Émile Durkheim” and became a Doctor of Sciences. She led research at the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Her publications have to do mainly with the history of Western sociology, the problems of power, and t...

#10574

Ogobara Doumbo

#72282

Overall Influence

1956 - 2018 (62 years)

Ogobara Doumbo was a Malian medical researcher at the University of Mali. He was recognised as a global leader in malaria research. He was the recipient of the Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mali, Legion d'honneur and research award on Malaria in Africa.

#10575

Josip Franjo Domin

1754 - 1819 (65 years)

Josip Franjo Domin was a Croatian-Hungarian physicist, priest, physician and a pioneer of electrotherapy. Biography Domin was born in Zagreb where he died. He was educated in Zagreb, Vienna, Leoben, Graz. In 1774 he graduated philosophy at the Royal Academy of Sciences and theology in 1776 in Zagreb. In 1777 in Trnava he received a doctorate in mathematics and became a full professor of theoretical and experimental physics, mechanics and economics at the Royal Academy of Sciences in Győr and Pécs . At the Faculty of Arts in Budapest since 1792 he was a physics professor having succeeded Ionnes B.

#10576

Marthinus Versfeld

#111175

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1909 - 1995 (86 years)

Marthinus Versfeld was a South African philosopher. From 1937 to 1972 he taught at the University of Cape Town. He was celebrated as researcher, enjoyed the recognition of the South African literary community and was known as an opponent of the Apartheid system. His work ranged from scholarly books to playful essays on issues like ethics, anthropology, the meaning of life.

#10577

Martin Richard Tramèr

#141103

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Howard Waitzkin

#141116

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Wolfgang H. Dillmann

#141117

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#10580

Michel Gustave Jules Fardeau

#141120

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#10581

Aron Brand

1910 - 1977 (67 years)

Aron Brand-Auraban was an Israeli pediatric cardiologist. He served as chairman of the Israel Medical Association in Jerusalem, and founded the Jerusalem Academy of Medicine. Biography Aron Brand grew up in Koło, where he attended heder and the Jewish gymnasium. His father, Natan, was a grain merchant and miller. In 1925, his father, a fervent Zionist, sent him to Palestine to study at Gymnasia Herzliya in Tel Aviv. In 1928, he studied philosophy and Jewish studies in Berlin. He studied simultaneously at the University of Berlin and the Hochschule fuer die Wissenschaft des Judentums. One of h...

#10582

Usman Baber

#141138

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Prof. P. R. Lichtlen

#141139

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Jens Henrik Henriksen

#141151

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#10585

Reinhold Vieth

#141159

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#10586

Robert Allinson

#64658

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1942 - Present (84 years)

Robert Elliott Allinson is an American philosopher, and a Professor of Philosophy at Soka University of America. He was formerly Full Professor of Philosophy at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

#10587

Seyyed Nassir Ghaemi

#10588

Giuseppe D’amico

#141227

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#10589

Gabriel E. Rosselin

#141257

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Robert M. Donaldson

#141261

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Earl Francis Cook

#141262

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#10592

Lorenzo Magalotti

Lorenzo Magalotti

1637 - 1712 (75 years)

Lorenzo Magalotti was an Italian philosopher, author, diplomat and poet. Magalotti was born in Rome into an aristocratic family, the son of Ottavio Magalotti, Prefect of the Pontifical Mail: his uncle Lorenzo Magalotti was a member of the Roman Curia. His cousin Filippo was rector at University of Pisa. The Jesuit Magalotti became the secretary of the Accademia del cimento and a gazetteer of the sciences.

#10593

Martin William Francis Stone

#97942

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1965 - Present (61 years)

Martin William Francis Stone is an Irish philosopher who served as a professor of philosophy at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. In 2010 he was found guilty of plagiarizing texts in more than 40 publications and subsequently dismissed from his university post.

#10594

Saul Amarel

#11181

Overall Influence

1928 - 2002 (74 years)

Saul Amarel was a professor of computer science at Rutgers University, and best known for his pioneering work in artificial intelligence . He also had a career as a scientist, engineer, and teacher. He was a contributor to advanced computing and AI methodologies, both applied to scientific inquiry as well as engineering practice.

#10595

Alfred A. Bartolucci

#141284

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Robert G. Ojemann

#141296

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Nelson Morgan

#141317

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#10598

Matthias Preusser

#89745

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1976 - Present (50 years)

Matthias Preusser is an Austrian oncologist and Professor of Medical Oncology as well as Head of the Clinical Division of Oncology at the Medical University of Vienna. He is known for his work on neurooncology, Molecular Therapy targets and biomarkers and immunotherapy of cancer.

#10599

Dieter Felsenberg

#141321

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Keith R. Jerome

#114538

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Keith R. Jerome is an American virologist whose research focuses on viruses such as herpes simplex, HIV and hepatitis B that persist in their hosts. He published on the first known case of COVID-19 in the United States detecting SARS-CoV-2 in Washington State and helped forge the nation's COVID-19 testing. In 2021, Jerome and Alexander Greninger shared the Washington Innovator of the Year award for developing the laboratory based assay for detecting COVID-19. He was senior author on a research article published in Science describing the cryptic transmission of SARS-CoV-2 alongside Trevor Bedford, Alexander Greninger, Jay Shendure, and Helen Chu.

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