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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#10701

Antonio Arnaiz-Villena

#168161

Overall Influence

1901 - Present (125 years)

Antonio Arnaiz-Villena is a Spanish immunologist noted for his controversial research into the genetic history of ethnic groups and fringe linguistic hypotheses. Biography Arnaiz-Villena was president of Spain's National Society of Immunology from 1991 to 1995. He has written more than 300 papers in immunology and human and bird population genetics.

#10702

Margaret Brandeau

#120145

Overall Influence

Margaret Louise Brandeau is an American management scientist and engineer whose research applies operations research to decision-making in public health. The main focus of her work is on the development of applied mathematical and economic models to support health policy decisions. She is the Coleman F. Fung Professor in the Stanford University School of Engineering, and also holds a courtesy affiliation with the Stanford University School of Medicine.

#10703

Michael Gurian

#54138

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Michael Gurian is an American author and social philosopher. He works as a marriage and family counselor and corporate consultant. He has published twenty-eight books, several of which were New York Times bestseller list bestsellers. He is considered, along with Leonard Sax, as one of the major proponents of the post-modern "single-sex academic classes" movement.

#10704

M. Owen Lee

#68728

Overall Influence

1930 - 2019 (89 years)

Mark Owen Lee, also known as M. Owen Lee and Father Owen Lee , was an American-Canadian classics and music scholar and Roman Catholic priest. Lee was born in Detroit, Michigan, United States, on May 28, 1930 to Robert Leo Lee and Helen Lee.

#10705

Regina Scheyvens

Regina Scheyvens

#170446

Overall Influence

Regina Aurelia Scheyvens is a New Zealand development academic, and as of 2019 is a full professor at Massey University. Her research focuses on the relationship between tourism, sustainable development and poverty reduction, and she has conducted fieldwork on these issues in Fiji, Vanuatu, Samoa, the Maldives and in Southern Africa. She is also very interested in gender and development, sustainable livelihood options for small island states, and in theories of empowerment for marginalised peoples.

#10706

Koen Decoster

#116477

Overall Influence

Koen Decoster is a Belgian historian, philosopher and translator. He has published works such as Flavius Josephus and the Seleucid Acra in Jerusalem . and Beyond Conflict and Reduction: Between Philosophy, Science and Religion with William Desmond and John Steffen.

#10707

Terry Belanger

#33693

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Terry Belanger is the founding director of Rare Book School , an institute concerned with education for the history of books and printing, and with rare books and special collections librarianship. He is University Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia , where RBS has its home base. Between 1972 and 1992, he devised and ran a master's program for the training of rare book librarians and antiquarian booksellers at the Columbia University School of Library Service. He is a 2005 MacArthur Fellow.

#10708

Hans-Günter Ottenberg

#168638

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Hans-Günter Ottenberg is a German musicologist and teacher. Life Born in , Saxony, Ottenberg studied music education and German culture at the University of Rostock from 1965 and musicology at the Humboldt University Berlin from 1967. He received his doctorate from Humboldt University in 1972 and in the same year became a research assistant at the . From 1978 to 1991, Ottenberg was a senior assistant at the Philosophy and Cultural Studies Section, later the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Technical University of Dresden, and habilitated at the Martin Luther University of Hall...

#10709

Valentino Bellucci

Valentino Bellucci

#142691

Overall Influence

1975 - 2021 (46 years)

Valentino Bellucci was an Italian philosopher, sociologist, poet, painter, and essayist. Life and career Bellucci was born in Weinheim, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany. He taught "History and critical analysis of the video-theater" at the Academy of Fine Arts in Macerata. He was teacher of history and philosophy at the Italian high schools and cooperated with seminars at the University of Urbino. After studying with the Orientalist Icilio Vecchiotti, he dedicated himself to the oriental culture, especially to the Vaishnava Bhakti tradition, exploring the epistemological, historical and psychological aspects.

#10710

Jane Root

#28190

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Jane Fairbairn Root is a creative executive in the media industry, who has run major television networks on both sides of the Atlantic. As Controller of BBC Two , she was the first woman to be a channel controller for the BBC, and was later President of Discovery Networks in the United States.

#10711

Richard Santucci

#158141

Overall Influence

Richard Anthony Santucci MD, FACS is an American reconstructive urologist who currently lives and works in Austin, Texas. Santucci is a graduate of the American Urological Association Leadership Program Class of 2009, was a member of the AUA Urotrauma Guidelines panel, the AUA Urotrauma Legislation Task force, the World Health OrganizationInternational Consultation on Urologic Diseases , and was an advisor to the US Marines Dismounted Blast Injuries Task Force. He recently served as the co-Chairman of the AUA Urethroplasty Guidelines panel, and. spent 18 years as a reconstructive urologist. H...

#10712

Susan Love

#17973

Overall Influence

1948 - 2023 (75 years)

Susan Margaret Love was an American surgeon, a prominent advocate of preventive breast cancer research, and author. She was regarded as one of the most respected women's health specialists in the United States. Love is best known for pioneering work fueled by her criticism of the medical establishment's paternalistic treatment of women. She was an early advocate of cancer surgery that conserves as much breast tissue as possible. She also was among the first to sound the alarm on the risks of routine hormone replacement therapy for menopausal women.

#10713

Björn Olsen

#175511

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

#10714

Susan S. Huang

#131161

Overall Influence

Susan S Huang is affiliated with the University of California Irvine School of Medicine. She specializes in infection prevention. Susan Huang is Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Medical Director of Epidemiology and Infection Prevention at the University of California, Irvine. She led clinical trials to assess effective methods of decolonization, including the widely cited REDUCE MRSA trial, published in The New England Journal of Medicine in 2013. Her work to advance the academic and practical knowledge of infection prevention has informed the Healthcare Infecti...

#10715

Walther Dürr

#75404

Overall Influence

1932 - 2018 (86 years)

Walther Dürr was a German musicologist. He is especially known for his research of the work of Franz Schubert. From 1965 to 1997 Dürr was editor of the Neue Schubert-Ausgabe, with particular responsibility for the 14 volumes of lieder.

#10716

Ann Barrett

#91245

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Ann Barrett OBE , is Emeritus Professor of Oncology in the University of East Anglia, England, and formerly deputy dean of the School of Medicine and lead clinician for oncology at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital NHS Trust. She was awarded an OBE in 2010 for services to medicine. She is also a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.

#10717

Avo Sõmer

#73276

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (92 years)

Avo Sõmer is an American musicologist, music theorist, and composer, of Estonian birth. Sõmer was born in Tartu, Estonia. He emigrated from Estonia with his parents in 1944, when he was ten years old, first to Germany and then to the United States. He had already begun playing the piano as a child in Pärnu. In Germany he took some piano lessons and instruction in theory, and began to compose, but systematic instruction in music came only later. He majored in music education, piano performance, and composition at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, followed by graduate studies at the University of Michigan where, in 1957, he earned an M.

#10718

Frank Scholze

#91499

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Frank Scholze is a German librarian. Since January 2020 he serves as the Director General of the German National Library. Education and career Scholze studied library and information science at the Stuttgart Media University, as well as art history and English literature at the University of Stuttgart. He started his professional career at the University of Stuttgart Library where he worked as project manager in various projects on digital libraries. Later he also worked there as a subject specialist and Head of the Public Services Department. After serving for two years at the Ministry of Sc...

#10719

Robert A. Weiss

#105645

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Robert A. Weiss is an American dermatologist and current president of the American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery. Education Weiss earned his bachelor's degree from Columbia University, after which he obtained his MD from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, class of 1978. He did his residency in dermatology at Johns Hopkins, then went on to additional fellowship training in dermatologic research at the National Institutes of Health. Weiss is board certified by the American Board of Dermatology.

#10720

Erica Spatz

#98596

Overall Influence

Erica S. Spatz is an American general cardiologist. She is an associate professor and clinical investigator at the Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation at the Yale University School of Medicine.

#10721

Alan Emond

#169689

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Alan M. Emond is a British paediatrician and professor emeritus in Child Health at Bristol Medical School at the University of Bristol. Emond is most notable for research into child and adolescent injury, epidemiology and health service evaluation as well as the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children.

#10722

Andrew Kambugu

#74881

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (53 years)

Andrew Ddungu Kambugu is a Ugandan physician who serves as The Sande-McKinnell Executive Director at Uganda Infectious Disease Institute and a Honorary Senior lecturer at Makerere University College of Sciences. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota. In July 2020, he was appointed to the United Nations 2021 Food System Scientific Group.

#10723

Gunnar Christie Wasberg

#102089

Overall Influence

1923 - 2015 (92 years)

Gunnar Christie Wasberg was a Norwegian historian, philosopher and first librarian at the University of Oslo Library. Biography Wasberg was born in the parish of Brunlanes at Larvik in Vestfold, Norway. He took the doctorate at Uppsala University in 1963 with the thesis Forsvarstanke og suverenitetsprinsipp. From 1967 to 1989 he was the prime librarian at the University Library of Oslo. Wasberg held a guest professorship at University of Wisconsin, Madison. He also had other research engagement, and he was a guest lecturer, at a number of universities in Europe and in the United States.

#10724

Renaud Piarroux

#110305

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Renaud Piarroux is a French pediatrician specializing in infectious diseases and tropical medicine. From 2008 to 2017, he has been a full professor of parasitology and mycology at the University of Aix-Marseille in Marseille, France, and head of parasitology and mycology at Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Marseille. Since 2017, he has been a full professor of parasitology and mycology at the Sorbonne University in Paris, France, and Head of Parasitology and Mycology at Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris. Over the years, Piarroux has taken part in several missions and research projects i...

#10725

Mohsen Vaziri-Moghaddam

Mohsen Vaziri-Moghaddam

#72261

Overall Influence

1924 - 2018 (94 years)

Mohsen Vaziri Moghaddam , was an Iranian-born painter, sculptor, and a professor of art. He was most notable for his style of abstract expressionism, and was once referred to as the "pioneer of modern Iranian abstraction."

#10726

Hiroshi Nakajima

#175587

Overall Influence

#10727

Richard Hooker

#23426

Overall Influence

1924 - 1997 (73 years)

Hiester Richard Hornberger Jr. was an American writer and surgeon who wrote under the pseudonym Richard Hooker. Hornberger's best-known work is his novel MASH , based on his experiences as a wartime United States Army surgeon doctor during the Korean War and written in collaboration with W.C. Heinz. It was used as the basis for an award-winning, critically and commercially successful movie – M*A*S*H — and two years later in an acclaimed long running television series of the same title.

#10728

Rachel Zuckert

#171242

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Rachel Elizabeth Zuckert is an American philosopher and professor of philosophy at the Northwestern University. She is known for her expertise on Kantian philosophy. Zuckert is a former president of North American Kant Society.

#10729

Mark Wilson

#121704

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Mark Lowell Wilson is an American philosopher and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at University of Pittsburgh. Wilson has authored several books on the philosophy of mathematics. Education and early life Wilson was raised in Oregon, and enrolled at Reed College between 1965 and 1967, before earning his bachelor's degree in 1969 from the University of Washington. He completed a doctorate at Harvard University in 1976, where his thesis was supervised by Hilary Putnam.

#10730

Timothy M. Pawlik

#122891

Overall Influence

Timothy Michael Pawlik is an American surgical oncologist. He is Chair of the Department of Surgery and the Urban Meyer III and Shelley Meyer Chair for Cancer Research at The Ohio State University and Surgeon-in-Chief at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center.

#10731

J. Donald R. de Raadt

#58571

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

J. Donald R. de Raadt is a Swedish organizational theorist and Professor Emeritus in Informatics and System Science at Luleå University of Technology. Biography J. Donald R. de Raadt studied Economics and Politics at the University of Queensland, where he received a Bachelor of Arts, and later studied at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology where he first obtained his post-graduate Fellowship Diploma in Management and then his Masters in Business. He obtained a Ph.D. in Sociology from La Trobe University, Melbourne.

#10732

Dagfinn Aarskog

Dagfinn Aarskog

#10278

Overall Influence

1928 - 2014 (86 years)

Dagfinn Aarskog was a Norwegian physician. Life He was born in Ålesund, Norway. He received his MD at the University of Bergen in 1956, and received a PhD in medicine in 1965. Aarskog was a specialist in pediatrics from 1964 and in medical genetics from 1974. In the period 1964 to 1965, he worked as a research assistant at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

#10733

Publius Volumnius

#127785

Overall Influence

Publius Volumnius was a 1st-century BC Roman philosopher, and a friend and companion of Marcus Junius Brutus who led the conspiracy to assassinate Julius Caesar. Volumnius and Brutus had been students of philosophy together.

#10734

Rudolph H. Weingartner

#90944

Overall Influence

1927 - 2020 (93 years)

Rudolph Herbert Weingartner was an American philosopher and academic administrator. He served as provost of the University of Pittsburgh and dean of Northwestern University's Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences.

#10735

Fritz Eisel

#29034

Overall Influence

1929 - 2010 (81 years)

Fritz Eisel was a German painter and graphic artist. Life Eisel was born into a Communist working-class family in Lauterbach, a small town roughly 100 km north-east of Frankfurt am Main. He was the eldest of his parents' five children. At the start of 1945 he was ordered to go to nearby Battenberg to join one of the flak units set up to try to reduce the impact of enemy bombing raids on the important railway line there. He did not obey the order, and very shortly afterwards the US army occupied Lauterbach. In May 1945 the end of the war marked a return to multi-party government and Eisel, by then 16 years old, immediately took the opportunity to join the local Communist Party.

#10736

Hannah Arendt

#175693

Overall Influence

#10737

Catriona M. Steele

#170597

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Catriona Margaret Steele is a Canadian clinician-scientist. She is a Full professor in the department of speech-language pathology at the University of Toronto and a senior scientist at the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute in the University Health Network.

#10738

Matthew Nielsen

#174661

Overall Influence

Matthew E. Nielsen is an American urologist oncologist and health services researcher. He is a Full professor and Chair of Urology at the UNC School of Medicine. Nielsen joined the faculty at UNC in 2009 as a urologic oncologist and health services researcher after completing medical school and residency training at Johns Hopkins.

#10739

Kamal Badr

#90650

Overall Influence

Dr. Kamal Badr is a Lebanese-American physician and scientist who has been Professor of Medicine and Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine at the American University of Beirut from July 2000 to late 2006. He then was named Founding Dean of the Lebanese American University’s new medical school, a position he held until September 1, 2010. He returned to the American University of Beirut in October 2010, where he is Associate Dean for Medical Education.

#10740

James William McClendon Jr.

#151350

Overall Influence

1924 - 2000 (76 years)

James William McClendon Jr. was a Christian theologian and ethicist in the Anabaptist tradition, though he preferred the term 'baptist' with a lower-case 'b'. He was married to philosopher Nancey Murphy, who is a senior faculty member at Fuller Theological Seminary.

#10741

Mahmood Fotoohi Rudmajani

#81287

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Mahmood Fotoohi Rudmajani is Professor of Persian Language and Literature at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran. Since 2008 he has served as the editor in chief of Literary Criticism Quarterly, an academic Journal of Tarbiat Modarres university. He was the editor in chief of Journal of Faculty of Letters and Humanities, at Tehran Tarbiyat Moallem University, Iran from 2001 to 2008 and has served as a Member of editorial staff in Monthly philosophy and literature in Tehran . In 2009 he was selected as the chair of Iranian Literary Criticism Association , an academic NGO in Iran, for two years.

#10742

Wolfgang Boetticher

#132578

Overall Influence

1914 - 2002 (88 years)

Wolfgang Boetticher was a German musicologist and longtime lecturer at the University of Göttingen. Born in Bad Ems, Boetticher was arranger and editor of numerous works by the composer Robert Schumann, especially for the publishing house G. Henle in Munich.

#10743

Terje Lømo

#12473

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (91 years)

Terje Lømo is a Norwegian physiologist who specialized in neuroscience. He was born in Ålesund to dentist Leif Lømo and Ingeborg Rebekka Helseth. Lømo in 1966, while beginning his PhD, worked in Per Oskar Andersen's lab in the Department of Physiology in Oslo. This was part of an apprenticeship dealing with hippocampal studies. By 1968, Timothy Bliss had joined Læmo in Andersen's laboratory for studies in memory mechanisms within the hippocampus. Lømo is known for his studies on synapses, in particular the synaptic plasticity. His discovery of the long-term potentiation, along with fellow researcher Tim Bliss, is regarded as a fundamental work in neurophysiology.

#10744

Maria Deloria Knoll

#94498

Overall Influence

Maria Deloria Knoll is an expert in the fields of epidemiology, disease surveillance, vaccine trial conduct, and bio-statistics. She currently serves as associate director of Science at the International Vaccine Access Center , an organization dedicated to accelerating global access to life-saving vaccines, at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland.

#10745

Elsdon Storey

#61455

Overall Influence

Elsdon Storey is an Australian neurologist, former Rhodes Scholar & Professor of Neurology at Monash University. His clinical and research interests are in neurogenetics and behavioural neurology .

#10746

S. Serge Barold

#175798

Overall Influence

#10747

Manuel Knoll

#118572

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Manuel Andreas Knoll is a contemporary German scholar and Professor of Political Theory and Philosophy at Turkish-German University. His work focusses on ancient, modern and contemporary Political Philosophy and Ethics, especially on ancient and contemporary theories of justice.

#10748

William H. Goetzmann

#56662

Overall Influence

1930 - 2010 (80 years)

William Harry Goetzmann was an American historian and emeritus professor in the American Studies and American Civilization Programs at the University of Texas at Austin. He attended Yale University as a graduate student and was friends with Tom Wolfe while there. His work on the American West won him the highest prizes for historians, the Parkman Prize and the Pulitzer Prize. He has written and published extensively on American philosophy, American political history, and the American arts. An advocate for the importance of history as a public discussion, he has served in various capacities in television and film production, notably for PBS.

#10749

Terry LaBan

#74413

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Terry LaBan is an alternative/underground cartoonist and newspaper comic strip artist. He is known for his comic book series Cud, and his syndicated strip Edge City, created with his wife, Patty LaBan, a couples and family therapist.

#10750

Paul Kurdyak

#169249

Overall Influence

Paul Andrew Kurdyak is a Canadian psychiatrist and highly regarded expert in mental health. Early life and education Born as Paul Andrew Kurdyak he has a degree in medicine, and completed his psychiatry residency and his PhD in clinical epidemiology at the University of Toronto.

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