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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#10801

Sid Watkins

#2252

Overall Influence

1928 - 2012 (84 years)

Eric Sidney Watkins , commonly known within the Formula One fraternity as Professor Sid or simply Prof, was an English neurosurgeon. Born in Liverpool, Watkins enrolled at the University of Liverpool where he graduated in 1952. He later served four years in the Royal Army Medical Corps before specialising in neurosurgery in Oxford and later, in London. Watkins also acted as a race track doctor at weekends which he continued at Watkins Glen International when he was appointed a Professor of Neurosurgery at State University of New York Upstate Medical University in Syracuse.

#10802

Helga Salvesen

#98821

Overall Influence

1963 - 2016 (53 years)

Helga Birgitte Salvesen was a Norwegian physician and professor of medicine at the University of Bergen. Early life and education Salvesen was born in Asker, but moved to Bergen at the age of four. She took the cand.med. degree in 1991 and the dr.med. degree in 2000, with the doctoral thesis Tumor Biomarkers and Prognostic Factors in Endometrial Carcinoma.

#10803

Dominic Lam

#86067

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Dominic Man-Kit Lam is a Chinese doctor and artist. Lam is most notable for inventing the painting technique called Chromoskedasic Painting. Early life and education Lam was raised in Hong Kong and in 1965, moved to the Fort William in Ontario, Canada, and received a scholarship to attend Lakehead University. Lam received a Bachelor of Science in mathematics. Lam went on to achieve a Master of Science in physics from the University of British Columbia and later promoted to D.Phil in Medical Biophysics from the University of Toronto in 1970.

#10804

Arthur G. Hunt

#35270

Overall Influence

Arthur G. Hunt is an American plant and soils scientist who is currently a professor at the University of Kentucky and an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Education He earned his B.S at University of Lowell in 1976 and his Ph.D at Brandeis University in 1982.

#10805

Renate Soulen

#90564

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (93 years)

Renate L. Soulen, MD, FSIR is an American physician. She is credited as one of three women co-founders of the Society for CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology , a founding member of the Philadelphia Angio Club, and the first female president of the Philadelphia Roentgen Ray Society.

#10806

Stephen Laurence

#92101

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Stephen Laurence is a scientist and philosopher, currently at the University of Sheffield, whose primary areas of research interest are the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of language, and cognitive science.

#10807

Gunnar Bovim

#62034

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Gunnar Bovim is a Norwegian physician and civil servant. He has been the rector at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology from August 1, 2013 to August 21, 2019. After that he will be working with policy matters related to education and research at NTNU and be of disposal to NTNUs top management.

#10808

Henry Koffler

#46455

Overall Influence

1922 - 2018 (96 years)

Henry Koffler was an Austrian-born American scientist, academic and artist. Early life Koffler was born in Vienna, Austria. In 1939, at the age of 17, he emigrated by himself to the United States. The second recipient of the International Scholar by the University of Arizona, Koffler received his B.S. degree in Agricultural Chemistry in 1943 from the University of Arizona, and from the University of Wisconsin, his M.S. in Microbiology in 1944 and Ph.D. in Microbiology and Biochemistry in 1947.

#10809

Abdelmalek Sayad

#34878

Overall Influence

1933 - 1998 (65 years)

Abdelmalek Sayad , was a sociologist, first as an assistant to Pierre Bourdieu, then as a research director at the French CNRS and at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences. An expert of the North-African community in France, he was central to the introduction of the study of migration issues in French social sciences.

#10810

Thomas K. Donaldson

Thomas K. Donaldson

#47342

Overall Influence

1945 - 2006 (61 years)

Thomas K. Donaldson was a mathematician and well-known cryonics advocate. He was born in the state of Kentucky in the United States, and took his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1969. He also lived in Sunnyvale, California, and for many years in Canberra, Australia, where he taught mathematics at Australian National University. He founded both the Cryonics Association of Australia and the Institute for Neural Cryobiology, which has funded ground-breaking research in cryopreservation of brain tissue.

#10811

H. S. Krishnaswamy Iyengar

H. S. Krishnaswamy Iyengar

#89511

Overall Influence

1920 - 2008 (88 years)

Haleyuru Srinivasa Krishnaswamy Iyengar was a Kannada columnist, essayist, novelist, critic and teacher of Economics and Commerce studies in Mysore. He is remembered for his character sketches and short essays on personalities and issues of national & international import, in his weekly column "Varada Vyakthi" . These appeared in the Kannada magazine "Sudha" continuously for nearly two decades. His literary critique "Kannadadalli Vidambana Sahitya" won him the Kannada Sahitya Akademi Award in 1981. His perspective on elements of Vishistadvaita in the works of Kuvempu were brought forth in his book "Kuvempu Sahityadalli Vishistadvaita – Darshana".

#10812

Sandra Wolin

#38829

Overall Influence

Sandra Lynn Wolin is an American microbiologist and physician-scientist specialized in biogenesis, function, and turnover of non-coding RNA. She is chief of the RNA Biology Laboratory at the National Cancer Institute.

#10813

Julien Hoffman

#27043

Overall Influence

1925 - Present (101 years)

Julien I.E. Hoffman, FRCP was a pediatric cardiologist and professor emeritus of pediatrics and a senior member of the Cardiovascular Research Institute at the University of California, San Francisco. He has also worked at the Moffitt-Long Hospital at the UCSF Medical Center, and served on the medical advisory committee for the SIDS Alliance.

#10814

Kath Maitland

#166418

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Kathryn Maitland is a British paediatrician who is professor of infectious diseases at Imperial College London, director of the ICCARE Centre at the Institute of Global Health Innovation and an Honorary Fellow at Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Unit, University College, London. Since 2000 she has been based at the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, in Kilifi, Kenya.

#10815

Kanagaratnam Shanmugaratnam

#38119

Overall Influence

1921 - 2018 (97 years)

Kanagaratnam Shanmugaratnam was a Singaporean histopathologist considered Singapore's "father of pathology". He was known for his research on nasopharyngeal carcinoma and founded the Singapore Cancer Registry.

#10816

Nikolay Milkov

#172888

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Nikolay Milkov is a German-Bulgarian philosopher and professor at the University of Paderborn. Biography Nikolay Milkov studied philosophy at the University of Sofia from 1974 to 1978. Five years later he defended the PhD thesis "Critical Analysis of the Philosophy of Logical atomism" at the Lomonossov State University in Moscow where he was a doctoral student. From August 1983 Milkov held a research position at the Institute for Philosophy of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. From October 1989 he was a research fellow at Bielefeld University, Germany, first as an Alexander von Humboldt fellow and later as a Fritz Thyssen fellow.

#10817

Mike Pringle

#115162

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Michael Alexander Leary Pringle CBE is a British physician and academic. He is the emeritus professor of general practice at the University of Nottingham, a past president of the Royal College of General Practitioners , best known for his primary care research on clinical audit, significant event audit, revalidation, quality improvement programmes and his contributions to health informatics services and health politics. He is a writer of medicine and fiction, with a number of publications including articles, books, chapters, forewords and guidelines.

#10818

Daniel Friedman

#176403

Overall Influence

#10819

Park Ynhui

#115121

Overall Influence

1930 - 2017 (87 years)

Park Ynhui is a South Korean poet and writer who publishes under the name Park Yeemun in Korean. Life Park was born in 1930 and graduated from Seoul National University with an undergraduate degree in French literature. He then attended the Sorbonne in Paris, from which he received a PhD in Philosophy. Park spent 30 years as a professor in, Japan, Germany, France, and the United States. He taught in Boston [at Simmons College] until his retirement in 1993 at which point he returned to South Korea where he taught at Pohang University and Yonsei University.

#10820

John Leonard Watling

#150235

Overall Influence

1923 - 2004 (81 years)

John Leonard Watling was a British philosopher and Head of philosophy department at University College London. External links Watling Archive

#10821

Robert D. Acland

Robert D. Acland

#48472

Overall Influence

1941 - 2015 (74 years)

Robert D. Acland, MBBS, FRCS was a surgeon and academic credited with being one of the pioneers in plastic and reconstructive microsurgery. He was the younger son of Richard Acland and his wife Anne. He developed one of the first microsurgical instruments, the Acland micro-vessel clamp, as well as the 10-0 nylon sutures and needles that are still used today. He published the first edition of Acland's Practice Manual for Micro-vascular Surgery, also known as the "Red Book", a manual on microsurgical techniques . The current edition was revised in 2008 and is still an essential tool for any tr...

#10822

Charles Kennedy

#176430

Overall Influence

#10823

Marianne Legato

#88461

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (91 years)

Marianne J. Legato is an American physician, author, lecturer, and renowned expert in gender-specific medicine, which focuses on understanding how biological sex and gender influence human health and the experience of diseases.

#10824

Herman H. Fussler

#79151

Overall Influence

1914 - 1997 (83 years)

Herman Howe Fussler was an American librarian, library administrator, teacher, writer and editor, who was a pioneer in the use of microphotography. Fussler was ranked as one of the "100 of the Most Important Leaders we had in the 20th Century" by American Libraries. Fussler served as director of the University of Chicago libraries from 1948 to 1971, was Dean of the University of Chicago Graduate Library School, from 1961 to 1963, and was instrumental in the founding of the Regenstein Library. He helped create the Center for Research Libraries. He was an elected fellow of the American Academy ...

#10825

Timothy L. Jackson

#96928

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Timothy L. Jackson is an American professor of music theory who has spent most of his career at the University of North Texas and specializes in music of the eighteenth through twentieth centuries, Schenkerian theory, politics and music. He is the co-founder of the Journal of Schenkerian Studies. In 2020, he became controversial for editing a special issue of that journal containing articles criticizing Philip Ewell's plenary talk "Music Theory's White Racial Frame".

#10826

Michael Barrymore

#74096

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Michael Ciaran Parker , known by his stage name Michael Barrymore, is an English comedian and television presenter of game shows and light entertainment programmes on British television in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. These included Strike It Lucky, My Kind of People, My Kind of Music, Kids Say the Funniest Things, and his own variety show, Barrymore. In 1993, he headlined the Royal Variety Performance.

#10827

Arnold Feil

#100908

Overall Influence

1925 - 2019 (94 years)

Arnold Feil was a German musicologist and academic scholar. Life Feil was born in Mannheim, but grew up in Ludwigshafen am Rhein. He studied music at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Mannheim and the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Mannheim as well as musicology, Latin philology of the Middle Ages, history , philosophy and history of art at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, which he completed with a doctorate in 1954. From 1954 to 1958, he worked as a music commissioner at the cultural office of the city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein. From 1959 to 1982, he was a le...

#10828

Amit Patel

#20061

Overall Influence

Amit Nilkanth Patel MD, BS, MS is an Indian-American cardiac surgeon and former director of clinical regenerative medicine and tissue engineering at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. He was a tenured professor of surgery-cardiothoracic at the University of Utah until December 2016.

#10829

Marjane Satrapi

Marjane Satrapi

#36055

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Marjane Satrapi is a French-Iranian graphic novelist, cartoonist, illustrator, film director, and children's book author. Her best-known works include the graphic novel Persepolis and its film adaptation, the graphic novel Chicken with Plums, and the Marie Curie biopic Radioactive.

#10830

David Ing

#46634

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

David Ing is a Canadian systems scientist, business architect, management consultant, and marketing scientist. He served as president of the International Society for the Systems Sciences . Ing was employed by IBM Canada from 1985 to 2012, with assignments as a management consultant, solution architect, industry sales specialist and headquarters planner.

#10831

Choi Ki-young

#116287

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Choi Ki-young is a South Korean professor of electrical engineering at Seoul National University who served as Minister of Science and ICT under President Moon Jae-in from 2019 to 2021. After working at now-LG Electronics and Cadence Design Systems, he return to his first alma mater. He took several roles in his faculty including the director of Neural Processing Research Center and Embedded Systems Research Center.

#10832

Takashi Hibiki

#28140

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Takashi Hibiki is a Japanese scientist who is a professor emeritus of nuclear engineering at Purdue University and a chair professor of thermal-fluid engineering at City University of Hong Kong. Early life and education Hibiki was born in 1963 at Kyoto in Japan. Hibiki graduated from Osaka University in 1985. He obtained his Ph.D. from Department of Chemical Engineering, Osaka University in 1990 under the supervision of Professor Takashi Katayama.

#10833

Michael Wheeler

#136548

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Michael William Wheeler is a British philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Stirling. He is known for his Heideggerian approach to contemporary cognitive science research. Books Distributed Cognition in Medieval and Renaissance CultureDistributed Cognition in Enlightenment and Romantic CultureHeidegger and Cognitive ScienceReconstructing the Cognitive World: The Next Step

#10834

Paul Auerbach

#38054

Overall Influence

1951 - 2021 (70 years)

Paul Stuart Auerbach was an American physician and author in the academic discipline of wilderness medicine. He was the founder and past president of the Wilderness Medical Society. Auerbach was the editor for the Journal of Wilderness Medicine published by the Wilderness Medical Society from 1990 to 1995. Auerbach was also the author of a number of articles and books on topics such as emergency medicine, hazardous marine animals, and scuba diving, including two books of underwater photography.

#10835

Michael Levy

#176580

Overall Influence

#10836

Robert Baratz

#69541

Overall Influence

Robert Sears Baratz is an American dentist and skeptic who practices in Braintree, Massachusetts. Baratz has practiced dentistry since 1972 and emergency medicine since 1991. He was formerly the executive director of the National Council Against Health Fraud .

#10837

Jacques Morcos

#64267

Overall Influence

Jacques Morcos is a professor of neurosurgery in the Department of Neurological Surgery and Otolaryngology at the University of Miami and serves as the director of skull base and endoscopic surgery and cerebrovascular surgery. Morcos' training began in London at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery at Queen's Square and Maida Vale in London, England. He completed his residency at the University of Minnesota and his fellowships at the University of Florida and the premiere Barrow Neurological Institute.

#10838

Claire Wainwright

#149839

Overall Influence

Claire E. Wainwright is a paediatric respiratory physician and professor of pediatrics, residing and working in Queensland. She commenced her medical training in London and completed her specialist training at the Royal Children's Hospital, Brisbane. She is now head of the Cystic Fibrosis Service at the Queensland Children's Hospital and a professor of pediatric medicine at the University of Queensland, Australia. Wainwright has published numerous academic papers focusing upon her main area of interest; the impacts of fungal infections upon children with cystic fibrosis. However, her interes...

#10839

Cara Tannenbaum

#137338

Overall Influence

Cara Tannenbaum is a Canadian researcher and practicing physician in the fields of geriatrics, women's health and gender research. Since 2015, Tannenbaum has served as the Scientific Director of Canadian Institutes of Health Research's Institute of Gender and Health. She was appointed as a Member of the Order of Canada on November 17, 2021.

#10840

Susan Shaw

#50646

Overall Influence

1943 - 2022 (79 years)

Susan D. Shaw was an American environmental health scientist, marine toxicologist, explorer, ocean conservationist, and author. A Doctor of Public Health, she was a professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the School of Public Health at the State University of New York at Albany, and Founder/President of the Shaw Institute, a nonprofit scientific institution with a mission to improve human and ecological health through innovative science and strategic partnerships. Shaw is globally recognized for pioneering high-impact environmental research on ocean pollution, climate change, oil spills, and plastics that has fueled public policy over three decades.

#10841

Richard Whitlock

#78998

Overall Influence

Richard Whitlock FRCSC is a Canadian cardiovascular surgeon and intensivist, the Canada Research Chair in Cardiovascular Surgery and a professor of surgery at McMaster University Medical School. He is most well known for being the principal investigator of the SIRS trial and the LAAOS III trial. On April 9, 2015, Whitlock and his team performed the first transcatheter aortic valve implantation on a pregnant woman in the world.

#10842

Dirk Baltzly

#175575

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Dirk Christian Baltzly is an Australian philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tasmania. He is known for his research on ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy. Baltzly is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities .

#10843

Mayo Fuster Morell

#55631

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (51 years)

Mayo Fuster Morell is a social researcher. Her research has focused on sharing economy, social movements, online communities and digital Commons, frequently using participatory action research and method triangulation. She has been part of the most important research centres studying Internet and its social effects, including the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, the MIT Center for Civic Media or the Berkeley School of Information. As an active citizen, she is the co-founder of multiple initiatives around digital Commons and Free Culture, such as the Procomuns Forum on collaborative ec...

#10844

Eric Coleman

#42451

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Eric Coleman is an American geriatrician and academic. He was a professor at the University of Colorado. His research focuses on improving care transitions. Coleman was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2012.

#10845

Mary Renfrew

#97185

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Mary Josephine Renfrew is a British midwife and academic. Education Renfrew graduated in nursing from the University of Edinburgh in 1975, and in midwifery from the same institution in 1978. She obtained a PhD on breastfeeding in 1982, while at the Medical Research Council's reproductive biology unit in Edinburgh.

#10846

Steven Lehrer

#63005

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Steven Lehrer is a physician and writer, known for medical research and for his English translation of Else Ury. Early years and education Lehrer was born in Los Angeles. He attended UCLA and graduated from Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

#10847

Colin Bradley

#173677

Overall Influence

Colin Bradley is a professor of general practice at University College Cork, best known for his 1995 paper on significant event audit, co-authored with Mike Pringle. Selected publications “Significant Event Auditing”, co-authored with Bradley C, Carmichael C, Wallis H, Moore A., Occasional Paper 70. London: Royal College of General Practitioners, 1995

#10848

Josephine Nambooze

#52477

Overall Influence

1930 - Present (96 years)

Josephine Nambooze is a Ugandan physician, public health specialist, academic, and medical researcher. She is an emeritus professor of public health at Makerere University School of Public Health. Nambooze was the first female East African to qualify as a physician circa 1959.

#10849

Igor Kvetnoy

#115316

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Igor Moiseevich Kvetnoy is a Russian expert in the field of molecular medicine and neuroendocrinology. He participated in the discovery of extrapineal melatonin production. He contributed to the discovery and development of the doctrine of diffuse neuroendocrine immune system and considered a founder of the Russian scientific school of neuroimmunoendoсrinology.

#10850

Dietrich Grönemeyer

Dietrich Grönemeyer

#56896

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Dietrich H. W. Grönemeyer is a German professor of medicine and one of the inventors of Microtherapy. He grew up in Bochum with his two brothers. One of them, Herbert Grönemeyer, is a popular musician.

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