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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#11001

Jonah Frankel

#32836

Overall Influence

1928 - 2012 (84 years)

Jonah Frankel, also spelled Yonah Frankel, Jonah Fraenkel was an author, Hebrew literature professor and Israel Prize laureate. Biography Jonah Frankel was born in Munich in 1928 and emigrated to Israel in 1937 when the Nazis came to power. He was a Professor Emeritus of Aggadah and Midrash in the Department of Hebrew Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has been described as "One of the most important scholars of the modern study of midrash"

#11002

Sally Banes

#97451

Overall Influence

1950 - 2020 (70 years)

Sally Rachel Banes was a notable dance historian, writer, and critic. Life, education, and performance career Born and raised in Silver Spring, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C., Banes studied dance, and particularly ballet, throughout her childhood. She attended the University of Chicago and graduated in 1972 with an interdisciplinary degree in criticism, art, and theater. While at college, she worked as a lighting assistant and wardrobe mistress. She also belonged to a group known as The Collective. Joining in 1970, Banes became one of several actors who met several times a week to collaborate on work.

#11003

Micah Altman

#36410

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Micah Altman is an American social scientist who conducts research in social science informatics. Since 2012, he has worked as the head research scientist in the MIT Libraries, first as director of the Program on Information Science and subsequently as director of research for the libraries' Center for Research on Equitable and Open Scholarship. Altman previously worked at Harvard University. He is known for his work on redistricting, scholarly communication, privacy and open science. Altman is a co-founder of Public Mapping Project, which develops DistrictBuilder, an open-source software.

#11004

Rosalinde Hurley

#92450

Overall Influence

1929 - 2004 (75 years)

Dame Rosalinde Hurley, DBE, FRCPath, FRCOG , was a British physician, microbiologist, pathologist, public health and medical administrator, ethicist and barrister. She was knighted in 1988 for her services to medicine and public health.

#11005

Nicholas Davey

#174881

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Nicholas Davey is a British philosopher and professor of philosophy at the University of Dundee. He is known for his expertise in aesthetics, hermeneutics, and his work on Hans-Georg Gadamer. Davey has also played a leading role in founding several research groups and institutes at the University of Dundee, which include Theoros, Hermeneutica Scotia , and the university's Arts and Humanities Research Institute.

#11006

Jacques Urbain

#66262

Overall Influence

1943 - 2018 (75 years)

Jacques Urbain is a Belgian scientist, and professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles. In 1987, he was awarded the Francqui Prize on Biological and Medical Sciences for his work on immunology. External links Jacques Urbain

#11007

Stephen T. Asma

#154222

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Stephen T. Asma is Professor of Philosophy and Distinguished Scholar at Columbia College Chicago. He is also a Senior Fellow of the Research Group in Mind, Science, and Culture at Columbia College Chicago.

#11008

Raphael Sassower

#155666

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Raphael Sassower is a professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs . His academic contributions have been in the fields of economics, medical theory and methodology, science and technology, postmodernism, education, aesthetics, and Popperian philosophy. He is also a leader in the field of postmodern technoscience.

#11009

David Rousseau

#106820

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

David Rousseau is a British systems philosopher, Director of the Centre for Systems Philosophy, former chair of the Board of Trustees of the International Society for the Systems Sciences , a Past President of the ISSS , and the Company Secretary of the British Association for the Study of Spirituality. He is known for having revived interest in establishing a scientific general systems theory , for promoting systems philosophy as a route to advances in GST, for contributions on scientific general systems principles and for advocating systems research as a route to a scientific understanding of spiritual and other exceptional human experiences.

#11010

Simon Lumsden

#173910

Overall Influence

Simon Lumsden is Associate Professor of philosophy at University of New South Wales. He is known for his research on subjectivism, German idealism and poststructuralism. See also Subject Bibliography Lumsden S, 2014, Self-Consciousness and the Critique of the Subject: Hegel, Heidegger, and the Poststructuralists, Columbia University Press, New YorkLumsden S, 2013, 'Deleuze and Hegel on the limits of Self-Determined Subjectivity', in Houle K; Vernon J , Hegel and Deleuze: Together Again for the First Time, NorthWestern University Press, Evanston, Ill., pp. 133 - 151Lumsden S, 2013, 'Between Na...

#11011

Julie Gerberding

#11362

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Julie Louise Gerberding is an American infectious disease expert who was the first woman to serve as the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention . As of May 2022, she is the CEO of the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health . Gerberding grew up in Estelline, South Dakota, attended Brookings High School, and earned undergraduate and graduate degrees from Case Western Reserve University. She was the chief medical resident at the University of California, San Francisco where she treated hospitalized AIDS patients in the first years of the epidemic. Gerberding be...

#11012

Deborah J. Cook

#135659

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Deborah J. Cook is a Canadian critical care physician. She is a Canada Research Chair of Research Transfer in Intensive Care at McMaster University and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Early life and education Cook was born on October 5, 1960 in Dundas, Ontario. She completed her undergraduate medical degree and internal medicine training at McMaster University, then pursued an advanced fellowship in critical care medicine at Stanford University. She returned to McMaster to complete her Master's degree in design, measurement, and evaluation, before joining the faculty in 1990.

#11013

Mary Tinetti

#44147

Overall Influence

Mary Tinetti is an American physician, and Gladys Phillips Crofoot Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale University, and Director of the Yale Program on Aging. Life She graduated from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor with a B.A. in 1973, and from the University of Michigan Medical School with an M.D. in 1978. She was a resident at the University of Minnesota. She studied on a geriatric fellowship at the University of Rochester with Dr. T. Franklin Williams. She pioneered the study of morbidity due to falls by elderly people, and investigated risk-reduction...

#11014

Jesse Ehrenfeld

Jesse Ehrenfeld

#134561

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (48 years)

Jesse Menachem Ehrenfeld is an American physician. Ehrenfeld is President of the American Medical Association and Professor of Anesthesiology at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He is also a former Speaker of the Massachusetts Medical Society, where he was the youngest officer in the 228-year history of the organization. He is also a former Vice-President of the Massachusetts Society of Anesthesiologists. The inaugural recipient on the NIH Sexual and Gender Minority Research Award from the NIH Director, Ehrenfeld has been recognized for his contributions to advancing health equity. A 2008 re...

#11015

Mark Peeples

#178114

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Mark E. Peeples is an American biologist, focusing on protein structure and folding, and the molecular basis of disease and virology. He is doing research on RSV infection. He is currently at The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital and Ohio State University and is an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

#11016

David Allyn

#99497

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

David Allyn is an American author, educator, and consultant to nonprofit organizations. Personal life Allyn is the stepson of the late John Wallach, founder of the nonprofit organization Seeds of Peace. Allyn graduated from the Georgetown Day School in Washington, D.C. He holds a BA from Brown University and a PhD from Harvard University. From 1996–1999, he taught at Princeton University. In 2014 he was named CEO of The Oliver Scholars Program. In February 2016 he was elected to the board of trustees of the National Association of Independent Schools .

#11017

Peter J. Lang

#178159

Overall Influence

#11018

S. Gunnar O. Johansson

#178168

Overall Influence

#11019

Elena Plante

#143614

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Elena Margaret Plante is a researcher and speech-language pathologist specializing in developmental language disorders in children and adults. She holds the position of Professor and previously was Head of the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at the University of Arizona . She is the principal investigator at the eponymous Plante Laboratory at UA. Plante is also affiliated with the Cognitive Science program at UA.

#11020

Alan Heldman

#76128

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Alan W. Heldman is an American interventional cardiologist. Heldman graduated from Harvard College, University of Alabama School of Medicine, and completed residency and fellowship training at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He held positions on the faculty of Johns Hopkins from 1995 to 2007. In 2007, he became clinical chief of cardiology at the University of Miami's Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine.

#11021

Nadey Hakim

#22931

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Nadey S. Hakim FASMBS , is a British-Lebanese professor of transplantation surgery at Imperial College London and general surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic London. He is also a writer, musician and sculptor, known for kidney and pancreas transplantations, and being part of the surgical team that performed the world's first hand transplantation in 1998 and then the double arm transplantation in 2000. Several of his sculptures are on display around the world, including President Macron at the Élysée Palace in Paris, Pope Francis at the Vatican, Michelangelos David in the Madonna del Parto Museum ...

#11022

Lilica Boal

#109377

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (92 years)

Maria da Luz Freire de Andrade , better known as Lilica Boal, is a historian, philosopher, educator, and anti-fascist activist in Cape Verde. She fought for the independence of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde, and against the Portuguese Estado Novo dictatorship.

#11023

Abbas Ardehali

#53315

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Abbas Ardehali is an Iranian-American cardiothoracic surgeon. He is the surgical director of UCLA's Heart, Lung, and Heart-Lung Transplant programs, and was the principal investigator behind technology that allows for the transportation of a breathing human heart or lung for an extended period of time.

#11024

William A. Christian

#42771

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

William Armistead Christian Jr. is an American religious historian and independent scholar. He was the J.E. and Lillian Byrne Tipton Distinguished Visiting Professor in Religious Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara. Christian is a graduate of the University of Michigan .

#11025

Sarah Thomas

#65779

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Sarah Elizabeth Thomas is an American librarian best known for her leadership positions in a number of research libraries. In May 2013 it was announced that she had been appointed vice president for Harvard University Library; she took up the post in August 2013.

#11026

Robert H. Ossoff

#168774

Overall Influence

Robert Henry Ossoff is an American physician-scientist and otolaryngologist. He is a professor emeritus at Vanderbilt University Medical Center where he previously held the Guy M. Maness Professorship of Laryngology and Voice.

#11027

Anurag Agrawal

#39406

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Anurag Agrawal is an Indian pulmonologist, medical researcher, Dean of the Trivedi School of Biosciences at Ashoka University, and the former director of the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, a CSIR institution. Known for his studies on lung diseases, Agrawal has been a senior fellow of the DBT-Wellcome Trust. 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 2014.

#11028

Dominique Bergmann

#102647

Overall Influence

Dominique C. Bergmann is a plant scientist with a specific focus on developmental biology and plant biology. Correspondingly, she is a professor of Biology at Stanford University and is in association with the Stanford Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine. Additionally, Bergmann is also an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

#11029

Yoji Yamada

#66087

Overall Influence

1931 - Present (95 years)

is a Japanese film director best known for his Otoko wa Tsurai yo series of films and his Samurai Trilogy . Biography He was born in Osaka, but due to his father's job as an engineer for the South Manchuria Railway, he was brought up in Dalian, China. from the age of two. Following the end of World War II, he returned to Japan and subsequently lived in Yamagata Prefecture. After receiving his degree from Tokyo University in 1954, he entered Shochiku and worked under Yoshitaro Nomura as a scriptwriter or as an assistant director.

#11030

Apollonius of Syria

#147181

Overall Influence

Apollonius was a man of ancient Syria who was a Platonic philosopher. He lived about the time of the Roman emperor Hadrian—that is, the late 1st and early 2nd century AD—and is known to have inserted into his works an oracle which promised to Hadrian the government of the Roman world.

#11031

Alan R. Nelson

#55864

Overall Influence

Alan R. Nelson, MD was president of the American Medical Association from 1989 to 1990, and led the development of several initiatives including the Health Access America Program. He was president of the World Medical Association from 1991 to 1992. Nelson earned his MD from Northwestern University Medical School in 1958. When the American College of Physicians and the American Society of Internal Medicine merged in 1998, Nelson headed its Washington office until January 2000. A member of the Institute of Medicine, he serves on its Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences Research and Medici...

#11032

Josep Figueras

#83005

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Josep Figueras Marimont is a Spanish physician, health policy expert, and health services researcher who serves as the director of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies. Biography Born in Medinyà, Girona, Spain, Josep was educated at the University of Barcelona where he received his medical degree with honors in 1983, after which he specialized in family medicine in 1987 at the University of Valencia. He proceeded to move to the United Kingdom where he obtained a Master of Public Health from the University of Leeds, and a MSc and Ph.D. in health planning and financing from ...

#11033

Roland Desné

#100072

Overall Influence

1931 - 2020 (89 years)

Roland Desné was a French writer, philosopher, and historian. Biography The son of a railway worker, Desné joined the French Communist Party with his philosophy professor, Guy Besse. In Paris, he met numerous other philosophers, including Louis Aragon, Arthur Adamov, Paul Éluard, Pierre Soulages, and René Étiemble. He published in France Nouvelle, La Nouvelle Critique, La Pensée, and Les Éditions sociales.

#11034

Arun Garg

#66493

Overall Influence

1947 - 2018 (71 years)

Arun Garg is an Indo-Canadian physician in the province of British Columbia who is recognized for contributing linkages between Canada and India, his country of origin. Early life Garg was born in the Indian city of Agra. His reputation for academic excellence started at an early age. When he was six years old, he entered school at a Grade 4 level. By age 16, he graduated from Agra University with a Master's in Chemistry. Being too young to enter medical school in India, Garg emigrated to the prairie province of Saskatchewan in Canada.

#11035

Emanual Maverakis

Emanual Maverakis

#98115

Overall Influence

Emanual Maverakis is an American physician-scientist, immunologist working in the field of immunogenetics, and a professor at the University of California, Davis. Early life and education Emanual Maverakis was born in Oakland, California, and spent his early childhood in South Central Los Angeles. His family eventually relocated to Moorpark, California, where he attended high school. He is of mixed heritage. His mother's family immigrated to the United States from Jalisco Mexico and his father's family immigrated from Crete. Although he would become an accomplished academician, following high school, Maverakis did not immediately pursue a university education.

#11036

Brian Bruya

#131623

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Brian Bruya , is a professor of philosophy at Eastern Michigan University, and an author of books and articles in the fields of comparative philosophy, cognitive science, and educational psychology. Bruya is known for his work in the study of "effortless attention", and showing that it is possible to foster wisdom in an educational setting. He is also a translator and has published translations of a number of popular comic books on Chinese philosophy, which have been featured in The New York Times.

#11037

Wendy Rogers

#176422

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Wendy Anne Rogers is a professor of clinical ethics at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. She was nominated as one of Nature's 10 people who mattered in 2019 for revealing ethical failures in China’s studies on organ transplantation.

#11038

Jules Henri Saiset

#146222

Overall Influence

1925 - 1995 (70 years)

Jules Henri Saiset was a prominent French existentialist philosopher, dramatist, novelist, and critic, who contributed significantly to the field of existentialism. He was born in Paris on July 11, 1925, and grew up in the aftermath of the First World War, which had a profound impact on his worldview.

#11039

Snake Shyam

#111693

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

M. S. Balasubramania , popularly known as Snake Shyam, is a snake enthusiast, wildlife conservationist and lecturer in Mysore, India. He was elected to the Mysore City Corporation in 2013, a role he served until 2018.

#11040

George H. Hitchings

George H. Hitchings

#3266

Overall Influence

1905 - 1998 (93 years)

George Herbert Hitchings was an American medical doctor who shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Sir James Black and Gertrude Elion "for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment", Hitchings specifically for his work on chemotherapy.

#11041

Luigi Cavanna

#99515

Overall Influence

Luigi Cavanna is an Italian doctor. He is the head of the hematology and oncology ward at the Guglielmo da Saliceto hospital in Piacenza, Emilia-Romagna. COVID-19 pandemic During the second week of March 2020, in the beginning of the pandemic lockdown in Italy, Cavanna realized that too many critically-ill COVID-19 patients were arriving at his hospital and that they could have been treated earlier before the escalation of the symptoms. He therefore became one of the first doctors in Italy to focus on house calls for COVID-19 patients.

#11042

António de Vasconcelos Nogueira

#120298

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

António Fernando de Vasconcelos Nogueira is a Portuguese philosopher, Social Science researcher, author, dramatist, and freelance journalist. Biography António de Vasconcelos Nogueira was born in Águeda, Portugal. He spent his childhood and part of his adolescence in Luanda, Angola, a former Portuguese colony in Africa, where he attended Catholic primary schools. Back in mainland Portugal, he continued his secondary education at Escola Secundária Marques de Castilho in Águeda and at Liceu Homem Cristo in Aveiro.

#11043

William Doe

#117684

Overall Influence

1941 - 2022 (81 years)

William Fairbank Doe was an Australian-born gastroenterologist who was Provost of the Aga Khan University and professor of medicine and Dean of the University of Birmingham Medical School. From 1993 until 2001 he was the senior editor of the Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology. His scientific output includes over 150 scientific research publications in international scientific journals. Since 1999 Doe has been a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom. He was President of the Gastroenterological Society of Australia from 1989 until 1991.

#11044

Anita Holdcroft

#164610

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Anita Holdcroft is an Emeritus Professor of Anaesthetics at Imperial College London and Honorary Consultant at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. She specialised in acute pain in women and was the first to study the changes that occur in the brain during parturition.

#11045

Åke Senning

#20897

Overall Influence

1915 - 2000 (85 years)

Åke Senning was a Swedish cardiac surgeon who worked at Zurich University Hospital from 1961 until his retirement in 1985. Biography Åke Senning was born to the Swedish veterinarian David Senning and the nurse Elly Senning, née Säfström. He finished his schooling in Uppsala with the baccalaureate. He actually wanted to become an engineer. However, as a nurse in World War 1, his mother persuaded him to study medicine. He subsequently completed the pre-clinical part of his studies in Uppsala, the clinical part and his state examination in Stockholm in 1948. His subsequent further training in Stockholm included general surgery, orthopaedics and thoracic and neurosurgery.

#11046

Lorraine Code

#178360

Overall Influence

#11047

John Wells

#71699

Overall Influence

1936 - 1998 (62 years)

John Campbell Wells was an English actor, writer and satirist. Early life The son of a cleric, Wells was born in Ashford, Kent, in 1936. He was educated at Eastbourne College and St Edmund Hall, Oxford.

#11048

Ivor Leclerc

#178372

Overall Influence

1915 - 1999 (84 years)

Ivor Leclerc was an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at Emory University. He was a president of the Metaphysical Society of America. Books The Philosophy of NatureThe Nature of Physical ExistenceWhitehead's metaphysics,: An introductory expositionThe Relevance of Whitehead: Philosophical Essays in Commemoration of the Centenary of the Birth of Alfred North Whitehead

#11049

John W. Kirklin

John W. Kirklin

#19514

Overall Influence

1917 - 2004 (87 years)

John Webster Kirklin was an American cardiothoracic surgeon, general surgeon, prolific author and medical educator who is best remembered for refining John Gibbon's heart–lung bypass machine via a pump-oxygenator to make feasible under direct vision, routine open-heart surgery and repairs of some congenital heart defects. The success of these operations was combined with his other advances, including teamwork and developments in establishing the correct diagnosis before surgery and progress in computerized intensive care unit monitoring after open heart surgery.

#11050

Timothy Johnson

#101274

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

G. Timothy Johnson is an American academic, pastor, physician, television journalist, and writer who, as "Dr. Tim Johnson", is known to television viewers as the longtime Chief Medical Correspondent for ABC News on the ABC television network.

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