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#11301

Philippe Charlier

Philippe Charlier

#73752

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (49 years)

Philippe Charlier is a French coroner, forensic pathologist and paleopathologist. Biography Charlier was born in Meaux on 25 June 1977. His father is a doctor, his mother a pharmacist. He made his first dig at the age of 10, when he found a human skull. He studied archaeology and art history at the Michelet Institute and was part of the forensic department at Raymond Poincaré University Hospital.

#11302

Grace Fong

#89929

Overall Influence

Grace Fong, D.M.A., is the American Director of Keyboard Studies at Chapman University Conservatory of Music and has an active solo and chamber music career. She also performs as part of the Selvaggi Trio.

#11303

Amina Zoubeidi

#178841

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Amina Zoubeidi is a Canadian research scientist and prostate cancer researcher. She's a scientist at the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute and an associate professor in the Department of Urologic Sciences at the University of British Columbia. During her tenure at UBC, Zoubeidi and her research team developed the first drug that targets and blocks BRN2, thus stopping Neuroendocrine prostate cancer tumours and creating a possible treatment for the previously thought incurable disease.

#11304

David Herzog

#24938

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

David Herzog is an American expert on eating disorders research and treatment. He was one of the first doctors to advocate that treatments for bulimia, anorexia and other eating disorders include both psychotherapy and medical and nutritional monitoring, as well as careful follow up after patients recover. Today he is a researcher, teacher and advocate. Much of his work has focused on changing the way the fashion industry uses models.

#11305

Paul Colombani

#125309

Overall Influence

Paul Michael Colombani is an American pediatric surgeon. Colombani earned his medical degree from the University of Kentucky College of Medicine and completed residencies specializing in general surgery and pediatric surgery at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, respectively. He then joined the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine faculty, where he taught as Robert Garrett Professor of Pediatric Surgery. Colombani later earned a master's in business administration from Johns Hopkins University.

#11306

Chris Chafe

#107349

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Christopher David Chafe, born 1952 in Bern, Switzerland, is a musician, scientist, and the director of the Stanford University Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics . He is Duca Family Professor at Stanford University, holding a Doctor of Musical Arts in music composition from Stanford University , a Master of Arts in music composition from University of California, San Diego, and a Bachelor of Arts in music from Antioch College. He won a Net Challenge Prize from the IEEE and Association for Computing Machinery in 2000, and a National Science Foundation research award in 1999. ...

#11307

Ray Carney

#96650

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Raymond Carney is an American scholar and critic, primarily known for his work as a film theorist, although he writes extensively on American art and literature as well. He is known for his study of the works of actor and director John Cassavetes. He teaches in the Film and Television department of the Boston University College of Communication at Boston University and has published several books on American art and film.

#11308

C. Riley Snorton

#118299

Overall Influence

1982 - Present (44 years)

C. Riley Snorton is an American scholar, author, and activist whose work focuses on historical perspectives of gender and race, specifically Black transgender identities. His publications include Nobody is Supposed to Know: Black Sexuality on the Down Low and Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity . Snorton is currently Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago. In 2014 BET listed him as one of their "18 Transgender People You Should Know".

#11309

Richard T. Lee

#180668

Overall Influence

#11310

Christian Kurts

#48092

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Christian Kurts is a German immunologist and nephrologist. Career Since 2009, Christian Kurts has been the Director Institute of Experimental Immunology, University Hospital Bonn, University of Bonn, Germany. In 2016, he founded the Bonn & Melbourne Research and Graduate training group and remains a Co-Spokesperson of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft-funded program.

#11311

Thomas Boehm

#46212

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Thomas Boehm is a German immunologist. He is a Director of the Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology and Epigenetics in Freiburg im Breisgau. He has won a variety of prizes for his research work. Life Boehm completed his medical studies at the Goethe University Frankfurt. He received his doctorate in 1982 and then worked as a research assistant in paediatrics and biochemistry at Frankfurt University Hospital. In 1988 he qualified as a professor of biochemistry. From 1987 to 1991 he was a visiting researcher and then a research associate at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Cambridge University.

#11312

Christoph Klein

#37415

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Christoph Klein is a German Pediatric Hematologist/Oncologist and Director at the Dr. von Hauner Children’s Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany. Career Christoph Klein completed clinical and scientific training at the Dr. von Hauner Children's Hospital Munich, Hôpital Necker Enfants Malades, Paris, University Children's Hospital Freiburg, and Boston Children's Hospital. He was Chair of the Department of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology at Hannover Medical School before being appointed Chair of the Department of Pediatrics at LMU in 2011.

#11313

Ulrich Konrad

#45016

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Ulrich Aloysius Konrad is a German musicologist and professor at the Institute for Music Research of the University of Würzburg. He is considered an expert on European music of the 17th to 20th centuries, especially the works of Mozart, Robert Schumann, Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss. He wrote a biography, Wolfgang Amadé Mozart, and studied the composer's sketches.

#11314

Howard Ferguson

#116850

Overall Influence

1908 - 1999 (91 years)

Howard Ferguson was an Irish composer and musicologist from Belfast. He composed instrumental, chamber, orchestral and choral works. While his music is not widely known today, his Piano Sonata in F minor, Op. 8 and his Five Bagatelles, Op. 9, for piano are still performed. His works represent some of the most important 20th-century music to emerge from Northern Ireland.

#11315

Thomas L. Hankins

#104690

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (93 years)

Thomas Leroy Hankins is an American historian of science. Education and career Hankins studied physics at Yale University with a bachelor's degree in 1956 and at Harvard University with an M.A.T. in 1958. From 1958 to 1962 he taught high school physics and worked at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute during the summers. In 1962 he matriculated in the history department of Cornell University, where he graduated with a Ph.D. in 1964. In the history department of the University of Washington , he was an assistant professor from 1964 to 1969, an associate professor from 1969 to 1975, and a full professor from 1975 to 2000, when he retired as professor emeritus.

#11316

Ailton Krenak

#71838

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Ailton Alves Lacerda Krenak is a Brazilian writer, journalist, philosopher and indigenous movement leader of Krenak ethnicity. He was forcibly separated from his people, of which only 130 individuals are left , at age 9. When he was 17, he and his family migrated to the state of Paraná, where he was taught literacy and became a printing specialist and journalist. Krenak functioned as a representative of indigenous peoples at the debates on the 1988 Brazilian Constitution, where he covered himself in ritual face painting during a speech.

#11317

Kari Nadeau

#85733

Overall Influence

Kari C. Nadeau is the Chair of the Department of Environmental Health at Harvard School of Public Health and John Rock Professor of Climate and Population Studies. She practices Allergy, Asthma, Immunology in children and adults. She has published over 400+ papers, many in the field of climate change and health. Dr. Nadeau, with a team of individuals and patients and families, has been able to help major progress and impact in the clinical fields of immunology, infection, asthma and allergy. Dr. Nadeau is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and the U.S. EPA Children’s Health Prote...

#11318

Katrina Brown

#90982

Overall Influence

1901 - Present (125 years)

Katrina Brown is a Professor of Social Sciences, at the University of Exeter. From 1991–2012, she was a Professor of Development Studies at the University of East Anglia. Education Brown has a BSc from University of Newcastle upon Tyne, an MSc from the University of Reading, and a Ph.D. from the University of Nottingham. Following her Ph.D, she was at the University of East Anglia until 2012 at which point she moved to the University of Exeter.

#11319

Karl Helfrich

#175956

Overall Influence

Karl R. Helfrich is an American physical oceanographer. Helfrich earned his bachelor's of science degree in engineering from Duke University in 1979. He completed a master's of science degree and doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1982 and 1985, respectively. He is a senior scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, serving as J. S. Johnson Chair as Education Coordinator from 2001 to 2006, and was H. B. Bigelow Chair for Excellence in Oceanography between 2014 and 2017. In 2001, Helfrich was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society "[f]or laboratory, a...

#11320

Asif Ahmed

#113056

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Asif Ahmed FRSB is a British-Indian vascular scientist, whose research focuses on reducing the risk of mortality and morbidity in pregnancy. He is the founder and former Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Executive Dean of Aston Medical School, Birmingham, and established the Aston Medical Research Institute, a university-wide multidisciplinary translational research entity at Aston University.

#11321

Teresa Rees

#154143

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Dame Teresa Lesley Rees, DBE, FAcSS, FLSW was a British social scientist, and a professor at Cardiff University. She specialised in the analysis of gender equality within education, training and labour market policies.

#11322

John Anderson Palmer

#128514

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

John Anderson Palmer is an American philosopher and professor of philosophy at the University of Florida. He is known for his expertise on ancient Greek philosophy. In 2014, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.

#11323

Chatral Sangye Dorje

#70760

Overall Influence

1913 - 2015 (102 years)

Chatral Sangye Dorje Rinpoche was a Tibetan Dzogchen master and a reclusive ngagpa yogi, known for his great realization and strict discipline. Chatral Sangye Dorje was a disciple of Khenpo Ngawang Pelzang and was widely regarded as one of the most highly realized Dzogchen yogis. In addition to his relationship with Khenpo Ngagchung, Chatral Sangye Dorje also studied with some of the last century's most renowned masters, including Dudjom Jigdral Yeshe Dorje, Dzongsar Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö, and the famed Kunzang Dekyong Wangmo. Chatral Sangye Dorje was one of the primary lineage holders of the...

#11324

Richard Crevenna

#159095

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Richard Crevenna is an Austrian medical specialist, Head of the Department of Physical Medicine, Rehabilitation and Occupational Medicine, Professor for physical medicine and a medical specialist for general rehabilitation with the special subject geriatrics, Pain Medicine, Geriatrics, and Occupational Medicne at the Medical University of Vienna . He is known for his basic work on cancer rehabilitation, interdisciplinary pain medicine and biofeedback.

#11325

Annette Michelson

#105567

Overall Influence

1922 - 2018 (96 years)

Annette Michelson was an American art and film critic and writer. Her work contributed to the fields of cinema studies and the avant-garde in visual culture. Biography Born in 1922, Michelson graduated from Hunter College High School circa 1940 and Brooklyn College in 1948. Between 1956 and 1966, she was art editor and critic for the Paris edition of the New York Herald Tribune while also writing for Arts Magazine and Art International. She worked as a writer for Artforum, where she edited the influential issues on 'Eisenstein/Brakhage' in 1973 and the 'Special Film Issue' in 1973. Togethe...

#11326

John Darsee

#26414

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

John Roland Darsee is an American physician and former medical researcher. After compiling an impressive list of publications in reputable scientific journals, he was found to have fabricated data for his publications.

#11327

Emil Iii Frei

#180773

Overall Influence

#11328

Natascha Drubek

#165879

Overall Influence

Natascha Drubek-Meyer is a researcher, author and editor in the area of Central and East European literature, film and media. Since 2012 Drubek has been teaching comparative literature, and film and media studies, at the Free University of Berlin

#11329

W. P. Andrew Lee

#67777

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Wei-Ping Andrew Lee is a Taiwanese-American hand surgeon and medical researcher. He is presently the Dean of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost of UT Southwestern Medical Center. Lee focuses on translational research on immune modulation for vascularized composite allotransplantation and the implementation of protocols to minimize immunosuppression in hand transplant and other VCA programs.

#11330

John Doull

#148299

Overall Influence

1922 - 2017 (95 years)

John Doull was Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Kansas. Education Doull was a native of Baker, Montana. He received a B.Sc. degree in chemistry from Montana State University in 1944, and after three years of service in the US Navy, he attended the University of Chicago and graduated with a PhD degree in pharmacology and an MD degree . During his time at the University of Chicago he developed his keen interest in toxicology.

#11331

Stephen F. Teiser

#58788

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Stephen F. Teiser is the D. T. Suzuki Professor in Buddhist Studies and Professor of Religion at Princeton University, where he is also the Director of the Program in East Asian Studies. His scholarship is known for a broad conception of Buddhist thinking and practice, showing the interactions between Buddhism in India, China, Korea and Japan, especially in the medieval period; for the use of wide-ranging sources, not only texts and documents, but artistic and material; for a theoretical approach that builds insights from history, anthropology, literary theory, and religious studies; and for...

#11332

Edythe Scott Bagley

Edythe Scott Bagley

#43680

Overall Influence

1924 - 2011 (87 years)

Edythe Scott Bagley was an American author, activist, and educator. The older sister of Coretta Scott King, she worked behind the scenes to promote the Civil Rights Movement and was actively involved in many of the crucial events of that era.

#11333

Erik Waaler

#67138

Overall Influence

1903 - 1997 (94 years)

Erik Waaler was a Norwegian professor of medicine. He was born in Hamar as a son of physician Per Waaler and musician Fredrikke Amalie Holtemann Rynning . He was a brother of Georg and Rolf Waaler and uncle of Bjarne Waaler. In November 1929 he married Esther Fasmer Dahl , a daughter of priest and composer Alf Fasmer Dahl and sister of Titt Fasmer Dahl.

#11334

Erin Marcus

#55495

Overall Influence

Erin N. Marcus, M.D., M.P.H is an internal medicine doctor who writes on public health and health disparity issues for The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The New York Times and other publications. Career Marcus is a general internist and a professor of clinical medicine at the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine. Much of her non-academic writing focuses on how different public policies affect the diverse patients she sees as a primary care physician in Miami.

#11335

Claes Wahlestedt

#72594

Overall Influence

Claes Wahlestedt is a Swedish-American biomedical researcher and entrepreneur. He is a professor at the University of Miami. Education A native of Sweden, Wahlestedt obtained his MD and PhD degrees from the University of Lund. He pursued postdoctoral work at Kyoto University and Georgetown University. He grew up in Karlskrona, the son of Åke and Irena Wahlestedt. His father, a lawyer and a decorated former Swedish diplomat, had served in Berlin during the second world war.

#11336

Tim Thornton

#114531

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Andrew Timothy Giles Thornton is a British philosopher and Professor of Philosophy and Mental Health at the University of Central Lancashire. He is a Senior Editor of the journal Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology. Thornton is known for his works on philosophy of thought and language.

#11337

Erik Fosse

#27673

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Erik Torgeir Fosse is a Norwegian surgeon, lieutenant colonel, political activist, solidarity worker and musician. As professor of medicine he has headed the Intervention Centre at the National Hospital since 1995. He has been involved in international medical solidarity work since 1979 and co-founded the Norwegian Aid Committee NORWAC in 1983, of which he remains a leader. He is noted for his humanitarian work for NORWAC in the Gaza Strip with Mads Gilbert during the Gaza War.

#11338

Kwaku Ohene-Frempong

#174109

Overall Influence

1946 - 2022 (76 years)

Kwaku Ohene-Frempong was a Ghanaian pediatric hematologist-oncologist and an expert in sickle cell disease . Ohene-Frempong grew up in Ghana and was a standout athlete in track-and-field, later competing for Yale University as well as Ghana at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games. He continued his medical training in the United States, where he completed medical school, pediatrics residency and a pediatric hematology-oncology fellowship. With a professional interest in SCD, Ohene-Frempong was a physician and involved in public health initiatives at Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans, Louisiana, and later the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania.

#11339

Mustafa Djamgoz

#57598

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Prof. Mustafa Bilgin Ali Djamgoz is Professor of cancer biology at Imperial College London and chairman of the College of Medicine’s Science Council. Biography Djamgoz was born in Nicosia, Cyprus to a Turkish Cypriot family. He emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1970 for his studies. Djamgoz studied at the Imperial College London, where he became a Professor of Neurobiology, and then Professor of Cancer Biology. His scientific consultancies and granting agencies include the Medical Research Council and the Wellcome Trust. In 2002, Djamgoz established the Pro Cancer Research Fund as a regist...

#11340

Robert Zachary

#64128

Overall Influence

1913 - 1999 (86 years)

Robert Bransby Zachary was an English paediatric surgeon who spent the majority of his career at Sheffield Children's Hospital. He was an expert on the treatment of spina bifida and hydrocephalus. Career Robert Zachary was born in 1913 in Pudsey to Samuel John Zachary, a dentist, and Priscilla Mary . He earned a Bachelor of Pharmacy in 1935 before completing a medical degree at the University of Leeds in 1940. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1943, originally working on orthopaedics at Oxford's Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre. He changed specialties in 1945 to paediatric surgery and received a grant to train at Boston Children's Hospital.

#11341

Melita Gordon

#173559

Overall Influence

Melita Alison Gordon is a gastroenterologist who works on invasive gut pathogens and tropical gastrointestinal disease. She leads the Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Trust Salmonella and Enterics Group. Gordon was awarded the British Society of Gastroenterology Sir Francis Avery Jones Research Medal in 2011.

#11342

Christian Perring

#80691

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Christian David Perring is an American philosopher. He is known for his works on moral psychology. Perring is the editor of Metapsychology Online Reviews and Vice President of the Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry.

#11343

David Servan-Schreiber

David Servan-Schreiber

#54859

Overall Influence

1961 - 2011 (50 years)

David Servan-Schreiber was a French physician, neuroscientist and author. He was a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He was also a lecturer in the Faculty of Medicine of Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1.

#11344

Eric Clarke

#150087

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Eric Fillenz Clarke, has been the Heather Professor of Music at the University of Oxford since 2007. He was educated at the University of Sussex, where he obtained a BA and an MA in Music, and then at the University of Exeter, obtaining a PhD in Psychology. He taught at the City University London from 1981 to 1993, becoming Reader in Music in 1991. He was James Rossiter Hoyle Professor of Music at the University of Sheffield from 1993 to 2007, when he moved to Oxford University. His publications include Ways of Listening and various articles on the perception and psychology of music. He w...

#11345

James Fetzer

#71413

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

James Henry Fetzer is an American professor emeritus of the philosophy of science at the University of Minnesota Duluth, known for promoting conspiracy theories and Holocaust denial. Fetzer has worked on assessing and clarifying the forms and foundations of scientific explanation, probability in science, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of cognitive science, especially artificial intelligence and computer science.

#11346

Fatma Chamakh-Haddad

#89683

Overall Influence

1936 - 2013 (77 years)

Fatma Chamakh-Haddad or Fatma Haddad-Chamakh was a professor, philosopher, feminist and Tunisian activist. Early life and education Born in 1936 in Tunis, Fatma Chamakh-Haddad came from a family of Muslim and nationalist intellectuals. She was educated as a child in Tunis, notably in the Russian high school. As a teenager, she became a member of the Neo Destour and the General Union of Tunisian Students . She then went to university in Paris, where she joined her brothers.

#11347

Jason Miklian

#119061

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (49 years)

Jason T. Miklian is an American and Norwegian development studies scholar and author. He is a Senior Researcher of business and development at the Centre for Development and the Environment at the University of Oslo. Miklian is known for his scholarship and commentary on the role of the private sector in conflict and fragile state settings and on South Asia politics.

#11348

James G. Neal

#33729

Overall Influence

James G. Neal is an American librarian, library administrator, and a prominent figure in American and international library associations. In 2022 President Joe Biden appointed him to the National Museum and Library Services Board which advises the agency on general policies with respect to the duties, powers, and authority of the Institute of Museum and Library Services relating to museum, library, and information services, as well as the annual selection of National Medals recipients.

#11349

Norman Marcon

#163621

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

Norman Emilio Marcon was a gastroenterologist at the Wellesley Hospital, St. Michael's Hospital, Unity Health Toronto and professor of medicine at the University of Toronto. Marcon was one of the first gastroenterologists in Canada to use therapeutic endoscopy for the treatment of digestive diseases.

#11350

Annika Linde

#100102

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Gerda Annika Linde is a Swedish physician, virologist and retired civil servant. From 2005 to 2013 she served as State Epidemiologist at the Swedish Institute for Communicable Disease Control. Biography Linde was born in Skövde and grew up there. She was inspired by the novel Exodus by Leon Uris to study medicine. She enrolled at Gothenburg University in 1968, studying medicine and sociology, obtaining a medical degree in 1974. After her internship at Danderyd Hospital she went on to work as an infectious disease specialist at the presently defunct Roslagstull Hospital in Stockholm. In 1979 s...

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