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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#11351

Mary Stuart Fisher

#98669

Overall Influence

1922 - 2006 (84 years)

Mary Stuart Fisher was an American radiologist who won the Marie Curie Award of the American Association for Women Radiologists. She spent the majority of her career as a professor of radiology at Temple University.

#11352

John Oghalai

#180781

Overall Influence

John Oghalai is an American physician and scientist. He is the Leon J. Tiber and David S. Alpert Chair in Medicine at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine and chair of the USC Caruso Department of Otolaryngology. Oghalai is an otolaryngologist. His research focuses on anatomical and molecular mechanisms in hearing and in ear and hearing disorders.

#11353

Robert Beamish

#86023

Overall Influence

1916 - 2001 (85 years)

Robert Earl Beamish, was a Canadian physician and cardiologist. Early life and education Beamish was born in Shoal Lake, Manitoba on September 16, 1916, the son of Henry and Mary May Beamish. He graduated with a B.A. from Brandon College in 1937. In 1942 he was awarded an M.D. in 1942 and two years later B. Sc. from the University of Manitoba. From 1947 to 1948, he studied in London after being awarded a Nuffield Dominion Travelling Fellowship.

#11354

Jigdal Dagchen Sakya

Jigdal Dagchen Sakya

#84033

Overall Influence

1929 - 2016 (87 years)

Jigdal Dagchen Sakya Rinpoche was a Tibetan Buddhist teacher educated in the Sakya sect. He was educated to be the head of the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism as well as the successor to the throne of Sakya, the third most important political position in Tibet in early times. Dagchen Rinpoche was in the twenty-sixth generation of the Sakya-Khön lineage descended from Khön Könchok Gyalpo and was regarded as an embodiment of Manjushri as well as the rebirth of a Sakya Lama from the Ngor sub-school, Ewam Luding Khenchen Gyase Chökyi Nyima.

#11355

Tim Pigott-Smith

Tim Pigott-Smith

#69140

Overall Influence

1946 - 2017 (71 years)

Timothy Peter Pigott-Smith, was an English film and television actor and author. He was best known for his leading role as Ronald Merrick in the television drama series The Jewel in the Crown, for which he won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor in 1985. Other noted TV roles included roles in The Chief, Midsomer Murders, The Vice, The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, King Charles III and two Doctor Who stories . Pigott-Smith appeared in many notable films, including Clash of the Titans , Gangs of New York , Johnny English , Alexander , V for Vendetta , Quantum of Solace , Red 2 and...

#11356

Hugh Gurling

#103837

Overall Influence

1950 - 2013 (63 years)

Hugh Malcolm Douglas Gurling was an English medical geneticist who specialised in the role of genetics and mental health. He led a molecular psychiatry laboratory at University College, London. Gurling was born in London on 6 May 1950, and brought up in Derbyshire. His father, Kenneth Gurling, was a physician and inaugural dean of the University of Nottingham. His mother, Nonie Sempill, was a nurse.

#11357

Jonathan Waxman

Jonathan Waxman

#89319

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Jonathan Hugh Waxman , founder and president of Prostate Cancer UK, is emeritus Professor of Oncology at Imperial College London, and author of four novels including The Elephant in the Room. He is a clinician who has helped develop new treatments for cancer, which are now part of standard practice.

#11358

Mary Ellen Wohl

#72904

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (94 years)

Mary Ellen Beck Wohl was Chief of the Division of Respiratory Diseasess at Children's Hospital Boston , and served as Associate Director of the General Clinical Research Center until 2002. Since the 1962, when she first joined the staff at Children's Hospital, Wohl specialized in the respiratory diseases of children. She was also a leader in the field of clinical research on cystic fibrosis. She developed a number of techniques to evaluate the function of the lungs in young children and is the author of many research papers in this field.

#11359

Radoslav Rochallyi

#83805

Overall Influence

1980 - Present (46 years)

Radoslav Rochallyi , Bardejov , Czechoslovakia is a Slovak writer, and poet living in the Malta, and Czech Republic. Biography Rochallyi was born in Bardejov, Czechoslovakia in a family with Lemko and Hungarian roots. He start reading even before started primary school. The first book he read was the book Black Ships by Maciej Słomczyński. Around his eight years, he came across Lermontov's poems. Rochallyi started writing poetry as a ten-year-old, and he published own works in magazines from the age of sixteen. The Author graduated in Management at the London International Graduate School and holds a certificate in Fine arts, which he received at the Pratt Institute.

#11360

Michelle C. Williams

#77416

Overall Influence

Michelle Claire Williams is a Scottish physician and professor at the University of Edinburgh. She is president elect of the British Society of Cardiovascular Imaging. Her research makes use of medical imaging and machine learning to understand cardiovascular disease.

#11361

Diane Purkiss

#49640

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Diane Purkiss is an Australian historian, and Fellow and Tutor of English at Keble College, Oxford. She specialises in Renaissance and women's literature, witchcraft and the English Civil War. Purkiss was born in Sydney, New South Wales, and was educated at Roseville College, Our Lady of the Rosary Convent, and Stuartholme School. She received a BA with first class Honours from the University of Queensland and D.Phil. from Merton College, Oxford. She became lecturer in English at the University of East Anglia in 1991, and lecturer in English at the University of Reading in 1993. In 1998 she...

#11362

Michael Wood

#99208

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

Michael Wood is professor emeritus of English at Princeton University. He is a literary and cultural critic, and an author of critical and scholarly books as well as a writer of reviews, review articles, and columns.

#11363

Reinhard Kager

#113858

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Reinhard Kager is an Austrian philosopher, journalist and music promoter who also worked as a music producer. Career Born in Graz, Kager studied philosophy, sociology and music at the University of Graz and at the Kunstuniversität Graz, from 1973. From 1986, he worked as a lecturer at the Philosophical Institute of the University of Graz and taught aesthetic theory, sociology of art and media theory. With his book Herrschaft und Versöhnung he wrote an introduction to the thinking of Theodor W. Adorno. From 1995 to 1998, he researched, supported by an APART scholarship from the Austrian Acade...

#11364

Edward Pols

#180749

Overall Influence

1919 - 2005 (86 years)

Edward Pols was an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at Bowdoin College. He was a president of the Metaphysical Society of America. He won the J.N. Findlay Award of the Metaphysical Society of America in 1994 for Radical Realism .

#11365

Reinhard Wiesend

#172610

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Reinhard Wiesend is a German musicologist and retired university professor. Wiesend studied musicology in Munich and received his doctorate in Würzburg in 1981 , followed by his Habilitation in 1987. Subsequently, he worked in Venice, Bayreuth and Palermo, among other places. From 2000 to 2007 he was head of the musicological institute of the University of Mainz.

#11366

Georges Rey

#181105

Overall Influence

#11367

Matthew Stuart

#174899

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Matthew Stuart is an American philosopher and a professor of philosophy at Bowdoin College. His primary work is in the field of Early Modern Philosophy, metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics and focuses on the philosophy of John Locke. He is the author of Locke’s Metaphysics in which he takes a unique approach to John Locke's work "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding" to view it as a strong Metaphysical text, rather than just that of epistemology. Some ideas approached in his book focus on "Locke's denial that bodies can be co-located", that "empty spaces within a body are not parts of...

#11368

Jeffrey Brown

#72209

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (51 years)

Jeffrey Brown is an American cartoonist born in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Biography Early life and education After growing up in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Brown moved to Chicago in 2000 to pursue an MFA at the School of the Art Institute. By the time he finished his studies, Brown had abandoned painting and started drawing comics seriously.

#11369

Samra Turajlic

#172319

Overall Influence

Samra Turajlic is a medical oncologist and cancer researcher. She leads the cancer dynamics lab at the Francis Crick Institute in London, which focuses on understanding how cancers evolve, as well as working as an oncologist at the Royal Marsden.

#11370

Alexander Victorovich Fedorov

#30786

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Alexander Victorovich Fedorov is a Russian scientist, teacher, media education specialist, film critic. He completed his Ph.D. dissertation about media education at the Russian Academy of Education .

#11371

P. Adams Sitney

#111100

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

P. Adams Sitney , is a historian of American avant-garde cinema. He is known as the author of Visionary Film, one of the first books on the history of experimental film in the United States. Life Sitney attended Yale University, where he received an A.B. in classics in 1967 and a Ph.D. in comparative literature in 1980. He co-founded the Anthology Film Archives in 1970 and, along with Jonas Mekas, Peter Kubelka, Ken Kelman, and James Broughton, served as one of the members of the Anthology Film Archives Essential Cinema film selection committee. He is currently Professor of Visual Arts at the ...

#11372

John Lawrence Hill

#177611

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

John Lawrence Hill is an American philosopher and law professor. Hill obtained a J.D. and Ph.D. in philosophy from Georgetown University. In 2003, he joined the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law where he is currently R. Bruce Townsend Professor of Law and adjunct professor of philosophy. He has published articles in the Cornell Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, Iowa Law Review and the New York University Law Review.

#11373

André Ungar

#159963

Overall Influence

1929 - 2019 (90 years)

André Ungar was a Hungarian-born Holocaust survivor, doctor of philosophy, liturgist, social activist, and rabbi who lived in England, South Africa and the United States. Life Ungar was born and raised in a prosperous Orthodox family in Budapest. The family survived the Holocaust by going into hiding under pseudonyms in a non-Jewish quarter of the city. In January 1955 he arrived to take up an appointment as rabbi of the Jewish Reform Congregation in Port Elizabeth. He considered Jewish opposition to apartheid was mandatory in terms of what they themselves had experienced during the Holocaust.

#11374

Mike Youle

#99561

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Michael Simon Youle is a British doctor and clinical researcher specializing in HIV treatment. He publicised the concept of pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV and has studied the health economics of HIV therapy. In 1995, he was listed as one of 40 influential gay men by The Independent.

#11375

Anthony Lane

#53997

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Anthony Lane is a British journalist who is a film critic for The New Yorker magazine. Career Education and early career Lane attended Sherborne School, graduating with a degree in English from Trinity College, Cambridge where he also did graduate work on T. S. Eliot. After graduation, he worked as a freelance writer and book reviewer for The Independent, where he was appointed deputy literary editor in 1989. In 1991, Lane was appointed film critic for The Independent on Sunday.

#11376

Michel Hugo

#54029

Overall Influence

1930 - 2010 (80 years)

Michel Hugo was a French-American cinematographer and academic. His film and television credits included Dynasty, Melrose Place and Mission: Impossible. In 2001, Hugo became a professor at the film department of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

#11377

Helen Boucher

#25770

Overall Influence

Helen Boucher is Dean of Tufts University School of Medicine and Chief Academic Officer of Tufts Medicine, the parent health system for Tufts Medical Center in Boston. Prior to this, she served as Chief of the Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases at Tufts Medical Center, a Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine, and Director of the Stuart B. Levy Center for Integrated Management of Antimicrobial Resistance at Tufts.

#11378

Jane Anderson

#82990

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Jane Anderson is a British physician who specialises in the management of HIV/AIDS. She has served as an expert advisor for Public Health England and is Chair of the National AIDS Trust. Early life and education Anderson was born in Swindon, Wiltshire on 23 December 1952. She originally trained as a nutritionist at Queen Elizabeth College. In an interview with The BMJ Anderson revealed that as a teenager she had underperformed in her A-levels and had initially not secured a place at medical school. Eventually she was accepted as a mature student to St Mary's Hospital Medical School. She started work as a research assistant in a metabolic unit.

#11379

Irving D. Kaplan

#173188

Overall Influence

Irving David Kaplan is an American radiation oncologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston Massachusetts and an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School. Kaplan attended Medical School at Stanford University School of Medicine in 1985, interned at Kaiser Foundation Hospital in Internal Medicine at Santa Barbara in 1986. He Completed his residency in Radiation Oncology at Standard in 1989.

#11380

Pauline Byakika

Pauline Byakika

#125598

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (52 years)

Pauline Byakika–Kibwika , is a Ugandan specialist physician, internist, epidemiologist, academic and researcher, who serves as an Associate Professor of Medicine at Makerere University College of Health Sciences. From 2017 until 2019, she served as the Vice President of the Uganda Medical Association, a professional industry association, that champions medical doctors' interests in the county.

#11381

Vincent T. DeVita

Vincent T. DeVita

#55840

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (91 years)

Vincent Theodore DeVita Jr. is the Amy and Joseph Perella Professor of Medicine at Yale Cancer Center, and a Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health. He directed the Yale Cancer Center from 1993 to 2003. He has been president of the American Cancer Society . He is internationally recognized as a pioneer in the field of oncology for his work on combination-chemotherapy treatments.

#11382

Margaret Moore

#79061

Overall Influence

Margaret Moore is a Canadian political theorist, academic and scholar. She is a Professor of Political Studies and Philosophy at Queen's University at Kingston. Moore has written on territorial and global distributive justice, just war theory, historical injustice, nationalism, multiculturalism, immigration, and place-related interests. Moore has authored four books including Foundations of Liberalism, The Ethics of Nationalism, A Political Theory of Territory, and Who Should Own Natural Resources?.

#11383

Carrie L. Byington

#53401

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Carrie L. Byington is a Mexican–American clinician and pediatric infectious disease specialist. In 2016, she became the first Hispanic woman to serve as Dean of a United States medical school upon her appointment at the Texas A&M University.

#11384

John Dodge

#158224

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (93 years)

John Ashton Dodge, CBE, FRCP, FRCPE, FRCPI, FRCPCH was a British paediatrician, specialising in cystic fibrosis. After his retirement in 1997, he became Emeritus Professor of Child Health at the Queen's University, Belfast, and Honorary Professor of Child Health at the University of Wales at Swansea.

#11385

Ernie Fletcher

#43973

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Ernest Lee Fletcher is an American physician and politician who was the 60th governor of Kentucky from 2003 to 2007. He previously served three consecutive terms in the United States House of Representatives before resigning after elected governor. A member of the Republican Party, Fletcher was a family practice physician and a Baptist lay minister and is the second physician to be elected Governor of Kentucky; the first was Luke P. Blackburn in 1879. He was also the first Republican governor of Kentucky since Louie Nunn left office in 1971.

#11386

Aida Habtezion

#104812

Overall Influence

Aida Habtezion is an Eritrean physician and immunologist. In 2021, Habtezion took a leave of absence from Stanford University to become the Chief Medical Officer of Pfizer and head of Worldwide Medical and Safety within Worldwide Research, Development, and Medicine.

#11387

Ran Lahav

#159519

Overall Influence

Ran Lahav is an Israeli-born American philosopher who developed philosophical activities for the general public. Since the early 1990s he has given workshops and retreats around the world, and published books and articles. Since the early 2010s he has been developing formats of philosophical contemplation, known as Deep Philosophy.

#11388

Martinus Richter

#136970

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Martinus Richter is a German orthopaedic surgeon, and Associate Professor at the Hannover Medical School and Head of the Department for Foot and Ankle Surgery Nuremberg and Rummelsberg at the Hospital Rummelsberg and Sana-Hospital Nuremberg.

#11389

Richard Harris

#23518

Overall Influence

Richard Harris, , is an Australian anaesthetist and cave diver who played a crucial role in the Tham Luang cave rescue. He and Craig Challen were jointly awarded 2019 Australian of the Year as a result of that rescue.

#11390

Dafydd Williams

Dafydd Williams

#7821

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Dafydd "David" Rhys Williams is a Canadian physician, public speaker, author and retired CSA astronaut. Williams was a mission specialist on two Space Shuttle missions. His first spaceflight, STS-90 in 1998, was a 16-day mission aboard Space Shuttle Columbia dedicated to neuroscience research. His second flight, STS-118 in August 2007, was flown by Space Shuttle Endeavour to the International Space Station. During that mission he performed three spacewalks, becoming the third Canadian to perform a spacewalk and setting a Canadian record for total number of spacewalks. These spacewalks combin...

#11391

Herbert Morris

#168421

Overall Influence

1928 - 2022 (94 years)

Herbert Morris was an American philosopher, legal scholar, and literary critic, who spent his career at the University of California, Los Angeles. Education and career Herbert Morris was born in New York City in 1928. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of California, Los Angeles 1951; Bachelor of Law, Yale, 1954; Doctor of Philosophy, Oxford, 1956. He joined the UCLA Philosophy Department in 1956 and beginning in 1962 he accepted a joint appointment with the UCLA School of Law.

#11392

P. Anthony Di Sant’agnese

#181383

Overall Influence

#11393

Samuel Epstein

#74952

Overall Influence

1926 - 2018 (92 years)

Samuel Seymour Epstein was a physician and, at the time of his death, professor emeritus of environmental and occupational health at the School of Public Health of the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is known for his contributions on avoidable causes of cancer, for which he was given the Right Livelihood Award in 1998. His papers are held at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland.

#11394

L.D. Britt

#40672

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Lunzy Delano "L. D." Britt FACS, FCCM is an American physician and is the Brickhouse Professor of Surgery at the Eastern Virginia Medical School, former President of the American College of Surgeons, and former President of the Southern Surgical Association. Britt was the first African American in the United States to receive an endowed chair in surgery at a major American medical school.

#11395

Charles Hampden-Turner

Charles Hampden-Turner

#14609

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (92 years)

Charles Hampden-Turner is a British management philosopher, and Senior Research Associate at the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge since 1990. He is the creator of Dilemma Theory and co-founder and Director of Research and Development at the Trompenaars-Hampden-Turner Group, in Amsterdam.

#11396

Stacy Tessler Lindau

#169871

Overall Influence

Stacy Tessler Lindau is an American gynecologist and practicing OB-GYN. She is a Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Medicine-Geriatrics at the University of Chicago and director of the Program in Integrative Sexual Medicine at the University of Chicago Medical Center.

#11397

Talbot Brewer

#139418

Overall Influence

Talbot Brewer is an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Virginia. He is known for his works on moral philosophy. Philosophy Brewer is known for his idea of "dialectical activity," arguing that contemporary moral philosophy is hindered by a production-oriented conception of human agency and action. He tries to retrieve a different "dialectical" conception of human agency drawing on classical moral philosophy . He believes that our ritual activities show our presence in and to the world. Christopher Cordner provided a criticism of Brewer's idea and argued that...

#11398

George Rupp

#181425

Overall Influence

#11399

Fatima Cody Stanford

Fatima Cody Stanford

#71850

Overall Influence

Fatima Cody Stanford is an American obesity medicine physician, internist, and pediatrician and an associate professor of medicine and pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. She is one of the most highly cited scientists in the field of obesity. She is recognized for shifting the global perception of obesity as a chronic disease.

#11400

Malcolm Perry

#44951

Overall Influence

1929 - 2009 (80 years)

Malcolm Oliver Perry II was an American physician and surgeon. Perry was one of the doctors who attended to President John F. Kennedy at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963 after Kennedy was shot. Two days later, he attended to Kennedy's assassin Lee Harvey Oswald after he was shot.

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