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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#11601

Tzvetan Todorov

#183153

Overall Influence

#11602

Thomas Leitch

#64973

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Thomas M. Leitch is an American academic and film scholar, the author of several authoritative books on film studies and one on Wikipedia. Early life Leitch was born in Orange, New Jersey, and educated at Columbia University, where in 1972 he graduated BA magna cum laude in English and Comparative Literature, and then at Yale University, where he became an MA in 1973 and a PhD in 1976.

#11603

Jeffrey Brenner

#41288

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Jeffrey Brenner is the CEO of the Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services, and a primary care physician. Biography Brenner is the founder of the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers, and was its executive director from 2006 to 2017. The Camden Coalition provides preventive care to high-risk patients in order to reduce healthcare costs. This practice is known as "hotspotting". The program, which began in Camden, New Jersey, has since expanded to ten cities, including Allentown, Pennsylvania, Aurora, Colorado, Kansas City, Missouri, and San Diego.

#11604

Peter Bander van Duren

#59787

Overall Influence

1930 - 2004 (74 years)

Peter Bander van Duren was a British writer on heraldry and orders of knighthood. Biography Peter Bander immigrated to the United Kingdom from Germany and became a British citizen in 1962. In 1976, he changed his name by deed poll to Peter Bander van Duren, adding a slight alteration of his mother's maiden name, von Duren, to his father's surname.

#11605

John Harrison

#102984

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

John S. Harrison Jr. is an American filmmaker, musician, and composer best known for his collaborations with director George A. Romero and for writing-directing the miniseries adaptation of Dune. Early life and career Harrison was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Emerson College in Boston with a BS in Theater Arts and is an MFA graduate of Carnegie Mellon University's School of Drama. For several years after that, he performed on the road with his band Homebrew before moving back to Pittsburgh to take a master's degree in film and television from Carnegie Mellon University.

#11606

Michael Weiss

#183191

Overall Influence

#11607

Jérôme Salomon

#48428

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Jérôme Salomon is a French infectious diseases physician and high-ranking civil servant. He is the French Directeur général de la Santé since 8 January 2018. He became known in France since the COVID-19 pandemic.

#11608

Johan Quanjer

#178998

Overall Influence

1934 - 2001 (67 years)

Johan Henri Quanjer was a Dutch author, publisher, and New Age philosopher and mystic who spent most of his adult life in London. In 1973 he coined the term "Pneumatocracy" for the principle of the rule of the spirit in government and sought to combine politics with personal spirituality.

#11609

Gerald Jones

#179972

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Gerald Jones is a London-based philosopher, educator and textbook author. Gerald Jones has spent his professional career in adult education. Since 1990 he has written and lectured in Philosophy and Critical Thinking, and was a visiting lecturer at the Institute of Education between 1996 and 2006. He later became an educational administrator and educational theorist. He was Head of Humanities at the Mary Ward Centre before becoming head of the community education service for the London Borough of Ealing, and afterwards the head of adult learning for the London Borough of Lewisham. He is now Pri...

#11610

Nicoletta Sacchi

#74461

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Nicoletta Sacchi is an Italian professor of oncology at the Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center. She is the co-discoverer of the acid guanidinium thiocyanate-phenol-chloroform extraction method to extract RNA from biological samples with Trizol. As a consequence of this groundbreaking discovery she is now considered the most cited woman scientist in the world.

#11611

Ernst Ehrlich

#94214

Overall Influence

1921 - 2007 (86 years)

Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich was a Swiss Jewish religious philosopher. Ehrlich fled Nazi Germany for Switzerland in June 1943, using a false passport. From 1961 to 1994 he was European director of the Jewish organisation B'nai B'rith.

#11612

Susan Neuhaus

#143952

Overall Influence

Susan Josephine Neuhaus is an Australian general surgeon and surgical oncologist with specialty interests in melanoma and sarcoma surgery. Neuhaus was one of three finalists for the South Australian nomination for Australian of the Year in 2012.

#11613

Alexander Berghaus

Alexander Berghaus

#79829

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Alexander Berghaus is a German specialist in otorhinolaryngology and a university professor of otorhinolaryngology at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich . From 1993 to 2003, he was a director of the department of otorhinolaryngology, face and neck surgery, and professor of the department of otorhinolaryngology at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg. He was dean at the medical faculty there in 1994 and pro-dean from 1996 to 1998. Since 2003 he has been director of the department of otorhinolaryngology at the Medical Campus of the University of Munich and professor of otorhi...

#11614

Daisuke Miyao

#121913

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Daisuke Miyao is a professor of Japanese films at the University of Oregon and the University of California San Diego. He is also the author of Sessue Hayakawa: Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom and The Aesthetics of Shadow: Lighting and Japanese Cinema, editor of Oxford Handbook of Japanese Cinema and co-translator of Ozu's Anti-Cinema.

#11615

Edward A. Synan

#178423

Overall Influence

1918 - 1997 (79 years)

Edward Aloysius Synan was a philosopher, theologian, and professor at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies. In addition to authoring and editing several books, Synan published over eighty journal articles on subjects ranging from early patristics to late scholasticism.

#11616

Steve Haake

#80467

Overall Influence

Stephen John Haake is a British sports engineer. He is professor of sports engineering at Sheffield Hallam University, England and is founding director of the university's advanced wellbeing research centre.

#11617

Tom F. Driver

#108585

Overall Influence

1925 - 2021 (96 years)

Tom Faw Driver was a theologian, preacher, lecturer, author, and peace activist. He is best known for his combined interest in theology, theater, and ritual studies. Tom F. Driver is also known for his numerous publications and lectures on similar topics, which range from academic and popular articles to sermons and books. These culminate in works that condemn war and advocate justice. Driver was also the photographer and director of two documentary films about the violence in Colombia, both of which were written and narrated in collaboration with his wife, historian Anne L. Barstow. Since hi...

#11618

Harvey R. Brown

#161965

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Harvey Robert Brown is a British philosopher of physics. He is a professor of philosophy at the University of Oxford and an emeritus fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, as well as a fellow of the British Academy.

#11619

Michael Plekon

#76632

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Yonkers born April 3, 1948UNDP, 2002UNDP, 2009UNDP, 2012Liturgical Press, 2017 Plekon's efforts to describe what holiness looks like in our time, the distinctive characteristics of women and men of faith, have been praised by colleagues. They see this work as an important "new hagiography" or writing about saints who are our contemporaries, like Dorothy Day, Mother Teresa, Thomas Merton or Daniel Berrigan.

#11620

Isabelle Garo

#111994

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Isabelle Garo , is a French philosopher specialising in the works of Karl Marx. Biography Garo's research focuses on the works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, put in their context and broached from both theoretical and political angles. Her work has affected the critical reception of Marx, especially in France, since the 1970s. At the same time, her books analyse the Marxist tradition within the scope of contemporary capitalism and its crisis.

#11621

Donald Dafoe

#44650

Overall Influence

Donald Christian Dafoe is an American surgeon and research scientist. Biography The eldest son of a surgeon, Dafoe graduated from Appleton West High School in Appleton, Wisconsin, in 1967, where he was on the football and wrestling teams. He then attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he received his undergraduate degree in zoology and his medical degree.

#11622

Miratul Muqit

#127913

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (53 years)

Miratul Muqit FRSE FMedSci is a British neurologist and a Programme Lead at the MRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit in the School of Life Sciences at the University of Dundee. His research focuses on the study of the PINK1 gene, mutations in which are a major cause of Parkinson's disease.

#11623

Anu Sharma

#72168

Overall Influence

Anu Sharma is an American audiologist and academic. She is a professor in the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Science and a fellow at the Institute for Cognitive Science and Center for Neuroscience at University of Colorado Boulder. She is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Otolaryngology and Audiology at the University of Colorado Denver Medical School. Sharma received her doctorate at Northwestern University while working under Nina Kraus, PhD.

#11624

Michael Nobel

#25247

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Michael Nobel is a Swedish entrepreneur of Russian origin. He is a member of the Nobel family, a descendant of Ludvig Nobel, a former chairman of the Nobel Family Society , a co-founder and chairman of the Nobel Sustainability Trust Foundation. At present, Nobel serves on several international boards that focus on scientific, medical and charitable initiatives. He promotes energy efficiency and alternative energy technology.

#11625

Hugo Beltrami

#183371

Overall Influence

Hugo Beltrami is a Canadian natural scientist, currently a Canada Research Chair in Climate Dynamics at St. Francis Xavier University. He works as a professor in the Climate & Atmospheric Sciences Institute at St. Francis Xavier University

#11626

Elizabeth Losh

#55723

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Elizabeth Losh is a media theorist and digital rhetoric scholar, who is a professor of English and American Studies at the College of William and Mary. Education Elizabeth Losh earned a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University, a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing, and a PhD in English with an emphasis in critical theory from University of California at Irvine. She was Director of Academic Programs, Sixth College at University of California at San Diego, where she also taught in Communication, Visual Arts, and the Interdisciplinary Computing in the Arts major. She is a member of the edit...

#11627

Andrej Janež

#90300

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Andrej Janež is a Slovenian diabetologist and diabetes researcher. Janež is the Head of Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolic Disease at University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Assistant Professor for Internal Medicine at the Medical University Ljubljana, Chairman of the Advances in Diabetes and Insulin Therapy conference, member of the advisory board for peroral antidiabetic therapy in Servier Pharma, member for Slovenia in the Diabetes Education Study Group at European Association for the Study of Diabetes, and member of the European advisory board for continuous glucose monitorin...

#11628

Juan García del Muro

#176887

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Juan García del Muro Solans is a Spanish philosopher, essayist and university professor. He is one of the most awarded essayists in the Catalan language. He is the author of over 10 books, including Ficcions còmplices and Good bye, veritat .

#11629

Fernando Simón

#65162

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Fernando Simón Soria is a Spanish epidemiologist serving as Director of the Coordination Centre for Health Alerts and Emergencies of the Ministry of Health. He came to public prominence as spokesman for the special committee on Ebola virus disease in Spain in 2014, and a similar role during the COVID-19 pandemic. Simón tested positive for coronavirus on 30 March 2020.

#11630

Christina Curtis

#109054

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Christina Curtis is an American scientist who is a Professor of Medicine, Genetics and Biomedical Data Science and an Endowed Scholar at Stanford University where her research investigates the evolution of tumors. She is director of Artificial Intelligence and Cancer Genomics at Stanford University School of Medicine and is on the board of directors of the American Association for Cancer Research.

#11631

Adrian Monck

#31682

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Adrian Monck is the managing director, Head of Public And Social Engagement at the World Economic Forum and a former British journalism professor and writer on the media and current affairs. Education Adrian Monck graduated from Exeter College, Oxford in 1988 with an honours degree in Modern History. At Oxford he was JCR President and edited Cherwell. In 2000 he was awarded an MBA from London Business School.

#11632

George R. Lucas Jr.

#174310

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

George Ramsdell Lucas Jr. is an American philosopher and a professor of ethics and public policy at the Graduate School of Public Policy at the Naval Postgraduate School. Previously he was the Distinguished Chair in Ethics in the Vice Admiral James B. Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership at the U.S. Naval Academy. Lucas is a former president of the Metaphysical Society of America .

#11633

Julie Bines

#178707

Overall Influence

Julie Bines , is a clinician and researcher working in Melbourne, Australia. Alongside being a professor and deputy head of the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Melbourne, she is also a paediatric gastroenterologist at the Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne and is the leader of the Enteric Diseases group at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute. Bines is the joint head of the WHO Collaborative Centre for Child Health and founding member of Women in Global Health Australia.

#11634

Alice Stewart

#30043

Overall Influence

1906 - 2002 (96 years)

Alice Mary Stewart, née Naish was a British physician and epidemiologist specialising in social medicine and the effects of radiation on health. Her study of radiation-induced illness among workers at the Hanford plutonium production plant, Washington, is frequently cited by those who seek to demonstrate that even very low doses of radiation cause substantial hazard. She was the first person to demonstrate the link between x-rays of pregnant women and high cancer rates in their children. She was awarded the Right Livelihood Award in 1986 "for bringing to light in the face of official opposit...

#11635

Ambuj Sagar

#134041

Overall Influence

Ambuj D. Sagar is the Vipula and Mahesh Chaturvedi Professor of Policy Studies at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. As of October 2022, he has been appointed as the deputy director at IIT Delhi. His interests broadly lie in science and technology policy, environmental policy, and development policy, with a particular focus on the interactions between technology and society. While his current research focuses mainly on energy innovation and climate policy, he also studies, more broadly, various facets of technology innovation, environmental policy politics and processes, and engineerin...

#11636

Sophie Postel-Vinay

#28725

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Sophie Postel-Vinay is a French physician and scientist at the Institut Gustave Roussy where she has led an ATIP-Avenir team since 2018. She works on oncology and the development of new drugs and is an expert in early clinical trials. She was the 2019 winner of the Irène Joliot-Curie Prize in the “young woman scientist” category.

#11637

André Gaudreault

#132023

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

André Gaudreault is a Canadian film historian and theorist who holds the Canada Research Chair in Film and Media Studies. Bibliography After obtaining a bachelor's degree in 1975 at Université Laval in Quebec City, he continued his studies at Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle, where he did doctoral work under and Michel Colin, obtaining his Ph.D. in 1983 with a dissertation entitled “Récit scriptural, récit théâtral, récit filmique: prolégomènes à une théorie narratologique du cinéma". During his studies, he became familiar with the work of Gérard Genette on narratology and with that of Christian Metz on film semiotics.

#11638

Rene Cailliet

#88850

Overall Influence

1917 - 2015 (98 years)

Rene Cailliet, M.D., was an American physician of French ancestry best known for a very popular series of books on musculoskeletal medicine. Personal life Rene Cailliet was born in Philadelphia on June 10, 1917. He was the son of Lucien Cailliet , the French born American composer, conductor, arranger, clarinetist, and creator of music for films. After graduation from Medical School at the University of Southern California in 1943, he served in the U.S. Army during the Second World War. After the war he was one of the pioneering physicians who developed Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation as...

#11639

Asael Lubotzky

#60802

Overall Influence

1983 - Present (43 years)

Asael Lubotzky is an Israeli physician, author, and molecular biologist. Formerly serving as an IDF officer, he is a combat veteran of the Second Lebanon War. Military service Asael Lubotzky grew up in Efrat, studied at the Hesder yeshiva in Ma'ale Adumim, was accepted to Shayetet 13, but chose to enlist in Golani's 51st Battalion. He underwent a training course as a combat soldier and was chosen as the outstanding company cadet. After completing Officer Candidate School Asael served as an officer commanding a platoon of the Golani Brigade. He led his platoon in the fighting in Gaza and, duri...

#11640

Alison McIntosh

#182398

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Alison J. McIntosh is a New Zealand tourism and hospitality academic. Previously a professor at the University of Waikato, she is now a professor at Auckland University of Technology. Her research areas include Critical Tourism and Hospitality, Tourist Behaviour and Heritage and Cultural Tourism.

#11641

M. Sawkat Anwer

#100106

Overall Influence

M. Sawkat Anwer is an American bioscientist. He's currently a Distinguished Professor of biomedical sciences at Tufts University. Anwar received a Masters of Science from Dhaka University and a Ph.D. from Kansas State University.

#11642

Yehuda Patt

#134275

Overall Influence

Yehuda Patt is a liver cancer specialist, gastrointestinal oncologist, and Professor of Medicine at the University of New Mexico, and resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He was previously at the University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center between the years 1975- 2003. He is the author of various papers pertaining to cancer and their effects on people, and has been cited numerous times for his writings and analyses.

#11643

Christina Annunziata

#95199

Overall Influence

Christina Messineo Annunziata is an American medical oncologist researching molecular signal transduction in ovarian cancer. She is an investigator in the National Cancer Institute's women's malignancies branch and head of the translational genomics section.

#11644

Oxana Kharissova

#176564

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Oxana Vasilievna Kharissova is a Ukrainian–Mexican nanoscientist whose research involves the synthesis and solubility of nanoparticles. She is a professor and researcher in the faculty of physical and mathematical sciences at the Autonomous University of Nuevo León.

#11645

David Benaron

#31016

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

David A. Benaron is an American digital health entrepreneur, physician, and former Stanford University professor. His work in the field of medical optical imaging, digital health wearables, and predictive behavioral and health Artificial Intelligence led to the founding of multiple public companies. He is a member of SPIE , and a founding editorial board member of the Journal of Biomedical Optics.

#11646

Hugo Omar Seleme

#171385

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Hugo Seleme is an Argentinean political philosopher professor of Ethics and Jurisprudence at Cordoba National University, Argentina. He is researcher at CONICET , and visiting professor at Pompeu Fabra University

#11647

Dave Collins

#26048

Overall Influence

Dave Collins is an American Grammy Award winning mastering engineer. He has worked with numerous artists and musicians, including Alice in Chains, Metallica, Soundgarden, Weezer, Grateful Dead, Madonna, Linkin Park, The Police, Porno for Pyros, Oingo Boingo, Alice Cooper, KMFDM, Sepultura, Puscifier, Chris Cornell, Bon Jovi, Buckcherry, Monster Magnet, Sting, Flogging Molly, Bad Religion, Black Sabbath, Blue Öyster Cult, Chevelle and Bruce Springsteen.

#11648

Tom Gerety

#19755

Overall Influence

Tom Gerety, a lawyer, philosopher, is the former president of both Trinity College and Amherst College . Biography After leaving Amherst College, he became the executive director of the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law where he is now Collegiate Professor. He is the author of law review articles and The Freshman Who Hated Socrates, a book on liberal arts education.

#11649

Benjamin Yudin

#122987

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Benjamin Yudin is an American rabbi and important figure in the New Jersey Jewish community. Biography Rabbi Yudin lives in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, where he is the rabbi of Congregation Shomrei Torah. He is an instructor of Talmud, Bible, and Jewish Law at the Mechina program of the James Striar School of Yeshiva University's Undergraduate Jewish Studies program, where he formerly served as dean.

#11650

Shiphra Ginsburg

#109962

Overall Influence

Shiphra Rachel Ginsburg is a Canadian physician-scientist. In 2019, Ginsburg was appointed a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Medical Education Research at the University of Toronto. Early life and education Ginsburg completed her Bachelor of Arts degree at Queen's University at Kingston and her Medicinæ Doctorem et Chirurgiæ Magistrum at McGill University. Following this, she enrolled at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education for her Master of Education degree before leaving North America for her PhD at Maastricht University.

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