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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#11601

Richard O. Russell

#150057

Overall Influence

#11602

Knud Kragballe

#150058

Overall Influence

#11603

Raj H. Sindwani

#150076

Overall Influence

#11604

Jean B. Dekernion

#150077

Overall Influence

#11605

Charles A. Hufnagel

Charles A. Hufnagel

1916 - 1989 (73 years)

Charles A. Hufnagel, M.D. was an American surgeon who invented the first artificial heart valve in the early 1950s. Hufnagel was born in Louisville, Kentucky, and reared in Richmond, Indiana. His father was also a surgeon. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame and earned his medical degree from Harvard Medical School. At Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, he began work on the heart and other organ transplants and explored the use of plastic to replace blood vessels, developing a technique called multi-point fixation, which would have great importance in the placement of the artificial aort...

#11606

George Bentley

#150115

Overall Influence

#11607

Józef Szajna

#33343

Overall Influence

1922 - 2008 (86 years)

Józef Szajna was a Polish set designer, director, playwright, theoretician of the theatre, painter and graphic artist. During the Second World War and occupation of Poland, Szajna was a prisoner of the German concentration camps Auschwitz and Buchenwald.

#11608

William Macewen

William Macewen

1848 - 1924 (76 years)

Sir William Macewen, was a Scottish surgeon. He was a pioneer in modern brain surgery, considered the father of neurosurgery and contributed to the development of bone graft surgery, the surgical treatment of hernia and of pneumonectomy .

#11609

Desmond Julian

#84288

Overall Influence

1926 - 2019 (93 years)

Desmond Gareth Julian was a British cardiologist who pioneered the creation of coronary care units. Life He was professor of cardiology at Newcastle University , medical director of the British Heart Foundation and president of the British Cardiovascular Society .

#11610

Shane Jay Nho

#150141

Overall Influence

#11611

Vivien Casagrande

Vivien Casagrande

#132864

Overall Influence

1942 - 2017 (75 years)

Vivien Alice Casagrande was a professor in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Life Casagrande was born in Belmont, Massachusetts to Erna and Arthur Casagrande in 1942. She received her B.S. in psychology from University of Colorado in 1964 and then obtained her PhD from Duke University in 1973 in physiological psychology under the direction of Irving T. Diamond.

#11612

L. T. Jr. Chylack

#150167

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#11613

W. Scott Mcdougal

#150172

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#11614

Frederic G. Kenyon

Frederic G. Kenyon

1863 - 1952 (89 years)

Sir Frederic George Kenyon was an English palaeographer and biblical and classical scholar. He held a series of posts at the British Museum from 1889 to 1931. He was also the president of the British Academy from 1917 to 1921. From 1918 to 1952 he was Gentleman Usher of the Purple Rod.

#11615

Martin Zeitz

#150215

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#11616

Rein Willemze

#150223

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#11617

Jean‐luc Raoul

#150229

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#11618

Jan Stachniuk

1905 - 1963 (58 years)

Jan Stachniuk was a Polish philosopher, an editor-in-chief of the Polish pre-war nationalist journal Zadruga, the creator of the Zadruga Movement, a theoretician and the founder of culturalism. Jan Stachniuk was born on 13 January 1905 in Kovel. In 1930 he finished his education at the College of Commerce in Poznań. During World War II, he fought in the ranks of the Home Army.

#11619

Zoltán Szekanecz

#150253

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#11620

Maree Teesson

#115321

Overall Influence

Maree Rose Teesson , FAAHMS, FASSA, is an Australian expert on mental health. She is the Director of The Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use and NHMRC Principal Research Fellow at the University of Sydney. She is also professorial fellow at the Black Dog Institute, UNSW.

#11621

Lesley Regan

#53028

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Dame Lesley Regan is a British gynaecologist, professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Imperial College London and Honorary Consultant at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust at St Mary's Hospital. She was the president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists from 2016 to 2019 – only the second woman to ever hold this role and the first in sixty-four years.

#11622

Ylermi M. J. Soini

#150260

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#11623

Donatella Marazziti

#150268

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

#11624

Felix N. Rutledge

#150272

Overall Influence

#11625

Laura A. Koutsky

#150280

Overall Influence

#11626

Antonio Pelliccia

#150306

Overall Influence

#11627

Robert M. Merion

#150311

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#11628

Saʽid Qomi

1640 - 1692 (52 years)

Said Qomi was an Iranian Shia philosopher of Qom's School. Life When Qazi was young, completed his preliminary education in Qom. Since that he worked as judge in Qom he known as Qazi Said. His father taught him medicine and philosophy. He criticized the substantial motion, a theory by Mulla Sadra.

#11629

Ian Brockington

#93354

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (91 years)

Ian Brockington is a British psychiatrist. Education and career Ian Fraser Brockington was educated at Winchester College and Gonville and Caius College Cambridge. He received his medical training at Manchester University. His doctoral thesis was on 'Heart muscle disease'.

#11630

Manjit S. Bains

#150339

Overall Influence

#11631

Jerold S. Harmatz

#150364

Overall Influence

#11632

Giovanni Francesco Pico della Mirandola

Giovanni Francesco Pico della Mirandola

1469 - 1533 (64 years)

Giovanni Francesco Pico della Mirandola was an Italian nobleman and philosopher, the nephew of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. His name is typically truncated as Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola. Biography Gianfrancesco was the son of Galeotto I Pico, lord of Mirandola, and Bianca Maria d'Este, the daughter of Niccolò III d'Este.

#11633

Oliver F. W. James

#150387

Overall Influence

#11634

Fernand Deschamps

1868 - 1957 (89 years)

Fernand Deschamps was a Belgian intellectual who participated in the great socio-economic and ethical debates in the first half of the twentieth century. Biography At the age of sixteen Deschamps started working in the metal industry Many years later he obtained the title of Doctor of Laws after he passed the examination by the Central Board of State . He continued his studies at the Higher Institute of Philosophy in Leuven and became editor of the newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle. In 1898, he won the first prize in philosophy and was assigned a scholarship enabling him to spend eighteen months in Germany at the universities of Bonn, Leipzig, Berlin and Hamburg.

#11635

Gene P. Siegal

#150426

Overall Influence

#11636

Alexander Borodin

1833 - 1887 (54 years)

Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin was a Romantic composer and chemist of Georgian-Russian extraction. He was one of the prominent 19th-century composers known as "The Five", a group dedicated to producing a "uniquely Russian" kind of classical music. Borodin is known best for his symphonies, his two string quartets, the symphonic poem In the Steppes of Central Asia and his opera Prince Igor.

#11637

Frans J. Th. Wackers

#150428

Overall Influence

#11638

Manfred Zimmermann

#150430

Overall Influence

#11639

Hermann Nothnagel

Hermann Nothnagel

1841 - 1905 (64 years)

Carl Wilhelm Hermann Nothnagel was a German internist born in Alt-Lietzegöricke , near Bärwalde in der Neumark , Neumark, Brandenburg. Career The son of a pharmacist, from 1858 to 1863 Nothnagel studied under Ludwig Traube and Rudolf Virchow at the University of Berlin. From 1865 to 1868 he was an assistant to Ernst Viktor von Leyden at the University of Königsberg where, in 1866, he was habilitated for internal medicine. From 1868 to 1870 he worked as a military physician and lecturer in Berlin and later served in the same roles at Breslau .

#11640

Mahendra S. Rao

#150445

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#11641

Seth Paul Lerner

#150448

Overall Influence

#11642

Alexander L. Greninger

#141301

Overall Influence

Alexander L. Greninger is assistant director of the UW Medicine Clinical Virology Laboratory and a UW assistant professor of Laboratory Medicine. His research is focused on genomic and proteomic characterization of a variety of human viruses and bacteria, with a focus on respiratory viruses and human herpesviruses.

#11643

Philip Agop Philip

#150470

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#11644

Elwin Marg

#54044

Overall Influence

1918 - 2010 (92 years)

Elwin Marg was an American optometrist and neuroscientist at the University of California at Berkeley. He was the first to receive a PhD from UC Berkeley School of Optometry. It was he who gave the name electrooculogram, a technique for measurement of nerve impulse in the eye.

#11645

Curtis J. Mettlin

#150484

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#11646

Leonardo Bolognese

#150509

Overall Influence

#11647

Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng

Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng

#47573

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng is a Ghanaian physician and cardiothoracic surgeon who established the National Cardiothoracic Center in Accra, Ghana and the Ghana Red Cross Society. He is also the president of the Ghana Heart Foundation and was the chief executive officer of Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra.

#11648

Eberhardt Weihe

#150513

Overall Influence

#11649

Carolus Clusius

Carolus Clusius

1525 - 1609 (84 years)

Charles de l'Écluse, L'Escluse, or Carolus Clusius , seigneur de Watènes, was an Artois doctor and pioneering botanist, perhaps the most influential of all 16th-century scientific horticulturists. Life Clusius was born Charles de l' Écluse in 1526, in Arras , then in the County of Artois, Spanish Netherlands, now northern France . At the urging of his father, who wanted him to enter the law, he commenced his studies in Latin and Greek at Louvain, followed by civil law. His father then gave him some money to move to Marburg to further his legal studies, but after eight months when his mentor mo...

#11650

Samantha Nutt

#19763

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Samantha Joan Nutt is a Canadian physician and philanthropist who is the founder and president of War Child Canada. She has more than sixteen years of experience working in war zones. Her 2011 book Damned Nations: Greed, Guns, Armies and Aid details her work over the course of fifteen years in some of the most devastated regions of the world.

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