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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#11851

Jan Blatný

#136587

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Jan Blatný is a Czech physician, teacher and politician. On 29 October 2020 he was named as Minister of Health of the Czech Republic by Prime Minister Andrej Babiš following the resignation of Roman Prymula. On 7 April 2021 he was replaced by Petr Arenberger.

#11852

Jawahar L. Mehta

Jawahar L. Mehta

#109543

Overall Influence

Jawahar L. Mehta is the Stebbins Chair and Professor of Medicine at the College of Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences . Biography Mehta was born in India and migrated to the United States in 1970. He received his M.D. from Punjab University in 1968 and PhD from the University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden. Mehta's thesis topic was "studies on experimental myocardial reperfusion" which he completed under the direction of Prof. Tom Saldeen. He completed his post-graduate training in Medicine at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, followed by a research fellowship at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

#11853

Philippe Gumplowicz

#78794

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Philippe Gumplowicz is a French professor of universities, musicologist and music historian. Biography His parents, a couple of Polish Jews, emigrated to France in 1933. As a young man, Gumplowicz bathed in the "Zionist and Marxist" youth movements. He studied history and passed his master's degree at the Sorbonne University in 1972. Passionate about music, he financed his studies by playing in a jazz orchestra. He then studied social science and became passionate about psychoanalysis which he abandoned in the 1970s. He then worked on the history of musical institutions, such as the Conservatoire de Paris and the Théâtre national de l'Opéra-Comique.

#11854

Jan G. Švec

#103903

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Jan Švec is a Czech voice scientist. He is the inventor of videokymography, a method for high-speed visualization of vocal-fold vibrations, which is being used for advanced diagnosis of voice disorders.

#11855

John Robert Evans

#25042

Overall Influence

1929 - 2015 (86 years)

John Robert Evans was a Canadian cardiologist, academic, businessperson, and civic leader. He was the founding dean of the McMaster University Medical School and then vice-president of Health Services at McMaster University from 1965 to 1972. From 1972 to 1978 he was President of the University of Toronto. From 1979 to 1983, he served as founding Director of the Population, Health and Nutrition Department of the World Bank in Washington, DC.

#11856

John Belton

#64442

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

John Belton is Professor Emeritus of English and Film at Rutgers University. He is editor of the Film and Culture series at Columbia University Press and associate editor of SMPTE's Motion Imaging Journal. He earned his PhD from Harvard University, BA from Columbia University, and specializes in film history and cultural studies. Belton has served on the National Film Preservation Board, as chair of the Board of Editors of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, and authored numerous books. In 2005/2006, he was granted a Guggenheim Fellowship to pursue his study of the use of d...

#11857

Tashi Tsering

#35432

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Serme Khen Rinpoche Geshe Tashi Tsering BEM is abbot of Sera Mey Monastic University in India. From 1994 to 2018, he was the resident Tibetan Buddhist teacher at Jamyang Buddhist Centre, London. Tsering was born in Purang, Tibet in 1958, and his parents escaped to India in 1959. He entered Sera Mey Monastic University in South India when he was 13 years old, and graduated with a Lharampa Geshe degree 16 years later. Geshe Tashi then entered the Higher Tantric College for a year of study.

#11858

Francesco Conconi

#26319

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (91 years)

Francesco Conconi is an Italian sports doctor and scientist, with disciples such as Michele Ferrari and Luigi Cecchini. Conconi is a professor at the University of Ferrara in Italy where he heads the Centro Studi Biomedici Applicati allo Sport or Biomedical Research Institute. His research focused on tracing techniques for doping substances but he is better known for his doping activities and is said to have introduced Erythropoietin or EPO to the sport of cycling. Conconi is most famous for having prepared Francesco Moser for his successful attempt to break the world hour record in Mexico, 1...

#11859

Kwak Jun-hyeok

#91051

Overall Influence

Kwak Jun-hyeok is a South Korean political philosopher and professor of Philosophy at Sun Yat-sen University, China, where he is also serving as the head of political philosophy and ethics. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 2002. Before joining Sun Yat-sen University, he taught at various universities including Korea University and Kyungpook National University. His research interests lie at the crossroads of Western political philosophy, contemporary political theory, and comparative philosophy. He has a particular interest in the republican tradition of political philosophy , democratic theories, nationalism, patriotism, and global justice.

#11860

SreyRam Kuy

#84645

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

SreyRam Kuy is a Cambodian American surgeon, writer, researcher and healthcare executive. Early life SreyRam Kuy was two years old when she and her family escaped Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge Killing Fields. She along with her mother and sister were severely injured during a bombing in a border refugee camp in Thailand, and treated for wounds by a Red Cross volunteer surgeon, which inspired her to later become the first female Cambodian refugee to work as a surgeon in the United States. In 1981, she and her mother and sister moved to the United States.

#11861

Éric Geoffroy

#75349

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Éric Geoffroy is a French philosopher, islamologist, writer and scholar in the Sufi studies teaching at the University of Strasbourg. Thought He is a critic of the notion of a Clash of Civilizations, which he transcends into a Dialogue of Traditions He is an affiliate of the Alawiya Sufi Brotherhood.

#11862

Fernand Dumont

#41118

Overall Influence

1927 - 1997 (70 years)

Fernand Dumont was a Canadian sociologist, philosopher, theologian, and poet from Quebec. A longtime professor at Université Laval, he won the Governor General's Award for French-language non-fiction at the 1968 Governor General's Awards for Le lieu de l'homme.

#11863

George Chaldakov

#67451

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

George Nikov Chaldakov born February 23, 1940, in Burgas, Bulgaria, is a Bulgarian vascular biologist well known for his contributions to the study of secretory function of vascular smooth muscle cells, and the role of neurotrophins and perivascular adipose tissue in pathogenesis of atherosclerosis. He published the first Bulgarian textbook of Cell Biology in 1996 and in 2005 founded the Bulgarian Society for Cell Biology.

#11864

Dirk Lewandowski

#181622

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (53 years)

Dirk Lewandowski is a German professor of information research and information retrieval at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany. Career Lewandowski has a degree in library science from the School of Library Science in Stuttgart. He also studied media studies, philosophy, and information science at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf. In 2005 he received his Ph.D. from Heinrich Heine University. In 2007 he was installed as professor at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany.

#11865

Anne C. Klein

#55301

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Anne Carolyn Klein is an American Tibetologist who is a professor of Religious Studies at Rice University in Houston, Texas and co-founding director and resident teacher at Dawn Mountain, a Tibetan temple, community center and research institute.

#11866

Eugene Nicholas Myers

Eugene Nicholas Myers

#30665

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (93 years)

Eugene Nicholas Myers is an oncologist and otolaryngologist and a leader in the treatment of head and neck cancer. He has served on the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine since 1972, when he became chairman of the Department of Otolaryngology. He is the author or co-author of leading texts in the field of head and neck cancer, and has chaired and served on the boards of the preeminent societies and associations in the field.

#11867

Elmi Muller

#82629

Overall Influence

Elmi Muller is a South African medical specialist who specialised in General Surgery and Transplantation. She currently performs kidney as well as liver transplants in both adults and children. She is the past President of the Southern African Transplantation Society who pioneered an organ transplant programme at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town for HIV positive patients using HIV positive donors. She also serves on the Executive committee of The Transplantation Society of which she currently is the vice-president. Elmi was the Chair/Head of the Division of General Surgery at Groote Schuur Hospital, University of Cape Town.

#11868

May Sim

#184911

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

May Sim is an American philosopher and professor of philosophy at College of the Holy Cross. She is a former president of the Metaphysical Society of America . She is noted for her comparative studies of Confucian and Aristotelian ethics. She was influenced by Alasdair MacIntyre, who supervised her doctoral dissertation at Vanderbilt University.

#11869

Serge Daney

#92031

Overall Influence

1944 - 1992 (48 years)

Serge Daney was a French movie critic. He was a major figure of Cahiers du cinéma which he co-edited in the late 1970s. He also wrote extensively about films, television, and society in the newspaper Libération and founded the quarterly review Trafic shortly before his death. Highly regarded in French and European film criticism circles, his work, remained little known to English-speaking audiences until recent translations. A first book-long interview, Postcards from the Cinema, was published in 2007 and a collection of his writings prior to 1982, The Cinema House and the World, was publishe...

#11870

James Gita Hakim

#60920

Overall Influence

1954 - 2021 (67 years)

James Gita Hakim , was a South Sudanese and Ugandan, internist, clinical epidemiologist, cardiologist, researcher, university faculty and academic mentor. At the time of his death, he was Professor of Medicine and Former Chair of Internal Medicine at the University of Zimbabwe College of Health Sciences.

#11871

Guadalupe Santa Cruz

#167813

Overall Influence

1952 - 2015 (63 years)

Guadalupe Santa Cruz , also known as Lupe Santa Cruz, was a Chilean writer, philosopher, visual artist and translator. She is considered one of the most energetic and varied protagonists of a generation of writers that emerged after the period of the 1973 Coup d'État in Chile. Author of numerous books, including Plasma, with which she received two important prizes in Chile: the Premio Novela Inédita Consejo Nacional del Libro y la Lectura and the Premio atenea. Also, in 2004, Plasma received the prize of the Book Council as a novel in the unpublished category. In addition, at the international...

#11872

Itzhak Brook

#128152

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Itzhak Brook is an adjunct professor of pediatrics and medicine at Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington DC. He specializes in infectious diseases. He is a past chairman of the Anti-infective Drug Advisory Committee of the Food and Drug Administration and chaired the Committee when AZT was approved for the treatment of HIV/AIDS in 1987.

#11873

Beth Overmoyer

#179746

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Beth Ann Overmoyer is an American physician and oncologist. She is Director of the Inflammatory Breast Cancer Program at the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute. Early life and education Overmoyer was an undergraduate student in biology and graduated magna cum laude. She was a medical student at the Case Western Reserve University, before moving to the University of Pennsylvania for her internship and medical residence. She became interested in oncology in the late eighties, when she started researching breast cancer at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.

#11874

Estelle Russek-Cohen

#169607

Overall Influence

Estelle Russek-Cohen is an American biostatistician and expert on biometrics. Formerly a professor at the University of Maryland, College Park and division director in the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research or the Food and Drug Administration, she has retired to become a statistical consultant.

#11875

Peter Williams

#61308

Overall Influence

1937 - 2016 (79 years)

Peter Williams was an English musicologist, author, harpsichordist, organist, and professor. Williams was considered one of the leading scholars on the organ and the life and works of Johann Sebastian Bach.

#11876

D. J. Nutt

#185131

Overall Influence

#11877

Pier Cristoforo Giulianotti

#82363

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Pier Cristoforo Giulianotti is an Italian surgeon. He is a Professor of Surgery and Chief of The Division of General, Minimally Invasive, and Robotic Surgery at the University of Illinois at Chicago. As of 2020 he has performed about 2,100 robotic-assisted surgeries and trained about 2,000 surgeons to perform the same.

#11878

Roland Topor

#59322

Overall Influence

1938 - 1997 (59 years)

Roland Topor was a French illustrator, cartoonist, comics artist, painter, novelist, playwright, film and TV writer, filmmaker and actor, who was known for the surreal nature of his work. He was of Polish-Jewish origin. His parents were Jewish refugees from Warsaw. He spent the early years of his life in Savoy, where his family hid him from the Gestapo.

#11879

Kazi Mobin-Uddin

Kazi Mobin-Uddin

#64369

Overall Influence

1930 - 1999 (69 years)

Kazi Mobin-Uddin was an American surgeon specializing in vascular surgery research. Early life He was born in British India and educated at the Aligarh Muslim University. Career In 1969 he developed the first Inferior vena cava filter while on faculty at University of Miami for patients with deep vein thrombosis. He published his findings in New England Journal of Medicine and Archives of Surgery. Till then patients with deep vein thrombosis required a high-risk invasive surgical procedure to prevent thrombus embolization to the pulmonary artery. Newsweek magazine reported on the discovery i...

#11880

Anne Szarewski

#128475

Overall Influence

1959 - 2013 (54 years)

Anne Szarewski was a doctor who helped improve how cervical screening samples are tested and was involved in developing the human papillomavirus vaccine. Early life and education Anne Szarewski was born in London in 1959, the only child of older Polish parents. She went to Streatham and Clapham High School for Girls before studying medicine at London's Middlesex Hospital, graduating MBBS in 1982.

#11881

Shirley Caesar

#47614

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

Shirley Ann Caesar-Williams , known professionally as Shirley Caesar, is an American gospel singer. Her career began in 1951, when she signed to Federal Records at the age of 12. Throughout her seven decade career, Caesar has often been referred to as the "First Lady of Gospel Music", and "The Queen of Gospel Music". Additionally, she has won eleven Grammy Awards, fifteen Dove Awards, and fourteen Stellar Awards.

#11882

Alejandro Luna

#86947

Overall Influence

1939 - 2022 (83 years)

José Alejandro Dionisio Luna Ledesma was a Mexican scenic designer and lighting technician. Life and career Luna was born in Mexico City, where he passed his studies of architecture. He has worked in theater, opera and for TV and cinema productions. He also was director of the Centro Universitario de Teatro of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and taught at several Mexican universities from 1968 to 2007. He participated at the Prague Quadriennale from 1967 to 1975 three times in a row, as well as in 2003 and 2007. In 2003 he was a member of the Prague Quadriennale. He was the fathe...

#11883

Reinhard Strohm

#106238

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Professor Reinhard Strohm FBA is a German musicologist based largely in the United Kingdom, with an interest in 14th to 18th-century music. Strohm studied Musicology, Medieval Latin, and Romance Literatures, at the University of Munich, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, and the Technical University of Berlin during 1961–1969. He earned his Ph.D. degree at TU Berlin in 1971, with Carl Dahlhaus, producing a dissertation titled “Italienische Opernarien des frühen Settecento .

#11884

Eduardo Dolhun

#116009

Overall Influence

Eduardo Peña Dolhun is a family physician in San Francisco, California. He is the inventor of DripDrop, a medical-grade oral rehydration solution. Dolhun is a staff member at the California Pacific Medical Center and founded the Dolhun Clinic, the Dolhun Clinic Pre-Medical Internship Program, and Doctors Outreach Clinics. He is an Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Sciences, College of Health Sciences at Marquette University. Dolhun was the co-director of Ethnicity and Medicine at Stanford University from 2000-2018.

#11885

Fatos Tarifa

#47655

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Fatos Tarifa is a social scientist and a former diplomat from Albania. Education Tarifa has a double doctorate, with a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a doctorate in Political Science from the University of Tirana. He has been, inter alia, a lecturer, a researcher and a distinguished visiting fellow since 1981, when he joined the School of Political Science and Law at the University of Tirana. In 1992 he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship at the Department of Sociology at UNC Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

#11886

Basile Adjou Moumouni

#47558

Overall Influence

1922 - 2019 (97 years)

Basile Adjou Moumouni was a Beninese physician. He was active in his native country when the west Africa country of Republic of Benin was called Dahomey. Spending almost his entire adult life outside his native country, he worked for the World Health Organization in Brazzaville. In the 1968 presidential election, he won with over 80 percent of the vote. This decision was annulled, however, by incumbent President Alphonse Alley because organised demonstrations prohibited almost three-quarters of the electorate from casting their ballots.

#11887

Sergey Arzhanukhin

#173360

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Sergey V. Arzhanukhin is a Russian philosopher. He is a professor at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration and holds a Doctor of Philosophical Sciences. Arzhanukhin is knowledgeable in philosophy and public and political theories of Russian masons.

#11888

Dag Rune Olsen

#83330

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Dag Rune Olsen is a Norwegian cancer researcher, professor of biomedical physics at the University of Bergen, and the current rector of the University of Tromsø, where he was hired in 2021. He was the elected rector of the University of Bergen from 2013-2020.

#11889

Linda Lear

#15620

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Linda Jane Lear is an American historian of science and biographer. Life and career A native of Pittsburgh, Lear received her A.B. from Connecticut College in 1962, following with an A.M. from Columbia University in 1964; she received a Ph.D. in history from George Washington University in 1974. From 1963 until 1965 she chaired the history department of the Vail Deane School, and from 1965 until 1968 held a similar position at the National Cathedral School. An assistant professor at New Mexico State University from 1974 until 1976, she next worked at the American Association of Retired Persons, remaining there until 1978.

#11890

José Miguel Gambra Gutiérrez

#130440

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

José Miguel Gambra Gutiérrez is a Spanish philosopher and politician. He is known mostly as the expert in logic and in the theory of predicates; since the 1980s he has been holding various teaching positions at Facultad de Filosofía of Universidad Complutense in Madrid. He is also recognized as a theorist of political and social science; Gambra advances the Traditionalist vision of state and society. In politics he adheres to the Carlist cause. In 2010-2021 he was leading one of two Traditionalist organisations in Spain, Comunión Tradicionalista.

#11891

Jennifer Leaning

#57624

Overall Influence

Jennifer Leaning is an American health scholar currently the François-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and former Editor-in-Chief of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War's Medicine & Global Survival. She is also Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a faculty member in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

#11892

Isaac ben Mordecai

#143942

Overall Influence

Isaac ben Mordecai, known as Maestro Gajo, was an Italian Jewish physician. He acted as physician to Pope Nicholas IV or Pope Boniface VIII, at the end of the thirteenth century. For him Nathan of Cento translated into Hebrew an Arabic work by 'Ammar ibn Ali al-Mauṣili, on the cure of diseases of the eye. Gajo was held in great esteem by the physicians Zerahiah ben Shealtiel Ḥen and Hillel ben Samuel of Verona. From Forlì, the latter wrote to Gajo two long letters on the dispute concerning Maimonides's doctrines, which Gajo followed with interest.

#11893

Georges De Moor

#46006

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Professor Emeritus Georges J. E. De Moor is a Belgian Medical Doctor, Clinical Pathologist and has been head of the Department of Health Informatics and Medical Statistics of the University of Ghent .

#11894

Mike Leander

#64474

Overall Influence

1941 - 1996 (55 years)

Michael George Farr , known professionally as Mike Leander, was a British arranger, songwriter and record producer. He worked variously with Cliff Richard, The Beatles, David McWilliams , Gary Glitter, the Rolling Stones, Brian Jones, Marianne Faithfull, Andrew Loog Oldham, Joe Cocker, Billy Fury, Marc Bolan, Small Faces, Van Morrison, Alan Price, Peter Frampton, Keith Richards, Shirley Bassey, Lulu, Jimmy Page, Roy Orbison, Ben E. King, the Drifters, and Gene Pitney. Leander also wrote the score for the films Privilege and Run a Crooked Mile .

#11895

Bent Rolstad

#138560

Overall Influence

1947 - 2015 (68 years)

Bent Rolstad was a Norwegian professor of medicine. He took the cand.med. degree at the University of Oslo in 1975, the dr.med. degree in 1977, specializing in anatomy, and became a professor at the Institute of Basic Medical Sciences there. He was a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. He resided in Asker. He died while vacationing in Spain in the summer of 2015.

#11896

Hans Wellisch

#141035

Overall Influence

1920 - 2004 (84 years)

Hans Hanan Wellisch was a librarian, LIS educator, and indexer known for his work with the International Federation for Documentation , contributing to the Universal Decimal Classification. He headed the committee which translated the abridgement of the UDC into Hebrew and was the compiler of the index to the system.

#11897

Richard Clapp

#95552

Overall Influence

Richard "Dick" Clapp is an American epidemiologist who is an adjunct professor at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and an Emeritus Professor of Environmental Health at Boston University School of Public Health. Clapp was Director of the Massachusetts Cancer Registry from 1980 until 1989 and Co-Chair of Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility.

#11898

Alexander Refsum Jensenius

#180713

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (48 years)

Alexander Refsum Jensenius is a Norwegian researcher and musician. He is Professor of music technology and was Head of the Department of Musicology, University of Oslo during the period 2013-2016. He is currently Deputy Director of RITMO - Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion at the University of Oslo, and serves as the Chair of the Steering Committee for NIME, the International Conference in New Interfaces for Musical Expression. He is the grandson of politician Marie Borge Refsum.

#11899

Vivian Pinn

#66265

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Vivian Winona Pinn is an American physician-scientist and pathologist known for her advocacy of women's health issues and concerns, particularly for ensuring that federally funded medical studies include female patients, and well as encouraging women to follow medical and scientific careers. She served as associate director for research on women's health at the National Institutes of Health , concurrently was the inaugural director of NIH's Office of Research on Women's Health. Pinn previously taught at Harvard University, Tufts University, and Howard University College of Medicine. Since ret...

#11900

Babak Azizzadeh

Babak Azizzadeh

#29294

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Babak Azizzadeh, MD, FACS is the founder and president of the FPBPF , a non-profit organization committed to the treatment of individuals with facial nerve paralysis and Bell's palsy. Dr. Azizzadeh is co-director of the facial plastic and reconstructive surgery fellowship at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California and co-chairman of the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Annual Advances in Multispecialty Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery Symposium. Besides his role in FPBPF, Dr. Azizzadeh is involved with several other non-profit / charity organizations such as the Global Smile Foundation, Operation of Hope, Face to Face and the R.O.S.E Fund.

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