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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#12051

Yuri Kholopov

#49796

Overall Influence

1932 - 2003 (71 years)

Yuri Nikolaevich Kholopov was a Russian musicologist and educator. Biography After graduating from Ryazan Music Regional College he studied at the Moscow Conservatoire from 1949 to 1954 with Igor Sposobin and then with Semyon Bogatyrev, completing his master's degree in 1960.

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Harry Keen

#78425

Overall Influence

1925 - 2013 (88 years)

Harry Keen CBE was an English diabetologist and a professor of human metabolism at Guy's Hospital. He was the first to identify microalbuminuria as a predictor of kidney disease in diabetics, and was an international authority on diabetes.

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Bonnie Brinton

#90134

Overall Influence

Bonnie Brinton is a speech language pathologist, a professor at Brigham Young University , and from 1999 to 2009 was dean of the BYU graduate school. Prior to joining the BYU faculty, Brinton was on the faculty of the University of Kansas and the University of Nevada School of Medicine.

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Ibrahim B. Syed

Ibrahim B. Syed

#46630

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Ibrahim Bijli Syed is an American radiological scientist, medical physicist, health physicist and the past president of the International Islamic Research Foundation. Biography He was born in Bellary, Karnataka, the son of Mumtaz Begum and B. Syed Ahmed. Ibrahim B. Syed married Sajida Begum Shariff who graduated with an M.Sc. degree from Central College, Bengaluru of the University of Mysore. They have one son, Mubin I. Syed, M.D., F.A.C.R., F.S.I.R., Who is an Interventional and Neuroradiologist who works at Dayton Interventional Radiology, in Dayton, Ohio. Mubin married Afshan Ahmed. They have a son , and two daughters .

#12055

Willis Maddrey

#97836

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Willis Maddrey is an American physician and internist specializing in diseases of the liver. He is a professor emeritus at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. Education Maddrey graduated from Wake Forest University in 1960 and received his M.D. degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1964. He was a resident and chief resident in the Osler Medical Service at Johns Hopkins Hospital and served a fellowship in liver disease at Yale University School of Medicine.

#12056

Thea L. James

#114945

Overall Influence

Thea L. James is an American emergency medical physician as well as an Associate Professor, Associate Chief Medical Officer, and Vice President of the Mission at the Boston Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts.

#12057

Carl-Göran Hedén

#121403

Overall Influence

1920 - 2009 (89 years)

Carl-Göran Hedén was a distinguished Swedish scholar in the fields of Microbiology, Biotechnology and microbial physiology, D.Sc., Professor of the Karolinska Institute , where he earned his doctorate 1951, publishing his thesis on the infection of E.Coli B with the Bacteriophage T2. He was also a Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences since 1959 and of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences since 1975, a Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science

#12058

Kristin Carson-Chahhoud

#186071

Overall Influence

Kristin Carson-Chahhoud is an Associate Professor at the University of South Australia, heading a research group in the Adelaide Medical School. Specialising in respiratory medicine, tobacco control and management of tobacco-related illnesses, Carson aims to close the gap between clinical research trials and real-world patient care.

#12059

Acrion

#103766

Overall Influence

Acrion was a Locrian from Magna Graecia and a Pythagorean philosopher. He is mentioned by Valerius Maximus under the name of Arion. According to William Smith, Arion is a false reading of Acrion. Notes

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Alula Pankhurst

#32083

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Alula Pankhurst is a British scholar and social development consultant whose main focus is Ethiopia and Ethiopian studies. He has worked in Ethiopia for many years in a variety of positions including as an associate professor of anthropology at Addis Ababa University and as the country director for Young Lives.

#12061

Klaus Pietschmann

#142496

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Klaus Pietschmann is a German musicologist. Since 2009 he has been teaching at the University of Mainz. Career Born in Cologne, Pietschmann studied musicology and Medieval studies at the University of Cologne, at the University of Florence and at the University of Münster. In 1997/98 he was at the German Historical Institute in Rome and received his habilitation in 2000 with a thesis on Church music between tradition and reform. The Papal Chapel and its repertoire under Pope Paul III. Subsequently, he worked until 2003 in the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and Cologne in a research project on .

#12062

Kyle Baker

#88024

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Kyle John Baker is an American cartoonist, comic book writer-artist, and animator known for his graphic novels and for a 2000s revival of the series Plastic Man. Baker has won numerous Eisner Awards and Harvey Awards for his work in the comics field.

#12063

Wolfgang Wodarg

#132662

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Wolfgang Wodarg is a German physician and politician. He was a member of the Bundestag for the SPD from 1994 to 2009. As chair of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Health Committee Wodarg co-signed a proposed resolution on 18 December 2009, which was briefly discussed in January 2010 in an emergency debate and he has called for an inquiry into alleged undue influence exerted by pharmaceutical companies on the World Health Organization’s global H1N1 flu campaign. His comments on the COVID-19 pandemic drew criticism from scientists, politicians, and the media.

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M. Gail Hamner

#152181

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

M. Gail Hamner is an American scholar, author, and a professor at Syracuse University. Hamner is a Professor of Religion, while also an affiliate in the Faculty of Women and Gender Studies and Film and Screen Studies. She is the author of American Pragmatism: A Religious Genealogy.

#12065

Armand Mattelart

#186405

Overall Influence

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Georg Brabant

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Christopher Chen

#119815

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (89 years)

Christopher Chen is an obstetrician and gynaecologist in Singapore who in 1986 was the first to successfully freeze a human egg which subsequently led to egg banks being started around the world. In 1998, he successfully produced Singapore's first IVF sextuplets.

#12068

Thomas P. Loughran Jr.

Thomas P. Loughran Jr.

#74411

Overall Influence

Thomas P. Loughran, Jr. is an American physician-scientist who specializes in cancer research and treatment. He became director of the University of Virginia Cancer Center, F. Palmer Weber-Smithfield Foods Professor of Oncology Research and Professor of Medicine at the University of Virginia on August 15, 2013. Between 2003 and 2013, Loughran served as the founding director of the Penn State Hershey Cancer Institute and professor of medicine at the Penn State College of Medicine. His previous appointments included program leader of hematologic malignancies at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center &...

#12069

Sharad P. Paul

#170880

Overall Influence

Sharad P. Paul is a New Zealand-based skin cancer specialist, social entrepreneur and author. Currently, he is an adjunct professor at the Auckland University of Technology and senior lecturer at the School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Australia. He is also senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Surgery at the University of Auckland. He has authored both fiction including novels and poetry as well as non-fiction including medical books, journals and articles.

#12070

Christoph Sramek

#131370

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Christoph Sramek is a German music historian and music critic. Life Born in Chemnitz, Sramek passed his Abitur in 1969 in Burgstädt. He also obtained a skilled worker degree as bricklayer. From 1969 to 1973 he studied music education and German studies at the Leipzig University. His teachers included Richard Petzoldt and Werner Wolf in music history, in music theory and Werner Buschnakowski in piano. Bezirksverband Leipzig. Leipzig 1982, . His diploma thesis with Gerd Schönfelder as subject teacher deals with the topic Möglichkeiten aleatorischer musikalischer Gestaltungsweisen für das Musiktheater – untersucht an Fritz Geißlers "Zerbrochenem Krug".

#12071

Sherine Obare

#112564

Overall Influence

Sherine O. Obare is the dean of the Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. She works on nanomaterials for sensing and drug delivery.

#12072

Japhet Killewo

#71381

Overall Influence

Japhet Killewo is a Tanzanian doctor and epidemiologist in Kagera, Tanzania. He was the former Chair of Tanzanian Public Health Association and currently an epidemiology professor at Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences . His research area focuses on HIV/AIDS epidemiology research in Kagera region in Tanzania. As a clinician, he also focuses on AIDS control and mother-to-child intervention in Tanzania. As a scholar, he publishes actively in international journals and participated in many projects across the globe, which are organised and supported by the European Union, as well a...

#12073

M. V. Padma Srivastava

#76243

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Madakasira Vasantha Padma Srivastava is an Indian neurologist, medical academic and writer, and the professor of neurology at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. She is known for pioneering Acute Stroke Programme , a medical initiative for supporting patients afflicted with epilepsy and stroke, incorporating Hyperacute Reperfusion strategies including the thrombolysis program. The Government of India awarded her the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri, in 2016, for her contributions to medical science.

#12074

Scott Waldman

#61640

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Scott A. Waldman is an MD and biomedical scientist at Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University, where he is the Samuel M.V. Hamilton Professor of Medicine, and also tenured professor and chair of the Department of Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics. He is author of a pharmacology textbook, and former chief editor of Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics. He is known for his work in atrial natriuretic factor intracellular signaling through guanylate cyclase , and the relation of Guanylyl cyclase C to the pathogenesis of colorectal cancer. Also for his hypotheses concerning the roles of intestinal paracrine hormones in satiety, obesity and cancer risk.

#12075

Irene Vélez Torres

#168920

Overall Influence

1982 - Present (44 years)

Irene Vélez Torres is a Colombian philosopher and doctor in political geography. Since August 11, 2022 to July 19, 2023, she has held the position of Minister of Mines and Energy. Early life Irene Vélez is the daughter of Hildebrando Vélez, an environmentalist and educator recognized for his activism in the Black Communities Process through which he became very close to Francia Márquez. Vélez Torres studied philosophy at the National University, and a master's degree in cultural studies at the same university. She completed a doctorate in political geography at the University of Copenhagen in...

#12076

Alejandro Rodriguez

#77170

Overall Influence

1918 - 2012 (94 years)

Alejandro Rodriguez was a Venezuelan-American pediatrician and psychiatrist, known for his pioneering work in child psychiatry. He was the director of the division of child psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and conducted pivotal studies on autism and other developmental disorders in children.

#12077

Jean-Marie Blas de Roblès

Jean-Marie Blas de Roblès

#108296

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Jean-Marie Blas de Roblès is a French writer. He was born in Sidi bel Abbes in Algeria. He has lived and worked in Brazil, Taiwan and Libya. He is best known for his novel Where Tigers Are at Home which won the Prix du roman Fnac, the Grand prix Jean Giono, and the Prix Médicis. It has been translated into English by Mike Mitchell.

#12078

Kofi Boahene

#30093

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Kofi Owusu Boahene is a Ghanaian-born American physician, writer, researcher, and academic. He is a professor of facial plastic and reconstructive surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a facial plastic surgeon in Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. As a facial plastic surgeon, Boahene specializes solely in plastic surgery of the face, head and neck.

#12079

Holly Willis

#81319

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Holly Willis is a Professor and Chair of the Media Arts and Practice division in the USC School of Cinematic Arts. Previously, she served as Associate Dean of Research and Founding Chair of Media Arts and Practice, as well as Director of Academic Programs at USC's Institute for Multimedia Literacy. She is former editor of the magazines RES and Filmmaker, of which she is a co-founder. Willis was also the co-curator of the international digital media festival RESFest.

#12080

Paul Maas

#169160

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Paulus Johannes Maria "Paul" Maas is a botanist from the Netherlands and a specialist in the flora of the neotropics. Maas has identified and named about two hundred fifty plants from the Burmanniaceae, the Costus Family , the Gentian Family , the Bloodwort Family , the Banana Family , the Olacaceae, the Triuridaceae, and the Ginger Family .

#12081

Pythagoras

#27239

Overall Influence

Pythagoras was a freedman of the Roman emperor Nero, whom he married in a public ceremony in which the emperor took the role of bride. Life Little is known about Pythagoras' background except that he was a freedman who accompanied Nero.

#12082

Ivana Rentsch

#163258

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (52 years)

Ivana Rentsch is a Swiss musicologist and teacher at the University of Hamburg. Life Born in Olten, Rentsch studied musicology, media and linguistics at the University of Zürich. From 2000, she spent five years as a research assistant at the Musicological Institute of the University of Bern. In 2004 she received her doctorate with her thesis on Bohuslav Martinů's operas of the interwar period. In 2005 she was granted a research scholarship at the Austrian universities of Graz and Salzburg for the project Dance in Score .

#12083

Françoise Blime-Dutertre

#80387

Overall Influence

1939 - 2016 (77 years)

Françoise Blime was a French philosopher. She was a disciple of Raymond Aron and a lifelong admirer of Levi-Strauss’ s structural anthropology, Françoise Blime was one of the few French students to have been accepted in the United States on a Fulbright Scholarship at Brandeis University, where she was trained along some of the leading thinkers behind the US social revolution of the late 1960s such as Angela Davis. Back in France, she worked relentlessly to elaborate and apply new paradigms in the French state educational systems, initially by the insertion of institutional psychopedagogy in t...

#12084

Arthur Knight

#96935

Overall Influence

1916 - 1991 (75 years)

Arthur Knight was an American movie critic, film historian, professor and TV host. His book The Liveliest Art, first published in 1957, is a history of the cinema used as a textbook at colleges and universities throughout the world.

#12085

W. R. Wayne Martin

#186518

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George Michael Wickens

#70261

Overall Influence

1918 - 2006 (88 years)

George Michael Wickens was a distinguished Canadian-British Persianist as well as Arabist, translator and a University lecturer. Wickens was born in London, England and attended Trinity College, Cambridge, where he received his BA in 1939 and MA in 1946, respectively. During the Second World War, he served with the Royal Army Pay Corp from 1939 to 1941 and the Intelligence Corps from 1941 to 1946, rising to the rank of captain. Following his wartime service — most of which was spent in Iran — Wickens resumed academic life, teaching at the University of London for three years before accepting an invitation to return to Cambridge.

#12087

Heather McRobie

#83262

Overall Influence

1985 - Present (41 years)

Heather Katharine McRobie, also known professionally as Heather Allansdottir, is a British-Australian writer and academic. Biography She studied Modern History and Politics at Oxford University before going on to pursue further studies at the University of Sarajevo and McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Her move from Oxford to Montreal, aged 22, was allegedly inspired by her love of the Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen.

#12088

Alexander Leaf

#53638

Overall Influence

1920 - 2012 (92 years)

Alexander Leaf was a physician and research scientist best known for his work linking diet and exercise to the prevention of heart disease. He also contributed significantly to establishing the relationship between longer, hotter summers and outbreaks of infectious diseases like malaria in regions previously unaffected by them.

#12089

Pierre Kory

#29177

Overall Influence

Pierre Kory is an American critical care physician who gained attention during the COVID-19 pandemic for advocating widespread off-label use of certain drugs as treatments for COVID-19, as president and co-founder of the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance . Kory testified twice to the U.S. Senate regarding COVID-19. During his testimony in December 2020, Kory erroneously claimed that the antiparasitic medication ivermectin was a "wonder drug" with "miraculous effectiveness" against COVID-19.

#12090

David R. Nelson

#186546

Overall Influence

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Jill Macleod Clark

#115412

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Professor Dame Jill Macleod Clark, DBE, RGN, FRCN has held key leadership roles in Nursing and Health care and was Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences University of Southampton. She is currently Professor Emeritus at the University of Southampton and holds Visiting Professor positions in the UK, Canada and Australia.

#12092

Chelsea Pinnix

#117824

Overall Influence

Chelsea Camille Pinnix is an American oncologist who is an Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology and Director of the Residency Program at the MD Anderson Cancer Center . Having joined the faculty 2012, her research looks to improve the outcomes of patients who suffer from lymphoma.

#12093

Mike Lesser

#58832

Overall Influence

1943 - 2015 (72 years)

Michael John Lesser was a mathematical philosopher and political activist. Early life The youngest member of the Committee of 100, he was sent, aged 16, to Wormwood Scrubs Prison along with most of the committee. He served two spells as contributor to London's underground journal International Times.

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Darlene Dixon

#108050

Overall Influence

Darlene Dixon is an American veterinary scientist and toxicologic pathologist researching the pathogenesis/carcinogenesis of tumors affecting the reproductive tract of rodents and humans and assessing the role of environmental and endogenous hormonal factors in the growth of these tumors. She is a senior investigator at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.

#12095

Ophira Ginsburg

#110375

Overall Influence

Ophira Michal Ginsburg is a Canadian oncologist. Early life and education Ginsburg was born and raised in Canada, where she completed her undergraduate degree and medical degree. Ginsburg attended Queen's University at Kingston for her Bachelor of Science degree before enrolling at McGill University for her Master of Science degree in human genetics. Ginsburg eventually returned to Queen's for her medical degree before accepting a residency and fellowship at the University of Toronto .

#12096

Michael Casey

#92656

Overall Influence

Michael A. Casey is James Wright Professor of Music at Dartmouth College, where he is also the Chair of the Department of Music. He was educated at Lutterworth College, the University of East Anglia where he received a BA in music, at Dartmouth College where he received an MA in music, and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he completed his PhD in media arts and sciences in 1998. He was previously Professor of Computer Science at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he directed the Media Futures Laboratory. He has an h-index of 32 according to Google Scholar.

#12097

Peter Tudvad

#173877

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Peter Tudvad is a Danish Søren Kierkegaard scholar, author, philosopher and social critic, formerly at the Søren Kierkegaard Research Center and at the University of Copenhagen; he left the Søren Kierkegaard Research Center after a heated debate with colleague Joakim Garff, whose Kierkegaard biography he lambasted in his own book Kierkegaards København.

#12098

Edwin-Michael Cortez

#92943

Overall Influence

1951 - 2018 (67 years)

Edwin-Michael Cortez was a library science professor and director of the School of Information Sciences at the University of Tennessee. Early life Cortez was born in New York City the son of Michael and Cecilia Cortez. He graduated from Wagner College in 1972, received his Master of Library Science from University of Arizona in 1973 and Doctor of Philosophy in Information Science and Management Communication from the University of Southern California in 1980.

#12099

Anna Luise Kirkengen

#179786

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Anna Luise Kirkengen is a Norwegian physician and researcher. She is a professor of public health at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. Born and trained in Germany, she has been a general practitioner in Oslo for over 30 years, being the only female GP in her district. Her PhD thesis studied health problems in adulthood associated with childhood sexual abuse which she has authored into a book entitled Inscribed Bodies: Health Impact of Child Sexual Abuse.

#12100

Henning von Gierke

#142101

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Henning von Gierke, born December 22, 1947 in Karlsruhe, is a German painter, set designer, production designer and art director. He has collaborated with director Werner Herzog on a number of projects. Among his many collaborations with other film, theatre and opera directors, Gierke is most notable as a painter.

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