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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#12351

Judith C. Russell

Judith C. Russell

#111995

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Judith C. Russell is the current dean of University Libraries at the University of Florida. She is the first dean of the University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries, with the position elevated to the dean rank from a directorship to reflect the increased importance of the libraries and information for the University of Florida. She has held this position since May 2007.

#12352

M. Amin Arnaout

#47130

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

M. Amin Arnaout is a Lebanese physician-scientist and nephrologist best known for seminal discoveries in the biology and structure of integrin receptors. He is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Physician, former Chief of Nephrology, and Director of the Leukocyte Biology and Inflammation Laboratory at the Massachusetts General Hospital .

#12353

Jessica Kandel

#70078

Overall Influence

Jessica Kandel is the Mary Campau Ryerson Professor of Surgery and the Vice-Chair for Academic Affairs in the Department of Surgery at the University of Chicago. Education Kandel graduated summa cum laude from Yale University in 1981, and completed her MD degree at Columbia University in 1985. She then went on to a General Surgery residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston . During her residency, Kandel completed a two-year surgical research fellowship with Dr. Judah Folkman at the Boston Children's Hospital, investigating mechanisms of tumor angiogenesis .

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Hans Joachim Marx

#129091

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (91 years)

Hans Joachim Marx is a German music historian. He has been professor of European music history at the University of Hamburg. Life Born in Leipzig, Marx first studied music at the Academy of Music in Leipzig. In 1956 he escaped from East Germany to Freiburg im Breisgau in West Germany. After 1958 he studied musicology, German literature and philosophy at the Universities of Freiburg and Basel. In 1966 he obtained his doctorate in Basel under Arnold Schmitz with a dissertation on "The Organ Tablature of Clemens Hör". In the following years, sponsored by the Swiss National Science Foundation, he...

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Lotsee Patterson

#76650

Overall Influence

1931 - Present (95 years)

Lotsee Patterson is a Comanche librarian, educator, and founder of the American Indian Library Association. She has written numerous articles on collection development, tribal libraries and Native American Librarianship. A Native American, Lotsee Patterson first became interested in collecting Native American objects, as her mother was a collections director. In the late 1950s, she read the 1983 publication The Museum Handbook of Native American History. She saw that Native Americans were less well documented than other cultures and often paid exorbitant prices for materials that were soon obsolete.

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Glenn Watkins

#96855

Overall Influence

1927 - 2021 (94 years)

Glenn E. Watkins , was the Earl V. Moore Professor of Music History and Musicology at the University of Michigan and a specialist in the study of Renaissance and 20th-century music. Biography Born in McPherson, Kansas, Watkins served in the United States Army from 1944-46. During this period he was enrolled in the ASTP engineering program at the University of Oklahoma, the Japanese language programs at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Minnesota, and was later stationed in Tokyo with the "Allied Translator and Interpreter Section" of MacArthur's General Headquarters. Imm...

#12357

Michelle Leech

#125720

Overall Influence

Michelle Leech is the Deputy Dean of Medicine at Monash University and an academic clinician-scientist. Leech oversees the delivery of the Monash medical program and maintains an active research profile and clinical practice as a rheumatologist.

#12358

Cornelius Odarquaye Quarcoopome

#83369

Overall Influence

1924 - 2003 (79 years)

Cornelius Odarquaye Quarcoopome, was a Ghanaian physician and academic. He was an ophthalmologist and professor at the University of Ghana Medical School. He and others have been described as pioneers of the medical profession in Ghana.

#12359

Berthold Wulf

#105371

Overall Influence

1926 - 2012 (86 years)

Berthold Wulf was a German priest, poet and philosopher. Life Wulf was born in Hanover, Province of Hanover. He was the third child of Bertha Wulf and Karl Wulf, who was a musician and conductor. He spent his childhood with his elder brother and his twin brother in Hildesheim near Hanover. When he was 17 he had to join the German army. He survived World War II as a common soldier.

#12360

Rowena Spencer

#50693

Overall Influence

1922 - 2014 (92 years)

Rowena Spencer was an American physician who specialized in pediatric surgery at a time when it was unusual for a female to become a surgeon. She was the first female surgical intern at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, the first female appointed to the full-time surgery staff at Louisiana State University, and the first female surgeon in Louisiana.

#12361

Konstantin Buteyko

Konstantin Buteyko

#81630

Overall Influence

1923 - 2003 (80 years)

#12362

Wolfram Steude

#116831

Overall Influence

1931 - 2006 (75 years)

Wolfram Steude was a German musicologist and musician. Life Born in Plauen, Steude is the grandson of the Dresden architect . He graduated from the Dresden Kreuzschule and was a Crucian under Rudolf Mauersberger for two years. He studied Church music and organ at the Church Music Institute of the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig and at the . Afterwards he studied music and art until 1958. He received his doctorate in 1973 in Rostock with Rudolf Eller.

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Malcolm Slesser

#66477

Overall Influence

1926 - 2007 (81 years)

Malcolm Slesser was a Scottish energy analyst, scientist and mountaineer. Biography Slesser was a graduate of the University of Edinburgh. He began mountain climbing when he was young. In the 1950s Slesser joined an expedition to the Arctic. He wrote widely on mountain climbing and was considered to be an expert in the field.

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Elham Emami

#118832

Overall Influence

Elham Emami is an Iranian-Canadian clinician scientist. She is the dean of McGill University Dental Medicine and Oral Health Sciences. Born and raised in Iran, Emami moved to Canada in 2002 to pursue her PhD and MSc at the Université de Montréal.

#12365

Jennifer Trusted

#186383

Overall Influence

1926 - Present (100 years)

Jennifer Lesley Trusted was a British philosopher of physics, metaphysics, ethics, and the history of science. Trusted was born in Cambridge on 28 March 1925. She died on 13 April 2017, at the age of 93.

#12366

Franson Manjali

#179837

Overall Influence

Franson Davis Manjali was an Indian professor of linguistics, translator and editor. His work was based on the philosophy of language in the tradition of Martin Heidegger, Friedrich Nietzsche, Immanuel Kant and, most importantly, Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Nancy. He was a professor of linguistics at Jawaharlal Nehru University in India and retired in 2020. He died on 14 June 2023 in New Delhi, India.

#12367

Alec Ekeroma

#179690

Overall Influence

Aiono Alec Joseph Ekeroma is a Samoan physician, academic, and civil servant. He was the first Pacific academic to hold a professorial role in a specialised area of medicine in New Zealand. He helped establish the National University of Samoa's medical school, and currently serves as the university's vice-chancellor.

#12368

Diane Francis

#23999

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Diane Marie Francis is a Canadian journalist, author and editor-at-large for the National Post newspaper since 1998. Background Francis was born in Chicago, Illinois, on 14 November 1946. She immigrated to Canada in 1966 and became a naturalized Canadian citizen. She is married and has two adult children.

#12369

Mordechai Shani

Mordechai Shani

#38693

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

Mordechai Shani is an Israeli physician. He is Professor of Healthcare Systems at Tel Aviv University. He served as the Director General of the Sheba Medical Center. He was the recipient of the Israel Prize in 2009.

#12370

Anoop Misra

#188219

Overall Influence

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Lynn Spigel

#63512

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Lynn Spigel is the Frances E. Willard Professor of Screen Cultures at the School of Communication at Northwestern University. She has written extensively on numerous topics including post-war culture and popular media. She has also edited numerous anthologies including Television after TV and Feminist TV Criticism . She is the editor of the Console-ing Passions book series from Duke University Press.

#12372

Yngve A. A. Larsson

Yngve A. A. Larsson

#129500

Overall Influence

1917 - 2014 (97 years)

Yngve Axel Andreas Larsson was a Swedish pediatrician, medicine professor and diabetologist. Yngve Larsson was the fifth child of Stockholm vice mayor Yngve Larsson and Elin Larsson . He graduated from Uppsala University in 1938 and gained his Ph.D. at Karolinska Institute in 1956. From 1964 he worked for Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency in Addis Abeba, Ethiopia, first as a professor and 1965-1970 as director of the Ethio-Swedish Pediatric Clinic at Haile Selassie I University. In parallel, his wife pediatrician Ulla Larsson established the Lideta Maternal and Child Health Center nearby with financing from the Swedish branch of Save the Children.

#12373

Peter Baines

#155477

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Peter George Baines is an Australian geophysicist. He is an honorary senior fellow at University of Melbourne and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Victoria. Baines has published over 150 research articles and is the author of Topographic Effects in Stratified Flows, published in 1995 . His major research areas include climate dynamics on the decadal time scale, volcano dynamics and Rossby wave hydraulics.

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Damon Horowitz

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Overall Influence

Damon Horowitz is a philosophy professor and serial entrepreneur. He is best known for his TED talks on teaching philosophy in prison and the ethics of the technology industry, and for his advocacy for the humanities in the technology industry.

#12375

Chi-Ming Chow

#85417

Overall Influence

Chi-Ming Chow, FRCPC, FACC, FASE, is a Canadian cardiologist at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is often interviewed on national media about issues involving cardiovascular health, and is regarded as an influential advocate for heart health in the Canadian Chinese community.

#12376

Kevin Petrecca

#117781

Overall Influence

Kevin Petrecca is a neurosurgical oncologist, currently chief of the Department of Neurosurgery at the McGill University Health Centre and appointed as the William Feindel Chair in Neuro-Oncology at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

#12377

David Goltzman

#78178

Overall Influence

David Goltzman is an endocrinologist, Professor of Medicine and Physiology, and A.G. Massabki Chair in Medicine at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He has been the Director of the Centre for Bone and Periodontal Research and also holds the position of Senior Scientist at the McGill University Health Centre Research Institute in the Metabolic Disorders and Complications Program.

#12378

Ban Tsui

#73984

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Chi Ho Ban Tsui is a Canadian anesthesiologist known for medical innovation in the field of anesthesia. Examples include describing the Tsui Test and developing the StimuLong Sono-Tsui for ease of pediatric epidural placement. Recently along with his son, Dr. Jonathan Jenkin Tsui, Dr. Tsui developed a catheter-over-needle kit allowing a continuous catheter placement to be performed with the ease of a single shot during peripheral nerve blocks.

#12379

Christopher Frayling

Christopher Frayling

#85686

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Sir Christopher John Frayling is a British educationalist and writer, known for his study of popular culture. Early life and education Christopher Frayling was born in Hampton, a suburb of London, in affluent circumstances. His father, Major Arthur Frederick Frayling, OBE , late of the Royal Army Service Corps, was chairman of the Hudson's Bay fur auction house in London and of the International Fur Trade Federation; his mother, Barbara Kathleen Imhof, the daughter of record and audio equipment store owner Alfred Imhof, was a driver in international car rallies, and won the RAC Rally with her brother, Godfrey Imhof, in 1952.

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Leslie Lazarus

#131715

Overall Influence

1929 - Present (97 years)

Leslie "Les" Lazarus was an Australian endocrinologist who was one of the first co-Directors of the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney from 1966 to 1969 and sole Director from 1969 to 1990. At the Garvan Institute he led a joint laboratory and clinical research team studying diabetes and pituitary hormone secretions, in particular the secretion and clinical uses of human growth hormone.

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Viktoras Kulvinskas

#100243

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

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Jarle Ofstad

#181261

Overall Influence

1927 - 2014 (87 years)

Jarle Ofstad was a Norwegian physician. He was born in Ålesund. He became a chief physician at Haukeland University Hospital in 1965, docent at the University of Bergen in 1966 and professor of internal medicine at the University of Bergen from 1973, retiring in 2007. From 1977 to 1987 he was a chief physician at Haukeland University Hospital. From 1983 to 1992 he was the board chairman of the Chr. Michelsen Institute. He was decorated as a Knight, First Class of the Order of St. Olav.

#12383

Richard Lloyd Anderson

#91791

Overall Influence

1926 - 2018 (92 years)

Richard Lloyd Anderson was an American lawyer and theologist of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who was a professor of church history and doctrine at Brigham Young University . His book Investigating the Book of Mormon Witnesses is widely considered the definitive work on this subject. Anderson was the brother of Karl Ricks Anderson.

#12384

Ronald Verlin Cassill

#54953

Overall Influence

1919 - 2002 (83 years)

R. V. Cassill, full name Ronald Verlin Cassill, was a writer, reviewer, editor, painter and lithographer. He is most notable for his novels and short stories, for which he won several awards and grants.

#12385

David C. Lewis

#115713

Overall Influence

1934 - 2020 (86 years)

David C. Lewis was Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Community Health and the Donald G. Millar Distinguished Professor of Alcohol and Addiction Studies at Brown University. He was Chairman of the Board of Directors of the United States' National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence. He served on the Executive Committee and was former Executive Director of the Association for Medical Education and Research in Substance Abuse, and was the founder and a member of the Board of Directors of Physicians and Lawyers for National Drug Policy.

#12386

Antonia Soulez

#186849

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Antonia Soulez is a French philosopher, musician, poet, and emerita professor of philosophy of Paris 8 St-Denis. Life She started teaching philosophy in Lille before relocating to Amiens. She then taught at Tunis University, Créteil, and Nancy before finally settling at the university of Paris 8 St-Denis. She co-directed the Collège international de philosophie between 2001 and 2004.

#12387

Staffan Lindeberg

#47116

Overall Influence

1950 - 2016 (66 years)

Staffan Lindeberg was an associate professor of family medicine at the Department of Medicine, University of Lund, Sweden. He was a practicing GP at St Lars Primary Health Care Center, Lund, Sweden. Lindeberg researched the paleolithic diet.

#12388

Nasser Sharify

#53103

Overall Influence

1925 - 2013 (88 years)

Nasser Sharify was born in Tehran, Iran. Since 1987, he served as a Distinguished Professor and Dean Emeritus of Pratt Institute, School of Information and Library Science in New York City. Education D.L.S Columbia University, School of Library Service, 1958 M.S. Columbia University, School of Library Service, 1954 B.A Tehran University, French Literature, 1947

#12389

Elena Erosheva

#158653

Overall Influence

Elena Aleksandrovna Erosheva is a Russian-American statistician and social scientist whose research applies Bayesian hierarchical modeling and latent variable models to problems in the social, behavioral, and health sciences. She is a professor at the University of Washington, appointed jointly in the Department of Statistics and the School of Social Work, and the director of the university's Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences.

#12390

Sergio Tenenbaum

#176110

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Sergio Tenenbaum is a Brazilian-born Canadian philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He is known for his works on moral psychology and theory of action. Books Appearances of the Good Moral Psychology , ed.Desire, Practical Reason, and the Good , ed.Rational Powers in Action

#12391

Manuel Rodríguez Gómez

#94717

Overall Influence

1928 - 2006 (78 years)

Manuel Rodríguez Gómez was an American neurologist most noted for his work on tuberous sclerosis, a rare genetic disorder. Life Manuel Gómez was born in the Spanish city of Minaya in La Mancha. He spent his childhood outside Sevilla in a town called Alcala de Guadaira, where his father had a pharmacy, and summers in Cadiz. As a child he recalled seeing the great flamenco singer, Bernardo, El de los Lobitos, walking on the street. He attended boarding school with his brother and was schooled by a group of strict priests. Recently the mayor of Alcala renamed a street Calle Manuel Rodriguez Gomez.

#12392

Alison Yarrington

#118889

Overall Influence

Alison Willow Yarrington FSA is professor of the history of art at the University of Loughborough and a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. She was formerly Richmond Professor of Fine Art at the University of Glasgow. She is chairperson of the editorial board of the Sculpture Journal.

#12393

Yves Pouliquen

#31935

Overall Influence

1931 - 2020 (89 years)

Yves Pouliquen was a French ophthalmologist. His work focused on the pathology of the cornea. Pouliquen was born in Mortain. In 1992, he was made a member of the Académie nationale de médecine. In 1994 he was awarded the Prix mondial Cino Del Duca and on 29 November 2001 he was elected to the Académie Française. Since 2006, he was the president of the Fondation Singer-Polignac.

#12394

Thomas Brothers

#69864

Overall Influence

Thomas D. Brothers is an American musicologist, and professor at Duke University. He graduated from University of Pennsylvania, magna cum laude with B.A. in music, in 1979, from University of California, Berkeley with an M.A. in music, in 1982, and with a Ph.D. in music, in 1991.

#12395

Bhikkhu Bodhi

#188360

Overall Influence

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Bernard-Henri Lévy

Bernard-Henri Lévy

#174658

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Bernard-Henri Georges Lévy is a French public intellectual. Often referred to in France simply as BHL, he was one of the leaders of the "Nouveaux Philosophes" movement in 1976. His opinions, political activism and publications have also been the subject of several controversies over the years.

#12397

Jernail Singh Anand

Jernail Singh Anand

#169140

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Dr. Jernail Singh Anand is an Indian poet, columnist, and environmental activist. He has written 140 books of English poetry, fiction, non-fiction and spiritual writing. He retired as Principal and is now the Honorary Professor Emeritus at the Institute of European Roma Studies and Research, Crimes Against Humanity and International Law, Belgrade, Serbia. He is also an honorary member of the Association of Serbian Writers. Dr. Anand co-developed the theory of Bio-Text in Critical Theory, along with Iranian scholar Dr. Roghayeh Farsi, chief coordinator of a research project on the Anand's poetry initiated by the University of Neyshabur, Iran.

#12398

Keertan Dheda

#112911

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Keertan Dheda MBBCh , FCP, FCCP, PhD , FRCP , born in 1969, is a Professor of Mycobacteriology and Global health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine with an extra-mural joint appointment at the University of Cape Town , where he is a Professor of Respiratory Medicine.

#12399

Aimee Van Wynsberghe

Aimee Van Wynsberghe

#186242

Overall Influence

Aimee van Wynsberghe is Alexander von Humboldt professor for "Applied Ethics of Artificial Intelligence" at the University of Bonn, Germany. As founder of the Bonn Sustainable AI Lab and director of the Institute for Science and Ethics, Aimee van Wynsberghe hosts every two years the Bonn Sustainable AI Conference.

#12400

Peter Green

#99775

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Peter Henry Rae Green is an Australian-born gastroenterologist and Professor of Clinical Medicine and Director of the Celiac Disease Center at Columbia University, New York City. He is notable for his expertise is celiac disease and his research includes epidemiology, clinical manifestations, associated diseases and the pathophysiological mechanisms of the syndrome. Green has an active research collaboration with the Karolinska Institute in Sweden.

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