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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#12401

Charles Seth Landefeld

#157168

Overall Influence

#12402

Joseph J. Barboriak

#157174

Overall Influence

#12403

Eva J. Engel

#114754

Overall Influence

1919 - 2013 (94 years)

Eva J. Engel, later known as Eva Engel-Holland was a scholar of German studies and an important editor of the collected works of Moses Mendelssohn. Biography Eva Johanna Engel, born in 1919, was the oldest of three children in a Jewish family in Dortmund. Her father, Stefan Engel, was a pediatrician and professor of pediatrics. She grew up in Westend, Berlin. After the Nazis came to power in 1933, the Engel family faced growing oppression under Nazism, and they emigrated in 1936 to Great Britain and settled in London. The mother, Margerethe Katharina, née Litten, died there two years later. A...

#12404

Léon Ollé-Laprune

1839 - 1898 (59 years)

Léon Ollé-Laprune was a French Catholic philosopher. Life Under the influence of the philosopher Elme Marie Caro and of Père Gratry's book Les Sources, Ollé-Laprune, after exceptionally brilliant studies at the Ecole Normale Supérieure , devoted himself to philosophy. His life was spent in teaching, first in the lycées and then in the Ecole Normale Supérieure from 1875.

#12405

Scott Fisher

#19462

Overall Influence

Scott Fisher is the Professor and Founding Chair of the Interactive Media Division in the USC School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California, and Director of the Mobile and Environmental Media Lab there. He is an artist and technologist who has worked extensively on virtual reality, including pioneering work at NASA, Atari Research Labs, MIT's Architecture Machine Group and Keio University.

#12406

Ghassan Khaled Abou-alfa

#157238

Overall Influence

#12407

Francisco José Ribas

1764 - 1828 (64 years)

Francisco José Ribas was a Venezuelan Roman Catholic priest and philosopher.

#12408

Antonio Jose Jimeno

#157254

Overall Influence

#12409

Eddie Glaude

#36324

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Eddie S. Glaude Jr. is an American academic, author, and current-affairs pundit. He is currently the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University. He has previously been the chair of Princeton's Center for African American Studies and the chair of its Department of African American Studies. He has authored five books, and edited or co-edited two others. He has published articles on U.S. media platforms such as Time and the Huffington Post. He is a contributor to the MSNBC cable news channel, and frequently appears as a commentator o...

#12410

Marian Wilson Kimber

#53591

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Marian Wilson Kimber is an American musicologist and a Professor of Music at the University of Iowa. Having completed a dissertation on the autograph scores of Felix Mendelssohn's piano concertos, Wilson Kimber received her PhD in Musicology from Florida State University in 1993. Her work covers topics of gender, biography, performance, and bibliography in the nineteenth century. Specifically, she has published on Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy and Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Jane Austen, spoken-word recitation to musical accompaniment, and female performance genres. Wilson Kimber's recent book The...

#12411

Richard L. Kempson

#157292

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#12412

Christine Paulin-Mohring

#60812

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Christine Paulin-Mohring is a mathematical logician and computer scientist, and Professor Faculté des Sciences at Paris-Saclay University, best known for developing the interactive theorem prover Coq.

#12413

Jordan D. Berlin

#157298

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#12414

Anthony Jack. Gow

#157314

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#12415

Burton P. Drayer

#157353

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#12416

Jack Shonkoff

#67435

Overall Influence

Jack P. Shonkoff is an American pediatrician, currently the Julius B. Richmond FAMRI Professor of Child Health and Development at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Harvard Graduate School of Education as well as Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital. He is a member of the research staff at Massachusetts General Hospital and serves as Director of the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University. He currently chairs the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child, and the JPB Research Network on Toxic Stress.

#12417

Giancarlo C. Viberti

#157358

Overall Influence

#12418

Bartholomäus Keckermann

Bartholomäus Keckermann

1571 - 1609 (38 years)

Bartholomäus Keckermann was a German writer, Calvinist theologian and philosopher. He is known for his Analytic Method. As a writer on rhetoric, he is compared to Gerhard Johann Vossius, and considered influential in Northern Europe and England.

#12419

James C. Reynolds

#157392

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#12420

Eero Järnefelt

1863 - 1937 (74 years)

Erik "Eero" Nikolai Järnefelt was a Finnish painter and art professor. He is best known for his portraits and landscapes of the area around Koli National Park. He was a medal winner at the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1889 and 1900, and he taught art at the University of Helsinki and was chairman of the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts.

#12421

Arthur I. Alterman

#157401

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#12422

Mirza Mahdi Elahi Qomshehei

Mirza Mahdi Elahi Qomshehei

1901 - 1973 (72 years)

Mirza Mahdi Elahi Qomshehei was an Iranian mystic, poet, translator of the Quran, and one of the grand Masters of the philosophical school of Tehran. Family His family were originally from Bahrain. Most of them were sophisticated men of knowledge. They resided in Ghomshe or Sah-Reza near the south Isfahan City. He was born in 1319 lunar Islamic year in Isfahan. He was known as the reviver of religion . He selected the title of Elahi in his poems.

#12423

Paul Mischel

#113246

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Paul S. Mischel is an American physician-scientist whose laboratory has made pioneering discoveries in the pathogenesis of human cancer. He is currently a Professor and Vice Chair of Research for the Department of Pathology and Institute Scholar of ChEM-H, Stanford University. Mischel was elected into the American Society for Clinical Investigation , serving as ASCI president in 2010/11. He was inducted into the Association of American Physicians, and was elected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

#12424

Esther Tyldesley

#30085

Overall Influence

Esther Tyldesley is an academic based in the School of Literature, Languages and Cultures at the University of Edinburgh, where she is a professor in Asian Studies. She has also translated Chinese literature, as well language textbooks and translated academic articles for various journalists. In addition to this, she is also a member of the Society of Authors.

#12425

Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 2nd Baronet

Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 2nd Baronet

1817 - 1880 (63 years)

Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 2nd Baronet FRS was an English chemist. Biography Brodie was the son of Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet, and his wife Anne , and was educated at Harrow School and Balliol College, Oxford. He obtained a second-class honours degree in mathematics in 1838. Because he was an agnostic and would not assent to the Thirty-nine articles, he was refused a MA until 1860. He studied chemistry with Justus von Liebig in Giessen along with Alexander Williamson. At Giessen, he did an original analysis of beeswax for which he was given the Fellowship of the Royal Society ...

#12426

J. Peter H. Burbach

#157459

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#12427

Francis Line

1595 - 1675 (80 years)

Francis Line, SJ , also known as Linus of Liège, was a Jesuit priest and scientist. He is known for inventing a magnetic clock. He is noted as a contemporary critic of the theories and work of Isaac Newton. He also challenged Robert Boyle and his law of gases.

#12428

Richard Cruess

#105359

Overall Influence

1929 - Present (97 years)

Richard Leigh Cruess, is a Canadian orthopaedic surgeon and academic. Born in London, Ontario, he received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University in 1951 and his Doctor of Medicine degree from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1955. From 1955 to 1962, he did his internship and residency at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal and at the New York Orthopaedic Hospital of Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. From 1957 to 1959, he served with the Navy Medical Corps of U.S. Naval Reserve with a rank of Lieutenant.

#12429

Shigenobu Kanba

#157462

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#12430

Alberto A. Peña

#157465

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#12431

Koji Tsuda

#157470

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

#12432

Ludwig Rhesa

1776 - 1840 (64 years)

Martin Ludwig Jedemin Rhesa was a Lutheran pastor and a professor at the University of Königsberg in East Prussia. He is best remembered as publisher of Lithuanian texts. He was the last prominent prominent advocate of the Lithuanian language in Lithuania Minor.

#12433

Olaf Gjerlöw Aasland

#157483

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#12434

Purshottam Lal Wahi

#33014

Overall Influence

1928 - 2000 (72 years)

Purshottam Lal Wahi was an Indian cardiologist and the director of the department of cardiology at Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh. Born in Sargodha in the Punjab province of the erstwhile British India on 4 December 1928 to Bindra Ban Wahi and Devki Devi, he was an honorary fellow of the Indian Society of Cardiology and is credited with several publications on cardiology. The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest Indian civilian honour of Padma Shri in 1983.

#12435

Gennaro Auletta

#105642

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Gennaro Auletta is an Italian philosopher of science actively involved in scientific research. He is an internationally acknowledged expert in quantum mechanics and in the foundation and interpretation of this discipline. His main interests in quantum information led him to focus his further research on the way in which biological and cognitive systems deal with information. He is also active in the field of the dialogue between science, philosophy and theology, and has been the Vice-Director of the international conference on Biological Evolution: Facts and Theories, held at the Pontifical G...

#12436

Patrick Vermersch

#157510

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

#12437

William R. Shapiro

#157514

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#12438

D. Brian Jones

#157519

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#12439

Hisao Tajiri

#157553

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#12440

Guy Sauvageau

#157556

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1951 - Present (75 years)

#12441

Susana Agustí

#157565

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#12442

Chittoor Mohammed Habeebullah

#29787

Overall Influence

1937 - 2010 (73 years)

Chittoor Mohammed Habeebullah was an Indian gastroenterologist, known for his contributions to the medical discipline of gastroenterology in India. Born in 1937 in the South Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, Habeebullah graduated in medicine from the Guntur Medical College in 1958, after which he secured his master's degree in general medicine from Andhra University and DM from the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh. He started his career as an assistant professor at the Department of Gastroenterology, Osmania Medical College and served as the professor and the Head of the Department from 1975 to 1992 and thereafter as the principal till 1994.

#12443

Markus Perola

#157581

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

#12444

Gary Steven Gilkeson

#157584

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#12445

Warren M. Jackman

#157589

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#12446

Teruo Nishida

#157591

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#12447

Marshall Roy Posner

#157597

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#12448

T. Hauw The

#157607

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#12449

David Galton

#144115

Overall Influence

1922 - 2006 (84 years)

David Abraham Goitein Galton was a British physician, specialising in haematology. Galton was born on 1 March 1922 in London, the son of a GP, Bernard, a Hungarian immigrant who had changed his surname from Goitein.

#12450

James Turner Johnson

#157634

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