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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#12501

Hilda Bastian

#75787

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Hilda Bastian is a health consumer advocate. Starting in Australia in the 1980s and 1990s and moving to Europe and the USA, she is involved in evidence-based medicine and communicating medical science to the public.

#12502

Nancy November

#107079

Overall Influence

Nancy Rachel November is a New Zealand academic, and is professor of musicology at the University of Auckland, specialising in late 18th- and 19th-century chamber music. Academic career After a BSc in mathematics in 1994 and a Bachelor of Music with honours in musicology a year later, both from Victoria University of Wellington, November travelled to Cornell University to complete an MA in 1999 and a 2003 PhD titled Haydn's vocality and the ideal of “true” string quartets. November studied baroque violin with Peter Walls and received instruction from the New Zealand String Quartet. November m...

#12503

Yog Raj Sharma

#71586

Overall Influence

Yog Raj Sharma is an Indian ophthalmologist and ex-chief of Dr. Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences , New Delhi, the apex body of the National Programme for the Control of Blindness, a Government of India initiative to reduce the prevalence of blindness in India. He is the Chairman of the Task Force on Prevention and Control of Diabetic Retinopathy Group and the Co-Chairman of the National Task Force on Prevention of Blindness from Retinopathy of Prematurity under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare of the Government of India. An advisor to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, India.

#12504

Souhel Najjar

#69464

Overall Influence

Souhel Najjar is a Syrian-American neurologist whose story with Susannah Cahalan turned into an American drama film. He is considered an expert in the field of encephalopathy, specifically the treatment of encephalitis.

#12505

Tara O'Toole

#37861

Overall Influence

Tara O'Toole served as the Under Secretary of Homeland Security for Science and Technology from 2009 to 2013. She is currently a senior fellow and executive vice president at In-Q-Tel. Background Prior to her confirmation as Under Secretary , O'Toole founded, and served as chief executive officer and director of, the Center for Biosecurity at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Concurrently, she was a Professor of Medicine and of Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh. She stepped down from her position as Under Secretary on September 23, 2013

#12506

Linda Laubenstein

Linda Laubenstein

#20128

Overall Influence

1947 - 1992 (45 years)

Linda Jane Laubenstein was an American physician and early HIV/AIDS researcher. She was among the first doctors in the United States to recognize the AIDS epidemic of the early 1980s; she co-authored the first article linking AIDS with Kaposi's sarcoma.

#12507

Charalampos Tzoulis

#182101

Overall Influence

Charalampos Tzoulis is a Professor of Neurology and Neurogenetics. He is a trained neurologist and co-director of the Neuro-SysMed Center for Clinical Trials Research in neurological diseases, at the University of Bergen and Haukeland University Hospital, funded amongst others by the Norwegian Research Council. In 2022, he established the K.G. Jebsen Center for Translational Research in Parkinson's Disease at the University of Bergen, with funding from the K.G. Jebsen Foundation, focusing on better diagnostics and identification of disease subtypes in order to offer personalized treatments.

#12508

Alfred Hirschmeier

#139660

Overall Influence

1931 - 1996 (65 years)

Alfred Hirschmeier was a German production designer. In 1995, he was a member of the jury at the 45th Berlin International Film Festival. Selected filmography Five Cartridges Naked Among Wolves The Turning Point Spring Symphony

#12509

John F Sarwark

#108415

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Dr. John F. Sarwark is Martha Washington Foundation Professor of Pediatric Orthopedics at Lurie Children's Hospital; Former Head, Pediatric Orthopedic Surgery, Lurie Children's Hospital; and Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois.

#12510

James Marriott

#172931

Overall Influence

1972 - 2012 (40 years)

James Patrick Blackden Marriott was an English film critic and writer of fiction and non-fiction. Marriott was educated at Rokeby Preparatory School and Wellington College, Berkshire. A graduate of the University of Manchester, he completed an MA in Film Studies at University of Exeter in 2010. His main interest was horror film, although his work included short stories and true crime fiction.

#12511

William W. Cates

#181869

Overall Influence

1939 - 2018 (79 years)

William Wesley Cates was an American writer and vintner. Early life Cates was born in New Orleans, Louisiana and grew up in Virginia. He received a BA in Philosophy from Roanoke College in Virginia and a MA in Theatre Arts from Hollins University.

#12512

Esther MacCallum-Stewart

Esther MacCallum-Stewart

#132301

Overall Influence

Esther MacCallum-Stewart is a British author and academic on games and sex, sexuality and gender in gaming as well as on the narrative of games. Biography Esther MacCallum-Stewart attended the University of Sussex where she completed her degrees from BA to doctorate. Though her doctorate thesis was on Popular Culture and the First World War MacCallum-Stewart has gone on to become the Associate Professor of Game Studies at Staffordshire University. MacCallum-Stewart researches how narratives in games are understood by the player as well as publishing articles on sex, sexuality, and gender in games.

#12513

William Henry Beierwaltes

#73306

Overall Influence

1916 - 2005 (89 years)

William Henry Beierwaltes was an American physician who was a pioneer in the use of nuclear medicine. Beierwaltes building on the established work of Dr.Saul Hertz, developed innovations in the use of iodine-131 and in surgery in treating thyroid cancer, in establishing a university training program in nuclear medicine and in the use of radiolabeled antibodies to detect cancer.

#12514

Peter Evans

#95308

Overall Influence

1929 - 2018 (89 years)

Peter Angus Evans was an English musicologist, most noteworthy for his book The Music of Benjamin Britten. Evans was born in West Hartlepool and received his early education at the local Grammar school. He studied with Arthur Hutchings and A.E.F. Dickinson at Durham University from 1947 to 1951 and gained a first-class BA in 1950. He taught music at Bishop Wordsworth's School in Salisbury before gaining his Fellowship Diploma from the Royal College of Organists in 1952. He was then appointed a lecturer at Durham University in 1953. He graduated with a BMus from Durham in that year and took the MA with a dissertation on 17th-century chamber music manuscripts in Durham Cathedral Library.

#12515

James Tyler

#181316

Overall Influence

1940 - 2010 (70 years)

James Tyler was a 20th-century American lutenist, banjoist, guitarist, composer, musicologist and author, who helped pioneer an early music revival with more than 60 recordings. Background James Henry Tyler was born in Hartford, Connecticut. His father worked for Pratt-Whitney. Initially, he studied the banjo and Mandolin with Walter K. Bauer , then the lute with Joseph Iadone and mandoline with Martha Blackman - he also played the cello.

#12516

Doug Girod

#95874

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Douglas Allan Girod is an American educator, medical doctor, and the 18th University of Kansas chancellor. Prior to becoming chancellor, he was the University of Kansas Medical Center's executive vice chancellor, a position he had held since February 2013. Before being promoted to the executive vice chancellor at the University of Kansas Medical Center, Girod was the senior dean for the School of Medicine while dually serving as a surgeon at the University of Kansas Health System where he began his career in 1994. He is also a veteran of the United States Navy Reserve.

#12517

James Muecke

#84872

Overall Influence

James Sunter Muecke is an Australian ophthalmologist working in Adelaide, South Australia. He was the 2020 Australian of the Year, having been South Australian of the Year. He was sworn in as South Australia's new Lieutenant Governor on 27 January 2022, succeeding Brenda Wilson.

#12518

James W. Fraser

#92010

Overall Influence

James Walter Fraser is an American educationalist, pastor, and academic administrator. He is a professor of history and education and chair of the applied statistics, social science, and humanities department at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. Fraser is dean of education at the University of the People. He is a past president of the History of Education Society. Fraser was the pastor at Grace Church Federated from 1986 to 2006.

#12519

Alfred Sous

#164053

Overall Influence

1925 - 2011 (86 years)

Alfred Sous was a German classical oboist, University lecturer and writer. Life Born in Rheydt, at the age of 14 Sous began his music education at the . In 1942 he was drafted. After his training as a soldier he was sent to the Eastern Front and in 1943 to Soviet war captivity.

#12520

Colin Timms

#132066

Overall Influence

Colin Ronald Timms is a musicologist and retired academic. He was Peyton and Barber Professor of Music at the University of Birmingham from 1992 until 2012, when he retired. After graduating from the University of Cambridge with a Bachelor of Arts degree, he completed Master of Music and Doctor of Philosophy degrees at King's College London, the latter in 1977 for his thesis on the chamber duets of Agostino Steffani. He was a lecturer at Queen's University Belfast from 1970 to 1972, and the University of Birmingham from 1973. In 2004, the British Academy awarded him the Derek Allen Prize for M...

#12521

Thaddeus B. Wakeman

#171521

Overall Influence

Thaddeus B. Wakeman, also known as T.B. Wakeman, was an American attorney, politician, editor and political philosopher. He graduated from Princeton University. Generally ascribed as a liberal freethought philosopher, he was a speaker at the 1878 Freethinkers' Convention at Watkins, New York. He served as president of the National Liberal League, ran unsuccessfully for Attorney General in the New York state election of 1887, and was editor of the liberal paper Man. He was also the head of the Liberal University of Oregon, later relocated to Kansas City, Missouri.

#12522

Elias Bongmba

#109221

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Elias Kifon Bongmba is a Cameroonian-American theologian. Biography Bongmba received a BA from Sioux Falls College in 1987, an M.Div. from North American Baptist Seminary in Sioux Falls in 1989, an MA from the University of Iowa in 1991, and a Ph.D. from Iliff School of Theology in 1995. He is Professor of Religion at Rice University in Houston, Texas, and holds the Harry and Hazel Chair in Christian Theology. His research focuses on Global Christianity and African and African Diaspora religions. He currently serves as the editor of Journal of Religion in Africa, is a member of the American A...

#12523

Priscilla Kincaid-Smith

#88675

Overall Influence

1926 - 2015 (89 years)

Priscilla Sheath Kincaid-Smith, Mrs. Fairley, AC, CBE , was an Australia-based South African physician and researcher, specializing in nephrology. She was a past President of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians , World Medical Association and International Society of Nephrology .

#12524

Howard Pollack

#149357

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Howard Pollack is a prominent American pianist and musicologist, known for his biographies of American composers. Biography Pollack was born in Brooklyn and studied piano with Jennie Glickman while attending James Madison High School. He continued his piano studies with John Kollen and Eugene Bossart at the University of Michigan, where he received his Bachelor of Music in 1973; and with Adele Marcus at the Aspen Music Festival in 1970. He received a Master of Arts degree and Ph.D. in musicology from Cornell University, where he wrote his thesis, "Walter Piston and His Music", under the supervision of William Austin.

#12525

Mikheil Makharadze

#187334

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Mikheil Makharadze is a Georgian politician and historian of philosophy, who was the Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara from July 20, 2004, to October 28, 2012. Education and academic career Born in a teacher's family in the Khulo district, Adjara, an autonomous republic of then-Soviet Georgia, Makharadze graduated from the Tbilisi State University with a degree in philosophy in 1970. Since then he has been working for the Tbilisi-based Institute of Philosophy, now part of the Ilia State University. In 2000, he became a professor at the Tbilisi State University.

#12526

Edwin H. Land

#120957

Overall Influence

1909 - 1991 (82 years)

Edwin Herbert Land, ForMemRS, FRPS, Hon.MRI was an American scientist and inventor, best known as the co-founder of the Polaroid Corporation. He invented inexpensive filters for polarizing light, a practical system of in-camera instant photography, and the retinex theory of color vision, among other things. His Polaroid instant camera went on sale in late 1948 and made it possible for a picture to be taken and developed in 60 seconds or less.

#12527

James Murdoch

#136901

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

James Rupert Jacob Murdoch is a British-American businessman. He is the younger son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch and the former chief executive officer of 21st Century Fox from 2015 to 2019. He was the chairman and CEO for Europe and Asia of News Corporation until 2013 when it was split into News Corp and 21st Century Fox. He was formerly a director of News Corp and was a member of the office of the chairman.

#12528

Arlene Dávila

#130992

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Arlene Dávila is an American professor of Latino/a Studies. She has contributed to the field of Latino/a Studies as both an author and professor. She is the founding director of The Latinx Project, and has written eight books and many articles on issues ranging from depictions of public images of Latinos, marketing to Latinos, cultural politics in Puerto Rico, and Latinization of the United States. Her research focuses on race and ethnicity, media studies, and Puerto Rican national identities. She is a professor at New York University.

#12529

Dora Mbanya

#188970

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Dora Ngum Shu Mbanya is a Cameroonian Professor of Haematology at the University of Yaoundé I and the head of the Cameroon branch of Africa Society for Women and Aids in Africa. Biography Dora Mbanya was born on 13 December 1956 in the North West region of Cameroon. She is a physician and specialises in haematology. She obtained a medical degree in General Medicine from cameroon and bagged her PhD in Medicine/Haematology from Newcastle upon Tyne, England. She holds a Dîplome Universitaire in Transfusion Medicine from the Université d’Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. She is also the General Manager o...

#12530

Ian K. Smith

#23810

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Ian K. Smith is an American physician, author and television host best known for hosting The Doctors. In 2007, he launched the 50 Million Pound Challenge, a national weight loss initiative sponsored by CVS Pharmacy and State Farm.

#12531

Nick Ribush

#54379

Overall Influence

Nicholas Ribush was one of the first Westerners to be ordained as a monk in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. A founder of Wisdom Publications, Ribush is today the director of the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive, a collection of thousands of teachings by Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche, who pioneered the teaching of Tibetan Buddhism in the West.

#12532

Adriano Bausola

Adriano Bausola

#103226

Overall Influence

1930 - 2000 (70 years)

Adriano Bausola was an Italian philosopher and academic. Biography Bausola was rector of Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. Among other tasks and functions is:Member of the National Academy of Lincei in philosophical sciences category;Member of the Institute Lombardo – Academy of Sciences and Letters;Board member of the Italian Philosophical Society;Vice President of the Organizing and Scientific Committee of the Social Weeks of Italian Catholics from 1985 to 1994;Consultant to the Sacred Congregation for Catholic Education;Chairman of Committees of the Church's evangelization and human pr...

#12533

Anil Suri

#168601

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Anil Suri is a cancer researcher working in the field of Translational Cancer research at the National Institute of Immunology in New Delhi, India. He is a fellow of the Indian National Academy of Medical Sciences, a fellow of National Academy of Sciences, India, editorial board member of Cancer Research, vice president of the Indian Society for the Study of Reproduction and Fertility and was an Executive Member of Indian Association of Cancer Research.

#12534

Rebecca Hasson

#78779

Overall Influence

Rebecca Hasson is an Associate Professor of Kinesiology at the University of Michigan. She researches the causes and consequences of pediatric obesity, how the environment impacts obesity related metabolic risk factors to inform health policies.

#12535

Albrecht von Müller

#183467

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Albrecht von Müller is a German philosopher and former entrepreneur. Since 2000, Müller has been the director of the Parmenides Center for the Study of Thinking, which is run by the non-profit organization Parmenides Foundation and is associated with the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He is also a teacher of philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich as well as teaching the theory of thinking at the MCA program of the international school for advanced studies in Trieste, SISSA His main fields of interest are the concept of time and the theory of thinking, and in these fields he has made various publications.

#12536

Dirk De Ridder

#170907

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Dirk De Ridder is a Belgian neurosurgeon. He is a professor of neurosurgery at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. De Ridder spends half his time in New Zealand and half in Belgium, involved in setting up a dedicated neuromodulation clinic.

#12537

Fabienne Peter

#189065

Overall Influence

Fabienne Peter is a British philosopher and professor of philosophy at the University of Warwick. She is a former head of the Department of Philosophy ; succeeded by current head, Guy Longworth. Peter has held a Leverhulme Research Fellowship and is known for her works on political philosophy, moral philosophy, and social epistemology. She is a former editor of Economics and Philosophy and a former associate editor of the Journal of Applied Philosophy.

#12538

Robert Aronowitz

#116028

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Robert Alan Aronowitz is an American physician and medical historian based at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Making Sense of Illness, and Unnatural History: Breast Cancer and American Society.

#12539

Miloš M. Nikolić

Miloš M. Nikolić

#62786

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

[[File:|thumb|200px]] Miloš M. Nikolić is the Professor and Chairman, Department of Dermatovenereology, University of Belgrade School of Medicine. M. Nikolić is Director of the Clinic of Dermatovenereology, Clinical Center of Serbia, Belgrade and Head of the Division of Pediatric and Adolescent Dermatology. He was the Secretary and the President of the Dermatovenereology Section of the Serbian Medical Society. He was the President of the Serbian Association of Dermatovenereologists from 2011 to 2015. He was a member of the Board of Directors of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology 2014-2019.

#12540

Udo Klement

#162915

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

Udo Fritz Peter Klement is a German musicologist and music critic. Life Klement, non-denominational, was born in 1936 in Dresden as the son of a gear cutter and an agricultural worker and saleswoman. He attended the Dresdner Kreuzschule and the Oberschule Dresden West Abitur 1954at the 12-class secondary schoolup to grade 10

#12541

Pierre Rabischong

#111602

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (94 years)

Pierre Rabischong is a neuroanatomist and an emeritus professor at the University of Montpellier in France. He is known for his work in rehabilitation medicine and physiotherapy, as well as powered orthoses. He was the leader of the AMOLL project in 1975.

#12542

Yimtubezinash Woldeamanuel

#131062

Overall Influence

Yimtubezinash Woldeamanuel Mulate is an Ethiopian physician and microbiologist researching infectious diseases, hospital-acquired infections, and antimicrobial resistance. She is an associate professor of medical microbiology at Addis Ababa University.

#12543

Wayne Jonas

#48899

Overall Influence

Wayne B. Jonas is an American family physician, retired army medical officer, and alternative medicine researcher. He is the former president and CEO of the Samueli Institute. The institute does research into the efficacy of alternative medicine, such as on the effects of prayer on treating disease, use of homeopathy to fight bioterrorism, and use of magnetic healing devices on orthopedic injuries, with Jonas commenting on these research programs, "There is a good case for looking at these things scientifically, because we don't know a lot about them". He is professor of family medicine at Geo...

#12544

Walter Omar Kohan

#189106

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Walter Omar Kohan is a Professor of Philosophy of Education at the State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is also a researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development and the Carlos Chagas Filho Research Support Foundation . He was previously President of the International Council of Philosophical Inquiry with Children .

#12545

Tadao Sato

#110412

Overall Influence

1930 - 2022 (92 years)

Tadao Satō was a Japanese film critic, theorist and historian. His real name was Tadao Iiri. Overviews Born in Niigata, Niigata Prefecture, Japan, He published more than a hundred books on film, and was one of Japan's foremost scholars and historians addressing film. He was recognized as one of the world's foremost authorities on Japanese cinema specifically, although little of his work had been translated for publication abroad. He also wrote books on Chinese, Korean, American and European films.

#12546

Dennis Fowler

#97627

Overall Influence

Dennis L. Fowler is the Vice President and Medical Director for Perioperative Services at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center. He is a pioneer in the field of endoscopic surgery and has been the first to perform numerous innovative laparoscopic surgical procedures, never before accomplished . Fowler was also the first general surgeon to use the Harmonic Scalpel , a device that uses wave frequency to divide the tissue and vibration to coagulate blood vessels .

#12547

Beverly P. Lynch

#177321

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

Beverly P. Lynch is an American scholar, professor, librarian, and administrator. She was president of the American Library Association from 1985-1986. Education Lynch earned a Bachelor of Science degree with majors in English and music from North Dakota State University, a Masters of Science degree in library sciences from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

#12548

Glenn Laffel

#77797

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Glenn Laffel is a physician and health IT entrepreneur. He formerly served as the Senior Vice President of Clinical Affairs for Practice Fusion, a San Francisco-based company that offers a Web-based Electronic Health Record for free to physicians.

#12549

Bartholomew Nnaji

#167860

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Bartholomew Nnaji is a Nigerian engineer, innovator and one of the inventors of the E-Design concept. Biography He was born in Enugu State, Nigeria and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in physics at St John's University, New York USA. He then proceeded to the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University for his Masters and PhD in Engineering. He also obtained a Post Doctorate Certificate in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, .

#12550

Gary Marchionini

#32060

Overall Influence

Gary Marchionini is an American information scientist and educator at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . Early life and education Marchionini received a PhD in 1981 from Wayne State University in the subject of "Curriculum Development: Mathematics Education". His thesis was titled Computer enhanced practice and introductory algebra.

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