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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#12551

Susan Quaggin

#70850

Overall Influence

Susan E. Quaggin is a Canadian nephrologist. She is the Charles Horace Mayo Professor of Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Director of the Feinberg Cardiovascular Research Institute and chief of the Division of Nephrology.

#12552

Maha H. Hussain

#77006

Overall Influence

Maha H. Hussain is the Genevieve E. Teuton Professor of Medicine and deputy director of the Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine. She is an oncologist focusing on genitourinary cancers.

#12553

Helmut Brenner

#126359

Overall Influence

1957 - 2017 (60 years)

Helmut Brenner was an Austrian ethnomusicologist. Biography Education Brenner received music degrees in 1981 and 1984 at the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Graz, Austria, and earned a master's degree in history in 1993 and Ph.D. in musicology in 1995 at the University of Vienna, .

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Ben Bradley

#174937

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Ben Bradley is an American philosopher and Anita and Allan D. Sutton Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Syracuse University. He is known for his works on ethical theory and philosophy of death. Bradley is an editor-in-chief of Ergo.

#12555

Deb Verhoeven

#102175

Overall Influence

Deb Verhoeven is currently the Canada 150 Research Chair in Gender and Cultural Informatics at the University of Alberta. Previously she was Associate Dean of Engagement and Innovation at the University of Technology Sydney, and before this she was Professor of Media and Communication at Deakin University. Until 2011 she held the role of director of the AFI Research Collection at RMIT. A writer, broadcaster, film critic and commentator, Verhoeven is the author of more than 100 journal articles and book chapters. Her book Jane Campion published by Routledge, is a detailed case study of the com...

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David Bowen

#93139

Overall Influence

1924 - 2011 (87 years)

David Aubrey Llewellyn Bowen was a Welsh pathologist. He studied medicine at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He was involved in the Dennis Nilsen case, and also that of John Duffy and David Mulcahy, the murder of PC Keith Blakelock and the death of the financier Roberto Calvi.

#12557

Rigby Graham

#97863

Overall Influence

1931 - 2015 (84 years)

Rigby Graham MBE was an English landscape and topographical artist who worked within the English Romanticism tradition but in his choice of colours owed a debt to German Expressionism. Life and career Graham trained as a mural painter at the Leicester College of Art. After teaching at a number of local schools, Graham returned to lecture at the College of Art, firstly in Graphic Design and Printing, then in Education and latterly in Bookbinding. Graham illustrated more than 250 books and pamphlets and wrote extensively on art and artists. Graham retired from teaching in 1983.

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Ricky Kanee Schachter

#83358

Overall Influence

1918 - 2007 (89 years)

Ricky Kanee Schachter, FRCP, CM was a dermatologist who practiced in the Toronto area, and was invested as a Member of the Order of Canada in 1998, as "a researcher, teacher, administrator and healer, whose work in the areas of skin cancer and psoriasis has improved the lives of her patients, and inspired fellow researchers across Canada."

#12559

Alexander Matthews

#101651

Overall Influence

Alexander Matthews is an American playwright and philosopher. Matthews was born in New York City. He taught Philosophy in a number of universities between 1975 and 1989 and in 1986 was awarded a Visiting Fellowship to Princeton University.

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Omar Fakhri

#55557

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (92 years)

Dr. Omar Fakhri - الدكتور عمر فخري – B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D. FRCPath is a medical scientist who is best known for his research in several areas: the role of vitamin K in treating hemorrhagic diathesis in children, the cooperation between antibodies and lymphocytes and their role in immune response, the use of peritoneal macrophages in the treatment of resistant infections in leukemia patients, the effect of electroconvulsive therapy on diabetes and the use of low voltage electrotherapy in the treatment of resistant skin burns, psoriasis, exophthalmos, aplastic anaemia and other diseases.

#12561

Chiara Ottaviano

#184317

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Chiara Ottaviano, is an Italian historian, writer and film director. Biography After obtaining a degree in philosophy, at the Università di Catania, thanks to scholarships of Einaudi Foundation of Torino, has done research on social and cultural history in Italy, England and South Africa.

#12562

Arne Kaijser

#57537

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Arne Kaijser is a professor emeritus of history of technology at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, and a former president of the Society for the History of Technology. Kaijser has published two books in Swedish: Stadens ljus. Etableringen av de första svenska gasverken and I fädrens spår. Den svenska infrastrukturens historiska utveckling och framtida utmaningar, and has co-edited several anthologies. Kaijser is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences since 2007 and also a member of the editorial board of two scientific journals: Journal of Urban Technology and Centaurus.

#12563

Karine Nahon

#34896

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Karine Nahon is an Israeli information scientist in the area of information, technology, and society. She holds a dual position as an associate professor in The Information School at University of Washington and at Reichman University. In July 2017, Nahon was named #24 on Forbes' list of 50 Most Influential Women in Israel. Her co-authored book "Going Viral" was awarded Best Information Science Book Award by the Association for Information Science and Technology and the 2014 Outstanding Academic Title Award by the American Library Association.

#12564

Siegmund Helms

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Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

Siegmund Helms is a German musicologist and music educator. Life Born in Nordhorn, Helms studied school music and geography as well as musicology in Hanover, Marburg and Berlin from 1958. In 1967, his doctorate was awarded the a PhD degree from the Free University of Berlin with a dissertation on Die Melodiebildung in den Liedern von J. Brahms und ihr Verhältnis zu Volksliedern und volkstümlichen Weisen. He passed the first and second Staatsexamen in 1964 in Berlin and 1968 in Kassel. Afterwards he worked as a teacher in Göttingen.

#12565

Iimura Takahiko

#169851

Overall Influence

1937 - 2022 (85 years)

was a Japanese avant-garde filmmaker and fine artist. He is considered one of the pioneers of experimental and independent filmmaking in Japan. Iimura was born in Tokyo and was a graduate of Keio University. His film Onan won the Special Prize at the Brussels International Independent Film Festival in 1964. He published a seminal work on experimental filmmaking in 1970, Geijutsu to higeijutsu no aida, and a biography of Yoko Ono, Ono Yōko hito to sakuhin, in 1985. Iimura made much of his film in New York City, but became a professor at the Nagoya Zokei University of Art & Design in 1992.

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Wendy Henderson

#169550

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Wendy A. Henderson is an American nurse practitioner, scientist, and academic administrator working as the director of the Center of Nursing Scholarship and Innovation at the University of Connecticut. She was previously a clinical investigator and lab chief of the National Institute of Nursing Research digestive disorders unit. Henderson is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing.

#12567

Sara J. Dent

#104681

Overall Influence

1901 - 1999 (98 years)

Sara J. Dent was the first chief of Anesthesiology and the first female division chief in the Department of Surgery at Duke University. She assumed this role in 1968 and served as chair until 1971, when Dr. Merel H. Harmel became chair. She conducted the earliest high-impact clinical research in anesthesiology at Duke that focused on postoperative nausea and vomiting .

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Bill Oddie

#109847

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

William Edgar Oddie is an English actor, artist, birder, comedian, conservationist, musician, songwriter, television presenter and writer. He was a member of comedy trio The Goodies. A birder since his childhood in Quinton, Birmingham, Oddie has established a reputation as a naturalist, conservationist, and television presenter on wildlife issues. Some of his books are illustrated with his own paintings and drawings. His wildlife programmes for the BBC include Springwatch and Autumnwatch, How to Watch Wildlife, Wild in Your Garden, Birding with Bill Oddie, Britain Goes Wild with Bill Oddie a...

#12569

John Boyd Wilson

#189242

Overall Influence

1928 - Present (98 years)

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Helen Elizabeth Nash

Helen Elizabeth Nash

#126121

Overall Influence

1921 - 2012 (91 years)

Helen Elizabeth Nash was a pediatrician known for breaking racial and gender barriers in the medical field. She began her career at the Homer G. Phillips Hospital, and later worked at the Saint Louis Children’s Hospital. She started her own private practice and was a faculty member at the Washington University School of Medicine. Her earliest work included decreasing infant mortality in Homer G. Phillips Hospital. Her private practice was notable for educating teens on proper sexual health. Additionally, she was one of the first medical doctors to address patient health as care for the patien...

#12571

Henning Kagermann

#189245

Overall Influence

#12572

Gerald Sufrin

#160401

Overall Influence

Gerald Sufrin is an American urologist. He is a professor in the department of urology at University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. He was the president of the American Association of Genitourinary Surgeons from April 15, 2015, to April 14, 2016. In 2017, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Urological Association. He is the father of Carolyn Sufrin.

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Bonnie J. Blackburn

#118508

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Bonnie Jean Blackburn is an American musicologist. Career She graduated in 1970 from the University of Chicago with a PhD. She studied with Edward Lowinsky and Howard Mayer Brown. She was lecturer at Northwestern University, and visiting faculty member at the University of Chicago in 1986, and University at Buffalo, The State University of New York in 1989–90. She moved to Oxford in 1990 and became a freelance editor.

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Michael W. Bevan

#31631

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Michael Webster Bevan is a professor at the John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK. Education Bevan was educated at the University of Auckland where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science in 1973 and a Master of Science in 1974. He went on to study at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he was awarded a PhD in 1979 for work on differentiation in plant tissue cultures.

#12575

David R. Morrow

#187583

Overall Influence

David R. Morrow is an American philosopher and the Director of Research for the Institute for Carbon Removal Law and Policy and the Forum for Climate Engineering Assessment at American University. He is also a Research Fellow in the Institute for Philosophy & Public Policy at George Mason University. Morrow is known for his works on climate policy and ethics.

#12576

Theodore Levin

#136682

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Theodore Craig Levin is an American ethnomusicologist. He is a professor of music at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire and earned his undergraduate degree at Amherst College and obtained his Ph.D. from Princeton University. Levin has focused his research on the people of the Balkans, Siberia, and Central Asia. His recordings from these regions have been released on various labels.

#12577

Stephanie J. Murphy

Stephanie J. Murphy

#111417

Overall Influence

Stephanie J. Murphy is an American veterinary scientist. She is the director of the Division of Comparative Medicine in the Office of Research Infrastructure Programs at the National Institutes of Health. Murphy was previously a faculty member at the Oregon Health & Science University.

#12578

M. W. Barley

#128698

Overall Influence

1909 - 1991 (82 years)

Maurice Willmore Barley M.A., F.S.A., F.R.Hist.S., was an English historian and archaeologist, specialising in medieval settlements and historic buildings. Barley was born and raised in Lincoln; his father was a prominent member of the Workers' Educational Association. Barley studied history at Reading, taking a Dip. Ed in 1932. Here he met his future wife, Diana. Barley taught at a school in Grimsby, then went to work at University College, Hull in the Department of Local History. At this time he also taught local history and archaeology at adult education classes in Lindsey and East Yorkshire.

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Kgomotso Moahi

#172251

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Kgomotso Hildegard Moahi, is an academic and academic administrator in Botswana, who serves as a full professor and deputy vice chancellor – student services at the Botswana Open University. She has previously served in the Department of Library and Information Studies, at the University of Botswana, the country's largest public university as the chair of the department of information studies, dean of the Faculty of Humanities and as member of the Council of the University of Botswana. For a period of nine months in 2017, Moahi served as the acting vice chancellor of the university.

#12580

Christian Feest

Christian Feest

#76231

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Christian Feest is an Austrian ethnologist and ethnohistorian. Biography Feest was born on July 20, 1945, in Broumov. He specializes in the Native Americans of eastern North America and the Northeastern United States and their material culture, ethnological image research and Native American anthropology of art. He is widely acknowledged for his pioneering research and publications on the early European-Native American colonial contact period, and on the history of museum collections.

#12581

Patricia Numann

#78987

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Patricia Joy Numann is an American endocrine surgeon. She is the founder of the Association of Women Surgeons, former president of the American College of Surgeons, and professor emeritus at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University.

#12582

Olcay Neyzi

#79225

Overall Influence

1927 - Present (99 years)

Remide Olcay Neyzi was a Turkish doctor and the former Director of the Department of Pediatrics, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine . As the first author of the most comprehensive pediatric textbook in Turkish, she greatly contributed to improving the level of medical education in Turkey.

#12583

Garth Taylor

#106544

Overall Influence

1944 - 2005 (61 years)

The Honourable Dr. Garth Alfred Taylor, OJ, Ph.D. was a Jamaican ophthalmologist, professor, and humanitarian. Born in Montego Bay, Taylor was a Queen's Scout in his youth. He received his education at Cornwall College in Jamaica and Queen's University in Ontario. He later became an associate professor of ophthalmology at the latter institution, as well as chief of ophthalmology at Cornwall Community Hospital in Canada.

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Emma Borg

#189114

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Emma Borg is a professor of philosophy at the University of Reading. She specialises in philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of cognitive science. Publications External links Profile at the University of Reading

#12585

Helen Petousis-Harris

#160071

Overall Influence

Helen Aspasia Petousis-Harris is a New Zealand vaccinologist and associate professor in the Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care at the University of Auckland. She has been involved in research related to vaccination in New Zealand since 1998, with her main areas of focus being vaccine safety and effectiveness. Petousis-Harris has had a variety of lead roles in New Zealand and international organisations that focus on vaccination and is a regular media spokesperson in this field, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.

#12586

William Robinson

#91397

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

William Francis Robinson AO is an Australian painter and lithographer. Early life William Robinson was born in Brisbane in 1936. He attended Brisbane State High School and Ballarat High School. After graduating from secondary education, he began working as an art instructor.

#12587

Mylin Torres

#180199

Overall Influence

Mylin Ann Torres is an American breast cancer radiation oncologist. Torres is the Louisa and Rand Glenn Family Chair in Breast Cancer Research and director of the Glenn Family Breast Center. Early life and education Torres was raised in Savannah, Georgia, US. After her best friend's mother died of cancer when she was in sixth grade, Torres was influenced to pursue a career in medicine. Following high school, Torres enrolled at Harvard University for her Bachelor's degree in biology. As an undergraduate student, Torres competed with the Harvard Crimson women's tennis team where she was voted Rookie of the Year in 1995.

#12588

Lori Emerson

#108835

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (52 years)

Lori Emerson is an associate professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder and founder of the Media Archaeology Lab, a museum dedicated to obsolete technologies spanning from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first century. She is known for her work in media archaeology, digital preservation, and digital archives.

#12589

Larry Brilliant

Larry Brilliant

#129948

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Lawrence Brilliant is an American epidemiologist, technologist, philanthropist, and author, who worked with the World Health Organization from 1973–1976 helping to successfully eradicate smallpox.

#12590

Recep Akdağ

#64444

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Recep Akdağ is a Turkish physician and politician who is a member of the Justice and Development Party. He was one of the last Deputy Prime Ministers of Turkey from 19 July 2017 from 9 July 2018, and served as Minister of Health from 2016 to 2017, and from 2002 to 2013.

#12591

Lawrence Schkade

#132972

Overall Influence

1930 - 2017 (87 years)

Lawrence L. Schkade was an American information systems and management science researcher. Schkade was a native of Port Arthur, Texas, who earned his doctorate at Louisiana State University. He taught at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of North Texas before joining the University of Texas at Arlington. At UTA, he was Ashbel Smith Professor of Information Systems and Management Sciences, later held the Jenkins Garrett Professorship in Information Systems and Operations Management, and also served as dean of the College of Business Administration. Schkade was granted emeritus status in October 2004.

#12592

Ehren Kruger

#99300

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Ehren Kruger is an American film screenwriter and producer. He is best known for writing three of the five installments in the original Transformers film series: Revenge of the Fallen, Dark of the Moon, and Age of Extinction, in addition to the American version of The Ring and its sequel The Ring Two and the American adaptation of Ghost in the Shell.

#12593

Alejandro Bárcenas

#188601

Overall Influence

Alejandro Barcenas Pardo is a Venezuelan philosopher and Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Texas State University. He is known for his expertise on Machiavelli's thought. Books Machiavelli's Art of Politics. Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2015. 175 pages.

#12594

Richard of Lavenham

#107352

Overall Influence

Richard of Lavenham was an English Carmelite, known as a scholastic philosopher. He is now remembered for his approach to the problem of future contingents. Life He was born at Lavenham, Suffolk, and, after becoming a Carmelite friar at Ipswich, studied at the University of Oxford, where he is said to have graduated D.D.; but in the colophon to his tract against John Purvey he is called simply 'magister'.

#12595

Denham Harman

#189347

Overall Influence

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John Gutmann

#101213

Overall Influence

1905 - 1998 (93 years)

John Gutmann was a German-born American photographer and painter. Early life and education Gutmann was born in 1905 in Breslau, Germany to an upper-middle-class Jewish family. He earned a degree in art from and moved to Berlin in 1927, earning a post-graduate degree at Preussisches Shulkollegium for Hohere Erziehung.

#12597

Leonardo Moledo

#58858

Overall Influence

1947 - 2014 (67 years)

Leonardo Moledo was an Argentine writer and philosopher. Life and work Leonardo Moledo was born in Buenos Aires, in 1947. He enrolled at the public secondary school, the National College of Buenos Aires. He was accepted into the University of Buenos Aires, where he received a degree from the School of Natural and Exact Sciences.

#12598

William F. Bernhard

#81941

Overall Influence

1924 - 2018 (94 years)

William F. Bernhard was an American cardiovascular surgeon, Emeritus Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, and cardiovascular surgical pioneer. Bernhard's cardiovascular work first came to public light with his 1963 breakthrough hyperbaric chamber work and use of the chamber to try to save Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, son of U.S. President John F. Kennedy. Bernhard continued cardiovascular research at Boston Children's Hospital and developed innovative surgical alternatives for cardiovascular disease including the Ventricular Assist Device.

#12599

Gerd Rienäcker

#163084

Overall Influence

1939 - 2018 (79 years)

Gerd Rienäcker was a German musicologist. Life Rienäcker was born on 3 May 1939 in Göttingen as son of the chemist . Rienäcker studied musicology from 1959 to 1964 with Ernst Hermann Meyer, Georg Knepler, Walther Vetter, Peter H. Feist and Carl Heinz Claasen at the Humboldt University of Berlin, and also musical composition with Hans Georg Görner.

#12600

Philippe Michel

#189379

Overall Influence

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