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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#12801

S. Peter Cowe

#104274

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

S. Peter Cowe is Narekatsi Professor of Armenian Studies at UCLA and has taught at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, University of Chicago, and Columbia University. He is also a writer, researcher.

#12802

Toni Sant

#135105

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Toni Sant is a Maltese academic and former radio and television presenter, producer and music journalist. He is Director of Digital Media & Film Production at Salford University and was formerly Reader in Digital Curation at the University of Hull's School of Arts & New Media on the Scarborough campus, England.

#12803

Wolfgang Scheppe

#175227

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Wolfgang Scheppe is a German philosopher, author and curator who since 1996 has lived and taught in the US, Switzerland and Italy. His work as a theorist frequently includes the medium of exhibitions taking a form described as “theory installations”. Since 2009, he has directed the Arsenale Institute for Politics of Representation in Venice, which emerged from the Università Iuav di Venezia and was founded with Lewis Baltz.

#12804

Lisa Ellis

#123028

Overall Influence

Elisabeth Ellis, known as Lisa Ellis, is an American-born New Zealand political theorist and professor in the Department of Politics and Department of Philosophy at the University of Otago. Ellis is director of the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics program at the University of Otago.

#12805

Courtenay Bartholomew

#40035

Overall Influence

1931 - 2021 (90 years)

Courtenay Felix Bartholomew was a Trinidad and Tobago physician, scientist, and author. He was the founder and director of the Medical Research Foundation of Trinidad and Tobago. He was active in HIV/AIDS research, and was notable for diagnosing the first case of AIDS in the English-speaking Caribbean. He also led HIV vaccine trials and research on retroviruses with US institutions.

#12806

Ann Richardson

#189337

Overall Influence

Ann Kathleen Richardson is a New Zealand oncologist. She is professor of cancer epidemiology at the University of Canterbury. Academic career Richardson did a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery, a Postgraduate Diploma in Obstetrics and a PhD, all at the University of Otago. She is a Fellow of the New Zealand College of Public Health Medicine. She is on the council of the Health Research Council of New Zealand and a trustee of the Genesis Oncology Trust.

#12807

Jeremy Clyde

#170012

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Michael Jeremy Thomas Clyde is an English actor and musician. During the 1960s, he was one-half of the folk duo Chad & Jeremy . Their first song was the 1963 hit "Yesterday’s Gone". The duo became more successful in America than in their native country. Clyde has enjoyed a long television acting career, often playing upper-middle class or aristocratic characters.

#12808

Leonard Sarason

Leonard Sarason

#176749

Overall Influence

1925 - 1998 (73 years)

Leonard Sarason was a music composer, a pianist, and a mathematician. He earned a master's degree music composition from Yale University, supervised by Paul Hindemith. After a doctorate in Mathematics at New York University supervised by Kurt Otto Friedrichs he taught mathematics at Stanford University and the University of Washington. His mathematical research concerned partial differential equations.

#12809

Neal Flomenbaum

#53520

Overall Influence

Neal Flomenbaum is an emergency physician, author, editor, and an expert in emergency medicine and clinical toxicology. He is emergency physician-in-chief at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center; medical director of the NewYork-Presbyterian Emergency Medical Service; and professor of clinical medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University.

#12810

Konrad Küster

#128773

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Konrad Küster is a German musicologist. Born in Stuttgart, Küster studied musicology, Medieval and Modern History and Comparative Regional Studies at the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen and received his doctorate in 1989 with a thesis on the design of the first movements in Mozart's concerts . In 1993 he habilitated in Freiburg with the thesis Opus primum in Venice - tradition of the vocal movement, 1590-1650. Since 1995 he has been professor of musicology at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg. From 1995 to 1997 he was dean, and from 2002 to 2006 dean of studies. From 2003 to 2018 h...

#12811

Ole Fyrand

#105194

Overall Influence

1937 - 2017 (80 years)

Ole Lennart Fyrand was a Norwegian physician. He was born in Drammen. A professor of medicine at the University of Oslo from 1978, he was a recognized specialist in dermatology and venereology from the year before.

#12812

Thais Russomano

Thais Russomano

#57268

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Thais Russomano is a Brazilian doctor and scientific researcher specialising in space medicine, space physiology, biomedical engineering, telemedicine and telehealth. She founded the Microgravity Centre at PUCRS university, Porto Alegre, Brazil, in 1999, coordinating it for 18 years until 2017. The MicroG is the first educational and research centre in Space Life Sciences in Latin America. She is a senior lecturer at King's College London, lecturing in Aviation and Space related courses; coordinator of the Space Network , University of Lisbon; guest lecturer at Aalto University, Finland in S...

#12813

Alexis Belonio

#50771

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Alexis T. Belonio is a professor, engineer, scientist, innovator and inventor from the Philippines. He was "the first Filipino to receive the Rolex Award for Enterprise" in 2008 for his invention of a low-cost and environment friendly rice husk stove. Belonio was included by the Rolex watchmaking company on its list of 10 model innovators in November 2008. He serves as the incumbent chair of the Agricultural Engineering and Environmental Management department of Central Philippine University.

#12814

Eric Esrailian

#37449

Overall Influence

Eric Esrailian is an American physician at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles . He is also an Emmy-nominated film producer and is active in charity and community service activities in Los Angeles.

#12815

Beverly McIver

#141623

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Beverly McIver is a contemporary artist, mostly known for her self-portraits, who was born and raised in Greensboro, NC. She is currently the Esbenshade Professor of the Practice of Art, Art History and Visual Studies at Duke University.

#12816

Whitney Smith

#10406

Overall Influence

1940 - 2016 (76 years)

Whitney Smith Jr. was an American vexillologist. He coined the term vexillology, which refers to the scholarly analysis of all aspects of flags. He was a founder of several vexillology organizations. Smith was a Laureate and a Fellow of the International Federation of Vexillological Associations.

#12817

Lisa Welander

#48452

Overall Influence

1909 - 2001 (92 years)

Lisa Welander was a Swedish neurologist, and was Sweden's first professor of neurology, taking up her professorship at Umeå University from 1964–75. Career Welander graduated from Örebro University in 1928, and became a medical licentiate in Stockholm in 1937. She received her doctorate of medicine in 1952 from the Karolinska Institute and then became an associate professor of neurology there, and in 1953 at the Medical College of the University of Gothenburg. Welander became a professor of neurology at Umeå University from 1964–75.

#12818

Bisola Ojikutu

#164033

Overall Influence

Bisola Ojikutu is an American physician, infectious disease specialist, and health equity researcher. In July 2021, she was appointed as the Executive Director of the Boston Public Health Commission. Ojikutu is the fifth Commissioner of Public Health for the City of Boston and the first Black person to permanently hold this position. She currently serves on the Cabinet of Mayor Michelle Wu.

#12819

Jean Berger

#151756

Overall Influence

1909 - 2002 (93 years)

Jean Berger was a German-born American pianist, composer, and music educator. He composed extensively for choral ensemble and solo voice. Early years Berger was born Arthur Schloßberg into a Jewish family in Hamm, Westphalia. He studied musicology at the universities of Vienna and Heidelberg, where he received his Ph.D. in 1931 with Heinrich Besseler as his advisor. He also studied composition with Louis Aubert in Paris. While working as the assistant conductor at an opera house in Mannheim, he was forcibly removed from a rehearsal by nazi Brown Shirts.

#12820

Jacqueline Wernimont

Jacqueline Wernimont

#137633

Overall Influence

Jacqueline D. Wernimont is an American academic who is the Distinguished Professor in Digital Humanities and Social Engagement at Dartmouth College. Her first book, Numbered Lives Life and Death in Quantum Media, was released by MIT Press in January 2019. It is the first book to map connections in feminist media history. She is the founding Director of Human Security Collaborator , a collaboration of interdisciplinary academics working on digital civil rights and big data.

#12821

Lyndsey Stonebridge

#105759

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Lyndsey Stonebridge FBA FEA is an English scholar and professor of humanities and human rights at the University of Birmingham. Her work relates to refugee studies, human rights, and the effects of violence on the mind in the 20th and 21st centuries. She is also a regular radio and media commentator, writing for publications such as The New Statesman, Prospect Magazine, and New Humanist.

#12822

Dona Nelson

#106564

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Dona Nelson is an American painter, best known for immersive, gestural, primarily abstract works employing unorthodox materials, processes and formats to disrupt conventional notions of painting and viewership. A 2014 New Yorker review observed, "Nelson gives notice that she will do anything, short of burning down her house to bully painting into freshly spluttering eloquence." Since 2002, long before it became a more common practice, Nelson has produced free-standing, double-sided paintings that create a more complex, conscious viewing experience. According to New York Times critic Roberta S...

#12823

Nieca Goldberg

#102420

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Nieca Goldberg is an American physician and author. Her specialty is as a cardiologist. The American College of Cardiology describes Goldberg as a "clinical innovator" and "a nationally recognized pioneer in women’s heart health".

#12824

Anne Edwards

#83479

Overall Influence

Anne Edwards is a British plant scientist, based at the John Innes Centre and was the first person in the UK to identify Ash dieback disease in England, Ash dieback Edwards was the first person to identify Ash Dieback, caused by the fungus Hymenoscyphus fraxineus, discovering it in Ashwellthorpe Woods, Norfolk in 2012. Four years later she found a tree that was resistant to the disease and named it Betty which was used to help identify three genetic markers associated with resistance against the disease. Anne is heavily involved in the Nornex consortium, an open-access and crowdsourcing approach, which was established to respond to this outbreak.

#12825

Jan Jakuš

#169567

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Jan Jakuš is a Slovak medical researcher, author and professor of Pathophysiology. Career He studied medicine at, and is currently serving as a professor of biophysics at the Jessenius School of Medicine in Martin which is a part of the Comenius University in Bratislava. He has also served as the head of the department of Biophysics since 2007.

#12826

John Paul Jones

#107579

Overall Influence

1924 - 1999 (75 years)

John Paul Jones was an American painter and printmaker, described as "one of America's foremost printmakers" in the 1950s and '60s. He had a write-up in Time magazine in 1962. In 1963 he had a retrospective exhibition of his prints and drawings at The Brooklyn Museum, New York City. A posthumous retrospective exhibition was held at the Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, in 2010.

#12827

Naila Zaman Khan

#177033

Overall Influence

Naila Zaman Khan is a Bangladeshi neurologist. She was the founder head of the Department of Pediatric Neuroscience, Dhaka Shishu Hospital, Bangladesh Institute of Child Health in 1992, till 2018. She is the founder chairperson of the "Shishu Bikash Network", General Secretary of the "Bangladesh Protibondhi Foundation" , Secretary General of the Bangladesh Society for Child Neurology, Development and Disability and Chairperson of the Bangladesh Society of Pediatric Neuro Electro- Physiologists , and National Delegate of the Asia Oceania Child Neurology Association . From 2008 to 2018 she was...

#12828

Allen Lein

#122520

Overall Influence

1913 - 2003 (90 years)

Allen Lein was an endocrinologist and medical school professor. He was a Guggenheim Fellow for the academic year 1958–1959. Lein was a student at the University of Chicago and then transferred to the University of California, Los Angeles , where he graduated with bachelor's degree and Ph.D. in zoology, with a focus on endocrinology. During WW II, he served from 1943 to 1946 as an aviation physiologist in the U.S. Army and left with the rank of captain. After teaching at the Ohio State University and Vanderbilt medical schools, he became in 1947 an assistant professor in the physiology department of Northwestern University Medical School.

#12829

Jackie Lomax

#56006

Overall Influence

1944 - 2013 (69 years)

John Richard Lomax was an English guitarist and singer-songwriter. He is best known for his association with George Harrison, who produced Lomax's recordings for the Beatles' Apple record label in the late 1960s.

#12830

Franco Borruto

#151393

Overall Influence

Franco Borruto is an Italian professor, author and gynecologist resident since many years in Monte Carlo, Principality of Monaco. Career In May 2002, he was appointed Professor of Gynecology and Obstetrics in the University of Verona. Until September 2010 he worked in Verona, Head of the Unit of Pathology and Gynecologic Endocrinology for Adolescents. Currently he is member of the “Ordre des Medecins” of Monaco and he exercised for five years his activities at the Gynecology Service of the Princess Grace Hospital Centre .

#12831

Wye Jamison Allanbrook

#183423

Overall Influence

1943 - 2010 (67 years)

Wye Jamison "Wendy" Allanbrook was an American musicologist whose writings demonstrated that much of the music of Mozart and his contemporaries was influenced by the social dances of the time. Allanbrook was born on March 15, 1943, in Hagerstown, Maryland. She attended Vassar College where she earned her undergraduate degree in classics. She earned a Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1974, where her doctoral dissertation became the basis for her 1983 book Rhythmic Gesture in Mozart: 'Le Nozze di Figaro' and 'Don Giovanni published by the University of Chicago Press, in which she demonstrated that Mozart's music integrated references to the social practices and dances of his period.

#12832

Nancy B. Olson

#137506

Overall Influence

1936 - 2018 (82 years)

Nancy Grace Butterfield Olson was an American librarian and educator, an expert on cataloging rules for non-print materials, and the founder of the Online Audiovisual Catalogers . Education and personal life Olson was born April 10, 1936, in Estherville, Iowa, to Stuart and Vivian Butterfield. She died December 24, 2018, in Austin, Minnesota. Nancy married Jean Engebrit Olson in 1956, and they had four children together.

#12833

Michael J. Campbell

#190503

Overall Influence

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Nikolay Petrovich Krasnikov

#183163

Overall Influence

1921 - Present (105 years)

Nikolay Petrovich Krasnikov was active in Soviet academia as a philosopher, historian, and religious scholar. Early life Krasnikov graduated from high school in Leningrad in 1940. He was released from military service due to poor eyesight. During World War II, he worked as a mechanic at a repair plant. In addition, he dug trenches for anti-aircraft gunners on the Field of Mars. In 1942, he graduated from Leningrad School of Military Communications and was sent to the 12th Front Railway Park of the North Caucasian Front as a senior equipment repair technician. He served in the railway units on the Ukrainian Front.

#12835

Rangi Te Kanawa

#180242

Overall Influence

Rangituatahi Te Kanawa is a New Zealand textile conservator and weaver. She is affiliated with the Ngāti Maniapoto iwi. Biography Te Kanawa received a scholarship from the Department of Internal Affairs to train in conservation of textiles. The committee of the Aotearoa Moananui a Kiwa Weavers were keen for Māori to be involved in the conservation of Māori textile artefacts held by museums and other cultural institutions. Her introductory training on conservation of cultural material was in Canberra, after which she completed a year of pre-training at the conservation unit of the National Museum in Wellington.

#12836

Roger Williams

#69006

Overall Influence

1931 - 2020 (89 years)

Roger Stanley Williams CBE FRCS FRCP FRCPE FRACP FMedSci was a British professor of hepatology . He was Director of the Institute of Hepatology, London and Professor of Hepatology, King's College London. He was also Medical Director of the charity, the Foundation for Liver Research a UK registered charity and was the lead person of the Lancet Commission into Liver Disease in the UK.

#12837

Tayfun Uzbay

#100023

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

İsmail Tayfun Uzbay is a Turkish neuropsychopharmacologist. Life Uzbay graduated from Ünye High School and received his bachelor's degree in the Faculty of Pharmacy from Istanbul University in 1982. He completed his doctorate in 1992 at Gülhane Military Medical Academy in the field of Medical Pharmacology. He received the title of Associate Professorship in 1995. He worked in the field of Pharmacology in the Institute of Medical Sciences in North Texas University with scholarships from both TÜBİTAK and North Texas University. In 1999, he won a scholarship and worked as a research assistant in the department of Toxicology in the Faculty of Pharmaceutics in Cagliari University in Italy.

#12838

Jonathan Larmonth Meakins

#94653

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Jonathan Larmonth Meakins, is a Canadian surgeon, academic, and expert in immunobiology and surgical infections. Life Born in Toronto, Ontario, he was the son of Jonathan Fayette Meakins, in turn the son of Jonathan Campbell Meakins. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from McGill University and a Doctor of Medicine from the University of Western Ontario in 1966. He received a Doctor of Science from the University of Cincinnati in 1972.

#12839

John David Spence

#97896

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

John David Spence is a Canadian medical doctor, medical researcher and Professor Emeritus at the University of Western Ontario. He is affiliated with the University of Western Ontario and the Robarts Research Institute, one of Canada's leading medical research organizations. Before his retirement from clinical practice in July 2022, he was also affiliated with the London Health Sciences Centre's University Hospital . He is a recognized expert in stroke prevention and stroke prevention research, with more than 600 peer-reviewed publications since 1970. He delivered more than 600 lectures on stroke prevention in 42 countries.

#12840

Indira Hinduja

#34623

Overall Influence

Indira Hinduja is an Indian gynecologist, obstetrician and infertility specialist based in Mumbai. She pioneered the Gamete intrafallopian transfer technique resulting in the birth of India's first GIFT baby on 4 January 1988. Previously she delivered India's first test tube baby at KEM Hospital on 6 August 1986. She is also credited for developing an oocyte donation technique for menopausal and premature ovarian failure patients, giving the country's first baby out of this technique on 24 January 1991.

#12841

Richard Yarde

#102466

Overall Influence

1939 - 2011 (72 years)

Richard Yarde was an American artist and professor, who specialized in watercolor painting. Biography Richard Yarde's parents were immigrants. His father worked as a machinist and his mother was a seamstress. He recalled this as a source of inspiration, saying “There were patterns everywhere." Healing was a recurring theme in his works and he drew on the images from his own x-ray scans. He worked on oil paintings, then switched to watercolors in 1977 and received almost immediate critical acclaim for his works that drew upon themes of African-American history, Yarde's own family history, and...

#12842

Melvyn Rubenfire

#68349

Overall Influence

Melvyn Rubenfire is a cardiologist in the University of Michigan Health System, as well as a professor in the department of internal medicine. He is also director of the preventive cardiology department.

#12843

J. D. Sheffield

#156870

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Jesse David Sheffield II, known as J. D. Sheffield , is a physician from Gatesville, Texas, who was a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives. On July 14, 2020, Sheffield was defeated in his re-election effort by Stephenville, Texas attorney Shelby Slawson by over 20% in the Republican primary runoff.

#12844

F. John Lewis

#23164

Overall Influence

1916 - 1993 (77 years)

Floyd John Lewis was an American surgeon who performed the first successful open heart operation, closing an atrial septal defect in a 5-year-old girl, on 2 September 1952. For the next 3 years, Lewis and colleagues operated on 60 patients with atrial septal defects using hypothermia and inflow occlusion. He was best friends with C. Walton Lillehei and they worked together at the University of Minnesota.

#12845

Mhoira Leng

#183398

Overall Influence

Mhoira E.H. Leng FRSE MBChB MRCP FRCP is one of the first Scottish specialists in palliative care, who has developed the palliative care services internationally, working in Eastern Europe, India and Africa and advises international institutions and agencies on palliative care in the developing world. In 2021, Leng was admitted as one of the new female Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

#12846

Linda Barwick

#85316

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Linda Mary Barwick is an Australian musicologist and professor emerita at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Barwick has focused on researching Australian Indigenous music and the music of immigrant communities. She also works in the field of digital humanities, archiving recordings.

#12847

Ardis B. Collins

#190258

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

Ardis B. Collins is an American philosopher and Professor Emerita of Philosophy at Loyola University Chicago. She is known for her works on Hegel's philosophy and is Editor-in-chief of the Owl of Minerva.

#12848

E. J. Josey

#111508

Overall Influence

1924 - 2009 (85 years)

Elonnie J. Josey was an African-American activist and librarian. Josey was the first chair of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association, having been instrumental in its formation in 1970; served as president of the American Library Association from 1984 to 1985; and was the author of over 400 books and other publications.

#12849

Claire Jowitt

#151685

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Claire Elaine Jowitt is an English academic who writes on race, cross-gender, piracy, identity, empire and performance. She is currently a Professor in English and History within the Schools of History and Literature, Drama and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. Previously, she held a personal chair in English at Southampton University , was Professor of Renaissance English Literature at Nottingham Trent University and Lecturer and Senior Lecturer at Aberystwyth University .

#12850

Judith A. Salerno

#47979

Overall Influence

Judith A. Salerno, MD, MS is a physician executive and the President of the New York Academy of Medicine. Career The New York Academy of Medicine Salerno became President of The New York Academy of Medicine in September 2017. During her tenure she honed the organizational focus on health equity and introduced progressive initiatives such as a Health Equity Action Agenda, taking a stand in support of the removal of the J. Marion Sims statue, and awarding posthumous fellowship to the eminent physician and abolitionist Dr. James McCune Smith, an 1847 candidate who was denied NYAM fellowship due ...

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