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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#13151

Angela Okolo

#68999

Overall Influence

Angela Okolo is a Nigerian professor of pediatrics and child health, neonatologist in the department of Pediatrics, Federal Medical Center, Asaba and President of the Nigerian Society of Neonatal Medicine .

#13152

Joyonna Gamble-George

#175981

Overall Influence

Joyonna Gamble-George is an American neuroscientist, innovator, and entrepreneur known for her research with the endocannabinoid system in stress-induced maladaptations of the brain. She is an Adjunct Professor at St. Petersburg College, Florida.

#13153

Barbara Stripling

Barbara Stripling

#191525

Overall Influence

Barbara Stripling is an American librarian and is the President of the Freedom to Read Foundation, a non-profit legal and educational organization affiliated with the American Library Association. Stripling served as president of the American Library Association from 2013 to 2014. During her term as president, she stressed that "Libraries Change Lives."

#13154

Saskia Popescu

#112836

Overall Influence

Saskia Popescu is an infectious disease epidemiologist and Senior Infection Preventionist in Phoenix, Arizona. She holds academic appointments at the University of Arizona and George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government, where she lectures on biopreparedness and pandemic and outbreak response. Since the start of the Coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, Popescu has worked to prepare for and mitigate the spread of the disease. She has been recognized for her communication efforts around the pandemic, as well as her work on the front lines.

#13155

Adenike Akinsemolu

#174510

Overall Influence

1990 - Present (36 years)

Adenike Adebukola Akinsemolu is a Nigerian sustainability advocate, educator, author, and a social entrepreneur. She is a lecturer at Obafemi Awolowo University . She is known as one of the country's leading experts on environmental sustainability.

#13156

Roger Covell

#87273

Overall Influence

1931 - 2019 (88 years)

Roger David Covell AM FAHA was an Australian musicologist, critic and author. He was Professor Emeritus in the School of the Arts and Media at the University of New South Wales, in Sydney, and continued until shortly before his death to contribute articles and reviews to The Sydney Morning Herald, where he served as principal music critic from 1960 until the late 1990s.

#13157

Elsie McKee

#137473

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Elsie Anne McKee is an Archibald Alexander Professor of Reformation Studies and the History of Worship at Princeton Theological Seminary. She is famous for the Study of John Calvin.

#13158

Ahn Cheol-soo

#187528

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Ahn Cheol-soo is a South Korean politician, medical doctor, businessperson, and software entrepreneur. He currently serves as a member of the National Assembly as part of the conservative People Power Party.

#13159

Judith Poxson Fawkes

#171418

Overall Influence

1941 - 2019 (78 years)

Judith Poxson Fawkes was an American tapestry weaver based in Portland, Oregon, who exhibited her works nationally beginning in the 1960s. Early life and education The daughter of Elijah Goute Poxon and Helen Poxson, Judith Mary Poxson was born October 5, 1941, in Lansing Michigan. She earned a B.F.A. at Michigan State University and an M.F.A at Cranbrook Academy of Art. While at Cranbrook, she met Tom Fawkes, who became her husband of 52 years. In 1972 they moved to Portland, Oregon, and had two daughters. She taught weaving at four colleges in Portland, including Lewis & Clark College.

#13160

Zoltán Szabó

#109839

Overall Influence

1929 - 2015 (86 years)

Zoltán Szabó was a Hungarian heart surgeon, cardiologist, and professor emeritus of the Városmajor Heart and Vascular Centre. Szabo served as the Director of the Városmajor Heart and Vascular Centre from 1981 until 1992. In January 1992, he performed Hungary's first successful heart transplant following years of research.

#13161

Henryk Stepien

#164068

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Henryk Mikołaj Stępień is a Polish endocrinologist, neurologist and professor of medicine who is head of the Department of Endocrinology at the Medical University of Lodz and was rector of the Medical Academy of Lodz from 1996 to 2002.

#13162

Rosa M. Abella

#100664

Overall Influence

1920 - 2007 (87 years)

Rosa Margarita Abella was an exiled Cuban librarian who worked at the University of Miami's Otto G. Richter Library.she was the one who started the Cuban Heritage Collection in 1962 Biography A native of Havana, Abella received her library technician degree in 1955, a professional publicist certificate in 1957, and a PhD in 1958. She served as the head of the circulation department for the National Library of Cuba from 1960 to 1961, at which point she left the island for Miami, Florida, as a political refugee. She worked as a librarian at Assumption Academy until she was hired as an acquisitions librarian for the Otto G.

#13163

Sharon Haynie

#138591

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Sharon Loretta Haynie is an American chemist who develops biocatalysis for green chemistry. She is a Fellow of the American Chemical Society. Haynie was the first woman to be awarded the NOBCChE Henry Aaron Hill Award in 2006 and the first woman to win the Percy L. Julian Award in 2008.

#13164

Gibson Byrd

#118202

Overall Influence

1923 - 2002 (79 years)

Decatur Gibson Byrd , was an American painter of Shawnee ancestry known for landscape and figurative paintings. He was a master of coloristic subtleties and atmospheric effects, and his work often emphasized social commentary and injustice, and the angst and banality of modern materialism.

#13165

Carleton Sprague Smith

#134664

Overall Influence

1905 - 1994 (89 years)

Carleton Sprague Smith was an American music librarian and musicologist. Early years and education Smith was born in New York City to Clarence Bishop Smith, an admiralty lawyer and Catherine Cook Smith, author and patron of the arts. In 1917, at age twelve Smith took up study of the flute with Georges Barrère at the Institute of Musical Art . For high school he attended the Hackley School from 1920—1922. Upon graduation, he went to France to study French at École Yersin and flute with Louis Fleury in Paris. In 1923 he entered Harvard University, while studying flute with Georges Laurent, principle flutist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

#13166

Janette Sherman

#74655

Overall Influence

1930 - 2019 (89 years)

Janette Dexter Sherman was a physician, toxicologist, author, and activist in the U.S. She researched pesticides, nuclear radiation, birth defects, breast cancer, and illnesses caused by toxins in homes and was a pioneer in the field of occupational and environmental health. Sherman was an expert witness or consultant in 5,000 workers' compensation cases about deadly chemicals, contaminated water, and toxic pesticides.

#13167

Kate Soper

#164985

Overall Influence

1981 - Present (45 years)

Kate Soper is a composer and vocalist. She was a recent Rome Prize winner American Academy in Rome and Guggenheim Fellow Guggenheim Fellow as well as a 2012–13 fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She was a finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Music for her chamber opera, Ipsa Dixit.

#13168

Ruth Zechlin

#169554

Overall Influence

1926 - 2007 (81 years)

Ruth Zechlin was a German composer. Life Ruth Oschatz was born in Grosshartmannsdorf, where she began piano lessons at the age of five years, and wrote her first composition at the age of seven. From 1943 to 1949 she studied music theory with Johann Nepomuk David and Wilhelm Weismann, church music and organ with Karl Straube and Günther Ramin and piano with Rudolf Fischer and Anton Rohden at the Music Academy in Leipzig. After she completed the state exam, she worked at the academy for a year as a lecturer and also worked as a deputy organist at the Nikolai Church in Leipzig.

#13169

Ruth Bodenstein-Hoyme

#186450

Overall Influence

1924 - 2006 (82 years)

Ruth Bodenstein-Hoyme was a German composer and piano teacher. Life Hoyme was born in Wurzen as the second daughter of the commercial gardener Walter Hoyme. She attended the elementary school and later for some years the state high school of the city. Against her father's will she took piano lessons. At the age of nine she had her first composition exercises. Through many countless performances, which she often reached overland on her own bicycle, she had saved up her own piano over the years. After high school she graduated from the Frauenfachschule für Hauswirtschaft in Düsseldorf-Kaiserswe...

#13170

Tsai-Fan Yu

#64112

Overall Influence

1911 - 2007 (96 years)

Tsai-Fan Yu was a Chinese-American physician, researcher, and the first woman to be appointed as a full professor at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. She helped to develop an explanation for the cause of gout and experimented with early drugs to treat the disease which are still in use today.

#13171

Neda Alijani

#170087

Overall Influence

1981 - Present (45 years)

Neda Alijani is an Iranian infectious disease physician and assistant professor at Tehran University of Medical Sciences. She is a winner of International Prof Yalda Award.

#13172

Fernando Mönckeberg Barros

#16858

Overall Influence

1926 - Present (100 years)

Fernando Rafael Mönckeberg Barros is a Chilean surgeon, doctor of medicine specializing in nutrition, professor, researcher, and economist at the University of Chile. He is the founder of the and president of the .

#13173

Jan Blits

#69751

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Jan H. Blits is an American educational researcher and professor emeritus in the University of Delaware School of Education. He is also the president of the Delaware chapter of the National Association of Scholars . He received the Prometheus Award from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education in 2009, and the Jeane Kirkpatrick Academic Freedom Award from the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation in 2011. Along with his colleague Linda Gottfredson he helped to shut down a Residence Life Program at the University of Delaware in 2007, which the NAS had described as an "indoctrination center".

#13174

Richard Fitzpatrick

#181951

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Richard John Fitzpatrick is an Australian Emmy award winning cinematographer and adjunct research fellow specialising in marine biology at James Cook University. Early life Richard Fitzpatrick's fascination for sharks started at an early age. Richard caught his first Epaulette shark from the Coral Sea and took it home to keep in his aquarium when he was eleven years old. He then took the entire aquarium into school for show and tell.

#13175

Caitlin Bernard

#93498

Overall Influence

Caitlin Bernard is an American obstetrician-gynecologist and reproductive and abortion rights activist. Bernard is a practicing physician affiliated with Indiana University Health, as well as an assistant professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Indiana University School of Medicine. She also serves as associate medical director and director of ultrasound services for Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky, and has provided abortion services at Planned Parenthood facilities in Indiana and Kentucky.

#13176

Victoria Leonard

Victoria Leonard

#163515

Overall Influence

Victoria Leonard is a British Classicist specialising in the study of religion, gender, and the body in Late antiquity. She is a Post-Doctoral researcher at Royal Holloway, University of London and a research fellow at the Institute of Classical Studies. She holds a PhD from Cardiff University. Leonard was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in July 2019.

#13177

Carol J. White

#191583

Overall Influence

1946 - 2000 (54 years)

Carol Jean White was an American philosopher who was an associate professor in the Santa Clara University philosophy department. She was known for her works on Heidegger's philosophy. Books Time and Death: Heidegger's Analysis of Finitude, Edited by Mark Ralkowski, Foreword by Hubert L. Dreyfus, Ashgate 2005 Faith in theory and practice: essays on justifying religious belief, Open Court 1993, edited with Elizabeth S. Radcliffe

#13178

Yoni Freedhoff

#87656

Overall Influence

Yoni Freedhoff is the founder and medical director of the Bariatric Medical Institute, a for-profit, non-surgical weight management clinic, and is also an associate professor of family medicine at the University of Ottawa.

#13179

Jacqueline Dunkley-Bent

#168672

Overall Influence

Jacqueline Dunkley-Bent OBE is England's first Chief Midwifery Officer and Professor of Midwifery at King's College London and London South Bank University. Early life and career Dunkley-Bent received her diploma in midwifery at the Royal College of Midwives, Her Masters degree at Middlesex University and her Doctorate at King's College London. She went on to complete her post-graduate teaching certificate at Surrey University before becoming a lecturer at Middlesex University. Dunkley-Bent has worked as a nurse and midwife, as well as in several management positions. She was the head of maternity, children and young people.

#13180

Emil Gabrielian

Emil Gabrielian

#71409

Overall Influence

1931 - 2010 (79 years)

Emil Samsonovich Gabrielian was an Armenian physician and academician. From 1971 to 1975, he served as the Rector of Yerevan State Medical Institute, and from 1975 to 1989, he was the Minister of Health of Armenia. During his tenure as Minister, he developed a more egalitarian form of healthcare for the population and implemented an entire infrastructure for medicine throughout the country, including the construction of various hospitals, health clinics, and the like.

#13181

Roman Šmucler

#183490

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Roman Šmucler, MD, CSc is a Czech dentist, oral surgeon, specialist in laser and photonics medicine, university lecturer, entrepreneur, TV presenter, and scriptwriter. Early life and education He grew up in Příbram, where he attended elementary and high school. He began contributing to local newspapers when he was ten years old. In 1986 he won second place and in 1987 he won first and second place in a national literary contest. In 1987 he was admitted into the First Faculty of Medicine in Prague, studying Stomatology. In the spring of 1989 he won a casting call to a Czech radio program called Microforum together with Robert Tamchyna and Martin Ondráček.

#13182

Robert G. Vosper

#185366

Overall Influence

1913 - 1994 (81 years)

Robert Gordon Vosper was an American educator and librarian who oversaw college libraries at the University of Kansas and the University of California, Los Angeles. Vosper served as president of the American Library Association and won the Joseph W. Lippincott award in 1985. He was also named one of the top 100 librarians of the 20th century by American Libraries.

#13183

Pawel Tabakow

#129696

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (51 years)

Paweł Tabakow is a Polish neurosurgeon who is known for prepared and performing the operation that allowed Darek Fidyka to recover sensory and motor function after the complete severing of his spinal cord. Tabakow has claimed that an Indian ambassador and other people from round the world have contacted him about performing similar treatments.

#13184

Foster E. Mohrhardt

Foster E. Mohrhardt

#121710

Overall Influence

1907 - 1992 (85 years)

Foster Edward Mohrhardt was a United States librarian. He had a long and illustrious career in library and information science as a scholar, organizer and diplomat, and was listed by American Libraries among "100 Leaders we had in the 20th Century". Mohrhardt is also known for his work to have the United States Department of Agriculture Library re-designated as a national library.

#13185

Rolv Yttrehus

#181004

Overall Influence

1926 - 2018 (92 years)

Rolv Berger Yttrehus was an American composer of contemporary classical music. He held degrees from the University of Minnesota and University of Michigan and a Diploma from the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome. He studied harmony with Nadia Boulanger and composition with Ross Lee Finney, Roger Sessions, Aaron Copland, and Goffredo Petrassi. He taught at the University of Missouri, Purdue University, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, and Rutgers University.

#13186

Jeremi Wasiutyński

#73764

Overall Influence

1907 - 2005 (98 years)

Jeremi Maria Franciszek Wasiutyński was a Polish-Norwegian astrophysicist, philosopher and depth-psychologist. Life and work Wasiutyński studied mathematics, physics and astronomy at the University of Warsaw, then worked some years at a factory for optical instruments, while writing a text-book in two volumes of general astronomy with professor M. Kamieński. In 1938, after the publication of his prize-winning book about Copernicus , Wasiutyński moved to Norway, where he completed his degree in astrophysics at the University of Oslo 1948. His interdisciplinary doctoral dissertation, Studies in...

#13187

Bramwell Cook

#174393

Overall Influence

1936 - 2017 (81 years)

Herbert Bramwell Cook was a New Zealand gastroenterologist, noted for his research into the diagnosis and treatment of coeliac disease. Biography Cook was the son of Alfred Bramwell Cook and Dorothy Frances Cook . He was born in Gujarat, India, where his father was a Salvation Army missionary and doctor, and spent most of his first 16 years there. He was educated at Breeks Memorial School in Tamil Nadu from 1942 to 1951, apart from a year at St Andrew's College in Christchurch in 1947–48, before completing his secondary education at Christchurch Boys' High School in 1952 and 1953. After a ye...

#13188

Amanda Lynch

#60231

Overall Influence

Amanda H. Lynch is an environmental and social scientist, and the Director of the Brown Institute of Environment and Society and Sloan Lindemann and George Lindemann Jr. Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies at Brown University. She is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society and Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering.

#13189

Jordan Deschamps-Braly

#94944

Overall Influence

Jordan Christopher Deschamps-Braly is an American maxillofacial and craniofacial surgeon specializing in facial gender-affirming surgery for transgender people. He co-developed a procedure for building a new Adam's apple for trans men and is known for his work as a plastic surgeon for trans women.

#13190

Friedrich Stelzner

Friedrich Stelzner

#80503

Overall Influence

1921 - 2020 (99 years)

Friedrich Stelzner was a German academic surgeon, scientist and educator with specialization in gastrointestinal surgery. He served consecutively as Professor and Chairman of three university departments and was inducted as President of the German Society for Surgery in 1985. Stelzner contributed more than 80 books and book chapters to the literature and authored over 450 publications and presentations. Throughout his scientific career, Stelzner investigated questions of functional anatomy and its impact on surgical operative methods.

#13191

Lucien Campeau

#87993

Overall Influence

1927 - 2010 (83 years)

Lucien Campeau was a Canadian cardiologist. He was a full professor at the Université de Montréal. He is best known for performing the world's first transradial coronary angiogram. Campeau was one of the founding staff of the Montreal Heart Institute, joining in 1957. He is also well known for developing the Canadian Cardiovascular Society grading of angina pectoris.

#13192

Beatrix Borchard

#86381

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Beatrix Borchard is a German musicologist and author. The focus of her publications is the life and work of female and male musicians, such as Clara and Robert Schumann, Amalie and Joseph Joachim, Pauline Viardot-Garcia, and Adriana Hölszky. Also among her topics are the role of music in the process of Jewish assimilation, the history of musical interpretation, and strategies of .

#13193

Hannah Thompson

#175674

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (53 years)

Hannah Jane Thompson is a British academic and professor of French and critical disability studies at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her research focuses primarily on 19th and 20th century French literature, especially the novel.

#13194

Orsolina Montevecchi

#184532

Overall Influence

1911 - 2009 (98 years)

Orsolina Montevecchi was an Italian papyrologist. Life and career Montevecchi was born in Gambettola, Forlì-Cesena. She graduated from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore with a thesis on sociological research in the papyri from Graeco-Roman Egypt. Since 1950, she has worked as a lecturer and then as a professor at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, where she spent the rest of her career. She was the author of numerous publications on the topic of Graeco-Roman Egypt, sociological studies in papyrology and provenance studies.

#13195

Rachel Hinrichs

#191631

Overall Influence

#13196

Reid Robison

#112270

Overall Influence

Reid Robison is an American board-certified psychiatrist known primarily for his work with psychedelic medicines. As an early adopter and researcher of the use of ketamine in psychiatry, Robison has made significant contributions to ketamine-assisted psychotherapy and other treatment modalities using ketamine for mental health conditions. He previously served as coordinating investigator for a study on MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for eating disorders, sponsored by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies , and he continues to lead research and psychiatric clinical trials involving psychedelics.

#13197

Fevzi Aksoy

#125895

Overall Influence

1930 - 2020 (90 years)

Fevzi Aksoy was a Turkish sports writer, medical doctor, neurologist and academic. He graduated from Pertevniyal High School in 1947. He continued his education at the Istanbul University Faculty of Medicine and graduated in 1953. He received the title of "Associate Professor" in 1968 and "Professor" in 1982. He worked on EEG and epilepsy in Germany between 1960 and 1967.

#13198

Tsutomu Ōhashi

#14658

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (93 years)

Tsutomu Ōhashi is a Japanese agricultural scientist, composer, and record producer. He is also known by his pseudonym, Shoji Yamashiro. Early life Born in Tochigi Prefecture, he attended Tohoku University and graduated from the Faculty of Agriculture. He received a Doctorate of Agriculture.

#13199

Joel Salinas

#81695

Overall Influence

1983 - Present (43 years)

Joel Salinas is an American-born Nicaraguan neurologist, writer, and researcher, who is currently an Assistant Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. He practices general neurology, with subspecialty in behavioral neurology and neuropsychiatry, at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. He is also a clinician-scientist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Framingham Study at the Boston University School of Medicine.

#13200

Ganbold Lundeg

#178529

Overall Influence

Ganbold Lundeg is a Mongolian anesthetist based at the Mongolian National University of Medical Sciences where he is Head of Critical Care Medicine and Anesthesia Department. He has been the president of the Mongolian Society of Anesthesiologists for several years, and is a member of The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery.

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