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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

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Prescott G. Woodruff

#164019

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#13152

Thomas Alexander Miller

#164034

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#13153

Carl Goresky

#95690

Overall Influence

1932 - 1996 (64 years)

Carl Arthur Goresky, OC was a Canadian physician and scientist at the Montreal General Hospital. His theoretical treatment of the transport of substances through intact organs, which formed the basis of his PhD thesis, led the basis for the understanding of events within the microvasculature.

#13154

Hitonobu Tomoike

#164037

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#13155

Franklin B. Zimmerman

#45756

Overall Influence

1923 - Present (103 years)

Franklin Bershir Zimmerman is an American musicologist and conductor who has published extensively in the field of Baroque music, and particularly on the English composer, Henry Purcell. He is most known for his complete catalogue of Purcell's works, considered "one of the most crucial contributions to Purcell research". Each work in the catalogue is given a "Z number" which derives from Zimmerman's surname.

#13156

Pierre Tattevin

#164044

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

#13157

Ken-ichi Kosaka

#164049

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#13158

Türker Armaner

#132591

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Türker Armaner is an Istanbul-based writer, philosopher, and translator. He studied at the universities of Hacettepe, Boğaziçi, and Bergen and took his PhD degree in 2002 at Paris 8 University His first story was published on Hayalet Gemi in 1995. His first book, Kıyısız , was published in 1997, his second book, Taş Hücre , in 2000, his third book, Dalgakıran , in 2003, his novel, Tahta Saplı Bıçak in 2007 and his last book, a philosophical inquiry, Tarih ve Temsil in 2014. He is currently teaching at the Department of Philosophy at Galatasaray University, Istanbul, as an associate professor.

#13159

Nicolaas I.l.j. Bohnen

#164067

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#13160

Mario Manfredi

#164089

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#13161

Rupert Pearse

Rupert Pearse is a British physician specialising in intensive care medicine, and NIHR Professor of Intensive Care Medicine at Queen Mary University of London. Pearse graduated from St George's, University of London, in 1996.

#13162

Alain Verloès

#164098

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#13163

Catherine D. DeAngelis

#36122

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Catherine D. DeAngelis is the first woman and the first pediatrician to become editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association . She has also edited several additional medical journals. Before assuming the editor's position at JAMA in 2000, DeAngelis was a professor and Vice Dean of Faculty at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

#13164

Wayne A. Wiegand

#68170

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Wayne August Wiegand is an American library historian, author, and academic. Wiegand retired as F. William Summers Professor of Library and Information Studies and Professor of American Studies at Florida State University in 2010.

#13165

Bradley T. Thach

#164138

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#13166

Dominique L. P. Baeten

#164145

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#13167

Olga Jonasson

#40443

Overall Influence

1934 - 2006 (72 years)

Olga Jonasson, MD, FACS was an American transplant surgeon. She performed the first kidney transplant in the state of Illinois. She was also the first woman to be appointed head of an academic department of surgery at a coeducational school of medicine and the first woman to be appointed chief of surgery of a major medical center.

#13168

Jeffrey Drebin

#59719

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Jeffrey Drebin is a surgeon and scientist. He serves as the Department of Surgery Chair at Memorial Sloan Kettering. Biography Drebin earned his MD and Ph.D. from Harvard Medical School, before completing his general surgery residency, and surgical oncology fellowship, at Johns Hopkins Medical School. His Ph.D. research, performed with Mark Greene and Robert Weinberg, involved the creation of monoclonal antibodies targeting the Her2/neu protein and demonstrating in preclinical models that such antibodies could inhibit cancer cell growth in vitro and in vivo. This work was focused on targeted c...

#13169

Avery D. Weisman

#164173

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#13170

Audrius Beinorius

Audrius Beinorius

#81790

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Audrius Beinorius is a Lithuanian philosopher, orientalist , translator, Habilitated Doctor of Humane Letters. In 1988, he finished landscape management studies at the Academy of Agriculture. Later he moved to India where during four years he studied Indology, Buddhology and Indian languages

#13171

Albert Thierfelder

1842 - 1908 (66 years)

Ferdinand Albert Thierfelder was a German pathologist born in Meissen. He was the son of city physician , and was a younger brother to internist Theodor Thierfelder . He studied medicine at the University of Rostock and University of Leipzig, earning his doctorate in 1870 with a dissertation on sweat gland adenoma, Ein Fall von Schweissdrüsen-Adenom. He spent several years as an assistant at the institute of pathology in Leipzig, and from 1876 to 1908 was a full professor of anatomic pathology in Rostock. One of his better known assistants in Rostock was pathologist Otto Lubarsch .

#13172

Elizabeth Osborne

#93215

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

Elizabeth Osborne is an American painter who lives and works in Philadelphia. Working primarily in oil paint and watercolor, her paintings are known to bridge ideas about formalist concerns, particularly luminosity with her explorations of nature, atmosphere and vistas. Beginning with figurative paintings in the 1960s and '70s, she moved on to bold, color drenched, landscapes and eventually abstractions that explore color spectrums. Her experimental assemblage paintings that incorporated objects began an inquiry into psychological content that she continued in a series of self-portraits and a long-running series of solitary female nudes and portraits.

#13173

Neil Scott Mcnutt

#164201

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#13174

Naguib A. Samaan

#164203

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#13175

Karl Gottlob Kühn

Karl Gottlob Kühn

1754 - 1840 (86 years)

Karl Gottlob Kühn was a German physician and medical historian. He studied medicine at the University of Leipzig, earning his doctorate in 1783 with the dissertation thesis "De forcibus obstetriciis nuper inventis". In 1785 he became an associate professor at Leipzig, where he later served as a full professor of therapy and physics and pathology . On three separate occasions he served as university rector .

#13176

Arthur H. Jr. Aufses

#164237

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#13177

Donald Lawrence Wickerham

#164249

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#13178

Stacy Alan Brethauer

#164252

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#13179

Hiroaki Matsubara

#164256

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

#13180

Andrew Gray

1847 - 1925 (78 years)

Andrew Gray was a Scottish physicist and mathematician. Life Born in Lochgelly, Fife, the son of John Gray, he was educated at Lochgelly School and then studied at the University of Glasgow , where he was appointed the Eglinton Fellow in Mathematics in 1876. Perhaps more significantly, however, in 1875 he became the assistant and private secretary of Professor William Thomson . He held this post – an official University one after 1880 – until 1884, when he was appointed Professor of Physics at the newly founded University College of North Wales.

#13181

M. Anthony Schork

#164261

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#13182

Eli Schwartz

#40768

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1950 - Present (76 years)

Eliezer Schwartz MD, DTMH is an Israeli physician, known for his speciality in tropical diseases and travel medicine. He is a founding member of the International Society of Travel Medicine and served as chair of its Professional Education Committee. Schwartz is currently president of the Asia Pacific Travel Health Society as well as the Israel Society for Parasitology, Protozoology and Tropical Diseases . At clinical practice, he is head of the Center for Travel Medicine and Tropical Diseases at the Sheba Medical Center. He is also a professor at the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv ...

#13183

Joseph Lucius Jorizzo

#164271

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#13184

Anthony Adams

#113955

Overall Influence

1940 - 2021 (81 years)

Anthony J. Adams was an Australian-American optometrist. He was an emeritus professor of optometry and vision science at the UC Berkeley School of Optometry, where he also served as dean from 1992 to 2001.

#13185

Henrim. Bounameaux

#164287

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#13186

Klaus Georg Parhofer

#164297

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#13187

Simone Porzio

1496 - 1554 (58 years)

Simone Porzio was an Italian philosopher, born and died in Naples. Life Like his greater contemporary, Pomponazzi, he was a lecturer on medicine at Pisa , and in later life gave up purely scientific study for speculation on the nature of man. His philosophic theory was identical with that of Pomponazzi, whose De immortalitate animi he defended and amplified in a treatise De mente humana. There is told of him a story which illustrates the temper of the early humanistic revival in Italy. When he was beginning his first lecture at Pisa he opened the meteorological treatises of Aristotle. The au...

#13188

Paul Mcmaster

#164299

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Kenneth H. Cowan

#164316

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#13190

Burkhard F. Lachmann

#164317

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#13191

Miles H. Irving

#164329

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#13192

Yi-rong Li

#164341

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#13193

Marianne Cardale de Schrimpff

#61869

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Marianne Vere Cardale de Schrimpff is a Colombian anthropologist, archaeologist, academic and writer. Biography Marianne Cardale obtained her master's degree at the University of Edinburgh in 1965 and her PhD in 1972 at the University of Oxford with a thesis named Techniques of Hand-weavíng and allied arts in Colombia. From 1970 to 1974 she worked at the Universidad de Los Andes in Bogotá.

#13194

Gregory R. D. Evans

#164359

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#13195

Alan L. Buchman

#164381

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#13196

Robert Ivan Demars

#164399

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#13197

Gary M. Olson

#60145

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Gary M. Olson is an American professor and researcher, specializing in the fields of human-computer interaction and computer supported cooperative work. He has published over 120 research articles and book chapters, and is one of the authors of Working Together Apart: Collaboration over the Internet .

#13198

John Ming

1838 - 1910 (72 years)

Rev. John Joseph Ming S.J. was a Swiss Roman Catholic priest, philosopher and writer. He was born in Giswil, Obwalden and was educated at gab Gauthier College, Engelberg, Obwalden. He was ordained in 1868. He was appointed a theological lecturer at the Seminary of the Prince Bishop of Görz in 1871 and was sent to the United States in 1872. He taught philosophy at colleges and contributed articles to the Catholic Encyclopedia and The American Catholic Quarterly Review. He was considered one of the greatest Catholic authorities on sociology of his era.

#13199

David Scott Shepro

#164407

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#13200

Karin Kraft

#164423

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

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