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#13401

David O'Donnell

#192035

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

David O'Donnell may refer to:David O'Donnell , New Zealand actor and theatre directorDavid O'Donnell , Australian-born film writer, director and producerDavid O'Donnell , Australian professional rugby league player

#13402

Sydney Beck

#185239

Overall Influence

1906 - 2001 (95 years)

Sydney Beck was an American musicologist, music educator, violinist and viol player. As a scholar, he was considered an authority on English music of the 16th through 18th centuries. One of his major contributions was his research on composer Thomas Morley which led to the modern publication of Morley's The First Book of Consort Lessons in 1959. Beck led his own ensemble, The Consort Players, in performances of Morley's music and other works by Morley's contemporaries; performances which contributed to the interest in reviving broken consort music in the 20th century.

#13403

William Leon McBride

#191956

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

William McBride is an American philosopher and Arthur G. Hansen Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University. He is known for his works on political philosophy and philosophy of law. Books Fundamental Change in Law and Society: Hart and Sartre on Revolution, Mouton and Co.,The Hague, 1970The Philosophy of Marx, Hutchinson Univ. Library, London; St. Martin's Press, New York, 1977 Social Theory at a Crossroads, Duquesne University Press, Pittsburgh, 1980Demokrati og Autoritet , Dreyers, Oslo, 1980Sartre's Political Theory, Indiana University Press, 1991Social and Political Philoso...

#13404

Janet Sawicki

#102869

Overall Influence

Janet Sawicki is an American cancer researcher, and professor emeritus and former deputy director of the Lankenau Institute for Medical Research. Her research is focused on the preclinical development of treatments for cancers using DNA and siRNA.

#13405

Espen Rostrup Nakstad

#90973

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (51 years)

Espen Rostrup Nakstad is a Norwegian physician, lawyer and author from Skjetten who is the current assistant director of the Norwegian Directorate for Health and Social Affairs. Medical career Nakstad earned a Doctorate in medicine from the University of Oslo and is specialized in respiratory disease and internal medicine. In 2018 he issued a book on disaster preparedness together with Bjørn Bjelland, Beredskap, kriseledelse og praktisk skadestedsarbeid. He leads the CBRNE Centre at Ullevål Hospital/Oslo University Hospital. Among others, he led Ullevål Hospital's response when a Norwegian ci...

#13406

Dōmei Yakazu

#31647

Overall Influence

1905 - 2001 (96 years)

was a Japanese physician who contributed to the restoration of kampo medicine in Japan. In 1979, he was awarded the by the Japanese Medical Association for his contributions to oriental medicine. Life Yakazu was born in 1905 as Shirō, the fourth son of Tatsunosuke Yakazu and Sute Yakazu, in Omiya . He graduated from Mito Commercial School and entered Tokyo Medical University majoring in traditional Chinese medicine under Professor Mori Dohaku along with his elder brother Kaku. He graduated in 1930, and less than a year later, he adopted the art-name Dōmei Yakazu. In 1933, he started his own c...

#13407

Frank Harrison

#64612

Overall Influence

1913 - 2013 (100 years)

Frank Harrison Jr. was an American physician, professor and university administrator. Harrison was born in 1913 in Dallas, Texas, and educated at Southern Methodist University, Northwestern University and UT Southwestern Medical School. He received the B.Sc. Chemistry in 1957 from SMU, the M.Sc. and Ph.D. from Northwestern University and the M.D. from UT Southwestern Medical School in 1956. Harrison pursued a long career of service within The University of Texas System, notably at UT Southwestern, University of Texas at Arlington and University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.

#13408

Sławomir Dobrzański

#186272

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Sławomir Pawel Dobrzański is a Polish-American pianist, teacher and musicologist. Biography He was born in Wrocław . He is a graduate of the Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw, where he studied with Regina Smendzianka, Andrzej Dutkiewicz and Jerzy Maciejewski. He also studied privately with Kajetan Mochtak in Warsaw. In 1992-1994 he studied at the University of Kansas in Lawrence with Jack Winerock. He also participated in summer courses in Switzerland and Poland, where he studied piano performance with Malcolm Frager, Mieczysław Horszowski and Victor Merzhanov. Additionally, he benefited from coaching sessions with Nina Tichman in Mainz, Germany, and Jan Gorbaty in New York City.

#13409

Barry Dorn

#58299

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Barry C. Dorn is an American phsyician who is Associate Director of the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative , a joint program of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government and Associate Director of the Program for Health Care Negotiation and Conflict Resolution at HSPH. He is also an Instructor in Public Health Practice at HSPH and Clinical Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at the Tufts University School of Medicine. Additionally, he served on the Faculty of Health Services at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel from 2010-2013.

#13410

Anne Ormisson

#180217

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Anne Ormisson is an Estonian medical researcher and pediatrician. Biography Anne Tampere was born on 19 November 1942 in Tartu, Estonia and is the second child of a four-child family of Vanemuine orchestra player Arnold and a music school teacher Helene. She graduated school in 1961 from Tartu 7th Secondary School. She graduated University of Tartu in 1967 and was sent to Võru hospital as a paediatrician. She later moved to Viljandi where she met and married Toivo Ormisson, and her daughter Liis and a son Niil were born. In 1971, she started working as a researcher at the Department of Pediat...

#13411

Linda Maria Koldau

Linda Maria Koldau

#47629

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Linda Maria Koldau is a German musicologist and was Chair of Musicology and Cultural History at Aarhus University in Denmark. Since 2013 she has been director of the Coastal Academy in Northern Germany, focusing on efficiency, conciseness and perfection in business language and communication.

#13412

Jennifer Grandis

#165961

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Jennifer Rubin Grandis is an American otolaryngologist, focusing in general otolaryngology and clinical and translational research. Her research interests include diagnosis and treatment of head and neck cancer. She is a Full professor at the University of California, San Francisco having previously worked as the UPMC Endowed Chair at University of Pittsburgh.

#13413

Alexander Poznansky

#59688

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Alexander Poznansky is a Russian-American scholar of the life and works of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Born in 1950 at Vyborg. In 1968 he relocated to Leningrad. Poznansky emigrated from the Soviet Union to the United States in 1977, where he is a Slavic & East European Languages librarian at Yale University. He is perhaps best known for his 1991 book: Tchaikovsky: The Quest for the Inner Man, published by Schirmer/Macmillan.

#13414

Linda Kouvaras

#191979

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Linda Kouvaras is a Melbourne-based composer with a background in punk and new wave. Her compositions, which explore genre mixing, are focused on vocals and piano music, and are released on ABC Records and Move Records.

#13415

Xin Lu

#37789

Overall Influence

Xin Lu is a Professor of Cancer Biology and Director of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research at the University of Oxford. She is known for her discovery of and research on the ASPP family of proteins.

#13416

Nicholas Wright

#93384

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Sir Nicholas Alcwyn Wright is a British professor and medical doctor. He was the Warden of Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry. Wright attended Bristol Grammar School and Durham Medical School accepted him straight into the second year before he graduated in 1965 and proceeded to achieve two post-graduate degrees in pathology at Newcastle University.

#13417

Esther Tumama Cowley-Malcolm

#97491

Overall Influence

Esther Tumama Cowley-Malcolm is a Samoan-New Zealand health researcher and practitioner. Cowley-Malcolm completed a Masters degree at Auckland University of Technology in 2005. Her masters thesis was titled Some Samoans' perceptions, values and beliefs on the role of parents and children within the context of aiga/family and the influence of fa'asamoa and the church on Samoan parenting. She did her PhD in Pacific Cultural Studies at the Victoria University of Wellington, she was the first women graduate of the Pacific studies programme. Her doctoral thesis was titled Perceptions of Samoan Pare...

#13418

Joseph Ahaneku

#134191

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Joseph Eberendu Ahaneku is an academic and Consultant Chemical Pathologist of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Nigeria . Ahaneku is the immediate past Vice Chancellor of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka . He is from Nnarambia Ahiara Ahiazu Mbaise, Imo State, Nigeria.

#13419

Angus Wallace

#55397

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

William Angus Wallace is a Scottish orthopaedic surgeon. He is Professor of Orthopaedic and Accident Surgery at the Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences of the University of Nottingham. He came to widespread public notice for a life-saving surgery he performed using improvised equipment on a British Airways flight in 1995, and for treating Wayne Rooney before the 2006 FIFA World Cup.

#13420

James Broselow

#179017

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

James Broselow is an American emergency physician, an assistant professor, an inventor and an entrepreneur. He and fellow emergency physician Robert Luten, M.D., are best known in the medical community for inventing the Broselow Tape in 1985, which was the first tool developed relating a pediatric patient's height to their weight in order to “determine the size of equipment, supplies, and dosages of medication to use…” during emergencies. The Broselow Tape is featured in many medical textbooks and reference manuals as the standard for length based weight measures.

#13421

Daniel J. Caron

Daniel J. Caron

#62378

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Daniel J. Caron was the Librarian and Archivist of Canada from April 25, 2009 until May 15, 2013. He is also a professor, author, fellow and public speaker. Education Caron graduated with a Bachelor's and a Master's degree in Economics from Laval University, and earned a doctorate in Applied Human Sciences from the University of Montreal. His doctoral dissertation was in Canadian studies on aboriginal issues.

#13422

Hosney Yosef

#77994

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Hosney Mohammed Ahmed Ali Yosef OBE is a former radiologist, who was in 2006 made OBE in recognition of his services to medicine in western Scotland. Yosef was born in Egypt and came to Scotland in 1974 to work as a cancer specialist at Hairmyres Hospital. was a senior consultant in clinical oncology at the Beatson Oncology Centre in Glasgow and an honorary clinical senior lecturer at the University of Glasgow. He became a naturalised British citizen in 1978.

#13423

Ann Van Gysel

#186544

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Ann Van Gysel is a Belgian scientist and businesswoman. In 2011 she started Turnstone Communications, offering communications and business development services to biotech and pharma industry. She teaches science communications at the University of Antwerp and University of Ghent and is a director to the board of the Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp.

#13424

Yu-Chuan Jack Li

#81451

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Yu-Chuan Jack Li is the founder of Biomedical Informatics education and research institute. Li was the founding dean of the College of Medical Science and Technology at Taipei Medical University in 2011, composed of the original Department of Biomedical Informatics, the Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology, the Department of Cancer Biology and Drug Discovery, the Department of Medical Neuroscience and the Department of Translational Science. Li also founded the International Center for Health Information Technology at TMU in 2015 to foster global awareness and international collaboration in healthcare.

#13425

Roger Kempf

#89820

Overall Influence

1927 - 2014 (87 years)

Roger Kempf was a French writer, philosopher, Germanist and ethnologist of literature, and emeritus professor at the École polytechnique fédérale de Zurich. He was awarded several literary prizes, including the Prix Alfred Née of the Académie française in 1969 for his book Sur le corps romanesque, the Prix Ève Delacroix of the Académie française in 2005 for L'indiscrétion des frères Goncourt and the Prix Femina essai in 2004 for the same work.

#13426

Gerald Peary

#88657

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Gerald Peary is an American film critic, filmmaker, editor of the University Press of Mississippi, and a former curator of the Harvard Film Archive. Early life and education Peary graduated from Rider University in 1964, went on to earn an MA in drama from New York University in 1966, and received a Ph.D. in Communications at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1977 with the dissertation, The Rise of the American Gangster Film, 1913-1930. Peary was a 1986 Fulbright Fellow in Belgrade, studying Yugoslavian film comedy.

#13427

Roger Kneebone

#110410

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Roger Lister Kneebone is British professor of surgical education at Imperial College London. A graduate of St Andrews and Manchester universities, he performed trauma procedures in the war zones of Southern Africa before working as a general practitioner in Wiltshire and after completing a PhD. Upon return, he became involved in medical education based around simulation and computer-based learning, challenging the "documentary framework". He co-founded the United Kingdom's only Masters in Education in Surgical Education.

#13428

Sabu

#171885

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Hiroyuki Tanaka, known professionally as Sabu, is a Japanese actor and film director. Career Born in Wakayama Prefecture, Sabu studied at an Osaka fashion school before deciding to go to Tokyo to become a professional musician. It was suggested he try acting and in 1986 he made his film debut in Sorobanzuku. He earned his first starring role in the 1991 World Apartment Horror, a live-action film directed by Katsuhiro Ōtomo of Akira fame. Working from a script he wrote himself, he made his directorial debut with the 1996 Dangan Runner, a film that set his early style of "quirky action-comedies ...

#13429

Claus Bock

#122541

Overall Influence

1926 - 2008 (82 years)

Claus Victor Bock was a professor of German studies. In the early 1950s, Bock studied with Ronald Peacock at the University of Manchester, attracted by the latter's research on Hölderlin, and obtained a PhD at Basle under Walter Muschg. After working briefly as an assistant lecturer at his alma mater, he became a lecturer at Queen Mary College, London , then reader , and finally professor of German, Westfield College, London . Two of Bock's noted PhD students were Jeremy Adler and John Fletcher.

#13430

Stephen Epstein

#120923

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (91 years)

Stephen E. Epstein is the Head of Translational and Vascular Biology Research at the MedStar Heart and Vascular Institute, MedStar Washington Hospital Center and Clinical Professor of Medicine at the Georgetown University School of Medicine.

#13431

Victoria Sendón de León

Victoria Sendón de León

#190413

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Victoria Sendón de León is a Spanish philosopher, feminist and writer. A difference feminist, Sendón de León has criticized equality feminism’s emphasis on rationality and ideals of equality:

#13432

Claudia Lux

#146324

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Claudia Lux is German librarian and the Member of the National Committee of International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions. Life and education After studying social sciences, Lux received her Ph.D. in sinology in 1985 at Ruhr University Bochum. She started to work as a sinologist at the State Library.

#13433

Annie Goldson

#92729

Overall Influence

Anne Veronica Goldson is a New Zealand journalism and film academic specialising in documentaries. Her films include Punitive Damage, Georgie Girl, Brother Number One and Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web.

#13434

Michelle Bholat

#182617

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Michelle Bholat is an American physician. She is an associate professor of family medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she serves as vice-chair of clinical affairs and is a member of the Medical Board of California.

#13435

Günther C. Feigl

#117245

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Günther C. Feigl is an Austrian neurosurgeon. Feigl is an internationally renowned expert in minimally invasive neurosurgery. His main areas of expertise are skull base surgery and neurooncology. He specializes in the surgery of gliomas, minimally invasive endoscopy-assisted microvascular decompression in trigeminal neuralgia and facial hemispasm as well as the surgery of acoustic neuromas , tumors of the pineal gland and meningiomas of the skull base. Furthermore, his specialties comprise treatment of pituitary adenomas, spinal cord tumours and metastases as well as the area of pediatric ...

#13436

Ajit Varki

#26079

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Ajit Varki is a physician-scientist who is distinguished professor of medicine and cellular and molecular medicine, founding co-director of the Glycobiology Research and Training Center at the University of California, San Diego , and founding co-director of the UCSD/Salk Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny . He is also executive editor of the textbook Essentials of Glycobiology and distinguished visiting professor at the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras and the National Center for Biological Sciences in Bangalore. He is a specialist advisor to the Human Gene Nome...

#13437

Qiao Jie

#58092

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Qiao Jie is a Chinese obstetrician, reproductive physician and biologist. She is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and currently president of Peking University Third Hospital. She is also director of the National Clinical Research Center on Obstetrics & Gynecology, president of China Women Doctors' Association and chair for the Reproductive Medical Society of Chinese Medical Doctor Association.

#13438

Igor Boelza

#177202

Overall Influence

1904 - 1994 (90 years)

Igor Fyodorovich Belza or Boelza was a Soviet music historian and composer who wrote 4 symphonies, 5 piano sonatas, 2 cello sonatas, a string quartet, and several film scores for Alexander Dovzhenko. He was the father of Svyatoslav Belza, a showman and a TV personality.

#13439

Lisa Robinson

#182567

Overall Influence

Lisa Robinson is a clinician-scientist. She is a University of Toronto professor in the Department of Paediatrics and the Vice Dean Strategy and Operations at the Faculty of Medicine, former Head of the Division of Nephrology at The Hospital for Sick Children, a Senior Scientist at the SickKids Research Institute, and the first-ever Chief Diversity officer for the Faculty of Medicine at University of Toronto.

#13440

James Douglas Miller

#133123

Overall Influence

1937 - 1995 (58 years)

James Douglas Miller FRSE was a Scottish neurosurgeon of international repute. The Douglas Miller Memorial Lecture is named in his honour. Life He was born in Glasgow on 20 July 1937. His father was an executive at Collins the publisher. He was educated at Glasgow Academy then studied medicine at the University of Glasgow graduating with an MB ChB. Meeting Bryan Jennett he was inspired to be a neurosurgeon.

#13441

Richard Lower

#23971

Overall Influence

1929 - 2008 (79 years)

Richard Rowland Lower was an American pioneer of cardiac surgery, particularly in the field of heart transplantation. Lower was born in Detroit, attended Amherst College, and received his medical degree from Cornell University in 1955. Lower and Norman Shumway developed many of the techniques required to conduct successful heart transplantation, including the use of hypothermia and the orthotopic technique, which became the standard technique for cardiac transplantation.

#13442

Jarbas Barbosa

#191230

Overall Influence

Jarbas Barbosa da Silva Jr. is a public health expert from Brazil who is currently serving as the Director of the Pan American Health Organization and Regional Director for the Americas of the World Health Organization ; his five-year term in this position starting on 01 February 2023. He is replacing Carissa Etienne of Dominica, who had served has the PAHO Director since 2013.

#13443

Leslie Jacobson

#185125

Overall Influence

Leslie Bravman Jacobson is a George Washington University professor emeritus of theatre, playwright, director, and the founding artistic director of the longest-running women's theatre in the United States, Horizons: Theatre from a Woman's Perspective in Washington, D.C. She was also a founder and vice president of the 501 not-for-profit Bokamoso Youth Foundation, president of the League of Washington Theatres, and recipient of a Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship.

#13444

Harminder Dua

#40907

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Professor Harminder Singh Dua is an Indian-British medical doctor and researcher. He is the chair and professor of ophthalmology at University of Nottingham and is the head of the Division of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences. Prior, he was associate professor at the Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, USA when he was invited to chair in Nottingham in April 1994. He earlier did his Graduation in Medicine from Government Medical College and Hospital, Nagpur.

#13445

Graham MacGregor

#117309

Overall Influence

Graham Alexander MacGregor is a British academic, professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at the Wolfson Institute, Queen Mary University of London MacGregor trained at Charing Cross Hospital where he was taught by the distinguished nephrologist, Professor Hugh de Wardener. MacGregor's own speciality at this stage was also in kidney disease. He developed an interest in the relationship between kidney function and high blood pressure which led him to a parallel campaigning role, attempting to persuade food manufacturers to reduce the quantity of salt in factory produced food.

#13446

Richard Thompson

Richard Thompson

#50390

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Sir Richard Paul Hepworth Thompson, is a British physician and past president of the Royal College of Physicians in London. Biography Thompson studied medicine at Oxford University and St Thomas' Hospital, and specialised in gastroenterology. He conducted research with Prof Roger Williams, and at the Mayo Clinic. He was appointed consultant at St Thomas' from 1972 until his retirement in 2005. He continued to conduct research in nutritional gastroenterology. From 1982 until 2005 he was also attached to King Edward VII's Hospital Sister Agnes. He was a member of the Medical Household of Elizabeth II, and head from 1993 until 2005.

#13447

Shrenik Rao

#109208

Overall Influence

Shrenik Rao is an Indian film-maker, academic, and broadcaster. He is the founder and chief executive of Dolsun Media and 7MB – 7 Media Broadcasting Pvt Ltd . He was a Fellow at the University of Oxford’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism & an alumnus of the London School of Economics.

#13448

Jaana Toivari-Viitala

#155744

Overall Influence

1964 - 2017 (53 years)

Jaana Toivari-Viitala was an egyptologist and museum curator from Finland, who was Chair of the Finnish Egyptology Society and Head of the Department of Egyptology at the University of Helsinki. Biography Toivari-Viitala was born in Loviisa on 16 May 1964. She was passionate about Ancient Egypt since her childhood. She studied for her PhD at the Leiden University, which explored the lives of the women who lived at Deir el-Medîna, the village where the builders of the tombs in the Valley of the Kings lived. This work examined many aspects of women's lives there, including sex, maternity and property ownership.

#13449

Mirza Hashem Eshkevari

#133270

Overall Influence

Mirza Hashem Eshkevari was a Shi'a philosopher, jurist and mystic. He is one of the most important pupils of Agha Muhammad reza Qomshehi and his mystical school. Early life He was born in Eshkevar at Gilan. Eshkevar had given rise to scientists such as Qutb Al Din Eshkevari and Sayyed Abul Qasem Eshkevari. He was born there in 1250 Hijra lunar. His family lineage goes back to the regress of Sadat.

#13450

Reginald Marsh

#143512

Overall Influence

1926 - 2001 (75 years)

Reginald Albert Saltmarsh, known by the stage name Reginald Marsh , was an English actor who is best remembered for supporting roles in many British sitcoms from the 1970s onwards. Early life and career Marsh was born in London in 1926 and he grew up on the Sussex coast at Worthing. After he left school he worked in a bank. After realising how serious he was about acting, his father introduced him to a retired actress, who introduced him to an agent who got his first acting role, at the age of 16, as a juvenile in Eden End by J.B. Priestley. He then worked in rep.

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