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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

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Sjoerd Rodenhuis

#167393

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Lars‐gunnar Kindblom

#167399

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P. J. De Biévre

#167405

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Clarence E. Davis

#167410

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Juan Carlos Balasch

#167421

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C. Wayne Moss

#167447

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Wendy Moyle

#167462

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Michael J. Droller

#167475

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Jean‐françois Pittet

#167487

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Scott D. Flamm

#167488

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Bernard Germain de Lacépède

Bernard Germain de Lacépède

1756 - 1825 (69 years)

Bernard-Germain-Étienne de La Ville-sur-Illon, comte de Lacépède or La Cépède was a French naturalist and an active freemason. He is known for his contribution to the Comte de Buffon's great work, the Histoire Naturelle.

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Gabriel von Max

Gabriel von Max

1840 - 1915 (75 years)

Gabriel Cornelius Ritter von Max was a Prague-born Austrian painter, and professor of history painting at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts. He was also a collector of anthropological artifacts. Biography He was born Gabriel Cornelius Max, the son of the sculptor Josef Max and Anna Schumann. He received his first artistic training in history painting from his father.

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Takashi Miyauchi

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Warren Dewayne Heston

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Noreen M. Clark

#137076

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1943 - 2013 (70 years)

Noreen M. Clark was the Myron E. Wegman Distinguished University Professor, Director of the Center for Managing Chronic Disease, Professor of Health Behavior & Health Education, and Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Michigan. From 1995-2005 she served as Dean of Public Health and Marshall H. Becker Professor of Public Health at the University of Michigan. She was interested in systems, policies and programs that promote health, prevent illness, and enable individuals to manage disease.

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Johan Arild Aarli

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David Armstrong

#167574

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Krister Segerberg

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Waisang W.s. Poon

#167592

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Carlos Castrodeza

#114368

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1945 - 2012 (67 years)

Carlos Castrodeza Ruíz de la Cuesta was a Spanish biologist and philosopher. He taught philosophy of science at Madrid's Complutense University. Biography Work Authority on Darwin and Darwinism, Castrodeza’s thought focuses on bioethical problems from an ethological viewpoint and on scientific problems and ideologies from a naturalistic perspective. Castrodeza's Darwinian trilogy Biology's Deep Ways Razón biológica , Nihilismo y supervivencia y La darwinización del mundo intends to show how little control we have over our future despite our profound preoccupation for things past. For Cast...

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Howard D. Homesley

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Gary John Schiller

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Robert Sears

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1969 - Present (57 years)

Robert William Sears, known as Dr. Bob, is an American pediatrician from Capistrano Beach, California, noted for his unorthodox and dangerous views on childhood vaccination. While Sears acknowledges the efficacy of vaccines—for instance, he supports the claim that Chicken pox, measles, whooping cough, polio, diphtheria have all disappeared because of vaccines—he has proposed alternative vaccination schedules that depart from accepted medical recommendations. His proposals have enjoyed celebrity endorsement but are not supported by medical evidence and have contributed to dangerous under-vaccination in the national child population.

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Joachim Prof. Dr. Bonn De Bargon

#167641

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Julia K. Terzis

#167643

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Rainer W. G. Gruessner

#167650

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Sergio Piomelli

#167652

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Tetsuo Shiohara

#167655

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Donato Nitti

#167659

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Janet Abbate

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1962 - Present (64 years)

Janet Abbate is an associate professor of science, technology, and society at Virginia Tech. Her research focuses on the history of computer science and the Internet, particularly on the participation of women in the field.

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Ronald Levy

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1941 - Present (85 years)

Ronald Levy is an American medical doctor and scientist at Stanford University. He specializes in lymphoma, including non-Hodgkin lymphoma, Burkitt's lymphoma and Hodgkin's disease. His research investigates how the immune system can be harnessed to fight lymphoma. His work has led to the concept that antibodies can be used as personalized anticancer drugs and to the development of an antibody-based drug, Rituxan, that is widely used to treat lymphoma.

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Miftahetdin Akmulla

Miftahetdin Akmulla

1831 - 1895 (64 years)

Miftakhetdin Kamaletdinovich Kamaletdinov, known as Akmulla was a Bashkir, Kazakh and Tatar educator, poet and philosopher. Biography Born 14 December 1831 in the village of Tuhanbay, Kulil-Minsk volost Belebeyevsk Uyezd, Orenburg Governorate .

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Raimo O. Sulkava

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Peter Henry St. George-hyslop

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Robert R. Sciacca

#167696

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Sergei Pitirimovitch Sorokin

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Menachem Miodovnik

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Barry J. Gurland,

#167759

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Emilio Bajetta

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Paolo Costa

1771 - 1836 (65 years)

Paolo Costa was an Italian poet, writer and philosopher. The son of Domenico Costa and Lucrezia Ricciarelli, he began his studies in 1780 in Ravenna under modest teachers. He then moved to Padua and studied there under Melchiorre Cesarotti and Simone Stratico. His studies were interrupted by the French invasion and occupation in 1797, during which he held government roles in both Ravenna and Bologna.

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Katrina Armstrong

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Katrina Alison Armstrong is an American internist. She is the chief executive officer of the Columbia University Irving Medical Center and Dean of the Faculties of Health Sciences and the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. Armstrong is the first woman to lead Columbia's medical school and medical center. She was the first woman to hold the position of Physician-in-Chief at Massachusetts General Hospital and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2013 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020.

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Howard A. Ozmon

Howard A. Ozmon

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1929 - 2014 (85 years)

Howard Augustine Ozmon Jr. was an American philosopher who was a professor emeritus of Virginia Commonwealth University. Ozmon lived in Portsmouth, Virginia, and received an A.A. degree from St. Bernard College in Alabama, a B.A. from the University of Virginia Alumni 1954 in Philosophy, a Master of Arts in International and Comparative Education, and an Ed.D. in Philosophy of Education from Teachers College, Columbia University. He taught in the public schools of New York and New Jersey, and at several colleges and universities, including the University of Virginia and Virginia Commonwealth University.

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William DeVries

William DeVries

#9566

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1943 - Present (83 years)

William Castle DeVries is an American cardiothoracic surgeon, mainly known for the first transplant of a TAH using the Jarvik-7 model. Early years and Medical School William DeVries was born December 19, 1943, in Brooklyn Navy Yard. His father, Henry DeVries, was a Dutch immigrant who died in combat on the destroyer in 1944 during the Battle of Hollandia, where he had enrolled as a naval surgeon. When his father died William was only six months old. He was raised by his grandmother and his mother who was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints until he was five. After hi...

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Henry Draper

1837 - 1882 (45 years)

Henry Draper was an American doctor and amateur astronomer. He is best known today as a pioneer of astrophotography. Life and work Henry Draper's father, John William Draper, was an accomplished doctor, chemist, botanist, and professor at New York University; he was also the first to photograph the moon through a telescope . Draper's mother was Antonia Caetana de Paiva Pereira Gardner, daughter of the personal physician to the Emperor of Brazil. His niece, Antonia Maury was also an astronomer.

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Verity Harte

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1968 - Present (58 years)

Verity Harte is a British philosopher and George A. Saden Professor of Philosophy and Classics at Yale University. Books Plato on Parts and Wholes: the Metaphysics of Structure, Oxford: Clarendon 2002Aristotle and the Stoics Reading Plato, co-edited by Harte, M.M. McCabe, R.W. Sharples, A. Sheppard, London: Institute of Classical Studies 2011Politeia in Greek and Roman Philosophy, co-edited by Harte and Melissa Lane, Cambridge: CUP 2013Rereading Ancient Philosophy: Old Chestnuts and Sacred Cows, co-edited by Harte and Raphael Woolf, Cambridge University Press 2018

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Egbert Schuurman

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1937 - Present (89 years)

Egbert Schuurman is a Dutch engineer, philosopher, politician for the Christian Union, and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy in the Netherlands. Biography Born in Borger, Schuurman attended the Protestant primary school in Drenthe Nieuwbuinen, and the HBS-b in Stadskanaal, where he received his diploma on 18 June 1955. After studying civil engineering at the HTS in Groningen, Schuurman continued his studies at Delft University of Technology. After his graduation in 1964 Schuurman began to study philosophy at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, a study which he completed in 1968. In 1972 Schu...

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Kate Bowler

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Kate Bowler is a Canadian academic and writer from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Bowler is currently an associate professor of the history of Christianity in North America at Duke Divinity School. Career Bowler is the author of Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel . She then wrote Everything Happens for a Reason , which was a New York Times hardcover nonfiction best seller.

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Takanori Fukushima

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1942 - Present (84 years)

is a Japanese neurosurgeon, a prominent world authority in the treatment of brain tumors. He graduated from Tokyo University and is currently performing surgeries at WakeMed Raleigh and Duke University Hospital, North Carolina, USA.

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Costanzo Varolio

Costanzo Varolio

1543 - 1575 (32 years)

Costanzo Varolio, Latinized as Constantius Varolius , was an Italian anatomist and a papal physician to Gregory XIII. Varolio was born in Bologna. He was a pupil of the anatomist Giulio Cesare Aranzio, himself a pupil of Vesalius. He received his doctorate in medicine in 1567. In 1569 the Senate of the University of Bologna created an extraordinary chair in surgery for him with responsibility to teach anatomy as well and where a statue of him is housed at the Anatomical Theatre of the Archiginnasio. Later he is believed to have taught at the Sapienza University of Rome although he is not listed on the roll there.

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Metrodorus of Chios

500 BC - 400 BC (100 years)

Metrodorus of Chios was a Greek philosopher, belonging to the school of Democritus, and an important forerunner of Epicurus. Metrodorus was a pupil of Nessus of Chios, or, as some accounts prefer, of Democritus himself. He is said to have taught Diogenes of Smyrna, who, in turn, taught Anaxarchus.

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