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#13601

Clemens Kühn

#177591

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Clemens Kühn is a German music theorician. Life Born in Hamburg, Kühn studied School music, Germanistic in Hamburg and Berlin as well as Music theory and composition with Diether de la Motte. In 1977 he was awarded a doctorate in musicology as a student of Carl Dahlhaus. After teaching at the Berlin University of the Arts and the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich, he was appointed to the chair of music theory at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber in Dresden in 1997.

#13602

Ahmadou Lamine Ndiaye

#24218

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (89 years)

Ahmadou Lamine Ndiaye is a former professor of Veterinary Sciences from Senegal who has held many senior administrative positions in African educational institutions and organizations. Birth and education Ahmadou Lamine Ndiaye was born on 20 May 1937 in Saint-Louis, Senegal. He attended the Lycée Faidherbe in Saint-Louis for his secondary education between 1950 and 1957. He studied at the Lycée Marcelin Berthelot de Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, France for a year, and then was admitted to the National Veterinary School of Lyon , where he studied from 1958 to 1962. In 1963 he gained diplomas from the...

#13603

Dena Grayson

#98362

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Dena Minning Grayson is an American medical doctor and researcher. In 2016, she ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination for the United States House of Representatives for Florida's 9th congressional district.

#13604

Mary E. Williamson

#67550

Overall Influence

1924 - 2012 (88 years)

Mary E. Williamson was an American aviator who served as a WASP during World War II. She was also a communications professor at the University of Nebraska Omaha. Early life, education and military service Mary E. Williamson was born on April 24, 1924, in Kansas City, Missouri, to Elmer C. Williamson and Ruth Peterman Williamson. Mary was an only child, whom her mother Ruth raised on her own. The two remained very close throughout her life.

#13605

Paul Collins

#174767

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (89 years)

Paul Collins is a British actor. He is best known for his role as John Darling in the 1953 Walt Disney Pictures animated film Peter Pan. Filmography Film Challenge to Lassie - Tenement Child Rogues of Sherwood Forest - Arthur Lorna Doone - Charleworth as a Child Peter Pan - John Darling Midnight Lace - Kevin Without A Trace - ReporterFunny About Love - Bill HatcherGuilty by Suspicion - BernardThe Marrying Man - ButlerDefenseless - Campaign WorkerFor Richer, For Poorer - StuartDave - Secretary of TreasuryExecutive Decision - NelsonMother - LawyerDead Man on Campus - Professor...

#13606

Ernest H. Sanders

#106398

Overall Influence

1918 - 2018 (100 years)

Ernest Helmut Sanders was a German-born American musicologist. Born Ernst Helmut Salomon in Hamburg to banker Paul Salomon and his wife on 4 December 1918, Sanders was educated at the Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums. He left Germany for the United States in 1938 and assumed the surname Sanders. His parents remained in Germany, where both committed suicide in September 1941. Sanders was admitted to the Juilliard School and studied under pianist Irwin Freundlich from 1947 to 1950. Sanders then attended Columbia University, where he met Paul Henry Lang, among others. After Sanders received a master's degree from Columbia, he became a lecturer there.

#13607

Virpi Hämeen-Anttila

Virpi Hämeen-Anttila

#62645

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Virpi Hämeen-Anttila is a Finnish writer, translator, and researcher. She was the recipient of the Eino Leino Prize in 2002 along with her husband Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila, for their work in translating and promoting multicultural literature. In addition to being a best-selling novelist, she is a translator and non-fiction writer. She also teaches Sanskrit and the history of Indian art at Helsinki University.

#13608

Lydia Jennings

#137184

Overall Influence

Lydia L. Jennings is a Native American soil microbiologist and environmental scientist. Her research interests are soil health, environmental remediation, indigenous science, mining policy, and environmental data ownership by tribal nations. She works with organizations initiatives that support Indigenous geoscientists and the integration of geoscience with Indigenous knowledge. Her work is featured in the 2020 documentary Run to Be Visible, produced by Patagonia.

#13609

Robert C. Brunham

#185289

Overall Influence

Robert Conrad Brunham is a Canadian infectious disease specialist. He is the former Director of the UBC Centre for Disease Control and executive director and Scientific Director of the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control.

#13610

Rebeca Quintáns

#157042

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Rebeca Quintáns López is a Spanish journalist, research writer and teacher. Biography Rebeca Quintáns graduated in Spanish Philology by the University of Santiago de Compostela. She got a doctorate in Journalism from the Complutense University of Madrid with a thesis about the speech of Juan Carlos I.

#13611

Myrna Báez

#64885

Overall Influence

1931 - 2018 (87 years)

Myrna Báez was a Puerto Rican painter and printmaker, considered one of the most important visual artists in Puerto Rico. She has been instrumental in promoting art and art education in her country. Her work has been shown and collected by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Her work has been characterized as confident and complex. She lived and worked in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

#13612

Kanzen Teruya

#100630

Overall Influence

1920 - 2004 (84 years)

Kanzen Teruya was an Okinawan physician who contributed much to the Okinawan medical world in post-World War II days. He reported a mass Cycas revoluta poisoning in people living on Miyako-jima island in 1956. He later became a professor at the University of the Ryukyus .

#13613

Tina Engels-Schwarzpaul

#189280

Overall Influence

Anna-Christina Engels-Schwarzpaul is a German-New Zealand design academic. She is currently a full professor at the Auckland University of Technology. Academic career After a 2001 PhD thesis titled 'Myth, symbol, ornament: The loss of meaning in transition' at the University of Auckland, she moved to the Auckland University of Technology, rising to full professor. Notable students include Lana Lopesi.

#13614

Vladimir Blok

#189162

Overall Influence

1932 - 1996 (64 years)

Vladimir Mikhailovich Blok was a Russian musicologist, composer and orchestrator of the works of Prokofiev, of Udmurt ethnicity.V.M. Blok is to be distinguished from the Russian theatre critic Vladimir Borisovich Blok

#13615

Jean-Henri Jaeger

#159335

Overall Influence

1944 - 2022 (78 years)

Jean-Henri Jaeger was a French surgeon and academic. He was well known for developing a surgical technique to repair the anterior cruciate ligament , using the fascia lata as a form of transplant. Biography Jaeger was born in Thionville to an engineer father who worked for the SNCF. He became devoted to working in surgery after a near-death experience from a kick to the stomach during a football match at the age of six. He studied at the University of Strasbourg I, where he met his lifelong friend Arsène Wenger.

#13616

Catherine Neill

#110638

Overall Influence

1921 - 2006 (85 years)

Catherine Annie Neill was a British pediatric cardiologist who spent the majority of her career at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center in Baltimore, where she worked alongside Helen B. Taussig. Her primary interest was congenital heart defects; she discovered one type of defect, scimitar syndrome, in 1960.

#13617

Mariam Budia

#162073

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Mariam Budia Spanish writer, researcher, and playwright. Biography Mariam Budia has a doctorate in Spanish Studies in the "Theory, History and Practice of Drama" from the University of Alcalá. She graduated in Drama at the Royal Superior Drama School, RESAD, and has diplomas of honor in Music from the La Rioja Professional Music Conservatory.

#13618

Günter Philipp

#177375

Overall Influence

1927 - 2021 (94 years)

Günter Philipp was a German pianist, musicologist, composer and amateur painter. Life Born in Sohland an der Spree, Philipp grew up in Riesa, Oppach and Bautzen. Attracted by music and figure drawing, he was instructed by Rudolf Warnecke in nature study and visual art. In post-war Germany, forced labour damaged his left hand. Nevertheless, he became a student in Leipzig in 1947, a pupil of Hugo Steurer and Wilhelm Weismann . In 1948, he was able to enrol at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig and begin studying with Heinz Eberhard Strüning. For financial reasons, he had to break off his studies in 1949 and make a living as a freelance artist in Oppach.

#13619

Tadanobu Tsunoda

#42810

Overall Influence

1926 - Present (100 years)

Tadanobu Tsunoda is a physician and a Japanese author, most known for his ideas regarding the "Japanese brain". Theory According to Tsunoda's theory, the Japanese people use their brains in a unique way, different from "western" brains. The Japanese brain, argues Tsunoda, hears or processes music using the left hemisphere, where western brains use the opposite or right hemisphere to process music. Tsunoda further argues that brains use languages as operating systems, thus the user "giving meaning to vowels." Tsunoda has had one essay, "An approach to an integrated sensorimotor system in the hu...

#13620

Katsuya Takasu

#95720

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Katsuya Takasu is a plastic surgeon based in Tokyo. He has attracted controversies regarding his stances of Holocaust and Nanking Massacre denial. Takasu is a member of Japan Medical Association, Japan Society of Aesthetic Surgery, Japanese Association of Cosmetic Surgeons, Japan Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, and is a former member of the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery. In January 2011, Takasu was also appointed to be a visiting professor of cosmetic surgery at Showa University School of Medicine.

#13621

Emily Temple-Wood

Emily Temple-Wood

#75266

Overall Influence

1994 - Present (32 years)

Emily Temple-Wood is an American physician and Wikipedia editor who goes by the name of Keilana on the site. She is known for her efforts to counter the effects and causes of gender bias on Wikipedia, particularly through the creation of articles about women in science. She was declared a joint recipient of the 2016 Wikipedian of the Year award, by Jimmy Wales, at Wikimania on June 24, 2016. Temple-Wood graduated from Loyola University Chicago and Midwestern University. She practices medicine in Chicago.

#13622

Juan C. Parodi

#37544

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Juan Carlos Parodi is an Argentinian vascular surgeon who introduced the minimally invasive endovascular aneurysm repair to the world and performed the first successful endovascular repair of an abdominal aortic aneurysm on 7 September 1990 in Buenos Aires. In 1992 he was the first in the United States to perform minimally invasive aortic aneurysm surgery together with Drs. Frank Veith, Michael L. Marin and Claudio J. Schonholz. He continues to develop new techniques, including seat belt and air bag technique for cerebral protection during carotid stenting. He is recognized as a renowned ...

#13623

Fitzhugh Mullan

Fitzhugh Mullan

#91209

Overall Influence

1942 - 2019 (77 years)

Fitzhugh Mullan was an American physician, writer, educator, and social activist. He participated in the founding of the Student Health Organization, the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship, Seed Global Health, and the Beyond Flexner Alliance. Mullan was a professor of Health Policy and Management and of Pediatrics at the George Washington University and the George Washington University Health Workforce Institute, now renamed the Fitzhugh Mullan Institute for Health Workforce Equity. He was an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine.

#13624

Shinzaburo Takeda

#80830

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (91 years)

Shinzaburo Takeda is a Japanese-Mexican painter and printmaker. He is considered one of Oaxaca's most important artists. Takeda has lived in Mexico for over fifty years and trained several generations of Mexican artists, many of them indigenous Zapotecs and Mixtecs.

#13625

Mario Roberto Dal Poz

#149003

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Mário Roberto Dal Poz is a Brazilian physician and researcher, who worked as coordinator of the "Health Workforce Information and Governance" program at the World Health Organization in Switzerland from 2002 to 2012. He holds the position of associate professor at the Social Medicine Institute of the University of the State of Rio de Janeiro. He is also currently editor-in-chief of the Human Resources for Health journal, and a member of the editorial board of the Bulletin of the World Health Organization and Revista Espaço para a Saude.

#13626

Mario Deng

#139050

Overall Influence

Mario Chih-Hsiung Karl Deng is a German-Chinese cardiologist specialized in the care of patients with advanced heart failure. Deng is a Professor of Medicine in the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles.

#13627

Jane Winters

#169966

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Jane Frances Winters FRHistS is Professor of digital humanities at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. Life and career Jane Winters was born in 1970. She trained as a medieval historian and completed her PhD at King's College London in 1999. Her doctoral thesis was entitled The Forest Eyre, 1154-1368.

#13628

Michael Blumlein

Michael Blumlein

#62357

Overall Influence

1948 - 2019 (71 years)

Michael Blumlein, M.D. was an American fiction writer and a physician. Profile Blumlein attended medical school at the University of California, San Francisco and worked as a practicing doctor and member of the faculty at the University of California, San Francisco for decades. The majority of Blumlein's fiction was in the fields of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. He was nominated for the World Fantasy Award and the Bram Stoker Award. His short fiction was published in venues incuding Interzone and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and republished in anthologies and collections.

#13629

Carlos Alberto de Barros Franco

#115209

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Carlos Alberto de Barros Franco , is a Brazilian physician and professor, specializing in Pneumology. He graduated in 1971. Early life Barros Franco was born in Rio de Janeiro. His interest for medicine possibly arose from his contact with his uncle, Admiral Barros Barreto, a noted radiologist. In 1966 he defined his vocation when he was approved for graduation in medicine from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro .

#13630

Paolo G. Casali

#192418

Overall Influence

Paolo Giovanni Casali is an Italian oncologist who served as chair of the European Society for Medical Oncology public policy committee, and is head of the Adult Mesenchymal Tumour Medical Oncology Unit at Istituto Nazionale Tumori in Milan.

#13631

Jesús Prieto

#184599

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Jesus M. Prieto is a Spanish medical doctor and scientist who is at present Emeritus Professor of Medicine at the University of Navarra. Biography He studied at the University of Valladolid where he obtained the degree in Medicine in 1967 and the PhD degree in 1969. He specialized in Internal Medicine and Gasteoenterology at the University Hospital of Valladolid and in Hepatology at the Royal Free Hospital of London where he was Research Fellow in the Department of Professor Sheila Sherlock. In 1976 he was appointed Associated Professor of Medicine of the University of Oviedo and in 1977 he ...

#13632

Franz Beyer

#170133

Overall Influence

1922 - 2018 (96 years)

Franz Beyer was a German musicologist, who is best known for his revising and restoration of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's music, in particular his unfinished Requiem, KV 626, which he restored in the early 1970s.

#13633

Seung Chan Kim

#93849

Overall Influence

1991 - Present (35 years)

Seung Chan Kim KTM is a South Korean medical scientist and inventor. His main area of research is biomagnetism [nonsensical translation]. He received the 2009 Talent Medal of Korea along with Yuna Kim. Kim serves as World Talent Exchange and Sharing Organization's Chairperson.

#13634

Jerzy Zathey

#163211

Overall Influence

1911 - 1999 (88 years)

Jerzy Krzysztof Stanisław Zathey was a Polish historian of Medieval and Renaissance culture, librarian, manuscripts expert. He was a co-originator of the scientific method of elaborating medieval manuscripts. Publisher of numerous source documents .

#13635

Howard Y. Chang

#59568

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Howard Yuan-Hao Chang is a Taiwan-born American physician-scientist. He is the Virginia and D. K. Ludwig Professor of Cancer Genomics and of Genetics at Stanford University School of Medicine and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.

#13636

Sean Kenniff

#73681

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

#13637

César Carballo

#61344

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

César Carballo Cardona is a Spanish physician and emergency medicine doctor. He is an emergency service physician at the Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal and vice president of the Sociedad Española de Medicina de Urgencias y Emergencias of Madrid. He is a prolific television guest since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain, having been called by the Huffington Post one of the most recognizable medical experts of the Spanish crisis.

#13638

Elizabeth Bartlet

#68117

Overall Influence

1948 - 2005 (57 years)

Mary Elizabeth Caroline Bartlet was a Canadian-born musicologist known for her scholarship on French music, and particularly opera, in the 18th and 19th centuries. She also produced pioneering critical editionss of the scores for Rossini's Guillaume Tell and Rameau's Platée. At the time of her death, she was a professor of music at Duke University and a director of the American Musicological Society.

#13639

Ana Hatherly

#102731

Overall Influence

1929 - 2015 (86 years)

Ana Hatherly was a Portuguese academic, poet, visual artist, essayist, filmmaker, painter, and writer. She was considered one of the pioneers of the experimental poetry and experimental literature movement in Portugal.

#13640

Martin Scherer

#93362

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Martin Scherer is a German university professor and specialist for general practice and primary care. He is director of the Department of General practice and Primary care and head of the Division of Primary Medical Care at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf. Since 2015 he is vice president of the German College of General Practitioners and Family Physicians and since 2006 speaker of the Clinical Guidelines Committee.

#13641

Gail Tremblay

#77939

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Gail Tremblay was an American writer and artist from Washington State. She is known for weaving baskets from film footage that depicts Native American people, such as Western movies and anthropological documentaries. She received a Washington State Governor's Arts and Heritage Award in 2001.

#13642

Hierius

#192432

Overall Influence

Hierius was a Neoplatonist philosopher, a son of Plutarch of Athens, and brother of Asclepigenia, who lived in the early 5th century. Plutarch instructed both Hierius and Asclepigenia in the Neoplatonist philosophies of his school, and after his death they continued his teachings together with their colleague, Syrianus.

#13643

Allan Ronald

#106437

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

Allan R. Ronald is a Canadian doctor and microbiologist. He has been instrumental in the investigation into sexually transmitted infections in Africa, particularly in the fields of HIV/AIDS. Ronald is the recipient of multiple awards and honours.

#13644

Maite Carranza

#153206

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Maite Carranza Gil-Dolz del Castellar is a Spanish writer and educator, mainly writing in Catalan. She is a recipient of the Premio Crítica Serra d'Or, TP de Oro award, Premio Ondas award, and the Spanish National Prize for Children's and Juvenile Literature.

#13645

Øyvind S. Bruland

#116238

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Øyvind Sverre Bruland is a professor of Clinical Oncology and faculty of Medicine at the University of Oslo. Bruland holds a B.Sc., M.D and Ph.D. from the University of Oslo, Norway. His research includes: primary bone and soft tissue cancers and skeletal metastases from prostate cancer and breast cancer; targeted radionuclide therapy, for instance the clinical development of Alpharadin, based on Radium-223; the tumor biology and prognostic impact of micro-metastases in bone-marrow aspirates on patients with primary bone cancer ; external beam radiotherapy; and the radiotherapy of skeletal m...

#13646

Ludvig Sollid

#182017

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Ludvig M. Sollid is a Norwegian physician-scientist whose laboratory has made discoveries in the pathogenesis of HLA associated human disorders, most notably celiac disease. He is currently a Professor of Medicine at the University of Oslo and a Senior Consultant at Oslo University Hospital.

#13647

Catius

#188912

Overall Influence

Catius was an Epicurean philosopher, identified ethnically as an Insubrian Celt from Gallia Transpadana. Epicurean works by Amafinius, Rabirius, and Catius were the earliest philosophical treatises written in Latin. Catius composed a treatise in four books on the physical world and on the highest good . Cicero credits him, along with the lesser prose stylist Amafinius, with writing accessible texts that popularized Epicurean philosophy among the plebs, or common people.

#13648

Patro the Epicurean

#192435

Overall Influence

Patro was an Epicurean philosopher. He lived for some time in Rome, where he became acquainted, among others, with Cicero, and with the family of Gaius Memmius. At this point, or subsequently, he also gained the friendship of Atticus. From Rome he either removed or returned to Athens, and there succeeded Phaedrus as head of the Epicurean school, c. 70 BC. Memmius had, while in Athens, procured permission from the Areopagus court to pull down an old wall belonging to the property left by Epicurus for the use of his school. This was regarded by Patro as a sort of desecration, and he accordingly...

#13649

Marcus Vigellius

#188765

Overall Influence

Marcus Vigellius was a Stoic philosopher. He was a friend and pupil of Panaetius, whom he also lived with. He is noted by Cicero in De Oratore to have also been a friend of Lucius Licinius Crassus, the greatest Roman orator prior to Cicero. All other information has been lost.

#13650

Theagenes of Patras

#174323

Overall Influence

Theagenes of Patras, was a Cynic philosopher and close friend of Peregrinus Proteus. He is known principally as a character who appears in Lucian's The Death of Peregrinus , where he is introduced as praising Peregrinus' desire to kill himself by self-immolation: Proteus," he cried, "Proteus vain-glorious? Who dares name the word? Earth! Sun! Seas! Rivers! God of our fathers, Heracles! Was it for this that he suffered bondage in Syria? that he forgave his country a debt of a million odd? that he was cast out of Rome, — he whose brilliance exceeds the Sun, fit rival of the Lord of Olympus? 'Ti...

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