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#13601

Henry Brewster Stanton

Henry Brewster Stanton

1805 - 1887 (82 years)

Henry Brewster Stanton was an American abolitionist, social reformer, attorney, journalist and politician. His writing was published in the New York Tribune, the New York Sun, and William Lloyd Garrison's Anti-Slavery Standard and The Liberator. He was elected to the New York State Senate in 1850 and 1851. His wife, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, was a world renowned leading figure of the early women's rights movement.

#13602

Cratippus of Pergamon

100 BC - 100 BC (0 years)

Cratippus of Pergamon , was a leading Peripatetic philosopher of the 1st century BC who taught at Mytilene and Athens. The only aspects of his teachings which are known to us are what Cicero records concerning divination.

#13603

Stephen W. Hwang

#68955

Overall Influence

Stephen Wesley Hwang is an American-born Canadian internal-medicine physician and population health epidemiologist. He is a professor in the Department of Medicine and director of the Division of General Internal Medicine at the University of Toronto. Hwang is also the St. Michael's Hospital's inaugural chair in Homelessness, Housing, and Health and director of the MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions.

#13604

Anne Harrington

#38360

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Anne Harrington is an American science historian and the Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University. Her primary research area is the history of psychiatry, neuroscience, and cognitive science.

#13605

Elselijn Kingma

#113555

Overall Influence

1981 - Present (45 years)

Elisabeth Marjolijn Kingma is a Dutch philosopher. She is a professor at King's College London where she holds the Peter Sowerby Chair in Philosophy and Medicine. Career She received her undergraduate degrees in Medicine and Psychology from Leiden University, and her MPhil and PhD in History & Philosophy of Science from the University of Cambridge. She did post-doctoral research in the Department for Clinical Bioethics, National Institutes of Health .

#13606

Ruth HaCohen

#105548

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Professor Ruth HaCohen is an Israeli musicologist and a cultural historian. She holds the Artur Rubinstein Chair of Musicology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Ruth HaCohen is the recipient of the 2022 Rothschild Prize in the Humanities. In 2017, she was elected as Corresponding member by the American Musicological Society "for outstanding contributions to the advancement of scholarship in music."

#13607

Edme-Louis Daubenton

1730 - 1785 (55 years)

Edme-Louis Daubenton was a French naturalist. Daubenton was the cousin of another French naturalist, Louis Jean-Marie Daubenton. Georges-Louis Leclerc, the Comte de Buffon engaged Edme-Louis Daubenton to supervise the coloured illustrations for the monumental Histoire Naturelle . The Planches enluminée started to appear in 1765 and finally counted 1,008 plates, all engraved by François-Nicolas Martinet , and all painted by hand. The Parisian publisher Panckoucke published a version without text between 1765 and 1783. More than 80 artists took part in the realization of the original paintings....

#13608

Alan Moncrieff

1901 - 1971 (70 years)

Sir Alan Aird Moncrieff, was a British paediatrician and professor emeritus at University of London. He was most notable for developing the first premature-baby unit in 1947. It was Moncrief who recognised and developed the concept of daily parental visits to the ward, which he developed while at Great Ormond Street, well before the need for this became recognised, and with his ward sister, published an article on Hospital Visiting for Children in 1949.

#13609

Miroslav Djordjevic

Miroslav Djordjevic

#52537

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Miroslav L Djordjevic is a Serbian surgeon specializing in sex reassignment surgery, and an assistant professor of urology at the School of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Serbia. Early life and education Djordjevic completed his medical studies, including his urology residency, at the University of Belgrade's School of Medicine, in Serbia, in 1991. His PhD thesis, completed in 2003, was titled "A New Approach for Surgical Treatment of Peyronie's Disease".

#13610

Sanjay Asthana

#32544

Overall Influence

Sanjay Asthana is Chief of the Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, and holds the Duncan G. and Lottie H. Ballantine Endowed Chair in Geriatrics. Since 2009, Asthana has also served as Director of the Wisconsin Alzheimer's Disease Research Center.

#13611

Hans-Helmuth Knütter

#30921

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (92 years)

Hans-Helmuth Knütter is a German political scientist and politician . He habilitated with the work “Die Juden und die deutsche Linke in der Weimarer Republik 1918-1933”. Knütter was one of the many doctoral students of Karl Dietrich Bracher. From 1972 on, Knütter worked as professor at the University of Bonn und until 1996 managed the Seminar of Political Science there. Knütter was given the emeritus status in 1997. From 1985 to 1989, Knütter was a member of the Advisory Council of the Federal Agency for Civic Education . From 1989 to 1994, he acted as a rapporteur for the Interior Ministry o...

#13612

Jayanta Debnath

#122131

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Jayanta Debnath is an American physician who specializes in pathology. His research focuses on autophagy as it relates to cancer. He is the chair of the University of California, San Francisco department of pathology and a co-editor of the Annual Review of Pathology: Mechanisms of Disease.

#13613

Giuseppe Ferrari

Giuseppe Ferrari

1811 - 1876 (65 years)

Giuseppe Ferrari was an Italian philosopher, historian and politician. Biography He was born at Milan, studied law at Pavia and graduated in 1831. A follower of Romagnosi and Giovan Battista Vico, his first works were an article in the Biblioteca Italiana entitled "Mente di Gian Domenico Romagnosi" , and a complete edition of the works of Vico, prefaced by an appreciation .

#13614

Jane Davies

#143764

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Jane C. Davies is a British physician who is Professor of Paediatric Respirology at Imperial College School of Medicine. She is an Honorary Consultant at the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust.

#13615

Humayun Chaudhry

Humayun Chaudhry

#22312

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Humayun Javaid Chaudhry, D.O., MACP, FRCP , FRCP is an American physician and medical educator who is president and chief executive officer of the Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States, a national non-profit organization founded in 1912 that represents the 70 state medical boards of the United States and its territories and which co-sponsors the United States Medical Licensing Examination . From 2007 to 2009, he served as Commissioner of Health Services for Suffolk County, New York, the state's most populous county outside New York City. In 2016, he was listed by Modern He...

#13616

Roberto Agramonte

#92195

Overall Influence

1904 - 1995 (91 years)

Roberto Daniel Agramonte y Pichardo was a philosopher and Cuban politician. Education and Career He graduated from the University of Havana School of Law. Dr. Agramonte was also the Dean of School of Philosophy and Letters at the University of Havana. From 1947 to 1948, he was the Ambassador of Cuba to Mexico. In 1948, he returned to Cuba to run for Vice-President of Cuba with Dr. Eduardo Chibás , but the election was won by Carlos Prio Socarras.

#13617

André Briend

#46114

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

André Briend is a French pediatric nutritionist best known for his 1996 co-formulation of Plumpy'nut, a Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food , with Dr. Mark Manary. Starting in 1994, Briend, who at the time worked at Institut de recherche pour le développement, worked with Michel Lescanne to develop variants of renutrition products in solid form. At the time, the WHO-recommended diet for the treatment of severe malnutrition required clean water, a commodity only available in hospitals in most developing countries. These trial products were ultimately discarded for not meeting the requirements of good shelf-life, pleasant taste, or logistic simplicity.

#13618

Henry Scholberg

#40892

Overall Influence

1921 - 2012 (91 years)

Henry Cedric Scholberg was director and librarian of the Ames Library of South Asia at the University of Minnesota. His works include bibliographies on Indian encyclopedias, on manuals and gazetteers of India, and on the Portuguese in India. He also authored other scholarly works, plays and novels, as well as his own memoirs.

#13619

Suzanne Ildstad

#113927

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Suzanne Tollerud Ildstad is an American physician and medical researcher. She is the Chief Scientific Officer and founding CEO of Talaris Therapeutics . She also serves the Board of Directors. She is also the Jewish Hospital Distinguished Professor of Transplantation Research, Director of the Institute for Cellular Therapeutics, Professor in the Department of Surgery with associate appointments in the Departments of Physiology & Biophysics and Microbiology & Immunology at the University of Louisville School of Medicine.

#13620

George E. Burch

George E. Burch

1910 - 1986 (76 years)

George Edward Burch, M.D. was a shaper of modern cardiology during the middle part of the twentieth century, whose accomplishments included elucidating the fundamental physiological basis of important cardiovascular diseases, in addition to contributions to the teaching of medicine and cardiology. He was chairman of the Department of Medicine at Tulane University for many years. He is best known for his research in electrocardiography and vectorcardiography, for contributions to understanding viral-based cardiovascular diseases, for 12 books in the field of medicine and cardiology, and for more than 850 publications in the scholarly literature.

#13621

Wiep van Bunge

#160298

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Louis van Bunge is a Dutch historian of philosophy. He has published mainly on the early Enlightenment in the Netherlands, on Spinoza and on his influence on other thinkers. Life Van Bunge was born at The Hague on 22 May 1960. He graduated B.A. and M.A. in philosophy at Utrecht University. He obtained his doctorate at Erasmus University in Rotterdam with a dissertation on Johannes Bredenburg.

#13622

Bruce Bugbee

#57310

Overall Influence

Bruce Bugbee is an American scientist. His work includes research into space farming with NASA and at Utah State University, where he is the Director of the Crop Physiology Laboratory. Academic career Bugbee is the Director of the Crop Physiology Laboratory at Utah State University in their Plants, Soils & Climate Department. He is also the President of Apogee Instruments. He was named a Fellow of the American Society of Agronomy in 2018. Bugbee has also provided TEDx Talks on his work, and has been awarded the Utah Governor’s Medal for Science and Technology.

#13623

Ailsa A. Welch

#68024

Overall Influence

Ailsa A. Welch is a British medical researcher who is professor of nutritional epidemiology at Norwich Medical School in the UK. Her research focuses on the impact of human nutrition on health, disease and aging. She is listed as a notable scientist in Thomson Reuters' Highly Cited Researchers 2014, ranking her among the top 1% most cited scientists.

#13624

Harold Jeghers

1904 - 1990 (86 years)

Harold Joseph Jeghers was an American internist, best known for his description of Peutz–Jeghers syndrome, a disorder of gastrointestinal polyps and hyperpigmentation of the mouth and lips. Life and scientific career Jeghers was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, in 1904. In 1928, he graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a Bachelor of Science in Biology. He graduated from medical school at Western Reserve University in 1932. He worked as a consultant at Boston City Hospital before being appointed chairman of the Medicine Department at Georgetown University in 1946. In 1956, he become a professor at Seton Hall College.

#13625

William Townsend Porter

1862 - 1949 (87 years)

William Townsend Porter was an American physician, physiologist, and medical educator who spent most of his career at Harvard Medical School. He founded the Harvard Apparatus company, which produced laboratory equipment for teaching and research in physiology, and was the founding editor of the American Journal of Physiology.

#13626

Denis Collins

#47940

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Denis Collins was an American business ethicist and tenured professor of business at Edgewood College in Madison, Wisconsin. Biography Denis Collins was born in the Bronx and raised in Carlstadt, New Jersey. He received a B.S. in business administration from Montclair State University in 1977, an M.A. in philosophy from Bowling Green State University in 1987, and a PhD in business environment and public policy from the University of Pittsburgh in 1990. He specialized in business ethics, teaching it at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the University of Bridgeport, and Edgewood College.

#13627

Robert Wedgeworth

Robert Wedgeworth

#38203

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (89 years)

Robert Wedgeworth is an American librarian who was the founding President of ProLiteracy Worldwide, an adult literacy organization. He is also a former executive director of the American Library Association, served as president of IFLA, served as Dean of the School of Library Service at Columbia University, and was university librarian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has also authored and edited several major reference works, and has won many awards over the course of his career. In 2021 the American Library Association awarded him Honorary Membership, its highest award.

#13628

Max Aebi

#117094

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Max Aebi is a Swiss-Canadian spine surgeon. Career Aebi is founder and former Chief of the University of Bern Spine Unit, the first academic spine unit in Switzerland. He is Chair of Orthopedic Surgery at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, and Orthopedic Surgeon-in-Chief of the McGill University Health Center.

#13629

Hermann Friedmann

1873 - 1957 (84 years)

Adolph Hermann Friedmann was a German philosopher and jurist, Finnish citizen from 1906. In Finland Friedmann became known to the general public as a lawyer. His most famous case was a murder committed in 1927 in Turku. Friedmann defended the head of the University Library of Åbo Akademi and his wife in a murder trial, which was extensively reported in the newspapers around Europe.

#13630

Kyusaku Ogino

1882 - 1975 (93 years)

was a Japanese medical doctor specializing in obstetrics and gynecology. His natural father's family name was Nakamura, but Kyusaku was adopted by the Ogino family in 1901. Ogino studied infertility and developed a method to estimate the fertile period of the menstrual cycle based on the length of a woman's past cycles. This knowledge could be used by couples seeking pregnancy to time intercourse so as to maximize the chances of conception.

#13631

Jeanne Marrazzo

#105962

Overall Influence

Jeanne M. Marrazzo is an American physician-scientist and infectious diseases specialist. She is the director of the University of Alabama School of Medicine Division of Infectious Diseases and focuses on prevention of HIV infection using biomedical interventions. Marrazzo is also a fellow of the American College of Physicians and Infectious Disease Society of America. On August 2, 2023 Lawrence A. Tabak, acting director for the National Institutes of Health, named Jeanne M. Marrazzo as director of NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

#13632

Ulrich Sigwart

#36863

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Ulrich Sigwart is a German retired cardiologist known for his pioneering role in the conception and clinical use of stents to keep blood vessels open, and introducing a non-surgical intervention, alcohol septal ablation for the treatment of hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy.

#13633

Nicholas Zammit

Nicholas Zammit

1815 - 1899 (84 years)

Nicholas Zammit was a Maltese medical doctor, an architect, an artistic designer, and a major philosopher. His area of specialisation in philosophy was chiefly ethics. Throughout his philosophical career he did not adhere to just one intellectual position. Roughly two-thirds into his life, Zammit passed from a liberal way of thinking to a conservative one. This does not mean that there are no carry-overs, developments, or continuations between the two phases, or that Zammit himself acknowledged such a division. Notwithstanding, the development suggests that an analysis of Zammit's works will ...

#13634

Willi Kahl

1893 - 1962 (69 years)

Theodor Friedrich Wilhelm Willi Kahl was a German musicologist. Life Born in Saverne The focal points of his academic work are the history of piano music, Schubert research, as well as the music history of the Rhineland and the music bibliography.

#13635

Vardit Ravitsky

#110644

Overall Influence

Vardit Ravitsky is a bioethicist, researcher, and author. She is president and CEO of The Hastings Center, a full professor at the University of Montreal, and a senior lecturer on Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She is immediate-past president and current vice-president of the International Association of Bioethics, and the director of Ethics and Health at the Center for Research on Ethics. She is a Fellow of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, where she chaired the COVID-19 Impact Committee. She is also Fellow of The Hastings Center and of the Canadian Academy ...

#13636

Dennis O'Keeffe

#47502

Overall Influence

1939 - 2014 (75 years)

Dennis O'Keeffe was an English professor of social science at the University of Buckingham and editor of the Salisbury Review. He was Education and Welfare Fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs. In addition, he served on the advisory boards of both the Social Affairs Unit, and FOREST, the smoker's rights campaign. He died on 16 December 2014.

#13637

Denis Arnold

1926 - 1986 (60 years)

Denis Midgley Arnold was a British musicologist. Biography After being employed in the extramural department of Queen's University, Belfast, he became a Lecturer in Music at the University of Hull, and from 1969 to 1975 was Professor of Music at The University of Nottingham. From 1975 he was Heather Professor of Music at Oxford University. He served as editor of Music & Letters.

#13638

David Lalloo

#102858

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

David Griffith Lalloo is a British parasitologist, and the director of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine since January 2019, and Professor of Tropical Medicine there. Lalloo trained as a doctor in Newcastle upon Tyne.

#13639

Louise Robinson

#126217

Overall Influence

Dame Ann Louise Robinson is a British medical doctor and academic. She is Regius Professor of Ageing at Newcastle University, and director of the Newcastle University Institute for Ageing. Robinson earned an MBBS in 1985 from Newcastle University, MRCGP in 1989, DFFP in 1991, DCH in 1998 from the University of London, and Dip ME 1992 from the University of Dundee.

#13640

Ignazio Marino

#61568

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Ignazio Roberto Maria Marino is an Italian transplant surgeon who was Mayor of Rome from 2013 to 2015. As a surgeon, he trained with Thomas Starzl, who had pioneered liver transplantion in humans. In 1992–1993, as a member of Thomas Starzl's team at the University of Pittsburgh in the United States, he conducted two baboon-to-human liver transplants. He founded the ISMETT organ transplant center in Palermo, Sicily; Marino was the CEO and the Director of ISMETT from 1997 until 2002. In 2001 he performed the first organ transplant in Italy for a person with HIV. The patient lived for 18 years with full function of the transplanted organ.

#13641

Prasanta Pattanaik

#22689

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Prasanta Kumar Pattanaik , is an Indian-American emeritus professor at the Department of Economics at the University of California. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society. Along with Amartya Sen and Kenneth Arrow, Pattanaik is an advisory editor for the journal Social Choice and Welfare.

#13642

Marie-Eve Morin

#61079

Overall Influence

Marie-Eve Morin is a Canadian philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alberta. From 2012 to 2018 she was the editor-in-chief of Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy. Morin is known for her work on post-structuralism and post-phenomenology.

#13643

Lutz Wingert

#82154

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Lutz Wingert is a German philosopher who is sometimes identified as one of the "Third Generation" of the Frankfurt School of philosophy. He is a professor of philosophy focusing on practical philosophy at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich and a member of the Zentrum Geschichte des Wissens . He is a former student of, and a co-author with, Jürgen Habermas, a founding member of the Frankfurt School. Wingert is a former chair of practical philosophy at the University of Dortmund. Along with Wilfried Hinsch, he edits the Ideen & Argumente series.

#13644

James P. Carse

#56366

Overall Influence

James P. Carse was an American academic who was Professor Emeritus of history and literature of religion at New York University. His book Finite and Infinite Games was widely influential. He was religious "in the sense that I am endlessly fascinated with the unknowability of what it means to be human, to exist at all."

#13645

Chunyu Kun

500 BC - Present (2526 years)

Chunyu Kun was a wit, Confucian philosopher, emissary, and official during the Chinese Warring States period. He was a contemporary and colleague of Mencius. In the Records of the Grand Historian, Chunyu Kun appears in Linzi, the capital of the northern state of Qi, as an adviser to the chief minister under King Wei of Qi, and as a master scholar at the Jixia Academy, the foremost institution of learning in ancient China. He is said to be "a man of Qi who lived with his wife's family. He was less than five feet tall. Thanks to his wit and his ready tongue he was sent several times as an envo...

#13646

Michele K. Evans

Michele K. Evans

#56951

Overall Influence

Michele Kim Evans is an American internist and medical oncologist. She is a senior investigator and Deputy Scientific Director at the National Institute on Aging. Education Evans graduated from Barnard College in 1977 with an A.B. degree in biology. She received a medical degree from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in 1981. Evans received postgraduate training in internal medicine at Emory University School of Medicine and fellowship training in medical oncology within the Medicine Branch of the Clinical Oncology Program at the National...

#13647

Kanaka Dasa

1509 - 1609 (100 years)

Kanaka Dasa was a Haridasa saint and philosopher of Dvaita Vedanta, popularly called Daasashreshta Kanakadasa from present-day Karnataka, India. He was a follower of Madhvacharya's Dvaita philosophy and a disciple of Vyasatirtha. He was a renowned composer of Carnatic music, poet, reformer and musician. He is known for his keertanas and ugabhoga, and his compositions in the Kannada language for Carnatic music. Like other Haridasas, he used simple Kannada and native metrical forms for his compositions.

#13648

Jim Corbett

1875 - 1955 (80 years)

Colonel Edward James Corbett was an Indian-born British hunter, tracker, naturalist, and author who hunted a number of man-eating tigers and leopards in the Indian subcontinent. He held the rank of colonel in the British Indian Army and was frequently called upon by the Government of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, now the Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, to kill man-eating tigers and leopards that were preying on people in the nearby villages of the Kumaon-Garhwal Regions.

#13649

Erich Urbach

1893 - 1946 (53 years)

Erich Urbach was an Austrian dermatologist from Vienna who, in conjunction with Camillo Wiethe, an otorhinolaryngologist, first described lipoid proteinosis. Biography As a lieutenant in the Austrian army during World War I, he was a member of a surgical group serving under professor Anton von Eiselsberg. In 1919 he obtained his medical doctorate from the University of Vienna. He worked in the internal medicine and dermatology departments at Vienna General Hospital and also at the Breslau skin clinic, where he was an assistant to Josef Jadassohn. From 1936 to 1938, he was head physician in th...

#13650

Pieter Nicolaas van Eyck

1887 - 1954 (67 years)

Pieter Nicolaas/Nicolaus van Eyck He was born Pieter Nicolaas van Eijk and changed his name to van Eyck around 1907. He worked as a foreign correspondent for the Dutch newspaper NRC in Rome and London, but also a poet, critic, essayist and philosopher from the Netherlands. Awarded the Constantijn Huygens Prize in 1947.

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