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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#13801

Johannes Klencke

1618 - 1672 (54 years)

Johannes Klencke, van Klenck or Klenckius was a Dutch teacher in philosophy at the Athenaeum Illustre in Amsterdam. Life Johannes Klenck was the eldest son of a trader in Russian caviar and studied theology in Leiden. On 24 May 1644 he accepted a post on issues concerning morality. There he introduced debating with the students. In 1648 he was appointed professor of philosophy at the illustrious school of Amsterdam. He taught physics, metaphysics, logic, ethics and politics.

#13802

Georg Schünemann

1884 - 1945 (61 years)

Georg Schünemann was a German musicologist. Life Born in Berlin, Schünemann, the son of a rector, was awarded a doctorate after studying music in 1907 with his dissertation on the history of conducting. After his habilitation and in 1919 he became professor, deputy director and 1932 director of the Berlin Musikhochschule in 1920. As a collaborator of Leo Kestenberg he was concerned with the reorganization of schools and private music education.

#13803

Douglas Black

#69983

Overall Influence

1913 - 2002 (89 years)

Sir Douglas Andrew Kilgour Black was a Scottish physician and medical scientist who played a key role in the development of the National Health Service. He conducted research in the field of public health and was famous as the author of the Black Report. He was also known for the Black Formula, a translation of the Pignet formula to British measurements.

#13804

Gregory Fernando Pappas

#147960

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Gregory Fernando Pappas is a professor of philosophy at Texas A&M University. He is currently a National Humanities Center Fellow And was senior fellow at Maria Sibylla Merian International Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America. Pappas works within the American Pragmatist and Latin American traditions in ethics and social-political philosophy. He is the author of numerous articles on the philosophy of William James, John Dewey, and Luis Villoro.

#13805

Charles West

1816 - 1898 (82 years)

Charles West was a British physician, specialized in pediatrics and obstetrics, especially known as the founder of the first children's hospital in Great Britain, the Hospital for Sick Children in Great Ormond Street, London.

#13806

Susanna Paasonen

#141292

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (51 years)

Susanna Paasonen is a Finnish feminist scholar. She is a Professor of Media Studies at the University of Turku, and was a visiting scholar at MIT in 2016. She gained her PhD from the University of Turku in 2002; her dissertation was on gender and the popularization of the internet, which was later published through Peter Lang. After holding positions at the universities of Tampere, Jyväskylä and Helsinki, Paasonen was appointed Professor of Media Studies at the University of Turku on 1 August 2011, and publishes on internet research, media theory, sexuality, pornography and affect.

#13807

M. Nasroen

1907 - 1968 (61 years)

#13808

Andreas Rüdiger

Andreas Rüdiger

1673 - 1731 (58 years)

Johannes Andreas Rüdiger was a German philosopher and physicist. Main works 1707 Philosophia synthetica1709, 1722 De sensu veri et falsi1711, 1717, 1718 Institutiones eruditionis 1716 Physica divina1717 Obiectiones contra Physicam divinam... cum notis Auctoris Physicae divinae1723, 1729 Philosophia pragmatica

#13809

Rolf Niedergerke

#23813

Overall Influence

1921 - 2011 (90 years)

Rolf Nidergerke was a German physiologist and physician, and one of the discoverers of the sliding filament theory of muscle contraction. He and Andrew Huxley, complimenting the independent works of Hugh Huxley and Jean Hanson, revealed that muscle contraction is due to shortening of the muscle fibres. He studied medicine throughout the Second World War, and obtained his MD degree as the war ended in 1945. After a brief practise in his hometown, he chose a research career. He became associated with Huxley, whom he joined at Cambridge University. Together they published a landmark paper in Nat...

#13810

Chia‐hung Kao

#169450

Overall Influence

#13811

Reidar Lie

#162953

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Reidar Krummradt Lie is a Norwegian philosopher and professor of philosophy at the University of Bergen. He is also adjunct professor at the Institute of Basic Medical Sciences in Beijing, China, and adjunct researcher at the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda Maryland, US. He was previously adjunct professor at the Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand, and director of the Center for Medical Ethics at the University of Oslo in Norway. Lie is known for his research on bioethics and research ethics.

#13812

Kathryn C. Thornton

Kathryn C. Thornton

#10549

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Kathryn Ryan Cordell Thornton is an American scientist and a former NASA astronaut with over 975 hours in space, including 21 hours of extravehicular activity. She was the associate dean for graduate programs at the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science, currently a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering.

#13813

Diederik Gommers

#55534

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Diederik Gommers is a Dutch Intensive Care physician. He works at the Erasmus MC in Rotterdam and is chairman of the Dutch Union for Intensive Care. COVID-19 pandemic During the COVID-19 pandemic in the Netherlands, Gommers has been part of the Outbreak Management Team that instructs the government of Mark Rutte on measures required to reduce the spread of the disease Covid-19. He is also responsible for informing the Tweede Kamer on the current state of Intensive Care units in the Netherlands during the crisis.

#13814

Sue Goldie

#42440

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Sue J. Goldie is the Roger Irving Lee Professor of Public Health, the Director of the Center for Health Decision Science , Director of the Global Health Education and Learning Incubator at Harvard University, and founding Faculty Director of the Harvard Global Health Institute . Goldie has a secondary appointment as Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine . Her professional agenda includes improving women's health in all parts of the world, using evidence-based policy to reduce global health inequities, building bridges between disciplines to tackle critical public health challenges...

#13815

Jacob Nicolai Møller

1777 - 1862 (85 years)

Jacob Nicolai Møller, also known as Jacques-Nicolas Moeller was a Norwegian scientist and philosopher of the Romantic period. Life Møller was born in Porsgrund on 6 February 1777, the son of a doctor. After studying at Copenhagen University and gaining a reputation for brilliance, he passed the Danish civil service exam and was awarded a travel bursary to pursue further studies abroad in geology and mineralogy. For two years he and his friend Henrik Steffens studied together in Berlin and later in Freiberg, under the mineralogist Abraham Gottlob Werner. Møller then travelled to Paris, to stud...

#13816

Carol Ann Mooney

#41869

Overall Influence

Carol Ann Mooney is the 11th president of Saint Mary's College in Notre Dame, Indiana . She is the first lay alumna president of the college. Life Mooney grew up in Norwich, New York. She graduated from Saint Mary's College in 1972 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. She went on to earn her J.D. degree from the University of Notre Dame Law School in 1977, where she graduated first in her class and received the Colonel William J. Hoynes award. She practiced law from 1977-78 as an associate attorney in the Washington, D.C., firm of Jones, Day, Reavis and Pogue.

#13817

D. D. Raphael

#165813

Overall Influence

1916 - 2015 (99 years)

David Daiches Raphael was a philosopher. He is known for his writings on Adam Smith, Thomas Hobbes, justice, the rights of man, and his 1981, introductory philosophical book; Moral Philosophy. External links The University of Glasgow StoryInternational Association for Scottish Philosophy

#13818

Adaora Adimora

#162261

Overall Influence

Adaora Alise Adimora is an American doctor and academic. She is the Sarah Graham Kenan Distinguished Professor of Medicine and professor of epidemiology at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. Her research centers on the transmission of HIV, as well as other sexually transmitted infections , among minority populations. Her work has highlighted the importance of social determinants of HIV transmission and the need for structural interventions to reduce risk. In 2019, she became an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine in recognition of her contributions.

#13819

Janice Light

#112983

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Janice Light is an American academic who holds the Hintz Family Endowed Chair in Children's Communicative Competence in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Pennsylvania State University. As a Distinguished Professor, she teaches graduate courses and seminars in augmentative and alternative communication and has developed an internationally recognized research program in AAC.

#13820

Laurent-Michel Vacher

#98993

Overall Influence

1944 - 2005 (61 years)

Laurent-Michel Vacher was a French-born, French Canadian philosopher, writer, journalist and teacher . He was a proponent of scientism, rationalism, positivism, pragmatism and materialism, a critic of mainstream schools of today's philosophy and of the usual history-centered pedagogy in the field of philosophy.

#13821

Alain Carpentier

#10894

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (93 years)

Alain Frédéric Carpentier is a French surgeon whom the President of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery calls the father of modern mitral valve repair. He is most well known for the development and popularization of a number of mitral valve repair techniques. In 1996, he performed the first minimally invasive mitral valve repair in the world and in 1998 he performed the first robotic mitral valve repair with the DaVinci robot prototype. He is the recipient of the 2007 Lasker Prize.

#13822

Mark Burnett

#33519

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

James Mark Burnett is a television producer and author who is the former Chairman of MGM Worldwide Television Group. He created and produced the reality shows Survivor, The Apprentice, The Voice, and Shark Tank .

#13823

Ronald Englefield

1891 - 1975 (84 years)

Frederick Ronald Hastings Englefield was an English poet and philosopher. His major work, Language and Thought, remains unpublished, though excerpts have appeared in various books and journals. He was critical of the use of words in situations where the words have no clear referent, especially in religion and philosophy, but also in literary criticism. His theory that language evolved naturally from gestures has not met with wide acceptance, but his criticism of religion and philosophy, published posthumously, was well received and is still in print.

#13824

John Benjamin Murphy

John Benjamin Murphy

1857 - 1916 (59 years)

John Benjamin Murphy, born John Murphy was an American physician and abdominal surgeon noted for advocating early surgical intervention in appendicitis appendectomy, and several eponyms: Murphy’s button, Murphy drip, Murphy’s punch, Murphy’s test, and Murphy-Lane bone skid. He is best remembered for the eponymous clinical sign that is used in evaluating patients with acute cholecystitis. His career spanned general surgery, orthopedics, neurosurgery, and cardiothoracic surgery, which helped him to gain international prominence in the surgical profession. Mayo Clinic co-founder William James ...

#13825

Julie K. Silver

#73502

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Julie Kathleen Silver is an American medical researcher who is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the Harvard Medical School. Her research considers musculoskeletal disorders and cancer rehabilitation. Silver is involved with several initiatives to improve gender equity in medicine.

#13826

Ximen Bao

500 BC - Present (2526 years)

Ximen Bao was a Chinese hydraulic engineer, philosopher, and politician. He was a government minister and court advisor to Marquis Wen of Wei during the Warring States period of ancient China. He was known as an early rationalist, who had the State of Wei abolish the practice of sacrificing people to the river god He Bo. Although the earlier statesman Sunshu Ao is credited as China's first hydraulic engineer , Ximen Bao is nonetheless credited as the first engineer in China to create a large canal irrigation system.

#13827

Randeep Guleria

#14799

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Randeep Guleria is an Indian pulmonologist and the ex-director of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, credited with the establishment of India's first centre for pulmonary medicines and sleep disorders at AIIMS. He was honoured by the Government of India in 2015 with Padma Shri, the fourth highest Indian civilian award.

#13828

Percy Herring

1872 - 1967 (95 years)

Percy Theodore Herring FRSE FRCPE LLD was a physician and physiologist, notable for first describing Herring bodies in the posterior pituitary gland. Life He was born in Yorkshire, England, on 3 November 1872, the son of Edmund Herring.

#13829

Helen Ranney

#52105

Overall Influence

1920 - 2010 (90 years)

Helen Margaret Ranney was an American doctor and hematologist who made significant contributions to research on sickle-cell anemia. Early life Ranney was born in Summer Hill, Cayuga County, New York, where her parents ran a dairy farm. Her mother was a teacher and both her parents encouraged her in her studies and pursuing a professional career. She attended a one-room school as a child, and later attended Barnard College with initial plans to study law; however, it was here that she decided to study medicine, saying "Medicine attempts to fix what it studies." She initially faced barriers ...

#13830

Ernst von Fleischl-Marxow

Ernst von Fleischl-Marxow

1846 - 1891 (45 years)

Ernst von Fleischl-Marxow, also Ernst Fleischl von Marxow was an Austrian physiologist and physician who became known for his important investigations on the electrical activity of nerves and the brain. He was also a creative inventor of new devices which were widely adopted in clinical medicine and physiological research.

#13831

Marcantonio Zimara

1460 - 1523 (63 years)

Marco Antonio Zimara , was an Italian philosopher. Life He was born in Galatina and from 1497 studied philosophy at the University of Padua under Agostino Nifo and Pietro Pomponazzi. He subsequently taught logic while studying medicine at Padua , and in 1509 was appointed professor of natural philosophy. From 1509 to 1518 Zimara lived in San Pietro in Galatina, after which he taught in Salerno , Naples , and again at Padua .

#13832

Zayn al-Din Omar Savaji

#135095

Overall Influence

Zayn al-Din Omar Savaji was a Persian philosopher and logician. Life He was born in Saveh in the early 12th century. After serving as a judge in his native city, he went to pursue scholarly interests in Neyshapur. He earned his living by being a copyist of manuscripts, primarily of philosophical texts.

#13833

Mark May

#169610

Overall Influence

#13834

Lennart Souchon

#148874

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Lennart Souchon is a German strategist and scholar of political philosophy and military theory. He was the director of the International Clausewitz-Center at the Military Academy of the German Armed Forces and founded the Clausewitz Network for Strategic Studies in 2008. He was also a professor at the University of Potsdam and lectured at the University of Halle-Wittenberg .

#13835

James Black

#9081

Overall Influence

1924 - 2010 (86 years)

Sir James Whyte Black was a Scottish physician and pharmacologist. Together with Gertrude B. Elion and George H. Hitchings, he shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1988 for pioneering strategies for rational drug-design, which, in his case, lead to the development of propranolol and cimetidine. Black established a Veterinary Physiology department at the University of Glasgow, where he became interested in the effects of adrenaline on the human heart. He went to work for ICI Pharmaceuticals in 1958 and, while there, developed propranolol, a beta blocker used for the treatment of heart disease.

#13836

Bahram Beyzai

#49556

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

Bahrām Beyzāêi is an Iranian playwright, theatre director, screenwriter, film editor, and ostād of Persian letters, arts and Iranian studies. Beyzaie is the son of the poet Ne'matallah Beyzai . The celebrated poet Adib Beyzai, one of the most profound poets of 20th-century Iran, is Bahram's paternal uncle. Bahram Beyzaie's paternal grandfather, Mirzā Mohammad-Rezā Ārāni , and paternal great-grandfather, the Mulla Mohammad-Faqih Ārāni , were also notable poets.

#13837

I. Michael Leitman

#40007

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

I. Michael Leitman is an American surgeon and medical educator. He is Professor of Surgery and Medical Education and Dean for Graduate Medical Education at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He previously held the position of Chairman of the Department of Surgery at Mount Sinai Beth Israel in New York City.

#13838

Abram Salmon Benenson

#58070

Overall Influence

1914 - 2003 (89 years)

Abram Salmon Benenson was an authority in public health, preventive medicine, military medicine, and "shoe-leather" epidemiology. He was best known as the editor-in-chief for the Control of Communicable Diseases Manual of the American Public Health Association. His tenure as editor was so lengthy that the manual was often known as the "Benenson Book".

#13839

Alan Pratt

#169649

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Alan R. Pratt is a Professor of Humanities at Embry–Riddle University. He is known for his research on existential nihilism and meaning of life. Books Tales of Florida Fishes, Zane Grey's West Society, 2016 The Critical Response to Andy Warhol, New York: Greenwood Press, 1997 The Dark Side: Thoughts on the Futility of Life from the Ancient Greeks to the Present, New York: Citadel Press, 1994Black Humor: Critical Essays, New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1993

#13840

Allison Eddy

#128384

Overall Influence

Allison Audrey Eddy is a Canadian nephrologist. She was the inaugural Hudson Family Hospital Chair in Pediatric Medicine at British Columbia Children's Hospital and a clinician-scientist at the British Columbia Children's Hospital.

#13841

Richard J. F. Day

#64198

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

#13842

Karen Green

#132306

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Karen Green is an Australian philosopher and Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Melbourne. She is known for her works on women's intellectual history. Green is the president of the Australasian Association of Philosophy and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities .

#13843

Robert Piercey

#128639

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Robert Piercey is a Canadian philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at Campion College, University of Regina. He is the editor of Philosophy in Review. Piercey is known for his works on continental philosophy.

#13844

Karl Sarafidis

#135891

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Karl Sarafidis, is a French philosopher of Greek and Lebanese origin. Doctor in philosophy, holder of the Agrégation, he taught at Paris-East Créteil University, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University and at the French University College . Specialist in contemporary philosophy, his thesis topic was on the resumption of metaphysics in Heidegger's and Bergson's thought. In 2013, he published Bergson. La création de soi par soi, in which he attempted to pull out from Bergson's work an ethical program based on the creation of self by self. Research Associate of the Husserl Archives in Paris , his in...

#13845

Arnaldo Rascovsky

Arnaldo Rascovsky

#38460

Overall Influence

1907 - 1995 (88 years)

Arnaldo Rascovsky was an Argentine pediatrician and psychoanalyst. He graduated from University of Buenos Aires. Rascovsky was instrumental in establishing Buenos Aires as an important center for psychoanalysis in Latin America and made significant contribution to the analysis of filicide.

#13846

Loriene Roy

#47140

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Loriene Roy is an American scholar of Indigenous librarianship, professor and librarian from Texas. She was the first Native American president of the American Library Association when she was inaugurated in 2007.

#13847

Audrey F. Manley

#14368

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (92 years)

Audrey Forbes Manley is an American pediatrician and public health administrator. Manley was the first African-American woman appointed as chief resident at Cook County Children's Hospital in Chicago . Manley was the first to achieve the rank of Assistant Surgeon General in 1988 and later served as the eighth president of Spelman College.

#13848

James Kendall Hosmer

James Kendall Hosmer

1834 - 1927 (93 years)

James Kendall Hosmer was an American soldier during the American Civil War, a pastor, library director, historian, author and a professor of history and literature. Members of the Hosmer family fought in the French and Indian War, American Revolution and the Civil War. As a pastor of the First Church in Deerfield, Massachusetts he left the ministry, feeling duty bound to join the U.S. Army to serve in the Civil War, insisting to serve at the front, where he participated in several major campaigns. As an author and historian he later wrote and published several works about and involving the Civil War and how he viewed the cause of both the North and South.

#13849

Olav Torgersen

1907 - 1978 (71 years)

Olav Torgersen was a Norwegian pathologist. He was born in Kristiansand as a son of wholesaler Carl Torgersen and Kristine Torgersen . He finished his secondary education in 1926 and graduated from the Royal Frederick University with the cand.med. degree in 1934. In 1939 he married colonel's daughter Ada Jørgensen .

#13850

Mario Aguilar

#65862

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Mario Ignacio Aguilar is the Chair of Religion and Politics at the School of Divinity of the University of St Andrews, Scotland. Biography He completed his PhD in Anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Since joining the University of St Andrews in 1994 he has held various positions including, Dean of Divinity . Aguilar is also the current director and a founding director of the Centre for the Study of Religion and Politics based within St Mary's, and the centre only accepts PhD researchers. He is also the coordinator of the Scholars at the Peri...

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