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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#13851

Josef Koch

1885 - 1967 (82 years)

#13852

Walter Ehrlich

1896 - 1968 (72 years)

Walter Ehrlich was a German philosopher. Biography Walter Ehrlich was born on 16 May 1896 as the son of the merchant, Jakob Ehrlich, and his wife, Nina Ehrlich, née Flatow, in Berlin. He attended the Königlich Französisches Gymnasium in Berlin until Easter of 1914. After that, he studied mathematics and theoretical physics at the Technische Hochschule in Berlin-Charlottenburg. In 1915 he joined the military and participated in the eastern campaign until October 1915. During this time, he contracted a prolonged illness, which continued until the end of the summer of 1917. In October 1917 he e...

#13853

Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini

#101126

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini is an Italian logician and theoretical computer scientist whose research topics include type theory and intersection type disciplines, lambda calculus, and programming language semantics. She is a professor emerita at the University of Turin.

#13854

David M. Eisenberg

#114250

Overall Influence

David M. Eisenberg is an American physician, alternative medicine researcher, and the Bernard Osher Distinguished Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is also the founder of the Osher Center for Complementary and Integrative Medical Therapies, a healthcare clinic associated with Brigham and Women's Hospital, and served as its director from 2000 to 2010. He is also the founder of the "Healthy Kitchens/Healthy Lives" initiative, which, according to the New York Times, aims "to tear down the firewall between “healthy” and “ crave-able” cuisine."

#13855

Dennis Washburn

#68651

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Dennis Washburn is the Jane and Raphael Bernstein Professor of Asian Studies at Dartmouth College where he has taught since 1992. He has served as chair of the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures and is currently chair of the Comparative Literature Program. Washburn has published extensively on Japanese literature and culture and is an active translator of both modern and classical Japanese fiction. In 2004 he received the Japanese Foreign Ministry's citation for contributions to cross-cultural understanding, and in 2008 he received the Japan-US Friendship Commiss...

#13856

H. Wiley Hitchcock

#37323

Overall Influence

1923 - 2007 (84 years)

Hugh Wiley Hitchcock was an American musicologist. He is best known for founding the Institute for Studies in American Music at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York in 1971. The institute was recently renamed the Hitchcock Institute for Studies in American Music in his honor.

#13857

Conrad Lycosthenes

Conrad Lycosthenes

1518 - 1561 (43 years)

Conrad Lycosthenes , born Conrad Wolffhart, was an Alsatian humanist and encyclopedist. Deacon of Saint Leonard in Basel, professor of grammar and dialectics, Lycosthenes had a passion for the study of nature and geophysics.

#13858

Rasheed Turabi

1908 - 1973 (65 years)

Raza Hussain also known as Allama Rasheed Turabi was an Islamic scholar, religious leader, public speaker, poet and philosopher. He was born on 9th Jamadi-us-Sani 1326, 9 July 1908 in Hyderabad, India. He was the eldest son of Maulvi Sharaf Hussain Khan, a nobleman from Hyderabad. He got his basic Islamic education from his father who taught him till the age of 5. He did matriculation from Hyderabad, Intermediate-high school from Shia College, Lucknow. He was awarded a BA from Osmania University and MA in Philosophy from University of Allahabad, India.

#13859

Christopher Heeschen

#169807

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Christopher Heeschen is a German MD with a PhD. In 2004, he became a professor of Experimental Medicine and Department Head of Medicine at the University of Munich. He has worked at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre since 2009.

#13860

James Gill

#39383

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (92 years)

James Francis Gill is an American artist and one of the protagonists of the Pop art movement. In 1962, the Museum of Modern Art included his Marilyn Tryptych into its permanent collection. At the peak of his career, Gill retired. He returned to the art scene around 30 years later.

#13861

Richard Harvey

1560 - 1630 (70 years)

Richard Harvey was an English astrologer, theologian and controversialist. Life Harvey was baptised 15 April 1560 at Saffron Walden, where his father John Harvey was a ropemaker. He was a brother of Gabriel Harvey and John Harvey . He entered Pembroke Hall, Cambridge as a pensioner on 15 June 1575, proceeding B.A. 1578 and commencing M.A. 1581, and was elected fellow of his college. A noted Ramist, he once was placed in the stocks for breaking windows at Peterhouse, in retaliation for a student satire Duns Furens there.

#13862

Michael Custodis

#103470

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (53 years)

Michael Custodis is a German musicologist, sociologist and university lecturer at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster. Career Born in Cologne, Custodis studied musicology, sociology, comparative politics, educational science and film studies at the Universität Mainz. He then moved to the University of Bergen and finally to Albrecht Riethmüller at Freie Universität Berlin. He received his diploma in sociology, his doctorate in musicology and his habilitation at the FU Berlin.

#13863

Ludwig Lichtheim

Ludwig Lichtheim

1845 - 1928 (83 years)

Ludwig Lichtheim was a German physician of Jewish descent. Biography He was educated at the gymnasium in Breslau, and studied medicine at the universities of Berlin, Zurich, and Breslau, graduating in 1868. From 1869 to 1872 he was assistant in the medical hospital at Breslau under Hermann Lebert; from 1872 to 1873 in the surgical hospital at Halle under Richard von Volkmann; and from 1873 to 1877 again at Breslau in the medical polyclinic, under Lebert and Michael Anton Biermer.

#13864

Dominic of Flanders

1420 - 1479 (59 years)

Dominic of Flanders was a French-Flemish Dominican philosopher and Scholastic author, known to have been a renowned Thomist. His commentaries on Aristotle and on Thomas Aquinas were frequently printed, the most famous being his commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics. This Commentaria is commonly known to have been dedicated to Lorenzo de’ Medici.

#13865

Winston Wole Soboyejo

Winston Wole Soboyejo

#26241

Overall Influence

Winston Wole Soboyejo commonly known as "Wole" is an American Scientist of Yoruba Nigerian parentage. He is a materials scientist whose research focuses on biomaterials and the use of nanoparticles for the detection and treatment of disease, the mechanical properties of materials, and the use of materials science to promote global development. He was appointed President at SUNY Polytechnic Institute and began his service on October 2, 2023.

#13866

John Pagus

John Pagus was a scholastic philosopher at the University of Paris, generally considered the first logician writing at the Arts faculty at Paris. Life He is thought to have been a Master of Arts in the 1220s and to have taught Peter of Spain. At that time he was writing on syncategorematic terms.

#13867

Ruy Pérez Tamayo

Ruy Pérez Tamayo

#16710

Overall Influence

1924 - 2022 (98 years)

Ruy Pérez Tamayo was a Mexican medical pathologist, immunologist, researcher, science communicator and academic. Life and career Born in Tampico, Pérez Tamayo graduated in medicine and specialised in pathology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and then got a doctorate in immunology from the Instituto Politécnico Nacional in Mexico City. He was the founder and director of the pathology unit at the General Hospital of Mexico, and the director of the Department of Pathology at the National Institute of Nutrition for ten years. He was professor in his alma mater for 58 years, and w...

#13868

John Loughlin

#69049

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

John Loughlin, FAcSS, FLSW is a British-based academic and educator from Northern Ireland, and a noted specialist in European territorial politics. Career Loughlin attended St Finian's Primary School followed by St. Malachy's College, Belfast. He then spent several years as a Cistercian monk at Portglenone Abbey where he carried out the usual studies for the priesthood in philosophy, theology and biblical studies.

#13869

Janusz Jankowski

#42504

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Janusz Jankowski is a doctor, educationalist and scientist of Scottish Polish origin He is an expert in Social and Healthcare Policy, Academic Management and Global Research and Education Networks He was formerly in previous senior management roles including Deputy Vice Chancellor of Research and Innovation, Pro Vice Chancellor Research, Vice Dean Research and the Sir James Black Professorship.

#13870

Martha Herbert

#77603

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Martha Herbert is an American physician and assistant professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School and pediatric neurologist at Massachusetts General Hospital. Herbert is also director of the TRANSCEND program at the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging.

#13871

Leandro Alberti

Leandro Alberti

1479 - 1552 (73 years)

Leandro Alberti was an Italian Dominican historian. Life Alberti was born and died at Bologna. In his early youth he attracted the attention of the Bolognese rhetorician, Giovanni Garzoni, who volunteered to act as his tutor. He entered the Dominican Order in 1493, and after the completion of his philosophical and theological studies was called to Rome by his friend, the Master General, Francesco Silvestri of Ferrara, called "Ferrariensis". He served him as secretary and socius until the death of Silvestri in 1528.

#13872

Linda Chang

#88948

Overall Influence

Linda Chang is an American neurologist. She is a professor of diagnostic radiology and nuclear medicine and the vice-chair for faculty development at University of Maryland School of Medicine. Education Chang completed a bachelor of science in biochemistry through the honors program at University of Maryland, College Park in 1981. Chang earned a master of science in physiology and biophysics from Georgetown University in 1982. Chang completed a medical doctorate at Georgetown University School of Medicine in 1986. Chang completed a residency in neurology at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in 1990.

#13873

Paul Bowles

#28538

Overall Influence

1910 - 1999 (89 years)

Paul Frederic Bowles was an American expatriate composer, author, and translator. He became associated with the Moroccan city of Tangier, where he settled in 1947 and lived for 52 years to the end of his life.

#13874

Don E. Detmer

#31182

Overall Influence

Don E. Detmer is professor emeritus and professor of medical education at the University of Virginia. Biography and career Detmer chaired the 1991 study, The Computer-based Patient Record. He was a member of the committee that developed the IOM Reports, To Err is Human and Crossing the Quality Chasm. From 1999 to 2003 he was the Dennis Gillings Professor of Health Management at Cambridge University and is a lifetime member of Clare Hall College, Cambridge. From 2005 to 2015 he was visiting professor, Centre for Health Informatics and Multi-professional Education, University College London.

#13875

Auguste Joseph Alphonse Gratry

Auguste Joseph Alphonse Gratry

1805 - 1872 (67 years)

Auguste Joseph Alphonse Gratry was a French Catholic priest, author and theologian. Biography Gratry was born at Lille and educated at the École Polytechnique of Paris. In 1828, he went on to study theology at seminary in Strasbourg under the tutelage of the abbé Bautain. After a period of mental struggle which he has described in Souvenirs de ma jeunesse, he was ordained a priest in Strasbourg in 1832. After a stay there as professor of the Petit Séminaire, he was appointed director of the Collège Stanislas in Paris in 1842 and, in 1847, chaplain of the École Normale Supérieure. He was award...

#13876

James L. Turk

#76156

Overall Influence

James Leonard Turk is a Canadian academic and labour leader. He is a frequent media commentator and public speaker on post-secondary education, academic freedom, labour and other public policy issues. Until June 2014, he was executive director of the Canadian Association of University Teachers . In September 2014, Turk joined Ryerson University's school of journalism as a visiting professor.

#13877

Ivan Djeparoski

Ivan Djeparoski

#131059

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Ivan Djeparoski is a philosopher, cultural theorist, poet and translator. He graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy in Skopje where he received his M.A. and Ph.D. He is an author of fourteen books in the field of aesthetics and cultural theory, five poetry books and also of two poetry anthologies, for which he was awarded the "Mlad Borec Prize" , "Dimitar Mitrev Prize" and “Paradigm Prize” . He works at the Faculty of Philosophy in Skopje as a professor of "Aesthetics", "History of Aesthetics" and "Cultural Theories". He is/was Head of the Institute of Philosophy , Head of postgraduate studies of the Institute of philosophy and secretary of Macedonian P.E.N.

#13878

T. W. J. Huizinga

#169920

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#13879

Frank Francis

1901 - 1988 (87 years)

Sir Frank Chalton Francis was an English academic librarian and curator. Almost all his working life was at the British Museum, first as an Assistant Keeper in the Department of Printed Books, and later as Secretary of the museum, Keeper of Printed Books and, from 1959 to 1968, Director and Principal Librarian of the museum.

#13880

Rachel Morello-Frosch

#167562

Overall Influence

Rachel A. Morello-Frosch is an American environmental health scientist. She is a professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management & School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2022, Morello-Frosch was elected a Member of the National Academy of Medicine for being a "renowned expert on structural determinants of environmental health inequities" and a "leader in the application of community-engaged data science."

#13881

Mohamed Habib Marzouki

#151266

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Mohamed Habib Marzouki is a Tunisian academic, philosopher and translator. Along with intellectual work, he involved in politics for a short time following the Jasmine revolution. Resigning only a year later, he declared his intention to step out of political work for good and count on writing to incite social change.

#13882

Vyacheslav Shestakov

#169945

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (91 years)

Vyacheslav Pavlovich Shestakov is a Russian philosopher who holds the title of . During the period of 2004–2014 he headed the department of art theory at the . Selected publications in RussianЕвропейский эрос. Философия любви и европейское искусство. [] Moscow: ЛКИ, 2020 in EnglishTransformation of Eros. Philosophy of Love and European art. — Edwin Mellen Press, 1996.

#13883

William Backhouse

1593 - 1662 (69 years)

William Backhouse was an English philosopher, alchemist, astrologer, translator, and the esoteric mentor of Elias Ashmole. Born into the wealthy Backhouse family, Backhouse enjoyed an education at Oxford, and was likely exposed to alchemical teachings and the Rosicrucian manifestos of the 1610s. He married Anne Richards in 1637/8, and had three children. By 1651, he had become the mentor of Elias Ashmole, taking him as his "spiritual son and heir", the role for which his is best remembered. The following exchange of alchemical knowledge and manuscripts has been described as having an effect on Ashmole that "cannot be overstated".

#13884

Giovanni Antonio Scopoli

Giovanni Antonio Scopoli

1723 - 1788 (65 years)

Giovanni Antonio Scopoli was an Italian physician and naturalist. His biographer Otto Guglia named him the "first anational European" and the "Linnaeus of the Austrian Empire". Biography Scopoli was born at Cavalese in the Val di Fiemme, belonging to the Bishopric of Trent , son of Francesco Antonio, military commissioner, and Claudia Caterina Gramola , a painter from a patrician family from Trentino. He obtained a degree in medicine at University of Innsbruck, and practised as a doctor in Cavalese and Venice. Much of his time was spent in the Alps, collecting plantss and insectss, of which ...

#13885

Dermot P. Kelleher

#64133

Overall Influence

Dermot P. Kelleher FMedSci is the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Vice-President, Health at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. He moved to UBC in August 2015. He was subsequently appointed as UBC's inaugural Vice-President, Health in June 2018. Previously Kelleher was Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College London. He took up this role on 1 October 2012. From 2006 until 2012 he was Head of the School of Medicine and Vice-Provost for Medical Affairs at Trinity College, Dublin. He was one of the three founders of Opsona Therapeutics in 2004; Opsona's researc...

#13886

Göran K. Hansson

Göran K. Hansson

#20619

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Göran K. Hansson , is a Swedish physician and scientist. Hansson was awarded his doctorate in 1980 at the University of Gothenburg. He has been a research scientist at the University of Washington in Seattle, professor of cell biology at the University of Gothenburg, and visiting professor at Harvard Medical School. Since 1995, he is professor of experimental cardiovascular research at the Karolinska Institute.

#13887

Leysia Palen

#92518

Overall Influence

Leysia Palen is an American computer scientist known for her contributions to human–computer interaction and disaster informatics. She is a professor of computer science, professor of information science, and founding chair of information science at the University of Colorado Boulder. At Colorado, she directs a research project titled "Empowering the Public with Information during Crisis", and is co-director of the Center for Software & Society. She also holds an adjunct affiliation with the University of Agder, and is a member of the CHI Academy.

#13888

Michael Sendivogius

Michael Sendivogius

1566 - 1636 (70 years)

Michael Sendivogius was a Polish alchemist, philosopher, and medical doctor. A pioneer of chemistry, he developed ways of purification and creation of various acids, metals and other chemical compounds. He discovered that air is not a single substance and contains a life-giving substance—later called oxygen—170 years before Scheele's discovery of the element. He correctly identified this 'food of life' with the gas given off by heating nitre . This substance, the 'central nitre', had a central position in Sendivogius' schema of the universe.

#13889

John J. Zhang

#80101

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

John Jin Zhang is a medical scientist who has made contributions in fertility research, and particularly in in vitro fertilization. He made headlines in September 2016 for successfully producing the world's first three-parent baby using the spindle transfer technique of mitochondrial replacement. Having obtained an M.D. from Zhejiang University School of Medicine, an M.Sc. from University of Birmingham, and a Ph.D. from University of Cambridge, he became the founder-director of New Hope Fertility Center in New York, USA.

#13890

Russell Van Gelder

#152612

Overall Influence

Russell Van Gelder is an American clinician-scientist and a board-certified ophthalmologist. He is most known for his work in the mechanisms of uveitis disease, his research on non-visual photoreception in the eye, and on vision-restoration methods for retinal degenerative disease.

#13891

Abraham Pineo Gesner

Abraham Pineo Gesner

1797 - 1864 (67 years)

Abraham Pineo Gesner, ONB was a Canadian physician and geologist who invented kerosene. Gesner was born in Cornwallis, Nova Scotia and lived much of his life in Saint John, New Brunswick. He died in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He was an influential figure in the development of the study of Canadian geology and natural history.

#13892

Francisco José Ramos

#148250

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Francisco José Ramos is a Puerto Rican philosopher, poet, and retired university professor. He is the author of the philosophical trilogy Aesthetics of Thought. He is also a numerary member of the Puerto Rican Spanish Academy.

#13893

Keith Sykes

#124209

Overall Influence

1925 - 2019 (94 years)

Sir Malcolm Keith Sykes was an English consultant anaesthetist. Early life and education Sykes was born in Clevedon, Somerset, the only son of economist Joseph Sykes and Phyllis Mary Greenwood. He studied at Magdalene College, Cambridge, then underwent training in anaesthetics while serving in the Royal Army Medical Corps, and at University College Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital.

#13894

Alan L. Schiller

#38799

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Alan L. Schiller, M.D. is an American clinical pathologist and an expert in the effects of space and weightlessness on bone structure. Schiller has served on the Space Science Board of the Committee on Space Biology and Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and as a member of the Life and Microgravity Sciences and Applications Advisory Committee of NASA. He currently serves on the board of directors of the National Space Biomedical Research Institute.

#13895

Max Theiler

1899 - 1972 (73 years)

Max Theiler was a South African-American virologist and physician. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1951 for developing a vaccine against yellow fever in 1937, becoming the first African-born Nobel laureate.

#13896

Leona Baumgartner

#70298

Overall Influence

1902 - 1991 (89 years)

Leona Baumgartner was an American physician. She was the first woman to serve as Commissioner of New York City's Department of Health . She was a strong advocate of health education and a pioneer in promoting health services among New York's immigrant and poverty-stricken population.

#13897

Tan Sitong

1865 - 1898 (33 years)

Tan Sitong , courtesy name Fusheng , pseudonym Zhuangfei , was a well-known Chinese politician, thinker, and reformist in the late Qing dynasty . He was executed at the age of 33 when the Hundred Days' Reform failed in 1898. Tan Sitong was one of the six gentlemen of the Hundred Days' Reform, and occupies an important place in modern Chinese history. To many contemporaries, his execution symbolized the political failure of the Qing dynasty's reformation, helping to persuade the intellectual class to pursue violent revolution and overthrow the Qing dynasty.

#13898

Brian Glenney

#119884

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (52 years)

Brian Glenney is an American Philosopher and Graffiti Artist most known for co-founding a street art project turned movement known as the Accessible Icon Project. The movement re-designed the International Symbol of Access to display an active, engaged image with focus on the person with disability. “It was intended as a kind of radical statement,” says Elizabeth Guffey, author of Designing Disability: Symbols, Space, and Society and professor of art history at SUNY Purchase. “The very oddity of it is people started taking it seriously as a new symbol, and it’s such a weird life that it’s liv...

#13899

Mohammad Abdul Ghafoor Hazarvi

1909 - 1970 (61 years)

Akhundzada Mohammad Abdul Ghafoor Hazarvi was a Muslim theologian, jurist, and scholar of ahadith in Pakistan . He was active in the Pakistan movement, member of Council of Islamic Ideology. He was the companion of Muhammad Ali Jinnah and separatist leader Maulana Zafar Ali Khan and was active in the independence movement of Pakistan against the British Raj. He was a Sufi of the Chishti Sufi order and the founding member of the religious Barelvi Sunni strain political party Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan . He became its president in 1948. He was also a political figure in Pakistan and was the first recipient of Nishan-e-Imtiaz by the President of Pakistan.

#13900

José Barata-Moura

#141355

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

José Adriano Rodrigues Barata-Moura, GOSE is a Portuguese philosopher, and a prestigious actual figure of the Portuguese culture. Dedicating his thought to many philosophical subjects such as politics, ethics and, most of all, to ontology. From May 7, 1998 until May 22, 2006, Barata-Moura served as the Rector of the University of Lisbon. He graduated from the University of Lisbon as a philosophy student in 1970. Nowadays, José Barata-Moura teaches Ancient Philosophy, the Philosophy of the German Idealism and Marxist Philosophy in the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon. Still very ...

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