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#13901

Yehuda Sarna

#99772

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Rabbi Yehuda Sarna is Chief Rabbi of the Moses Ben Maimon Synagogue of the Abrahamic Family House in Abu Dhabi, UAE. He is also Executive Director of the Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life at New York University , Adjunct Assistant Professor of Public Administration at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and University Chaplain at NYU.

#13902

John Shannon Hendrix

#89599

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

John Shannon Hendrix is an architectural historian and philosopher who has written and lectured extensively on the subjects of architecture, art, philosophy, aesthetics, psychoanalysis, science, culture and history. Much of his work focuses on connections among those topics, such as interactions of vision, perception, and sensation with the arts and architecture, the relationships between psychoanalysis and architecture, physical sciences and architecture, and philosophy and architecture. His career focuses on research and writing about "mostly European precedents in architecture and philos...

#13903

Blake Papsin

#168791

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Blake Croll Papsin, FACS is a Canadian otolaryngologist who has worked at the Hospital for Sick Children since 1996. Following his graduation from the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine, he worked at Mount Sinai Hospital as an associate professor, and following surgical training in cochlear implants, he became known for implantation of those techniques. In 2014 he led the team that discovered that putting infants too close to an improperly used white noise machine could put infants at a high risk of developing hearing loss.

#13904

Julia Steinberger

#170112

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

#13905

Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel

1783 - 1856 (73 years)

Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel was a German physician and an authority on grasses. Biography Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel was born at Esslingen am Neckar in Baden-Württemberg. He was educated at the University of Tübingen, earning his medical doctorate in 1805. Shortly afterwards he settled into a medical practice in his hometown of Esslingen and in 1826 became the chief state physician in what had become the Kingdom of Württemberg.

#13906

Ramon Lobato

#113755

Overall Influence

Ramon Lobato is an author, researcher, and scholar of cultural industries. The focus of his research is on video distribution networks, and how they structure audience access, discovery, and content diversity. He is currently Associate Professor of Media and Communication at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia.

#13907

Johann Christoph Muhrbeck

1733 - 1805 (72 years)

Johann Christoph Muhrbeck was a Swedish Pomeranian philosopher. Early life and education Born in Lund, the son of the theologian Lorenz Murbeck, superintendent in Karlskrona, Muhrbeck was first taught by a tutor and then attended school in Karlskrona. He later studied at the universities of Lund and Greifswald. After his return to Sweden he became a teacher at the cadet institute in Karlskrona.

#13908

John Brande Trend

1887 - 1958 (71 years)

John Brande Trend, or J.B. Trend , was a British Hispanist and the first Professor of Spanish at the University of Cambridge. Born in Southampton, Trend was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he won an Exhibition to take the Natural Science Tripos. After serving in continental Europe during the First World War, he developed a keen interest in Spanish and the historiography of Spanish music.

#13909

Alfred W. Pollard

1859 - 1944 (85 years)

Alfred William Pollard, FBA was an English bibliographer, widely credited for bringing a higher level of scholarly rigor to the study of Shakespearean texts. Biography Pollard was born at 1 Brompton Square, Kensington in London, the youngest son of a doctor, Edward William Pollard. He was educated at King's College School in the Strand and St John's College at the University of Oxford. Unable to teach due to his pronounced stammer, he joined the staff of the British Museum in 1883, as assistant in the department of printed books; he was promoted to assistant keeper in 1909, and keeper in 1919.

#13910

Byambyn Rinchen

Byambyn Rinchen

1905 - 1977 (72 years)

Byambyn Rinchen , also known as Rinchen Bimbayev , was a Mongolian scholar and writer. He was a researcher of Mongolia's language, literature, and history, and a recorder and preserver of the country's cultural heritage, publishing many shamanist and folklore texts. Rinchen was also a prolific poet, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and translator, authoring the screenplay for Tsogt taij , Mongolia's first historical feature film, and the trilogy Rays of Dawn , its first novel set during the 1921 revolution. Rinchen was often criticized by the ruling Mongolian People's Revolutionary Part...

#13911

Mark Dyer

#90524

Overall Influence

1930 - 2014 (84 years)

James Michael Mark Dyer was bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Bethlehem from 1982 to 1995. Early life Dyer was born on June 7, 1930, in Manchester, New Hampshire, the son of James M. Dyer and Anna Mahoney, both of Irish descent. He was baptised as a Roman Catholic in the Church of St Anne in Manchester, New Hampshire, on June 21, 1930. He was educated at St Joseph's Cathedral High School and graduated in 1948. During the Korean War, he served in the US Navy. He was discharged on November 18, 1954, and studied at the American College of the University of Louvain in Belgium, where he studied contemporary philosophy between 1957 and 1959.

#13912

Rolf Kreienberg

Rolf Kreienberg

#84705

Overall Influence

1946 - 2021 (75 years)

Rolf Kreienberg was a German gynaecologist and obstetrician. Life From 1966 to 1971, Kreienberg studied medicine at the universities of Mainz, Germany and Vienna, Austria. After his preliminary examination he temporarily stayed at the University of Vienna, Austria. In 1971, he passed the state medical examination in Mainz and completed his doctoral thesis in 1972, earning his license to practice medicine in 1973.

#13913

Johan Teyler

1648 - 1709 (61 years)

Johannes or Johan Teyler was a Dutch Golden Age painter, engraver, mathematics teacher, and promoter of the technique in color printmaking now known as à la poupée. Biography Teyler was born at Nijmegen. His father was William Taylor, an English or Scottish mercenary, who changed his name to Teyler. Johan studied Latin at the Latin school of Nijmegen and Mathematics at the Kwartierlijke Academie, where he wrote a dissertation in favor of Descartes. After the death of his father, he studied in Leiden and afterwards acquired a post as Professor of Math and Philosophy in Nijmegen in 1670. He was a respected professor but was overlooked for promotion due to his Cartesian ideas.

#13914

Gottlieb Conrad Christian Storr

Gottlieb Conrad Christian Storr

1749 - 1821 (72 years)

Gottlieb Conrad Christian Storr was a German physician, chemist, and naturalist. In 1768 he obtained his doctorate from the University of Tübingen, where he also served as a professor of chemistry, botany, and natural history from 1774 to 1801. He is the taxonomic authority of several genera, including Mellivora, whose only species is the honey badger .

#13915

Kenneth L. Schmitz

#168473

Overall Influence

1922 - 2017 (95 years)

Kenneth L. Schmitz was a Canadian philosopher. He was a president of the Metaphysical Society of America . See also Francis Martin

#13916

Leon Roth

1896 - 1963 (67 years)

Hyam Leon Roth, FBA , commonly known as Leon Roth, was an English philosopher and historian of philosophy. Early life and education Born in London to a Jewish merchant, his brother was the academic Cecil Roth. Roth attended the City of London School and then Exeter College, Oxford, where he read classics. His university studies were interrupted by service in the First World War. Returning to Oxford, he graduated in 1920 and was awarded the John Locke Scholarship. In 1921, he received the James Mew Hebrew Scholarship. In the meantime, he completed a doctorate at the University of Oxford; his DP...

#13917

Norbert Pallua

#70228

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Norbert Pallua is a surgeon noted for contributions to plastic surgery, including facial reconstruction using flaps, regeneration, and burn rehabilitation. Works He treated Sergei Filin for facial burns after the latter's acid attack. He was head of the Department of Plastic Surgery, Hand and Burns Surgery at the Uniklinikum Aachen until July 2017.

#13918

Phil Ramone

#24398

Overall Influence

1934 - 2013 (79 years)

Philip Rabinowitz , better known as Phil Ramone, was a South African-born American recording engineer, record producer, violinist and composer, who in 1958 co-founded A & R Recording, Inc., a recording studio with business partner Jack Arnold at 112 West 48th Street, New York, upstairs from the famous musicians' watering hole, Jim & Andy's, and several doors east of Manny's Music. The success of the original A & R Recording allowed it to expand into several studios and a record production company. He was described by Billboard as "legendary", and the BBC as a "CD pioneer".

#13919

Alexander Litschev

#115976

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Alexander Litschev is a Bulgarian historian and university lecturer in philosophical anthropology and the history of philosophy at the University of Düsseldorf. Biography Early life and work In 1967 Litschev began to study history and philosophy at the University of Sofia. After graduating in 1973, he worked for two years as an assistant for the history of philosophy at the University of Sofia. From 1976 to 1990 he worked as a research assistant at the Institute of Philosophy. From 1988 to 1990, he taught as a professor of the history of philosophy and philosophical anthropology at the Unive...

#13920

John Ellis

1710 - 1776 (66 years)

John Ellis aka Jean Ellis was a British linen merchant and naturalist. Ellis was the first to have a published written description of the Venus flytrap and its botanical name. Ellis specialised in the study of corals. He was elected a member of the Royal Society in 1754 and in the following year published An essay towards the Natural History of the Corallines. He was awarded the Copley Medal in 1767. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1774. His A Natural History of Many Uncommon and Curious Zoophytes, written with Daniel Solander, was published posthumously in 1776.

#13921

Robert Lim

1897 - 1969 (72 years)

Robert Kho-Seng Lim , also known as Bobby Li, was a Singaporean medical doctor. Life Lim was born in Singapore in 1897. He was the son of Lim Boon Keng, who promoted social and educational reforms in Singapore and China.

#13922

Ian Angus

#161924

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Ian Henderson Angus is an interdisciplinary philosopher and social critic who writes on continental philosophy, Canadian studies, communication theory, social movements, ecological thought, and the university.

#13923

Zhao Yun

161 - 229 (68 years)

Zhao Yun , courtesy name Zilong , was a military general who lived during the late Eastern Han dynasty and early Three Kingdoms period of China. Originally a subordinate of the northern warlord Gongsun Zan, Zhao Yun later came to serve another warlord, Liu Bei, and had since accompanied him on most of his military exploits, from the Battle of Changban to the Hanzhong Campaign . He continued serving in the state of Shu Han – founded by Liu Bei in 221 – in the Three Kingdoms period and participated in the first of the Northern Expeditions until his death in 229. While many facts about Zhao Yun...

#13924

Philip Hugh-Jones

Philip Hugh-Jones

#131379

Overall Influence

1917 - 2010 (93 years)

Philip Hugh-Jones FRCP was a British respiratory physician and Medical Research Council researcher who during the Second World War investigated the effects of gun fumes on tank operators in Dorset and the effect of coal dust on Welsh coal miners with particular relevance to pneumoconiosis. This work led to future post-war pioneering research in lung physiology, the effect of asbestos on the lungs and lung diseases including emphysema.

#13925

Toto Cutugno

#47567

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Salvatore "Toto" Cutugno was an Italian pop singer-songwriter and musician. He was best known for his worldwide hit song, "", released on his 1983 album of the same title. Cutugno also won the Eurovision Song Contest 1990 held in Zagreb, SFR Yugoslavia, with the song "", for which he wrote both the lyrics and music. He has been described as "one of the most popular singers in Italy and a symbol of Italian melody abroad", as well as "one of the most popular Italian performers on a global scale" and "one of the most successful Italian songwriters of all time", selling over 100 million records ...

#13926

Selahattin Özmen

#36033

Overall Influence

Selahattin Özmen is a Turkish plastic surgeon and a full professor of plastic surgery at the Koç University School of Medicine, department of plastic surgery and American Hospital Department of Plastic Surgery in İstanbul. he performed Turkey's third face transplant in 2012 at Gazi University / Ankara.

#13927

Paul Raushenbush

#82823

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Paul Brandeis Raushenbush is a US writer, editor, and religious activist. He currently serves as president and CEO of Interfaith Alliance and formerly served as Senior Advisor for Public Affairs and Innovation at Interfaith America . He was Senior Vice President and editor of Voices at Auburn Seminary. From 2009 to 2015 he was the Executive Editor Of Global Spirituality and Religion for Huffington Post's Religion section, and formerly served as editor of BeliefNet. From 2003 to 2011, Raushenbush served as Associate Dean of Religious Life and the Chapel at Princeton University, and served as President of the Association Of College and University Religious Affairs from 2009 to 2011.

#13928

Dean Moyar

#170245

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Dean Moyar is an American philosopher and professor of philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. He is known for his expertise on Kant and German Idealism. Books Hegel's Value: Justice as the Living Good The Oxford Handbook of Hegel Hegel's Conscience The Routledge Companion to Nineteenth Century Philosophy ,Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit: A Critical Guide

#13929

Michael J. Graham

#24013

Overall Influence

Michael J. Graham is an American Jesuit priest and educator who was the president of Xavier University between 2001 and 2021. Early life and education Michael Graham was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Graham graduated from Cornell College with a Bachelor of Science. Additionally, Graham earned a Master of Arts degrees in American Studies and psychology, and a doctorate in American Studies from the University of Michigan. Graham was ordained a priest in 1988.

#13930

Hiroshi Mori

#170277

Overall Influence

#13931

Joe G. N. Garcia

#62379

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Joe G. N. "Skip" Garcia is an American pulmonary scientist, physician and academician. Biography and career Garcia was born in 1954 in El Paso, Texas and completed his B.S. in Biology at the University of Dallas in 1976. He received his M.D. from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in 1980. He completed internship and residency training in Internal Medicine at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics and fellowship training in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Albany Medical College .

#13932

Serdar Nasır

#38121

Overall Influence

Serdar Nazif Nasır is a Turkish plastic surgeon. An associate professor at the Hacettepe University Medical School in Ankara, he led the team that performed in February 2012 the second full face transplant in Turkey.

#13933

Wolfram Steinbeck

#112548

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Wolfram Steinbeck is a German musicologist. Life Steinbeck was born in Hagen. He studied musicology, philosophy and modern German literature at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. He received his doctorate in 1972 from Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht with a dissertation on The Minuet in the Instrumental Music of Joseph Haydn. In 1972, he became assistant at the musicological institute of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, where he habilitated in 1979 with the work Struktur und Ähnlichkeit. Methoden automatisierter Melodienanalyse .

#13934

Lynn Schofield Clark

#89335

Overall Influence

Lynn Schofield Clark is an American media critic and scholar whose research focuses on media studies and film studies. She is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Media, Film, and Journalism Studies at the University of Denver. She is author of several books and articles on the role social and visual media play in the lives of diverse U.S. adolescents. In her 2017 book co-authored with Regina Marchi, Young People and the Future of News, Clark and Marchi utilize an ethnographic approach to tell the stories of how young people engage with social media and legacy media both as producers and consumers of news.

#13935

Dieter Misgeld

#107289

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

Dieter Misgeld is a retired professor in the department of Theory and Policy Studies at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education , University of Toronto. He is known for his research on social theory, human rights, political philosophy, hermeneutics and the philosophy of Jürgen Habermas and Hans-Georg Gadamer.

#13936

Herbert Schilder

Herbert Schilder

#146647

Overall Influence

1928 - 2006 (78 years)

Herbert Schilder was a dental surgeon. Schilder is best known for the improvements he made to root canal therapies in the 1960s when he taught at the Boston University School of Dental Medicine. Herbert Schilder received his D.D.S. from New York University, and taught at Tufts University and Temple University prior to permanently joining Boston University in 1958. In his early years after joining Boston University, he founded the specialty program in endodontics to train dentists to become endodontists. He also developed a new technique to fill root canals after disinfection, now known as "S...

#13937

Ron Walters

#27304

Overall Influence

1938 - 2010 (72 years)

Ronald W. Walters was an American author, speaker and scholar of African-American politics. He was director of the African American Leadership Institute and Scholar Practitioner Program, Distinguished Leadership Scholar at the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership, and professor in government and politics at the University of Maryland.

#13938

David Serwadda

#43960

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

David M. Serwadda is a Ugandan physician, medical researcher, academic, public health specialist and medical administrator. Currently he is a Professor of Public Health at Makerere University School of Public Health, one of the schools of Makerere University College of Health Sciences, a semi-autonomous constituent college of Makerere University, the oldest university in Uganda. Serwadda is also a founding member of Accordia Global Health Foundation's Academic Alliance.

#13939

Craig R. Smith

#170345

Overall Influence

#13940

Yves A. Lussier

Yves A. Lussier

#59473

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Yves A. Lussier is a physician-scientist conducting research in Precision medicine, Translational bioinformatics and Personal Genomics. As a co-founder of Purkinje, he pioneered the commercial use of controlled medical vocabulary organized as directed semantic networks in electronic medical records, as well as Pen computing for clinicians.

#13941

Nicholas of Clémanges

Nicholas of Clémanges

1363 - 1437 (74 years)

Mathieu-Nicolas Poillevillain de Clémanges was a French humanist and theologian. He studied in the Collège de Navarre, University of Paris, and in 1380 received the degree of Licentiate, and then later received a Master of Arts. He studied theology under Jean Gerson and Pierre d'Ailly, and received the degree of Bachelor of Theology in 1393.

#13942

Petrus Mosellanus

Petrus Mosellanus

1493 - 1524 (31 years)

Petrus Mosellanus Protegensis was a German humanist scholar. He is best known for the popular work on rhetoric, Tabulae de schematibus et tropis, and his Paedologia. He became professor at the University of Leipzig. He gave the opening Latin oration at the 1519 Leipzig Disputation between Johann Eck and Martin Luther.

#13943

Tsion Avital

#127526

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Tsion Avital is an Israeli philosopher of art and culture. Biography Tsion Avital was born to Avraham and Preciada Dorit Avitbol Avital, and grew up in the town of Sefrou in Morocco. Avital immigrated to Israel with his family in January 1951, when he was eleven. He studied philosophy and psychology at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and then pursued an MA in philosophy focusing on aesthetics, taking additional courses in the Department of Art History. His master's thesis, "An Outline of Artonomy," was supervised by Yehuda Elkana and Eddy Zemach. While studying for his doctorate, he spent 1971–1972 at the University of Toronto in Canada.

#13944

Bill Reid

#10838

Overall Influence

1920 - 1998 (78 years)

William Ronald Reid Jr. was a Haida artist whose works include jewelry, sculpture, screen-printing, and paintings. Producing over one thousand original works during his fifty-year career, Reid is regarded as one of the most significant Northwest Coast artists of the late twentieth century.

#13945

Elizabeth Ann Seton

Elizabeth Ann Seton

1774 - 1821 (47 years)

Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton was a Catholic religious sister in the United States and an educator, known as a founder of the country's parochial school system. After her death, she became the first person born in what would become the United States to be canonized by the Catholic Church . She also established the first Catholic girls' school in the nation in Emmitsburg, Maryland, where she likewise founded the first American congregation of religious sisters, the Sisters of Charity.

#13946

Dietrich Kämper

#105585

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

Dietrich Kämper is a German musicologist. Life Born in Melle, Niedersachsen, Kämper studied at the University of Cologne and University of Zurich with research stays in Bologna, Florence and Rome. He received his doctorate in 1963 with a dissertation Franz Wüllner – Leben, Wirken und kompositorisches Schaffen at the University of Cologne, where he habilitated in musicology in 1967. Since 1986 he was the holder of the newly established chair for musicology at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln. In 1995 he was finally appointed to the University of Cologne. His main areas of research were R...

#13947

Erkki Salmenhaara

#123966

Overall Influence

1941 - 2002 (61 years)

Erkki Olavi Salmenhaara was a Finnish composer and musicologist. Personal life Salmenhaara was born in Helsinki, Finland, and married Anja Kosonen in 1961. They had two sons, but divorced in 1978. Salmenhaara died in Helsinki on March 19, 2002.

#13948

Dorothy Price

1899 - 1980 (81 years)

Dorothy Price was an American physiologist and endocrinologist. She is best known for her discovery of the principle of negative feedback in endocrine axis regulation, in work done alongside Carl Moore. She is considered one of the early pioneers in the field of neuroendocrinology.

#13949

Onofre Pratdesaba

1733 - 1810 (77 years)

Onofre Pratdesaba was a Catalan jesuit and writer. He taught philosophy in Barcelona and theology in Girona. He was expelled by Charles III of Spain and, like many others, he continued to study arts and sciences in Italy.

#13950

Pope Paschal II

Pope Paschal II

1050 - 1118 (68 years)

Pope Paschal II , born Ranierius, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 13 August 1099 to his death in 1118. A monk of the Abbey of Cluny, he was created the cardinal-priest of San Clemente by Pope Gregory VII in 1073. He was consecrated as pope in succession to Pope Urban II on 19 August 1099. His reign of almost twenty years was exceptionally long for a medieval pope.

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