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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#14001

Mor Naaman

#129814

Overall Influence

Mor Naaman is a Professor of Information Science at Cornell Tech. He is the founder of the Connective Media Hub and Director of the Connective Media degree program. Naaman is known for foundational work on tagging behavior on social networking sites, the use of sites such as Twitter as social awareness streams, and real-world identification from social network activity. His research in these areas has been cited over 12,000 times on Google Scholar.

#14002

R. G. de S. Wettimuny

1925 - 1974 (49 years)

Ramsay G. de Silva Wettimuny was a Buddhist writer. Writings He was attracted to the Dhamma from his young days and, in the later stages of his life, he practically gave up wordily activities and devoted himself entirely to Dhamma.

#14003

Jules Hardy

#57911

Overall Influence

1932 - 2022 (90 years)

Jules Hardy was a Canadian neurosurgeon. Early life and education Born in Sorel, Quebec on July 16, 1932, Hardy graduated as a doctor of medicine from the Université de Montréal in 1956, followed then by postgraduate work at the Université de Montréal as well as at McGill University. In 1962, he received a specialist certification in neurosurgery from the Quebec College of Physicians.

#14004

William Bennett Bean

1909 - 1989 (80 years)

William Bennett Bean was an internist, medical historian, teacher and collector. He coined the term venous lake. Early life and education William Bennett Bean was born in 1909 in the Philippines, to Robert Bennett Bean, a physician who had once been resident under Sir William Osler. He graduated M.D. from the University of Virginia in 1935.

#14005

Nenad Sestan

#97592

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Nenad Šestan is Harvey and Kate Cushing Professor of Neuroscience and professor of comparative medicine, genetics and psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine. He received his MD from the School of Medicine, University of Zagreb in 1995 and his PhD from Yale School of Medicine in 1999.

#14006

Shlomi Constantini

Shlomi Constantini

#69773

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Shlomi Constantini, M.D., M.Sc., is the head of the Department of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Dana Children's Hospital, Tel Aviv Medical Center, Israel. A full clinical professor at Tel Aviv University, he is also the director of the Gilbert International Neurofibromatosis Center. Constantini first trained in Hadassah Medial Center, Jerusalem and sub-specialized in pediatric neurosurgery in New York University with Fred Epstein.

#14007

Lisa Schwartz

#168220

Overall Influence

1963 - 2018 (55 years)

Lisa M. Schwartz was a Professor of Medicine and Community and Family Medicine at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. She was the co-Director of the Center for Medicine and the Media, and ran courses for health journalists on how to report medical research. She created the Drug Facts Box to discuss the benefits and harms of prescription drugs and the National Cancer Institute Know Your Chances site to communicate cancer risks.

#14008

Adrian Kantrowitz

#10041

Overall Influence

1918 - 2008 (90 years)

Adrian Kantrowitz was an American cardiac surgeon whose team performed the world's second heart transplant attempt at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York on December 6, 1967. The infant lived for only six hours. At a press conference afterwards, Kantrowitz emphasized that he considered the operation to have been a failure.

#14009

Paul Hoecker

1854 - 1910 (56 years)

Paul Hoecker was a German painter of the Munich School and founding member of the Munich Secession Biography His passion for art developed gradually, beginning at the Gymnasium in Neustadt, where he was known for his humorous drawings and caricatures of his instructors. In 1874, he became a student at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich, which he attended until the spring of 1879. His most influential instructor was Wilhelm von Diez, who led him away from genre painting to a more impressionistic style In 1882, he took a long journey, which included visits to Paris, the Netherlands, Holstein, the...

#14010

Agnes Fogo

Agnes B. Fogo is a professor of renal pathology at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Biography Fogo graduated from the University of Oslo, Norway, and the University of Tennessee, USA. She completed her M.D. from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine before going on to do residency and a fellowship in renal pathology.

#14011

William Sethares

#69898

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

William A. Sethares is an American music theorist and professor of electrical engineering at the University of Wisconsin. In music, he has contributed to the theory of Dynamic Tonality and provided a formalization of consonance.

#14012

Amita Aggarwal

#24515

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Amita Aggarwal is an Indian clinical immunologist, rheumatologist and a Professor and Head at the Department of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology of the Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow. Known for her studies in autoimmune rheumatic diseases, Aggarwal is a recipient of the Shakuntala Amir Chand Award of the Indian Council of Medical Research and an elected fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India, National Academy of Medical Sciences and the National Academy of Medical Sciences. The Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded her...

#14013

Melina Kibbe

#91851

Overall Influence

Melina R. Kibbe is an American clinician and researcher in the field of vascular surgery. She currently serves as Dean of the University of Virginia School of Medicine. She previously held the Colin G. Thomas Jr. Distinguished Professorship and Chair of the Department of Surgery at UNC School of Medicine.

#14014

Gustav Hartenstein

1808 - 1890 (82 years)

Gustav Hartenstein was a German philosopher and author. He was one of the most gifted followers of Johann Friedrich Herbart. Biography He was born at Plauen, Saxony, and educated at the Fürstenschule in Grimma. From 1826 he studied at the University of Leipzig, where his teachers were Karl Gottfried Wilhelm Theile, Heinrich Gottlieb Tzschirner, Christian Wilhelm Niedner, Gottfried Hermann, Wilhelm Traugott Krug and Wilhelm Wachsmuth. In 1833 he obtained his habilitation for philosophy with the thesis De Archytae Tarentini fragmentis philosophicis, and in 1836 was named a full professor at the University of Leipzig.

#14015

Aleksander Koj

#56444

Overall Influence

1935 - 2016 (81 years)

Aleksander Koj was a Polish physician and scientist, a member of Polish Academy of Learning and Polish Academy of Sciences, honorary doctor of Cleveland University and University of Hartford. He was a rector of Jagiellonian University for three cadences: 1987–1990, 1993–1996 and 1996–1999.

#14016

Masud Husain Khan

#24561

Overall Influence

1919 - 2010 (91 years)

Masud Husain Khan was an Indian linguist, the first Professor Emeritus in Social Sciences at Aligarh Muslim University and the fifth Vice-Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia, a Central University in New Delhi.

#14017

David T. Lowenthal

#170818

Overall Influence

#14018

Elayne Rapping

#105489

Overall Influence

1938 - 2016 (78 years)

Elayne Antler Rapping was an American critic and analyst of popular culture and social issues. She authored several books covering topics such as media theory, popular culture, women's issues, and the portrayal of the legal system on television. As a regular contributor to such publications as The Nation, The Progressive, and The New York Times, she wrote on a wide variety of cultural issues including film and movie reviews.

#14019

Janus Lascaris

1445 - 1534 (89 years)

Janus Lascaris , also called John Rhyndacenus , was a noted Greek scholar in the Renaissance. Biography After the Fall of Constantinople Lascaris was taken to the Peloponnese and to Crete. When still quite young he came to Venice, where Bessarion became his patron, and sent him to learn Latin at the University of Padua.

#14020

Brian Jarman

#59128

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (93 years)

Sir Brian Jarman is a retired English physician and academic. He was professor of primary health care from 1983 to 1998 at Imperial College School of Medicine and president of the British Medical Association from 2003 to 2004.

#14021

Lily Garafulic

#47977

Overall Influence

1914 - 2012 (98 years)

Lily Garafulic Yankovic was a Chilean sculptor, a member of the Generation of 40 artists, and museum director. Garafulic was a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in New York City in 1944. Career Lily Garafulic began attending the School of Fine Arts at the University of Chile in 1934, where she studied under the sculptor Lorenzo Domínguez. In 1944, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to New York City, where she studied at the New School of Social Research and worked with the engraver and printmaker Stanley William Hayter at Atelier 17.

#14022

Eileen Southern

#21936

Overall Influence

1920 - 2002 (82 years)

Eileen Jackson Southern was an American musicologist, researcher, author, and teacher. Southern's research focused on black American musical styles, musicians, and composers; she also published on early music.

#14023

Susan Shell

#151492

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Susan Meld Shell is an American philosopher and Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Boston College. She is known for her research on Kantian philosophy. Books Kant and the Limits of Autonomy The Embodiment of Reason: Kant on Spirit, Generation and Community The Rights of Reason: A Study of Kant's Philosophy and Politics America at Risk: Threats to Liberal Self-Government in an Age of Uncertainty, edited by Susan Shell and Robert K. Faulkner Kant's 'Observations' and 'Remarks': A Critical Guide, edited by Susan Shell and Richard Velkley .

#14024

Holly Lawford-Smith

#108093

Overall Influence

Holly Lawford-Smith is a philosopher, scholar, researcher, author and Associate Professor in Political Philosophy, University of Melbourne. Biography Lawford-Smith was born in Taupō, New Zealand and completed her BA and MA at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. She completed a PhD at the Australian National University in Canberra in 2010. She then completed post-doctoral scholarships at Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics CAPPE, Charles Sturt University and then with the School of Philosophy at ANU . Lawford-Smith then started a permanent job as a lecturer in Philos...

#14025

Jonathan Friedland

Jonathan Friedland

#110531

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Professor Jonathan Samuel Friedland is a British physician and medical researcher who is Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Infectious Diseases at St George's, University of London. Early life and education Jonathan Friedland is the son of Albert and Rosalind Friedland. He was educated at St Paul's School, London before going on to study medicine at Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge and King's College Hospital. His junior medical training posts were at The Royal Brompton Hospital, The Royal Postgraduate Medical School and The John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. Friedland c...

#14026

Sebastiano Turbiglio

1842 - 1901 (59 years)

Sebastiano Turbiglio was an Italian philosopher, professor of philosophy at the University of Rome. Works Benedetto Spinoza e le trasformazioni del suo pensiero, 1874Le antitesi tra il medioevo e l'eta` moderna nella storia della filosofia, in especie nella dottrina morale di Malebranche, 1877Analisi storico-critica della Critica della ragion pura; otto lezioni, estratte dal corso di storia della filosofia, 1881L'universita` di stato e le universita` autonome, 1888

#14027

Lawrence Weed

#29221

Overall Influence

1923 - 2017 (94 years)

Lawrence Leonard Weed was an American physician, researcher, educator, entrepreneur and author, who is best known for creating the problem-oriented medical record as well as one of the first electronic health records.

#14028

Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani

#95160

Overall Influence

1923 - Present (103 years)

Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani was an Afghan Islamic scholar. The honorific "Faizani", a derivation of an Arabic word which denotes something that overflows with God's light , was bestowed upon him by the imam of the Kaaba during his Hajj.

#14029

Maira Bes-Rastrollo

#170895

Overall Influence

Maira Bes-Rastrollo is a professor of preventive medicine and public health at the University of Navarra whose research on ultra-processed food has been widely covered in the media. External links https://unav.academia.edu/MairaBesRastrollohttps://www.researchgate.net/profile/Maira_Bes-Rastrollo

#14030

Brian Berman

#80668

Overall Influence

Brian M. Berman is a tenured professor of family medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Education Berman received his medical degree from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. He completed his residencies at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and at the University of California, Los Angeles.

#14031

Alexei Dzermant

#140701

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (47 years)

Alexey Valeryevich Dzermant, sometimes published as Derman, also Dermant or Dzermanis — is a Belarusian philosopher, journalist and political observer, characterized in non-governmental media as a pro-government political analyst. Until the early 2010s, he was an activist of the neo-pagan movement; currently he is an Orthodox Christian and staunch supporter of Eurasianism.

#14032

Eric Mark Meslin

#129627

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Eric M. Meslin PhD FRSC FCAHS is a Canadian-American philosopher-bioethicist and current President and CEO of the Council of Canadian Academies . Education Meslin has a B.A. in Philosophy from York University, and both an M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy from Georgetown University.

#14033

Karen Simmer

#135929

Overall Influence

Karen Simmer is an Australian paediatrician and professor of Newborn Medicine at the University of Western Australia and is director of two neonatal intensive care units at hospitals in Perth. She also runs the WA Human Milk Bank and is team leader, neonatal gut health, nutrition and development at the Telethon Kids Institute.

#14034

Rudolf Eller

#133631

Overall Influence

1914 - 2001 (87 years)

Rudolf Eller was a German musicologist and professor at the University of Rostock. Life Born in Dresden, Eller was the son of violist Arthur Emil Eller and his wife Margarete. From 1934 to 1936 he studied organ, composition and choral conducting at the orchestra school of the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, then until 1941 musicology, art history, history and philosophy at the universities of Leipzig and Vienna. From 1941 until the end of the war Eller was drafted into military service.

#14035

Ann Arvin

#71720

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Ann M. Arvin is an American pediatrician and microbiologist. She is the Lucile Salter Packard Professor of Pediatrics and Professor of Microbiology & Immunology Emerita at Stanford University. Arvin is a specialist of the Varicella zoster virus and a prominent national figure in health. Arvin is currently the chief of the infectious diseases division of pediatrics at the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, as well as the former Stanford's Vice Provost and Dean of Research.

#14036

Michael Gottlieb Birckner

Michael Gottlieb Birckner

1756 - 1798 (42 years)

Michael Gottlieb Birckner was a Danish priest and philosopher. Birckner especially explored the subject of Freedom of Speech. The American historian H. Arnold Barton has characterised Birckner, along with Niels Ditlev Riegels, as being "one of the most original thinkers" of the radical group of authors in Denmark in this period. The Danish jurist Peter Germer in his book The Nature of Freedom of Speech shows that Birckners ideas was akin to ideas that Scottish-American philosopher Alexander Meiklejohn proposed in his Free Speech and Its Relation to Self-Government .

#14037

John Hadley

1731 - 1764 (33 years)

John Hadley was an English chemist and physician. Born in London to Henry Hadley, he was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge, graduating B.A. in 1753. In 1756 he was appointed the fourth Professor of Chemistry at Cambridge University, the oldest continuously occupied chair of Chemistry in the UK. During his time there he co-operated in 1758 with Benjamin Franklin on a series of experiments to investigate latent heat. They found that a mercury thermometer sprayed with ether which was then evaporated by blowing could fall to −7 degrees Celsius in a warm room.

#14038

Klaus Hofmann

#59512

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Klaus Hofmann is a German musicologist who is an expert on the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Born in Würzburg, Hofmann studied after graduation from 1958 to 1959 at the University of Erlangen. He then continued his studies at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg. In 1968 he received his doctorate with a dissertation " " . From 1968 to 1978 he worked as an employee of the Hänssler Verlag. From 1978 he was a research assistant of the Johann Sebastian Bach Institute in Göttingen, one of the two institutions which prepared the Neue Bach-Ausgabe, the second complete edition of Bach's work. In...

#14039

Patrice Pavis

#43635

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Patrice Pavis was Professor for Theatre Studies at the University of Kent in Canterbury, England , where he retired at the end of the academic year 2015/16. He has written extensively about performance, focusing his study and research mainly in semiology and interculturalism in theatre. He was awarded the Georges Jamati Prize in 1986.

#14040

Alexander Graham Bell

Alexander Graham Bell

1847 - 1922 (75 years)

Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-born inventor, scientist and engineer who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone. He also co-founded the American Telephone and Telegraph Company in 1885.

#14041

Lisa Stamp

#125493

Overall Influence

Lisa Katrina Stamp is a New Zealand academic, and as of 2019 is a full professor at the University of Otago. Academic career After a 2003 PhD titled T lymphocyte cyclooxygenase isotypes and the role of T lymphocytes in modulating monocyte and synoviocyte cyclooxygenase expression at the University of Adelaide, Stamp moved to the University of Otago, rising to full professor.

#14042

Astley Cooper

1768 - 1841 (73 years)

Sir Astley Paston Cooper, 1st Baronet was a British surgeon and anatomist, who made contributions to otology, vascular surgery, the anatomy and pathology of the mammary glands and testicles, and the pathology and surgery of hernia.

#14043

Mark Montebello

#104098

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Mark Montebello is a Maltese philosopher and author. He is mostly known for his controversies with Catholic Church authorities but also for his classic biographies of Manuel Dimech and Dom Mintoff. Private life Montebello, the son of Joseph, a RAF corporal, and Lucrezia née Sultana, a primary school teacher, both from Sliema, was born in Malta at the Mtarfa military hospital, the third of four siblings, and grew up at Sliema.

#14044

Philip D. Ross

#171030

Overall Influence

#14045

Tim Noakes

#12400

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Timothy David Noakes is a South African scientist, and an emeritus professor in the Division of Exercise Science and Sports Medicine at the University of Cape Town. He has run more than 70 marathons and ultramarathons, and is the author of several books on exercise and diet. He is known for his work in sports science and for his support of a low-carbohydrate, high-fat diet, as set out in his books The Real Meal Revolution and Lore of Nutrition: Challenging Conventional Dietary Beliefs.

#14046

Kieran Setiya

#168719

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (50 years)

Kieran Setiya is a Professor of Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was born in Hull, UK. He is known for his work in ethics, epistemology, and the philosophy of mind. Setiya is a co-editor of Philosophers' Imprint. He has also been active in public philosophy and hosts a podcast, Five Questions, in which he asks contemporary philosophers five questions about themselves.

#14047

Mária Telkes

1900 - 1995 (95 years)

Mária Telkes was a Hungarian-American biophysicist and inventor who worked on solar energy technologies. She moved to the United States in 1925 to work as a biophysicist. She became an American citizen in 1937 and started work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to create practical uses of solar energy in 1939.

#14048

John Harriss

#47343

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

John Charles Harriss is an emeritus professor of international studies at Simon Fraser University, visiting faculty at the London School of Economics and Professorial Associate at SOAS. In 2017, Harris was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

#14049

Erika Jensen-Jarolim

#156859

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Erika Jensen-Jarolim is an Austrian physician and medical researcher in immunology and allergies. She was formerly head of the Institute of Pathophysiology and Allergy Research at the Medical University of Vienna, and since 2011 has held the joint professorship in Comparative Medicine at the Medical University and the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, part of the inter-university Messerli Research Institute.

#14050

František Lorenz

František Lorenz

1872 - 1957 (85 years)

František Vladimír Lorenc , known in Portuguese as Francisco Valdomiro Lorenz, was a Czech-born polyglot and philosopher born in Zbyslav . He was one of the first Esperantists in the world, and was able to communicate in over 100 different languages. Lorenz was persecuted by the Austro-Hungarian monarchy due to his involvement with Esperanto, which was associated with socialist revolutionary movements in the region, and he subsequently moved to Brazil as a political refugee in 1891. In Brazil, he lived in Rio de Janeiro at first, and then in Rio Grande do Sul . Lorenz published over 36 books in 40 languages and was one of the most prominent promoters of Esperanto movement ever in Brazil.

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