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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#14151

Lula Lubchenco

#94384

Overall Influence

1915 - 2001 (86 years)

Lula Olga Lubchenco was an American pediatrician. Her family moved from Russian Turkestan to South Carolina when she was a small child, and Lubchenco's higher education and career were spent almost entirely in Colorado. After completing a pediatric residency in Denver, Lubchenco joined the faculty of the University of Colorado School of Medicine and was the first director of the Premature Infant Center at Colorado General Hospital.

#14152

George Khutsishvili

George Khutsishvili

#59377

Overall Influence

1948 - 2013 (65 years)

George Khutsishvili Doctor of Philosophy, Professor , was a prominent Georgiann public figure, one of the founders of conflictology in Georgia and the Caucasian region and a scientist in the field of peace and conflict studies. In 1994 he founded the independent non-for-profit and non-partisan International Center on Conflict and Negotiation . Between 1995 and 2013 he was the publisher of Peace Times, Conflicts and Negotiations and Alternatives to Conflict’ amongst others. For many years he was invited to work as a professor at different leading universities in Georgia and abroad. George Kh...

#14153

Andronicus Contoblacas

Andronicus Contoblacas was a Greek Renaissance humanist and scholar. Contobacles originated from Constantinople and left after the Ottoman Empire conquered the city. He first travelled to Venice, Italy. From 1458 and 1465 an Andronikos from Constantinople is mentioned as a lecturer in humanist studies at the University of Bologna. A professor for the Greek Language is mentioned for the term 1466/67 at the same university. Coming from Northern Italy, he arrived in Basel where he resided for about three years between 1474 and 1477. He taught Greek to students of the University of Basel, staying at the dorm of Hieronymus Berlin.

#14154

Herbert L. Abrams

#47191

Overall Influence

1920 - 2016 (96 years)

Herbert Leroy Abrams was an American medical doctor. After establishing a career as a radiologist at Harvard Medical School and the Stanford University School of Medicine, Abrams became involved in the anti-nuclear movement. He served on the national board of directors of Physicians for Social Responsibility and he was the founding vice president of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War .

#14155

Sheila Lukehart

#171036

Overall Influence

Sheila Lukehart is an American physician who is Emeritus Professor of Medicine at the University of Washington. Her research covered immune responses and the pathogenesis of syphilis. In 2023, she was elected a Fellow of the American Society for Microbiology.

#14156

Lawrence Whalley

#105088

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Lawrence J. Whalley MB, BS, MD, DPM, FRCP, FRC Psych was formerly the Crombie Ross Professor of Mental Health in the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK from 1992 to 2008. He remains professor emeritus at the University of Aberdeen and from 2010-2020 part-time professor of research at the University of the Highlands and Islands.

#14157

Dawūd al-Qayṣarī

1260 - 1350 (90 years)

Dawūd al-Qayṣarī was an early Ottoman Sufi scholar, philosopher and mystic. He was born in Kayseri, in central Anatolia and was the student of the Iranian scholar, Abd al-Razzaq Kāshānī . He was the author of over a dozen philosophical texts, many of which are still important textbooks in Shi'ite religious schools. The most important is the commentary on Ibn al-'Arabi's Fusus al-Hikam and his criticism of Ibn al-Farid's poetry. Sultan Orhan Gazi built a school for him in the town of İznik, the first case of an Ottoman state-established medrese.

#14158

Robert E. Gross

#171796

Overall Influence

#14159

Märt Põder

#84699

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (47 years)

Märt Põder is an Estonian philosopher, freedom of information activist, presenter, publicist and translator. Biography Põder was born in Tartu. He received his primary education at Tallinn Nõmme Primary School , secondary education at Tallinn School No. 21 . He has studied philosophy at the University of Tartu and Keio University in Japan .

#14160

Robert Greene

1678 - 1730 (52 years)

Robert Greene , was an English philosopher. Early life Greene, the son of Robert Greene, a mercer of Tamworth, Staffordshire, by his wife Mary Pretty of Fazeley, was born about 1678. His father, who according to the son was a repository of all the Christian virtues, died while Greene was a boy, and it was through the generosity of his uncle, John Pretty, rector of Farley, Hampshire, that he was sent to Clare Hall, Cambridge. He graduated B.A. 1699, and M.A. 1703. He became a fellow and tutor of his college and took orders.

#14161

Cissy Kityo

#77592

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Cissy Kityo Mutuluuza , is a Ugandan physician, epidemiologist and medical researcher. She is the Executive Director of the Joint Clinical Research Centre, a government-owned medical research institution in Uganda, specializing in HIV/AIDS treatment and management.

#14162

Melissa Terras

#111616

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Melissa Mhairi Terras is a British scholar of Digital Humanities. Since 2017, she has been Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage at the University of Edinburgh, and director of its Centre for Digital Scholarship. She previously taught at University College London, where she was Professor of Digital Humanities and served as director of its Centre for Digital Humanities from 2012 to 2017: she remains an honorary professor. She has a wide ranging academic background: she has an undergraduate degree in art history and English literature, then took a Master of Science degree in computer science,...

#14163

Jules Engel

#81254

Overall Influence

1909 - 2003 (94 years)

Jules Engel was an American filmmaker, painter, sculptor, graphic artist, set designer, animator, film director, and teacher of Hungarian origin. He was the founding director of the experimental animation program at the California Institute of the Arts, where he taught until his death, serving as mentor to several generations of animators.

#14164

Archibald Pitcairne

Archibald Pitcairne

1652 - 1713 (61 years)

Archibald Pitcairne or Pitcairn was a Scottish physician. He was a physician and poet who first studied law at Edinburgh and Paris graduating with an M.A. from Edinburgh in 1671. He turned his attention to medicine, and commenced to practise in Edinburgh, around 1681. He was appointed professor of physic at Leyden, in 1692, resigning his chair. On returning to Edinburgh, however, around 1693, he was suspected of being at heart an atheist, chiefly on account of his mockery of the puritanical strictness of the Presbyterian church. He was the reput...

#14165

Thomas Langan

#171849

Overall Influence

1929 - 2012 (83 years)

Thomas Langan was an American philosopher and a former president of the Metaphysical Society of America .

#14166

Chiara Bucciarelli-Ducci

#168760

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (50 years)

Chiara Bucciarelli-Ducci is an Italian cardiologist working in England. Career Bucciarelli-Ducci was born on June 15, 1976. She completed her general medical training and her specialist cardiology training at the Sapienza University in Rome, before taking on a doctorate at Imperial College London. Formerly a senior lecturer at the University of Bristol and Co-Director of the Clinical Research and Imaging Centre Bristol, she was named the Chief Executive Officer of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance. Since September 2021, she works at the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundat...

#14167

Tirone E. David

#30545

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Tirone Esperidiao David, is a Brazilian-born Canadian cardiac surgeon and professor of surgery at the University of Toronto. He is an attending cardiac surgeon at the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre, Toronto General Hospital. He is known for his 2007 development of a valve sparing aortic root replacement procedure to preserve the aortic valve in patients with aortic root aneurysms such as in Marfan syndrome; it is now known as the "David Operation".

#14168

Bernard Langer

#112658

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (94 years)

Bernard Langer was a Canadian surgeon and educator. In 2015, he was inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame. Biography Born in Toronto, he received an MD from the University of Toronto, interned at the Toronto General Hospital and completed training as a surgeon at the University of Toronto. Langer subsequently pursued training in oncology at MD Anderson Hospital in Houston and in liver transplantation at Brigham Hospital in Boston.

#14169

Wally Wood

1927 - 1981 (54 years)

Wallace Allan Wood was an American comic book writer, artist and independent publisher, widely known for his work on EC Comics's titles such as Weird Science, Weird Fantasy, and MAD Magazine from its inception in 1952 until 1964, as well as for T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents, and work for Warren Publishing's Creepy. He drew a few early issues of Marvel's Daredevil and established the title character's distinctive red costume. Wood created and owned the long-running characters Sally Forth and Cannon.

#14170

Scott A. Small

#130687

Overall Influence

Scott A. Small is an American neurologist and neuroscientist known for his work in Alzheimer's disease and normal cognitive aging. His research focuses on the hippocampus, a circuit in the brain targeted by Alzheimer's disease, aging, and schizophrenia. Small is the Director of the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center at Columbia University, where he is the Boris and Rose Katz Professor of Neurology. He is also appointed in Radiology and in Psychiatry, where he directs the Schizophrenia Research program.

#14171

Mose Durst

#34403

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Mose Durst is an author, educator, and the former president of the Unification Church of the United States. Durst was born in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City, to immigrant parents from Russia. He received a Master's degree and Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Oregon. He taught at Laney College in Oakland, California. In 1972 he converted from Judaism and joined the Unification Church in Oakland, then became a lecturer and a church leader in California. In 1974, he married Korean missionary Yon Soo Lim, and they led the Northern California church to...

#14172

Haden Guest

#122183

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

, Haden Guest in Geneva, New York, is a film historian, archivist and curator. He is Director of the Harvard Film Archive and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Art, Film and Visual Studies, Harvard University.

#14173

Qaem Amrohvi

1919 - 1990 (71 years)

Qaem Amrohvi was an Urdu poet, philosopher and thinker. Qaem Amrohvi was a well known pakistani urdu poet, his real name was Syed Zariful Hasan. He was born in 1919 in Amroha, India. After the independence of Pakistan in 1947, he migrated to Pakistan. He belonged to the Naqvi Syed family. In 1974, he moved to Kuwait and settled there. During the days of Gulf War, he moved back to Pakistan. He died in 1990 in Karachi.

#14174

Sophia Zoungas

#155951

Overall Influence

Sophia Zoungas is a clinical endocrinologist from Victoria, Australia. She is recognised for her work in the management of diabetes and its vascular complications and leads Australia's largest translational research program in diabetes care and benchmarking of diabetes services. Zoungas's research explores the link between diabetes, glucose levels and cardiovascular risks and has enabled people with diabetes to be prescribed medication that reduce their cardiovascular risk factors. She is head of the School of Public Health and Preventative Medicine at Monash University and is the Professor o...

#14175

Louis Ptáček

#102451

Overall Influence

Louis Ptáček is an American neurologist and professor who contributed greatly to the field of genetics and neuroscience. He was also an HHMI investigator from 1997 to 2018. His chief areas of research include the understanding of inherited Mendelian disorders and circadian rhythm genes. Currently, Ptáček is a neurology professor and a director of the Division of Neurogenetics in University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine. His current investigations primarily focus on extensive clinical studies in families with hereditary disorders, which include identifying and characterizing...

#14176

Franz Zacharias Ermerins

Franz Zacharias Ermerins

1808 - 1871 (63 years)

Franz Zacharias Ermerins was a Dutch physician and medical editor whose literary work encompassed Hippocrates and ancient Greek medicine. He was born into an eminent Zeeland family in Middelburg. In 1826, he graduated from the Latin school there. After the outbreak of the Belgian Revolution while he was a medical student at Leyden University, he joined the Leidse Jagers, a volunteer company of soldiers drawn from the Leyden student body, and participated in the Ten Days' Campaign. Upon his safe return, he continued his studies. He received a doctoral degree on November 3, 1832, with his ...

#14177

Philip Brett

#49572

Overall Influence

1937 - 2002 (65 years)

Philip Brett was a British-born American musicologist, musician and conductor. He was particularly known for his scholarly studies on Benjamin Britten and William Byrd and for his contributions to the development of lesbian and gay musicology. At the time of his death, he was Distinguished Professor of Musicology at the University of California, Los Angeles.

#14178

David Rothenberg

#109485

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

David Rothenberg is a professor of philosophy and music at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, with a special interest in animal sounds as music. He is also a composer and jazz musician whose books and recordings reflect a longtime interest in understanding other species such as singing insects by making music with them.

#14179

Soodabeh Davaran

#89673

Overall Influence

Soodabeh Davaran is an Iranian researcher, and professor of polymer chemistry in the Faculty of Pharmacy in Tabriz University of Medical Sciences. She has written many articles about chemistry. Awards Awards include:Davaran has gained First Rank of 9th Razi festival in Pharmacy , 2003; December, Tehran-Iran.She has been selected among the Women Elites of Iran and All Elites around the Islamic World, 2007: July, Tehran- Iran.She has been selected to be included in the first edition of "Who's Who in Plastics and Polymers", James P Harrington, Editor in chief, Society of Plastic Engineers, Techn...

#14180

Mark Schnitzer

#59560

Overall Influence

Mark Schnitzer is a Professor jointly in the Biology and Applied Physics departments at Stanford University and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and is a recipient of a Paul Allen grant. His current research focuses on techniques for imaging individual neurons in vivo, including using fluorescent imaging and highly parallel processing techniques. In 2003, he was named to the MIT Technology Review's "TR100" list of young innovators.

#14181

George Romney

1734 - 1802 (68 years)

George Romney was an English portrait painter. He was the most fashionable artist of his day, painting many leading society figures – including his artistic muse, Emma Hamilton, mistress of Lord Nelson.

#14182

Robert Ernest Hume

1877 - 1948 (71 years)

Robert Ernest Hume was an Indian-born American author and professor of the History of Religions at Union Theological Seminary, Christian missionary in India, and congregational minister. His translation of The Thirteen Principle Upanishads is seen as the standard for the work.

#14183

Alfredo Bengzon

#28691

Overall Influence

Alfredo Rafael Antonio Bengzon, also known as Alfredo R. A. Bengzon, is a Filipino doctor, educator, and former public official. He is currently Vice President for the Professional Schools of the Ateneo de Manila University, dean of the Ateneo School of Medicine and Public Health, dean emeritus of the Ateneo Graduate School of Business, and President and CEO of The Medical City.

#14184

David Walker

1785 - 1830 (45 years)

David Walker was an American abolitionist, writer, and anti-slavery activist. Though his father was enslaved, his mother was free; therefore, he was free as well . In 1829, while living in Boston, Massachusetts, with the assistance of the African Grand Lodge , he published An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World, a call for black unity and a fight against slavery.

#14185

Caroline S. Wagner

#72210

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Caroline S. Wagner is an American academic and author specializing in public policy related to science, technology, and innovation. As of 2011, Wagner holds the endowed chair in international affairs named for Milton A. Wolf and Roslyn Z. Wolf at the John Glenn College of Public Affairs, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.

#14186

Joseph Camilleri

#69314

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Joseph Camilleri is an Australian citizen of Maltese descent. He is a social scientist and philosopher. In philosophy he mostly specialised and interested in international relations. Life Camilleri was born in 1944 into a Maltese family residing in Egypt. His family moved to Australia when he was still very young. He studied at Melbourne University, Australia, from where he acquired his Bachelor of Arts, at Monash University, also in Melbourne, from where he acquire his Masters' degree, and at London University, England, where he became Doctor of Philosophy. Between 1967 and 1968 Camilleri was Teaching Fellow at Monash University.

#14187

Anita Goel

#19748

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (53 years)

Anita Goel is an American physicist, physician, and scientist in the emerging field of Nanobiophysics. At the Nanobiosym Research Institute , Goel examines the physics of life and the way nanomotors read and write information into DNA.

#14188

Robert Sibbald

1641 - 1722 (81 years)

Sir Robert Sibbald was a Scottish physician and antiquary. Life He was born in Edinburgh, the son of David Sibbald and Margaret Boyd . Educated at the Royal High School and the Universities of Edinburgh, Leiden, and Paris, he took his doctor's degree at the University of Angers in 1662, and soon afterwards settled as a physician working in Edinburgh. He resided at "Kipps Castle" near Linlithgow. In 1667 with Sir Andrew Balfour he started the botanical garden in Edinburgh, and he took a leading part in establishing the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, of which he was elected president in 1684.

#14189

Tomoaki Kato

#20457

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

is a pioneer in multiple-organ transplantation, pediatric and adult liver transplantation. Kato is Surgical Director of Adult and Pediatric Liver and Intestinal Transplantation at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center and is a professor of surgery at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Kato is also known for unique and innovative surgeries for adults and children, including a six-organ transplant; a procedure called APOLT that resuscitates a failing liver by attaching a partial donor liver, making immunosuppressant drugs unnecessary; and the firs...

#14190

Anders Tegnell

#29056

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Nils Anders Tegnell is a Swedish civil servant and physician specialising in infectious disease. From 2013 until his resignation in March 2022 he was Sweden's state epidemiologist. Tegnell had key roles in the Swedish response to the 2009 swine flu pandemic and COVID-19 pandemic. During the Covid pandemic in 2020, he became a divisive figure in Sweden and internationally due to his and the Public Health Agency of Sweden's opposition to lockdowns, travel restrictions and face masks for general use, which were widely adopted in most countries to curb the spread of the virus, as well as for his ...

#14191

Horst Bickel

#66049

Overall Influence

1918 - 2000 (82 years)

Horst Bickel was a German medical doctor. With Guido Fanconi, he characterized Glycogen storage disease type XI in 1949. He was also involved in the development of treatments for phenylketonuria. In 1951, Bickel, Evelyn Hickmans and John Gerrard were persuaded by a persistent mother to help her daughter, Sheila, who was suffering from phenylketonuria. They created a diet that was low in phenylalanine and the daughter's condition improved.

#14192

Wang Wei

699 - 759 (60 years)

Wang Wei was a Chinese musician, painter, poet, and politician of the middle Tang dynasty. He is regarded as one of the most famous men of arts and letters of his era. Many of his poems survive and 29 of them are included in the 18th-century anthology Three Hundred Tang Poems. Many of his best poems were inspired by the local landscape.

#14193

Dimitri Krainc

#171760

Overall Influence

Dimitri Krainc is the Aaron Montgomery Ward Professor and Chairman of the Ken & Ruth Davee Department of Neurology and Director of the Simpson Querrey Center for Neurogenetics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. He completed his research and clinical training at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, where he served on faculty until relocating to Northwestern in 2013. He was awarded the Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award and outstanding investigator award from NIH, and is President-elect of the American Neurological Association. Krainc was electe...

#14194

Ian Bogost

#141329

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (50 years)

Ian Bogost is an American academic and video game designer, most known for the game Cow Clicker. He holds a joint professorship at Washington University as director and professor of the Film and Media Studies program in Arts & Sciences and the McKelvey School of Engineering. He previously held a joint professorship in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication and in Interactive Computing in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he was the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts Distinguished Chair in Media Studies.

#14195

Angela Cheung

#170926

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Angela Man-Wei Cheung is a Canadian internal medicine specialist. At the University of Toronto, she is a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair, the KY and Betty Ho Chair of Integrative Medicine, and a senior scientist at Toronto General Hospital Research Institute and the Schroeder Arthritis Institute. Cheung also established the University of Toronto Center for Excellence in Skeletal Health Assessment and the Osteoporosis Program at the University Health Network.

#14196

Paolo Fabbri

#95071

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Paolo Fabbri, born 15 October 1948, is an Italian musicologist and academic. In 1989 he was awarded the Dent Medal. He is best known for his extensive publications on the life and works of Gioachino Rossini, and for a biography of composer Claudio Monteverdi which was first published in the Italian language in Turin in 1985 and later published by Cambridge University Press using an English language translation by Tim Carter in 1994. He is also the author of Il secolo cantante: Per una storia del libretto d'opera nel Seicento . For many years he has been a Professor of Music History and Musical Aesthetics at the University of Ferrara.

#14197

Peter G. Traber

#36991

Overall Influence

Peter George Traber is an American pharmaceutical company executive. He is the Chief Medical Officer for Selecta Biosciences. https://selectabio.com/ He has been the president and chief executive officer of Baylor College of Medicine and the John and Clara Whitmore Professor of Medicine. Traber succeeded Ralph Feigin to become the fourth president of BCM in March 2003, and was president until November 2008. Prior to joining Baylor, he served as Senior Vice President for Clinical Development & Medical Affairs and Chief Medical Officer at GlaxoSmithKline. Prior to that, Traber held positions ...

#14198

Thomas L. Schwenk

#65192

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Thomas L. Schwenk retired August 31, 2021 as dean of the School of Medicine at the University of Nevada, and vice president of health sciences at the University of Nevada, Reno. He now holds the position of Dean Emeritus at the University of Nevada, Reno, as well as an appointment as Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan Medical School.

#14199

Charles Hollenberg

#108947

Overall Influence

1930 - 2003 (73 years)

Charles H. Hollenberg was a Canadian physician, educator and researcher. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, he received a Bachelor of Science in 1950 and a Doctor of Medicine in 1955 from the University of Manitoba. In 1960, he joined the Department of Medicine at McGill University. From 1970 to 1981, he was the Sir John and Lady Eaton Professor of Medicine and Chair of the Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, and Physician-in-Chief of the Toronto General Hospital.

#14200

Dav Pilkey

#12538

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

David Murray "Dav" Pilkey Jr. is an American cartoonist, author, and illustrator of children's literature. He is best known as the author and illustrator of the children's book series, Captain Underpants, and its spin-off children's graphic novel series Dog Man, the latter published under the respective writer and illustrator pen names of George Beard and Harold Hutchins, which are also the names of the two protagonists of the Captain Underpants series.

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