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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#14251

Stefan Schulz

#172415

Overall Influence

#14252

Heinrich Czolbe

1819 - 1873 (54 years)

Heinrich Adam Friedrich Czolbe was a German physician and materialist philosopher. Literary works Neue Darstellung des Sensualismus, 1855Entstehung des Selbstbewußtseins. Eine Antwort an Herrn Professor Lotze, Leipzig 1856 Die Grenzen und der Ursprung des menschlichen Erkentniss, 1865

#14253

Kelly McQueen

#42372

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Kathryn Ann Kelly "Kelly" McQueen is an American anesthesiologist and global health expert. She currently practices anesthesiology at the UW Health University Hospital in Madison, Wisconsin and serves as the chair for the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public health.

#14254

Hiroshi Furukawa

#172424

Overall Influence

#14255

Mark Pretorius

#116824

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Mark Pretorius is an evangelical theologian, philosopher and metaphysician. He holds the following degrees: a BTh , a BTh Hons , an M.A. in biblical studies , and a PhD in systematic theology . Pretorius was a senior academic at the South African Theological Seminary, and currently a research associate in the department of systematic theology at the University of Pretoria.

#14256

João Zeferino da Costa

João Zeferino da Costa

1840 - 1916 (76 years)

João Zeferino da Costa was a Brazilian painter and designer. Life and work He began his studies in 1857 at the Academia Imperial de Belas Artes under the direction of Victor Meirelles. While there, he won several awards and was granted a fellowship to study in Europe. In 1869, he went to Rome and enrolled at the Accademia di San Luca, becoming a student of Cesare Mariani. He studied there for three years, winning several more awards, which allowed him to extend his visit for a few more years. Some of his best-known paintings were done during this period.

#14257

Giovanni Di Chiro

#172429

Overall Influence

#14258

Øyvind Ellingsen

#45652

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Øyvind Ellingsen is a Norwegian Professor of Cellular Cardiology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology , a Consultant Physician at the Department of Cardiology, St. Olavs Hospital, Trondheim, Norway, and is currently Head of the Department of Circulation and Medical Imaging. He received his MD and PhD at the University of Oslo, Norway, and had a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

#14259

Rafael Gambra Ciudad

#102519

Overall Influence

1920 - 2004 (84 years)

Rafael Gambra Ciudad was a Spanish philosopher, a secondary education official, a Carlist politician and a soldier. In philosophy he is considered key representative of late Traditionalism; his works fall also into theory of state and politics. He is best known as author of books focusing on secularisation of Western European culture in the consumer society era. As a politician he is acknowledged as a theorist rather than as an active protagonist, though after 2001 he briefly headed one of the Carlist branches.

#14260

Robert Sharrock

1630 - 1684 (54 years)

Robert Sharrock was an English churchman and botanist. He is now known for The History of the Propagation and Improvement of Vegetables by the Concurrence of Art and Nature , for philosophical work directed against Thomas Hobbes, and as an associate of Robert Boyle

#14261

Susan Elderkin

#77643

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Susan Elderkin is an English author of two critically acclaimed novels, her first, Sunset Over Chocolate Mountains won a Betty Trask Prize and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction, her second, The Voices was shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize and longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. She was one of Granta Magazine's 20 Best Young British Novelists in 2003 and won the 2007 Society of Authors Travel Award. She is the author, with Ella Berthoud, of The Novel Cure: An A-Z of Literary Remedies and The Story Cure: Books to Keep Kids Happy, Healthy and Wise.

#14262

Henry Spotnitz

#25253

Overall Influence

Henry M. Spotnitz is George H. Humphrey II Professor of Surgery, chairman of the Columbia University Medical Center Conflict of Interest Committee, co-chair of the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Information Systems Clinical Advisory Committee, chair of the Information Technology Committee of the Faculty Practice Organization, and Vice-Chair for Research and Information Systems in the Department of Surgery.

#14263

Oliver Wrong

#63895

Overall Influence

1925 - 2012 (87 years)

Professor Oliver Murray Wrong was an eminent academic nephrologist and one of the founders of the speciality in the United Kingdom. From a background as a "salt and water" physician, he made detailed clinical observations and scientifically imaginative connections which were the basis of numerous advances in the molecular biology of the human kidney. Wrong himself contributed to much of the molecular work after his own "retirement". He dictated amendments to his final paper during his final illness in his own teaching hospital, University College Hospital , London. Though academic in his lea...

#14264

Martin Marshall

#89795

Overall Influence

Martin Marshall is a British medical academic and a general practitioner. He was chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners from 2019 until 2022. He works as a GP in Newham, East London. Career He was appointed as a deputy Chief Medical Officer for England in March 2006, In late 2007 he left this post and was director of clinical quality of the Health Foundation.

#14265

Hippo

500 BC - 460 BC (40 years)

Hippo was a Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher. He is variously described as coming from Rhegium, Metapontum, Samos, and Croton, and it is possible that there was more than one philosopher with this name.

#14266

Robert B. Downs

Robert B. Downs

#48322

Overall Influence

1903 - 1991 (88 years)

Robert Bingham Downs was an American writer and librarian. Downs was an advocate for intellectual freedom, and spent the majority of his career working against literary censorship. Downs authored many books and publications regarding the topics of censorship, and on the topics of responsible and efficient leadership in the library context.

#14267

Sverre Dick Henriksen

Sverre Dick Henriksen

#110978

Overall Influence

1906 - 2001 (95 years)

Sverre Dick Henriksen was a Norwegian professor of medicine. Biography He was born in Skien, and took his examen artium in 1925. The cand.med. degree at the University of Oslo followed in 1931, and from 1931 to 1933 he worked at various Norwegian hospitals. After starting a specialist education in microbiology in 1933, at the Bacteriological Laboratory of the Norwegian Armed Forces, he took the dr.med. degree in 1936 on the thesis Studies on the Bacterial Flora of the Respiratory Tract in Acute and Chronic Bronchitis, Bronchial Asthma and Lung Gangrene. He spent the period 1937 to 1938 as res...

#14268

Gary Smith

#116445

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Gary Smith is an American philosopher and culture manager. Early life and education Smith grew up in Austin, Texas. After graduating from high school in 1972, he went on to study philosophy and German in Houston and Boston as well as in Frankfurt as a DAAD scholarship recipient. After completing a dissertation on Walter Benjamin, Smith earned his doctorate in 1989 from Boston University.

#14269

Alex Battler

#85702

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Alex Battler , known in Russia under the pen name Oleg Alekseyevich Arin , is a Soviet-born Russian-Canadian scholar and political writer. He is a member of the organization «Defend Science» . Life and career Alex Battler was born in Astrakhan. In 1966 he entered the Faculty of Oriental studies of the A. Zhdanov Leningrad State University. After graduating in 1971, he enrolled in the post-graduate school at the Institute of the Far Eastern Studies in Moscow. In 1975 he was conferred the Degree of Candidate of Science , and in 1988 his Doctor of Science dissertation in the specialty "history of...

#14270

Joseph von Mering

Joseph von Mering

1849 - 1908 (59 years)

Josef, Baron von Mering was a German physician. Working at the University of Strasbourg, Mering was the first person to discover that one of the pancreatic functions is the production of insulin, a hormone which controls blood sugar levels.

#14271

George Panthanmackel

#144984

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

George Panthanmackel is professor of philosophy at Suvidya College, Bangalore. He has also been a visiting professor to several other Institutes teaching both graduates and postgraduates. Biography In 2009–2010 he worked at Indira Gandhi National Open University as senior consultant of philosophy and organized its BA Philosophy Syllabus, especially by editing the entire 238 Units . He has published about 70 research papers and articles in national and international Journals. He has learned 11 languages and one dialect: Greek, Latin, Hebrew, German, English, French, Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Mala...

#14272

Moshe Prywes

#13788

Overall Influence

1914 - 1998 (84 years)

Moshe Prywes was a Polish-Israeli physician and educator. He was the first President of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev . Biography Prywes was born in Warsaw, Poland. He studied medicine for two years at the University of Tours in France, and graduated from the University of Warsaw in 1939.

#14273

Moncef Chelli

#114080

Overall Influence

1936 - 1994 (58 years)

Moncef Chelli , , was a Franco-Tunisian philosopher and writer. Biography He arrived in France after completing secondary school at Sadiki College in Tunis to begin higher studies in philosophy at the Sorbonne, as well as Arabic and mathematics. He was awarded the rank of docteur d'État of letters and humanities in 1979.

#14274

Bao Jingyan

#151144

Overall Influence

Bao Jingyan or Pao Ching-yen was a Chinese, libertarian/anarchist philosopher and Taoist who lived somewhere between the late 200's AD and before 400 AD. Political thought A successor of Laozi and Zhuang Zhou strain of libertarian Taoism, Pao Ching-yen was, according to Etienne Balazs, "China's first political anarchist."

#14275

Krista Kostial-Šimonović

#116268

Overall Influence

1923 - 2018 (95 years)

Krista Kostial-Šimonović was a Croatian physician and academic who researched the effects of human exposure to heavy metals and toxicity. She was elected as an associate member of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts in 1981 and became a full member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, when the country gained its independence from Yugoslavia in 1991. In 1996, she was honored with the Order of Danica Hrvatska in recognition of her scientific work.

#14276

Paul Klotman

#149674

Overall Influence

Paul E. Klotman is an American physician-scientist and academic administrator. He is the president, CEO and executive dean of the Baylor College of Medicine, a position he began on Sept. 1, 2010. He is the fifth person to serve as president of the College, located in Houston in the Texas Medical Center, which operates as a health sciences university with four schools: Medical School, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, School of Health Professions and National School of Tropical Medicine. Klotman joined Baylor at a time when it was experiencing great financial difficulties, and led a succ...

#14277

Nabil F. Saba

#59124

Overall Influence

Nabil F. Saba is an American oncologist. He is currently Professor and Vice-chair of Hematology and Medical Oncology, and Professor of Otolaryngology at the Winship Cancer Institute at the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia. He is a specialist in the field of head and neck oncology. Saba has authored more than 200 peer-reviewed articles. He is the inaugural Lynne and Howard Halpern Chair in Head and Neck Cancer Research.

#14278

Philip L. Townes

#48430

Overall Influence

1927 - 2017 (90 years)

Philip Leonard Townes was an American physician, human geneticist, embryologist and developmental biologist who identified Townes–Brocks syndrome in 1972 while a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Rochester.

#14279

John Carlo Bertot

#134569

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

John Carlo Bertot is a professor and co-director of the Information Policy & Access Center at the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland, where he is also Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs.

#14280

John Stuart

#172589

Overall Influence

#14281

Antoni Leśniowski

1867 - 1940 (73 years)

Antoni Leśniowski was a Polish surgeon, credited with publishing what may have been the earliest reports of the condition which later became known as Crohn's disease. He graduated in medicine from the University of Warsaw in 1890, and studied further in Berlin. From 1892 to 1912 he worked as a surgeon at the Infant Jesus Hospital in Warsaw, specialising in urology. Despite this, his most notable reports were on several cases of inflammatory bowel disease. On May 10, 1903, Medycyna, a weekly medical newspaper, published an article in which he described several cases of intestinal disease, conc...

#14282

Bryn Williams-Jones

Bryn Williams-Jones

#132658

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Bryn Williams-Jones is a Canadian bioethicist, professor and director of the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine at the School of Public Health, Université de Montréal. He is co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Canadian Journal of Bioethics/Revue canadienne de bioéthique, the first open access bilingual bioethics journal in Canada , and co-director of the Ethics branch of the International Observatory on the Social Impact of AI and Digital Technology . Williams-Jones is a member of the Centre for Research in Public Health , the Centre for Ethics Research , the Institute for Applied...

#14283

Samuel Manuwa

1903 - 1976 (73 years)

Oloye Sir Samuel Layinka Ayodeji Manuwa, CMG, OBE was a Nigerian surgeon, Inspector General of Medical Services and former Chief Medical Adviser to the Federal Government of Nigeria. He was the first Nigerian to pass the FRCS and he obtained the postgraduate Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Edinburgh in 1934. In 1966, he was elected president of the World Federation for Mental Health.

#14284

J. Hunter Guthrie

J. Hunter Guthrie

1901 - 1974 (73 years)

Joseph Hunter Guthrie was an American academic philosopher, writer, Jesuit, and Catholic priest. Born in New York City, he entered the Society of Jesus in 1917, and began his studies at Woodstock College. Following his undergraduate and graduate work there, he taught at Jesuit institutions in the Philippines until 1927. Following his ordination in 1930, he received doctorates in theology and philosophy from the Pontifical Gregorian University and the University of Paris, respectively. He then returned to the United States, where he became a professor of philosophy at Woodstock College and Fo...

#14285

Luigia Carlucci Aiello

#111460

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Luigia Carlucci Aiello is an Italian computer scientist, emeritus professor of artificial intelligence at Sapienza University of Rome. Education and career Aiello is originally from Fabriano. After earning a diploma from the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa in 1968, Aiello became a researcher for the National Research Council , in Pisa, also working in the 1970s with John McCarthy at Stanford University, following the death of her husband, computer scientist Mario Aiello, in 1976.

#14286

Noëlle McAfee

#146583

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Noëlle McAfee is professor of philosophy and affiliated faculty in women's, gender, and sexuality studies and psychoanalytic studies at Emory University, where she has taught since 2010. McAfee previously taught at several other universities, including serving as Allen-Berenson Visiting Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at Brandeis University. She has worked extensively in democratic theory, new media, and psychoanalytic theories of the public sphere. McAfee is currently the co-chair of Public Philosophy Network, associate editor of the Kettering Review, and has spent a nu...

#14287

Philip J. Kain

#162229

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Philip Joseph Kain is an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at Santa Clara University. He is known for his works on post-Kantian philosophy. Books Schiller, Hegel, and Marx: State, Society, and the Aesthetic Ideal of Ancient Greece. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1982.Marx' Method, Epistemology, and Humanism: A Study in the Development of His Thought. Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 1986.Marx and Ethics. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988. Paperback edition 1991.Marx and Modern Political Theory: From Hobbes to Contemporary Feminism. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1993.Hegel and the Other: A Study of the Phenomenology of Spirit.

#14288

Nicola Spedalieri

1740 - 1795 (55 years)

Nicola Spedalieri was an Italian priest, theologian, and philosopher. Life He studied and was ordained a priest in the seminary of Monreale, then among the most prominent in Sicily. In Monreale, he was appointed professor of philosophy and mathematics, and later of theology. At the same time he cultivated the arts of poetry, music, and painting. Disgusted at the opposition stirred up by certain theological theses, which were branded as heretical at Palermo, but approved at Rome, he withdrew from Monreale to Rome , where for ten years, while although leading a penurious life, he participated in fruitful study and labour.

#14289

Francesco Bianchini

Francesco Bianchini

1662 - 1729 (67 years)

Francesco Bianchini was an Italian philosopher and scientist. He worked for the curia of three popes, including being camiere d'honore of Clement XI, and secretary of the commission for the reform of the calendar, working on the method to calculate the astronomically correct date for Easter in a given year.

#14290

Alex Callinicos

#172713

Overall Influence

#14291

Maged N. Kamel Boulos

#26383

Overall Influence

Maged N. Kamel Boulos is a British health informatician, scientist and Full Professor of Digital Health with Sun Yat-sen University , having worked before that at the Alexander Graham Bell Centre of Digital Health, University of the Highlands and Islands, at the University of Plymouth, at the University of Bath and at City University London. Other held affiliations include Universidade de Lisboa . He is particularly known for his research into Geographic Information Systems applications in health and healthcare, which received wide news media coverage. He is credited with coining the phrases ...

#14292

Mari Ruti

#138679

Overall Influence

1964 - 2023 (59 years)

Mari Ruti was a Finnish-Canadian philosopher. She had served as Distinguished Professor of Critical Theory and of Gender and Sexuality Studies on the graduate faculty at the University of Toronto in Toronto, Canada, and as an Undergraduate Instructor at their Mississauga campus. She was an interdisciplinary scholar within the theoretical humanities working at the intersection of contemporary theory, continental philosophy, psychoanalytic theory, cultural studies, trauma theory, posthumanist ethics, gender, and sexuality studies.

#14293

Giambattista Toderini

1728 - 1799 (71 years)

Giambattista Toderini was a Venetian philosopher, writer, and former Jesuit abbot. Biography Son of Domenico Maria and Anna Maria Cestari, he was the descendant of the Gagliardis dalla Volta counts palatine. Toderini studied philosophy and archaeology, but tended toward contemplative and religious life since his youth and joined the Society of Jesus. He was employed in teaching, dedicating himself to philosophy in Verona and Forlì.

#14294

David C. Grossman

#70100

Overall Influence

David C. Grossman is an American pediatrician who practices at Kaiser Permanente Washington. He is the chairperson of the United States Preventive Services Task Force , a senior investigator at Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, and a professor of health services and an adjunct professor of pediatrics at the University of Washington. He is known for his research on injury and suicide prevention. He is also known for his research on disparities in health among Native Americans, for which he received the Native American Child Health Advocacy Award from the American Academy o...

#14295

David ben Yom Tov ibn Bilia

#116404

Overall Influence

David ben Yom Tov ibn Bilia was a Portuguese Jewish philosopher who lived in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Ibn Bilia was the author of many works, the greater part of which, no longer in existence, are known only by quotations. Among them were: Me'or 'Enayim, a commentary on the Pentateuch, quoted by Caspi, Levi ben Gershon, and chiefly by the author's countryman Samuel Zarza, who often criticized Ibn Bilia's interpretations as being too mystical; and Yesodot ha-Maskil, published, with a French translation by S. Klein, in the collection Dibre Ḥakamim, Metz, 1849.

#14296

Jason C. Kovacic

#121167

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Jason C. Kovacic is an Australian-born cardiologist and physician-scientist; the Robert Graham Chair and Professor of Medicine, University of New South Wales; Executive Director of the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute in Sydney, Australia; and Professor of Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York.

#14297

Arnold B. Rabson

#89288

Overall Influence

Arnold B. Rabson is an American physician-scientist. He is the director of the Child Health Institute of New Jersey and the Laura Gallagher Chair of Developmental Biology at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Rabson is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

#14298

Gunther O. Hofmann

Gunther O. Hofmann

#31606

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Gunther O. Hofmann is a German surgeon, biophysicist, and professor. Early life and education Gunther O. Hofmann was born in 1957 in Landshut, Bavaria. Hofmann attended medical school and earned a Staatsexamen and a doctorate from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Thereafter, he moved to the Technical University Munich, wherefrom he graduated in 1984 with a Dr. rer. nat. in physics.

#14299

Charles Frederick George

#93274

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Sir Charles Frederick George is an English physician and academic. George was born in Birmingham to William Hubert George and Evelyn Pryce, and was educated in Oundle. He graduated from Birmingham University with an Intercalated BSc in Anatomy in 1962, and a MBChB in Medicine in 1965.

#14300

Deceneus

100 BC - 100 BC (0 years)

Deceneus or Decaeneus was a priest of Dacia during the reign of Burebista . He is mentioned in the near-contemporary Greek Geographica of Strabo and in the 6th-century Latin Getica of Jordanes, where he is called Dicineus.

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