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#14351

Adam of Balsham

1100 - 1181 (81 years)

Adam of Balsham was an Anglo-Norman scholastic and churchman. Life Adam was born in Balsham, near Cambridge, England. He studied with Peter Lombard at the University of Paris. He later taught at Paris; among his pupils were John of Salisbury and William of Tyre and might have been a contemporary there of Rainald of Dassel . Gabriel Nuchelmans surmises that he may have been the first person to introduce the term enuntiabile, which came to be used in the same sense as dictum.

#14352

Albert Hofstadter

1910 - 1989 (79 years)

Albert Hofstadter was an American philosopher. Life and career Hofstadter taught at Columbia University , the University of California at Santa Cruz and the New School for Social Research . He was the elder brother of physicist and Nobel laureate Robert Hofstadter and the uncle of Robert's son, Douglas Hofstadter.

#14353

Charlotte Haug

#78460

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Charlotte Haug is a Norwegian physician and editor, former editor of the Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association. Haug graduated as dr.med. in infection immunology from the University of Oslo in 1999, and eventually as Master of Science in health research from Stanford University. She edited the Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association from 2002 to 2015.

#14354

Gerard ter Borch

Gerard ter Borch

1617 - 1681 (64 years)

Gerard ter Borch , also known as Gerard Terburg , was a Dutch genre painter who lived in the Dutch Golden Age. He influenced fellow Dutch painters Gabriel Metsu, Gerrit Dou, Eglon van der Neer and Johannes Vermeer. According to Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., Ter Borch "established a new framework for subject matter, taking people into the sanctum of the home", showing the figures' uncertainties and expertly hinting at their inner lives. His influence as a painter, however, was later surpassed by Vermeer.

#14355

Adriano Tilgher

Adriano Tilgher

1887 - 1941 (54 years)

Adriano Tilgher was an Italian philosopher and essayist. Biography Tilgher was born in Resina . After studying law, he dedicated himself to journalism and essay writing. He was a theatre critic for various daily Roman newspapers between 1915 and 1925, proving himself a sharp interpreter of dramatic texts. He is known for his view of the theatre of Luigi Pirandello, which he interpreted as an expression of the contrast between Life and Form , a view Pirandello adopted as his own.

#14356

Andrew Read

#119942

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Professor Andrew P. Read is a British medical geneticist. Read studied organic chemistry at the University of Cambridge. Once he had obtained his doctorate, he worked at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research and at the University of Warwick.

#14357

Benjamin Breyer

#132253

Overall Influence

Benjamin N. Breyer is an American urologic surgeon. As a Professor of Urology, Epidemiology, and Biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco, he specializes in complex urethral and penile reconstruction, male incontinence, male fistula, surgical treatment for erectile dysfunction.

#14358

Raman Bedi

#79973

Overall Influence

Raman Bedi is Professor of Transcultural Oral Health at King's College London and was the Chief Dental Officer of England from 2002 to 2005. He is Chairman of the Global Child Dental Fund, having established the Global Child Dental Health Taskforce, and continues to practise.

#14359

Manfred Hermann Schmid

#153052

Overall Influence

1947 - 2021 (74 years)

Manfred Hermann Schmid was a German musicologist and Mozart expert. Life Schmid was born in Ottobeuren into a musical family . Schmid decided after his Abitur first to study violin at the Leopold Mozart Centre in Augsburg with the , before studying musicology, philosophy and history of art at the universities of Salzburg, Freiburg and Munich. He studied musicology with Gerhard Croll, Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht and Thrasybulos Georgiades, whose last doctoral student was Schmid. In 1975 Schmid was awarded a doctorate with a thesis on "Mozart and the Salzburg tradition".

#14360

Jaap Kunst

1891 - 1960 (69 years)

Jaap Kunst was a Dutch musicologist. He is credited with coining the term "ethnomusicology" as a more accurate name for the field then known as comparative musicology. Kunst studied the folk music of the Netherlands and of Indonesia. His published work totals more than 70 texts.

#14361

Christa Peters-Lidard

#99580

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Christa Peters-Lidard is an American hydrologist known for her work on integrating land surface modeling and data assimilation, particularly with remotely sensed measurements of precipitation. Early life Peters-Lidard grew up in Chesterfield County, Virginia where she was fascinated about nature, learned that she was good at math, and that she liked earth science. As an undergraduate at Virginia Tech she worked on a project on aquifers and groundwater flow at the United States Geological Survey and at that point she realized that she wanted to be an earth scientist at National Aeronautics and ...

#14362

Theodor Schwarz

1777 - 1850 (73 years)

Theodor Schwarz was a German Lutheran clergyman and writer. He published novels under the pseudonym Theodor Melas. He was the son of provost Georg Theodor Schwarz. From 1798 he studied at the University of Jena, where he attended lectures given by Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, Johann Jakob Griesbach and Friedrich Schiller. In 1800 he traveled with painter Jakob Wilhelm Roux to Saxon Switzerland and to Dresden, where he met with Caspar David Friedrich. In 1801 he returned to Rügen and assisted his father at the parish. Afterwards, he worked for several years as a ...

#14363

Zhou Guoping

#89854

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Zhou Guoping , is a modern Chinese author, poet, scholar, translator, philosopher, and research fellow at the Institute of Philosophy of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. As of 2017, Zhou has published more than 20 books, some being issued in Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Korea. Most of his works are among the best sellers of their own genre.

#14364

Poul Bjørndahl Astrup

#57524

Overall Influence

1915 - 2000 (85 years)

Poul Bjørndahl Astrup was a Danish clinical chemist famous for inventing a CO2 electrode and co-inventing the concept of base excess. External links Astrup - blodgasser, syrer og baser Ugeskrift for Læger 2007;169:2896

#14365

Yulia Sineokaya

#133239

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Yulia Vadimovna Sineokaya is a Russian philosopher, specialising in the history of European and Russian philosophy. Doctor of Sciences in Philosophy , Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences , Corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences .

#14366

Cora Sternberg

#82091

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Dr. Cora Sternberg is an American medical oncologist at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, serving as a member of the Genitourinary Oncology Program. Dr. Sternberg facilitates the continued growth and development of clinical and translational research programs in GU malignancies. Dr. Sternberg is an internationally respected leader in the field of medical oncology and urological malignancies and a recognized expert in the area of new drug development. She is known for her seminal contributions in bladder cancer, her strong track record of sustained genito-urinary oncol...

#14367

Thomas Faunce

#116224

Overall Influence

1958 - 2019 (61 years)

Thomas Faunce was a professor at the Australian National University , Canberra, Australia. He practiced both law and medicine, and his professorship was a joint one, being in both the ANU College of Law and Medical School. His research spanned across health law, bioethics, the regulatory governance of pharmaceutical industry and artificial photosynthesis in addressing environment sustainability issues. He was awarded research funding from the Australian Research Council for several Discovery Projects, and in 2009 was awarded a Future Fellowship to study nanotechnology and global public hea...

#14368

Alexander Hamilton

1739 - 1802 (63 years)

Alexander Hamilton FRSE FRCSE FRCPE was a Scottish physician. He was a co-founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1783. He was one of the first persons to recognise that puerperal fever was infectious. He was professor of midwifery at the University of Edinburgh.

#14369

Gary James Jason

#167704

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Gary James Jason is an American philosopher. He is well known for his work in argumentation theory, propaganda theory, mathematical logic and informal logic, and the philosophy of science. He is the author of texts on critical thinking and logic, among other books.

#14370

Pamela Huby

#157652

Overall Influence

1922 - 2019 (97 years)

Pamela Margaret Huby was a British philosopher and emeritus reader in philosophy at the University of Liverpool. Born in Dulwich, she was educated at James Allen's Girls' School and then won a senior scholarship in Classics to Lady Margaret Hall Oxford University. She was then an assistant lecturer in Classics at Reading and after a year returned to Oxford to lecture at St Anne's College where she switched to the field of ancient Greek philosophy, moving to Liverpool two years later.

#14371

Dannie Abse

#14489

Overall Influence

1923 - 2014 (91 years)

Daniel Abse CBE FRSL was a Welsh poet and physician. His poetry won him many awards. As a medic, he worked in a chest clinic for over 30 years. Early years Abse was born in Cardiff, Wales, as the younger brother of the politician and reformer Leo Abse and the eminent psychoanalyst Wilfred Abse. Unusually for a middle-class Jewish boy, Dannie Abse attended St Illtyd's College, a working-class Catholic school in Splott. Abse studied medicine, first at the University of Wales College of Medicine and then at Westminster Hospital Medical School and King's College London.

#14372

Rita Mae Brown

#61157

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Rita Mae Brown is an American feminist writer, best known for her coming-of-age autobiographical novel, Rubyfruit Jungle. Brown was active in a number of civil rights campaigns and criticized the marginalization of lesbians within feminist groups. Brown received the Pioneer Award for lifetime achievement at the Lambda Literary Awards in 2015.

#14373

Giacomo Scarpelli

Giacomo Scarpelli

#159467

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Giacomo Scarpelli , son of Furio Scarpelli, is an Italian scholar in History of Philosophy and screenwriter. Early life Scarpelli was born in Rome, Italy. He obtained a Ph.D. in Philosophy at the University of Florence, and carried out further research and studies in England and the United States.

#14374

Eivind Engebretsen

#113112

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (52 years)

Eivind Engebretsen is a Norwegian researcher in the medical humanities. He is a full professor of interdisciplinary health science at the Institute of Health and Society at the University of Oslo. From 2023, he is appointed as Dean of the Circle U. European University Alliance and has the overall academic responsibility for Circle U.'s educational program.

#14375

Rudolf Wiegmann

1804 - 1865 (61 years)

Heinrich Ernst Gottfried Rudolf Wiegmann was a German painter, archaeologist, art historian, graphic artist and architect. He worked in the Classical style and, as a painter, is best known for his vedute. His wife, Marie Wiegmann, whom he married in 1841, was also a painter of some note.

#14376

Anthony Newcomb

#60865

Overall Influence

1941 - 2018 (77 years)

Anthony Newcomb was an American musicologist. He was born in New York City and studied at the University of California, Berkeley where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1962. He then studied with Gustav Leonhardt in the Netherlands while on a Fulbright Scholarship. He received an MFA and Ph.D from Princeton University in 1969.

#14377

Teresa Brennan

#89360

Overall Influence

1952 - 2003 (51 years)

Teresa Brennan was an Australian feminist philosopher and psychoanalytic theorist best known for her posthumous book, The Transmission of Affect . Before her death, Brennan was Schmidt Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Florida Atlantic University, where she founded a PhD program for Public Intellectuals.

#14378

James T. Goodrich

#31719

Overall Influence

1946 - 2020 (74 years)

James Tait Goodrich was an American neurosurgeon. He was the director of the Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Montefiore Health System and Professor of Clinical Neurological Surgery, Pediatrics, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and gained worldwide recognition for performing multiple successful separations of conjoined twins. He assisted in two craniopagus separations with Dr. Alferayan A in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, with the first one done May 5, 2014 and the second one done February 14, 2016 . Both pairs were successfully separated and are do...

#14379

David Guest

1911 - 1938 (27 years)

David Guest was a British mathematician and philosopher who volunteered to fight for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War and was killed in Spain in 1938. He was the uncle of American-British musician, actor and director Christopher Guest.

#14380

Jean de Silhon

1596 - 1667 (71 years)

Jean de Silhon was a French philosopher and politician. He was a founding member, and the first to occupy seat 24 of the Académie française in 1634. At Cardinal Richelieu's prompting, he defended the concept of reason of state, arguing that the political necessities under which the State operates mean that it need not always follow normal laws of ethics, such as telling the truth. Reason of state was thus, he said, "a mean between that which conscience permits and affairs require."

#14381

Charles Francis Brittain

#145242

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Charles Francis Brittain is an American philosopher currently the Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy and Humane Letters at Cornell University. He specializes in ancient philosophy, specifically Hellenistic philosophy. His work lies within the Platonic tradition and draws on texts from Cicero, Augustine, and Simplicius.

#14382

Shelby Kutty

#100997

Overall Influence

Shelby Kutty is an Indian-born American cardiologist, a professor of pediatrics and internal medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He holds the Helen B. Taussig endowed professorship at Johns Hopkins and is Director of the Helen B. Taussig Heart Center at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Prior to this, he held the title of assistant dean for research and development and vice chair of pediatrics at the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Medicine.

#14383

Fumiko Hori

#74268

Overall Influence

1918 - 2019 (101 years)

was a Japanese artist, known for her paintings in the Nihonga style. Biography Hori was born to a scholarly family in Hirakawacho, in Tokyo, Japan, in 1918. In 1940, she graduated from Women's School of Fine Arts . She trained in Nihonga, a traditional Japanese painting style. In 1952, she won the Uemura Shōen Award, given to outstanding Japanese female painters.

#14384

Emil Hammacher

1885 - 1916 (31 years)

Emil Hammacher was a German philosopher, proponent of objective idealism and mystic, doctor of Philosophy and Law, professor of philosophy at the University of Bonn. He studied in Geneva, Heidelberg, Berlin and Bonn. Hammacher borrowed the basic tenets of objective idealism from Hegel. He rejected dialectics and developed the mystical doctrine of "ethical self-awareness of the spirit" as "the supreme and fundamental value." In his work directed against Marxism, Hammacher holds the idea that the socialization of the means of production and materialism are contrary to the laws of morality.

#14385

Yvonne Maldonado

#21584

Overall Influence

Yvonne "Bonnie" Maldonado is an American physician, pediatrician, and Professor of Pediatrics and of Health Research and Policy at Stanford University, with a focus on Infectious Diseases. She founded Stanford's pediatric HIV Clinic and now serves as Stanford University School of Medicine's Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Development and Diversity.

#14386

Jonathan Drezner

#140528

Overall Influence

Jonathan A. Drezner is an American sport and exercise medicine physician, currently editor in chief of the British Journal of Sports Medicine. In both clinical practice and research he has a strong interest in sports cardiology. He is a first author for the International Guidelines for Electrocardiography Interpretation in athletes and was the 19th President of the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine in 2012.

#14387

Andrew McNaughton

Andrew McNaughton

1887 - 1966 (79 years)

General Andrew George Latta McNaughton was a Canadian electrical engineer, scientist, army officer, cabinet minister, and diplomat. Early life McNaughton was born in Moosomin, District of Assiniboia, North-West Territories , on 25 February 1887. Both of McNaughton's parents were immigrants from Scotland, and his youth was a happy one, being brought up by an adventuresome father who had once been a trader in buffalo hides and a kindly, loving mother. His upbringing on a farm instilled in him a life-long love of hard work and self-discipline. McNaughton spent his free time riding horses across the vast expanses of the Prairies while also engaging in hunting and fishing.

#14388

Robert Lepenies

#111961

Overall Influence

1984 - Present (42 years)

Robert Lepenies is a German political scientist and economist, currently employed as the president of the Karlshochschule International University. Life Lepenies studied politics, philosophy, and economics at the University of Oxford, UK, graduating with a bachelor's degree in 2008. He completed his master's degree in International Political Economy at the London School of Economics in 2014. He went on to the Hertie School of Governance Berlin and received his PhD in Political Science with a thesis entitled "Losers in Trade: Economics and Normative Justifications."

#14389

E. I. Watkin

1888 - 1981 (93 years)

Edward Ingram Watkin was an English Catholic philosopher, pacifist and writer. Life He studied at St Paul's School, London and New College, Oxford. In 1908, Watkin became a convert to Catholicism. He publicly opposed conscription in 1916, a position he upheld in his 1939 pamphlet The Crime of Conscription.

#14390

Petrus Martinez de Osma

1427 - 1480 (53 years)

Petrus Martinez de Osma was a Spanish theologian and philosopher, known for his views on indulgences, which he retracted at the end of his life. Life He graduated M.A. at the University of Salamanca in 1457. He was professor of theology there from 1463. A follower of Alonso el Madrigal , from 1476 he defended theses on indulgences and confession resembling those of John Wyclif and Jan Hus, and anticipating issues from the Protestant Reformation. Among his pupils was Antonio de Nebrija.

#14391

Chester Wickwire

#78211

Overall Influence

1913 - 2008 (95 years)

Chester "Chet" L. Wickwire was the American chaplain emeritus of the Johns Hopkins University. He was a prominent fighter for civil rights and an international peace activist. Reverend Wickwire was remembered as a "consummate humanist" after his death.

#14392

Constance Tom Noguchi

#136504

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Constance Tom Noguchi is a research physicist, Chief of the Molecular Cell Biology Section, and Dean of the Foundation for Advanced Education in the Sciences Graduate School at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases of the National Institutes of Health . Noguchi studies the underlying genetics, metabolism, and treatment of sickle cell disease and of erythropoietin and its effects on metabolism.

#14393

Muretus

1526 - 1585 (59 years)

Muretus is the Latinized name of Marc Antoine Muret , a French humanist who was among the revivers of a Ciceronian Latin style and is among the usual candidates for the best Latin prose stylist of the Renaissance.

#14394

William George MacCallum

William George MacCallum

1874 - 1944 (70 years)

William George MacCallum was a Canadian-American physician and pathologist. He was of Scottish descent and was born in Dunnville village in Canada, where his father was a physician. He was educated at the University of Toronto. He graduated with BA in 1894. Initially inclined towards Greeks as academic career, his father influenced him to enter medicine. He joined the second year of the first batch of medicine course in the Johns Hopkins Medical School, and became one of the first graduates of the institute in 1897. He was appointed assistant resident of pathology of the medical school in 1897, resident pathologist in 1901, soon after Associate Professor, and full Professor in 1908.

#14395

Giovanni Bianchi

Giovanni Bianchi

1693 - 1775 (82 years)

Giovanni Bianchi , also known as Jano Planco, was an Italian physician, anatomist, archaeologist, zoologist and intellectual. He wrote numerous medical texts and De Conchis minus notis liber , a work on Foraminifera, and maintained a cabinet of curiosities.

#14396

Hieronymus Fabricius

Hieronymus Fabricius

1533 - 1619 (86 years)

Girolamo Fabrici d'Acquapendente, also known as Girolamo Fabrizio or Hieronymus Fabricius , was a pioneering anatomist and surgeon known in medical science as "The Father of Embryology." Life and accomplishments Born in Acquapendente, Latium, Fabricius studied at the University of Padua, receiving a Doctor of Medicine degree in 1559 under the guidance of Gabriele Falloppio. He was a private teacher of anatomy in Padua, 1562–1565, and in 1565, became professor of surgery and anatomy at the university, succeeding Falloppio.

#14397

Lidia Rudnicka

#77490

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Lidia Rudnicka is a Polish-American dermatologist with contributions to the field of scleroderma research, hair diseases and melanoma prevention. Rudnicka was the chairman of the Department of Dermatology CSK MSWiA in Warsaw, Poland . She is currently chairman of the Department of Dermatology at Medical University of Warsaw. She is president of the Polish Dermatological Society, first president of the International Society of Trichoscopy, regional editor for the International Journal of Trichology, and associate editor of the Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology.

#14398

Roz Chast

#15464

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Roz Chast is an American cartoonist and a staff cartoonist for The New Yorker. Since 1978, she has published more than 800 cartoons in The New Yorker. She also publishes cartoons in Scientific American and the Harvard Business Review.

#14399

Grant Lewi

1902 - 1951 (49 years)

William Grant Lewi II was an American astrologer and author. Best known for his books Astrology for the Millions and Heaven Knows What, Lewi has been described as the father of modern astrology in America.

#14400

Jacob Anton Zallinger zum Thurn

1735 - 1813 (78 years)

Jacob Anton Zallinger zum Thurn was a philosopher and canonist . Biography Zallinger studied at Innsbruck and Munich, and entered the Jesuit order at Landsberg am Lech on 9 October 1753. He taught philosophy at Munich from 1758 to 1761, before going to Ingolstadt to study theology. Zallinger was ordained priest on 1 June 1765.

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