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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#14551

Dlawer Ala'Aldeen

Dlawer Ala'Aldeen

#44592

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Dlawer Ala'Aldeen , is the Founding President of the Middle East Research Institute, a policy-research institute, based in Arbil, Kurdistan Region of Iraq. He is a former Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research in the Kurdistan Regional Government and former professor of Medicine at the University of Nottingham in the UK. His current focus is on policy research in the fields of good governance, rule of law, national security, governance reform and promotion of human rights.

#14552

Michael Spitzer

#146083

Overall Influence

Michael Spitzer is a British musicologist and academic. Early life Michael Spitzer was born in 1966 in Nigeria. He was raised in Israel, and in 1973, emigrated to the UK. He was a refugee of the Yom Kippur War.

#14553

Hans Mersmann

1891 - 1971 (80 years)

Hans Mersmann was a German music historian, musicologist and teacher of music. Life Born in Potsdam, Mersmann studies in Munich and Berlin. He received his doctorate in 1914. One year later he was commissioned by the Prussian Folk Song Commission to create a folk song archive. From 1924 to 1933, he was editor-in-chief of the magazine "Melos". In 1926, he became a professor at the Technical University of Berlin. In 1933, after the Nazi takeover, he was dismissed from the university on the grounds that he had worked in the field of Neue Musik. He was then obliged to give private music lessons....

#14554

Evdokia Anagnostou

#127706

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Evdokia Anagnostou is a professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Toronto, and is cross-appointed as pediatric neurologist and a senior clinician scientist at the Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital in Toronto, Canada. She is a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Translational Therapeutics in Autism Spectrum Disorder.

#14555

Brian Hainline

#81662

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Brian Hainline is a medical researcher and the chief medical officer of the National Collegiate Athletic Association in the United States. Prior to taking that position in 2013, he was the chief medical officer of the United States Tennis Association. He was born in Santa Monica, California and currently resides in Indiana. He is now the president of the United States Tennis Association.

#14556

Leif Stenberg

#42462

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Leif Stenberg has been the Dean of the Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations at the Aga Khan University in London since April 2017. Media Appearances Stenberg provided commentary during the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy. He also appeared on live television to comment on the roots and developments of the Arab Spring.

#14557

Gullapalli Nageswara Rao

#34136

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Gullapalli Nageswara Rao is an Indian ophthalmologist, the chairman of the Academia Ophthalmologica Internationalis and the founder of the L. V. Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad. A former associate professor at the School of Medicine and Dentistry of the University of Rochester, Rao is a Fellow of the National Academy of Medical Sciences, India. He was honored by the Government of India, in 2002, with the fourth highest Indian civilian award of Padma Shri. He was elected in 2017 to the Ophthalmology Hall of Fame instituted by the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery.

#14558

Mark Lachs

#95736

Overall Influence

Mark S. Lachs is an American physician, scientist, and popular author specializing in the field of aging. He is the Irene and Roy Psaty Distinguished Professor of Medicine at Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York City, and Director of Geriatric Medicine for the NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare System. An internationally recognized authority on the field of elder abuse, he has authored over 100 articles on the subject and other areas of gerontology, and conducted important research on the topic. He is also a founder of the New York City Elder Abuse Center, and the not for pr...

#14559

John Lawrence

#40991

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (93 years)

John Lawrence is an English illustrator and wood engraver. He has twice won the Francis Williams Award for illustration , and twice been runner-up for the Kurt Emil - Maschler Award. He has also published children's books in his own right including This Little Chick which was a New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Children’s Book of the Year. He was master of the Art Workers' Guild in 1990, and now lives in Cambridge.

#14560

Naval Kishore Vikram

#65513

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Naval Kishore Vikram is an Indian physician, diabetologist and a professor at the department of medicine of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi . He is known for his studies in the field of metabolic disorders with special emphasis on insulin resistance and obesity and his work assisted in profiling the Indian population with regard to imbalanced dietary practices and cardiovascular risk factors. He was a member of the group which proposed guidelines for obesity management, metabolic syndrome, and dietary controls for Asian Indians. His studies have been documented by way of a ...

#14561

Jaime Levy

#50297

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Jaime Levy is an American author, lecturer, interface designer, and user experience strategist. She first became known for her new media projects in the 1990s. Her best-known projects include the floppy disk distributed with Billy Idol’s album Cyberpunk, WORD, an online magazine, and an online cartoon series, CyberSlacker. She is the author of the business book UX Strategy, which was first published by O’Reilly Media in 2015. It is widely regarded as the definitive work on the practice of user experience strategy and has been translated into nine languages.

#14562

Heather J. Ross

#130797

Overall Influence

Heather Joan Ross is professor of medicine at the University of Toronto in Ontario, Canada. Ross is a scientific lead for the Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research, the director of the Ted Rogers Centre of Excellence in Heart Function and Director of the Cardiac Transplant Program at Toronto General Hospital. She has been the president of the Canadian Cardiovascular Society and the Canadian Society of Transplantation.

#14563

Henryk Skarżyński

Henryk Skarżyński

#32380

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Henryk Skarzynski is a Polish doctor otolaryngologist, audiologist and phoniatrist, creator and director of Warsaw Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing and World Hearing Center in Kajetany.

#14564

Etta Lemon

1860 - 1953 (93 years)

Margaretta "Etta" Louisa Lemon was an English bird conservationist and a founding member of what is now the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds . She was born into an evangelical Christian family in Kent, and after her father's death she increasingly campaigned against the use of plumage in hatmaking which had led to billions of birds being killed for their feathers. She founded the Fur, Fin and Feather Folk with Eliza Phillips in Croydon in 1889, which two years later merged with Emily Williamson's Manchester-based Society for the Protection of Birds , also founded in 1889. The new or...

#14565

Louis Figuier

1819 - 1894 (75 years)

Louis Figuier was a French scientist and writer. He was the nephew of Pierre-Oscar Figuier and became Professor of chemistry at L'Ecole de pharmacie of Montpellier. Louis Figuier was married to French writer Louise Juliette Bouscaren.

#14566

Heinrich Husmann

1908 - 1983 (75 years)

Heinrich Husmann was a German musicologist and university professor. Biography At the University of Göttingen, Husmann was a pupil of Friedrich Ludwig and then of Johannes Wolf, Arnold Schering, Friedrich Blume and Erich Moritz von Hornbostel at the Humboldt University, Berlin, where he received his doctorate in 1932.

#14567

Otto Heurnius

1577 - 1652 (75 years)

Otto Heurnius was a Dutch physician, theologian and philosopher. Life He studied at Leiden University. He subsequently succeeded his father Johannes Heurnius as professor of medicine at Leiden University, and took over anatomy teaching from Pieter Pauw from 1617. Alongside his practical anatomy teaching, he had the care of a very various collection of zoological and botanical specimens. The aims of the collection included reconstruction of the life of the Israelites in Egypt, as in the Book of Exodus.

#14568

Teresa J. Vietti

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Overall Influence

1927 - 2010 (83 years)

Teresa J. Vietti was an American physician. She is best known for her pioneering work and research in pediatric cancer. Her research discovered the genetics of leukemia, new chemotherapy agents and tracked the effects of chemotherapy on childhood cancer survivors. Vietti also wrote about her research and was an editor of the Journal of Pediatric Hematology and a co-editor of Clinical Pediatric Oncology. According to Washington University in St. Louis, she was known as "the mother of pediatric cancer therapy."

#14569

Claire Finkelstein

#89107

Overall Influence

1982 - Present (44 years)

Claire Finkelstein is the Algernon Biddle Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and the Director of its Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law. Biography Finkelstein attended Harvard College , the University of Paris, Sorbonne , Columbia Law School , Yale Law School , and the University of Pittsburgh .

#14570

Gumersindo de Azcárate

Gumersindo de Azcárate

1840 - 1917 (77 years)

Gumersindo de Azcárate was a Spanish philosopher, jurist and politician. Biography After law studies in Oviedo, he taught comparative law in Madrid since 1864 and represented León in the Cortes. In the 1870s, he joined Francisco Giner de los Ríos and Julián Sanz del Río to teach at the Institución Libre de Enseñanza .

#14571

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

#106567

Overall Influence

1986 - Present (40 years)

Ignatiy Igorevich Vishnevetsky is a Russian-American film critic, essayist, and columnist. He has worked as a staff film critic for The A.V. Club and written for Mubi.com and the Chicago Reader. Vishnevetsky co-hosted Roger Ebert Presents: At the Movies, a nationally syndicated film criticism television show, with Christy Lemire.

#14572

Eberhardt Klemm

#130107

Overall Influence

1929 - 1991 (62 years)

Fritz Eberhardt Klemm was a German musicologist and journalist. He was one of the leading Hanns Eisler experts of the GDR. Life Klemm was born in 1929 in Zwickau as the son of a teacher and attended the secondary school in Leipzig from 1940 to 1948. From 1949, he studied physics, mathematics and philosophy at the University of Leipzig. In 1951, he changed to musicology with Walter Serauky, Hellmuth Christian Wolff and Rudolf Eller and received his diploma in 1954. From 1952, he was an assistant at the Institute of Musicology at the University of Leipzig, from 1954 to 1965 he was research ass...

#14573

Teofil Rutka

1622 - 1700 (78 years)

Teofil Rutka SJ - Polish Jesuit. Rhetorician, philosopher, theologian and missionary. Biography Born in the region of Kyiv, he received his secondary education at the Jesuit College in Ostroh. On 13 August 1643, he joined the Jesuit Order in Kraków and was ordained priest in Poznań in 1652. He was a professor of rhetorics, philosophy, polemical theology and moral theology in many Jesuit schools in Poland . He served as a professor in the years 1653–76, with short breaks for being a court missionary , a missionary to the Crimean Khanate , a poenitentiarius in Loreto , and a missionary to Constantinople .

#14574

Ivan Sviták

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Overall Influence

1925 - 1994 (69 years)

Ivan Sviták was a Czech philosopher, critic, and poet who ranked among Europe's most prominent proponents of Marxist humanism. Career In a vast oeuvre of essays, Sviták addressed questions of democracy and socialism, of art in bureaucratic and consumer societies, and of the "unbearable burden" of political catastrophe in Czech history. In addition, Sviták wrote an extensive body of fiction and poetry, in which he "sought a unity of philosophy, literature, and politics, a unity of engagement, wisdom, and poetry." In this, Sviták consciously followed in the footsteps of the surrealist movement that he admired and critically defended on numerous occasions.

#14575

William Thomas Blanford

William Thomas Blanford

1832 - 1905 (73 years)

William Thomas Blanford was an English geologist and naturalist. He is best remembered as the editor of a major series on The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Biography Blanford was born in London to William Blanford and Elizabeth Simpson. His father owned a factory next to their house on Bouverie street, Whitefriars. He was educated in private schools in Brighton and Paris . He joined his family business in carving and gilding and studied at the School of Design in Somerset House. Suffering from ill health, he spent two years in a business house at Civitavecchia owned by a friend of his father.

#14576

Walter Salmen

#109490

Overall Influence

1926 - 2013 (87 years)

Walter Salmen was a German musicologist and university lecturer. Salmen taught from 1958 to 1992 as a professor of musicology at the Saarland University and the University of Kiel. Afterwards, he was for many years the full professor of the Musicological Institute of the University of Innsbruck. As a guest lecturer, he also worked in Switzerland, Israel and the United States. After retirement, he lived in Kirchzarten near Freiburg im Breisgau, and worked as honorary professor at the University of Freiburg.

#14577

William Coldstream

1908 - 1987 (79 years)

Sir William Menzies Coldstream, CBE was an English realist painter and a long-standing art teacher. Biography Coldstream was born at Belford, Northumberland, in northern England, the second son of country doctor George Probyn Coldstream and his wife Susan Jane Lilian, daughter of Maj. Robert Mercer-Tod, of the 43rd Regiment.

#14578

Negar Mottahedeh

Negar Mottahedeh

#66847

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Negar Mottahedeh is a cultural critic and film theorist specializing in interdisciplinary and feminist contributions to the fields of Middle Eastern Studies and Film Studies. Early life She is known for her work on Iranian Cinema, but has also published on the history of reform and revolution, on `Abdu'l-Baha's vision of human solidarity and peace in the 20th Century, on Bábism, Qajar history, performance traditions in Iran, the history of technology, visual theory, Majid Tavakoli and the Men in Scarves Movement , and the role of social media in the 2009–2010 Iranian election protests. With th...

#14579

Michael Bull

#50436

Overall Influence

Michael Bull is a professor in Sound Studies in the Department of Media and Film at the University of Sussex, England. Background Bull is one of the founders of the academic discipline of "sound studies". He has published research on mobile communications, music and sound in urban culture and is often quoted by journalists penning articles about mobile technology devices and was dubbed "Professor iPod" by Wired Magazine. Bull published the books: Sounding Out the City and Sound Moves, iPod Culture and Urban Experience. Bull is Editor of the journal Senses and Society and the book Sound Studies...

#14580

Salome Maswime

#38591

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Salome Maswime is a South African clinician and global health expert. She is an Obstetrician and Gynaecologist and the Head of Global Surgery at the University of Cape Town. She advocates for women's health rights, equity in surgical and maternal care, and providing adequate health services to remote and underserved populations. She advises and consults for many institutions, including the World Health Organization. In 2017, she was honored with the Trailblazer and Young Achiever Award. She is a member of the Academy of Science of South Africa.

#14581

Matthias Theodor Vogt

Matthias Theodor Vogt

#111125

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Matthias Theodor Vogt is a German academic with a focus on cultural policy and an author of studies on cultural conditions that might serve to strengthen the democratic potential in diverse European countries. Between 1992 and 1995, Vogt developed the overall blueprint for the Free State of Saxony’s law on cultural areas, and contributed to its acceptance and implementation. Since 1994 he has acted as the founding director of the Saxonian Institute for Cultural Infrastructure and since 1997 has been Professor for Cultural Policy and Cultural History at the Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences .

#14582

Michał Falkener

1460 - 1533 (73 years)

Michael Falkener, Michał z Wrocławia, Michał Wrocławczyk, Michael de Wratislava, Michael Vratislaviensis was a Silesian Scholastic philosopher, astronomer, astrologer, mathematician, theologian, philologist, and professor of the Kraków Academy.

#14583

David Williams

1738 - 1816 (78 years)

David Williams was a Welsh philosopher of the Enlightenment period. He was an ordained minister, theologian and political polemicist, and was the founder in 1788 of the Royal Literary Fund, of which he had been a proponent since 1773.

#14584

Willy Rozenbaum

Willy Rozenbaum

#21560

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Willy Rozenbaum is a Polish-born French physician. A co-discoverer of the human immunodeficiency virus with Jean-Claude Chermann of Luc Montagnier's team, he has since 19 November 2003 held the chair of France's "conseil national du SIDA" and before that had since 1989 practiced in the infectious and tropical diseases service at l'Hôpital Tenonfr and been professor of infectious and tropical diseases at l'Hôpital Saint-Antoine in Paris.

#14585

Martha A.Q. Curley

#138331

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Martha A.Q. Curley is an American nurse. She is the Ruth M. Colket Endowed Chair in Pediatric Nursing at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Early life and education Curley was born on November 14, 1952 in Springfield, Massachusetts, US to an Italian father. She completed her Diploma in Nursing from the Springfield Hospital School of Nursing in 1973 and her Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1985. Following this, she completed her Master's degree in nursing from Yale University and her PhD from Boston College.

#14586

Denis A. Evans

#174707

Overall Influence

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Raphael Cohen-Almagor

#94723

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Raphael Cohen-Almagor is an Israeli/British academic. Cohen-Almagor received his D.Phil. in political theory from Oxford University in 1991, and his B.A. and M.A. from Tel Aviv University . In 1992–1995 he lectured at the Hebrew University Law Faculty. In 1995–2007 he taught at the University of Haifa Law School, Department of Communication, and Library and Information Studies University of Haifa. In 2019, he was distinguished visiting professor to the Faculty of Laws, University College London . In 2023, he is the Olof Palme Visiting Professor at Lund University, Sweden.

#14588

John William Turner

John William Turner

1790 - 1835 (45 years)

John William Turner MD FRSE was a 19th-century Scottish physician who served as Professor of Surgery at the University of Edinburgh. Life He was born in England in 1790. His family moved to Newbattle south of Edinburgh around 1795.

#14589

Saverius Pace

1501 - 1601 (100 years)

Saverius Pace was a minor Maltese philosopher who specialised in physics. Life Little is known about the private life of Saverius Pace. Neither his dates of birth and death nor his birthplace in Malta are identified as yet. He might have lectured at the Collegium Melitense see in Valletta. Only one work of Pace's has survived. No portrait of Pace is known to exist so far.

#14590

Dugald Baird

1899 - 1986 (87 years)

Sir Dugald Baird FRCOG was a British medical doctor and a professor of obstetrics and gynaecology. Baird was most notable and influential in calling for the liberalising of abortion. In his delivery of the Sandoz lecture in November 1961, titled the Fifth Freedom, he advocated for freedom from the tyranny of fertility.

#14591

Nino Pirrotta

#68794

Overall Influence

1908 - 1998 (90 years)

Nino Pirrotta was an Italian musicologist, pianist, music critic, and academic. As a musicologist, he achieved international renown for his scholarship of Italian music from the late medieval, Renaissance and early Baroque eras.

#14592

Newton Spaulding Manross

1825 - 1862 (37 years)

Newton Spaulding Manross was an American scientist and engineer. Early life and education He was born in Bristol, Connecticut. He graduated from Yale College in 1850. He sailed for Europe the day after graduation, and spent a year and a half in studying chemistry at the University of Göttingen. He received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from that university in 1852.

#14593

Peter Nye

#56988

Overall Influence

1921 - 2009 (88 years)

Peter Hague Nye FRS was a British soil scientist. Early life Peter Nye was born on 16 September 1921 in Hove, Sussex where his father, Haydn Percival Nye, was a chartered surveyor. John Nye, the glaciologist, was his younger brother. Their mother, Jessie Hague, was a daughter of Anderson Hague, the landscape painter, hence Esmé Kirby, the Snowdonia conservationist, was a first cousin.

#14594

William Roxburgh

William Roxburgh

1751 - 1815 (64 years)

William Roxburgh FRSE FRCPE FLS was a Scottish surgeon and botanist who worked extensively in India, describing species and working on economic botany. He is known as the founding father of Indian botany. He published numerous works on Indian botany, illustrated by careful drawings made by Indian artists and accompanied by taxonomic descriptions of many plant species. Apart from the numerous species that he named, many species were named in his honour by his collaborators.

#14595

Barbara Schellhammer

#124403

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (49 years)

Barbara Schellhammer is a German cultural philosopher and social scientist. She lived, worked and researched in Canada for several years. Since 2019 she holds the chair for Intercultural Social Transformation and is head of the Center for Social and Development Studies at the Munich School of Philosophy.

#14596

James Whale

1889 - 1957 (68 years)

James Whale was an English film director, theatre director and actor, who spent the greater part of his career in Hollywood. He is best remembered for several horror films: Frankenstein , The Old Dark House , The Invisible Man and Bride of Frankenstein , all considered classics. Whale also directed films in other genres, including the 1936 film version of the musical Show Boat.

#14597

Kjell Elgjo

#174672

Overall Influence

1930 - 2011 (81 years)

Kjell Elgjo was a Norwegian pathologist. He took the Candidate of Medicine degree at the University of Oslo in 1956 and the Doctor Medicinae degree in 1966. He was a prosector at the University of Oslo from 1965, docent from 1969 and professor from 1978 to his retirement in 1996. Since 1985 he was a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

#14598

Shanta Persaud

#106281

Overall Influence

Shanta Jean Persaud is a diabetes researcher and academic. She is professor of diabetes and endocrinology at King's College London, England. Career Persaud obtained a BSc degree in physiology and pharmacology and a PhD in the area of islets of langerhans. She started working at King's College London in 1989. Her current research focuses in the area of islet β-cells, receptors in islet function, and insulin secretagogues. According to Scopus, she has published over 198 scientific research documents with 5677 citations, and has an h-index of 45.

#14599

Günter Breithardt

#97939

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Günter Breithardt is a German physician, cardiologist and emeritus university professor. He is known for his research in the field of rhythmology, especially the diagnosis and pharmacological and non-pharmacological therapy of cardiac arrhythmias and acute cardiac death, in particular the identification of arrhythmia-triggering gene mutations. For 21 years he headed the Medical Clinic and Polyclinic C at Münster University Hospital. A number of his academic students hold university management and chief physician positions.

#14600

Serge Gut

#81956

Overall Influence

1927 - 2014 (87 years)

Serge Gut was a French musicologist of Swiss origin. Biography A pupil of Simone Plé-Caussade, Tony Aubin and Olivier Messiaen at the Conservatoire de Paris, of Solange Corbin and Jacques Chailley at the Sorbonne, emeritus professor at the Paris-Sorbonne a composer, Serge Gut was a specialist of Franz Liszt. He was also a great specialist in German and French music of the 19th and early 20th century, the theory of musical language and its evolution.

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