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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#14651

Egil A. Wyller

#75654

Overall Influence

1925 - 2021 (96 years)

Egil Anders Wyller was a Norwegian philosopher, historian, non-fiction writer and translator. He was born in Stavanger, the son of Trygve Christian Wyller and Anne Kathrine Dons, and brother of Thomas Christian Wyller. He was assigned professor at the University of Oslo from 1969. Among his books are Tidsproblemet hos Olaf Bull from 1958 and Enhet og annethet from 1981. He has translated dialogues of Plato into Norwegian language, and been a co-editor of the book series Idé og tanke. He was decorated Knight, First Class of the Order of St. Olav in 2000.

#14652

Sophie Jamal

#63622

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Sophie Jamal is a Canadian endocrinologist and former osteoporosis researcher who was at the centre of a scientific misconduct case in the mid-to-late 2010s. Jamal published a high-profile paper suggesting that the heart medication nitroglycerin was a treatment for osteoporosis, and was later demonstrated to have misrepresented her results. She received a lifetime ban from receiving funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and was named directly in their disclosure report, becoming the first person mentioned by name by the institute for scientific misconduct. Jamal was later st...

#14653

Tim Dean

#86484

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Tim Dean is a British academic, author, notable in the field of contemporary queer theory, and author of several works on the subject: Gary Snyder and the American Unconscious , Beyond Sexuality , and Unlimited Intimacy: Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking , all published by the University of Chicago Press, and a co-editor of Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis . Dean published Hatred of Sex together with Oliver Davis in 2022.

#14654

Karin Schallreuter

#152455

Overall Influence

Karin Uta Schallreuter is a German-born medical scientist, and emerita professor for Clinical and Experimental Dermatology at the University of Bradford, England. She has researched the fields of vitiligo and eczema.

#14655

Elsie Inglis

1864 - 1917 (53 years)

Eliza Maud "Elsie" Inglis was a Scottish medical doctor, surgeon, teacher, suffragist, and founder of the Scottish Women's Hospitals. She was the first woman to hold the Serbian Order of the White Eagle.

#14656

Nuzhat Husain

#29898

Overall Influence

Nuzhat Husain is an Indian pathologist. She is former director of Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow. Education She completed her MBBS at Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Aligarh Muslim University in 1985 and MD from King George Medical College, University of Lucknow in 1989 with high merit and several awards including the President of India’s silver medal for best woman student at the University in 1985 and the KB Kunwar Gold medal for best thesis in 1989, She also worked as a post doctoral fellow at Molecular Neuro-oncology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University during 1997.

#14657

Allan Rosenfield

#42671

Overall Influence

1933 - 2008 (75 years)

Allan Rosenfield was an advocate for women's health during the worldwide AIDS pandemic as dean of the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health. Early life Rosenfield was born in Brookline, Massachusetts on April 28, 1933. He received a B.A. in biochemistry from Harvard College in 1955. In 1959, he graduated from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons with his M.D. degree.

#14658

Liu Yiming

1734 - 1821 (87 years)

Liu Yiming was a Chinese Taoist master, thinker, and writer. He was one of the main representatives of Taoist Internal Alchemy, or Neidan. He was an 11th-generation master of one of the northern branches of the Longmen 龍門 lineage, and the author of a large number of works that illustrate his views on both Taoism and Neidan.

#14659

Richard Bleiler

#46070

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Richard James Bleiler is an American bibliographer of science fiction, fantasy, horror, crime, and adventure fiction. He was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Best Non-Fiction in 2002 and for the Munsey Award in 2019–2022. He won the 2023 Munsey Award, given to “an individual or organization that has bettered the pulp community.” He is the son of bibliographer and publisher Everett F. Bleiler.

#14660

Shiranee Sriskandan

#172833

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Shiranee Sriskandan is a British academic who is Professor of Infectious Diseases at Imperial College London and Honorary Consultant at Hammersmith Hospital. Her research considers how Gram-positive bacteria cause disease, with a particular focus on the bacteria Streptococcus pyogenes.

#14661

George Brownlee

#43033

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

George Gow Brownlee FRS FMedSci is a British pathologist and Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford. Education Brownlee was educated at Dulwich College and Emmanuel College, Cambridge where he studied Natural Sciences and was awarded a Master of Arts degree followed by PhD in 1967 for research on nucleotides supervised by Fred Sanger at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology .

#14662

Patricia Reif

#101032

Overall Influence

1930 - 2002 (72 years)

Patricia Reif, also known as Sister Richard, , was an American professor of philosophy and theology, known locally and nationally for her involvement in ecumenical issues, for her innovative leadership in the field of feminist spirituality and for her leadership in the Women's Ordination Conference. She was a founding member and leader of the ecumenical Immaculate Heart of Mary Community established in 1970 in Los Angeles as a result of irreconcilable differences between Cardinal James F. McIntyre over the implementation of Vatican II reforms. Along with the 455 vowed members of the canonic...

#14663

Vanessa Grubbs

#60097

Overall Influence

Vanessa Grubbs is a nephrologist and a writer based in Oakland, California. She is an associate professor at the University of California, San Francisco. She works at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital.

#14664

Andy Lamey

#171317

Overall Influence

Andy Lamey is a Canadian philosopher and journalist. He is a teaching professor at the University of California, San Diego . He is the author of Frontier Justice: The Global Refugee Crisis and What To Do About It Duty and the Beast: Should We Eat Meat in the Name of Animal Rights? and The Canadian Mind: Essays on Writers and Thinkers .

#14665

Paola Voci

#80666

Overall Influence

Paola Voci is an Italian-born academic specialising in Chinese language and culture, film and media studies, visual culture, and digital culture. She is a professor at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand.

#14666

Gary Leib

#89577

Overall Influence

1901 - 2021 (120 years)

Gary David Leib was an American underground cartoonist, animator, and musician. Best known for the comic book Idiotland , Leib's work also appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Musician Magazine, The New York Observer, RAW, BLAB! and as weekly features in New York Press for many years. His animation work was featured in films like American Ultra, American Splendor, and Happiness. Leib was a founding member of the Grammy Award-nominated band Rubber Rodeo, which recorded two albums for Mercury Records. He created original music for independent and feature films, including the critical...

#14667

Richard Schatzki

#45915

Overall Influence

1902 - 1992 (90 years)

Richard Schatzki was a German-American radiologist. He was born in Klafeld, Germany on February 22, 1901. In 1933, Nazi leadership declared that no one of Jewish background could hold a position in German governmental facilities. As a result, Schatzki was forced to leave his University Hospital position. Four months later, Schatzki moved to America with his wife Greta and young son Stefan. They were the first Schatzkis to leave Germany, although other family members would join them in America in the years leading up to the war as conditions in Germany deteriorated further. Upon leaving his home nation, Germany, his wife was pregnant with their second son.

#14668

Lesley Campbell

#83711

Overall Influence

Lesley Veronica Campbell is an Australian endocrinologist and Professor of Medicine with a special interest in clinical diabetes, appetite and metabolism. She is a principal research fellow at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney, Australia.

#14669

Kevin Brownlow

#65539

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

Kevin Brownlow is a British film historian, television documentary-maker, filmmaker, author, and film editor. He is best known for his work documenting the history of the silent era, having become interested in silent film at the age of eleven. This interest grew into a career spent documenting and restoring film. Brownlow has rescued many silent films and their history. His initiative in interviewing many largely forgotten, elderly film pioneers in the 1960s and 1970s preserved a legacy of early mass-entertainment cinema. He received an Academy Honorary Award at the 2nd Annual Governors Awards given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on 13 November 2010.

#14670

Julia Gulliver

1856 - 1940 (84 years)

Julia Henrietta Gulliver was an American philosopher, educator and college president. She was only the second woman in America to receive a Ph.D. in philosophy and was a tireless advocate for increased female representation in higher education.

#14671

Maja Solar

#162892

Overall Influence

1980 - Present (46 years)

Maja Solar is a Serbian poetress and Marxist-feminist philosopher. Biography Maja Solar studied philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Novi Sad, graduated with Magister thesis on Darwin and Essentialism in 2008 and obtained her doctorate as PhD with thesis on The problem of ownership in Rousseau’s and Marx's philosophy in 2014. She was assistant at the department of philosophy of the university, specialized in philosophy of economics with focus on Marxism, political philosophy, philosophy of science and feminist theory from 2009–14.

#14672

Stuart C. Ray

#55568

Overall Influence

Stuart C. Ray is an American physician. He is Vice Chair of Medicine for Data Integrity and Analytics, Associate Director of the Infectious Diseases Fellowship Training Program at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and a Professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases. Ray also holds appointments in Viral Oncology and the Division of Health Sciences Informatics. He is affiliated with the Institute for Computational Medicine at Johns Hopkins and is licensed to practice medicine in Maryland.

#14673

Charles Taylor

1840 - 1908 (68 years)

Charles Taylor was an English Christian Hebraist. Life Taylor was born on 27 May 1840 in London. He was educated at King's College School, and St. John's College, Cambridge, where graduated BA as 9th wrangler in 1862 and became a fellow of his college in 1864. He became Master of St John's in 1881. In 1874 he published an edition of Coheleth; in 1877 Sayings of the Jewish Fathers, an elaborate edition of the Pirḳe Abot ; and in 1899 a valuable appendix giving a list of manuscripts.

#14674

Menno Sluijter

#47152

Overall Influence

1932 - 2022 (90 years)

Menno Emanuël Sluijter is an anaesthetist from the Netherlands. Sluijter obtained his MD at the University of Amsterdam in 1957 and his PhD at the same institution in 1963 with the dissertation The treatment of carbon monoxide poisoning by administration of oxygen at high atmospheric pressure. Sluijter is credited with the development of pulsed radiofrequency treatment. He is involved in research related to chronic pain. He is also affiliated with the Jan van Goyen Clinic in Amsterdam. He has helped to work on shifting how physicians deal with long term pain from 'pain management', to 'pain t...

#14675

Kenneth Laine Ketner

#148705

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Kenneth Laine Ketner is an American philosopher. He is Paul Whitfield Horn Professor, Charles Sanders Peirce Interdisciplinary Professor and Director of Institute for Studies in Pragmaticism, Texas Tech University.

#14676

Vicki Sara

#41533

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Vicki Rubian Sara is an Australian endocrinologist, who specialises in research into growth hormones and foetal brain development. Sara was born in Sydney, and attended Sydney Girls High School. She attended the University of Sydney, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts with Honours and a PhD in 1974 for her thesis titled "The action of prenatal trophic hormones on brain growth and behaviour". She worked at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research from 1973 to 1976, then as a research fellow at the International Brain Research Organization . In 1980, she joined the Karolinska Institute in Stoc...

#14677

Antonio Arnaiz-Villena

#168161

Overall Influence

1901 - Present (125 years)

Antonio Arnaiz-Villena is a Spanish immunologist noted for his controversial research into the genetic history of ethnic groups and fringe linguistic hypotheses. Biography Arnaiz-Villena was president of Spain's National Society of Immunology from 1991 to 1995. He has written more than 300 papers in immunology and human and bird population genetics.

#14678

Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin

Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin

1744 - 1774 (30 years)

Samuel George Gottlieb Gmelin was a German physician, botanist, and explorer. Background Gmelin was born at Tübingen as part of a well-known family of naturalists. His father was Johann Conrad Gmelin, an apothecary and surgeon. His uncle was Johann Georg Gmelin, who was also uncle to Johann Friedrich Gmelin . Samuel earned his medical degree in 1763 from the University of Leiden at the young age of 18. While living in the Dutch Republic, Gmelin developed a keen interest in marine algae. In 1766 he was appointed professor of botany at St Petersburg. In the following year he was sent on an expedition to study the natural history of the Russian Empire.

#14679

Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz

Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz

1822 - 1907 (85 years)

Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz was an American educator, naturalist, writer, and the co-founder and first president of Radcliffe College. A researcher of natural history, she was an author and illustrator of natural history texts as well as a co-author of natural history texts with her husband, Louis Agassiz, and her stepson Alexander Agassiz.

#14680

Margaret Brandeau

#120145

Overall Influence

Margaret Louise Brandeau is an American management scientist and engineer whose research applies operations research to decision-making in public health. The main focus of her work is on the development of applied mathematical and economic models to support health policy decisions. She is the Coleman F. Fung Professor in the Stanford University School of Engineering, and also holds a courtesy affiliation with the Stanford University School of Medicine.

#14681

Thomas Trotter

1760 - 1832 (72 years)

Thomas Trotter was a Scottish naval physician and author who was a leading medical reformer in the Royal Navy and an ardent critic of the slave trade. Trotter was born in Melrose, Roxburghshire, and studied medicine under Alexander Monro in Edinburgh. His major work, the Medicina Nautica, was published in 1802 and provides a detailed examination of the state of naval medicine during the French Revolutionary Wars.

#14682

Michael Gurian

#54138

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Michael Gurian is an American author and social philosopher. He works as a marriage and family counselor and corporate consultant. He has published twenty-eight books, several of which were New York Times bestseller list bestsellers. He is considered, along with Leonard Sax, as one of the major proponents of the post-modern "single-sex academic classes" movement.

#14683

M. Owen Lee

#68728

Overall Influence

1930 - 2019 (89 years)

Mark Owen Lee, also known as M. Owen Lee and Father Owen Lee , was an American-Canadian classics and music scholar and Roman Catholic priest. Lee was born in Detroit, Michigan, United States, on May 28, 1930 to Robert Leo Lee and Helen Lee.

#14684

Regina Scheyvens

Regina Scheyvens

#170446

Overall Influence

Regina Aurelia Scheyvens is a New Zealand development academic, and as of 2019 is a full professor at Massey University. Her research focuses on the relationship between tourism, sustainable development and poverty reduction, and she has conducted fieldwork on these issues in Fiji, Vanuatu, Samoa, the Maldives and in Southern Africa. She is also very interested in gender and development, sustainable livelihood options for small island states, and in theories of empowerment for marginalised peoples.

#14685

Erich Hoffmann

1868 - 1959 (91 years)

Erich Hoffmann was a German dermatologist who was a native of Witzmitz, Pomerania. He studied medicine at the Berlin Military Academy, and was later a professor at the Universities of Halle and Bonn.

#14686

Koen Decoster

#116477

Overall Influence

Koen Decoster is a Belgian historian, philosopher and translator. He has published works such as Flavius Josephus and the Seleucid Acra in Jerusalem . and Beyond Conflict and Reduction: Between Philosophy, Science and Religion with William Desmond and John Steffen.

#14687

Terry Belanger

#33693

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Terry Belanger is the founding director of Rare Book School , an institute concerned with education for the history of books and printing, and with rare books and special collections librarianship. He is University Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia , where RBS has its home base. Between 1972 and 1992, he devised and ran a master's program for the training of rare book librarians and antiquarian booksellers at the Columbia University School of Library Service. He is a 2005 MacArthur Fellow.

#14688

Heinrich Stromer

Heinrich Stromer

1482 - 1542 (60 years)

Heinrich Stromer was a physician of the German Renaissance, professor rector at the University of Leipzig and founder of Auerbachs Keller. Born in Auerbach in der Oberpfalz, he enrolled at Leipzig University in 1497, receiving the title of magister in 1501 and a professorship in philosophy as well as the office of rector in 1508. He graduated in medicine in 1511, and was professor of pathology from 1516 and dean of the medical faculty from 1523. He was popularly known as Dr. Auerbach after his native town.

#14689

Hans-Günter Ottenberg

#168638

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Hans-Günter Ottenberg is a German musicologist and teacher. Life Born in , Saxony, Ottenberg studied music education and German culture at the University of Rostock from 1965 and musicology at the Humboldt University Berlin from 1967. He received his doctorate from Humboldt University in 1972 and in the same year became a research assistant at the . From 1978 to 1991, Ottenberg was a senior assistant at the Philosophy and Cultural Studies Section, later the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Technical University of Dresden, and habilitated at the Martin Luther University of Hall...

#14690

Plotino Rhodakanaty

1828 - 1890 (62 years)

Plotino Constantino Rhodakanaty was a Greek and Mexican socialist and anarchist, as well as a prominent early member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Mexico. He is known as one of the first advocates for anarchist thought in Mexico. He was also an early activist in Mexico's mid-nineteenth century labor and campesino movement, which foreshadowed the Mexican Revolution in 1910. Rhodakanaty moved to Mexico in 1861 after being drawn to the country's rural system of small, self-governing agricultural communities. He published various books and essays about the threats of privatization and capitalism, and helped establish an "escuela libre" in Chalco.

#14691

Valentino Bellucci

Valentino Bellucci

#142691

Overall Influence

1975 - 2021 (46 years)

Valentino Bellucci was an Italian philosopher, sociologist, poet, painter, and essayist. Life and career Bellucci was born in Weinheim, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany. He taught "History and critical analysis of the video-theater" at the Academy of Fine Arts in Macerata. He was teacher of history and philosophy at the Italian high schools and cooperated with seminars at the University of Urbino. After studying with the Orientalist Icilio Vecchiotti, he dedicated himself to the oriental culture, especially to the Vaishnava Bhakti tradition, exploring the epistemological, historical and psychological aspects.

#14692

Jane Root

#28190

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Jane Fairbairn Root is a creative executive in the media industry, who has run major television networks on both sides of the Atlantic. As Controller of BBC Two , she was the first woman to be a channel controller for the BBC, and was later President of Discovery Networks in the United States.

#14693

Richard Santucci

#158141

Overall Influence

Richard Anthony Santucci MD, FACS is an American reconstructive urologist who currently lives and works in Austin, Texas. Santucci is a graduate of the American Urological Association Leadership Program Class of 2009, was a member of the AUA Urotrauma Guidelines panel, the AUA Urotrauma Legislation Task force, the World Health OrganizationInternational Consultation on Urologic Diseases , and was an advisor to the US Marines Dismounted Blast Injuries Task Force. He recently served as the co-Chairman of the AUA Urethroplasty Guidelines panel, and. spent 18 years as a reconstructive urologist. H...

#14694

Robley Dunglison

Robley Dunglison

1798 - 1869 (71 years)

Robley Dunglison was an English-American physician, medical educator and author who served as the first full-time professor of medicine in the United States at the newly founded University of Virginia from 1824 to 1833. He authored multiple medical textbooks and is considered the "Father of American Physiology" after the publication of his landmark textbook Human Physiology in 1832. He was the personal physician to Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and James Monroe. He consulted in the treatment of Andrew Jackson and was in attendance at Jefferson's death.

#14695

Susan Love

#17973

Overall Influence

1948 - 2023 (75 years)

Susan Margaret Love was an American surgeon, a prominent advocate of preventive breast cancer research, and author. She was regarded as one of the most respected women's health specialists in the United States. Love is best known for pioneering work fueled by her criticism of the medical establishment's paternalistic treatment of women. She was an early advocate of cancer surgery that conserves as much breast tissue as possible. She also was among the first to sound the alarm on the risks of routine hormone replacement therapy for menopausal women.

#14696

Björn Olsen

#175511

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

#14697

Susan S. Huang

#131161

Overall Influence

Susan S Huang is affiliated with the University of California Irvine School of Medicine. She specializes in infection prevention. Susan Huang is Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Medical Director of Epidemiology and Infection Prevention at the University of California, Irvine. She led clinical trials to assess effective methods of decolonization, including the widely cited REDUCE MRSA trial, published in The New England Journal of Medicine in 2013. Her work to advance the academic and practical knowledge of infection prevention has informed the Healthcare Infecti...

#14698

Walther Dürr

#75404

Overall Influence

1932 - 2018 (86 years)

Walther Dürr was a German musicologist. He is especially known for his research of the work of Franz Schubert. From 1965 to 1997 Dürr was editor of the Neue Schubert-Ausgabe, with particular responsibility for the 14 volumes of lieder.

#14699

Max Lingner

1888 - 1959 (71 years)

Max Lingner was a German painter, graphic artist, communist, and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime. Life Born in Leipzig, the son of a xylographer, Lingner graduated from high school in 1907 and studied as a master student under Carl Bantzer at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, where he completed his training in 1912 with a painting Singing Girls, for which he received the "Saxon State Prize". On a study trip in 1913/1914 he visited England, the Netherlands, France and Belgium.

#14700

Chassar Moir

1900 - 1977 (77 years)

Chassar Moir CBE was Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at The University of Oxford. "One whose contributions were so outstanding as to make Chassar Moir’s an immortal name in the history of Obstetrics and Gynaecology". Sir Norman Jeffcoate

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