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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#14951

Anna Amalie Abert

Anna Amalie Abert

#104918

Overall Influence

1906 - 1996 (90 years)

Anna Amalie Abert or Anna Abert was a German musicologist. Life Abert was born in Halle in 1906. Abert was the daughter of the music historian Hermann Abert. She studied with Hans Joachim Moser and Friedrich Blume at the University of Kiel. From 1943 to 1971 she worked at the university. In 1950 she became a professor. She has studied the works of Heinrich Schütz, Monteverdi , Gluck and Richard Strauss.

#14952

Taddeo Alderotti

Taddeo Alderotti

1215 - 1295 (80 years)

Taddeo Alderotti , born in Florence between 1206 and 1215, died in 1295, was an Italian doctor and professor of medicine at the University of Bologna, who made important contributions to the renaissance of learned medicine in Europe during the High Middle Ages. He was among the first to organize a medical lecture at the university.

#14953

John Caruana

1866 - 1923 (57 years)

Giovanni Caruana was a Maltese lawyer and minor philosopher. He was mostly interested in the philosophy of law and in political economy. At least two portraits of Caruana exist, both by the renowned early 20th century Maltese artist Edward Caruana Dingli. Both were displayed at an exhibition on Caruana Dingli at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Valletta, Malta, in 2010.

#14954

Lionel Smith Beale

Lionel Smith Beale

1828 - 1906 (78 years)

Lionel Smith Beale was a British physician, microscopist, and professor at King's College London. He graduated in medicine from King's College in 1851. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1857.

#14955

Elizabeth S. Radcliffe

#174283

Overall Influence

Elizabeth S. Radcliffe is Professor of philosophy at William & Mary. She is the author of Hume, Passion, and Action, which discusses David Hume's views on passion's role in driving our actions and constituting our moral judgments. Simon Blackburn calls it "a beautifully judged, balanced, and therefore especially valuable addition to the literature."

#14956

Timocrates of Lampsacus

301 BC - 201 BC (100 years)

Timocrates of Lampsacus was a renegade Epicurean who made it his life's mission to spread slander about Epicurus' philosophy and way of life. He was the elder brother of Metrodorus, Epicurus' best friend and most loyal follower, who was born in Lampsacus in the late 4th century BC. He studied with his brother in the school of Epicurus, but some time c. 290 BC, he broke with the school, apparently because he refused to accept that pleasure was the supreme good of life. The dispute became quite bitter; Philodemus quotes Timocrates saying "that he both loved his brother as no one else did and ha...

#14957

Omid Payrow Shabani

#173242

Overall Influence

Omid A. Payrow Shabani is an Iranian philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Guelph. Payrow Shabani is known for his expertise on constitutional patriotism, Iranian politics and Jürgen Habermas's philosophy. He was awarded an Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2002.

#14958

John Fearn

1768 - 1837 (69 years)

John Fearn was a British philosopher. Note: He has frequently been confused with John Fearn, the English whaling captain who was the first European to discover Nauru in 1798. Little is known about Fearn's early life. He was probably born in May 1768 in Chatham, Kent He spent some years as an officer in the Royal Navy, and after retirement devoted himself to philosophical writings.

#14959

Irini Sereti

#118575

Overall Influence

Irini Sereti is a Greek scientist and physician. She is chief of the HIV pathogenesis section at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Sereti researches immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome, idiopathic CD4 lymphocytopenia, and immune-based therapeutic strategies of HIV investigation.

#14960

Josephine Briggs

Josephine Briggs

#55598

Overall Influence

Josephine P. Briggs is an American nephrologist and director emeritus of the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health , an agency of the National Institutes of Health. She is currently the editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.

#14961

Ali S. Raja

#105864

Overall Influence

Ali S. Raja is an American emergency physician and researcher. He is the Executive Vice Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, and a professor at Harvard Medical School.

#14962

Austin Flint I

1812 - 1886 (74 years)

Austin Flint I was an American physician. He was a founder of Buffalo Medical College, precursor to The State University of New York at Buffalo. He served as president of the American Medical Association.

#14963

Phoebe Gloeckner

Phoebe Gloeckner

#32349

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Phoebe Louise Adams Gloeckner , is an American cartoonist, illustrator, painter, and novelist. Early life Gloeckner was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her mother was a librarian and her father, David Gloeckner, was a commercial illustrator. Her father's family was Quaker and she attended Quaker schools when she was young. She has a younger sister.

#14964

Uno Willers

1911 - 1980 (69 years)

Uno Erik Wilhelm Willers was a Swedish historian and librarian. He served as National Librarian of Sweden from 1952 to 1977. Early life Willers was born on 20 October 1911 in Stockholm, Sweden, the son of Einar Willers, a police judge, and his wife Malin . He passed studentexamen in 1931 and worked at the Karolinska Institute's library from 1931 to 1936. Willers attended the University of Marburg in 1933 and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1936 and studied history and library science in Geneva in 1937 and 1938 and in Berlin from 1938 to 1939 when he earned a Licentiate degree.

#14965

Claude Fortier

1921 - 1986 (65 years)

Claude Fortier was a Canadian physiologist and expert on the pituitary gland. From 1974 to 1975, he was the president of the Royal Society of Canada. Honours In 1970, he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada.In 1980, he was awarded the Quebec government's Prix Marie-Victorin.In 1998, he was inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame.

#14966

Pavol Strauss

#123122

Overall Influence

1912 - 1994 (82 years)

Pavol Strauss ; was a Slovak medical doctor, writer, essayist and translator. Biography Strauss's autobiography, Kolíska dôvery, published in 1994, can be considered as an authentic guidebook through his remarkable life. Strauss studied at a „gymnazium“ in his birthplace, where he actively worked in the self-educational group of M. M. Hodža. After passing the „maturita“ he studied medicine in Vienna and finished his studies at the German university in Prague in 1938. From 1938 to 1939 he completed a one-year military service. He worked as a doctor in Palúdzka and Ružomberok. Strauss converted to Catholicism from Judaism after a two-year struggle in 1942.

#14967

June E. Osborn

#74605

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (89 years)

Dr. June E. Osborn has served as an expert advisor on numerous urgent medical and health issues that include infectious diseases and their vaccines, virology, and public health policy as well as publishing research on these subjects. Osborn currently works on public health policy with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, The World Health Organization, The National Institutes of Health, and The Food and Drug Administration.

#14968

Marcel Borgers

#177100

Overall Influence

#14969

Yunmen Wenyan

864 - 909 (45 years)

Yunmen Wenyan , was a major Chinese Chan master of the Tang dynasty. He was a dharma-heir of Xuefeng Yicun. Yunmen founded the Yunmen school, one of the five major schools of Chán . The name is derived from Yunmen monastery of Shaozhou where Yunmen was abbot. The Yunmen school flourished into the early Song Dynasty, with particular influence on the upper classes, and eventually culminating in the compilation and writing of the Blue Cliff Record.

#14970

David Applebaum

#38128

Overall Influence

1952 - 2003 (51 years)

David Applebaum was an American-born Israeli physician and rabbi. He was chief of the emergency room and trauma services of Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center. Applebaum was murdered in a Palestinian suicide bombing at Cafe Hillel in Jerusalem on September 9, 2003.

#14971

Federico Zuolo

#174301

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (47 years)

Federico Zuolo is an Italian philosopher whose work concerns political philosophy and applied ethics. He is an associate professor in the Department of Classics, Philosophy and History at the University of Genoa.

#14972

David Rockefeller

David Rockefeller

#51590

Overall Influence

1915 - 2017 (102 years)

David Rockefeller was an American investment banker who served as chairman and chief executive of Chase Manhattan Corporation. He was the oldest living member of the third generation of the Rockefeller family, and family patriarch from 2004 until his death in 2017. Rockefeller was the fifth son and youngest child of John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, and a grandson of John D. Rockefeller and Laura Spelman Rockefeller.

#14973

Georg Kinsky

1882 - 1951 (69 years)

Georg Ludwig Kinsky was a German musicologist. Biography Kinsky began his career as an antiquarian books dealer, becoming the assistant of Albert Kopfermann at the Berlin State Library in 1908. He gained his PhD in 1925 in Cologne, writing his thesis about wind instruments. He became Privatdozent of musicology at the University of Cologne, teaching from 1921 to 1932, and curator of the Wilheim Heyer Museum of Music History. Kinsky was an acknowledged specialist of musical instruments and their history and had written the 1910-1916 catalogue of the museum.

#14974

Rainer Blasczyk

Rainer Blasczyk

#45943

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Rainer Blasczyk is a German physician, university professor, entrepreneur and philanthropist. He specializes in transfusion medicine with a focus on transplantation and immunogenetics. He is considered a pioneer in genetic engineering of allografts to increase histocompatibility and prevent organ rejection after organ transplantation.

#14975

Edvard Kovač

#129680

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Fr. Edvard Kovač is a Slovenian theologian, philosopher and author. He is a member of the Order of Friars Minor and professor at the University of Ljubljana Theological Faculty and the Catholic University of Toulouse.

#14976

Charles Czeisler

Charles Czeisler

#34392

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Charles Andrew Czeisler is a Hungarian-American physician and sleep and circadian researcher. He is a leading researcher and author in the fields of the effects of light on human physiology, circadian rhythms and sleep medicine.

#14977

Eugène Koeberlé

Eugène Koeberlé

1828 - 1915 (87 years)

Eugène Koeberlé was a French and German surgeon to the Faculté de médecine in Strasbourg, earning his agrégation in 1853. Koeberlé specialized in abdominal surgery, in particular pioneer work involving ovariotomy and hysterectomy operations. He is also credited for developing a precursor of present-day surgical hemostats

#14978

Ted Kaptchuk

#64930

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Ted Jack Kaptchuk is an American medical researcher who holds professorships in medicine and in global health and social medicine at Harvard Medical School. He researches the placebo effect within the field of placebo studies.

#14979

Paul D. Stein

#177164

Overall Influence

#14980

John Joseph Montgomery

John Joseph Montgomery

1858 - 1911 (53 years)

John Joseph Montgomery was an American inventor, physicist, engineer, and professor at Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California, who is best known for his invention of controlled heavier-than-air flying machines.

#14981

Max Liboiron

#46955

Overall Influence

Max Liboiron is a Canadian researcher and designer known for their contributions to the study of plastic pollution and citizen science. Career Liboiron directs the Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research , an interdisciplinary plastic pollution laboratory based at the Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador. Liboiron was the Managing Editor of the online journal Discard Studies for nearly a decade, which publishes research on industrial waste and its social, political, cultural, and economic implications.

#14982

William Henry Chamberlin

William Henry Chamberlin

1870 - 1921 (51 years)

William Henry Chamberlin Jr. was an American Mormon philosopher, theologian, and educator. His teachings and writings worked to reconcile Mormonism with the theory of evolution. He taught philosophy and ancient languages as well as science and math at several Latter-day Saints institutions including Brigham Young University in the early 20th century. He was one of four educators at Brigham Young University whose teaching of evolution and attempts to reconcile it with Mormon thought, although strongly popular with students, generated controversy among university officials and the LDS community.

#14983

José E. Cavazos

#143011

Overall Influence

José Enrique Cavazos is a Mexican-American physician-scientist. He is a professor and assistant dean of the MD/PhD program at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. Early life and education Jose Enrique Cavazos was born in Monterrey, Nuevo León. He completed a M.D., cum laude at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education. In 1993, he earned a Ph.D., cum laude in neuroscience under the guidance of Thomas Sutula at the University of Wisconsin–Madison . He completed an internship in internal medicine the same year at UW. In 1996, he completed a residency in neurology at Duke University.

#14984

David Gius

#100879

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

David R. Gius is an American physician-scientist the Zell Family Scholar Professor, Women's Cancer Research Program director, and Vice Chair of Translational Research at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine Department of Radiation Oncology and Pharmacology. His research focuses into the mechanistic connection between aging, cellular and/or mitochondrial metabolism, and carcinogenesis focusing on the Sirtuin gene family.

#14985

George Smith Gibbes

George Smith Gibbes

1771 - 1851 (80 years)

Sir George Smith Gibbes M.D. was an English physician and writer. Life He was the son of George Gibbes, D.D., rector of Woodborough, Wiltshire. From the King Edward VI School, Southampton under Richard Mant, he went to Exeter College, Oxford, and graduated B.A. in 1792. He was elected a fellow of Magdalen College, and graduated M.B. in 1796 and M.D. in 1799.

#14986

Mykhailo Boychuk

Mykhailo Boychuk

1882 - 1937 (55 years)

Mykhailo Lvovych Boychuk was a Ukrainian monumentalist and modernist painter. He is considered a representative of the generation of the Executed Renaissance. Biography Boychuk was born in Romanivka, then in Austria-Hungary, and currently in Ternopil Oblast of Ukraine. He studied painting under Yulian Pankevych in Lviv, and subsequently in Kraków, where he graduated from the Krakow Academy of Fine Arts in 1905. He also studied at fine arts academies in Vienna and Munich. In 1905, he had his work exhibited at the Latour Gallery in Lviv and in 1907, his work was exhibited in Munich. Between 1907 and 1910 he lived in Paris where, in 1909, he founded his own studio-school.

#14987

Emil Kakkis

#56078

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Emil Kakkis is an American medical geneticist known for his work to develop treatments for ultra rare disorders. He is the Founder of the Everylife Foundation for Rare Disease and Founder, CEO and President of Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc.

#14988

Jarlath Udoudo Umoh

#99067

Overall Influence

Jarlath Udoudo Umoh is a professor of Veterinary medicine at Ahmadu Bello University. He is a fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Science, elected into the Academy’s Fellowship at its Annual General Meeting held in January 2015. He was 11th of Ahmadu Bello University from May 2009 to December 2009. He is a scientist who through his study on the dissemination of rabies virus in tissues, developed the use of skin biopsy for in vitro diagnosis of rabies in 1983.

#14989

Carl B. Camras

#113037

Overall Influence

1953 - 2009 (56 years)

Carl B. Camras was an American ophthalmologist known for his research on the treatment of glaucoma. He discovered a new class of drugs to treat glaucoma—prostaglandin analogues. Specifically, he developed latanoprost sold under the trade name Xalatan, which is the most widely used glaucoma medication.

#14990

Apollonius of Athens

#125623

Overall Influence

Apollonius of Athens—sometimes Apollonius of Naucratis—was a Greek sophist and rhetorician who lived in the time of the Roman emperor Septimius Severus, that is, the end of the 2nd century. Apollonius was a pupil of the sophists Adrianus and Chrestus. He distinguished himself by his forensic eloquence, and taught rhetoric at Athens at the same time with Heracleides. He was an opponent of Heracleides, and with the assistance of his associates he succeeded in expelling him from the chair of rhetoric in Athens. Apollonius was afterward appointed by the emperor to the chair of rhetoric, with a salary of one talent.

#14991

Ronnie Lichtman

Ronnie Lichtman

#51861

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Ronnie Sue Lichtman, is a midwife, educator, writer and advocate for women's health. She has published widely for both lay and professional audiences. The Chair of the Midwifery Education Program at The State University of New York Downstate Medical Center in New York City, she earned a Ph.D. in sociomedical sciences from Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and her MS in Maternity Nursing with a specialization in midwifery from Columbia University School of Nursing. She previously directed the midwifery programs at Columbia University and Stony Brook University.

#14992

Ray Lightwood

#54371

Overall Influence

1922 - 2001 (79 years)

Raymond Lightwood was a British medical engineer who developed the first variable rate heart pacemaker, together with Leon Abrams at the University of Birmingham. Ray Lightwood was born in Coventry. He was educated at Birchfield Road School in Birmingham. During World War Two Lightwood received training at the Radar and Wireless training school at RAF Yatesbury and after initially serving in India as a ground and service engineer, he became a travelling engineer with South East Asia Command. He was also seconded to Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough to study captured radar equipment....

#14993

Jan Erkert

#118203

Overall Influence

Jan Erkert is a choreographer, teacher, author and Head of the Department of Dance at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Dance company As Artistic Director of Jan Erkert & Dancers from 1979 to 2000, she created over 70 modern dances. Ms. Erkert's work has been seen throughout the United States as well as in Germany, Mexico, Taiwan, Japan, Uruguay and Israel. Ms. Erkert and the company have been honored with numerous awards including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Illinois Arts Council, and Ruth Page Awards for choreography and performance. She has received two Fulbright Scholar Awards and is currently serving on the Fulbright panel.

#14994

Sarah Lewis

#82756

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (47 years)

Sarah Elizabeth Lewis is an associate professor of History of Art and Architecture and African and African-American studies at Harvard University. Her research focuses on the intersection of African American and Black Atlantic visual representation, racial justice, and representational democracy in the United States from the nineteenth century through the present.

#14995

Marie Jalowicz-Simon

#117921

Overall Influence

1922 - 1998 (76 years)

Marie Jalowicz was a German philologist and historian of philosophy. She became known to larger audiences for her autobiographical account of the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany, which was published posthumously.

#14996

Pamela Shoemaker

Pamela Shoemaker

#43764

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Pamela J. Shoemaker is a professor of communication and gatekeeping theorist. From 1994 until her retirement in 2015, Shoemaker was the John Ben Snow Professor, an endowed research chair, in the S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. She was previously the director of the School of Journalism at Ohio State University and earlier was on the faculty of the Department of Journalism at The University of Texas at Austin.

#14997

Sonia Gandhi

#125536

Overall Influence

Sonia Gandhi is a British physician and neuroscientist who leads the Francis Crick Institute neurodegeneration laboratory. She holds a joint position at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology. Her research investigates the molecular mechanisms that give rise to Parkinson's disease. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Gandhi was involved with the epidemiological investigations and testing efforts at the Francis Crick Institute.

#14998

Anthony Powell

#61178

Overall Influence

1935 - 2021 (86 years)

Anthony Powell was an English costume designer for film and stage. He won three Academy Awards, for Travels with My Aunt , Death on the Nile and Tess . Biography Powell was born in Chorlton-cum-Hardy in June 1935, and is a cousin of fellow costume designer Sandy Powell. Raised in Yorkshire and Dublin, Powell began his professional career as a teenager touring with his handmade marionettes. While serving as a wireless operator in the military, he mistakenly led the British Army of the Occupation in Germany into the Russian zone. After graduating from the Central School of Art and Design in Lo...

#14999

Joseph Jankovic

#177285

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Elizabeth Klerman

#177035

Overall Influence

Elizabeth Klerman is a Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School whose research focuses on applying circadian and sleep research principles to human physiology and pathophysiology. She also uses mathematical analysis and modeling to study human circadian, sleep, and objective neurobehavioral performance and subjective mood and alertness rhythms.

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