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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#15201

Godfrey Fowler

#163566

Overall Influence

1931 - Present (95 years)

Godfrey Heath Fowler, OBE, FRCP, FRCGP, FFPH was a British academic, general practitioner and medical scientist. He was Professor of General Practice at the University of Oxford between 1996 and 1997.

#15202

Denis Pereira Gray

#109538

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (91 years)

Sir Denis John Pereira Gray is a retired British general practitioner. He worked for 38 years in the St Leonard's Medical Practice, Exeter, and continued as a research consultant until 2018, following his father and grandfather.

#15203

Ian Phillips

#121016

Overall Influence

Ian B. Phillips is a British philosopher and Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Psychological and Brain Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University, where he has taught since 2019. He has appointments in the William H. Miller III Department of Philosophy and the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences in the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. He is known for his works on the intersection of philosophy and brain science.

#15204

Tamara Tarasenko

Tamara Tarasenko

#162811

Overall Influence

1939 - 1992 (53 years)

Tamara Tarasenko professor, philosopher, the first Chairman of the Board of Dr. Haass Social Assistance Fund . Graduated with honors from the philological faculty of the Odesa State I. I. Mechnykov University in 1961. PhD thesis - "Regulatory Aspects of Social Functioning of the Language” .

#15205

David A. Wohl

#165721

Overall Influence

David Alain Wohl is an American infectious disease physician. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he was among those leading UNC's response to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Wohl was appointed the Medical Director of the COVID Vaccination Clinic at UNC Hospitals Hillsborough Campus and led COVID-19 treatment clinical trials at UNC School of Medicine.

#15206

Maryam Lustberg

#116941

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (51 years)

Maryam Beheshti Lustberg is an American breast oncologist. She is the Director of The Breast Center at Smilow Cancer Hospital and Chief of Breast Medical Oncology at Yale Cancer Center. Lustberg previously served as the Medical Director of Supportive Care at Ohio State's Comprehensive Cancer Center and President-Elect of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer. She is also an associate editor for the peer-reviewed medical journal covering oncology nursing with respect to cancer survivors called Journal of Cancer Survivorship. Lustberg was also recognized as one of the 100 I...

#15207

Jakub Górski

1525 - 1583 (58 years)

Jakub Górski was a Polish Renaissance philosopher. Life Jakub Górski was an early Polish representative of Stoicism. He wrote a famous Dialectic and many works in grammar, rhetoric, theology and sociology. A professor at Kraków University, he was an erudite man whose Dialectic gives evidence of extensive acquaintance with new currents and authors, but he was more erudite than independent as a thinker. He tended to eclecticism and sought to reconcile the Stoics with Aristotle.

#15208

Arnold Maran

#89640

Overall Influence

1937 - 2017 (80 years)

Arnold George Dominic Maran MD, FRCSEd, FRCSEng, FACS, FRCPE was a Scottish head and neck surgeon and otolaryngologist. Having trained in ear, nose and throat surgery in Edinburgh, Scotland he then had further training as a head and neck surgeon in the United States and returned to a consultant post in Dundee, Scotland. Moving to Edinburgh he was awarded a personal chair in otorhinolaryngology by the University of Edinburgh. In collaboration with Professor Philip Stell of Liverpool he devised training courses in head and neck surgery and together they wrote Stell and Maran’s Textbook of Head and Neck Surgery and Oncology which became a popular textbook for the subspeciality.

#15209

Ludwig Traube

1818 - 1876 (58 years)

Ludwig Traube was a German physician and co-founder of the experimental pathology in Germany. Biography Ludwig Traube was a son of a Jewish wine merchant. In 1835, at age 17, he left the gymnasium in Ratibor. He studied medicine in Breslau, Berlin and Vienna. Among his teachers were Jan Evangelista Purkyně and Johannes Müller . Besides medicine, he was very active in philosophical studies; he especially appreciated the philosophy of Spinoza. In 1840 he received his doctorate , a work about pulmonary emphysema. Then he moved to Vienna to broaden his knowledge

#15210

Hui-Kuan Lin

#158719

Overall Influence

Hui-Kuan Lin is a Taiwanese physician specializing in cancer biology. Lin completed bachelor's and master's degrees in medicine at National Taiwan University, in 1993 and 1995, respectively. He completed a doctoral degree in cancer biology at the University of Rochester in 2002, and pursued postdoctoral research at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. From 2007, Lin taught at the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, a part of the University of Texas System, as an assistant professor. In 2011, he became an associate professor. Lin moved to the Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in 2015, as Anderson...

#15211

David W. Horohov

#178587

Overall Influence

David W. Horohov is an American veterinary scientist and the current William Robert Mills Chair in Equine Infectious Diseases at University of Kentucky.

#15212

Seth C. Hawkins

Seth C. Hawkins

#52114

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Seth Christopher Collings Hawkins is an American emergency physician, writer, anthropologist, and organizational innovator. He has made notable contributions to the fields of wilderness medicine, Emergency Medical Services , and medical humanities. His work has particularly specialized in EMS and wilderness medicine in the southeastern United States, where he is the founder of the Appalachian Center for Wilderness Medicine, the Appalachian Mountain Rescue Team, and the Carolina Wilderness EMS Externship.

#15213

Sam Hall

#67486

Overall Influence

1921 - 2014 (93 years)

Allison Samuel Hall , known as Sam Hall, was a screenwriter known for his work in daytime soap operas, particularly Dark Shadows and One Life to Live . Hall also co-wrote the 1976 PBS miniseries The Adams Chronicles.

#15214

Estelle Ramey

#86117

Overall Influence

1917 - 2006 (89 years)

Estelle Rosemary Ramey was an American endocrinologist, physiologist and feminist who became internationally known for refuting surgeon and Democratic Party leader Edgar Berman, who stated that women were unfit to hold high public office because of "raging hormonal imbalances." Ramey's balanced approach to life was embodied in a later quote, "I have loved. And been loved. And all the rest is background music."

#15215

Stephen E. Straus

#178623

Overall Influence

#15216

Michał Twaróg of Bystrzyków

1450 - 1520 (70 years)

Michał Twaróg of Bystrzyków was a Polish philosopher and theologian of the early 16th century. Life Michał Twaróg studied at Paris in 1473–77, during the period when, following the anathematization of the Nominalists , the Scotist school of philosophy enjoyed its greatest triumphs there. He brought Scotism to Poland and taught at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków from 1485, serving as its rector in 1513–14.

#15217

David Zweig

#42741

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

David Zweig is a Canadian social scientist, academic, and author. He is a Distinguished Visiting professor in the Taipei School of Economics and Political Science at National Tsing Hua University, Professor Emeritus at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and for 10 years was an adjunct professor at the National University of Defense Technology. He also serves as a Vice President of the Center for China and Globalization.

#15218

Alan E. H. Emery

#178635

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#15219

John Anderson Strong

#59827

Overall Influence

1915 - 2012 (97 years)

John Anderson Strong was a Scottish physician/internist and academic, who served as Professor of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh and the President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

#15220

Ebenezer Kinnersley

1711 - 1778 (67 years)

Ebenezer Kinnersley was an English scientist, inventor and lecturer, specializing in the investigation of electricity. Life and Scientific Studies Ebenezer Kinnersley was a son of Rev. William Kinnersley, an assistant pastor of the Lower Dublin Baptist church. Ebenezer became a member of this church while young, and in 1743 was ordained as a minister, but he never served as a pastor. He travelled to America with his parents in 1714. His early life was passed at Dublin, and then he went to Philadelphia, where he gave evidence of his genius as a scholar and mechanician. It is supposed that he ...

#15221

John Barrasso

#60738

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

John Anthony Barrasso III is an American physician and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Wyoming, a seat he has held since 2007. A member of the Republican Party, he served in the Wyoming State Senate from 2003 to 2007. As Chair of the Senate Republican Conference since 2019, he is the third-ranking Senate Republican.

#15222

Dena Dubal

#85099

Overall Influence

Dena Dubal is the David A. Coulter Endowed Chair in Ageing and Neurodegenerative Disease at University of California, San Francisco. Dubal has demonstrated that the hormone Klotho can enhance cognition and protect the brain from neurodegenerative decline.

#15223

Grzegorz of Stawiszyn

1481 - 1540 (59 years)

Grzegorz of Stawiszyn was a Polish philosopher and theologian. He was Rector of the University of Kraków in 1538–1540. Biography Grzegorz was born in Stawiszyn in 1481. He was an adherent of Nominalism, a metaphysical view in philosophy, revived in western Europe at the turn of the 16th century thanks to French philosopher Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples . Once Nominalism reappeared in Kraków and began taking precedence over Thomism and Scotism, Grzegorz of Stawiszyn, a Kraków professor, published Jacques d'Étaples works including his commentaries to works by Aristotle, beginning in 1510. As rector...

#15224

Lisa Schwarzbaum

#55452

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Lisa Schwarzbaum is an American film critic. She joined Entertainment Weekly as a senior writer in 1991, working as a film critic for the magazine alongside Owen Gleiberman from 1995 to 2013. Early life Lisa Schwarzbaum was born on July 5, 1952 to Leon Schwarzbaum, a combat engineer during the Pacific War. The oldest child of a Jewish family raised in the Bronx, she has two brothers.

#15225

Gloria Johnson-Powell

#59908

Overall Influence

1936 - 2017 (81 years)

Gloria Johnson-Powell was a child psychiatrist who was also an important figure in the Civil Rights Movement and was one of the first African-American women to attain tenure at Harvard Medical School.

#15226

David Agus

#27432

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

David B. Agus is an American physician, cancer researcher and author who serves as a professor of medicine and engineering at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine and Viterbi School of Engineering and the Founding Director and CEO of the Lawrence J. Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine. He is also the cofounder of several personalized medicine companies and a contributor to CBS News on health topics. He is also the author of four books.

#15227

Rembert Dodoens

Rembert Dodoens

1517 - 1585 (68 years)

Rembert Dodoens was a Flemish physician and botanist, also known under his Latinized name Rembertus Dodonaeus. He has been called the father of botany. Life Dodoens was born Rembert van Joenckema in Mechelen, then the capital of the Spanish Netherlands in 1517. His parents were Denis van Joenckema and Ursula Roelants. The van Joenckema family and name are Frisian in origin. Its members were active in politics and jurisprudence in Friesland and some had moved in 1516 to Mechelen. His father was one of the municipal physicians in Mechelen and a private physician to Margaret of Austria, Governor of the Netherlands, in her final illness.

#15228

Paul Ricœur

#178719

Overall Influence

#15229

Henlee Hulix Barnette

#127261

Overall Influence

1911 - 2004 (93 years)

Henlee Hulix Barnette was an American social activist, professor of Christian ethics, minister, and author. His first book, Introducing Christian Ethics , became a standard text in his field. He marched with Martin Luther King Jr. and met with Nikita Khrushchev to set up a college student exchange program with the Soviet Union.

#15230

Giuseppe Maria Sciacca

#174408

Overall Influence

1912 - 1995 (83 years)

Giuseppe Maria Sciacca was an Italian philosopher and academic. A student and assistant of Antonio Renda, Sciacca's work focused on Kantianism. Professor Emeritus of History of Philosophy of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Palermo, he was president of the Italian Philosophical Society. He expressed and exposed his philosophical thought through a number of written works.

#15231

Christina Stojanova

Christina Stojanova

#64986

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Christina Stojanova is a Canadian media historian and faculty member at the University of Regina. Her work focuses on cultural semiotics in Canadian multicultural cinema, Central and Eastern European media and cinema, inter-war German cinema, and on the works of Jean-Luc Godard.

#15232

Erik Enger

#157484

Overall Influence

1927 - 2016 (89 years)

Erik Enger was a Norwegian physician. Enger was born in Oslo. He was professor of internal medicine at the University of Oslo, and worked as a physician at Ullevål Hospital from 1973 to 1995. He chaired the ethical council of the Norwegian Medical Association from 1974 to 1985, and contributed to the public debate on medical ethics and jurisprudence.

#15233

Jeff Lemire

#66582

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (50 years)

Jeff Lemire is a Canadian comic book writer, artist, and television producer. He is the author of critically acclaimed titles including the Essex County Trilogy, Sweet Tooth, and The Nobody. His written work includes All-New Hawkeye, Extraordinary X-Men, Moon Knight and Old Man Logan for Marvel; Superboy, Animal Man, Justice League Dark, and Green Arrow for DC; Black Hammer and Mazebook for Dark Horse; Descender and Gideon Falls for Image Comics; and Bloodshot Reborn for Valiant.

#15234

Christopher H. Sterling

#60318

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Christopher H. Sterling was an American media historian. Sterling was professor of media and public affairs at The George Washington University where he taught from 1982. Author of numerous books on electronic media and telecommunications plus a host of research and bibliographic articles, his primary research interests centered upon the history and policy development of electronic media and telecommunications. He regularly taught courses in media law and federal regulation and society. He was an acting chair in the early 1990s and served as associate dean for graduate studies in arts and s...

#15235

Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber

Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber

1739 - 1810 (71 years)

Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber , often styled J.C.D. von Schreber, was a German naturalist. Career Schreber was appointed professor of materia medica at the University of Erlangen in 1769. In 1774, he began writing a multivolume set of books entitled Die Säugethiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen, which focused on the mammals of the world. Many of the animals included were given a scientific name for the first time, following the binomial system of Carl Linnaeus. From 1791 until his death in 1810, he was the president of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. He was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1787.

#15236

Hugh LaFollette

#172739

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Hugh LaFollette is an American philosopher who holds the Marie E. and Leslie Cole Emeritus Chair in Ethics at the University of South Florida. He primarily works on moral philosophy. He is author of four books and numerous philosophical essays; he also edited six volumes; several have seen multiple editions. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of Ethics—currently in its 2nd print edition . The IEE is updated annually online.

#15237

Samuel Ebbe Bring

1879 - 1965 (86 years)

Samuel Ebbe Bring was a Swedish librarian and historian. Biography Bring was born in Vinslöv Parish, Kristianstad County, to Ebbe Lars Bring and Klara Dorotea Bergman. From 1908 to 1909 he taught at the Palmgrenska samskolan. He became second librarian at the Royal Library of Sweden in 1909 and a doctor of philosophy at Lund University in 1912. From 1914 to 1944 he held the role of first librarian at Uppsala University Library. Among Bring's extensive writings are the history of the Trollhätte Canal , the Uppsala County Royal Agricultural Society , the history of the Göta Canal , the history ...

#15238

Nicole Saphier

#22133

Overall Influence

1982 - Present (44 years)

Nicole Saphier is an American medical journalist, radiologist, and writer. She is the director of breast imaging at Memorial Sloan Kettering Monmouth, New Jersey. She is well known for providing her opinions as a contributor on Fox News, Fox Business, and MSNBC.

#15239

Christina Hicks

#107023

Overall Influence

1980 - Present (46 years)

Christina Chemtai Hicks is a British Kenyan environmental social scientist who is a Professor in the Political Ecology group at Lancaster University. She is interested in the relationships between individuals, societies and nature. She was awarded the 2019 Philip Leverhulme Prize for Geography.

#15240

Joshua Sonett

#71814

Overall Influence

Joshua R. Sonett is the Chief of General Thoracic Surgery, Surgical Director of Price Family Center for Comprehensive Chest Care, and an Attending Surgeon at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center. He is also a Professor of Clinical Surgery at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.

#15241

Carlos Goñi Zubieta

#173005

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Carlos Goñi Zubieta is a Spanish philosopher, writer and teacher. He has a doctor's degree in philosophy from Universidad de Barcelona. Zubieta is married to Pilar Guembe, with whom he has two children, Adrián and Paula. With Pilar, Guembe has written books on child education, such as Educar entre los dos , Educar sin castigar , Aprender de los hijos and No me ralles . He was awarded the Premio de Ensayo Becerro de Bengoa in 2010, and the Premi de Filosofía Arnau de Vilanova in 2005.

#15242

Lawrence C. Wroth

Lawrence C. Wroth

1884 - 1970 (86 years)

Lawrence Counselman Wroth was an American historian and the author of The Colonial Printer, the definitive book on the American printing trade during the period of 1639 through 1800. Though he wrote hundreds of articles or books, Wroth was also a librarian and research professor.

#15243

Colin Young

#85549

Overall Influence

1927 - 2021 (94 years)

Colin Young was a British film educator, chairman of the School of Theater, Film and Television at UCLA, founder of the film program at Rice University, Houston, Texas, and the first director of the British National Film and Television School. He was awarded a BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award, the highest honor of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, in 1993.

#15244

Alex Michalos

#170779

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (91 years)

Alexandros Charles Michalos is a Canadian political scientist and philosopher known for his work in quality of life research. He is professor emeritus of political science and former chancellor at the University of Northern British Columbia, where he served as the founding director of the Institute for Social Research and Evaluation. Before joining the University of Northern British Columbia, he taught at the University of Guelph from 1966 to 1994. He served as senior research advisor to the Canadian Index of Wellbeing, and continues to serve as a member of their Canadian Research Advisory Group.

#15245

John Charvet

#89211

Overall Influence

John Charvet is a British political theorist, and Emeritus Professor at the London School of Economics. His interests are in political theory, contractarianism and international relations. Books The Social Problem in the Philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau A Critique of Freedom and Equality Feminism The Idea of an Ethical Community The Liberal Project and Human Rights: The Theory and Practice of a New World Order The Nature and Limits of Human Equality

#15246

Riad Barmada

#24224

Overall Influence

1929 - 2014 (85 years)

Riad Barmada , a Syrian-American orthopaedic surgeon and professor. Barmada was the head of orthopedics at the University of Illinois at Chicago from 1984 to 1998 and served as the president of the Illinois Orthopedic Society and president of the Chicago Committee on Trauma.

#15247

Richard Lee

#135455

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Richard Lee is a cardiac surgeon in St. Louis, Missouri, who helped pioneer a staged Hybrid Maze, a procedure for atrial fibrillation or AFIB. combining surgery and catheter based approaches. He was the vice chair of surgery at Saint Louis University and co-director of the Center for Comprehensive Cardiovascular Care at Saint Louis University Hospital.

#15248

Alphonsus J. Donlon

Alphonsus J. Donlon

1867 - 1923 (56 years)

Alphonsus J. Donlon was an American Catholic priest and Jesuit who spent his career in priestly ministry and academia, including as president of Georgetown University from 1912 to 1918. Born in Albany, New York, he garnered a reputation as a good student and an exceptional collegiate athlete. As a professor, he went on to lead Georgetown University's sports program, which enjoyed great success. As a result, he became known as the "father of Georgetown athletics."

#15249

Denis Williams

#30193

Overall Influence

1923 - 1998 (75 years)

Denis Williams was a Guyanese painter, author and archaeologist. Biography Dr. Denis Joseph Ivan Williams, C.C.H., Hon. D. Lit., M.A., called by his friends "Sonny" Williams, was born in Georgetown, Guyana, where he received his early education; he was granted a Cambridge Junior School Certificate in 1940 and a Cambridge Senior School Certificate in 1941. His promise as a painter won him a two-year British Council Scholarship to the Camberwell School of Art in London in 1946. He lived in London for the next 10 years, during which he taught fine art as a lecturer at the Central School of Art and visiting tutor at the Slade School of Art.

#15250

Fintan Cullen

#92048

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Fintan Cullen in Dublin, is an Irish academic, educator and writer. Cullen is a professor at the University of Nottingham. National Portrait Gallery Exhibit He and Roy Foster co-created the exhibit Conquering England: Ireland in Victorian England, which was in the National Portrait Gallery in London from 9 March 2005 to 19 June 2005. They also co-wrote a book that accompanied the exhibit. The name comes from G. B. Shaw's mordant observation that "England had conquered Ireland, so there was nothing for it but to come over and conquer England."

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