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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#15251

Darrell Hamamoto

#38214

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Darrell Y. Hamamoto is an American writer, academic, and specialist in U.S. media and ethnic studies. He was a scholar of Asian American media and professor for almost 23 years at the University of California, Davis before retiring in 2018.

#15252

Brian P. Monahan

Brian P. Monahan

#18325

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Brian Patrick Monahan is the Attending Physician of the United States Congress and the United States Supreme Court and holds the rank of rear admiral in the United States Navy. Monahan was nominated to the position and rank by United States President Barack Obama in January 2009. He previously served as the director of hematology and medical oncology at the National Naval Medical Center. He is a Master of The American College of Physicians and a Member of the Academy of Medicine.

#15253

Martin Schechter

#74306

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Martin T. Schechter is a Canadian epidemiologist recognized for contributions to research about HIV prevention and treatments, addiction research, and Indigenous health research. He is a professor and was the founding director of the School of Population and Public Health in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia . Schechter received his Order of British Columbia in 1994 alongside BC's first Nobel Prize laureate Michael Smith and noted Indigenous artist Bill Reid. In 2022, Schechter was named as a Member of the Order of Canada.

#15254

Lisbeth Klastrup

#124892

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Lisbeth Klastrup is a Danish scholar of digital and social media. Although her early research was on hypertext fiction, she is now best known for her research on transmedial worlds, social media and death.

#15255

Sandra B. Rosenthal

#172744

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

Sandra Brener Rosenthal is an American philosopher and former Provost Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University New Orleans. She is a former president of the Metaphysical Society of America .

#15256

Anne Schuchat

#26758

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Anne Schuchat is an American medical doctor. She is a former rear admiral and assistant surgeon general in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. She also served as the principal deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention . In May 2021, Schuchat stepped down from her post.

#15257

Paul Slevogt

1596 - 1655 (59 years)

Paul Slevogt was a German philologist and Aristotelian philosopher. Biography Paul Slevogt was born in Possendorf, a small town in central southern Germany which more recently, in 1994, was subsumed into Weimar. He was educated at a succession of schools in the area and then, in 1615, enrolled at the nearby University of Jena. He emerged five years later with a Magister degree and immediately started teaching. In 1621 he moved to Braunschweig where he became "Konrektor" at the town's secondary school . The virtuosity he displayed with his Latin verse won him plaudits and at least one important prize as a poet.

#15258

Keryn Williams

#115715

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Professor Keryn Anne Williams is an Australian medical scientist who works in the field of ophthalmology. She was a Principal Research Fellow in the School of Medicine at Flinders University. Her research interests include clinical and experimental corneal transplantation, ocular inflammation, ocular immunology and eye banking.

#15259

Nirali N. Shah

#129141

Overall Influence

Nirali N. Shah is an American physician-scientist and pediatric hematologist-oncologist, serving as head of the hematologic malignancies section of the pediatric oncology branch at the National Cancer Institute. She researches the translation of immunotherapeutic approaches to treat high-risk hematologic malignancies in children, adolescents and young adults.

#15260

Marylyn Addo

#57682

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Marylyn Martina Addo is a German infectiologist who is a Professor and the German Center for Infection Research Head of Infectious Disease at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf. Addo has developed and tested vaccinations that protect people from Ebola virus disease and the MERS coronavirus EMC/2012. She is currently developing a viral vector based COVID-19 vaccine.

#15261

George E. Moore

#105771

Overall Influence

1920 - 2008 (88 years)

George Eugene Moore was an American doctor and cancer researcher notable for his discovery of the link between chewing tobacco and mouth cancer. He was head of Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center in Buffalo, New York. He was the author of two books and more than 700 papers.

#15262

Leonid Sabaneyev

Leonid Sabaneyev

1881 - 1968 (87 years)

Leonid Leonidovich Sabaneyev or Sabaneyeff or Sabaneev was a Russian musicologist, music critic, composer and scientist. He was the son of Leonid Pavlovich Sabaneyev, a famous hunting expert, and his brother Boris was also a musician.

#15263

Madhusudan Gupta

Madhusudan Gupta

1800 - 1856 (56 years)

Pandit Madhusudan Gupta was a Bengali Baidya translator and Ayurvedic practitioner who was also trained in Western medicine and is credited with having performed India's first human dissection at Calcutta Medical College in 1836, almost 3,000 years after Susruta.

#15264

Bas Haring

#51646

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Sebastiaan Haring is a Dutch writer of popular science and children's literature, television presenter and professor. He is a full professor at Leiden University, where he has held a chair in "public understanding of science" since 2007. He also hosted his own philosophical TV program for Dutch public broadcasting.

#15265

Robert W. Porter

#120138

Overall Influence

1926 - Present (100 years)

Robert Porter was a neurosurgeon in California. Porter was a founding member of the Brain Research Institute. He became Professor of Neurological Surgery at the University of California, Irvine, College of Medicine in 1969, and was Professor Emeritus there.

#15266

Judith Kaplan Eisenstein

Judith Kaplan Eisenstein

#150580

Overall Influence

1909 - 1996 (87 years)

Judith Eisenstein was an author, musicologist, composer, theologian and the first person to celebrate a bat mitzvah publicly in America . Life The bat mitzvah was created to address Judaism's gender imbalance and is the female equivalent of a boy's bar mitzvah, signifying entrance into religious majority. Judith, the eldest of four daughters born to Lena and Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan , was the first person to celebrate a bat mitzvah publicly in America, which she did on March 18, 1922, aged 12, at her father’s synagogue the Society for the Advancement of Judaism in New York City.

#15267

Rudolf Boehm

1844 - 1926 (82 years)

Rudolf Albert Martin Boehm was a German pharmacologist, known for his work in the field of experimental pharmacology. He studied medicine at the universities of Munich and Würzburg, and in 1868–70 served as an assistant to Franz von Rinecker at the Juliusspital in Würzburg. In 1871 he obtained his habilitation under Adolf Fick, then during the following year was named a professor of pharmacology, dietetics and history of medicine at the University of Dorpat. Later on, he worked as professor of pharmacology at the universities of Marburg and Leipzig , where on four separate occasions he was named dean to the medical faculty.

#15268

Christian Martin Frähn

Christian Martin Frähn

1782 - 1851 (69 years)

Christian Martin Joachim Frähn , German and Russian numismatist and historian, was born at Rostock, Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Frähn began his Oriental studies under Tychsen at the university of Rostock, and afterwards continued them at Göttingen and Tübingen. He became a Latin master in Pestalozzi's famous institute in 1804, taught at Rostock as a Privatdozent in 1806, and in the following year was chosen to fill the chair of Oriental languages in the Russian university of Kazan. Though in 1815 he was invited to succeed Tychsen at Rostock, he preferred to go to St Petersburg, where he became director of the Asiatic museum and councillor of state.

#15269

Jeong Do-jeon

1342 - 1398 (56 years)

Jeong Do-jeon , also known by his art name Sambong , was a prominent Korean scholar-official during the late Goryeo to the early Joseon periods. He served as the first Chief State Councillor of Joseon, from 1392 until 1398 when he was killed by the Joseon king Yi Bang-won. Jeong Dojeon was an adviser to the Joseon founder Yi Seong-gye and also the principal architect of the Joseon dynasty's policies, laying down the kingdom's ideological, institutional, and legal frameworks which would govern it for five centuries.

#15270

Innes Asher

#152373

Overall Influence

Monica Innes Asher is a New Zealand paediatrician. She is professor of paediatrics at the University of Auckland. Early life Asher studied at the Auckland Medical School . She also undertook postgraduate study in Paediatrics in Auckland, Whakatane, Ruatoki and at the Montreal Children’s Hospital for three years .

#15271

William Beebe

1877 - 1962 (85 years)

Charles William Beebe was an American naturalist, ornithologist, marine biologist, entomologist, explorer, and author. He is remembered for the numerous expeditions he conducted for the New York Zoological Society, his deep dives in the Bathysphere, and his prolific scientific writing for academic and popular audiences.

#15272

Thorsten Quandt

#134174

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Thorsten Quandt is the professor of online communication at the University of Münster, Germany. He has a particular interest in online communication, journalism and digital media. He authored more than 200 scientific articles and several books, including Participatory Journalism, which was influential in establishing the citizen journalism model. He has edited numerous books, primarily in the field of online communication and digital media, including The Video Game Debate. His work was awarded with several scientific prizes, including international Top Paper Awards, the dissertation award of ...

#15273

Thomas Cauchi

1501 - 1601 (100 years)

Thomas Cauchi was a minor Maltese philosopher who specialised in law. Life Little is known about the private life of Thomas Cauchi. 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. He surely lectured in Messina, Sicily. Unfortunately, most of the works of Cauchi are as yet lost. At least three are known to have existed, all dealing with the philosophy of law. Of these just one is still extant, which is the third volume of what is thought to have been a triad. Unfortunately, no known portr...

#15274

Robert Livingston Rudolph

Robert Livingston Rudolph

1865 - 1930 (65 years)

Robert Livingston Rudolph was an American bishop of the Reformed Episcopal Church. He was the first bishop to be raised with the church. Rudolph also served as Professor of Dogmatic Theology and Christian Ethics at the Theological Seminary of the Reformed Episcopal Church in Philadelphia for twenty-seven years before his death. Together Rudolph and his son, Robert Knight Rudolph, trained men for the gospel ministry at this institution for a total of seventy-four years. Rudolph was widely recognized as an outstanding preacher, teacher, scholar and bishop.

#15275

Rudolf Flotzinger

#141694

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Rudolf Flotzinger is an Austrian musicologist. Career Born in Vorchdorf , Flotzinger graduated from the where he was a student from 1951 to 1958. He then pursued concurrent studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and the University of Vienna . At the Academy of Fine Arts he studied music composition with Karl Schiske, and at the University of Vienna he studied musicology with Erich Schenk and Walter Graf.

#15276

Chloe Orkin

#102336

Overall Influence

Chloe Meave Orkin is a British physician and Professor of HIV/AIDS medicine at Queen Mary University of London. She works as a consultant at the Royal London Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust. She is an internationally renowned expert in HIV therapeutics and led the first phase III clinical trial of injectable anti-retrovirals. She is immediate past Chair of the British HIV Association, where she championed the Undetectable=Untransmittable campaign within the United Kingdom. She is president elect of the Medical Women's Federation. Orkin is gay and was on the Top 100 Lesbian influencer lists in both the UK and in the US in 2020.

#15277

Creswell Eastman

Creswell Eastman

#98057

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Creswell John Eastman is the Clinical Professor of Medicine at Sydney University Medical School, Principal of the Sydney Thyroid Clinic and Consultant Emeritus to the Westmead Hospital. Eastman is an endocrinologist and has directed or conducted research and public health projects into elimination of iodine deficiency disorders in Malaysia, Indonesia, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, several Pacific Islands, Hong Kong, China and Tibet and Australia. For his work in remote areas of China, he has been dubbed the "man who saved a million brains".

#15278

Wolfgang von Leyden

#127195

Overall Influence

1911 - 2004 (93 years)

Wolfgang Marius von Leyden was a German political philosopher who edited the letters of the 17th century empiricist, John Locke. He was born in Berlin on 28 December 1911, and was a grandson of Ernst Viktor von Leyden. He received a broad humanistic education, studying at German and Italian universities. When in Italy, in 1939, he found himself stateless, possibly because of his Jewish descent, or possibly because of being confused with his brother, who was an alleged member of the communist party in Germany. Just before the second World War broke out he managed, assisted by an Englishman h...

#15279

Noël Coward

1899 - 1973 (74 years)

Sir Noël Peirce Coward was an English playwright, composer, director, actor, and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise".

#15280

Helga Hörz

#118775

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (91 years)

Helga Hörz is a German Marxist philosopher and women's rights activist. Before 1990 she was a university teacher of Ethics in the Philosophy Department at the Humboldt University in Berlin. She was persuaded to retire on health grounds in October 1990, but in the words of one headline writer slightly less than twenty years later, this has left her "winding down, but not muzzled" .

#15281

Stephen H. Watson

#142708

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Stephen H. Watson is an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He is known for his works on aesthetics, the history of philosophy and recent continental philosophy.

#15282

Armas Salonen

1915 - 1981 (66 years)

Armas Immanuel Salonen was a Finnish Assyriologist. Salonen graduated from high school in 1933. He studied at the University of Helsinki under professor Knut Tallqvist. Having obtained his bachelor's degree in 1936, he continued his studies in Germany and later on in the US, where he joined the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago in 1947. There he participated in the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary project under professor A. Leo Oppenheim, focusing on etymological references.

#15283

Eta Tyrmand

#140160

Overall Influence

1917 - 2008 (91 years)

Eta Moiseyevna Tyrmand was a Belarusian composer. Life and career Eta Tyrmand was born in Warsaw. She graduated from the Warsaw Conservatory in choral performance in 1938, and from the Belarusian State Conservatory in classical piano and composition in 1952. She located in Minsk in 1939, and during World War II lived in Frunze. She taught for nearly 40 years at the Belarusian State Conservatory where she trained several generations of highly accomplished musicians.

#15284

Jill Marsden

#114486

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Jill Marsden is a scholar of the work of German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche. Marsden, from Nottingham, took her BA, MA and PhD from the University of Essex. She is a senior lecturer at the University of Bolton.

#15285

V. Mohan Reddy

#16621

Overall Influence

Vadiyala Mohan Reddy is an Indian professor at UCSF Medical Center in the United States. External links https://web.archive.org/web/20070228142022/http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Vadiyala_Reddy/http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/2015/09/ucsf-lures-top-pediatric-heart-surgeon-stanford.html

#15286

Lesley Rees

#37824

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Dame Lesley Howard Rees DBE Rees was educated at Pate's Grammar School for Girls, Cheltenham. Rees studied at Bart’s and qualified in 1965. She went on to specialise in clinical endocrinology and was appointed Professor of Chemical Endocrinology in 1980. She also became the University of London's public orator, the first science graduate to hold this post. She has published more than 300 articles in peer-reviewed journals, and in 1980 delivered the Goulstonian lecture of the Royal College of Physicians.

#15287

Nicola Antonio Stigliola

1546 - 1623 (77 years)

Nicola Antonio Stigliola was an Italian philosopher, printer, architect, and medical doctor. He was a friend of Tommaso Campanella and Giordano Bruno and a member of the Accademia dei Lincei. He was an adherent of Copernican heliocentrism and of Bruno's ideas on Hermeticism and magic. He believed in the complex Pythagorean and Brunian cosmologies, including the view that the planets and stars were like the earth, covered in plants and animals: "Stigliola said to me...that it seemed irrational to him that bodies so much larger than the earth and the space between the center of the earth to th...

#15288

Eula Bingham

#47981

Overall Influence

1929 - 2020 (91 years)

Eula Bingham was an American scientist, best known as an Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health during the Presidency of Jimmy Carter. During her tenure as the head of OSHA, she eliminated more than 1,000 pedantic regulations and shifted the agency's focus to health and safety risks, establishing strict standards for workers' rights to know about their exposure to hazardous substances.

#15289

Charles Mackinnon Douglas

1865 - 1924 (59 years)

Charles Mackinnon Douglas was a Scottish philosopher, agriculturist and Member of Parliament who represented North West Lanarkshire from 1899 to 1906. Education and academia Douglas was born in Edinburgh, and was educated at Edinburgh Academy, the University of Edinburgh and the University of Freiburg. He graduated the University of Edinburgh with first-class honours in philosophy in 1892 and later earned a doctorate from the same institution. He lectured at the university on moral philosophy for seven years. He was the author of studies of English philosopher John Stuart Mill, and co-author...

#15290

Jennifer Thorne

#107454

Overall Influence

Jennifer Elizabeth Thorne is an American ophthalmologist and epidemiologist. She is the Cross Family Professor of Ophthalmology and a professor of epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University. Education Thorne graduated in 1991 with a bachelor of science, magna cum laude, at College of William & Mary. She completed a doctor of medicine at University of Virginia School of Medicine in 1996. She was an intern in medicine at University of Maryland, Baltimore from 1996 to 1997. From 1997 to 2000, she was a resident at Scheie Eye Institute. She was the chief resident from 1999 to 2000. Thorne completed a doctor of philosophy in epidemiology in 2006 from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

#15291

Vijay Pratap Singh

#179130

Overall Influence

#15292

Ron Amundson

#78717

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Ronald Amundson is an American philosopher currently Professor Emeritus at University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo, retired since 2012, and an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

#15293

Willemina Ogterop

Willemina Ogterop

1881 - 1974 (93 years)

Willemina Ogterop was a Dutch-American artist and stained glass window designer of almost 500 windows in 80 locations. Biography Ogterop was born in Maastricht in the Netherlands in 1881. After migrating to California in 1918 with her husband and four children, she worked in the Cummings Art Glass Studio in San Francisco as their principal designer from 1928 to 1953, designing nearly 500 stained glass windows, and creating more than 200 works of art in other media.

#15294

John A. Rich

#50698

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

John Armand Rich is Professor and chair of the Department of Health Management and Policy at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and was a 2006 MacArthur Fellow. Early life Rich, originally from Queens, New York City, received an A.B. in 1980 from Dartmouth College his M.D. in 1984 from Duke University School of Medicine, and an M.P.H. in 1990 from the Harvard School of Public Health. He did his internship and residency at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

#15295

Matthias Schmidt

#144727

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Matthias Schmidt is a German musicologist. Career Born in Cologne, Schmidt studied musicology, Germanistic, history of art and philosophy in the universities of Bonn, Berlin and Vienna. He received his doctorate at the FU Berlin and habilitated at the University of Salzburg. Schmidt was a research assistant at the Arnold Schönberg-Institute of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, the German Academic Exchange Service, and the scholarships in Austria, Italy and several times in the USA. Schmidt has spent many years of teaching at universities in Austria, Switzerland, Germany an...

#15296

Raman Viswanathan

1899 - 1982 (83 years)

Raman Viswanathan was an Indian chest physician, medical mycologist and pulmonologist, considered by many as the father of Chest Medicine in India. He was the founder director of Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute, a postgraduate medical institute based in Delhi. An elected fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians, Royal College of Physicians of London, Indian National Science Academy and the Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom, he was a recipient of several honors including the Forlanini Medal by Italian Tuberculosis Association and the Eugeno Morelli Prize of the National Academy of Sciences, Italy.

#15297

Thomas Bewick

1753 - 1828 (75 years)

Thomas Bewick was an English wood-engraver and natural history author. Early in his career he took on all kinds of work such as engraving cutlery, making the wood blocks for advertisements, and illustrating children's books. He gradually turned to illustrating, writing and publishing his own books, gaining an adult audience for the fine illustrations in A History of Quadrupeds.

#15298

David Stratton

#66824

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

David James Stratton is an English-Australian award-winning film critic, as both a journalist and interviewer, film historian and lecturer and television personality and producer. Life and career Born in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, in 1939, Stratton was sent to Hampshire to see out the war years with his grandmother, an avid filmgoer, where he was taken to the local cinemas regularly and saw a diverse range of films. He attended Chafyn Grove School from 1948 to 1953 as a boarder. He saw his first foreign film at Bath in 1955—Italian romantic comedy Bread, Love and Dreams. That was soon f...

#15299

Hani Gabra

#108160

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Hani Gabra PhD FRCPE FRCP is a British oncologist and Professor Emeritus in Medical Oncology at Imperial College London. Career Hani Gabra is a British academic medial oncologist and drug developer. He is Founder, board member and Chief Scientific Officer of Papyrus Therapeutics Inc., an emerging biotech company focussed on extra-cellular tumour suppressor therapies for cancer. He is also Professor Emeritus in Medical Oncology at Imperial College London and adjunct professor at the Centre for Cancer Biomarkers at the University of Bergen in Norway.

#15300

Andrea Gropman

#176471

Overall Influence

Andrea L. Gropman is an American pediatric neurologist specializing in neurodevelopmental disabilities and neurogenetics. She is a professor of pediatrics and neurology at the George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences. Gropman is chief of neurogenetics and neurodevelopmental pediatrics and an attending neurologist at Children's National Hospital.

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