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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#15451

Peter Kaufmann

1800 - 1869 (69 years)

Peter Kaufmann was known as one of the "Ohio Hegelians", along with John Bernhard Stallo, Moncure Daniel Conway and August Willich. His 1858 book titled, The Temple of Truth, or the Science of Ever-Progressing Knowledge, discussed the process and formation of knowledge according to Hegel's dialectical method, and socialist utopian reform ideals for perfecting humankind.

#15452

Emanuel Goldberg

1881 - 1970 (89 years)

Emanuel Goldberg was an Israeli physicist and inventor. He was born in Moscow and moved first to Germany and later to Israel. He described himself as "a chemist by learning, physicist by calling, and a mechanic by birth." He contributed a wide range of theoretic and practical advances relating to light and media and was the founding head of Zeiss Ikon, the famous photographic products company in Dresden, Germany. His inventions include microdots, the Kinamo movie camera, the Contax 35 mm camera, a very early search engine, and equipment for sensitometry.

#15453

Robert M. Yost

#179599

Overall Influence

1917 - Present (109 years)

Robert Morris Yost was a philosopher at the University of California in Los Angeles . UCLA offers the Robert M. Yost Prize in philosophy in honor of his notable achievements in the field.

#15454

Ulana Suprun

#4887

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Ulana Nadia Suprun is a Ukrainian-American physician, activist, and philanthropist who served as the acting Minister of Healthcare from 2016 to 2019. Prior to her government career, Suprun served as Director of Humanitarian Initiatives for the Ukrainian World Congress.

#15455

Bernadette Wegenstein

Bernadette Wegenstein

#141695

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Bernadette Wegenstein is a Research Professor and director of the Center for Advanced Media Studies at Johns Hopkins University. She has written books on media theory including Getting Under the Skin: Body and Media Theory, The Cosmetic Gaze: Body Modification and the Construction of Beauty.

#15456

Ljiljana Filipović

Ljiljana Filipović

#156893

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Ljiljana Filipović is a Croatian author and philosopher. Filipović received her Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Zagreb. Her first published work in literature was a radio play produced by Radio Zagreb in 1973. Besides writing radio plays . For innovation in the radio program she received annual prize in 2002 from Croatian radio. She taught Philosophical and psychoanalytic critique of drama text at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb from 1998 until 2013 when she acquired position of the associate professor.

#15457

David H.H. Metcalfe

#62574

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David Henry Harold Metcalfe, OBE, MB, B.CHIR, FRCGP, Professor of General Practice the University of Manchester. Metcalfe attended Leys School, Cambridge and the Cambridge University. He held a commission in the Royal Tank regiment and later became a general practitioner in 1958. He was Assistant Professor in Family Medicine at the University of Rochester, New York from 1970 to 1972. He was appointed Senior Lecturer in General Practice in the Department of Community Health at the University of Nottingham Medical School later moving to University of Manchester as Professor of General Practice.

#15458

Ōmori Harutoyo

1852 - 1912 (60 years)

Ōmori Harutoyo was a Japanese surgeon who became the first president of the Fukuoka Medical College that was founded in 1903 as a branch of the Medical Faculty of Kyōto University . Ōmori was born in Edo, but he grew up in the domain Kaminoyama where his father Ōmori Kaishun served as a physician to lord Matsudaira Nobumichi. In 1879 he graduated from Tokyo University; the same year he went to a new post in the newly established Fukuoka Medical School. In 1888 when this school was abolished, he was appointed as the first director of the Fukuoka Prefectural Hospital. In 1885, he performed the first cesarean operation in Japan.

#15459

Christian Onof

#180021

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Christian Onof is a British philosopher and engineering mathematician. He is Reader in Stochastic Environmental Systems at Imperial College London and Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at Birkbeck College London. He is known for his works on Kantian philosophy. Onof is a co-founder of the journal Episteme.

#15460

John Cabot

1450 - 1498 (48 years)

John Cabot was an Italian navigator and explorer. His 1497 voyage to the coast of North America under the commission of Henry VII, King of England is the earliest known European exploration of coastal North America since the Norse visits to Vinland in the eleventh century. To mark the celebration of the 500th anniversary of Cabot's expedition, both the Canadian and British governments declared Cape Bonavista, Newfoundland as representing Cabot's first landing site. However, alternative locations have also been proposed.

#15461

Saul Hertz

1905 - 1950 (45 years)

Saul Hertz, M.D. was an American physician who devised the medical uses of radioactive iodine. Hertz pioneered the first targeted cancer therapies. Hertz is called the father of the field of theranostics, combining diagnostic imaging with therapy in a single or paired chemical substance.

#15462

Jane Feuer

#72186

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Jane Feuer was a Professor of film studies in the English and Communication Departments at the University of Pittsburgh, United States. She was a film and television studies scholar and one of the founders of Console-ing Passions, a biennial conference in feminism, television, video and new media.

#15463

John Collins Warren

John Collins Warren

1778 - 1856 (78 years)

John Collins Warren was an American surgeon. In 1846 he gave permission to William T.G. Morton to provide ether anesthesia while Warren performed a minor surgical procedure. News of this first public demonstration of surgical anesthesia quickly circulated around the world. He was a founder of the New England Journal of Medicine and was the third president of the American Medical Association. He was the first Dean of Harvard Medical School and a founding member of the Massachusetts General Hospital.

#15464

Richard Goldbloom

Richard Goldbloom

#79336

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1924 - 2021 (97 years)

Richard Ballon Goldbloom, was a Canadian pediatrician, university professor, and the fifth chancellor of Dalhousie University. Born in Montreal, Quebec, he was educated at Selwyn House School and Lower Canada College. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1945 and a Doctor of Medicine degree in 1949 from McGill University. He did his post-graduate medical education at the Royal Victoria Hospital, the Montreal Children's Hospital and the Children's Hospital Boston. From 1964 to 1967, he was an associate professor at McGill University and a physician at the Montreal Children's Hospital. From 1967 to 1985, he was the head of Dalhousie University's Department of Pediatrics.

#15465

John Oswald

1701 - 1793 (92 years)

John Oswald was a Scottish philosopher, writer, poet, social critic, vegetarian and revolutionary. Early life Little is known for certain regarding Oswald's early life. He was born between 1755 and 1760 in Edinburgh. His father is said to have been a coffee-house keeper, or a goldsmith. He became a student goldsmith himself. It is said that Oswald learned Latin and Greek without a tutor, and later learned Arabic.

#15466

Şevket Aziz Kansu

1903 - 1983 (80 years)

Şevket Aziz Kansu was a Turkish physician and academic. He specialised in anthropology and archaeology and was the first rector of Ankara University. Education and academic career Kansu was born in Edirne. He studied medicine at Istanbul University, graduating in 1923. In 1927, after completing compulsory government service and working as a medical doctor for two years in Bala, Ankara, he went to Paris to study anthropology. He received a diploma in anthropological sciences from the Sorbonne in 1929.

#15467

Johannes Orth

1847 - 1923 (76 years)

Johannes Orth was a German pathologist born in Wallmerod. He studied medicine at the universities of Heidelberg, Würzburg and Bonn, receiving his habilitation in 1872 while an assistant to Eduard von Rindfleisch at Bonn. Afterwards, he served as an assistant under Rudolf Virchow in Berlin. In 1878 he became a professor at the University of Göttingen, and in 1902, following the death of Virchow, he returned to Berlin as director of the clinic of pathology.

#15468

Sujoy B. Roy

Sujoy Bhushan Roy was an Indian cardiologist and the founder Head of the department of the Cardiology at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi. He was the president of the Cardiological Society of India in 1972. He was known for medical research in cardiology and was reported to have coined the name, Juvenile Rheumatic Stenosis. The Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan, in 1972, for his contributions to medical science.

#15469

Branko Kopjar

Branko Kopjar is a physician and epidemiologist at the University of Washington. He is best known for his contributions in the 1990s to the field of injury prevention and his later work on spine, orthopedic and spinal cord injury research. In addition, he has been published in several top journals in the fields of cardiology, oncology, public health and neurosurgery resulting in a total of more than 500 articles, reports, reviews and abstracts.

#15470

Nikolai Korotkov

Nikolai Korotkov

1874 - 1920 (46 years)

Nikolai Sergeyevich Korotkov was a Russian Empire surgeon, a pioneer of 20th-century vascular surgery, and the inventor of auscultatory technique for blood pressure measurement. Biography Nikolai Korotkov was born to a merchant family at 40 Milenskaia Street in Kursk on February 26, 1874. He attended the Kursk Gymnasium . He entered the medical faculty of Kharkiv University in 1893 and transferred to Moscow University in 1895, where he graduated with distinction in 1898. He was appointed resident intern to professor Alexander Bobrov at the surgical clinic of Moscow University.

#15471

Eyvind Mehle

1895 - 1945 (50 years)

Eyvind Mehle was a Norwegian radio personality, media professor and Nazi collaborator. Background He was born as Eyvind Mæhle, but changed his last name in 1930. He was hired in 1925 in Kringkastingsselskapet, the first broadcaster of Norwegian radio. One of his specialities were half-hour lectures in the form of travel descriptions. He later joined the Norwegian Fascist party Nasjonal Samling in its first year of existence, 1933, and served as its press spokesperson for some years.

#15472

Ting Yu

#180123

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#15473

Helmut Bertalanffy

#62017

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Helmut Bertalanffy is the director of the Department of Vascular Neurosurgery, at the International Neuroscience Institute in Hanover. Career Bertalanffy completed his studies of human medicine at the Albert Ludwig's University of Freiburg/Breisgau in 1983. He received his doctorate in 1986 and has been a specialist of neurosurgery since 1990. From 1990-1992, he was scientifically active as a scholarship holder of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science in Tokyo at Keio University. In 1992 he returned to Germany and took over the position of senior physician of the Department of the Neurosurgical Clinic at the RWTH Aachen University.

#15474

James Eights

1798 - 1882 (84 years)

James Eights was an American physician, scientist, and artist. He was born in Albany, New York, the son of physician Jonathan Eights and Alida Wynkoop. James also became a physician and was appointed an examiner at a local engineering school which is now known as Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

#15475

Otto Friedrich Gruppe

1804 - 1876 (72 years)

Otto Friedrich Gruppe was a German philosopher, scholar-poet and philologist who served as secretary of the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin. Poems by Gruppe were set to music by Johannes Brahms, Richard Strauss, Karl Löwe, Elise Schmezer, and Franz Schreker. He rediscovered the cycle of Latin elegies by the Augustan poet Sulpicia and demonstrated their poetic value.

#15476

Christian Ludwig Ideler

Christian Ludwig Ideler

1766 - 1846 (80 years)

Christian Ludwig Ideler was a German chronologist and astronomer. Life He was born in Gross-Brese near Perleberg. His earliest work was the editing in 1794 of an astronomical almanac for the Prussian government. He taught mathematics and mechanics in the school of woods and forests, and also in the military school. In 1821, he became professor at the University of Berlin, and in 1829 became a foreign member of the Institute of France. From 1816 to 1822 he was tutor to the young princes William Frederick and Charles. He died in Berlin on 10 August 1846.

#15477

Mary Ann Doane

#180154

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#15478

Ian Mueller

#132219

Overall Influence

1938 - 2010 (72 years)

Ian Bisset Mueller was an American philosopher. He studied ancient Greek philosophy of science and focused on the reception of Plato and Aristotle in late antiquity. Ian Mueller authored Philosophy of Mathematics and Deductive Structure in Euclid's "Elements" , which is considered standard work in this field; he was also the editor, translator and annotator of 10 volumes in the series Ancient Commentators on Aristotle. Mueller also wrote more than 70 articles on ancient Greek mathematics, cosmology and astronomy.

#15479

Carolyn McLeod

#175827

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Carolyn McLeod is a Canadian bioethicist and feminist philosopher. She is a professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario. In 2021, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

#15480

Jaan Kaplinski

#98117

Overall Influence

1941 - 2021 (80 years)

Jaan Kaplinski was an Estonian poet, philosopher, politician, and culture critic, known for his focus on global issues and support for left-wing/liberal thinking. He was influenced by Eastern philosophical schools .

#15481

Solomon Drowne

1753 - 1834 (81 years)

Dr. Solomon Drowne was a prominent American physician, academic and surgeon during the American Revolution and in the history of the fledgling United States. Early life Drowne was born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1753. His father was a merchant and was heavily involved in the civic affairs of the town. The Drowne family was also active in the First Baptist Church in America. Drowne's great-uncle Shem Drowne made the famous grasshopper weather vane atop of Faneuil Hall in Boston. In 1772, Drown witnessed the burning of a British ship in an event known as the Gaspée Affair. The following y...

#15482

Zerahiah the Greek

#89077

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Rabbi Zerachiah the Greek was a Greek-Jewish ethicist who resided in the Byzantine Empire in the thirteenth or fourteenth century. Of his life no details are known, except that he was the author of an ethical work entitled Sefer ha-Yashar ; this work was confused with Jacob Tam's halakhic work of the same name and erroneously attributed to the renowned tosafist. This error was detected by Menahem Lonzano, who, in his poem "Derek Ḥayyim" , expressly states that the ethical work in question belonged to Zerahiah. Lonzano did not succeed, however, in correctly establishing the identity of its author, for a second error immediately arose.

#15483

Sidney Toler

1874 - 1947 (73 years)

Sidney Toler was an American actor, playwright, and theatre director. The second European-American actor to play the role of Charlie Chan on screen, he is best remembered for his portrayal of the Chinese-American detective in 22 films made between 1938 and 1946. Before becoming Chan, Toler played supporting roles in 50 motion pictures, and was a highly regarded comic actor on the Broadway stage.

#15484

Michele Nicoletti

#169848

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Michele Nicoletti is an Italian politician and philosopher, and served as the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in 2018. He was elected to the Italian Chamber of Deputies in the elections of 24–25 February 2013. He was a member of the Commission of the Twelve, an advisory body for the implementation of the Statute of Trentino-Südtirol, and was also the provincial Secretary of the Democratic Party of Trentino until 16 March 2014. On 22 January 2018, he was elected as the 31st President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, a body bringing together parliamentarians from 47 European nations to promote human rights and democracy.

#15485

Barbara J. Stoll

#180215

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#15486

M. G. Kini

1893 - 1952 (59 years)

Mangalore Gopal Kini , better known as M. G. Kini M.C., M.B., M.Ch., F.R.C.S., was an Indian Orthopedic Surgeon. He was considered by the Indian Orthopedic surgical community as the forerunner of Orthopedic Surgery in India. The "Kini Memorial Oration" has been held by the Indian Orthopaedic Association every year since 1958.

#15487

Masatsugu Hori

#180219

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Sarah Fortune

#135667

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Sarah Merritt Fortune is an American Immunologist. She is a Full Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases in the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

#15489

Francesco Piccolomini

1520 - 1604 (84 years)

Francesco Piccolomini was senior chair of natural philosophy at the University of Padua from 1560–1598, moving there from previous professorial positions at the University of Siena, Macerata, and Perugia. His best-known work, Universa philosophia de moribus , systematizes and extends Aristotle's work on ethics and politics. He sparred intellectually with his fellow Aristotelian professor Jacopo Zabarella.

#15490

Hiroshi Okamoto

#180233

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#15491

Michel Foucault

#180236

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#15492

Tan Chorh Chuan

Tan Chorh Chuan

#30932

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Tan Chorh Chuan is a Singaporean college administrator and professor who served as the second president of the National University of Singapore between 2008 and 2017. He is currently a professor at the National University of Singapore.

#15493

David Donnison

#55350

Overall Influence

1926 - 2018 (92 years)

David Vernon Donnison was a British academic and social scientist, who was Professor of Social Administration at the London School of Economics from 1961 to 1969, and Professor of Town and Regional Planning and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow.

#15494

Wacker von Wackenfels

1550 - 1619 (69 years)

Johannes Matthaeus Wacker von Wackenfels was an active diplomat, scholar and author, with an avid interest in history and philosophy. A follower of Neostoicism, he sought to resolve the doubts he still had about his conversion to Catholicism, according to STUDIA RUDOLPHINA - Bulletin of the Research Center for Visual Arts and Culture in the Age of Rudolf II. He was born in Konstanz in 1550 in a Lutheran Protestant family and studied in Strasbourg, Geneva and Padua. He was supported and promoted by Johannes Crato von Krafftheim, who put his way into the circle of Renaissance humanism in Northern Europe in Breslau.

#15495

Margaret Schabas

#93893

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Margaret Schabas is a Canadian philosopher and professor of philosophy at the University of British Columbia notable for her work in the history and philosophy of science, particularly the science of economics. Schabas has also published numerous articles and book chapters on the British empiricists, David Hume, Adam Smith, and John Stuart Mill.

#15496

Ibn Shaprut

1400 - Present (626 years)

Shem-Tob ben Isaac Shaprut of Tudela was a Spanish Jewish philosopher, physician, and polemicist. He is often confused with the physician Shem-Tob ben Isaac of Tortosa, who lived earlier. He may also be confused with another Ibn Shaprut, Hasdai Ibn Shaprut, who corresponded with the king of the Khazars in the 900's.

#15497

Robert E. Michler

Robert E. Michler

#37817

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Robert E. Michler is an American heart surgeon specializing in heart surgery, aortic and mitral valve repair, coronary artery bypass surgery, aneurysm surgery, and management of the failing heart. In 2017, Michler received the Vladimir Borakovsky Prize in Moscow from the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation for “his personal contributions to the development of cardiovascular surgery”.

#15498

Yitshak Kreiss

#50792

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1965 - Present (61 years)

Yitshak Kreiss is an Israeli physician and Director General of Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer. Kreiss served in the Israel Defense Forces in various capacities for 25 years, achieving the rank of Brigadier General. In 2011, he was appointed Surgeon General of the IDF. Kreiss is an expert in disaster medical relief.

#15499

Xu Guangqi

1562 - 1633 (71 years)

Xu Guangqi or Hsü Kuang-ch'i , also known by his baptismal name Paul, was a Chinese agronomist, astronomer, mathematician, politician, and writer during the Ming dynasty. Xu was appointed by the Chinese Emperor in 1629 to be the leader of the ShiXian calendar reform, which he embarked on with the assistance of Jesuits. Xu was a colleague and collaborator of the Italian Jesuits Matteo Ricci and Sabatino de Ursis and assisted their translation of several classic Western texts into Chinese, including part of Euclid's Elements. He was also the author of the Nong Zheng Quan Shu, a treatise on agriculture.

#15500

Roy Amara

#30817

Overall Influence

1925 - 2007 (82 years)

Roy Charles Amara was an American researcher, scientist, futurist and president of the Institute for the Future best known for coining Amara's law on the effect of technology. He held a BS in Management, an MS in the Arts and Sciences, and a PhD in Systems Engineering, and also worked at the Stanford Research Institute.

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