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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#15601

Erin Marcus

#55495

Overall Influence

Erin N. Marcus, M.D., M.P.H is an internal medicine doctor who writes on public health and health disparity issues for The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The New York Times and other publications. Career Marcus is a general internist and a professor of clinical medicine at the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine. Much of her non-academic writing focuses on how different public policies affect the diverse patients she sees as a primary care physician in Miami.

#15602

Claes Wahlestedt

#72594

Overall Influence

Claes Wahlestedt is a Swedish-American biomedical researcher and entrepreneur. He is a professor at the University of Miami. Education A native of Sweden, Wahlestedt obtained his MD and PhD degrees from the University of Lund. He pursued postdoctoral work at Kyoto University and Georgetown University. He grew up in Karlskrona, the son of Åke and Irena Wahlestedt. His father, a lawyer and a decorated former Swedish diplomat, had served in Berlin during the second world war.

#15603

Tim Thornton

#114531

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Andrew Timothy Giles Thornton is a British philosopher and Professor of Philosophy and Mental Health at the University of Central Lancashire. He is a Senior Editor of the journal Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology. Thornton is known for his works on philosophy of thought and language.

#15604

Tominaga Nakamoto

1715 - 1746 (31 years)

was a Japanese philosopher. He was educated at the Kaitokudō academy founded by members of the mercantile class of Osaka, but was ostracised shortly after the age of 15. Tominaga belonged to a Japanese rationalist school of thought and advocated a Japanese variation of atheism, mukishinron . He was also a merchant in Osaka. Only a few of his works survive; his Setsuhei has been lost and may have been the reason for his separation from the Kaitokudō, and around nine other works' titles are known. The surviving works are his Okina no Fumi , Shutsujō Gogo , and three other works on ancient music...

#15605

Salvador Zubirán

1898 - 1998 (100 years)

Salvador Zubirán Anchondo was one of Mexico's most prominent physicians and nutritionists. Biography He received his MD from the National University of Mexico Faculty of Medicine and visited the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, from 1924 to 1925, where he received a diploma.

#15606

Erik Fosse

#27673

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Erik Torgeir Fosse is a Norwegian surgeon, lieutenant colonel, political activist, solidarity worker and musician. As professor of medicine he has headed the Intervention Centre at the National Hospital since 1995. He has been involved in international medical solidarity work since 1979 and co-founded the Norwegian Aid Committee NORWAC in 1983, of which he remains a leader. He is noted for his humanitarian work for NORWAC in the Gaza Strip with Mads Gilbert during the Gaza War.

#15607

Niels Ryberg Finsen

Niels Ryberg Finsen

1860 - 1904 (44 years)

Niels Ryberg Finsen was a Faroese physician and scientist. In 1903, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology "in recognition of his contribution to the treatment of diseases, especially lupus vulgaris, with concentrated light radiation, whereby he has opened a new avenue for medical science."

#15608

Kwaku Ohene-Frempong

#174109

Overall Influence

1946 - 2022 (76 years)

Kwaku Ohene-Frempong was a Ghanaian pediatric hematologist-oncologist and an expert in sickle cell disease . Ohene-Frempong grew up in Ghana and was a standout athlete in track-and-field, later competing for Yale University as well as Ghana at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games. He continued his medical training in the United States, where he completed medical school, pediatrics residency and a pediatric hematology-oncology fellowship. With a professional interest in SCD, Ohene-Frempong was a physician and involved in public health initiatives at Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans, Louisiana, and later the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania.

#15609

Mustafa Djamgoz

#57598

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Prof. Mustafa Bilgin Ali Djamgoz is Professor of cancer biology at Imperial College London and chairman of the College of Medicine’s Science Council. Biography Djamgoz was born in Nicosia, Cyprus to a Turkish Cypriot family. He emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1970 for his studies. Djamgoz studied at the Imperial College London, where he became a Professor of Neurobiology, and then Professor of Cancer Biology. His scientific consultancies and granting agencies include the Medical Research Council and the Wellcome Trust. In 2002, Djamgoz established the Pro Cancer Research Fund as a regist...

#15610

Vasili Razumovsky

Vasili Razumovsky

1857 - 1935 (78 years)

Vasili Ivanovich Razumovsky was a Russian and Soviet surgeon who was professor of surgery at Kazan University starting in 1887. Rasumovsky was among the founders of universities at Saratov , Tbilisi , and Baku , and was the first rector of Baku State University . After 1920 he returned to Kazan University, and taught there until 1930.

#15611

Robert Zachary

#64128

Overall Influence

1913 - 1999 (86 years)

Robert Bransby Zachary was an English paediatric surgeon who spent the majority of his career at Sheffield Children's Hospital. He was an expert on the treatment of spina bifida and hydrocephalus. Career Robert Zachary was born in 1913 in Pudsey to Samuel John Zachary, a dentist, and Priscilla Mary . He earned a Bachelor of Pharmacy in 1935 before completing a medical degree at the University of Leeds in 1940. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1943, originally working on orthopaedics at Oxford's Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre. He changed specialties in 1945 to paediatric surgery and received a grant to train at Boston Children's Hospital.

#15612

Johann von Dumreicher

Johann von Dumreicher

1815 - 1880 (65 years)

Johann von Dumreicher, full name Johann Heinrich Georg Freiherr Dumreicher von Österreicher , was an Austrian surgeon. He was the father of Armand von Dumreicher , a politician known for educational reforms.

#15613

Melita Gordon

#173559

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Melita Alison Gordon is a gastroenterologist who works on invasive gut pathogens and tropical gastrointestinal disease. She leads the Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Trust Salmonella and Enterics Group. Gordon was awarded the British Society of Gastroenterology Sir Francis Avery Jones Research Medal in 2011.

#15614

Christian Perring

#80691

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Christian David Perring is an American philosopher. He is known for his works on moral psychology. Perring is the editor of Metapsychology Online Reviews and Vice President of the Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry.

#15615

David Servan-Schreiber

David Servan-Schreiber

#54859

Overall Influence

1961 - 2011 (50 years)

David Servan-Schreiber was a French physician, neuroscientist and author. He was a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He was also a lecturer in the Faculty of Medicine of Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1.

#15616

Eric Clarke

#150087

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Eric Fillenz Clarke, has been the Heather Professor of Music at the University of Oxford since 2007. He was educated at the University of Sussex, where he obtained a BA and an MA in Music, and then at the University of Exeter, obtaining a PhD in Psychology. He taught at the City University London from 1981 to 1993, becoming Reader in Music in 1991. He was James Rossiter Hoyle Professor of Music at the University of Sheffield from 1993 to 2007, when he moved to Oxford University. His publications include Ways of Listening and various articles on the perception and psychology of music. He w...

#15617

James Fetzer

#71413

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

James Henry Fetzer is an American professor emeritus of the philosophy of science at the University of Minnesota Duluth, known for promoting conspiracy theories and Holocaust denial. Fetzer has worked on assessing and clarifying the forms and foundations of scientific explanation, probability in science, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of cognitive science, especially artificial intelligence and computer science.

#15618

John Levy

1910 - 1976 (66 years)

John Levy was a British mystic, artist, and musician, best known for translating the works of his guru Sri Atmananda Krishna Menon, Atma Darshan and Atma Niviriti into English. Born into a wealthy aristocratic family, Levy was an expert in Asian folk music, especially that of India. At one point in his life, he gave up his entire fortune and went to live in India with only a loincloth. In India, Levy was a student of V. K. Krishna Menon.

#15619

Christian Gottlieb Geyser

1742 - 1803 (61 years)

Christian Gottlieb Geyser was a German painter and copper engraver. Life and work His father, , was a Lutheran theologian, as was his elder brother, . He began his law studies in 1761, at the University of Leipzig, but also took art lessons from Adam Friedrich Oeser. In 1764, when Oeser became the first Director of the newly founded Academy of Fine Arts, he hired Geyser as an assistant engraving teacher.

#15620

Markus Reiner

1886 - 1976 (90 years)

Markus Reiner was an Israeli scientist and a major figure in rheology. Biography Reiner was born in 1886 in Czernowitz, Bukovina, then part of Austria-Hungary, and obtained a degree in Civil Engineering at the Technische Hochschule in Vienna . After the First World War, he immigrated to Mandatory Palestine, where he worked as a civil engineer under the British mandate. Reiner married Margalit Obernik and had two children, Ephraim and Hana. He later remarried Dr. Rivka Schoenfeld and had two daughters, Dorit and Shlomit. His granddaughter is Prof. Tal Ilan. After the founding of the state of Israel, he became a professor at the Technion in Haifa.

#15621

Fatma Chamakh-Haddad

#89683

Overall Influence

1936 - 2013 (77 years)

Fatma Chamakh-Haddad or Fatma Haddad-Chamakh was a professor, philosopher, feminist and Tunisian activist. Early life and education Born in 1936 in Tunis, Fatma Chamakh-Haddad came from a family of Muslim and nationalist intellectuals. She was educated as a child in Tunis, notably in the Russian high school. As a teenager, she became a member of the Neo Destour and the General Union of Tunisian Students . She then went to university in Paris, where she joined her brothers.

#15622

Jason Miklian

#119061

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (49 years)

Jason T. Miklian is an American and Norwegian development studies scholar and author. He is a Senior Researcher of business and development at the Centre for Development and the Environment at the University of Oslo. Miklian is known for his scholarship and commentary on the role of the private sector in conflict and fragile state settings and on South Asia politics.

#15623

James G. Neal

#33729

Overall Influence

James G. Neal is an American librarian, library administrator, and a prominent figure in American and international library associations. In 2022 President Joe Biden appointed him to the National Museum and Library Services Board which advises the agency on general policies with respect to the duties, powers, and authority of the Institute of Museum and Library Services relating to museum, library, and information services, as well as the annual selection of National Medals recipients.

#15624

Norman Marcon

#163621

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

Norman Emilio Marcon was a gastroenterologist at the Wellesley Hospital, St. Michael's Hospital, Unity Health Toronto and professor of medicine at the University of Toronto. Marcon was one of the first gastroenterologists in Canada to use therapeutic endoscopy for the treatment of digestive diseases.

#15625

Annika Linde

#100102

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Gerda Annika Linde is a Swedish physician, virologist and retired civil servant. From 2005 to 2013 she served as State Epidemiologist at the Swedish Institute for Communicable Disease Control. Biography Linde was born in Skövde and grew up there. She was inspired by the novel Exodus by Leon Uris to study medicine. She enrolled at Gothenburg University in 1968, studying medicine and sociology, obtaining a medical degree in 1974. After her internship at Danderyd Hospital she went on to work as an infectious disease specialist at the presently defunct Roslagstull Hospital in Stockholm. In 1979 s...

#15626

Mary Stuart Fisher

#98669

Overall Influence

1922 - 2006 (84 years)

Mary Stuart Fisher was an American radiologist who won the Marie Curie Award of the American Association for Women Radiologists. She spent the majority of her career as a professor of radiology at Temple University.

#15627

John Oghalai

#180781

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John Oghalai is an American physician and scientist. He is the Leon J. Tiber and David S. Alpert Chair in Medicine at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine and chair of the USC Caruso Department of Otolaryngology. Oghalai is an otolaryngologist. His research focuses on anatomical and molecular mechanisms in hearing and in ear and hearing disorders.

#15628

Walter Chatton

1285 - 1343 (58 years)

Walter Chatton was an English Scholastic theologian and philosopher who regularly sparred philosophically with William of Ockham, who is well known for Occam's razor. Chatton proposed an "anti-razor". From his Lectura I d. 3, q. 1, a. 1:

#15629

Robert Beamish

#86023

Overall Influence

1916 - 2001 (85 years)

Robert Earl Beamish, was a Canadian physician and cardiologist. Early life and education Beamish was born in Shoal Lake, Manitoba on September 16, 1916, the son of Henry and Mary May Beamish. He graduated with a B.A. from Brandon College in 1937. In 1942 he was awarded an M.D. in 1942 and two years later B. Sc. from the University of Manitoba. From 1947 to 1948, he studied in London after being awarded a Nuffield Dominion Travelling Fellowship.

#15630

Jigdal Dagchen Sakya

Jigdal Dagchen Sakya

#84033

Overall Influence

1929 - 2016 (87 years)

Jigdal Dagchen Sakya Rinpoche was a Tibetan Buddhist teacher educated in the Sakya sect. He was educated to be the head of the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism as well as the successor to the throne of Sakya, the third most important political position in Tibet in early times. Dagchen Rinpoche was in the twenty-sixth generation of the Sakya-Khön lineage descended from Khön Könchok Gyalpo and was regarded as an embodiment of Manjushri as well as the rebirth of a Sakya Lama from the Ngor sub-school, Ewam Luding Khenchen Gyase Chökyi Nyima.

#15631

Tim Pigott-Smith

Tim Pigott-Smith

#69140

Overall Influence

1946 - 2017 (71 years)

Timothy Peter Pigott-Smith, was an English film and television actor and author. He was best known for his leading role as Ronald Merrick in the television drama series The Jewel in the Crown, for which he won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor in 1985. Other noted TV roles included roles in The Chief, Midsomer Murders, The Vice, The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, King Charles III and two Doctor Who stories . Pigott-Smith appeared in many notable films, including Clash of the Titans , Gangs of New York , Johnny English , Alexander , V for Vendetta , Quantum of Solace , Red 2 and...

#15632

Peter Smith Michie

1839 - 1901 (62 years)

Peter Smith Michie was an American educator and soldier. Biography He was born in Brechin, Scotland, came to the United States in 1843, and was brought up in Cincinnati. He graduated second in the class of 1863 at West Point and entered the engineer corps. During the Civil War, he served in the campaign of 1864 against Richmond, Virginia; was chief engineer of General Benjamin Butler's Army of the James during the construction of the Dutch Gap Canal; and was at the head of all engineering operations of the left column at Hatcher's Run and in the pursuit of General Robert E. Lee's army.

#15633

Gabriele Mucchi

Gabriele Mucchi

1899 - 2002 (103 years)

Gabriele Mucchi was an Italian painter. Biography After graduating in architectural engineering at Bologna University in 1923, Gabriele Mucchi abandoned architecture to devote himself to painting, following in the footsteps of his father Antonio Maria. In 1926 he moved to Milan and the following year he exhibited with the Novecento Italiano group. He also started working as an illustrator collaborating with writers such as Achille Campanile and Cesare Zavattini . He participated in the Venice Biennale in 1930 and in the 5th and 6th Milan Triennial with paintings and decorative panels in 1933...

#15634

Hugh Gurling

#103837

Overall Influence

1950 - 2013 (63 years)

Hugh Malcolm Douglas Gurling was an English medical geneticist who specialised in the role of genetics and mental health. He led a molecular psychiatry laboratory at University College, London. Gurling was born in London on 6 May 1950, and brought up in Derbyshire. His father, Kenneth Gurling, was a physician and inaugural dean of the University of Nottingham. His mother, Nonie Sempill, was a nurse.

#15635

Jonathan Waxman

Jonathan Waxman

#89319

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Jonathan Hugh Waxman , founder and president of Prostate Cancer UK, is emeritus Professor of Oncology at Imperial College London, and author of four novels including The Elephant in the Room. He is a clinician who has helped develop new treatments for cancer, which are now part of standard practice.

#15636

Mary Ellen Wohl

#72904

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (94 years)

Mary Ellen Beck Wohl was Chief of the Division of Respiratory Diseasess at Children's Hospital Boston , and served as Associate Director of the General Clinical Research Center until 2002. Since the 1962, when she first joined the staff at Children's Hospital, Wohl specialized in the respiratory diseases of children. She was also a leader in the field of clinical research on cystic fibrosis. She developed a number of techniques to evaluate the function of the lungs in young children and is the author of many research papers in this field.

#15637

Radoslav Rochallyi

#83805

Overall Influence

1980 - Present (46 years)

Radoslav Rochallyi , Bardejov , Czechoslovakia is a Slovak writer, and poet living in the Malta, and Czech Republic. Biography Rochallyi was born in Bardejov, Czechoslovakia in a family with Lemko and Hungarian roots. He start reading even before started primary school. The first book he read was the book Black Ships by Maciej Słomczyński. Around his eight years, he came across Lermontov's poems. Rochallyi started writing poetry as a ten-year-old, and he published own works in magazines from the age of sixteen. The Author graduated in Management at the London International Graduate School and holds a certificate in Fine arts, which he received at the Pratt Institute.

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Michelle C. Williams

#77416

Overall Influence

Michelle Claire Williams is a Scottish physician and professor at the University of Edinburgh. She is president elect of the British Society of Cardiovascular Imaging. Her research makes use of medical imaging and machine learning to understand cardiovascular disease.

#15639

Helmut Schultz

1904 - 1945 (41 years)

Helmut Schultz was a German musicologist at the University of Leipzig. Life Schultz was born in Frankfurt, Son of the Reich Court Council Reinhold Schultz, he studied musicology, philosophy and philology at the University of Leipzig from 1923 to 1927. In 1930 he received his doctorate in musicology from Johann Vesque von Püttlingen. , in 1932 the habilitation for musicology on Das madrigal als Formideal. Eine stilkundliche Untersuchung mit Belegen aus dem Schaffen des Andrea Gabrieli. From 1928 to 1932 he was assistant, from 1932 to 1933 private lecturer, from 1933 to 1945 as successor of Theodor Kroyer.

#15640

Takaoki Sasaki

1878 - 1966 (88 years)

was a Japanese biochemist and oncologist known for demonstrating the induction of liver cancer in rats by Ortho-Aminoazotoluene with his pupil Tomizo Yoshida. In addition, he was also known as a master of fencing in Japan. He received the Imperial Prize of the Japan Academy twice .

#15641

Diane Purkiss

#49640

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Diane Purkiss is an Australian historian, and Fellow and Tutor of English at Keble College, Oxford. She specialises in Renaissance and women's literature, witchcraft and the English Civil War. Purkiss was born in Sydney, New South Wales, and was educated at Roseville College, Our Lady of the Rosary Convent, and Stuartholme School. She received a BA with first class Honours from the University of Queensland and D.Phil. from Merton College, Oxford. She became lecturer in English at the University of East Anglia in 1991, and lecturer in English at the University of Reading in 1993. In 1998 she...

#15642

Walter Hunziker

1899 - 1974 (75 years)

Walter Hunziker was a Swiss professor who founded the Tourism Research Institute at the University of St. Gallen, co-developed the scientific study of tourism, developed the travel savings fund concept, co-founded the Association Internationale d'Experts Scientifiques du Tourisme and the Institut International de Glion. He was a director of the Swiss Tourism Federation, member of Swiss Advisory Committee for Trade Policy, and author.

#15643

Alfred Stengel

1868 - 1939 (71 years)

Professor Alfred Stengel was an American surgeon, born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He was president of the American College of Physicians and a clinical professor of medicine at the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania.

#15644

Michael Wood

#99208

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

Michael Wood is professor emeritus of English at Princeton University. He is a literary and cultural critic, and an author of critical and scholarly books as well as a writer of reviews, review articles, and columns.

#15645

Reinhard Kager

#113858

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Reinhard Kager is an Austrian philosopher, journalist and music promoter who also worked as a music producer. Career Born in Graz, Kager studied philosophy, sociology and music at the University of Graz and at the Kunstuniversität Graz, from 1973. From 1986, he worked as a lecturer at the Philosophical Institute of the University of Graz and taught aesthetic theory, sociology of art and media theory. With his book Herrschaft und Versöhnung he wrote an introduction to the thinking of Theodor W. Adorno. From 1995 to 1998, he researched, supported by an APART scholarship from the Austrian Acade...

#15646

Edward Pols

#180749

Overall Influence

1919 - 2005 (86 years)

Edward Pols was an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at Bowdoin College. He was a president of the Metaphysical Society of America. He won the J.N. Findlay Award of the Metaphysical Society of America in 1994 for Radical Realism .

#15647

Reinhard Wiesend

#172610

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Reinhard Wiesend is a German musicologist and retired university professor. Wiesend studied musicology in Munich and received his doctorate in Würzburg in 1981 , followed by his Habilitation in 1987. Subsequently, he worked in Venice, Bayreuth and Palermo, among other places. From 2000 to 2007 he was head of the musicological institute of the University of Mainz.

#15648

Azharul Haque

1940 - 1971 (31 years)

Azharul Haque was a Bangladeshi physician-surgeon, who was killed in the Bangladesh Liberation War and is considered to be a martyr intellectual in Bangladesh. Early life Haque was born on 2 March 1940 in Dhaka, East Bengal, British Raj. His father Md. Zahurul Haque, was from West Bengal and was the jailer of Dhaka Central Jail. After his father died he lived under the care of his older brother, Anwarul Haque who was also a jail official. He moved around in East Bengal following the different places his brother was posted. He completed his Licentiate in Medicine and Surgery degree from Sylhet...

#15649

Gary Ghahremani

Gary G. Ghahremani is an Iranian-American radiologist specializing in diagnostic and gastrointestinal imaging with over 40 years experience as Professor of Radiology. His work has been cited in over 5000 medical papers.

#15650

Georges Rey

#181105

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