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#15751

Thrasybulos Georgiades

1907 - 1977 (70 years)

Thrasybulos Georgios Georgiades was a Greek musicologist, pianist, civil engineer and philosopher. He was for many years director of the Institute of Musicology at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, and he is widely regarded as one of the greatest German musicologists.

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John Ellis

#85454

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

John Ellis is a British former TV producer and professor of media arts at Royal Holloway, University of London. Ellis studied English at the University of Cambridge 1970-3 and at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at University of Birmingham 1973-6. From 1978 to 1982 he taught Film Studies at University of Kent at Canterbury.

#15753

J. Michael Millis

#87610

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James Michael Millis is an American academic and surgeon specializing in pediatric and adult liver transplantation. He is Professor of Surgery and Vice Chair of Global Surgery at University of Chicago. He is also the director of Clinical Leadership Development Fellowship and Hepatobiliary Surgery at the University of Chicago Medical Center. He is known for developing new techniques of liver surgery that improved outcomes following liver transplantation and non transplant liver and biliary tract surgery.

#15754

Anil Potti

#121765

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Anil Potti is a physician and former Duke University associate professor and cancer researcher, focusing on oncogenomics. He, along with Joseph Nevins, are at the center of a research fabrication scandal at Duke University. On 9 November 2015, the Office of Research Integrity found that Potti had engaged in research misconduct. According to Potti's voluntary settlement agreement with ORI, Potti can continue to perform research with the requirement of supervision until year 2020, while he "neither admits nor denies ORI's findings of research misconduct." As of 2020 Potti, who is employed at th...

#15755

Christian Metz

#123130

Overall Influence

1931 - 1993 (62 years)

Christian Metz was a French film theorist, best known for pioneering film semiotics, the application of theories of signification to the cinema. During the 1970s, his work had a major impact on film theory in France, Britain, Latin America, and the United States. As Constance Penley flatly stated in Camera Obscura, "Modern film theory begins with Metz."

#15756

Milo Aukerman

#42486

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Milo Jay Aukerman is an American singer, songwriter, and former research molecular biologist. Aukerman is most widely known for being the lead vocalist of the punk rock band the Descendents, a group widely considered to be pioneers of pop-punk. A caricature of Aukerman serves as the band's mascot.

#15757

Hazhir Rahmandad

#40198

Overall Influence

Hazhir Rahmandad is an Iranian American Scientist and Engineer. Dr. Rahmandad is a dynamic modeling expert. His research applies dynamic modeling to a broad range of problems in strategy, organizational learning, and public health.

#15758

Adam Steuart

1591 - 1645 (54 years)

Adam Steuart was a Scottish philosopher and controversialist. Life He became professor at the Academy of Saumur in 1617. In 1644, he was in London, where he engaged in propaganda for the Presbyterians against the Independents. The first attack on the Apologeticall Narration of the Five Dissenting Brethren was Steuart's. The Second Part of the Duply to M. S. alias Two Brethren addressed the issue of religious tolerance, which he classed with depravity. It was answered by John Goodwin. Steuart is mentioned in John Milton's poem On the New Forcers of Conscience under the Long Parliament, a ...

#15759

Alexander A. Maximow

Alexander A. Maximow

1874 - 1928 (54 years)

Alexander Alexandrowitsch Maximow was a Russian-American scientist in the fields of Histology and Embryology whose team developed the hypothesis about the existence of "polyblasts". Maximow is renowned for his experimental work on the unitarian theory of hematopoiesis: all blood cells develop from a common precursor cell. Maximow served as a Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

#15760

Francesco Pona

1595 - 1655 (60 years)

Francesco Pona was an Italian medical doctor, philosopher, Marinist poet and writer from Verona, whose works ranged from scientific treatises and history to poetry and plays. Biography A Veronese medical doctor and member of many academies, Pona was a prolific writer, producing medical and scientific texts, historiography, literary translation, drama, lyric poetry, prose romances, and tales. A follower of Cesare Cremonini, a heterodox Aristotelian professor at Padua, Pona was a leading member of the influential Accademia degli Incogniti - a society of Venetian intellectuals famous for the libertine and anti-clerical tendencies of many of its members.

#15761

Deborah E. Citrin

#154205

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Deborah E. Citrin is an American clinician-scientist researching pre-clinical and clinical testing of radiation modifiers and the mechanisms of normal tissue injury from radiation. She is a senior investigator and deputy director of the National Cancer Institute's Center for Cancer Research.

#15762

Ralph Northam

#42644

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Ralph Shearer Northam is an American physician and politician who served as the 73rd governor of Virginia from 2018 to 2022. A pediatric neurologist by occupation, he was an officer in the U.S. Army Medical Corps from 1984 to 1992. Northam, a member of the Democratic Party, served as the 40th lieutenant governor of Virginia from 2014 to 2018 prior to winning the governorship against Republican nominee Ed Gillespie in the 2017 election. Prohibited by the Virginia Constitution from running for a consecutive term, Northam left office in January 2022, succeeded by Republican Glenn Youngkin.

#15763

John Gordon

1786 - 1818 (32 years)

Dr John Gordon FRSE FRCSE was a short-lived but influential Scottish anatomist. In 1806 he served as president of the Royal Medical Society. In 1815 he caused an international stir by debunking the new science of phrenology and publicly criticising its principal European exponents, Johann Spurzheim and Franz Joseph Gall.

#15764

Theodor Billroth

Theodor Billroth

1829 - 1894 (65 years)

Christian Albert Theodor Billroth was a German surgeon and amateur musician. As a surgeon, he is generally regarded as the founding father of modern abdominal surgery. As a musician, he was a close friend and confidant of Johannes Brahms, a leading patron of the Viennese musical scene, and one of the first to attempt a scientific analysis of musicality.

#15765

Renate Wieland

#175721

Overall Influence

1935 - 2017 (82 years)

Renate Wieland was a German philosopher, music pedagogue and musicologist. Life Wieland lived in Kronberg im Taunus and was a member of the Kronberg Academy. She studied music, German language and literature and philosophy with Ernst Bloch und Adorno. From 1970 to 1977 she was an assistant to Hermann Schweppenhäuser at the philosophical faculty of the Leuphana University of Lüneburg and received her doctorate in Frankfurt am Main in 1978. She also gave piano lessons in Kronberg.

#15766

Paul Welsh

#179780

Overall Influence

1911 - 2004 (93 years)

Paul Welsh was an American philosopher and professor of philosophy at Duke University. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and is known for his works on logic. Books Introduction to logic, Romane Clark and Paul Welsh, D. Van Nostrana Company, Inc., Princeton, N.J., Toronto, New York, London, 1962Fact, Value, and Perception: Essays in Honor of Charles A. Baylis, Duke University Press 1975

#15767

Cathrin Brisken

#170844

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Cathrin Brisken is a German and Swiss medical doctor, researcher, and professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne . Her research focuses on the mechanisms of hormonal control in breast cancer development.

#15768

Peter Young

#123985

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Peter Ford Young is an American painter. He is primarily known for his abstract paintings that have been widely exhibited in the United States and in Europe since the 1960s. His work is associated with Minimal Art, Post-minimalism, and Lyrical Abstraction. Young has participated in more than a hundred group exhibitions and he has had more than forty solo exhibitions in important contemporary art galleries throughout his career. He currently lives in Bisbee, Arizona.

#15769

Giovanni Filoteo Achillini

Giovanni Filoteo Achillini

1466 - 1538 (72 years)

Giovanni Filoteo Achillini was an Italian philosopher. Born in Bologna, he was the younger brother of philosopher Alessandro. He studied Greek, Latin, theology, philosophy, music, antiquities, jurisprudence, poetry, etc., but did not excel in any specific field. He accumulated ample collections of antiquities.

#15770

David Geller

#86022

Overall Influence

Dr. David Geller is the Richard L. Simmons Professor of Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and co-director of the UPMC Liver Cancer Center. As a hepatobiliary Surgical Oncologist, his clinical interests center on the evaluation and management of patients with liver cancer. He has pioneered laparoscopic liver resections, and has performed more than 300 of these cases. Most of these patients are discharged home on the second post-operative day with four to five band-aid-sized incisions. He also specializes in performing laparoscopic radiofrequency ablations of liver tumors.

#15771

Morio Kasai

#21256

Overall Influence

1922 - 2008 (86 years)

Morio Kasai was a Japanese surgeon who had a strong interest in pediatric surgery. While Kasai went into practice at a time when pediatric surgery was not an established subspecialty, much of his clinical and research work was related to the surgical care of children. He is best known for devising a surgical procedure, the hepatoportoenterostomy, to address a life-threatening birth defect known as biliary atresia. The modern form of the operation is still known as the Kasai procedure.

#15772

Thom Andersen

#97748

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Thom Andersen is an American filmmaker, film critic, and teacher best known for his works of experimental film, including his 1975 film Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer and the 2003 essay film Los Angeles Plays Itself.

#15773

Charlotta Pisinger

#176717

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Charlotta Holm Pisinger is a Danish medical doctor, an expert on tobacco-related health issues, and the first Danish professor in tobacco prevention, at the University of Copenhagen. Early life Charlotta Pisinger was born on 19 December 1960, in Prague, Czechoslovakia. She earned a master's degree in 1988, a PhD in 2004, and an MPH in 2007, all from the University of Copenhagen.

#15774

James Gates Percival

James Gates Percival

1795 - 1856 (61 years)

James Gates Percival was an American poet, surgeon, and geologist, born in Berlin, Connecticut, and died in Hazel Green, Wisconsin. Biography James Gates Percival was a precocious child and a versatile, yet morbid and impractical man. He had a remarkable ability to write verse on various subjects and in almost every known meter. His sentimentalism and dazzling diction appealed to a wide audience, earning him a reputation as the foremost poet in the United States during the 1820s. Some of his most famous poems include "Prometheus," "The Coral Grove," and "The Graves of the Patriots." He was a...

#15775

Abdulaziz bin Mohieddin Khoja

#30060

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Abdulaziz bin Mohieddin Khoja is a former Saudi ambassador and the minister of culture and information between 2009 and 2014. Early life and education Khoja was born in Mecca in 1940. He obtained a bachelor of science degree from King Saud University. Then he earned a master of science degree in organic chemistry in Birmingham University in 1967. He also holds a PhD in organic chemistry at Birmingham University in 1969.

#15776

Diether de la Motte

#127718

Overall Influence

1928 - 2010 (82 years)

Diether de la Motte was a German musician, composer, music theorist, music critic and academic teacher. Life Born in Bonn, de la Motte studied at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold from 1947 to 1950, composition with , choral conducting with Kurt Thomas, and piano. From 1950 to 1959 he was a lecturer for composition, theory of form and piano at the Düsseldorf Kirchenmusikschule. From 1955, he wrote music reviews for the Rheinische Post. From 1959 to 1962, he worked as an editor at Schott Musikverlag in Mainz. He took courses at Darmstädter Ferienkurse, with Ernst Krenek, among others.

#15777

David Penington

#35705

Overall Influence

1930 - 2023 (93 years)

David Geoffrey Penington was an Australian doctor, academic, Vice-Chancellor and director. Biography Penington was educated at Carey Grammar, and later Scotch College, Melbourne . He obtained BM.Bch and later Doctorate in Medicine at the University of Oxford and a Doctorate in Laws at the University of Melbourne. He initially had a career in medicine in the United Kingdom at the London Hospital between 1957 and 1967, and also in Harley Street until 1967. He was then Professor of Medicine from 1970 to 1987 at the University of Melbourne, and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine between 1978 and 1985.

#15778

David Sterritt

#95144

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

David Sterritt is a film critic, author and scholar. He is most notable for his work on Alfred Hitchcock and Jean-Luc Godard, and his many years as the Film Critic for The Christian Science Monitor, where, from 1968 until his retirement in 2005, he championed avant garde cinema, theater and music. He has a Ph.D. in Cinema Studies from New York University and is the Chairman of the National Society of Film Critics.

#15779

John Fraser

#54384

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

John Anderson Fraser is a Canadian journalist, writer and academic. He served as Master of Massey College in the University of Toronto from 1995 until his retirement in June 2014. He is currently the executive chair of the National NewsMedia Council of Canada.

#15780

Francis Avery Jones

#60953

Overall Influence

1910 - 1998 (88 years)

Sir Francis Avery Jones CBE FRCP MRCS was a Welsh physician and gastroenterologist. He was born in Briton Ferry, Carmarthenshire, Wales but educated at the Sir John Leman High School, Beccles, Suffolk and at St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School, where he qualified in medicine in 1934.

#15781

Francesco Lo-Coco

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Amy Bower

#36329

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Amy Bower is an American physical oceanographer at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. She is known for her research on ocean circulation and for being one of the few blind oceanographers. Career Bower received a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics at Tufts University and her PhD in Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island. Bower is a senior scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. She was the chair of the Physical Oceanography Department from 2018 to 2022. She attended Tufts University as an undergraduate and the University of Rhode Island fo...

#15783

Vicente T. Mendoza

1864 - 1964 (100 years)

Vicente Teódulo Mendoza Gutiérrez was a Mexican musicologist, composer and artist. He is best known for his studies on the Mexican corrido. In 1907 when Vicente T. Mendoza was 13 years old, he went to Mexico City where he studied piano and composition at the National Conservatory. At the same time he studied drawing. Between 1912 and 1930 he worked as a topographer. Later on, he taught solfege at the Conservatory. His main interest rests in Mexican folklore and music paleography. Along with the collaboration of Daniel Castañeda he compiled a treatise of precolumbian instruments, published in 1937 under the name Instrumental Precortesiano.

#15784

Dimie Ogoina

#124876

Overall Influence

Dimie Ogoina is a Nigerian infectious disease physician-scientist. He is a professor of medicine at the Niger Delta University and chief medical director at its teaching hospital. He is president of the Nigerian Infectious Diseases Society.

#15785

Robert H. Carter

#175050

Overall Influence

Robert H. Carter is an American rheumatologist and physician-scientist serving as the deputy director of the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases since 2008. He was the acting director of NIAMS from December 2018 until February 2021.

#15786

Richard Ritsing

#180677

Overall Influence

1903 - 1994 (91 years)

Richard Ritsing is an Estonian composer, choral conductor. He composed mainly a cappella choral music. Ritsing was born in Räpina. In 1929 he graduated from Tartu University in philosophy. He has studied several musical disciplines at Tartu Music School.

#15787

Anirvan

1896 - 1978 (82 years)

Sri Anirvan , born Narendra Chandra Dhar, was an Indian Hindu monk, writer and philosopher. Widely known as a scholar, his principal works were a Bengali translation of Sri Aurobindo's The Life Divine and the three-volume treatise Veda Mimamsa.

#15788

Johann Georg Sulzer

Johann Georg Sulzer

1720 - 1779 (59 years)

Johann Georg Sulzer was a Swiss professor of Mathematics, who later on moved on to the field of electricity. He was a Wolffian philosopher and director of the philosophical section of the Berlin Academy of Sciences, and translator of David Hume's An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals into German in 1755.

#15789

David E. R. Sutherland

#181966

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Dominic Pettman

#89096

Overall Influence

Dominic Pettman is a cultural theorist and author. He is University Professor of Media and New Humanities at The New School, teaching within the Culture and Media program at Eugene Lang College and also the Liberal Studies Program at the New School for Social Research . He has held previous positions at the University of Melbourne, the University of Geneva, and the University of Amsterdam. Pettman's work combines cultural studies, critical media studies, and philosophical approaches concerning topics ranging from new media, popular culture, affect theory, sound studies, and animal studies.

#15791

Hans-Günther Thalheim

#78553

Overall Influence

1924 - 2018 (94 years)

Hans-Günther Thalheim was a German professor of German language and linguistics and of Literary sciences. He was also a writer and literary editor. Life Thalheim was born in Chemnitz, in the southern part of what was then central Germany. His father was a public official. He successfully undertook his school final exams in 1943 and in 1943/44 performed substitute national service by working as a teacher in Carinthia. He also undertook a period of study involving German literature, history pedagogy and philosophy at Freiburg university in the south-west of the country, where his teache...

#15792

Peter Staats

#37224

Overall Influence

Peter Sean Staats is an American physician, specializing in interventional pain medicine. He is the founder of the Division of Pain Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and was the Division's chief for nearly a decade. He is a past president of the North American Neuromodulation Society, the New Jersey Society of Interventional Pain Medicine,the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians the World Institute of Pain , The Southern Pain Society.

#15793

Daniel Yankelovich

#20891

Overall Influence

1924 - 2017 (93 years)

Daniel Yankelovich was an American public opinion analyst and social scientist. Education and career After attending Boston Latin School, Yankelovich graduated from Harvard University in 1946 and 1950 before completing postgraduate studies at the Sorbonne in France. As a psychology professor he has taught at New York University and The New School for Social Research. In 1996 he served as Senior Fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.

#15794

James Allanson Picton

1832 - 1910 (78 years)

James Allanson Picton was a British independent minister, author, philosopher and Liberal politician. Picton promoted a philosophy known as Christian pantheism. Life Picton was born at Liverpool, the eldest son of Sir James Allanson Picton and his wife Sarah Pooley. His father was an architect and supporter of the Liverpool Free Library. He was educated at the High School, and at the Mechanics' Institute and joined his father's architectural practice at the age of 16. Three years later he decided to study for the ministry and joined the Lancashire Independent College and Owens College, Manchester.

#15795

Ken Kirkwood

#179680

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Kenneth William Kirkwood is a Canadian bioethicist. He is Professor of Applied Health Ethics at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario. He specializes in questions of professional ethical standards, enhancement of human physiological and neurological traits, and sociological-philosophical questions of health research.

#15796

Nikolai Levashov

#25960

Overall Influence

1961 - 2012 (51 years)

Nicolai or Nikolai Levashov was a Russian occultist and psychic healer who wrote several books on life in the universe, Slavic history, the origin of mankind on Earth and other topics. From 1991 to 2005 he was known in the United States for several causes célèbres involving his patients. One of his books is classified as antisemitic and extreme and banned in Russia. He was a leader of a public organisation "Renaissance. The Golden Age" which is considered a destructive cult by the Russian Orthodox Church.

#15797

Ernest Cruickshank

1888 - 1964 (76 years)

Ernest William Henderson Cruickshank FRSE LLD was a Scottish physician and physiologist. He was the author of several textbooks on nutrition. His book Food and Nutrition was an influential best-seller. It looks at the evolution of human diets, protein needs within the body and problems of world malnutrition.

#15798

Bill Cassidy

#55288

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

William Morgan Cassidy is an American physician and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Louisiana, a seat he has held since 2015. A member of the Republican Party, he served in the Louisiana State Senate from 2006 to 2009 and in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2009 to 2015.

#15799

Marcello Costa

#94959

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Marcello Costa is an Italian-born Australian medical researcher, academic, and public health advocate. He specializes in the structure and functions of the enteric nervous system. He taught in Turin, Melbourne, and Helsinki before moving to Adelaide in 1975 where he was a foundation lecturer at the Flinders Medical School, building the new discipline of neuroscience at the college. He was at Flinders University where he held the title of Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor of Neurophysiology in the Department of Physiology. In 2021 Marcello retired from his position at Flinders Univers...

#15800

Sister Vajirā

#110604

Overall Influence

1928 - 1991 (63 years)

Sister Vajirā was a dasa sil mata, a Buddhist ten precept-holder nun in Sri Lanka. Lay life Hannelore was looking for religious meanings and in early summer 1949 she came across the teachings of the Buddha. Hannelore was so impressed that she came to the seminary group of Debes, one of the most prominent lay Theravada teachers at that time, and took part in her first “weeks of investigation” in an Adult Education College in the Lüneburger Heide area. She worked as a private teacher. In June 1954 the Sinhalese monk Ven. Nārada turned up in Hamburg and Hannelore took the opportunity to request to go to Ceylon and become a nun.

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