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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#15801

Siro the Epicurean

100 BC - 20 BC (80 years)

Siro was an Epicurean philosopher who lived in Naples. He was a teacher of Virgil, and taught at his school in Naples. There are two poems attributed to Virgil in the Appendix Vergiliana, which mention Siro, and where the author speaks of seeking peace in the company of Siro: I am setting sail for the havens of the blest to seek the wise sayings of great Siro, and will redeem my life from all care.

#15802

David Whetham

#173096

Overall Influence

David Glenn Whetham is Professor of Ethics and the Military Profession in the Defence Studies Department of King’s College London. His teaching and research over the last ten years has been primarily focused on understanding the impact of technology on the normative environment, and improving the provision of military ethics education and training both in the UK and internationally.

#15803

Isaac Michaelson

1903 - 1982 (79 years)

Isaac Claude Michaelson was an Israeli ophthalmologist and member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Biography Michaelson was born in 1903 in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom. He studied ophthalmology at the University of Glasgow and the University of Edinburgh, graduating in 1927.

#15804

Grigory Ivanovich Rossolimo

Grigory Ivanovich Rossolimo

1860 - 1928 (68 years)

Grigory Ivanovich Rossolimo was a Russian Empire and Soviet neurologist who was a native of Odessa. He specialized in the field of child neuropsychology. Biography In 1884 he graduated from the University of Moscow, and subsequently worked under Aleksei Kozhevnikov at the clinic of neurological diseases. He earned his medical doctorate in 1887, and in 1890 became head of the department of neurology at the clinic of Aleksei Alekseevich Ostroumov .

#15805

Keizo Dohi

1866 - 1931 (65 years)

was a Japanese professor of dermatology and syphilis, and chair of the department of dermatology and syphilis at the University of Tokyo. Career He trained at the Vienna School of Dermatology, and published his first article in 1896 the Archiv für Dermatologie und Syphilis in German.

#15806

Julie Panepinto

#167203

Overall Influence

Julie Ann Panepinto is an American pediatric hematologist-oncologist and physician-scientist. She specializes in health outcomes research and sickle cell disease. Panepinto became the acting director of the division of blood diseases and resources at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute in 2022. She was a professor of pediatrics and hematology at the Medical College of Wisconsin.

#15807

Deborah Cook

#166051

Overall Influence

1954 - 2020 (66 years)

Deborah Cook was a Canadian philosopher specializing in phenomenology, existentialism, critical theory, and post-structuralism. Cook was the author of several books and numerous articles, with special emphasis on the work of Theodor W. Adorno.

#15808

Susan Grey Akers

Susan Grey Akers

1889 - 1984 (95 years)

Susan Grey Akers was an American librarian and the first woman to hold an academic deanship at the University of North Carolina. Biography Akers was born on April 3, 1889, in Richmond, Kentucky, to Clara Elizabeth Harris and James Tazewell Akers, a language professor at the University of Kentucky. She received a bachelor's degree with a major of Latin and minor in Greek from the University of Kentucky in 1909, following which she taught Latin one year in a high school in Kentucky and fifth and sixth grades one year in Birmingham, Alabama. In 1911, she began work at a public library in Louisvi...

#15809

Kamran Bagheri Lankarani

#25768

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Kamran Bagheri Lankarani is an Iranian physician and politician who was Minister of Health and Medical Education from 2005 until 2009. Born in 1965, he finished medical school at Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, and attained an advanced fellowship degree in Medicine from the same university. He specializes in gastroenterology.

#15810

Molly Marples

#103611

Overall Influence

1908 - 1998 (90 years)

Mary Joyce Marples was a microbial ecologist/medical mycologist who spent most of her career conducting research and teaching at the University of Otago in New Zealand from her appointment in 1946 until her retirement in 1967. She is noted as an early proponent of the theory that skin provides an ecosystem that supports a diversity of microorganisms.

#15811

Kimmie Ng

#174751

Overall Influence

Kimmie Ng is a physician at Dana–Farber Cancer Institute who is known for her work on colorectal cancer in young patients. Education and career Ng has an undergraduate degree from Yale University and earned her M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 2001. Subsequently she trained at the University of California, San Francisco and Dana–Farber Cancer Institute. In 2007, she received a masters in public health from Harvard University. As of 2021, Ng is a physician at the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute and a professor at Harvard Medical School. Ng is the director of Dana-Farber's Young-Onset C...

#15812

Moira Whyte

#69404

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Moira Katherine Brigid Whyte FERS is a Scottish physician and medical researcher who is the Sir John Crofton Professor of Respiratory Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. She is the Director the Medical Research Council Centre for Inflammation Research and is Vice-Principal and Head of the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. Whyte is also a trustee of Cancer Research UK.

#15813

Johannes Acronius Frisius

1520 - 1564 (44 years)

Johannes Acronius Frisius was a Dutch doctor and mathematician of the 16th century. He was named after his city of birth, Akkrum in Friesland. From 1547 he worked as professor of mathematics in Basel, then after 1549 as professor of logic, and in 1564 of medicine. He died from the plague in the same year. Apart from mathematical and scientific works, he wrote Latin poetry and humanist tracts.

#15814

Victoria Lemieux

#131763

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Victoria Louise Lemieux is a Canadian specialist in records management and Associate Professor of Archival Studies at the University of British Columbia . She is known for her research into financial information management, risk mitigation including using blockchain technology in risk reduction.

#15815

Walther Vetter

1891 - 1967 (76 years)

Walther Hermann Vetter was a German musicologist. From 1946 to 1958, he was professor at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Life Born in Berlin, Vetter, Lutheran, was the son of the Kapellmeister Johannes Vetter , a founding member of the Berlin Philharmonic. In 1897 the family moved to Greiz in the Principality of Reuss-Greiz , where the father founded an orchestra. Vetter first attended the and then, until the Abitur, the Latina of the Francke Foundations in Halle an der Saale. From 1910, he studied musicology, art history and philosophy at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg and conducting at the Leipzig Conservatory .

#15816

Kathleen de la Peña McCook

Kathleen de la Peña McCook

#79683

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Kathleen de la Peña McCook is a library scholar, librarian, and activist. Much of her work centers around social justice, human rights, First Amendment issues, and the freedom of information. McCook has been active in a number of professional organizations within the field of librarianship. She was highly involved in the American Library Association's Committee on the Status of Women in Librarianship. She was the recipient of their 2016 Elizabeth Martinez Lifetime Achievement Award. She is a past president of the Association for Library and Information Science Education and the recipient of th...

#15817

Jessie Gray

1910 - 1978 (68 years)

Jessie Catherine Gray was a Canadian cancer surgeon, educator, and researcher. Known as the Canadian "First Lady of Surgery", Gray is described as a trailblazer for women surgeons and an example that women could excel in the male-dominated field of general surgery. During her career, she was considered one of the top four cancer surgeons in North America, and she earned many firsts and fellowships in her field.

#15818

Bernhardus Albinus

Bernhardus Albinus

1653 - 1721 (68 years)

Bernhardus Friedrich Albinus was a Dutch physician and anatomist. His sons Bernhard Siegfried Albinus and Friedrich Bernhard Albinus were also anatomists of note in Leiden. Albinus was born in Dessau in the principality of Anhalt, where his father, Christoforus Albinus, was the mayor. His ancestral family name, Weiss, had been changed to Albinus in the 16th century, after the fashion of the time, by his ancestor Petrus Weiss, poet and historian. In his youth, a poor physical constitution led to his being schooled at home before being sent to the public school of his city. When the scientist...

#15819

Glenn Kenny

#71567

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Glenn Kenny is an American film critic and journalist. He writes for The New York Times and RogerEbert.com. Biography Kenny attended William Paterson University, where he majored in English literature.

#15820

Franz König

1832 - 1910 (78 years)

Franz König was a German surgeon. The son of a physician, he was born in Rotenburg an der Fulda. In 1855 he received his doctorate from the University of Marburg, and was later district wound surgeon in Hanau. Afterwards he was a professor of surgery at the universities of Rostock and Göttingen , and eventually at the Charité-Berlin, where in 1895 he succeeded Heinrich Adolf von Bardeleben. In 1904 he was succeeded at the Charité by Otto Hildebrand.

#15821

Alma Dawson

#30255

Overall Influence

Alma Dawson is an American scholar of librarianship. She retired as Russell B. Long Professor at the School of Library & Information Science, Louisiana State University in 2014 and was awarded Emeritus status in 2015. In 2019 Dr. Dawson was honored with the Essae Martha Culver Distinguished Service Award from the Louisiana Library Association which honors a librarian whose professional service and achievements, whose leadership in Louisiana association work, and whose lifetime accomplishments in a field of librarianship within the state merit recognition of particular value to Louisiana librar...

#15822

Lisa Frenkel

#181255

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Lisa M. Frenkel is an American pediatrician currently Professor at University of Washington and an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Education She earned her B.A. at University of Kansas from 1973–77 and her M.D. at University of Kansas Medical Center from 1977-81.

#15823

James Hector

1834 - 1907 (73 years)

Sir James Hector was a Scottish-New Zealand geologist, naturalist, and surgeon who accompanied the Palliser Expedition as a surgeon and geologist. He went on to have a lengthy career as a government employed man of science in New Zealand, and during this period he dominated the colony's scientific institutions in a way that no single man has since.

#15824

Michael Maul

#115860

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (48 years)

Michael Maul is a German musicologist noted for his work on Johann Sebastian Bach. Maul was born in Leipzig, and is still based in the city, although his work at the Bach Archive has involved travel to archives and libraries across Germany in search of new sources relating to Bach. He is also artistic director of Leipzig's annual Bach festival.

#15825

Dietrich Borchardt

#138091

Overall Influence

1916 - 1997 (81 years)

Dietrich Hans Borchardt was an Australian librarian and bibliographer. Career Born in Hanover, Germany, to Jewish parents, Borchardt escaped Nazism via Italy and emigrated to New Zealand. There he studied at Victoria University, Wellington, and graduated with a BA in 1944 and an MA in 1947. He gained a library diploma from the New Zealand Library School.

#15826

R Adams Cowley

#9681

Overall Influence

1917 - 1991 (74 years)

R Adams Cowley was an American surgeon considered a pioneer in emergency medicine and the treatment of shock trauma. Called the "Father of Trauma Medicine", he was the founder of the United States' first trauma center at the University of Maryland in 1958, after the United States army awarded him $100,000 to study shock in people—the first award of its kind in the United States. The trauma unit at first consisted of two beds, and was later expanded to four beds. Many people called the four-bed unit the "death lab." Cowley was the creator of the "Golden Hour" concept, the period of 60 minutes or less following injury when immediate definitive care is crucial to a trauma patient's survival.

#15827

Pieter Otto van der Chijs

1802 - 1867 (65 years)

Pieter Otto van der Chijs was a Dutch coin expert and one of the early prizewinners of Teylers Tweede Genootschap . He was the son of J. van der Chijs and A.S. Bagelaar who encouraged him to start collecting. At the age of nine became interested in coins when he studied the ones his parents donated to the poor of Delft each week. He began to collect coins from around the world. After following school in Delft, he became a student of letters at the University of Leiden in 1820. He won a few prizes before devoting himself to his hobby. He wrote an essay on the art of collecting old coins in 1829 and in 1831 he became a member of the Batavian Society for Experimental Philosophy.

#15828

Bernard Sellato

Bernard Sellato

#66598

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Bernard Sellato was born in 1951, holds an M.Sc. in Geology from ENSG in Nancy, France, and a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the EHESS in Paris. He spent many years in Kalimantan researching history, languages and cultures.

#15829

La Ferne Price

#130382

Overall Influence

1926 - 2016 (90 years)

La Ferne Ellis Price was an infielder and pitcher who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League during the 1944 season. Price batted and threw right handed. After entering the league, she started to be known simply as 'Ferne', a moniker that she proudly used throughout her life.

#15830

Werner Breig

#124983

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (94 years)

Werner Breig is a German musicologist and music publisher. Life Born in Zwickau, Breig studied Protestant sacred music at the Spandauer Kirchenmusikschule from 1950 and musicology, art history and library science at the universities University of Erlangen–Nuremberg and Hamburg from 1955. In 1962 he received his doctorate as D. Phil. at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg with a dissertation on Heinrich Scheidemann. He worked as research assistant at the musicological seminar of the University of Freiburg and received a scholarship from the German Research Foundation for further studies. In 1973 he received his habilitation in Freiburg im Breisgau.

#15831

Jonny Kim

#15960

Overall Influence

1984 - Present (42 years)

Jonathan Yong Kim , is an American U.S. Navy lieutenant commander, former SEAL, naval aviator, physician, and NASA astronaut. Born and raised in California, Kim enlisted in the U.S. Navy in the early 2000s before earning a Silver Star and his commission. While a U.S. sailor, Kim also received his Bachelor of Arts in mathematics with distinction, his Doctor of Medicine, and an acceptance to NASA Astronaut Group 22 in 2017. He completed his astronaut training in 2020 and was awaiting a flight assignment with the Artemis program .

#15832

William Mackenzie

William Mackenzie

1791 - 1868 (77 years)

William Mackenzie was a Scottish ophthalmologist. He wrote Practical Treatise of the Diseases of the Eye, one of the first British textbooks of ophthalmology. Life Mackenzie was born in Queen Street, Glasgow, and studied medicine at the University of Glasgow and the Glasgow Royal Infirmary. From 1840 to 1848 he studied in London and in Europe. He obtained his medical doctorate under Georg Joseph Beer at the University of Vienna, and returned to Britain in 1848. In 1849, Mackenzie settled in Glasgow and began practice as a physician.

#15833

Maria Bitner-Glindzicz

#173996

Overall Influence

1963 - 2018 (55 years)

Maria Bitner-Glindzicz was a British medical doctor, honorary consultant in clinical genetics at Great Ormond Street Hospital, and a professor of human and molecular genetics at the UCL Institute of Child Health. The hospital described her work as relating to the "genetic causes of deafness in children and therapies that she hoped would one day restore vision." She researched Norrie disease and Usher syndrome, working with charities including Sparks and the Norrie Disease Foundation, and was one of the first colleagues involved in the 100,000 Genomes Project at Genomics England.

#15834

Roger W. Robinson

#67908

Overall Influence

1909 - 2010 (101 years)

Roger W. Robinson was an American cardiologist who served as chief of cardiology and chief of medicine at Memorial Hospital, Worcester, MA. He was the director of the Lipid Research Laboratory and served as a professor at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He is considered a pioneer in the field of lipid and atherosclerosis research.

#15835

Elizabeth Iorns

#72976

Overall Influence

1980 - Present (46 years)

Elizabeth Jane Iorns is a New Zealand scientist, entrepreneur and researcher, and the founder and CEO of Science Exchange, a Silicon Valley startup which operates a platform to allow scientists to outsource their research to scientific institutions such as university facilities or commercial contract research organizations. Science Exchange has received considerable media attention since it first launched in August 2011, particularly following its participation in the Y Combinator incubator program in Summer 2011 and its role in launching the Reproducibility Initiative in Summer 2012. Iorns h...

#15836

Domenico Gagliardi

1660 - 1745 (85 years)

Domenico Gagliardi was an Italian physician and anatomist. He may have served as a professor of anatomy at Rome and served as chief physician to four Popes. He studied the structure of bones, dissolving the structures, and observing them under a microscope as described in his 1689 book Anatome ossium novis inventis illustrata.

#15837

Luc F. Van Gaal

#182226

Overall Influence

#15838

Xeniades

500 BC - 500 BC (0 years)

Xeniades was a skeptical philosopher from Corinth, probably a follower of the pre-Socratic Xenophanes. There may have been two such persons, as he is referenced by Democritus c. 400 BC, though was also supposedly the purchaser of Diogenes the Cynic c. 350 BC, when he was captured by pirates and sold as a slave. Xeniades was supposed to have been the man who persuaded Monimus to become a follower of Diogenes, and was the source of his skeptical doctrines.

#15839

Katsuma Dan

#31153

Overall Influence

1904 - 1996 (92 years)

Katsuma Dan was a Japanese embryologist and cell biologist. He was born in 1904 in Tokyo, the youngest son of Baron Dan Takuma, president of the Mitsui Gomei Kaisha Corporation. Takuma Dan was educated in the United States, graduating from MIT in 1878. He was one of the first foreign students to be educated at MIT and later, as president of the Japan Steel Works, he initiated and maintained close research ties with The Institute.

#15840

Rebecca W. Keller

#97096

Overall Influence

1901 - Present (125 years)

Rebecca W. Keller, Ph.D., incorporated Gravitas Publications Inc in 2003 to develop and publish core sciences curriculum under the Real Science-4-Kids imprint. She has authored and published Real Science-4-Kids student texts, teacher manuals, and student laboratory workbooks in chemistry, biology and physics to serve kindergarten through ninth grade, available through mainstream and home school book distributors.

#15841

Spalding Gray

#54166

Overall Influence

1941 - 2004 (63 years)

Spalding Gray was an American actor, novelist, playwright, screenwriter and performance artist. He is best known for the autobiographical monologues that he wrote and performed for the theater in the 1980s and 1990s, as well as for his film adaptations of these works, beginning in 1987. He wrote and starred in several, working with different directors.

#15842

John Ryder

#147292

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

John Ryder is a professor and former president of Khazar University in Baku, Azerbaijan. He is the former Provost at the American University of Malta. Education He finished his bachelor's degree in May 1973 at the State University of New York College at Cortland, then continued his education at Stony Brook University , receiving a master's degree in philosophy in May 1977. He became a Ph.D. candidate at the same university, and was awarded a doctorate in philosophy in August 1982.

#15843

William Jones Nicholson

William Jones Nicholson

1856 - 1931 (75 years)

William Jones Nicholson was a career officer in the United States Army. He attained the rank of brigadier general during World War I as commander of the 157th Infantry Brigade, a unit of the 79th Division. He was most notable for leading his brigade to victory during the September 1918 Battle of Montfaucon, part of the first phase of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, for which he received the Distinguished Service Cross.

#15844

Friedrich Schaarschmidt

1863 - 1902 (39 years)

Friedrich Schaarschmidt was a German landscape painter and figure painter of the Düsseldorf school of painting, conservator and art writer. Life Born in Bonn, Schaarschmidt was born in Bonn as the son of Professor Carl Schaarschmidt , a philosophy historian and head of the Bonn University Library. From 1880 until 1889, he studied painting at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. There, Hugo Crola, Johann Peter Theodor Janssen and Wilhelm Sohn, temporarily also Eduard von Gebhardt and Carl Ernst Forberg, were his teachers. As a practising artist, Schaarschmidt turned to En plein air. He often decorate...

#15845

Hans John

#126163

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (89 years)

Hans Karl Ferdinand John is a German musicologist and former university professor. Life John was born in Bad Freienwalde. His father was cantor and organist and enabled him to attend the Dresdner Kreuzschule. He was a member of the Dresdner Kreuzchores from 1946 until his Abitur in 1954. He studied music education and science and classical philology at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg and at the Humboldt University of Berlin. In 1961 he was awarded his doctorate under Fritz Reuter at the Faculty of Philosophy in Berlin with the dissertation Music education in ancient Greece an...

#15846

Shmuel Alexandrov

Shmuel Alexandrov

1865 - 1941 (76 years)

Rabbi Shmuel Alexandrov of Bobruisk was a prominent student of the Volozhin Yeshiva, who became close to the tradition of Chabad Hasidism. Alexandrov was a Jewish Orthodox mystical thinker, philosopher and anarchist, whose religious thought, an original blending of Kabbalah, Orthodox Judaism, contemporary philosophy and secular literature, are marked by universalism and some degree of antinomianism. His works include פך השמן , a commentary on Pirkey Avot, and a large collection of essays, מכתבי מחקר וביקורת . Alexandrov was influenced by the anarchistic implications of the work of Rav Kook , from which he sought to derive practical instruction.

#15847

Konrad Fiałkowski

#96395

Overall Influence

1939 - 2020 (81 years)

Konrad R. Fiałkowski was a Polish engineer, information technology scientist and hard science fiction writer. Life Born in Lublin, Fiałkowski held the titles of Professor at American Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Warsaw University.

#15848

Bruce McLean

#50769

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Bruce McLean is a Scottish sculptor, performance artist and painter. McLean was born in Glasgow and studied at Glasgow School of Art from 1961 to 1963, and at Saint Martin's School of Art, London, from 1963 to 1966. At Saint Martin's, McLean studied with Anthony Caro and Phillip King. In reaction to what he regarded as the academicism of his teachers he began making sculpture from rubbish.

#15849

Richard Smith

#182277

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#15850

Otto Sibum

#161288

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Heinz Otto Sibum is a German historian of science, Hans Rausing Professor and Director of the Office for History of Science at the University of Uppsala. Biography H. Otto Sibum holds a doctoral degree in physics from Oldenburg University and his habilitation in history from the TU Braunschweig . He has been Director of Research at the Max Planck Institute for History of Science in Berlin as well as Research Associate at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge University . He was awarded best teacher at British Universities for his teaching of history of science at...

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