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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#15851

Nicholas of Methone

Nicholas of Methone was a Byzantine theologian and philosopher who served as the bishop of Methone from around 1150. Nicholas wrote hagiography, hymnody, theology, biblical exegesis and panegyric. His most widely read works were his treatises against the practices and doctrines of the Latin Church, but modern scholarship regards his Refutation of the neoplatonist philosopher Proclus as his greatest work. Nicholas was close to the Emperor Manuel I Komnenos and served him as an advisor. He was involved in the major controversies over Bogomilism and the writings of Soterichos Panteugenos .

#15852

Charles H. Stonestreet

Charles H. Stonestreet

1813 - 1885 (72 years)

Charles Henry Stonestreet was an American Catholic priest and Jesuit who served in prominent religious and academic positions, including as provincial superior of the Jesuit Maryland Province and president of Georgetown University. He was born in Maryland and attended Georgetown University, where he co-founded the Philodemic Society. After entering the Society of Jesus and becoming a professor at Georgetown, he led St. John's Literary Institution and St. John the Evangelist Church in Frederick, Maryland. He was appointed president of Georgetown University in 1851, holding the office for two years, during which time he oversaw expansion of the university's library.

#15853

Neel Shah

#74838

Overall Influence

1982 - Present (44 years)

Neel Shah is an American physician, Harvard University assistant professor, Chief Medical Officer of Maven Clinic, and founder of the nonprofit organizations Costs of Care and March for Moms. Shah is married to MIT Professor Julie Shah.

#15854

John Buckley Bradbury

John Buckley Bradbury

1841 - 1930 (89 years)

John Buckley Bradbury was a medical doctor and Downing Professor of Medicine. The chair was discontinued on his death in 1930. Life He was born in Saddleworth in Yorkshire the eldest son of John Bradbury a merchant and manufacturer.

#15855

Hannes Leitgeb

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Robert G. Evans

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#15857

Judith Olszowy-Schlanger

#115273

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Judith Olszowy-Schlanger is a French academic palaeographer who specialises in medieval Jewish manuscripts. Since September 2018, she has been President of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies at the University of Oxford.

#15858

Alessandro Luzzago

1551 - 1602 (51 years)

Alessandro Luzzago was an Italian nobleman and organizer of Catholic charities. He is venerated in the Catholic Church, having been declared Venerable in 1899 by Pope Leo XIII. Life Luzzago was the son of Girolamo Luzzago and Paola Peschiera. He was baptised on November 8 in the Church of Santa Maria in Calchera. The Luzzago family was one of the most important noble families of Brescia. His mother was an early collaborator of Saint Angela Merici.

#15859

Charles Musser

#42328

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Charles John Musser is a film historian, documentary filmmaker, and a film editor. Since 1992, he has taught at Yale University, where he is currently a professor of Film and Media Studies as well as American Studies and Theater Studies. His research has primarily focused on early cinema, and topics such as Edwin S. Porter, Oscar Micheaux, race cinema of the silent era, Paul Robeson, film performance, as well as a variety of issues and individuals in documentary. His films include An American Potter , Before the Nickelodeon: The Early Cinema of Edwin S. Porter and Errol Morris: A Lightning...

#15860

Moon Shin

#108780

Overall Influence

1923 - 1995 (72 years)

Moon Shin was a South Korean painter and sculptor whose childhood name was Moon Ahn-shin. His date of birth was reported late and is erroneously stated as 1923 in most publications. When an international exhibition was held in France in 1989 to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution, Moon was one of 24 artists who were invited. One of his pieces can be found in SOMA sculptor park celebrating the 1988 Summer Olympics Seoul.

#15861

Diogenes of Seleucia

Diogenes of Seleucia was an Epicurean philosopher, who has sometimes been confused with Diogenes of Babylon, who was also a native of Seleucia on the Tigris. He lived at the court of Syria, and was friends with king Alexander Balas, the supposed son of Antiochus Epiphanes. Athenaeus relates that Diogenes asked the king for a golden crown and a purple robe so that he could represent himself as the priest of Virtue. The king, apparently, agreed, but Diogenes subsequently gave the crown and robe to a female singer he was in love with, and the king hearing of this, summoned the girl to a banquet ...

#15862

Wendy Brewster

#100254

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Wendy Rosamund Brewster was a British-born American gynaecologist who was Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Director of the Center for Women's Health Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

#15863

Stewart Duncan

#87105

Overall Influence

Stewart Duncan is an American philosopher and associate professor of philosophy at University of Florida. He is known for his expertise on early modern philosophy, especially the materialist philosophy of Thomas Hobbes.

#15864

Bulcsú Hoppál

#172130

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (52 years)

Bulcsú Kál Hoppál is a Hungarian theologian and philosopher. Biography In 1999 he received a Bachelor's degree in Sacred Theology at Pázmány Péter Katolikus Egyetem in Budapest. In 2002 he received a Licentiate there in the same subject—the equivalent of a Ph.D. In 2003, he received the degree of Magister der Philosophie from the International Academy for Philosophy in the Principality of Liechtenstein. He is one of the vice-presidents of the Hungarian Association for the Academic Study of Religion.

#15865

Ion Dezideriu Sîrbu

Ion Dezideriu Sîrbu

1919 - 1989 (70 years)

Ion Dezideriu Sîrbu was a Romanian philosopher, novelist, essayist and dramatist. Sîrbu was born in Petrila, Hunedoara. A university associate professor and theater critic, he was a victim of the communist regime, spending about 6 years as a political prisoner. He died at Craiova, aged 70. His main novel, Adio, Europa! , was published posthumously.

#15866

Giorgio Politeo

1827 - 1913 (86 years)

Giorgio Politeo was a Dalmatian Italian philosopher and educator. He is said to have elaborated "a form of intuitionism based on Indian mysticism." Biography He was born in Split, Kingdom of Dalmatia on 15 April 1827. He attended the seminary in his city of birth. Said seminary also served as a high school for non-seminarians, under the name of Ginnasio Liceo Imperiale in Spalato; where Ugo Foscolo, who Politeo admired, had also studied. He came from an old and esteemed Split family, but a financial setback forced him to seek employment as a substitute teacher in the same seminary / high sch...

#15867

Thomas Richard Fraser

Thomas Richard Fraser

1841 - 1920 (79 years)

Sir Thomas Richard Fraser was a British physician and pharmacologist. Together with Alexander Crum Brown he discovered the relationship between physiological activity and chemical constitution of the body.

#15868

Othmar Wessely

#105677

Overall Influence

1922 - 1998 (76 years)

Othmar Wessely was an Austrian musicologist. Career Born in Linz, Wessely studied musicology at the University of Vienna with Erich Schenk. From 1963 to 1971 he was a university professor at the Karl-Franzens-University of Graz, and from 1972 to 1992 he succeeded his teacher Schenk at the University of Vienna.

#15869

Masachi Osawa

#32090

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Masachi Osawa is a Japanese sociologist and philosopher. Outside Japan, he is best known as a social scientist, often mentioned in reference to sociological and philosophical research on otaku culture and popular Japanese animation series such as Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex.

#15870

Ortwin

1475 - 1542 (67 years)

Hardwin von Grätz , better known in English as Ortwin , was a German humanist scholar and theologian. Ortwin was born in Holtwick and died in Cologne, Germany. He was raised by his uncle, Johannes von Grätz, in Deventer. In 1501 he left to pursue philosophical studies at the University of Cologne. After joining Kyuk Burse, Ortwin became licensed in 1505, attained Masters level in 1506, and became an Art Professor in 1507. He supplemented his salary by proofing documents for the Quentell printing house and wrote introductions and poetic dedications in the volumes of classical authors of the Mi...

#15871

Willy Spatz

1861 - 1931 (70 years)

Willy Spatz was a German painter and lithographer. Life and work Born in Düsseldorf, Spatz, called Willy, was the fifth child of eight children of Gustav Wilhelm Gerhard Spatz, merchant and lottery collector in Düsseldorf and Johanna Wilhelmina, née Erbach.

#15872

Ellie Highwood

#98264

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Ellie Highwood is a diversity and inclusion consultant and coach to academics, researchers and scientists. She was formerly Professor of Climate Physics at the University of Reading and was head of that department from 2012 until 2015. She was previously a member of the RMetS Council and Education Committee. On 1 October 2016 she became the 81st President of the Royal Meteorological Society , serving until 2018.

#15873

Jackson Orem

#105023

Overall Influence

Jackson Orem is a physician, medical oncologist and researcher in Uganda. He has served as the director of the Uganda Cancer Institute, since 2004. Background and education Orem was born in Uganda and he attended local primary and secondary schools. His father was a driver and salesman. His mother was a housewife. After high school, he was admitted to Makerere University School of Medicine, the oldest in East Africa. He graduated with a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery degree. After internship, he was re-admitted to Makerere University to pursue a Master of Medicine degree , in In...

#15874

Pär-Erik Back

1920 - 1988 (68 years)

Pär-Erik Back was a Swedish social scientist. He was professor at Umeå University 1965–85 in political science, serving also as dean for the social sciences. Publications Herzog und Landschaft ,En klass i uppbrott ,Sammanslutningarnas roll i politiken 1870–1970 ,Det svenska partiväsendet .

#15875

Cyril Höschl

#32422

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Cyril Höschl is a Czech psychiatrist and university lecturer. After the Velvet Revolution he was the first freely elected Dean of the third Medical Faculty of Charles University and from 1997-2003 he served as Vice-Dean for Reform Studies and International Relations at the same faculty. He was the director of the Prague Psychiatric Center and head of the Department of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology of the Third Faculty of Medicine of the Charles University in Prague. On 1 January 2015 the Prague Psychiatric Center was transformed into the National Institute of Mental Health in Klecany, T...

#15876

Aoyama Tanemichi

Aoyama Tanemichi

1859 - 1917 (58 years)

Aoyama Tanemichi was a medical scientist and doctor specializing in internal medicine. He became a member of the Imperial Japan Academy in 1906, received the first class medal, "Order of the Sacred Treasure", in 1916, and was given the title of Danshaku in 1917.

#15877

J. M. Hinton

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Overall Influence

1923 - 2000 (77 years)

John Michael Elliott Hinton was a British philosopher. He was a lecturer at the University of Oxford from 1958 and a fellow of Worcester College, Oxford, from 1960. He was Cowling Visiting Professor at Carleton College in 1978-79. He was previously a lecturer at Victoria University College.

#15878

Tony Waldron

#142922

Overall Influence

1948 - 2021 (73 years)

Tony Waldron was a British physician and bioarchaeologist specialising in occupational medicine, palaeopathology, and palaeoepidemiology. He was an honorary professor at the UCL Institute of Archaeology, a lecturer in occupational medicine at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and a consultant physician at University College Hospital and St Mary's Hospital. He wrote a number of books on bioarchaeology, including the widely used textbooks Palaeoepidemiology and Palaeopathology .

#15879

Joseph Moylan

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Overall Influence

1938 - 2013 (75 years)

Joseph Anthony Moylan was founder and president of Durham Nativity School in Durham, North Carolina. He was a former clinical professor of surgery at the Duke University School of Medicine and medical director of the International Patient Center at the Duke University Medical Center. Moylan played a seminal role in development modern day trauma centers. He also served at the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research or Army Burn Center at the Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas, during the Vietnam War.

#15880

Philip Ferdinand

1555 - 1598 (43 years)

Philip Ferdinand was an English Hebraist. Born in Poland to Polish Jewish parents, he converted first to Roman Catholicism and then to Protestantism. He was a poor student at Oxford University, where he taught Hebrew. He matriculated at Cambridge University in 1596. He became professor of Hebrew at Leiden, where he died. He translated Rabbinic works into Latin.

#15881

Paul Anton Cibis

1911 - 1965 (54 years)

Paul Anton Cibis was a clinical ophthalmologist, surgeon and pioneer of modern vitreoretinal surgery. As part of Operation Paperclip Cibis came to the United States and performed research for the U.S. Air Force and studied the effects of atomic weapons testing on the eye. He was an internationally recognized expert in retinal detachment surgery and pioneered the use of liquid silicon for this procedure.

#15882

Esther Geller

#86532

Overall Influence

1921 - 2015 (94 years)

Esther Geller was an American painter mainly associated with the abstract expressionist movement in Boston in the 1940s and 1950s. She was one of the foremost authorities on encaustic painting techniques.

#15883

David Rynin

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Overall Influence

1905 - 2000 (95 years)

David Rynin was an American philosopher. He is known mostly as an exponent of logical positivism. He served as president of the Pacific division of the American Philosophical Association in the years 1956–7. Until his death, he was professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley.

#15884

Heinrich Lauenstein

1835 - 1910 (75 years)

Heinrich Lauenstein was a German painter and art professor; associated with the Düsseldorfer Malerschule. He specialized in portraits, many of them of children, and religious scenes. Life and work His father, Christoph Lauenstein, was a mill owner in Hildesheim. He worked as a decorative painter until 1859 when, thanks to a grant from King George V of Hanover., he was able to enroll at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. There, he studied with Heinrich Mücke, the brothers Andreas and Karl Müller, Karl Ferdinand Sohn and Rudolf Wiegmann. In 1863, he attended history painting classes taught by Eduard Bendemann then, from 1867, studied with the religious painter, Ernst Deger.

#15885

Vijay P. Parashar

#68430

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Vijay P. Parashar, BDS, MDS, DDS, is an oral and maxillofacial radiologist working as faculty at Midwestern University in Glendale, Arizona. Prior to joining Midwestern University as Associate Professor, Parashar was the Assistant Professor of Biomedical and Diagnostic Sciences at University of Detroit Mercy in Detroit, Michigan. Parashar won the 2006 Howard R. Raper and 2012 William H Rollins Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology Awards given by American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology. Parashar received Doctor of Dental Surgery from the University of Detroit Mercy School of Dentistry...

#15886

Peter Havard-Williams

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Overall Influence

1922 - 1995 (73 years)

Peter Havard-Williams was a Welsh librarian and library educator. In the mid 1980s, he served as Chief Librarian to the Council of Europe. Early years Havard-Williams received degrees from universities in Wales and Oxford. In 1949, he wrote Thought and Sense in the Philosophy of Saint Thomas Aquinas as his Master's thesis at the University College of Swansea.

#15887

Ellen Bliss Talbot

1867 - 1968 (101 years)

Ellen Bliss Talbot was an American philosopher and professor of philosophy at Mount Holyoke College, chairing the department of philosophy and psychology for 32 years. She is considered one of the first professional academic women philosophers.

#15888

Sérgio Pena

#104786

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Sérgio Danilo Junho Pena is a Brazilian human geneticist and professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Immunology at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. He began researching the population genetics of the Brazilian population in the late 1980s. His research on this subject has highlighted the ways that physical characteristics of Brazilians are often discordant with their genetic ancestry. On the basis of his research showing extensive genetic diversity in the Brazilian population, he has vocally advocated for the view that race is a social construct rather than a biological reality.

#15889

Timothy Shary

#144477

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Timothy Shary is an American film scholar, and a leading authority on the representation of youth in movies. He has been a professor at the University of Massachusetts, Clark University, and the University of Oklahoma. He is now a professor at Eastern Florida State College.

#15890

Gian Piero Brunetta

#137026

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Gian Piero Brunetta is an Italian film critic, film historian, and academic. He is a Full Professor of Cinema History and Criticism at the University of Padua, he is known for being the author of an important four-volume work dedicated to the history of Italian cinema .

#15891

Elizabeth Van Volkenburgh

Elizabeth Van Volkenburgh

#103844

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Elizabeth Van Volkenburgh is a Professor of Plant Science at the University of Washington. She has served as the President of the society for Plant Signaling and Behavior. Early life and education Van Volkenburgh was born to Robert Heber and Jean Brown in Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Van Volkenburgh became interested in biology during high school. She studied botany at Duke University, and earned her Bachelor's degree in 1973. She was most interested in plant physiology and biochemical function. She nearly majored in economics because her mother recommended education that might lead to a paying job like being a lawyer or economist, but found that she learned better the life sciences.

#15892

Oswald Jonas

1897 - 1978 (81 years)

Oswald Jonas was a music theorist and musicologist and student of Heinrich Schenker. Despite Schenker's conservative nationalist views Jonas was an admirer of Karl Kraus. In 1935, Jonas founded the Schenker Institut and began publishing Der Dreiklang with Felix Salzer. The Oswald Jonas Memorial Collection, housed at the University of California, Riverside Library, holds the complete diaries of Schenker and much of the correspondence and manuscripts of Erwin Ratz, Jonas's first student. His primary students include Felix Salzer, Ernst Oster, and Sylvan Kalib.

#15893

Sigrid Veasey

#150500

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Sigrid Veasey is a physician and scientist affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania. She specializes in medicine. Veasey is a professor at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the Center for Sleep and Circadian Neurobiology where she conducts research on sleep disorders and sleep disruption.

#15894

Julius Scriba

1848 - 1905 (57 years)

Julius Karl Scriba was a German surgeon serving as a foreign advisor in Meiji period Japan, where he was an important contributor to the development of Western medicine in Japan. Biography Scriba was born in Darmstadt, Germany and studied to become a pharmacist as well as a physician. His studies were interrupted by a year of military service during the Franco-Prussian War of 1871. He graduated three years after the end of the war from the University of Heidelberg and practiced medicine in Freiburg im Breisgau. He apprenticed under the noted surgeon Vincenz Czerny and from 1879 served as a lecturer at the University of Freiburg.

#15895

Jawad Fares

#82563

Overall Influence

1991 - Present (35 years)

Jawad Youssef Fares is a Lebanese medical doctor, researcher and scientist. He was selected for the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in science and healthcare for his contribution to solving healthcare problems in the developing world. He also featured twice in the Forbes Middle East 30 Under 30, and was selected as one of the top 10 young scientists in the world by Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News. In 2019, Fares was elected as a Fellow of The World Academy of Medical Sciences, and in 2021 was one of the Young Physician Leaders selected by the InterAcademy Partnership .

#15896

Janice Rymer

#92029

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Janice Rymer is professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at King's College London and consultant gynecologist at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust. She is a vice president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.

#15897

Eric Borgstein

#91344

Overall Influence

Eric S. Borgstein is a Dutch pediatric surgeon and professor of surgery at the University of Malawi College of Medicine. Early life Borgstein was born in Malawi to two Dutch physicians. He attended medical school and trained as a surgeon in Scotland and underwent specialized pediatric surgery training in the Netherlands. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.

#15898

Caroline Durieux

1886 - 1989 (103 years)

Caroline Wogan Durieux was an American printmaker, painter, and educator. She was a Professor Emeritus at both Louisiana State University, where she worked from 1943 to 1964 and at Newcomb College of Tulane University

#15899

Félix Taunay, Baron of Taunay

Félix Taunay, Baron of Taunay

1795 - 1881 (86 years)

Félix Émile Taunay, Baron of Taunay , was a French Brazilian painter, and drawing and Greek teacher. He was the father of famous writer and politician Alfredo d'Escragnolle Taunay, the Viscount of Taunay.

#15900

Moussa B. H. Youdim

#81242

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Moussa B. H. Youdim is an internationally renowned Israeli neuroscientist specializing in neurochemistry and neuropharmacology. He is the discoverer of both monoamine oxidase B inhibitors l-deprenyl and rasagiline as anti-Parkinson drugs which possess neuroprotective activities. He is currently Professor Emeritus at Technion - Faculty of Medicine and President of Youdim Pharmaceuticals.

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