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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#15951

Berta Geller

#177750

Overall Influence

Berta M. Geller is an American research professor emeritus in the department of family medicine at the University of Vermont College of Medicine. She was a long time faculty member in its health promotion office.

#15952

Natalie Kononenko

#26575

Overall Influence

Natalie Kononenko is a professor of folklore currently with the University of Alberta. Kononenko is a major contributor to the study of Ukrainian Blind Minstrels as well as in the area of witchcraft in Slavic cultures. She currently holds the Peter and Doris Kule Chair of Ukrainian Ethnography and is the head of the Slavic and East European section of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies. She attended Radcliffe College and Harvard University.

#15953

Eddie Kramer

#23226

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Edwin H. Kramer is a South African-born recording producer and engineer. He has collaborated with several artists now in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, including Jimi Hendrix, the Beatles, David Bowie, the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Eric Clapton, the Kinks, Kiss, John Mellencamp, and Carlos Santana, as well as records for other well-known artists in various genres.

#15954

E. Andrew Balas

E. Andrew Balas

#81485

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

E. Andrew Balas is a Hungarian academic who is a fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics and elected member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He serves as Professor at Augusta University . Balas is Vice President of the Friends of the National Library of Medicine.

#15955

Griffith Powell

1561 - 1620 (59 years)

Griffith Powell was a philosopher and Principal of Jesus College, Oxford, from 1613 to 1620. Life Powell was the third of four sons of John ap Hywel of Llansawel, Carmarthenshire, Wales. Powell matriculated at Jesus College in 1581, obtaining his BA in 1584, MA in 1589, and BCL in 1593. He was elected Fellow of the college in 1589. He effectively ran the college during the principalships of his two predecessors, Francis Bevans and John Williams. Williams deprived him of his Fellowship, but it was restored on the Chancellor's orders.

#15956

Aaron Afia

#91908

Overall Influence

Aaron Afia , also known as Affius, was a sixteenth-century Jewish ex-converso scientist, mathematician, philosopher, and physician living in Salonika. He was the teacher of Daniel ben Perachiah, whom he assisted in the translation from the Spanish into Hebrew of Abraham Zacuto's Almanach perpetuum , and Moses Almosnino, whom he assisted in his Hebrew translation of Johannes de Sacrobosco's De sphaera mundi. Almosnino's Bet Elokim—an astronomical work which draws on Georg von Peuerbach's Theorica planetarium—also contains work by Afia at the end.

#15957

François Brousse

François Brousse

#167948

Overall Influence

1913 - 1995 (82 years)

François Brousse was a philosophy professor who had mainly taught in the Languedoc-Roussillon region and is the author of some 80 works including poetry, essays , novels, plays and storybooks. He was a pioneer of the philosophy cafes that were popping up almost everywhere in France at the end of the 20th century. Brousse was born in Perpignan, France and died in Clamart, France.

#15958

William Petty

1623 - 1687 (64 years)

Sir William Petty FRS was an English economist, physician, scientist and philosopher. He first became prominent serving Oliver Cromwell and the Commonwealth in Ireland. He developed efficient methods to survey the land that was to be confiscated and given to Cromwell's soldiers. He also remained a significant figure under King Charles II and King James II, as did many others who had served Cromwell.

#15959

Karunai Prakasar

1756 - 1774 (18 years)

Karunai Prakasar was a seventeenth century Saiva spiritual writer. He was born to a Tamil-speaking Desikar family in Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu. He was a spiritual writer who wrote more than five books. . He worshipped Saiva Siddantha. He got married when he was sixteen. He attained Mukthi Motcha at the age of eighteen. Therefore, he had no children.

#15960

Peter Manley Scott

#136450

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Peter Manley Scott is a British theologian and Samuel Ferguson Professor of Applied Theology & Director of the Lincoln Theological Institute at the University of Manchester. He is best known for his research on political theology. Scott is the Chair of the European Forum for the Study of Religion and the Environment.

#15961

Aksel Jørgensen

1883 - 1957 (74 years)

Aksel Jørgensen was a Danish painter and wood engraver. He is also remembered for his years as the director and professor at the Royal Danish Academy where he instructed many Danish illustrators. Childhood Aksel Jørgensen was born in Copenhagen. His parents were the mechanic Mathias Jørgensen and Maren née Christensen. Aksel later described his parents' home as very modest but harmonious. Like many working-class families of the time, the family lived in a very small space in a two-room apartment without sanitary facilities. At the age of four, Jørgensen became seriously ill with an otitis media, the long-term consequences of which affected his entire life.

#15962

Mark S. Humayun

#32338

Overall Influence

Mark S. Humayun is a Pakistani-American ophthalmologist, engineer, scientist, inventor and academic – the only ophthalmologist elected a member of both U.S. National Academies of Medicine and Engineering. He is a university professor with joint appointments at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and the USC Viterbi School of Engineering.

#15963

Charles Scarborough

Charles Scarborough

1615 - 1694 (79 years)

Sir Charles Scarborough or Scarburgh MP FRS FRCP was an English physician and mathematician. Upbringing Scarborough was born in St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, Westminster, in 1615, to Edmund Scarburgh and his wife Hannah , and was educated at St Paul's School, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and Merton College, Oxford . While at Oxford he was a student of William Harvey, and the two would become close friends. Scarborough was also tutor to Christopher Wren, who was his assistant for a time.

#15964

Edward Halper

#182889

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Edward Charles Halper is an American philosopher and Distinguished Research Professor and Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor at University of Georgia. He is a former president of the Metaphysical Society of America . He specializes in ancient Greek philosophy and Hegel, and he is especially known for his multi-volume commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics.

#15965

Tony Smith

#168727

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Tony Smith is an American philosopher and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Iowa State University. He is known for his works on capitalism, Hegel, and Marx. Books Beyond Liberal Egalitarianism: Marx and Normative Social Theory in the Twenty-First Century, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2017Globalisation: A Systematic Marxian Account, Brill Press, 2005. [paperback: Haymarket Books, 2009.]Technology and Capital in the Age of Lean Production: A Marxian Critique of the “New Economy”, State University of New York Press, 2000.Dialectical Social Theory and Its Critics: From Hegel to Analytical Ma...

#15966

B. Lawrence Riggs

#182893

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#15967

Adam Elias von Siebold

Adam Elias von Siebold

1775 - 1828 (53 years)

Adam Elias von Siebold was a German Gynecologist. Life He was the youngest son of Carl Caspar von Siebold . Siebold was professor of anatomy, surgery und midwifery of the University of Würzburg. Unlike his brothers, he originally wanted to become a Merchant, eventually, however, he began to study medicine.

#15968

Rubén Nuñez de Cáceres

#178250

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Rubén Nuñez de Cáceres was a professor and the founder/director of the Centro de Valores Humanos of the Tec de Monterrey, Campus Tampico. He received his bachelor's degree in philosophy from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Italy and a bachelor's degree and master's degree in Spanish from the Comillas Pontifical University in Spain. As a professor, he taught courses in philosophy, ethics and professional values. He feels that students not only need to have access to the latest technology and knowledge but also to training to make them better professionals and human beings.

#15969

Hubertus Strughold

1898 - 1986 (88 years)

Hubertus Strughold was a German-born physiologist, war criminal, and prominent medical researcher. Beginning in 1935 he served as chief of aeromedical research for Hermann Göring's Ministry of Aviation, holding this position throughout World War II. In 1947 he was brought to the United States as part of Operation Paperclip and went on to serve in a number of high-level scientific posts with the US Air Force and NASA.

#15970

John P. A. Ioannidis

#182905

Overall Influence

#15971

Charles Sanford Terry

Charles Sanford Terry

1864 - 1936 (72 years)

Charles Sanford Terry was an English historian and musicologist who published extensively on Scottish and European history as well as the life and works of J. S. Bach. Career Terry was the eldest son of Charles Terry, a physician, and Ellen Octavia Prichard. After attending St Paul's Cathedral School, King's College School, and Lancing College, he was an undergraduate at Clare College, Cambridge, where he obtained a B.A. in history in 1886 and an M.A. in 1891. He held lectureships in history at Durham College of Science , the University of Aberdeen and the University of Cambridge. In 1901...

#15972

Carl F. Craver

#180391

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Carl F. Craver is an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy and Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology at Washington University in St. Louis. He is known for his works on philosophy of science and philosophy of mind.

#15973

Paul Hasluck

#37495

Overall Influence

1905 - 1993 (88 years)

Sir Paul Meernaa Caedwalla Hasluck, was an Australian statesman who served as the 17th Governor-General of Australia, in office from 1969 to 1974. Prior to that, he was a Liberal Party politician, holding ministerial office continuously from 1951 to 1969.

#15974

Tomizo Yoshida

1903 - 1973 (70 years)

was a prominent Japanese pathologist, famous for discovering the Yoshida sarcoma. In addition, he is known for demonstrating the chemical-induced hepatocarcinogenesis in rats with his mentor Takaoki Sasaki.

#15975

Newton Phelps Stallknecht

1906 - 1981 (75 years)

Newton Phelps Stallknecht was an American philosopher and a professor of comparative literature and philosophy at Indiana University. In addition, he was the Director of the School of Letters at Indiana University from 1953-1972. He also served as a president of the Metaphysical Society of America. Stallknecht was educated at Princeton University, achieving his A.B. in 1927, A.M. in 1928, and Ph.D. in 1930. During World War II, he was attached to the United States Army Security Agency in Washington. His publications cover both philosophy and comparative literature, with a philosophical fo...

#15976

Vincent Riolo

#182940

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Vincent Riolo is a Maltese philosopher mostly interested and specialised in logic and the philosophy of language. Life Riolo was born at Mosta, Malta, in 1947. He studied philosophy at the University of Malta and the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Bavaria, Germany, where he was a student of Paul Lorenzen , founder of the Erlangen School. Riolo teaches logic at various faculties of the University of Malta. At the Department of Philosophy he also teaches philosophy of science.

#15977

Jan Mikulicz-Radecki

Jan Mikulicz-Radecki

1850 - 1905 (55 years)

Jan Mikulicz-Radecki was a German-Polish-Austrian surgeon who worked mainly in the German Empire. He was born on 16 May 1850 in Czerniowce in the Austrian Empire and died on 4 June 1905 in Breslau, German Empire. He was professor in Kraków, Breslau, and Königsberg. He was the inventor of new operating techniques and tools, and is one of the pioneers of antiseptics and aseptic techniques. In Poland he is regarded as one of the founders of the Kraków school of surgery.

#15978

Maurice Tauber

1908 - 1980 (72 years)

Maurice Falcom Tauber was an influential librarian, educator and researcher in the field of library and information sciences; he was a major actor in how technical services units in American and in international libraries were thought of and how they evolved in the 20th century. Tauber is remembered especially for his role as professor and mentor during his long tenure at Columbia University from 1944-1976. In 1999, American Libraries named him one of the "100 Most Important Leaders We Had in the 20th Century".

#15979

Rachel Naomi Remen

#58789

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

Rachel Naomi Remen although trained as a pediatrician gained fame as an author and teacher of alternative medicine in the form of integrative medicine. She is a professor at the Osher Center of Integrative Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. Together with Michael Lerner, she is a founder of the Commonweal Cancer Help Program, a cornerstone program at Commonweal. She is the founder of the Institute for the Study of Health & Illness. She has been featured on the PBS television series, Thinking Allowed.

#15980

Ana Borovečki

#175828

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (53 years)

Ana Borovečki is a Croatian female clinical pharmacologist and toxicologist. Biography Borovečki is born in 1973 in Zagreb, where she attended Classical Gymnasium and graduated in 1998 at the School of Medicine at the University of Zagreb. She graduated in philosophy and comparative literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb in 2000 with master's thesis "Marko Marulić- 'Glasgow verses'" under the mentorship of Andrea Zlatar. She mastered bioethics in 2004 at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Borovečki earned her doctor's degree in bioethics in 2007 at ...

#15981

Gregor Wenning

#74209

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Gregor Karl Wenning is a German neurologist best known for his clinical and scientific work in Parkinson's disease and atypical Parkinsonian disorders, particularly multiple system atrophy . In 2006 he was appointed Professor and Head of the Division of Clinical Neurobiology at the Medical University Innsbruck.

#15982

Jonathan D. Quick

#98679

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Jonathan D. Quick , is a family physician and public health management specialist that focuses on global health security. He is adjunct professor of global health at Duke University in North Carolina. His book The End of Epidemics: The Looming Threat to Humanity and How to Stop It was published in 2018.

#15983

Arthur DeBoer

#66277

Overall Influence

1917 - 2007 (90 years)

Arthur DeBoer, , was an American cardiologist specializing in cardiac surgery at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine. DeBoer was one of the pioneer cardiac surgeons in Chicago and was on staff at Wesley Memorial Hospital . DeBoer was the hospital's first chief of cardiothoracic surgery, and performed the first open heart operation at Wesley Memorial Hospital in 1958. He served as Chair of Northwestern's Department of Cardiovascular Surgery until 1975. He was also a pioneer in research on congenital heart defects.

#15984

Jasna Koteska

#131189

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Jasna Koteska is a Macedonian writer, philosopher and academic. She is a Professor in humanities at the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje. Koteska works with 19th-century philosophy, Psychoanalytic Theory, and Gender studies. She has published books on Søren Kierkegaard, Sigmund Freud, and on a variety of topics related to psychoanalytic theory and gender studies. Her books have been published in Washington, D.C., Toronto, Ljubljana, Belgrade, Sofia and Skopje.

#15985

Stefan Themerson

Stefan Themerson

1910 - 1988 (78 years)

Stefan Themerson was a Polish writer of children's literature, poet and inventor of Semantic Poetry, novelist, script writer filmmaker, composer and philosopher. He wrote in at least three languages. With his wife, Franciszka Themerson, they are regarded as leading husband-and-wife exponents of European Surrealism and publishers.

#15986

Gopal Balakrishnan

#131959

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Gopal Balakrishnan was a professor in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, until he was fired due to allegations of sexual assault. Balakrishnan studied European intellectual history and historical sociology at UCLA during the 1990s with Perry Anderson, Robert Brenner, Rogers Brubaker, and Michael Mann. He worked on political thought, intellectual history, and critical theory. Prior to his appointment at UC-Santa Cruz, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Chicago.

#15987

Gennosuke Fuse

1880 - 1946 (66 years)

Gennosuke Fuse was a Japanese anatomist of the Meiji period. He graduated from Tokyo Imperial University medical school. Then he studied abroad in Switzerland. He was assistant of the University of Zurich from 1907 to 1911 and from 1914 to 1916 and worked with Constantin von Monakow.

#15988

Adolph Henke

1775 - 1843 (68 years)

Adolph Christian Heinrich Henke was a German physician and pharmacologist known for his work in medical forensics. He was father-in-law to anatomist Rudolf Wagner . Following studies at the Collegium Carolinum in Braunschweig, he continued his education at the University of Helmstedt, where one of his instructors was chemist Lorenz von Crell . Afterwards, he studied medicine with surgeon August Gottlieb Richter and obstetrician Friedrich Benjamin Osiander at the University of Göttingen, subsequently receiving his doctorate in 1799 at Helmstedt.

#15989

William Rosenau

1865 - 1943 (78 years)

William Rosenau was a leader of Reform Judaism in the beginning of the twentieth century in the United States. Biography William Rosenau was born in Wolstein, Germany in 1865, the son of Rabbi Nathan and Johanna Rosenau. The family came to the United States and settled in the Philadelphia area when William Rosenau was eleven. In 1876, Rosenau immigrated to the United States.

#15990

Curt Smith

#66382

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Curt Smith is an American author, media host and columnist. In addition to work as a newspaper reporter, Smith was a political speechwriter until 1992 and a host of radio and television programs until 2002. He has written 17 books, including Voices of the Game, which covers the history of baseball broadcasting. Smith is a newspaper columnist in upstate New York and holds an academic appointment at the University of Rochester.

#15991

Camila Alire

#65775

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Camila Alire is an American librarian and was president of the American Library Association from 2009 to 2010. She was the first Hispanic president of the ALA. She was previously the president of REFORMA, National Association to Promote Library and Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish-speaking, in 1993-1994.

#15992

Friedrich Schauta

Friedrich Schauta

1849 - 1919 (70 years)

Friedrich Schauta was an Austrian surgeon and gynecologist born in Vienna. In 1874 he received his medical doctorate at the University of Vienna, and following graduation remained in Vienna as an assistant at the surgical clinic of Johann von Dumreicher . From 1876 to 1881 Schauta worked under Joseph Späth at the latter's clinic of obstetrics and gynecology. In 1881 he became habilitated for OB/GYN at Vienna, and subsequently relocated to the University of Innsbruck, where in 1884 he became a full professor. Three years later, he succeeded August Breisky in Prague, and in 1891 returned to V...

#15993

Kevin Waters

#101562

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (93 years)

J. Kevin Waters S.J. is a Jesuit priest, composer, educator, and retired Academic Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences of Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington. Early life John Kevin Waters was born June 24, 1933, in Seattle, WA, the third child of Thomas Waters and Eleanor Waters. He has an older sister, Maribeth, an older brother, Thomas, and a younger sister, Kathleen. He began his education at Sacred Heart School in Seattle and Showalter Grade School in Riverton Heights, WA. During high school he was a student at O'Dea High School and Seattle Preparatory School, from which he graduated in 1951.

#15994

Cristina Possas

#77258

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Cristina Possas de Albuquerque is a Brazilian public health scientist working with infectious diseases and emerging infectious diseases from an eco-social perspective. She is a Takemi Fellow at Harvard University in Boston, where for 10 years she has been a visiting scientist and a Fulbright Fellow. She has been since 1976 a professor at FIOCRUZ in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

#15995

Lazar Reznikov

1905 - 1970 (65 years)

Lazar Osipovich Reznikov was a Soviet philosopher and one of the pioneers of semiotics studies in Russia. Professor, Doctor of Philosophical Sciences. Biography Lazar Osipovich Reznikov was born on 8 December 1905 in Kishenev in the Jewish family. His father was an artisan. In 1929 Lazar Reznikov graduated from the Pedagogical Faculty of the Don University in Rostov-on-Don, where he later worked as an assistant professor of the Department of Dialectical Materialism. In 1933—1936 he continued his studies in graduate school at Moscow Institute of Philosophy, Literature and History, then taught in Odessa.

#15996

Johannes Vieweg

Johannes Vieweg

#77268

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Johannes W. Vieweg is an American medical school dean, university professor, and physician-scientist, presently residing in the city of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Early life and education Vieweg received his medical degree from the Technical University of Munich in 1983. After relocating to the United States, in 1991, he spent three years as a post-doctoral research fellow at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY and Duke University, Durham, NC under the mentorship of Eli Gilboa, PhD, a prominent expert in retrovirology and cell therapy.

#15997

Robert Bárány

1876 - 1936 (60 years)

Robert Bárány was an Austrian-born otologist. He received the 1914 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the physiology and pathology of the vestibular apparatus. Life and career Bárány was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary. He was the eldest of six children of Maria , the daughter of a scientist, and Ignác Bárány, born 1842 in Várpalota, Kingdom of Hungary, who was a bank official and estate manager. His father was a Hungarian Jew whose father also was named Ignác Bárány .

#15998

Robert Peter Gale

#183064

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#15999

Odoardo Beccari

Odoardo Beccari

1843 - 1920 (77 years)

Odoardo Beccari was an Italian botanist famous for his discoveries in Indonesia, New Guinea, and Australia. He has been called the greatest botanist to ever study Malesia. His author abbreviation is Becc. when citing a botanical name.

#16000

Banmei Takahashi

#119072

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

is a Japanese film director. Takahashi started his career in the pink film industry, making his directorial debut in 1972 with Escaped Rapist Criminal. Due to a disagreement with his producer, Takahashi quit the film industry for a couple years. He joined pink film pioneer Kōji Wakamatsu's production studio in 1975, working as a script-writer until Wakamatsu produced Takahashi's second film, Delinquent File: Juvenile Prostitution . For the next few years Takahashi averaged five films annually at Wakamatsu's studio, until Takahashi left to start his own production company in 1979.

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