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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#16051

Thomas Campion

1567 - 1620 (53 years)

Thomas Campion was an English composer, poet, and physician. He was born in London, educated at Cambridge, studied law in Gray's inn. He wrote over a hundred lute songs, masques for dancing, and an authoritative technical treatise on music.

#16052

Juan García del Muro

#176887

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Juan García del Muro Solans is a Spanish philosopher, essayist and university professor. He is one of the most awarded essayists in the Catalan language. He is the author of over 10 books, including Ficcions còmplices and Good bye, veritat .

#16053

Fernando Simón

#65162

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Fernando Simón Soria is a Spanish epidemiologist serving as Director of the Coordination Centre for Health Alerts and Emergencies of the Ministry of Health. He came to public prominence as spokesman for the special committee on Ebola virus disease in Spain in 2014, and a similar role during the COVID-19 pandemic. Simón tested positive for coronavirus on 30 March 2020.

#16054

Christina Curtis

#109054

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Christina Curtis is an American scientist who is a Professor of Medicine, Genetics and Biomedical Data Science and an Endowed Scholar at Stanford University where her research investigates the evolution of tumors. She is director of Artificial Intelligence and Cancer Genomics at Stanford University School of Medicine and is on the board of directors of the American Association for Cancer Research.

#16055

Adrian Monck

#31682

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Adrian Monck is the managing director, Head of Public And Social Engagement at the World Economic Forum and a former British journalism professor and writer on the media and current affairs. Education Adrian Monck graduated from Exeter College, Oxford in 1988 with an honours degree in Modern History. At Oxford he was JCR President and edited Cherwell. In 2000 he was awarded an MBA from London Business School.

#16056

Wilibald Nagel

1863 - 1929 (66 years)

Wilibald Nagel Life and career Born in Mülheim an der Ruhr Nagel, son of the Lieder and oratorio singer Siegfried Nagel , studied German studies and musicology with Philipp Spitta and Heinrich Bellermann at the Humboldt University of Berlin. In 1888 he habilitated and accepted a position at the University of Zurich for musicology and taught there as a lecturer at the faculty of philosophy until 1894.

#16057

George R. Lucas Jr.

#174310

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

George Ramsdell Lucas Jr. is an American philosopher and a professor of ethics and public policy at the Graduate School of Public Policy at the Naval Postgraduate School. Previously he was the Distinguished Chair in Ethics in the Vice Admiral James B. Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership at the U.S. Naval Academy. Lucas is a former president of the Metaphysical Society of America .

#16058

Julie Bines

#178707

Overall Influence

Julie Bines , is a clinician and researcher working in Melbourne, Australia. Alongside being a professor and deputy head of the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Melbourne, she is also a paediatric gastroenterologist at the Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne and is the leader of the Enteric Diseases group at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute. Bines is the joint head of the WHO Collaborative Centre for Child Health and founding member of Women in Global Health Australia.

#16059

Alice Stewart

#30043

Overall Influence

1906 - 2002 (96 years)

Alice Mary Stewart, née Naish was a British physician and epidemiologist specialising in social medicine and the effects of radiation on health. Her study of radiation-induced illness among workers at the Hanford plutonium production plant, Washington, is frequently cited by those who seek to demonstrate that even very low doses of radiation cause substantial hazard. She was the first person to demonstrate the link between x-rays of pregnant women and high cancer rates in their children. She was awarded the Right Livelihood Award in 1986 "for bringing to light in the face of official opposit...

#16060

Ambuj Sagar

#134041

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Ambuj D. Sagar is the Vipula and Mahesh Chaturvedi Professor of Policy Studies at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. As of October 2022, he has been appointed as the deputy director at IIT Delhi. His interests broadly lie in science and technology policy, environmental policy, and development policy, with a particular focus on the interactions between technology and society. While his current research focuses mainly on energy innovation and climate policy, he also studies, more broadly, various facets of technology innovation, environmental policy politics and processes, and engineerin...

#16061

Sophie Postel-Vinay

#28725

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Sophie Postel-Vinay is a French physician and scientist at the Institut Gustave Roussy where she has led an ATIP-Avenir team since 2018. She works on oncology and the development of new drugs and is an expert in early clinical trials. She was the 2019 winner of the Irène Joliot-Curie Prize in the “young woman scientist” category.

#16062

Hermann Werner Siemens

1891 - 1969 (78 years)

Hermann Werner Siemens was a German dermatologist who first described multiple skin diseases and was one of the inventors of the twin study. Siemens' work in twin studies is influential in modern genetics and is used to address the environmental and genetic impacts upon traits. Siemens was involved in racial hygiene and affiliated with the Nazi Party.

#16063

André Gaudreault

#132023

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

André Gaudreault is a Canadian film historian and theorist who holds the Canada Research Chair in Film and Media Studies. Bibliography After obtaining a bachelor's degree in 1975 at Université Laval in Quebec City, he continued his studies at Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle, where he did doctoral work under and Michel Colin, obtaining his Ph.D. in 1983 with a dissertation entitled “Récit scriptural, récit théâtral, récit filmique: prolégomènes à une théorie narratologique du cinéma". During his studies, he became familiar with the work of Gérard Genette on narratology and with that of Christian Metz on film semiotics.

#16064

Rene Cailliet

#88850

Overall Influence

1917 - 2015 (98 years)

Rene Cailliet, M.D., was an American physician of French ancestry best known for a very popular series of books on musculoskeletal medicine. Personal life Rene Cailliet was born in Philadelphia on June 10, 1917. He was the son of Lucien Cailliet , the French born American composer, conductor, arranger, clarinetist, and creator of music for films. After graduation from Medical School at the University of Southern California in 1943, he served in the U.S. Army during the Second World War. After the war he was one of the pioneering physicians who developed Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation as...

#16065

Albert Fraenkel

1864 - 1938 (74 years)

Julius Albert Fraenkel was a German physician who helped establish Streptococcus pneumoniae as a cause of bacterial pneumonia and championed intravenous ouabain for use in heart failure. The Albert-Fraenkel-Plakette is given to German-speaking cardiologists who have excelled in the field. Born in 1864 in Mußbach an der Weinstraße, Albert was the son of a Jewish merchant. He studied medicine in Munich and Strasbourg in the 1880s. He initially practiced internal medicine and obstetrics, but turned to studying diseases of the lungs after suffering from tuberculosis. He established a tuberculosis sanatorium at Badenweiler in the Black Forest.

#16066

Asael Lubotzky

#60802

Overall Influence

1983 - Present (43 years)

Asael Lubotzky is an Israeli physician, author, and molecular biologist. Formerly serving as an IDF officer, he is a combat veteran of the Second Lebanon War. Military service Asael Lubotzky grew up in Efrat, studied at the Hesder yeshiva in Ma'ale Adumim, was accepted to Shayetet 13, but chose to enlist in Golani's 51st Battalion. He underwent a training course as a combat soldier and was chosen as the outstanding company cadet. After completing Officer Candidate School Asael served as an officer commanding a platoon of the Golani Brigade. He led his platoon in the fighting in Gaza and, duri...

#16067

Michael Elliott

1931 - 1984 (53 years)

Michael Elliott, OBE was an English theatre and television director. He was a founding director of the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester. Early life Elliott was born in London, England, son of Rev. Canon Wallace Harold Elliott , a Royal chaplain, writer, and broadcaster, and his wife Edith Plaistow Kilburn. He was educated at Radley College and Keble College, Oxford. While still at Oxford he met Caspar Wrede, the theatre director, with whom he was to work closely for the next three decades.

#16068

Alison McIntosh

#182398

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Alison J. McIntosh is a New Zealand tourism and hospitality academic. Previously a professor at the University of Waikato, she is now a professor at Auckland University of Technology. Her research areas include Critical Tourism and Hospitality, Tourist Behaviour and Heritage and Cultural Tourism.

#16069

M. Sawkat Anwer

#100106

Overall Influence

M. Sawkat Anwer is an American bioscientist. He's currently a Distinguished Professor of biomedical sciences at Tufts University. Anwar received a Masters of Science from Dhaka University and a Ph.D. from Kansas State University.

#16070

Perham Wilhelm Nahl

Perham Wilhelm Nahl

1869 - 1935 (66 years)

Perham Wilhelm Nahl was an American printmaker, painter, illustrator and an arts educator active in Northern California. Early life Perham Wilhelm Nahl was born to Annie and Hugo Wilhelm Arthur Nahl in San Francisco, California. By the mid-1870s the extended Nahl family had moved to the nearby island town of Alameda, where Perham first studied drawing and painting with both his father and his uncle, the fine art painter Charles Christian Nahl. The young Nahl became a director and president of the Alameda Olympic Club, was a competitive diver at the Pacific Swimming Club, and served on the ...

#16071

Yehuda Patt

#134275

Overall Influence

Yehuda Patt is a liver cancer specialist, gastrointestinal oncologist, and Professor of Medicine at the University of New Mexico, and resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He was previously at the University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center between the years 1975- 2003. He is the author of various papers pertaining to cancer and their effects on people, and has been cited numerous times for his writings and analyses.

#16072

Gilbert L. Voss

1918 - 1989 (71 years)

Gilbert L. Voss was an American conservationist and oceanographer. He was one of the main persons behind the establishment of John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park in Florida and he spoke out successfully against several proposed real estate developments that might have threatened the ecology of the Florida Keys.

#16073

Tomás Carreras Artau

1879 - 1954 (75 years)

Tomàs Carreras i Artau was a Catalan philosopher, ethnologist and politician. Life and career Tomàs Carreras was ethics professor in the University of Barcelona from 1912 until 1949. He set up the Archive of Ethnography and Folklore of Catalonia. Moreover, he was member of the Academy of Good Letters of Barcelona. Together with Jaume Serra i Húnter and Ramon Turró i Darder, he founded in 1923 the Catalan Society of Filosophy, which depended on the Institute of Catalan Studies.

#16074

Edwina Whitney

1868 - 1970 (102 years)

Edwina Maud Whitney was an American librarian and educator who served as one of the earliest librarians at the Connecticut Agricultural College from 1900 to 1934. She also served as a German instructor from 1901 to 1926 and an assistant professor of German from 1926 to 1934.

#16075

Christina Annunziata

#95199

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Christina Messineo Annunziata is an American medical oncologist researching molecular signal transduction in ovarian cancer. She is an investigator in the National Cancer Institute's women's malignancies branch and head of the translational genomics section.

#16076

Oxana Kharissova

#176564

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Oxana Vasilievna Kharissova is a Ukrainian–Mexican nanoscientist whose research involves the synthesis and solubility of nanoparticles. She is a professor and researcher in the faculty of physical and mathematical sciences at the Autonomous University of Nuevo León.

#16077

James Carroll

1854 - 1907 (53 years)

Major James Carroll was a US Army physician. Carroll was born in England. He moved to Canada in 1874, and enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1874. He graduated with an M.D. from the University of Maryland School of Medicine in 1891. After graduating Carroll studied bacteriology under Dr. William H. Welch at Johns Hopkins Hospital and assisted Walter Reed in pathology laboratories. Carroll and Reed later worked together at the Army Medical Museum in Washington and the Columbia University Medical School.

#16078

David Benaron

#31016

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

David A. Benaron is an American digital health entrepreneur, physician, and former Stanford University professor. His work in the field of medical optical imaging, digital health wearables, and predictive behavioral and health Artificial Intelligence led to the founding of multiple public companies. He is a member of SPIE , and a founding editorial board member of the Journal of Biomedical Optics.

#16079

Hugo Omar Seleme

#171385

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Hugo Seleme is an Argentinean political philosopher professor of Ethics and Jurisprudence at Cordoba National University, Argentina. He is researcher at CONICET , and visiting professor at Pompeu Fabra University

#16080

Dave Collins

#26048

Overall Influence

Dave Collins is an American Grammy Award winning mastering engineer. He has worked with numerous artists and musicians, including Alice in Chains, Metallica, Soundgarden, Weezer, Grateful Dead, Madonna, Linkin Park, The Police, Porno for Pyros, Oingo Boingo, Alice Cooper, KMFDM, Sepultura, Puscifier, Chris Cornell, Bon Jovi, Buckcherry, Monster Magnet, Sting, Flogging Molly, Bad Religion, Black Sabbath, Blue Öyster Cult, Chevelle and Bruce Springsteen.

#16081

Tom Gerety

#19755

Overall Influence

Tom Gerety, a lawyer, philosopher, is the former president of both Trinity College and Amherst College . Biography After leaving Amherst College, he became the executive director of the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law where he is now Collegiate Professor. He is the author of law review articles and The Freshman Who Hated Socrates, a book on liberal arts education.

#16082

Jakub of Gostynin

1454 - 1506 (52 years)

Jakub of Gostynin was a Polish philosopher and theologian of the late 15th century, and Rector of the University of Kraków in 1503–1504. Life Jakub of Gostynin was one of the chief adherents of the Cologne-style Thomism, a philosophical school that upheld the legacy of work and thought of Thomas Aquinas. Jakub's main work, entitled "Theoremata seu propositiones Auctoris Causarum", was a commentary to Liber de Causis attributed to the Greek philosopher Aristotle. He also wrote a commentary to Metaphysics by Aristotle entitled: "Expositiosuper I–XII libros „Metaphysicae” Aristotelis" as well as to his Physics.

#16083

Benjamin Yudin

#122987

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Benjamin Yudin is an American rabbi and important figure in the New Jersey Jewish community. Biography Rabbi Yudin lives in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, where he is the rabbi of Congregation Shomrei Torah. He is an instructor of Talmud, Bible, and Jewish Law at the Mechina program of the James Striar School of Yeshiva University's Undergraduate Jewish Studies program, where he formerly served as dean.

#16084

Shiphra Ginsburg

#109962

Overall Influence

Shiphra Rachel Ginsburg is a Canadian physician-scientist. In 2019, Ginsburg was appointed a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Medical Education Research at the University of Toronto. Early life and education Ginsburg completed her Bachelor of Arts degree at Queen's University at Kingston and her Medicinæ Doctorem et Chirurgiæ Magistrum at McGill University. Following this, she enrolled at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education for her Master of Education degree before leaving North America for her PhD at Maastricht University.

#16085

Cajetan von Textor

Cajetan von Textor

1782 - 1860 (78 years)

Cajetan von Textor was a German surgeon born in the Ebersberg district of Upper Bavaria. From 1804 to 1808 he studied at the University of Landshut, where he was a pupil of Philipp Franz von Walther . He spent the next few years on an extended educational journey throughout Europe, where he studied with Alexis Boyer in Paris, Antonio Scarpa in Pavia and Georg Joseph Beer in Vienna. Afterwards he was second physician at the general hospital in Munich.

#16086

Amy Brown

#33574

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Amy Brown is a Welsh psychologist. She is a Professor of Child Public Health at Swansea University who specialises in maternal and child health, particularly nutrition. She campaigns to bring about better support for women who want to breastfeed and to improve the UK public's attitude towards breastfeeding in public.

#16087

Olav Valen-Sendstad

1904 - 1963 (59 years)

Olav Valen-Sendstad was a Norwegian theologian, priest, and philosopher. Biography Valen-Sendstad was born in Notodden, Norway, to agricultural school teacher Aksel Sendstad and Magnhild Valen, and grew up in Kristiania , where he took his examen artium in 1923 and received his cand. theol. degree from the Free Faculty of Theology in 1928. From 1931 to 1941 he was the vicar of Jelsa, and from 1941 to 1955 resident chaplain of St. Johannes Church in Stavanger. I 1948 he received his doctorate; his thesis was Reality and understanding of reality, and from 1948 to 1949 he substituted for professor Arne Næss in teaching philosophy at the University of Oslo.

#16088

Donald J. Harrington

#74011

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Donald J. Harrington, C.M. , is an American Catholic priest of the Congregation of the Mission who served as the fifteenth President of St. John's University in Queens, New York from 1989 until 2013. Before that post, he had been the President of Niagara University from 1984 to 1989.

#16089

Alan L. Gropman

Alan L. Gropman

#96315

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

Alan Louis Gropman is an American retired military officer, college professor, and author. Gropman served 27 years on active duty in the United States Air Force, finishing his career as a colonel. After retiring from the Air Force, he became a professor of history and grand strategy at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, an institution that is part of the National Defense University. He later became an adjunct professor at Georgetown University and George Mason University. Over the years, Gropman has written four books and over 600 articles. He has also made six appearances on C-...

#16090

Matteo Marangoni

Matteo Marangoni

1876 - 1958 (82 years)

Matteo Marangoni was an Italian art historian, art critic and composer. Marangoni's art criticism aimed at identifying pure figurative values, in which an artwork's poetic values are identified. His books are positively influenced by the school of Benedetto Croce and Heinrich Wölfflin, clarifying their concepts on the basis of observation and following logic as a science of pure concept.

#16091

Soumaya Mestiri

Soumaya Mestiri

#179234

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (50 years)

Soumaya Mestiri is a Tunisian philosopher. Life After her studies, she was a lecturer at the University Paris, where she supported a thesis in 2003 entitled "The Conception of the Person in the Philosophy of John Rawls: Trial of Reconstruction of the Theory of Justice as Equity," in front of a jury chaired by Emmanuel Picavet, and also including Catherine Audard and Monique Canto-Sperber. Next, she conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Louvain-la-Neuve and, in 2005, returned to teach in Tunisia. She was a professor at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Tunis.

#16092

John Crighton Bramwell

1889 - 1976 (87 years)

John Crighton Bramwell was a British cardiologist, professor of medicine, and one of the founders of cardiology as a specialist subject in the UK. Education and career and Martha Crighton, he was education at Cheltenham College, before matriculated in 1907 at Trinity College, Cambridge. There he was influenced by the physiologist Keith Lucas. In 1911 Bramwell started clinical medical training at the Manchester Royal Infirmary. At the start of WWI he joined the 1st East Lancashire Territorial Field Ambulance in Egypt. In 1915 he was granted leave for two months to take his final examination at the University of Manchester, where he graduated MB CHB.

#16093

Tom Whyman

#107529

Overall Influence

Tom Whyman is an academic philosopher and writer. Whyman is a freelance writer and teaches philosophy part-time at the University of Durham. He has undertaken studies in the following fields: Frankfurt School critical theory, German idealism, Kierkegaard, and contemporary ethical naturalism.

#16094

C. Narayana Reddy

#65856

Overall Influence

1931 - 2017 (86 years)

Cingireddi Narayana Reddy , popularly known as CiNaRe, was an Indian Telugu-language poet, writer, and critic. He had produced over eighty literary works including poems, prose-plays, lyrical plays, translations, and ghazals. He was also a professor, film lyricist, actor, and Rajya Sabha politician. He also served as the Vice Chancellor of Telugu University.

#16095

Kevin Macdonald

Kevin Macdonald

#75086

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Kevin Macdonald is a Scottish director. His films include One Day in September , a documentary about the 1972 murder of 11 Israeli athletes, which won him the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, the climbing documentary Touching the Void , the drama The Last King of Scotland , the political thriller State of Play , the Bob Marley documentary Marley , the post-apocalyptic drama How I Live Now , the thriller Black Sea , the Whitney Houston documentary Whitney , and the legal drama film The Mauritanian .

#16096

Umberto Coromaldi

Umberto Coromaldi

1870 - 1948 (78 years)

Umberto Coromaldi was an Italian painter and educator, active mainly in his native city of Rome. Biography Umberto Coromaldi was born on September 21, 1870, in Rome, to parents Luisa and Vincenzo Celli. His mother was widowed shortly after his birth, then remarried painter Filippo Indoni, who encouraged young Coromaldi to paint.

#16097

David J. Kramer

#183662

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#16098

Kum-Kum Bhavnani

#176541

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Kum-Kum Bhavnani is an American university professor, filmmaker, and author. As of 2018, she is a Professor of Sociology and Distinguished Professor with Feminist Studies and Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she is Chair of the interdisciplinary program in Women, Culture, Development. She served as the Chair of the University of California Academic Senate.

#16099

Paul Nyirjesy

#149427

Overall Influence

Paul Nyirjesy is a professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Drexel University, Philadelphia, and the director of Drexel Vaginitis Center. In 2016, Nyirjesy announced positive results from a clinical trial for a potential vaccine against Vaginitis.

#16100

Mollie Huston Lee

1907 - 1982 (75 years)

Mollie Huston Lee was the first African American librarian in Raleigh, North Carolina, and the founder of Raleigh's Richard B. Harrison Public Library, the first library in Raleigh to serve African Americans. Her greatest achievement was developing, maintaining, and increasing public library service to the African American people of Raleigh and Wake County, North Carolina, while striving to achieve equal library service for the entire community.

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