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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#16251

Scott Hadland

#96569

Overall Influence

1981 - Present (45 years)

Scott E. Hadland is an American physician and scientist who serves as a pediatrician, and addiction specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, where he is the Chief of the Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine. He previously served as an addiction specialist at the Grayken Center for Addiction at Boston Medical Center.

#16252

John Howard

#20362

Overall Influence

John Jackson Howard is an American physician, professor, and public health administrator who served a 6-year term as the director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and was appointed to be a special coordinator to respond to the health effects of the September 11 attacks. In this role, Howard advocated for rescue workers, introducing a program to provide screening, medical exams, and treatment for them. In 2009, Howard was again appointed as director of NIOSH and as World Trade Center Programs coordinator for HHS. In 2011, Howard became the Administrator of the World Trade Center Health Program.

#16253

Vern Countryman

#57089

Overall Influence

1917 - 1999 (82 years)

Vernon Countryman , was a professor at Harvard Law School and social critic who was an expert on bankruptcy and commercial law. Early years and education Vern Countryman was born in Roundup, Montana. His father, Alexander Countryman, was the under sheriff of Musselshell County and his mother, Carrie Harriman, a homemaker. The family moved to Longview, Washington, where Vern excelled at high school athletics and was class president both his junior and senior years.

#16254

Laurent Lantieri

Laurent Lantieri

#80834

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Laurent Lantieri is a French plastic surgeon who is a pioneer in the field of face transplantation. He performed the first second and third full face transplants. He was the first person to do a second face transplant on the same patient in 2018.

#16255

Ludwig Karl Georg Pfeiffer

Ludwig Karl Georg Pfeiffer

1805 - 1877 (72 years)

Ludwig Karl Georg Pfeiffer, also known as Louis Pfeiffer , was a German physician, botanist and conchologist. Early life, Education & Medical Career Louis Pfeiffer was born in Cassel, the eldest son of the jurist Burkhard Wilhelm Pfeiffer and his wife Louise . Pfeiffer received his primary education in the Cassel Lyceum, where he distinguished himself academically, and by the age of fifteen was already at the top of his class. In 1820, political tensions forced his father to relocate the family to Lübeck, but Louis continued to excel, reaching the top of his class there as well. At the age of...

#16256

Brian Windeyer

#96972

Overall Influence

1904 - 1994 (90 years)

Sir Brian Wellingham Windeyer was Professor of Therapeutic Radiology at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School, University of London, from 1942 to 1969, Dean of school from 1954 to 1967 and Vice-Chancellor of the University of London from 1969 to 1972.

#16257

Ari Trausti Guðmundsson

#70257

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Ari Trausti Guðmundsson is an Icelandic geologist, author, documentarian, broadcaster, journalist, lecturer, mountaineer and explorer. He worked as teacher, consultant and lecturer on: earth science, environmental and tourism issues. He served as a mountain guide, TV- weather reporter, media presenter and producer and has planned nature and science exhibitions in Iceland, Paris and London and authored non-fiction books, fiction and poetry. He was a presidential candidate in 2012.He was elected as a member of Icelandic Parliament in 2016 and served until 2021.

#16258

Kathrin Muegge

#99933

Overall Influence

Kathrin Muegge is a German physician and molecular biologist researching chromatin organization during embryonic development and in tumor progression. She is a senior investigator and head of the epigenetics section at the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research.

#16259

Eben Iii Alexander

#184410

Overall Influence

#16260

Tyler Cymet

#49175

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Tyler C. Cymet, D.O., FACP, FACOFP, FACHT is a physician in Baltimore, Maryland. Cymet attended Emory University for his premedical undergraduate degree and majored in psychology and anthropology. He then attended medical school at Nova Southeastern University College of Osteopathic Medicine to acquire his medical degree, served as an intern at the Midwestern University Graduate Medical Education system, performed a Primary Care Internal Medicine residency at Yale University, and did additional training at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore.

#16261

Richard Carmona

#61361

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Richard Henry Carmona is an American physician, nurse, police officer, public health administrator, and politician. He was a vice admiral in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and served as the seventeenth Surgeon General of the United States. Appointed by President George W. Bush in 2002, Carmona left office at the end of July 2006 upon the expiration of his term. After leaving office, Carmona was highly critical of the Bush administration for suppressing scientific findings which conflicted with the administration's ideological agenda.

#16262

Thomas C. Jerdon

Thomas C. Jerdon

1811 - 1872 (61 years)

Thomas Caverhill Jerdon was an English physician, zoologist and botanist. He was a pioneering ornithologist who described numerous species of birds in India. Several species of plants and birds including Jerdon's baza, Jerdon's leafbird, Jerdon's bushlark, Jerdon's nightjar, Jerdon's courser, Jerdon's babbler and Jerdon's bush chat are named after him.

#16263

Stephen R. Bloom

#184446

Overall Influence

#16264

Mark Jonathan Harris

#105175

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Mark Jonathan Harris is an American documentary filmmaker probably best known for his films Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport and The Long Way Home . He has directed three documentaries which have gone on to win Oscars, across three different decades.

#16265

Holger Lode

#96759

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Holger Lode is a German specialist for pediatrics. He is Professor and Chair of the Department of General Pediatrics and Pediatric Hematology and Oncology at the University Medicine Greifswald. He is also the director of the Center of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine in Greifswald. Lode is well known for his clinical and scientific work on immunotherapy of neuroblastoma.

#16266

Hilary Knight

#29449

Overall Influence

1926 - Present (100 years)

Hilary Knight is an American writer and artist. He is the illustrator of more than 50 books and the author of nine books. He is best known as the illustrator and co-creator of Kay Thompson's Eloise and others in the Eloise series.

#16267

Horst Oertel

1871 - 1956 (85 years)

Horst Oertel M.D., Emeritus Professor and Head of Pathology at McGill University, Montreal , he was well-known on both sides of the Atlantic. Five of his books are still published today as standard texts for students of Pathology.

#16268

Liu Biao

142 - 208 (66 years)

Liu Biao , courtesy name Jingsheng, was a Chinese military general, politician, and warlord who lived in the late Eastern Han dynasty of China. He is best known for serving as the governor of Jing Province from 192 until his death in 208. He was also a member of the extended family of the Han emperors through his ancestor Liu Yu, the fifth son of Emperor Jing. Liu Biao was described as a handsome man and was over eight chi tall .

#16269

Linda Burhansstipanov

#105698

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Linda Burhansstipanov is an American public health educator and researcher. She is a member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and specializes on cancer care and support in Native American communities. A leader in Native American cancer research, she is the founder and president of the Native American Cancer Research Corporation, a non-profit organization that studies how the unique situations of Native Americans interact with cancer treatment. She is also a member of the National Institutes of Health national advisory council on Minority Health and Health Disparities. Native American com...

#16270

Sybe Schaap

#178397

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Sybe Schaap is a Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy. He has been Senator since 12 July 2007 till 11 July 2019, doing water, agriculture, foreign affairs and European Union affairs. For example, he arranged a majority in favor of the Ukraine–European Union Association Agreement in the Dutch parliament.

#16271

Hazel Hall

#139131

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Hazel Jane Read Hall is a British Information scientist and academic. She is Emeritus Professor in the School of Computing, Engineering, and Built Environment at Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland and Docent in Information Studies in the School of Business and Economics at Åbo Akademi University, Finland.

#16272

Fatmir Dalladaku

#73751

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Fatmir Dalladaku is a German cardiac surgeon of Albanian origin. He is best known for performing the first open-heart surgery in Kosovo, and for his pro bono work for patients from Kosovo, Albania and North Macedonia. He spent the biggest part of his professional career in Germany, beginning in 1989.

#16273

Jin Eun-young

#171176

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Jin Eun-young is a South Korean poet and philosopher. She has been praised by the poet Choi Seung-ja, who said “I’ve finally found a poet whom I can call my true successor." Life Jin Eun-young was born in Daejeon, South Korea in 1970. She received her bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in philosophy at Ewha Womans' University. She wrote her doctoral dissertation on Nichewa chaiui cheorak . She made her literary debut when "Keodaran changoga itneun jip" and three of her other poems were published in the 2000 Spring issue of Literature and Society. She has three poetry collections published to date: Ilgop gaeui daneoro dwen sajeon , Urineun maeilmaeil , and Humcheoganeun norae .

#16274

Fran Hosken

#13488

Overall Influence

1919 - 2006 (87 years)

Fran P. Hosken was an American designer, writer, feminist, and social activist. She founded the Women's International Network in 1975, and published a quarterly journal on women's health issues that became known, in particular, for its research into female genital mutilation .

#16275

Siglind Bruhn

#103822

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Siglind Bruhn is a German musicologist, writer and concert pianist. Biography and career Siglind Bruhn was born in Hamburg. Her father was the engineer Ernst Bruhn, her mother the interpreter Leonore Bruhn née Kieberger. She made her first solo concerts and performances with orchestras as a soloist at the age of 14. During the last two years before her high school graduation , she was a student in the piano class of Professor Eckart Besch at the Musikhochschule Hamburg. She completed her studies in the master class of Vladimir Horbowski at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart; 1975 State Examen in piano performance and piano pedagogy.

#16276

Robert Alyngton

1355 - 1398 (43 years)

Robert Alyngton , was an English philosopher who developed new logical, semantic, metaphysical, and ontological theories in 14th century thought. Alyngton is credited with creating the ideological foundation for the Oxford Realists by substituting reference to objective reality with reference to mental and linguistic reality.

#16277

David Koepsell

#181578

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

David Richard Koepsell is an American author, philosopher, attorney, and educator whose recent research focuses on how ethics and public policy deal with emerging science and technology. He has been a practicing attorney, been employed as an ontologist, been a university professor, and has lectured worldwide. He is a visiting professor of research ethics at National Autonomous University of Mexico, director of research and strategic initiatives at Comisión Nacional de Bioética Mexico, an adjunct professor at University at Buffalo and a senior fellow and education director of the Center for I...

#16278

Gerasimos Xenophon Santas

#184511

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Gerasimos Xenophon Santas was a Greek-American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Irvine. A festschrift in his honor was published in 2011.

#16279

Philippe-Charles Schmerling

Philippe-Charles Schmerling

1790 - 1836 (46 years)

Philippe-Charles or Philip Carel Schmerling was a Dutch/Belgian prehistorian, pioneer in paleontology, and geologist. He is often considered the founder of paleontology. In 1829 he discovered the first Neanderthal fossil in a cave in Engis, the partial cranium of a small child, although it was not recognized as such until 1936, and is now thought to be between 30,000-70,000 years old. It was the second discovery of a fossil of the genus Homo after the discovery of the Red Lady of Paviland in Wales in 1823.

#16280

Georg Joachim Zollikofer

Georg Joachim Zollikofer

1730 - 1788 (58 years)

Georg Joachim Zollikofer was a Swiss-German theologian who popularized Enlightenment theology, and published several books of sermons and hymns. Life Georg Joachim Zollikofer was born on 5 August 1730 in St. Gallen, Switzerland. His father, David Anthony Zollikofer, was a prominent lawyer. His mother was Anna Elisabeth Högger. He was educated at the St. Gallen gymnasium, then studied at Bremen and afterwards at the Utrecht University with a view to becoming a minister. After leaving university he was given a position as a preacher at Murten, Vaud in 1754. Soon after he was appointed to a larger church at Monsheim, Rheinhessen, and then to a church in Neu-Isenburg near Frankfurt am Main.

#16281

Oliver Fiechter

Oliver Fiechter

#140280

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Oliver Fiechter is a Swiss economic philosopher, digital business model innovatonist, management visionaire, entrepreneur, and author of the books We Are The Economy! and Rise of the Digital Tribal Society .

#16282

John Wood

#35793

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

John Wood is an English sound engineer and producer, best known for his work with Fairport Convention, John Martyn, Cat Stevens, Sandy Denny, Nick Drake, the Incredible String Band, Pink Floyd, Nico and Squeeze.

#16283

Jacob Mendes Da Costa

Jacob Mendes Da Costa

1833 - 1900 (67 years)

Jacob Mendes Da Costa, or Jacob Mendez Da Costa was an American physician. He is particularly known for discovering Da Costa's syndrome , an anxiety disorder combining effort fatigue, dyspnea, a sighing respiration, palpitation and sweating that he first observed in soldiers in the American Civil War and documented in an 1871 study.

#16284

Leopoldo Maggi

1840 - 1905 (65 years)

Leopoldo Maggi was an Italian physician, craniologist and naturalist. He completed his studies in the University of Pavia. In 1863 he obtained two degrees: in Natural sciences and in Medicine and surgery and became assistant first to Paolo Panceri the teacher of several other outstanding Italian zoologists of the end of the 19th century and then to Giuseppe Balsamo Crivelli. In 1864 he was appointed lecturer in Mineralogy and Geology at Pavia, where from 1874 he held the professorship of Zoology and Comparative anatomy. When zoology became a separate subject in 1875 he held the chair of Com...

#16285

Goswin Karl Uphues

1841 - 1916 (75 years)

Goswin Karl Uphues was a German philosopher. He taught at a gymnasium in Aarau before becoming a professor at the University of Halle. A collection of papers published by Uphues between 1869 and 1882 was edited by Kurt Flasch in 1973.

#16286

Julian Monson Sturtevant

Julian Monson Sturtevant

1805 - 1886 (81 years)

Julian Monson Sturtevant was an American author and educator. He was a founding professor and second president of Illinois College. Sturtevant, son of Warren and Lucy Sturtevant, was born in Warren, Connecticut on July 26, 1805. In 1816, the family removed to the Western Reserve, and settled in Tallmadge , Ohio, whence two sons came to Yale College in 1822. Julian, the younger son, graduated in 1826. After teaching school in New Canaan, Connecticut, he entered the Yale Theological Seminary in 1828, and was ordained at Woodbury, Connecticut on August 27, 1829, as an evangelist. Four days later, he married Elizabeth M.

#16287

T. Nakamura

#184557

Overall Influence

#16288

Terry Fulmer

#71784

Overall Influence

Teresa Thomas "Terry" Fulmer, is the current president of The John A. Hartford Foundation. Earlier positions include distinguished professor and dean of the Bouvé College of Health Sciences at Northeastern University and dean of the College of Nursing at New York University. She is known for her extensive research in geriatrics and elder abuse. She has received funding from the National Institute on Aging, the National Institute of Nursing Research and other foundations for her research regarding elder abuse.

#16289

Mary Pannbacker

#120457

Overall Influence

2000 - 2015 (15 years)

Mary Pannbacker was a speech-language pathologist and university professor. She held an endowed chair, the Albertson's Professor of Speech-Language Pathology, at LSU Health Sciences Center Shreveport. She was a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.

#16290

Tomás Várnagy

#111487

Overall Influence

1950 - 2022 (72 years)

Tomás Várnagy was an Argentine social scientist and philosopher, professor at the University of Buenos Aires . Early life and education Várnagy was born in Buenos Aires. After completing his secondary studies in the United States, he studied Philosophy at UBA, and he holds a Master's degree in Eastern European Sociology and a PhD in Social Sciences . He also holds a higher degree in Social Sciences with a mention in Political Science from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences .

#16291

Edward Shanbrom

#82443

Overall Influence

1924 - 2012 (88 years)

Edward Shanbrom was an American medical researcher and hematologist, best known for the development of the process allowing the clotting protein Factor VIII to be made to treat hemophilia. Early life and education Edward Shanbrom was born in West Haven, Connecticut, United States, and served in the United States Navy from 1943 to 1946. He then received a Bachelor of Science from Allegheny College, and a medical degree from the University of Buffalo School of Medicine. Following an internship for the Buffalo University Hospital, Shanbrom received a fellowship to Yale University, where he studied hematology.

#16292

Charlotte Coles

#180134

Overall Influence

Charlotte E. Coles is a British oncologist and professor at the University of Cambridge Her research focuses on using personalised radiation therapy for people with breast cancer. In 2019 she was awarded a Research Professorship at the National Institute for Health Research .

#16293

Brigitte Young

#60285

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Brigitte Young , is Professor Emeritus of International political economy at the Institute of Political Science, University of Münster, Germany. Her research areas include economic globalization, global governance, feminist economics, international trade, global financial market governance and monetary policy. She has worked on EU-US financial regulatory frameworks, European economic and monetary integration and heterodox economic theories. She is the author of many journal articles and books in English and German on the Global financial crisis of 2008–2009, the US Subprime mortgage crisis...

#16294

Vāchaspati Misra

900 - 980 (80 years)

Vachaspati Mishra was a ninth or tenth century Indian Hindu philosopher of the Advaita Vedanta tradition, who wrote bhashya on key texts of almost every 9th-century school of Hindu philosophy. He also wrote an independent treatise on grammar, Tattvabindu, or Drop of Truth, which focuses on Mīmāṃsā theories of sentence meaning.

#16295

Marc Bessler

#121115

Overall Influence

Marc Bessler is an American surgeon known for his innovations in bariatrics. He is currently the United States Surgical Professor of Surgery at Columbia University Medical Center and also serves as a content contributor for Bariatric Surgery Source. Bessler specializes in surgical management of morbid obesity and laparoscopic surgery of the stomach, among other specialties.

#16296

George Canellos

George Canellos

#59757

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (92 years)

George P. Canellos is an American oncologist and cancer researcher. His research career spans many decades, as well as several areas of therapeutic agents for the treatment of malignant diseases. He is perhaps most known for his work with Vincent T. DeVita in which he developed the combination chemotherapy CMF, which was one of the first combination therapies for breast cancer. The two also collaborated to create the MOPP regimen for Hodgkin's lymphoma.

#16297

Jitendra Nath Pande

#54855

Overall Influence

1941 - 2020 (79 years)

Jitendra Nath Pande or J. N. Pande was an Indian Pulmonologist and Professor and Head of Medicine at the All India Institute of Medical Studies . He was working as Senior Consultant at Sitaram Bhartia Institute of Science & Research, New Delhi. He died on 23 May 2020 during sleep when he was home quarantined due to COVID-19 positivity during the COVID-19 pandemic in India, in New Delhi.

#16298

Nicole Bouvier

#182852

Overall Influence

Nicole M. Bouvier is an American physician who is Professor of Medicine at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Her research considers the environmental and viral factors that impact respiratory transmission of influenza viruses.

#16299

Agathobulus

100 - 200 (100 years)

Agathobulus of Alexandria, who lived c. 125 AD, was a Cynic philosopher and teacher of Demonax and Peregrinus Proteus. Little is known about his life. He is listed in the Chronicle of Jerome as flourishing in the 224th Olympiad : "Plutarch of Chaeronea, Sextus, Agathobulus and Oenomaus are considered notable philosophers."

#16300

Paul C Taylor

#184611

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