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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#16301

Reinhold Schünzel

Reinhold Schünzel

1886 - 1954 (68 years)

Reinhold Schünzel was a German actor and director, active in both Germany and the United States. The son of a German father and a Jewish mother, he was born in St. Pauli, the poorest part of Hamburg. Despite being of Jewish ancestry, Schünzel was allowed by the Nazis to continue making films for several years until he left in 1937 to live abroad.

#16302

Jacopo Berengario da Carpi

Jacopo Berengario da Carpi

1460 - 1530 (70 years)

Jacopo Berengario da Carpi was an Italian physician. His book "Isagoge breves" published in 1522 made him the most important anatomist before Andreas Vesalius. Early years Jacopo Berengario da Carpi was the son of a surgeon. As a youth he assisted his father in surgical work, and his surgical skills became the basis of his later work as a physician. In his late teens, through the association of his family with Lionello Pio, Berengario came under the tutelage of the great humanist printer, Aldo Manuzio who came to Carpi to tutor Alberto III Pio, Prince of Carpi and apparently included Berengario in his instruction.

#16303

John Martin Munro Kerr

1868 - 1960 (92 years)

John Martin Munro Kerr was Regius Professor of Midwifery at the University of Glasgow from 1927 to 1934. A scholar and surgeon of international acclaim he won both the Katherine Bishop Harman Prize in 1934 for his book Maternal Mortality and Morbidity and was the first recipient of the Blair Bell Medal for obstetrics and gynaecology.

#16304

Claire Penn

#125769

Overall Influence

1951 - 2018 (67 years)

Claire Penn was a South African speech and language pathologist, and held the endowed chair of Speech Pathology and Audiology at the University of the Witwatersrand, and was a former senior research specialist at the Human Sciences Research Council. She received the Order of Mapungubwe in 2007, South Africa's highest honor, for her work in linguistics, sign language, child language, aphasia, and head injury.

#16305

Maria Petraccini

1759 - 1791 (32 years)

Maria Magdalena Petraccini Ferretti was an Italian anatomist, physician, professor of anatomy. She was born in Florence, Tuscany, 1759 and died in Bagnacavallo, Ravenna, 1791. Biography and personal life Pettracini was born in a merchant family in Tuscany. She married Italian physician and anatomy professor Francesco Ferretti. She became interested in surgery thanks to him, who was the chief at the Bagnacavallo hospital. Subsequently, Petraccini was tutored in surgery by her spouse, who taught her by operating on corpses. Her technique became so precise that she was envied even by those above her.

#16306

Philip Radcliffe

1905 - 1986 (81 years)

Philip FitzHugh Radcliffe was an English academic, musicologist and composer, born in Godalming, Surrey. Early life He was educated at Charterhouse and read Classics at King's College, Cambridge, gaining a scholarship and a First in Part I of the degree, but then only a Third in Part II, causing him to switch his attention to music, studying under Edward Dent and Henry Moule. He was a gifted pianist.

#16307

Lucien Howe

1848 - 1928 (80 years)

Lucien Howe was an American physician who spent much of his career as a professor of ophthalmology at the University at Buffalo. In 1876 he was instrumental in the creation of the Buffalo Eye and Ear Infirmary.

#16308

Gilles Freyer

#170878

Overall Influence

Gilles Freyer is a French professor, oncologist and medical professional who has specialised in the field of gynaecological cancers. He is currently head of the Department of Medical Oncology and Vice-Dean of the University of Lyon. He is also the current Medical Director of the Cancer Institute of the Hospices Civils de Lyon. He is known for having been the President of the cooperative group GINECO from 2013. He was also a member of the International Scientific Committee of INCa . Professor Freyer is also known for being the President of the Monaco Age Oncologie and the Co-President of the ...

#16309

Lorna Piatti-Farnell

#88111

Overall Influence

1980 - Present (46 years)

Lorna Piatti-Farnell is an academic in New Zealand who researches popular media and cultural history. She is professor of film and popular culture at Auckland University of Technology . Academic career Lorna Piatti-Farnell was born in 1980. She was educated at Loughborough University, Leicestershire, graduating in 2009 with a PhD. She was employed by De Montfort University and Bishop Grosseteste University prior to moving to New Zealand where she joined AUT in 2010, being promoted to full professor, effective 1 January 2020.

#16310

Jan Bondeson

#31754

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Jan Bondeson is a Swedish-British rheumatologist, scientist and author, working as a senior lecturer and consultant rheumatologist at the Cardiff University School of Medicine. He has also written non-fiction on topics such as medical anomalies and unsolved murders. In 2003 he told an interviewer, "I've always had a profound interest in history, especially the history of medicine, and a bit of a fancy for the macabre and odd." Bondeson is the biographer of a predecessor of Jack the Ripper, the London Monster, who stabbed 50 women in the buttocks, of Edward "the Boy" Jones, who stalked Queen V...

#16311

Freddie Fu

#43545

Overall Influence

1950 - 2021 (71 years)

Freddie H. Fu Career Fu was born in Hong Kong, his ancestral hometown is Nanhai district, Foshan city, Guangdong province. He attended Dartmouth College, where he was a member of the Alpha Chi Alpha fraternity. Dr. Fu was president of the Pennsylvania Orthopaedic Society and, in 2008, assumed the presidency of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine and was the first foreign-born president in AOSSM's 40-year history. In 2009, he was named president of the International Society of Arthroscopy, Knee Surgery and Orthopaedic Sports Medicine. In 2011, he received the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons' Diversity Award.

#16312

Barbara Galland

#72318

Overall Influence

Barbara Carolyn Galland is a New Zealand academic in the field of paediatric sleep health. She is a professor in the department of women's and children's health at the University of Otago. Academic career Galland completed her PhD thesis in the department of pharmacology at the University of Otago Medical School in 1989. The thesis was titled Bronchial Hyperreactivity in the Guinea-pig.

#16313

Robert Latta

1865 - 1932 (67 years)

Robert Latta was a Scottish philosopher known for his works on the philosophy of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. He was the Regius Chair of Moral Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen. Life Latta was born and educated in Edinburgh, and he graduated in 1886 with a first-class honours degree in MA. He continued his studies and earned a DPhil from the same university in 1897. In 1892, he became an Assistant and Lecturer in Logic and Metaphysics at the University of St Andrews, where he stayed for six years before moving to University College, Dundee to become a lecturer in Logic and Moral Philosophy.

#16314

Mark Anthony Neal

#184678

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#16315

Matthijs Siegenbeek

Matthijs Siegenbeek

1774 - 1854 (80 years)

Matthijs Siegenbeek was a Dutch academic. From 1797 to 1847 he was the first professor of the Dutch language at the University of Leiden. From 1803 he was the member, then secretary, of the head-office of that university's literary faculty. Initially he was a Mennonite voorganger in Dokkum.

#16316

Rafael Celestino Benítez

Rafael Celestino Benítez

#49020

Overall Influence

1917 - 1999 (82 years)

Rear Admiral Rafael Celestino Benítez was a highly decorated American submarine commander who led the rescue effort of the crew members of the during the Cold War. After retiring from the navy, he was Pan American World Airways' vice president for Latin America. He taught international law for 16 years at the University of Miami School of Law, and served as associate dean, interim dean and director and founder of the foreign graduate law program. While there, he founded the comparative law LL.M. program, the inter-American law LL.M. program, and the Inter-American Law Review. After his dea...

#16317

Peter Mugyenyi

#105533

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Peter Ndimbirwe Mugyenyi, MBChB, DCH, FRCPI, FRCPE, ScD is a Ugandan physician, HIV/AIDS researcher, medical administrator and author. He is executive director and co-founder of the Joint Clinical Research Centre, and a leading authority on treatment of HIV/AIDS in Africa.

#16318

Bob Deacon

#124148

Overall Influence

1944 - 2017 (73 years)

Bob Deacon was a prominent social policy academic and policy advisor credited by Kaasch and Stubbs with responsibility for the introduction of the term global social policy. Career He was Emeritus Professor of International Social Policy at the University of Sheffield. He was the founding editor of the journal Global Social Policy: An international journal of social development and public policy and an elected fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.

#16319

Jasobanta Dasa

1487 - Present (539 years)

Jasobanta Dasa was an Odia poet, litterateur and mystic. He was one of the five great poets in Odia literature, the Panchasakha during the Bhakti age of literature. He is known for his work Prema Bhakti Brahma Gita.

#16320

Carla Pugh

#139125

Overall Influence

Carla Marie Pugh is an American surgeon. She was elected a member of the National Academy of Medicine in 2021 for "pioneering sensor technology research that helped to define, characterize and inspire new and innovative performance metrics and data analysis strategies for the emerging field of digital health care."

#16321

Vijay Prashad

#184696

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#16322

Richard Witts

1900 - Present (126 years)

Richard "Dick" Witts is an English musicologist, music historian, and ex leader of 1980s band the Passage. He attended Clee Grammar School for Boys. He studied at the Royal Manchester College of Music and briefly at Manchester University. During this time he was a member of the Hallé Orchestra as a percussionist. During the mid-1970s he wrote for the contemporary classical music magazine Contact.

#16323

Emma Rush

#178144

Overall Influence

Emma Rush is a lecturer in philosophy and ethics at Charles Sturt University Faculty of Arts, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, notable for her work on sexualisation of children. In 2006, Rush worked on a series of reports for The Australia Institute. Two of the reports which she co-authored led to a senate inquiry into the sexualisation of children.

#16324

Cynthia Carter

#125292

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Cynthia Carter is a Reader in the School of Journalism, Media and Culture, Cardiff University, and co-founding editor of the journal Feminist Media Studies. She has been the guest editor of a special "Gendered News" issue of Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism, and, along with Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, she was co-guest editor of a special "Children, Media and Conflict" issue of the Journal of Children and Media.

#16325

Mary Ann Shadd

1823 - 1893 (70 years)

Mary Ann Camberton Shadd Cary was an American-Canadian anti-slavery activist, journalist, publisher, teacher, and lawyer. She was the first black woman publisher in North America and the first woman publisher in Canada. She was also the second black woman to attend law school in the United States. Mary Shadd established the newspaper Provincial Freeman in 1853, which was published weekly in southern Ontario. it advocated equality, integration, and self-education for black people in Canada and the United States.

#16326

Giles Brindley

#9528

Overall Influence

1926 - Present (100 years)

Giles Skey Brindley, FRS is a British physiologist, musicologist and composer, known for his contributions to the physiology of the retina and colour vision, and treatment of erectile dysfunction. Medical career Brindley is perhaps best known for an unusual scientific presentation at the 1983 Las Vegas meeting of the American Urological Association, where he removed his pants to show the audience his chemically induced erection and invited them to inspect it closely. He had injected phenoxybenzamine into his penis in his hotel room before the presentation.

#16327

Christian Schreiber

1781 - 1857 (76 years)

Christian Johann Christoph Schreiber was a German theologian, philologist, philosopher, and poet. He was also the Superintendent of the dioceses of Lengsfeld and Dermbach. He was connected in friendship or correspondence to writers and philosophers of his time, and published poetry, sermons, historical and philosophical works.

#16328

Robert Battey

1828 - 1895 (67 years)

Robert Battey was an American physician who is known for pioneering a surgical procedure then called Battey's Operation and now termed radical oophorectomy . Biography Robert Battey was born in Augusta, Georgia to Cephas and Mary Agnes Magruder Battey. He was educated in Augusta and at Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts. He graduated from Philadelphia College of Pharmacy in 1856. He went on to take courses at Jefferson Medical College, graduating in 1857. In the same year he studied at the Obstetrical Institute of Philadelphia gaining a diploma from the University of Pennsylvania. In 1...

#16329

Donald Laub

#19339

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (91 years)

Donald R. Laub Sr. is an American retired plastic surgeon and founder of Interplast, which led multidisciplinary teams on reconstructive surgery missions to developing countries. Education Laub completed his undergraduate studies at Marquette University and earned an MD from the Marquette University School of Medicine in 1960. After completing his internship at the Yale School of Medicine, he moved westward to Stanford University, where he assumed an assistant professorship and co-founded a 6-year integrated surgical residency program as well as the Stanford Primary Care Associate Program. H...

#16330

Arnold Metzger

1892 - 1974 (82 years)

Arnold Metzger was a German philosopher. Life Metzger was born in Landau. He was a student of Edmund Husserl. Having served in World War I, and been imprisoned in Siberia, he made his way back to Germany in 1919. On the way he participated in a soldiers' soviet in Brest-Litovsk.

#16331

Christoph Reuter

#95475

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Christoph Reuter is a German University professor for systematic musicology at the University of Vienna. life Born in Duisburg, Reuter studied musicology at the University of Cologne, received his doctorate summa cum laude in 1996 and his habilitation in 2002. He has held guest professorships or teaching positions at several universities , and has also been a managing partner of a Cologne-based internet agency since 2000. Since 2008, Reuter has been university professor for systematic musicology at the University of Vienna.

#16332

Ann J. Johanson

#117967

Overall Influence

1934 - 2020 (86 years)

Ann J. Johanson was an American pediatric endocrinologist. She was a professor at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. At UVA, she was the founding director of the Division of Pediatric Endocrinology. In 1971, she and her colleague Robert M. Blizzard first described Johanson-Blizzard Syndrome.

#16333

Lynn Garafola

#63025

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Lynn Theresa Garafola is an American dance historian, linguist, critic, curator, lecturer, and educator. A prominent researcher and writer with broad interests in the field of dance history, she is acknowledged as the leading expert on the Ballets Russes de Serge Diaghilev , the most influential company in twentieth-century theatrical dance.

#16334

Reginald Fraser Amonoo

#90755

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (94 years)

Reginald Fraser Amonoo is a Ghanaian academic. He is a retired professor of modern languages at the University of Ghana and the University of Zimbabwe. He is a former president of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences.

#16335

Aleksander Skotnicki

Aleksander Skotnicki

#174250

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Aleksander Bartłomiej Skotnicki is a Polish hematologist and transplantologist, specialist in internal medicine, professor of medical sciences, Head of the Hematology Clinic of the Jagiellonian University Medical College between 1993 and 2018, academic lecturer, social activist, member of the Polish Academy of Learning.

#16336

Henry Hayes Lockwood

Henry Hayes Lockwood

1814 - 1899 (85 years)

Henry Hayes Lockwood was an American soldier and academic from Delaware who rose to the rank of Brigadier General during the American Civil War and captured the Delmarva Peninsula including Virginia's Eastern Shore and headed the Union Middle Department in Baltimore before returning to academic life at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.

#16337

Hannah Joyce

#102002

Overall Influence

Hannah J. Joyce is an Australian scientist and engineer, and a professor at the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge. Her research specialises in the development of new nanomaterials for applications in optoelectronics and energy harvesting. She has received several awards for her work in nanowire engineering and terahertz photonics.

#16338

Josef Johann Steinmann

1779 - 1833 (54 years)

Josef Johann Steinmann was an Austrian pharmacist and chemist. He worked as a pharmacist in Lanškroun and Prague, during which time, he conducted botanical investigations in the Giant Mountains and in Glatzer Land. Later on, he studied pharmacy in Berlin as a student of Sigismund Friedrich Hermbstädt, then in 1806–08 furthered his education at the University of Vienna, where his instructors included botanist Joseph Franz von Jacquin and naturalist Carl Franz Anton Ritter von Schreibers. From 1812 to 1817 he served as an assistant to chemist Karl August Neumann at the Prague Polytechnical Inst...

#16339

Diana Lennon

#179329

Overall Influence

1949 - 2018 (69 years)

Diana Rosemary Lennon was a New Zealand academic and pediatrician, specialising in infectious diseases, and was a full professor at the University of Auckland. Academic career Lennon graduated with a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery from the University of Otago in 1972. She was awarded FRACP in Pediatrics in 1978.

#16340

Hegesinus of Pergamon

200 BC - Present (2226 years)

Hegesinus of Pergamon , was an Academic Skeptic philosopher from Pergamon. He was the successor of Evander and the immediate predecessor of Carneades as the leader of the Platonic Academy, and served for a period around 160 BC. Nothing else is known about him.

#16341

Lawrence H. Gipson

1880 - 1971 (91 years)

Lawrence Henry Gipson was an American historian, who won the 1950 Bancroft Prize and the 1962 Pulitzer Prize for History for volumes of his magnum opus, the fifteen-volume history of "The British Empire Before the American Revolution", published 1936–70. He was a leader of the "Imperial school" of historians who studied the British Empire from the perspective of London, and generally praised the administrative efficiency and political fairness of the Empire.

#16342

R. Kanagasuntheram

R. Kanagasuntheram

#101700

Overall Influence

1919 - 2010 (91 years)

Professor Ragunathar Kanagasuntheram was a Sri Lankan Tamil physician, zoologist, academic and dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Jaffna. Early life and family Kanagasuntheram was born on 13 October 1919 in Karainagar in northern Ceylon. He was the son of Ragunathar, a teacher from Karainagar. He was educated at Karainagar Hindu College and Jaffna Hindu College. After school he joined Ceylon Medical College in 1938. He graduated from the University of Ceylon in 1944 with a first class honours MBBS degree and was awarded the Rockwood Gold Medal. He passed the part 1 of the Fe...

#16343

Geert Lovink

#184784

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Carl Nicoladoni

Carl Nicoladoni

1847 - 1902 (55 years)

Carl Nicoladoni was an Austrian surgeon born in Vienna. He received his medical doctorate from the University of Vienna, and was later a professor of surgery at the Universities of Innsbruck and Graz .

#16345

Erwin Payr

1871 - 1946 (75 years)

Erwin Payr was an Austrian-German surgeon born in Innsbruck. Following graduation in 1894 at Innsbruck, he worked as an assistant at the first pathological anatomy institute in Vienna. Afterwards he became an assistant to Carl Nicoladoni at the University of Graz, where in 1899 he became habilitated for surgery.

#16346

Georg Boldt

1862 - 1918 (56 years)

Georg Didrik Boldt was a Finnish philosopher of religion who was known as a socialist and tolstoyan. Life Boldt entered the University of Helsinki in 1880. After earning his doctorate in 1902 on the dissertation on the relation between Immanuel Kant and protestantism, Boldt moved to Turku where he worked as a teacher. In the early 1900s, Boldt was interested in socialism. He was a member of the Swedish-speaking socialist group, publishing the 1908 established newspaper Arbetet. Other key members included the businessmen Walter Borg and Ivar Hörhammer, trade unionist William Lundberg, the newspapermen Axel Åhlström and K.

#16347

Hilary Blumberg

#17042

Overall Influence

Hilary Patricia Blumberg is a medical doctor and the inaugural John and Hope Furth Professor of Psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine. She is also a professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, and works in the Child Study Center at Yale where she has been a faculty member since 1998. She attended Harvard University as an undergraduate, and completed medical school at Cornell University Medical College . She completed her medical internship and psychiatry residency at Cornell University Medical College/New York Hospital, and her neuroimaging fellowship training at Cornell University, Weill Medical College.

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John Fitzgerald

#131146

Overall Influence

1927 - 2007 (80 years)

Fr John FitzGerald was a Carmelite friar, priest, poet and philosopher. Life John FitzGerald was a Carmelite friar and priest of Irish parentage, brought up in England, who learned Welsh and made it the language of his religious, intellectual and social life. He was born Michael FitzGerald in Ludlow, Shropshire in 1927 to parents from County Kerry and spent his childhood in Chesterfield and Sheffield.

#16349

Charles Jacques Bouchard

Charles Jacques Bouchard

1837 - 1915 (78 years)

Charles Jacques Bouchard was a French pathologist and an esperantist born in Montier-en-Der, a commune the department of Haute-Marne. Biography He studied medicine in Lyon and Paris, where he obtained his doctorate in 1866. In 1874 he became a physician at Bicêtre Hospital, and in 1879 was appointed chair of general pathology. In 1886, he became a member of the Academie de Médecine.

#16350

Alexinus

Alexinus of Elis, was a philosopher of Megarian school and a disciple of Eubulides. From his argumentative nature he was facetiously named the wrangler , From Elis he went to Olympia, hoping to found a sect which was to be called the Olympian, but his disciples soon became disgusted with the unhealthiness of the place and their scanty means of subsistence, and left him with a single attendant.

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