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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#16401

Fernand Dumont

#41118

Overall Influence

1927 - 1997 (70 years)

Fernand Dumont was a Canadian sociologist, philosopher, theologian, and poet from Quebec. A longtime professor at Université Laval, he won the Governor General's Award for French-language non-fiction at the 1968 Governor General's Awards for Le lieu de l'homme.

#16402

George Chaldakov

#67451

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

George Nikov Chaldakov born February 23, 1940, in Burgas, Bulgaria, is a Bulgarian vascular biologist well known for his contributions to the study of secretory function of vascular smooth muscle cells, and the role of neurotrophins and perivascular adipose tissue in pathogenesis of atherosclerosis. He published the first Bulgarian textbook of Cell Biology in 1996 and in 2005 founded the Bulgarian Society for Cell Biology.

#16403

Mitrofan Lodyzhensky

1852 - 1917 (65 years)

Mitrofan Vasilyevich Lodyzhensky was a Russian religious philosopher, playwright, and statesman, best known for his Mystical Trilogy comprising Super-consciousness and the Ways to Achieve It, Light Invisible, and Dark Force.

#16404

Dirk Lewandowski

#181622

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (53 years)

Dirk Lewandowski is a German professor of information research and information retrieval at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany. Career Lewandowski has a degree in library science from the School of Library Science in Stuttgart. He also studied media studies, philosophy, and information science at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf. In 2005 he received his Ph.D. from Heinrich Heine University. In 2007 he was installed as professor at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany.

#16405

Conrad Brunner

1859 - 1927 (68 years)

Conrad Brunner was a Swiss physician, surgeon and medical historian. He was particularly concerned with the disinfection of wounds and their healing. Brunner came from a family of Swiss physicians and pharmacists, among whom was Johann Conrad Brunner. His father, John Brunner, was a physician and botanist. Brunner received medical degrees from the University of Zurich and the University of Leipzig, and went on to receive an advanced academic degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1885. He then completed his practical surgeon training studying under Rudolf Ulrich Krönlein. Beginning in 1888 he took a...

#16406

Anne C. Klein

#55301

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Anne Carolyn Klein is an American Tibetologist who is a professor of Religious Studies at Rice University in Houston, Texas and co-founding director and resident teacher at Dawn Mountain, a Tibetan temple, community center and research institute.

#16407

Eugène Rambert

1830 - 1886 (56 years)

Eugène Rambert , was a Swiss author and poet. Life He was born at Sâles near Swiss Clarens, the eldest son of a Vaudois schoolmaster, from whom he received his education. When in 1845 his father lost his post owing to the religious disputes, Rambert became a teacher in Paris, and later a tutor in England and at Geneva. When the family's fortunes improved, Rambert was able to pursue his studies for the ministry, but he was more attracted by literature, and in 1855 became professor of French literature at the academy of Lausanne, and in 1860 at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich...

#16408

Eugene Nicholas Myers

Eugene Nicholas Myers

#30665

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (93 years)

Eugene Nicholas Myers is an oncologist and otolaryngologist and a leader in the treatment of head and neck cancer. He has served on the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine since 1972, when he became chairman of the Department of Otolaryngology. He is the author or co-author of leading texts in the field of head and neck cancer, and has chaired and served on the boards of the preeminent societies and associations in the field.

#16409

Hadrianus Junius

Hadrianus Junius

1511 - 1575 (64 years)

Hadrianus Junius , also known as Adriaen de Jonghe, was a Dutch physician, classical scholar, translator, lexicographer, antiquarian, historiographer, emblematist, school rector, and Latin poet. He is not to be confused with several namesakes . He was not related to Franciscus Junius.

#16410

Elmi Muller

#82629

Overall Influence

Elmi Muller is a South African medical specialist who specialised in General Surgery and Transplantation. She currently performs kidney as well as liver transplants in both adults and children. She is the past President of the Southern African Transplantation Society who pioneered an organ transplant programme at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town for HIV positive patients using HIV positive donors. She also serves on the Executive committee of The Transplantation Society of which she currently is the vice-president. Elmi was the Chair/Head of the Division of General Surgery at Groote Schuur Hospital, University of Cape Town.

#16411

May Sim

#184911

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

May Sim is an American philosopher and professor of philosophy at College of the Holy Cross. She is a former president of the Metaphysical Society of America . She is noted for her comparative studies of Confucian and Aristotelian ethics. She was influenced by Alasdair MacIntyre, who supervised her doctoral dissertation at Vanderbilt University.

#16412

Serge Daney

#92031

Overall Influence

1944 - 1992 (48 years)

Serge Daney was a French movie critic. He was a major figure of Cahiers du cinéma which he co-edited in the late 1970s. He also wrote extensively about films, television, and society in the newspaper Libération and founded the quarterly review Trafic shortly before his death. Highly regarded in French and European film criticism circles, his work, remained little known to English-speaking audiences until recent translations. A first book-long interview, Postcards from the Cinema, was published in 2007 and a collection of his writings prior to 1982, The Cinema House and the World, was publishe...

#16413

James Gita Hakim

#60920

Overall Influence

1954 - 2021 (67 years)

James Gita Hakim , was a South Sudanese and Ugandan, internist, clinical epidemiologist, cardiologist, researcher, university faculty and academic mentor. At the time of his death, he was Professor of Medicine and Former Chair of Internal Medicine at the University of Zimbabwe College of Health Sciences.

#16414

Guadalupe Santa Cruz

#167813

Overall Influence

1952 - 2015 (63 years)

Guadalupe Santa Cruz , also known as Lupe Santa Cruz, was a Chilean writer, philosopher, visual artist and translator. She is considered one of the most energetic and varied protagonists of a generation of writers that emerged after the period of the 1973 Coup d'État in Chile. Author of numerous books, including Plasma, with which she received two important prizes in Chile: the Premio Novela Inédita Consejo Nacional del Libro y la Lectura and the Premio atenea. Also, in 2004, Plasma received the prize of the Book Council as a novel in the unpublished category. In addition, at the international...

#16415

Itzhak Brook

#128152

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Itzhak Brook is an adjunct professor of pediatrics and medicine at Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington DC. He specializes in infectious diseases. He is a past chairman of the Anti-infective Drug Advisory Committee of the Food and Drug Administration and chaired the Committee when AZT was approved for the treatment of HIV/AIDS in 1987.

#16416

Beth Overmoyer

#179746

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Beth Ann Overmoyer is an American physician and oncologist. She is Director of the Inflammatory Breast Cancer Program at the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute. Early life and education Overmoyer was an undergraduate student in biology and graduated magna cum laude. She was a medical student at the Case Western Reserve University, before moving to the University of Pennsylvania for her internship and medical residence. She became interested in oncology in the late eighties, when she started researching breast cancer at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.

#16417

Richard Bithell

1821 - 1902 (81 years)

Richard Bithell was an English agnostic philosopher and writer. Bithell was born at Lewes, Sussex on 22 March 1821. When he was 11, he worked at his father's smithy in Lewes. Due to ill health he later took up teaching. He took courses at the Borough Road Training College to become a teacher of chemistry and mathematics. In 1843, he was appointed master of the British School in Chesterfield. He was transferred to Brighton, Wolverton and London.

#16418

Estelle Russek-Cohen

#169607

Overall Influence

Estelle Russek-Cohen is an American biostatistician and expert on biometrics. Formerly a professor at the University of Maryland, College Park and division director in the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research or the Food and Drug Administration, she has retired to become a statistical consultant.

#16419

Peter Williams

#61308

Overall Influence

1937 - 2016 (79 years)

Peter Williams was an English musicologist, author, harpsichordist, organist, and professor. Williams was considered one of the leading scholars on the organ and the life and works of Johann Sebastian Bach.

#16420

D. J. Nutt

#185131

Overall Influence

#16421

Pier Cristoforo Giulianotti

#82363

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Pier Cristoforo Giulianotti is an Italian surgeon. He is a Professor of Surgery and Chief of The Division of General, Minimally Invasive, and Robotic Surgery at the University of Illinois at Chicago. As of 2020 he has performed about 2,100 robotic-assisted surgeries and trained about 2,000 surgeons to perform the same.

#16422

Roland Topor

#59322

Overall Influence

1938 - 1997 (59 years)

Roland Topor was a French illustrator, cartoonist, comics artist, painter, novelist, playwright, film and TV writer, filmmaker and actor, who was known for the surreal nature of his work. He was of Polish-Jewish origin. His parents were Jewish refugees from Warsaw. He spent the early years of his life in Savoy, where his family hid him from the Gestapo.

#16423

Kazi Mobin-Uddin

Kazi Mobin-Uddin

#64369

Overall Influence

1930 - 1999 (69 years)

Kazi Mobin-Uddin was an American surgeon specializing in vascular surgery research. Early life He was born in British India and educated at the Aligarh Muslim University. Career In 1969 he developed the first Inferior vena cava filter while on faculty at University of Miami for patients with deep vein thrombosis. He published his findings in New England Journal of Medicine and Archives of Surgery. Till then patients with deep vein thrombosis required a high-risk invasive surgical procedure to prevent thrombus embolization to the pulmonary artery. Newsweek magazine reported on the discovery i...

#16424

Anne Szarewski

#128475

Overall Influence

1959 - 2013 (54 years)

Anne Szarewski was a doctor who helped improve how cervical screening samples are tested and was involved in developing the human papillomavirus vaccine. Early life and education Anne Szarewski was born in London in 1959, the only child of older Polish parents. She went to Streatham and Clapham High School for Girls before studying medicine at London's Middlesex Hospital, graduating MBBS in 1982.

#16425

Lo Hsiang-lin

1906 - 1978 (72 years)

Lo Hsiang-lin was one of the most renowned researchers in Hakka language and culture. His pioneering research in Hakka genealogy showed that the Hakka are Han Chinese. Background Lo Hsiang-lin was born in Xingning, Guangdong in 1906 and died in 1978. He attended Xingmin middle school, Tsinghua University, and Yenching University. From 1956–1968 he was a professor in Hong Kong University's Chinese department. In 1969, he became the first director of the Research Institute of Chinese Literature and History, Chu Hai College.

#16426

Shirley Caesar

#47614

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

Shirley Ann Caesar-Williams , known professionally as Shirley Caesar, is an American gospel singer. Her career began in 1951, when she signed to Federal Records at the age of 12. Throughout her seven decade career, Caesar has often been referred to as the "First Lady of Gospel Music", and "The Queen of Gospel Music". Additionally, she has won eleven Grammy Awards, fifteen Dove Awards, and fourteen Stellar Awards.

#16427

Alejandro Luna

#86947

Overall Influence

1939 - 2022 (83 years)

José Alejandro Dionisio Luna Ledesma was a Mexican scenic designer and lighting technician. Life and career Luna was born in Mexico City, where he passed his studies of architecture. He has worked in theater, opera and for TV and cinema productions. He also was director of the Centro Universitario de Teatro of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and taught at several Mexican universities from 1968 to 2007. He participated at the Prague Quadriennale from 1967 to 1975 three times in a row, as well as in 2003 and 2007. In 2003 he was a member of the Prague Quadriennale. He was the fathe...

#16428

Reinhard Strohm

#106238

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Professor Reinhard Strohm FBA is a German musicologist based largely in the United Kingdom, with an interest in 14th to 18th-century music. Strohm studied Musicology, Medieval Latin, and Romance Literatures, at the University of Munich, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, and the Technical University of Berlin during 1961–1969. He earned his Ph.D. degree at TU Berlin in 1971, with Carl Dahlhaus, producing a dissertation titled “Italienische Opernarien des frühen Settecento .

#16429

Godfrey Edward Arnold

1914 - 1989 (75 years)

Godfrey Edward Arnold, born as Gottfried Eduard Arnold , was an Austrian American professor of medicine and researcher. His studies centered on speech, speech disorder and clinical communicology. Early life Arnold was a son of Anton Arnold, tenor at the Vienna Court Opera, and attended the Theresian Academy in Vienna. He completed his studies at the University of Vienna and at the State Academy of Music and Performing Arts. Several internships with Hermann Gutzmann jun. in Berlin deepened his phoniatric knowledge. His case studies at the Voice and Speech Ambulance of the Vienna Ear Clinic a...

#16430

Eduardo Dolhun

#116009

Overall Influence

Eduardo Peña Dolhun is a family physician in San Francisco, California. He is the inventor of DripDrop, a medical-grade oral rehydration solution. Dolhun is a staff member at the California Pacific Medical Center and founded the Dolhun Clinic, the Dolhun Clinic Pre-Medical Internship Program, and Doctors Outreach Clinics. He is an Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Sciences, College of Health Sciences at Marquette University. Dolhun was the co-director of Ethnicity and Medicine at Stanford University from 2000-2018.

#16431

Henry James Richter

1772 - 1857 (85 years)

Henry James Richter , artist and philosopher, was born in Middlesex, possibly at 40 Great Newport Street, Soho, on 8 March 1772 and baptised at St Anne's Church, Soho, on 5 April at that same year. Family Henry James was the second son of John Augustus Richter and Mary Haig. John was originally from Dresden, Germany and was an artist, engraver, and scagliolist, well known for his works in imitation of marble. John Augustus Richter was a partner with Domenico Bartoli another scagliolist in London beginning in 1767 and continuing through the 1777 or 1778. Bartoli emigrated from the port city of Livorn, Italy and, after working for almost 10 years with Richter, moved on to Ireland.

#16432

Fatos Tarifa

#47655

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Fatos Tarifa is a social scientist and a former diplomat from Albania. Education Tarifa has a double doctorate, with a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a doctorate in Political Science from the University of Tirana. He has been, inter alia, a lecturer, a researcher and a distinguished visiting fellow since 1981, when he joined the School of Political Science and Law at the University of Tirana. In 1992 he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship at the Department of Sociology at UNC Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

#16433

Josef Rufer

1893 - 1985 (92 years)

Josef Rufer was an Austrian-born musicologist. He is regarded as a significant figure mainly on account of his association with and writings on Arnold Schoenberg. Rufer was a pupil of Alexander von Zemlinsky and Schoenberg in Vienna; when the latter composer moved to Berlin to direct the Masterclass in Composition at the Prussian Academy of Arts, Rufer went with him and operated as his Chief Assistant between 1925 and 1933.

#16434

Basile Adjou Moumouni

#47558

Overall Influence

1922 - 2019 (97 years)

Basile Adjou Moumouni was a Beninese physician. He was active in his native country when the west Africa country of Republic of Benin was called Dahomey. Spending almost his entire adult life outside his native country, he worked for the World Health Organization in Brazzaville. In the 1968 presidential election, he won with over 80 percent of the vote. This decision was annulled, however, by incumbent President Alphonse Alley because organised demonstrations prohibited almost three-quarters of the electorate from casting their ballots.

#16435

Sergey Arzhanukhin

#173360

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Sergey V. Arzhanukhin is a Russian philosopher. He is a professor at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration and holds a Doctor of Philosophical Sciences. Arzhanukhin is knowledgeable in philosophy and public and political theories of Russian masons.

#16436

Dag Rune Olsen

#83330

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Dag Rune Olsen is a Norwegian cancer researcher, professor of biomedical physics at the University of Bergen, and the current rector of the University of Tromsø, where he was hired in 2021. He was the elected rector of the University of Bergen from 2013-2020.

#16437

Linda Lear

#15620

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Linda Jane Lear is an American historian of science and biographer. Life and career A native of Pittsburgh, Lear received her A.B. from Connecticut College in 1962, following with an A.M. from Columbia University in 1964; she received a Ph.D. in history from George Washington University in 1974. From 1963 until 1965 she chaired the history department of the Vail Deane School, and from 1965 until 1968 held a similar position at the National Cathedral School. An assistant professor at New Mexico State University from 1974 until 1976, she next worked at the American Association of Retired Persons, remaining there until 1978.

#16438

José Miguel Gambra Gutiérrez

#130440

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

José Miguel Gambra Gutiérrez is a Spanish philosopher and politician. He is known mostly as the expert in logic and in the theory of predicates; since the 1980s he has been holding various teaching positions at Facultad de Filosofía of Universidad Complutense in Madrid. He is also recognized as a theorist of political and social science; Gambra advances the Traditionalist vision of state and society. In politics he adheres to the Carlist cause. In 2010-2021 he was leading one of two Traditionalist organisations in Spain, Comunión Tradicionalista.

#16439

Eduard von Gebhardt

Eduard von Gebhardt

1838 - 1925 (87 years)

Franz Karl Eduard von Gebhardt was a Baltic German painter of portraits and historical scenes, and a professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Biography He was born to Ferdinand Theodor von Gebhardt , Provost and member of the Consistorial Council in Reval, and his wife, Wilhelmine, née Von Glehn . He graduated from the local gymnasium at sixteen, and enrolled at the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg, where he studied for three years.

#16440

Jennifer Leaning

#57624

Overall Influence

Jennifer Leaning is an American health scholar currently the François-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and former Editor-in-Chief of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War's Medicine & Global Survival. She is also Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a faculty member in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

#16441

Wilhelm von Henke

Wilhelm von Henke

1834 - 1896 (62 years)

Philipp Jakob Wilhelm von Henke was a German anatomist. Early life On 19 June 1834, Henke was born. Henke's father was Ernst Ludwig Theodor Henke , a historian. Education Henke studied at the universities of Marburg, Göttingen and Berlin, receiving his doctorate in 1857 at Marburg.

#16442

Gentile da Foligno

1280 - 1348 (68 years)

Gentile Gentili da Foligno was an Italian professor and doctor of medicine, trained at Padua and the University of Bologna, and teaching probably first at Bologna, then at the University of Perugia, Siena , where his annual stipend was 60 gold florins; he was called to Padua by Ubertino I da Carrara, Lord of Padua, then returned to Perugia for the remainder of his career. He was among the first European physicians to perform a dissection on a human being , a practice that had long been taboo in Roman times. Gentile wrote several widely copied and read texts and commentaries, notably his mass...

#16443

John Templeton Bowen

John Templeton Bowen

1857 - 1940 (83 years)

John Templeton Bowen was an American dermatologist. He was a professor of dermatology at Massachusetts General Hospital. Bowen obtained his doctoral degree in medical sciences from the Harvard University in 1884. From 1884 to 1887, he pursued postgraduate studies in Berlin, Munich, and Vienna. He joined Massachusetts General Hospital in 1889 as an assistant in the skin diseases department.

#16444

Otto Riemer

1902 - 1977 (75 years)

Otto Moritz Martin Riemer was a German music historian and music critic. Life Riemer was born in near Magdeburg, the son of a pastor. After attending the , he studied musicology, education and philosophy at the universities of Marburg, Leipzig and Halle. He listened to Hermann Stephani, Nicolai Hartmann, Heinz Heimsoeth, Hermann Abert, Friedrich Blume, Felix Krueger, Hans Joachim Moser, , Theodor Ziehen and Ottomar Wichmann, among others. From 1924 to 1926, he studied at the Leipzig Conservatory, where Carl Adolf Martienssen and Fritz Reuter were among his teachers. In Halle, he took singing lessons with Hans Klemann.

#16445

Isaac ben Mordecai

#143942

Overall Influence

Isaac ben Mordecai, known as Maestro Gajo, was an Italian Jewish physician. He acted as physician to Pope Nicholas IV or Pope Boniface VIII, at the end of the thirteenth century. For him Nathan of Cento translated into Hebrew an Arabic work by 'Ammar ibn Ali al-Mauṣili, on the cure of diseases of the eye. Gajo was held in great esteem by the physicians Zerahiah ben Shealtiel Ḥen and Hillel ben Samuel of Verona. From Forlì, the latter wrote to Gajo two long letters on the dispute concerning Maimonides's doctrines, which Gajo followed with interest.

#16446

Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

1820 - 1891 (71 years)

Ishwar Chandra Bandyopadhyay CIE, popularly known as Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar He was the most prominent campaigner for Hindu widow remarriage, petitioning the Legislative Council despite severe opposition, including a counter petition which had nearly four times as many signatures. Even though widow remarriage was considered a flagrant breach of Hindu customs and was staunchly opposed, Lord Dalhousie personally finalised the bill and the Hindu Widows' Remarriage Act, 1856 was passed. Against child marriage, efforts of Vidyasagar led to Age of Consent Act, 1891. In which the minimum age of ...

#16447

Georges De Moor

#46006

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Professor Emeritus Georges J. E. De Moor is a Belgian Medical Doctor, Clinical Pathologist and has been head of the Department of Health Informatics and Medical Statistics of the University of Ghent .

#16448

Mike Leander

#64474

Overall Influence

1941 - 1996 (55 years)

Michael George Farr , known professionally as Mike Leander, was a British arranger, songwriter and record producer. He worked variously with Cliff Richard, The Beatles, David McWilliams , Gary Glitter, the Rolling Stones, Brian Jones, Marianne Faithfull, Andrew Loog Oldham, Joe Cocker, Billy Fury, Marc Bolan, Small Faces, Van Morrison, Alan Price, Peter Frampton, Keith Richards, Shirley Bassey, Lulu, Jimmy Page, Roy Orbison, Ben E. King, the Drifters, and Gene Pitney. Leander also wrote the score for the films Privilege and Run a Crooked Mile .

#16449

Bent Rolstad

#138560

Overall Influence

1947 - 2015 (68 years)

Bent Rolstad was a Norwegian professor of medicine. He took the cand.med. degree at the University of Oslo in 1975, the dr.med. degree in 1977, specializing in anatomy, and became a professor at the Institute of Basic Medical Sciences there. He was a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. He resided in Asker. He died while vacationing in Spain in the summer of 2015.

#16450

Hans Wellisch

#141035

Overall Influence

1920 - 2004 (84 years)

Hans Hanan Wellisch was a librarian, LIS educator, and indexer known for his work with the International Federation for Documentation , contributing to the Universal Decimal Classification. He headed the committee which translated the abridgement of the UDC into Hebrew and was the compiler of the index to the system.

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