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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#16451

Richard Clapp

#95552

Overall Influence

Richard "Dick" Clapp is an American epidemiologist who is an adjunct professor at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and an Emeritus Professor of Environmental Health at Boston University School of Public Health. Clapp was Director of the Massachusetts Cancer Registry from 1980 until 1989 and Co-Chair of Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility.

#16452

Alexander Refsum Jensenius

#180713

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (48 years)

Alexander Refsum Jensenius is a Norwegian researcher and musician. He is Professor of music technology and was Head of the Department of Musicology, University of Oslo during the period 2013-2016. He is currently Deputy Director of RITMO - Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion at the University of Oslo, and serves as the Chair of the Steering Committee for NIME, the International Conference in New Interfaces for Musical Expression. He is the grandson of politician Marie Borge Refsum.

#16453

Vivian Pinn

#66265

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Vivian Winona Pinn is an American physician-scientist and pathologist known for her advocacy of women's health issues and concerns, particularly for ensuring that federally funded medical studies include female patients, and well as encouraging women to follow medical and scientific careers. She served as associate director for research on women's health at the National Institutes of Health , concurrently was the inaugural director of NIH's Office of Research on Women's Health. Pinn previously taught at Harvard University, Tufts University, and Howard University College of Medicine. Since ret...

#16454

Babak Azizzadeh

Babak Azizzadeh

#29294

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Babak Azizzadeh, MD, FACS is the founder and president of the FPBPF , a non-profit organization committed to the treatment of individuals with facial nerve paralysis and Bell's palsy. Dr. Azizzadeh is co-director of the facial plastic and reconstructive surgery fellowship at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California and co-chairman of the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Annual Advances in Multispecialty Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery Symposium. Besides his role in FPBPF, Dr. Azizzadeh is involved with several other non-profit / charity organizations such as the Global Smile Foundation, Operation of Hope, Face to Face and the R.O.S.E Fund.

#16455

Francis Gillingham

#84957

Overall Influence

1916 - 2010 (94 years)

Francis John Gillingham was a British neurosurgeon. Early life Gillingham was born in Dorchester, Dorset, England, on 15 March 1916, the only son of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Gillingham. He was educated at Hardye's School, Dorset, and then studied medicine at St. Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College of London University.

#16456

Robert E. Anderson

#185322

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Leonardo Garzoni

1543 - 1592 (49 years)

Leonardo Garzoni was a Jesuit natural philosopher. Life The little data we have about Garzoni's life are the brief notices registered on official documents of the Society of Jesus. From these sources we know that Garzoni was born into a patrician family and that he began his philosophical studies before 1565. About 1566 he joined a congregation near to the Jesuits’ College in Brescia and entered the Society of Jesus in 1567 or 1568. In 1568 he lectured in logic in Parma and in 1573 he was a third–year student in theology in Padua. On 9 June 1579 he took his four vows in Brescia and from 1579 he lived, as a confessor, in Venice.

#16458

Andrew Sluyter

#80198

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Andrew Sluyter is an American social scientist who currently teaches as a professor in the Geography and Anthropology Department of the Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. His interests are the environmental history and historical, cultural, and political ecology of the colonization of the Americas. He has made various contributions to the theorization of colonialism and landscape, the critique of neo-environmental determinism, to understanding pre-colonial and colonial agriculture and environmental change in Mexico, to revealing African contributions to establishing cattle ranching in the Americas, and to the historical geographies of Hispanics and Latinos in New Orleans.

#16459

Jonathan Crowe

#181438

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (47 years)

Jonathan George Crowe is an Australian legal philosopher. He is Head of School and Dean of the School of Law and Justice at the University of Southern Queensland. Crowe is recognised internationally for his work on legal philosophy, ethics and public law. He is a proponent of natural law theory in jurisprudence and ethics. He is known in Australia for his advocacy on behalf of survivors of sexual violence.

#16460

Brian McDonough

#49082

Overall Influence

Brian McDonough has been described as a Family Physician with a focus on patient education. In addition to providing clinical care he employs audio, video and digital technology to provide helpful information for the general public.

#16461

Edward T. Cone

#88661

Overall Influence

1917 - 2004 (87 years)

Edward Toner Cone was an American composer, music theorist, pianist, and philanthropist. Life and career Cone was born in Greensboro, North Carolina. He studied composition under Roger Sessions at Princeton University, receiving his bachelor's in 1939 . Cone and Milton Babbitt were the first to earn graduate degrees in musical composition from Princeton . He studied piano with Karl Ulrich Schnabel and Edward Steuermann. During the Second World War, Cone served first in the army and later in the Office of Strategic Services. Beginning in 1946, he taught at Princeton. He was the co-editor o...

#16462

Julius Dreschfeld

Julius Dreschfeld

1845 - 1907 (62 years)

Julius Dreschfeld FRCP was a leading British physician and pathologist. Life Julius Dreschfeld was born as the youngest of ten siblings on 13 October 1845 at Niederwerrn, in the Schweinfurt district of Bavaria. His parents, Samuel and Giedel, were well-off, well-respected Orthodox Jewish people who derived their livelihood from merchanting.

#16463

Q. David Bowers

Q. David Bowers

#31633

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

Quentin David Bowers is an American numismatist, author, and columnist. Beginning in 1952, Bowers’s contributions to numismatics have continued uninterrupted and unabated to the present day. He has been involved in the selling of rare coins since 1953 when he was a teenager.

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Ami Zota

#148919

Overall Influence

Ami R. Zota is an associate professor at George Washington University Milken School of Public Health, specializing in public and occupational health. Education Zota graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1999 with a bachelor's degree in environmental science and engineering. She later graduated from the Harvard School of Public Health with a master's and doctorate in environmental health in 2003 and 2007, respectively.

#16465

Amos Vogel

#88908

Overall Influence

1921 - 2012 (91 years)

Amos Vogel was a New York City cineaste and curator. Biography Vogel was born in Vienna, Austria. He fled Austria with his parents after the Nazi Anschluß in 1938 and at first studied animal husbandry at the University of Georgia. In the American South, he noted, the racism was as bad as the anti-semitism he witnessed in Europe. Later he received a bachelor's degree from The New School for Social Research in New York.

#16466

Yamagiwa Katsusaburō

Yamagiwa Katsusaburō

1863 - 1930 (67 years)

was a Japanese pathologist who carried out pioneering work into the causes of cancer. He was the first to prove chemical carcinogenesis. He was the Nobel Prize nominee in 7 nominations. Life Yamagiwa was born in Ueda, Nagano, the third son of the feudal retainer of the Ueda Domain in Shinano Province. He became the adopted son-in-law of Yoshiya Yamagiwa, a physician in Katsuya, Tokyo, and took the surname Yamagiwa. He completed his MD in 1888 from Imperial University of Tokyo. He was appointed as a professor at the Medical School, Imperial University of Tokyo and published his landmark work, ...

#16467

Athanase Bénétos

#185380

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Barbara J. Collins

#82016

Overall Influence

1929 - 2013 (84 years)

Barbara Jane Collins was an American writer, ecologist, geologist, botanist, and professor. She was the founder of the Barbara Collins Arboretum at the campus of California Lutheran University where she was a professor for 50 years. She was instrumental in the preservation of Wildwood Mesa and received a commendation from the Mayor of Thousand Oaks, California for her preservation efforts. At Cal Lutheran, she created a website which cataloged over 3,000 plant species and was the sole member of the Interdisciplinary Major Committee for thirty years. She was among the first faculty at both California Lutheran University and California State University, Northridge .

#16469

Tzvetan Todorov

#185401

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Antonín Jan Jungmann

Antonín Jan Jungmann

1775 - 1854 (79 years)

Antonín Jan Jungmann, sometimes referred to as was a Czech obstetrician and educator born in Hudlice, Beroun District. He was a younger brother to linguist Josef Jungmann . In 1811 he was appointed professor of obstetrics to the medical faculty at Prague, and in 1838 he became university rector. He gave lectures in German and Czech, and collaborated with his brother on the latter's linguistic projects. He remained at the University of Prague until his retirement in 1850.

#16471

Paul Booth

#94113

Overall Influence

Paul Booth is an American media scholar and a professor of Digital Communication and Media Arts at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois. He serves on the editorial board of a number of journals, including Transformative Works and Cultures and the Journal of Fandom Studies. He also oversees the annual DePaul Pop Culture Conference.

#16472

Leigh Hale

#185406

Overall Influence

Leigh Anne Hale is a New Zealand physiotherapy academic, and as of 2019, is a full professor at the University of Otago. Academic career After a 2002 PhD titled 'The problems experienced by people with stroke living in Soweto, South Africa.' at the University of the Witwatersrand, Hale moved to the University of Otago, rising to full professor.

#16473

Monkey Punch

#59067

Overall Influence

1937 - 2019 (82 years)

Kazuhiko Katō, known by the pen name , was a Japanese manga artist, best known for his series Lupin III. Life and career Katō was born in Hamanaka, Hokkaido; he began drawing at a very young age, but did not draw manga until junior high school, when his manga strips were used in the school newspaper. After graduating, he moved to Tokyo to look for work and began going to a technical school for electronics, continuing to draw for fun. While working in a dōjinshi group with other artists, he was recruited by Futabasha and drew yonkoma. He was an assistant to Naoki Tsuji on Zero-sen Hayato and Ti...

#16474

Bo Ruberg

#170339

Overall Influence

Bo Ruberg is an American game studies scholar and associate professor at the University of California, Irvine in the Klein College of Media and Communication. They are known for their work on queer theory and video games. They are the author of Video Games Have Always Been Queer, The Queer Games Avant-Garde, and Sex Dolls at Sea: Imagined Histories of Sexual Technologies, as well as the editor of Queer Game Studies. From 2023 to 2027, they are the co-editor-in-chief, with Liz Elcessor, of the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies. They are also one of the co-founders of the Queerness in Games C...

#16475

Stella Bruzzi

#153771

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Stella Bruzzi, FBA is an Italian-born British scholar of film and media studies and currently Dean of Arts and Humanities at University College London. Career From 2006 to 2017, Bruzzi was Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Warwick. In 2017, she moved to University College London, where she is Executive Dean of its Faculty of Arts and Humanities. She has previously taught at the University of Manchester and at Royal Holloway, University of London.

#16476

Hans Olde

1855 - 1917 (62 years)

Johannes Wilhelm Olde was a German painter and art school administrator. Life He originally planned to follow family tradition and become a farmer but, over his father's strong objections, went to study with Ludwig von Löfftz at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich in 1879. He and his friend, the sculptor Adolf Brütt, moved to Italy in 1883. Three years later, however, he decided to attend the Académie Julian in Paris, where he exhibited at the Salon and discovered impressionism. Upon his return to Germany, he was one of the founders of the Munich Secession and, in 1894, helped to create the Schleswig-Holstein Art Appreciation Society.

#16477

Ngaire Naffine

#146621

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Ngaire May Naffine is an Australian feminist legal academic and Professor Emerita at the University of Adelaide. Life Born in 1954 Ngaire May Naffin, she changed her surname to Naffine in 1987. She graduated from the University of Adelaide with an LLB, followed by a PhD in 1983 on "Criminality, deviance and conformity in women".

#16478

Gretchen Berland

#43591

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Gretchen Kimberly Berland is an American physician and filmmaker who is Associate Professor of Medicine at the Yale School of Medicine. Life She graduated from Pomona College with a BA in 1986 and Oregon Health & Science University with an MD in 1996. She was a Fellow in the UCLA Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program.

#16479

R. Edward Freeman

#185432

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Lisa Cooper

#57247

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Lisa A. Cooper is an American internal medicine and public health physician who is the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Equity in Health and Healthcare at Johns Hopkins University, jointly appointed in the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and in the departments of Health, Behavior and Society, Health Policy and Management; Epidemiology; and International Health in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is the James F. Fries Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine, Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity, and Director of the Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute.

#16481

Sudi Devanesen

#42730

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Sudarshan Devanesen, CM, is a family medicine physician and educator, public health activist, and member of the Order of Canada. An order of which he was initiated into for his role in preventing Heart disease affecting South Asians in Canada.

#16482

Abu al-Hakam al-Kirmani

970 - 1066 (96 years)

Abu al-Hakam al-Kirmani was a prominent philosopher and scholar from the Muslim al-Andalus. A student of Maslamah Ibn Ahmad al-Majriti, he was a Neoplatonic advocate, and seen as an influence on Ibn 'Arabi, but he also wrote extensively on geometry and logic. His exact date of death is not known as he fled to Morocco in the twelfth century. It is possible that it was he who returned to al-Andalus with the Epistles of the Brethren of Purity.

#16483

Steve Jones

#185463

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#16484

Chaim Sheba

1908 - 1971 (63 years)

Chaim Sheba was an Israeli physician, notable for being the founder of Sheba Medical Center. Biography Chaim Scheiber was born in Frasin, near Gurahumora, Bukovina, then in Austria-Hungary , to the well known Scheiber Hasidic family, a descendant of the Hasidic court of Ruzhin. As a young child he studied in heder, a school for religious studies only. He transferred from there to the 8th grade in a secular school. Influenced by his grandfather, he began medical studies in Cernăuți and completed such studies in Vienna in December 1932. In the beginning of 1933, Sheba immigrated to Mandate Pa...

#16485

Robert Rodriguez

#156014

Overall Influence

Robert M. Rodriguez is an American emergency physician working at the San Francisco General Hospital. He is a professor of emergency medicine at the UCSF School of Medicine and was a member of the COVID-19 Advisory Board of U.S. president Joe Biden.

#16486

Sam Mbulaiteye

#182021

Overall Influence

Sam M. Mbulaiteye is a Ugandan physician-scientist and epidemiologist who researches Burkitt lymphoma. He is a senior investigator at the National Cancer Institute. Life Mbulaiteye received physician training at Makerere University with advanced training in epidemiology and biostatistics from the University of Cambridge , and specialist training in internal medicine from Makerere University . His early research focused on measuring the impact of HIV on cancer in patients at the Uganda Cancer Institute from 1994 and 1997 and investigating population trends of HIV in a general population in rural southwest Uganda while at the Uganda Virus Research Institute and U.K.

#16487

Feng Lin

#185483

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Alfred Freddy Krupa

#143571

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Alfred Freddy Krupa is a Croatian painter and book illustrator. He graduated from the University of Zagreb Academy of Fine Arts in 1995. He published New Ink Art Manifesto in 1996 and departed to Tokyo Gakugei University in 1998. He became known to the general public in 1990 via the then popular Yugoslav weekly "Vikend/Weekend". Author Milica Jović wrote in her article for New York-based Highlark Magazine that Krupa is considered the pivotal figure in the Western New Ink Art movement.He got the award of the Order of Danica Hrvatska on April 26, 2023 and The City of Karlovac Award on the 13th...

#16489

Deanna B. Marcum

#122250

Overall Influence

1946 - 2022 (76 years)

Deanna Bowling Marcum was an American librarian and nonprofit leader who served as president of the Council on Library and Information Resources from 1995 to 2003, Associate Librarian for Library Services at the Library of Congress from 2003 to 2011, and managing director of Ithaka S+R from 2012 to 2016.

#16490

Mohammed Jaber Al-Ansari

#141597

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Mohammed Jaber Al-Ansari, is a prominent Bahraini philosopher and political thinker, and an influential proponent of rational thinking in the 20th-century Arab World. He played a pivotal role in establishing the previously peripheral Persian Gulf region as an integral contributor to modern Arabic thought, on equal footing with other parts of the Arab World. His early work as a literary historian, and critic, instigated wide literary activity in his native Bahrain and in its surrounding Persian Gulf region. Al-Ansari was one of the early Arab intellectuals to delve into studying the East Asian ...

#16491

Ruth Boynton

1896 - 1977 (81 years)

Ruth Boynton was a physician, researcher, and administrator who spent almost her entire career at the University of Minnesota. She worked in public health and student health services. At that time, there were few women in any of these fields. She was director of the University Student Health Service from 1936 to 1961and it was renamed the Boynton Health Service in her honor in 1975. She served as the acting dean of the School of Public Health from 1944 to 1946.

#16492

Peabo Bryson

#34941

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Robert Peapo "Peabo" Bryson is an American singer and songwriter. He is known for singing soul ballads including the hit singles "Tonight, I Celebrate My Love" with Roberta Flack, "A Whole New World with Regina BelleBeauty and the Beast with Celine Dion. Bryson has contributed to two Disney animated feature soundtracks. Bryson is a winner of two Grammy Awards.

#16493

Emmanuel Quaye Archampong

#56628

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (93 years)

Professor Emmanuel Quaye Archampong, was a Ghanaian surgeon and academic. He was an emeritus professor of the College of Health Sciences University of Ghana Medical School, University of Ghana, Legon.

#16494

Reuben D. Mussey

Reuben D. Mussey

1780 - 1866 (86 years)

Reuben Dimond Mussey, Sr. was an American physician, surgeon, vegetarian and an early opponent of tobacco. He was the fourth president of the American Medical Association. Biography Mussey was born on June 23, 1780, in Rockingham County, New Hampshire. He was of French Huguenot descent, and his father, John Mussey, was also a medical doctor. Mussey studied at Dartmouth College and then learned medicine under Nathan Smith. He began the practice of medicine in Essex County, Massachusetts. However, he then went to the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine where he did further medical studies, graduating M.D.

#16495

Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein

Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein

1788 - 1868 (80 years)

Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein , born Vogel, was a German painter. Life Son of the child and portrait painter Christian Leberecht Vogel, Vogel was trained early in life by his father. From 1804 he visited the Kunstakademie in Dresden, where he copied many paintings in the Gemäldegalerie and also produced the first of his own portraits.

#16496

Jan De Maeseneer

#76764

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Jan De Maeseneer is a Belgian family physician and has been Head of the Department of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care of Ghent University . In 1977, De Maeseneer graduated as a medical doctor at Ghent University and since 1978 works as a family physician at the Wijkgezondheidscentrum Botermarkt in Ledeberg . In 1981, he started working as a part-time assistant at the Department of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care at Ghent University. In 1989 he obtained a PhD. with the thesis The functioning of 94 GP trainers at the State University of Ghent: an explorative research. His resear...

#16497

Johannes Magirus

Johannes Magirus

1560 - 1596 (36 years)

Johannes Magirus was a German physician and natural philosopher. He was born at Fritzlar about 1560; his background was Lutheran. He studied at the University of Padua, and took a medical degree at the University of Marburg in 1585.

#16498

Alfred Pribram

1841 - 1912 (71 years)

Alfred Pribram was an internist born in Prague, Austrian Empire. He was a brother of chemist Richard Pribram . His son was the internist Hugo Pribram . Biography He studied medicine at the University of Prague, earning his doctorate as a general practitioner in 1861 and as a surgeon during the following year. From 1867 to 1871 he worked as an assistant to Anton von Jaksch at the second medical clinic in Prague. In 1871 he received his habilitation, and in 1887 was appointed full professor of special pathology and therapy at the University of Prague. Among his better known students was physi...

#16499

Joseph von Lindwurm

Joseph von Lindwurm

1824 - 1874 (50 years)

Joseph von Lindwurm , was a German physician and dermatologist born in Aschaffenburg. He studied medicine in Würzburg and Heidelberg, obtaining his medical doctorate in 1849. Afterwards, he worked as an assistant in the medical clinic at Würzburg, then furthered his education in Vienna and Paris. In Paris, he demonstrated through inoculation experiments that secondary syphilis was as contagious as primary syphilis. In 1853 he became privat-docent at Munich, followed by an associate professorship several years later . In 1863 he was appointed a full professor of dermatology and venereal disease...

#16500

Donna Andrews

#63657

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Donna Andrews is an American mystery fiction writer of two award-winning amateur sleuth series. Her first book, Murder with Peacocks , introduced Meg Langslow, a blacksmith from Yorktown, Virginia. It won the St. Martin's Minotaur Best First Traditional Mystery contest, the Agatha, Anthony, Barry, and Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice awards for best first novel, and the Lefty award for funniest mystery of 1999. The first novel in the Turing Hopper series debuted a highly unusual sleuth—an Artificial Intelligence personality who becomes sentient—and won the Agatha Award for best mystery th...

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