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#16501

Alberto Sols

1917 - 1989 (72 years)

Alberto Sols García was a researcher specializing in biochemistry, working especially on hexokinases. He effectively created biochemistry as a major discipline in Spain. Life Alberto Sols was born in Sax, Alicante, on 2 February 1917, the son of Pedro Sols Lluch. He died in Denia, Alicante, on 10 August 1989. The house of his birth is now the Centro de Estudios y Archivo Histórico Municipal Alberto Sols.

#16502

Peter M. Rhee

#26652

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Peter Meong Rhee is an American surgeon, medical professor, and military veteran. During his 24 years in the United States Navy, Rhee served as a battlefield casualty physician in Afghanistan and Iraq.

#16503

Mark Fax

1911 - 1974 (63 years)

Mark Oakland Fax was an American composer and a professor of music. Child prodigy Born on June 15, 1911, in Baltimore, Maryland, Fax was a child prodigy. By age fourteen, Fax was employed as a theater organist playing scores to silent films in Baltimore's Regent Theater on Saturdays, and gospel music at an African American church on Sundays. Fax enrolled at Syracuse University on the advice of his brother, Elton Fax, an artist, who believed Syracuse faculty would take his aspirations as a classical composer seriously.

#16504

Benedict Groeschel

Benedict Groeschel

#24396

Overall Influence

1933 - 2014 (81 years)

Benedict Joseph Groeschel, C.F.R. was an American Franciscan friar, Catholic priest, retreat master, author, psychologist, activist, and television host. He hosted the television talk program Sunday Night Prime on the Eternal Word Television Network, as well as several serial religious specials.

#16505

Yun Won-hyeong

1509 - 1565 (56 years)

Yun Won-hyeong was a Korean political figure of the Joseon period. He was the younger brother of Queen Munjeong, the 3rd wife of 11th King Jungjong and was the maternal uncle of the 13th King Myeongjong.

#16506

Roy Pounder

#65762

Overall Influence

Roy Pounder is a British physician and entrepreneur. He was Professor of Medicine at the Royal Free and University College Medical School in London and clinical vice president of the Royal College of Physicians of London. He is now a London University Emeritus Professor of Medicine.

#16507

Giorgio Raguseo

Giorgio Raguseo

1580 - 1622 (42 years)

Giorgio Raguseo was an Italian philosopher, theologist, and orator from the Republic of Venice. Born an illegitimate child in Dubrovnik , Croatia, Raguseo had to beg before being taken to Venice by a gentleman who provided him an education. He became a priest and taught at the University of Padua.

#16508

Jean-Marc Gabaude

#130013

Overall Influence

1928 - 2020 (92 years)

Jean-Marc Gabaude was a French philosopher and professor. Biography Gabaude was born in 1928 in Graulhet. He studied at the University of Toulouse, and earned his doctorate of letters in 1972. Gabaude became Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès and President of the Société toulousaine de philosophie in 1991. He paid tribute to his good friend, Michel Clouscard, in October 2011.

#16509

Louis Tocqué

1696 - 1772 (76 years)

Jean Louis Tocqué was a French painter. He specialized in portrait painting. Biography Jean Louis Tocqué was born on 19 November 1696 in Paris. His father, who was also a painter, died in April 1710, before Louis was even fourteen. He was eventually brought into the care of another artist, Jean-Marc Nattier. Tocqué studied under Nattier, Nicolas Bertin and Hyacinthe Rigaud in the 1720s. He married Jean-Marc Nattier's daughter Marie Nattier in 1747. He died on 10 February 1772 in Paris.

#16510

Gerald M. Pohost

#185576

Overall Influence

#16511

Margo Cohen

#78804

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Margo Panush Cohen is an American physician and entrepreneur. She has been a Professor of Internal Medicine and Chief of Endocrinology and Metabolism at the Wayne State University School of Medicine and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. She is President and Chief Scientific Officer of Glycadia, and a founder of its subsidiary Exocell.

#16512

Jane Clapperton

1832 - 1914 (82 years)

Jane Hume Clapperton was a British philosopher, birth control pioneer, socialist, social reformer and suffragist. Life Her father was Alexander Clapperton and mother Anne Clapperton . She had eleven siblings. Her father ran a company, Clapperton & Co., in Edinburgh and moved from 43 Lauriston Place close to George Heriot's School to 126 George Street in the year Jane was born.

#16513

Claude Beck

1894 - 1971 (77 years)

Claude Schaeffer Beck was a pioneer cardiac surgeon, famous for innovating various cardiac surgery techniques, and performing the first defibrillation in 1947. He was the first American professor of cardiovascular surgery, from 1952 through 1965. He was a nominee for the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1952.

#16514

Ludwig Schiedermair

1876 - 1957 (81 years)

Ludwig Ferdinand Schiedermair was a German minister and musicologist. He concerned himself with opera history, Mozart, and Beethoven. In 1914 he edited the first complete critical edition of the letters of Mozart and his family.

#16515

Thibault Isabel

Thibault Isabel

#175826

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (48 years)

Thibault Isabel is a French writer and publisher. Biography Thibault Isabel was born in Roubaix on 29 April 1978. He obtained a doctorate in film studies from the Charles de Gaulle University – Lille III in 2004 with a dissertation on American cinema from 1981 to 2000. He has been editor-in-chief of , a journal founded by Alain de Benoist and a part of the French New Right, although Isabel does not consider himself right-wing. He is the editor of the website Linactuelle.fr which he founded in 2018 and participates in Michel Onfray's magazine Front Populaire, launched in 2020.

#16516

Roger Savory

#71099

Overall Influence

1925 - 2022 (97 years)

Roger Mervyn Savory was a British-born Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto who was an Iranologist and specialist on the Safavids. His numerous writings on Safavid political, military history, administration, bureaucracy, and diplomacy-translated into several languages have had a great impact in understanding this period.

#16517

Johannes Heurnius

Johannes Heurnius

1543 - 1601 (58 years)

Johannes Heurnius was a Dutch physician and natural philosopher. Life Heurnius was born in Utrecht, and studied at Leuven and Paris. He went to the University of Padua to study under Hieronymus Fabricius; and graduated M.D. there in 1566, examined by Petrus Ramus and Fabricius.

#16518

Matthew Ferchi

1583 - 1669 (86 years)

Matija Ferkić or Matija Frkić was a Croatian Franciscan Conventual scholastic philosopher from Krk. He was from the island of Krk . He was a Scotist, and wrote a Vita et apologia Scoti, a life of Duns Scotus. He taught at the University of Padua for 35 years, from 1629.

#16519

Paula Krebs

#36290

Overall Influence

Paula Krebs is the Executive Director of the Modern Language Association of America , the largest organization of scholars of languages and literature in the United States. She was previously a professor of English at Wheaton College. From 2012 to 2017, she served as the dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Bridgewater State University.

#16520

Milena Penkowa

#142823

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (53 years)

Milena Penkowa is a Danish neuroscientist who was a professor at the Panum Institute at the University of Copenhagen from 2009–2010. In 2010 she was convicted of fraud and embezzlement of funds from The Danish Society of Neuroscience. In the same year, she was suspended by the University of Copenhagen and consequently resigned her professorship. In 2012, the Danish Committees on Scientific Dishonesty concluded that she had been guilty of scientific misconduct. As of 2020 Penkowa has had nine of her research publications retracted, and four others have received expressions of concern.

#16521

George Ranken Tudhope

1893 - 1955 (62 years)

George Ranken Tudhope MD FRSE DPH was a 20th-century Scottish pathologist and medical author. The George Ranken Tudhope Prize for best student in Pathology at the University of Dundee is named in his honour.

#16522

Judith Kaur

#112932

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Judith Salmon Kaur is an American oncologist who is Director of the Native American Programs in the Mayo Clinic Cancer Center. According to Indian Country Today, Kaur is one of only two Native American oncologists working in the United States.

#16523

Bettina Judd

#101057

Overall Influence

Bettina Judd is an African-American interdisciplinary writer, scholar, artist, and performer. Early life and education Judd was born in Baltimore and raised in Southern California. She received her bachelor's degree in Comparative Women’s Studies and English from Spelman College in 2005, her master's degree in Women's Studies from University of Maryland in 2007, and her PhD in Women's Studies in 2014, also from the University of Maryland. Her dissertation, Feelin Feminism: Black Women's Art as Feminist Thought , is an analysis of how various oppressions that affect black women are felt, and ma...

#16524

Benjamin Alman

#100133

Overall Influence

Benjamin Aaron Alman is an American orthopaedic clinician-scientist and currently Chair of Orthopaedic Surgery at Duke University School of Medicine . Alman is the Distinguished James R. Urbaniak, MD, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and also holds appointments with the Department of Cell Biology, Pediatrics, and Pathology at Duke University. Among Alman's other appointments, he is co-director of the Regeneration Next Initiative at Duke University.

#16525

Christopher Nolan

#40871

Overall Influence

1965 - 2009 (44 years)

Christopher Nolan was an Irish poet and author. He was born in Mullingar, Ireland, but later moved to Dublin. He was educated at the Central Remedial Clinic School, Mount Temple Comprehensive School and at Trinity College, Dublin. His first book was published when he was fifteen. He won the Whitbread Book Award for his autobiography in 1987. He was also awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters in the UK, the medal of excellence from the United Nations Society of Writers, and a Person of the Year award in Ireland.

#16526

Valery Chkalov

1904 - 1938 (34 years)

Valery Pavlovich Chkalov was a test pilot awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union . Early life Chkalov was born to a Russian family in 1904 in the upper Volga region, the town of Vasilyevo , which lies near Nizhny Novgorod.

#16527

Ralph Norgren

#185635

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#16528

Edward Ford

1902 - 1986 (84 years)

Colonel Sir Edward Ford, was an Australian soldier, academic and physician. He played an important role in the anti-malaria campaign in the South West Pacific Area during the Second World War, and in preventative medicine in Australia after the war, but is best known for his Bibliography of Australian Medicine.

#16529

Fyodor Uglov

#45041

Overall Influence

1904 - 2008 (104 years)

Fyodor Grigorievich Uglov was a Soviet and Russian surgeon. In 1994 he was listed by Guinness World Records as the oldest practicing surgeon in the world. He retired from practice at the age of 102.

#16530

Georgia Mills Jessup

Georgia Mills Jessup

#146224

Overall Influence

1926 - 2016 (90 years)

Georgia Mills Jessup was an American painter, sculptor, ceramicist, muralist, and collage artist. Early life and education Jessup, a native of Washington, D.C., was of African-American, Native American, and European descent. Her father, Joseph Mills, identified as a Pamunkey descendant; her mother was Margaret Hall Mills, a hairdresser who had dreamed of a career in the theater.

#16531

Fern Shaffer

#127284

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Fern Shaffer is an American painter, performance artist, lecturer and environmental advocate. Her work arose in conjunction with an emerging Ecofeminism movement that brought together environmentalism, feminist values and spirituality to address shared concern for the Earth and all forms of life. She first gained widespread recognition for a four-part, shamanistic performance cycle, created in collaboration with photographer Othello Anderson in 1985. Writer and critic Suzi Gablik praised their work for its rejection of the technocratic, rationalizing mindset of modernity, in favor of communion with magic, the mysterious and primordial, and the soul.

#16532

Lavinia Loughridge

#101204

Overall Influence

1930 - 2014 (84 years)

Lavinia Winifred Loughridge was a Northern Irish physician who specialised in nephrology. She was one of the pioneers of kidney transplantation, working with Sir Roy Yorke Calne on Britain's first transplantation programme to use cadaveric kidneys.

#16533

Gottlieb Olpp

1872 - 1950 (78 years)

Gottlieb Friedrich Adolf Olpp was a German missionary and tropical medicine doctor, accredited with spreading Traditional Chinese Medicine and aiding the development of sinology in Germany and the West in early 20th century. As a medical missionary from the Rhenish Missionary Society from 1898 to 1907 in Dongguan, Guangdong Province of China, he conducted extensive research on local diseases and healing practices, such as Traditional Chinese Medicine and wrote extensively throughout his life for publication in Germany on the topic of tropical medicine, theology and missionary work. After his...

#16534

David F. Hardwick

#82871

Overall Influence

1934 - 2021 (87 years)

David Francis Hardwick MD, FRCPC, FCAP was a Canadian medical academic and researcher in the field of paediatric pathology. Hardwick was involved with The University of British Columbia for more than sixty years as a student, professor, and Professor Emeritus. His research included the first description of histopathologic implications of differential survival of Wilms' Tumors to pathogenesis of L-methionine toxicity and administrative/management research.

#16535

Thomas Wilton

1270 - 1320 (50 years)

Thomas Wilton was an English theologian and scholastic philosopher, a pupil of Duns Scotus, a teacher at the University of Oxford and then the University of Paris, where he taught Walter Burley. He was a Fellow of Merton College from about 1288.

#16536

Innocent Gangaidzo

#84794

Overall Influence

Innocent Tichaona Gangaidzo, is a Zimbabwean gastroenterologist, who currently serves as the president of the East, Central, and Southern Africa College of Physicians . Gangaidzo is the current editor-in-chief of the Central African Journal of Medicine.

#16537

Evander

201 BC - 101 BC (100 years)

Evander , born in Phocis or Phocaea, was the pupil and successor of Lacydes, and was joint leader of the Academy at Athens together with Telecles. In the final ten years of Lacydes' life , Evander and Telecles had helped run the Academy due to Lacydes being seriously ill. They continued running the Academy after the death of Lacydes, without formally being elected scholarchs. On Telecles' death in 167/6 BC, Evander remained scholarch for a few more years. Evander himself was succeeded by his pupil Hegesinus. Concerning the opinions and writings of this philosopher nothing is known except t...

#16538

Werner Wolf

#168721

Overall Influence

1925 - 2019 (94 years)

Werner Wolf was a German musicologist and music critic. The acknowledged Wagner researcher was co-editor of Sämtlicher Briefe of the composer from 1967 to 1979. He also presented several opera performances. In 1981 he was appointed professor at the Leipzig University.

#16539

Nabil Maleh

#134062

Overall Influence

1936 - 2016 (80 years)

Nabil Maleh was a Syrian film director, screenwriter, producer, painter and poet; he is thought to be a father of Syrian cinema. Nabil has published more than 1,000 articles short stories, essays and poems. He is the writer and director of 120 short, experimental and documentary works and 12 feature-length films including The Extras and The Leopard. He has more than 60 awards at international film festivals, including several lifetime achievement awards. Several of his films are in the curriculum of international film schools and he has taught film direction, acting, writing and aesthetics at...

#16540

James Mosley

#18439

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (91 years)

James Mosley is a retired librarian and historian whose work has specialised in the history of printing and letter design. The main part of Mosley's career has been 42 years as Librarian of the St Bride Printing Library in London, where he curated and worked to expand the museum's large collection of printing and lettering materials, books and examples. This collection greatly expanded with the close of the metal type era, which saw many companies and printing shops selling off their equipment and archives. Mosley also expanded the library's collection of lettering and signs. He has also been...

#16541

Su Xuelin

1897 - 1999 (102 years)

Su Xuelin or Su Hsüeh-lin was a Chinese writer and scholar. Early life Su Xuelin was born to a family of officials native to Anhui province in 1897. Her grandfather, Su Jinxin, served as a magistrate in several counties in Zhejiang province, where Su Xuelin was born. Her mother was surnamed Tu, but had no formal first name, instead going by the nickname To-Ni. Su's father held a minor official position, first under the Qing dynasty and then the Republic of China. Su had three brothers and two sisters.

#16542

Sarah Blagden

#144960

Overall Influence

Sarah Blagden is a Professor of Experimental Oncology at the University of Oxford. Her laboratory research is in investigating post-transcriptional mechanisms for ovarian cancer behavior. Her clinical research is in conducting early phase trials in novel cancer therapeutics for people with advanced malignancies.

#16543

Roselyn P. Epps

#67773

Overall Influence

1930 - 2014 (84 years)

Roselyn Elizabeth Payne Epps was an American pediatrician and public health physician. She was the first African American president of the American Medical Women's Association and wrote more than 90 professional articles. She died on September 29, 2014.

#16544

Evan Lyon

#104984

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Evan Lyon is the Illinois Director for Partners In Health's Public Health Accompaniment Unit. He served as the Chief Integrative Health Officer for the Heartland Alliance Health - a Chicago-based NGO serving people experiencing homelessness, mental illness, addiction, and chronic illness - from 2016 to 2020.

#16545

Moncef Slaoui

#20761

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Moncef Mohamed Slaoui is a Moroccan-born Belgian-American researcher who served as the head of Operation Warp Speed under President Donald Trump from 2020 to 2021. Slaoui is the former head of the vaccines department at GlaxoSmithKline . He worked at the company for thirty years, retiring in 2017. On May 15, 2020, President Donald Trump announced that Slaoui would manage the U.S. government's development of a vaccine used to treat coronavirus disease in OPWASP; Slaoui resigned on January 12, 2021 after successfully having helped introduce a number of vaccines to the US and global markets. In...

#16546

Lennart Persson

#185728

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#16547

David Berson

#94129

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David M. Berson is Professor of Medical Science at Brown University. He helped lead the way in the discovery of a third class of mammalian photoreceptors by providing the first electrophysiological recordings from intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells.

#16548

Sigrid Quack

#81109

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Sigrid Quack is a German social scientist working in the field of comparative sociology. She is a professor of sociology at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany, where she is the Director of the Centre for Global Cooperation Research, and was a senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University.

#16549

Thomas Okey

1852 - 1935 (83 years)

Thomas Okey was an expert on basket weaving, a translator of Italian, and a writer on art and the topography of architecture and art works in Italy and France. Okey's first experience of the Italian language came when he attended the Extension Lectures at Toynbee Hall in the 1880s.

#16550

Fred Weick

1899 - 1993 (94 years)

Fred Ernest Weick was an airmail pilot, research engineer, and aircraft designer. Working at the NACA, he won the 1929 Collier Trophy for his design of the NACA cowling for radial air-cooled engines. Weick's aircraft designs include the Ercoupe, Piper PA-25 Pawnee, and Cherokee.

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