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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#16601

Jo-Anne H. Young

#110624

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Jo-Anne H. Young is an American physician, scientist, and Editor-in-Chief of Clinical Microbiology Reviews, published by the American Society for Microbiology. Her expertise is in the areas of transplantation, infectious diseases, infections of the immune compromised host, and clinical mycology and virology.

#16602

Arthur McGill

1926 - 1980 (54 years)

Arthur Chute McGill was a Canadian-born American theologian and philosopher. Biography Born in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, on August 7, 1926, McGill moved to Brookline, Massachusetts, later that year where he attended Rivers Country Day School, still extant today. He is mentioned in The Lustre of Our Country The American Experience of Religious Freedom, by prominent Senior Circuit Judge John T. Noonan Jr. The two men prayed and sung Protestant hymns together at the school, and Noonan refers to him as a boyhood rival: "... my River's classmate, Arthur Chute McGill, who later became a professor at Harvard Divinity School.

#16603

Kate Cavanagh

#157236

Overall Influence

1951 - 2008 (57 years)

For those of a similar name, see Kate Kavanagh Catherine Cavanagh was a social worker, social science researcher and activist. She worked in the fields of domestic violence, child abuse and rape, with the aim of understanding extreme forms of violence in order to develop prevention strategies.

#16604

Gnaeus Claudius Severus Arabianus

113 - 200 (87 years)

Gnaeus Claudius Severus Arabianus was a senator and philosopher who lived in the Roman Empire. Life Severus was the son of the consul and first Roman Governor of Arabia Petraea, Gaius Claudius Severus, by an unnamed mother. Severus was of Pontian Greek descent. He was born and raised in Pompeiopolis, a city in the Roman province of Galatia.

#16605

David Martin

1737 - 1797 (60 years)

David Martin was a Scottish painter and engraver. Born in Fife, he studied in Italy and England, before gaining a reputation as a portrait painter. Early life Born in Anstruther Easter, he was the first of the five children of John Martin , Anstruther Easter's parish schoolmaster, and his second wife, Mary Boyack .

#16606

Lena Horne

#83313

Overall Influence

1917 - 2010 (93 years)

Lena Mary Calhoun Horne was an American singer, actress, dancer, and civil rights activist. Horne's career spanned more than seventy years, appearing in film, television, and theatre. Horne joined the chorus of the Cotton Club at the age of sixteen and became a nightclub performer before moving to Hollywood.

#16607

James Petrie

#162034

Overall Influence

1941 - 2001 (60 years)

Prof James Colquhoun Petrie was a Scottish medical doctor, Professor of Clinical Pharmacology, from 1985, and Head of the Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, from 1994 at the University of Aberdeen.

#16608

Petre P. Negulescu

1872 - 1951 (79 years)

Petre Paul Negulescu was a Romanian philosopher and conservative politician, known as a disciple and continuator of Titu Maiorescu. Affiliated with Maiorescu's Junimea society from his early twenties, he debuted as a positivist and monist, attempting to reconcile art for art's sake with an evolutionist philosophy of culture. He was a lecturer and tenured professor at the University of Iași, where he promoted the Junimist lobby against left-wing competitors, and formalized his links with the Conservative Party in 1901. From 1910, he taught at the University of Bucharest, publishing works on Re...

#16609

Hawley Harvey Crippen

Hawley Harvey Crippen

1862 - 1910 (48 years)

Hawley Harvey Crippen , colloquially known as Dr. Crippen, was an American homeopath, ear and eye specialist and medicine dispenser who was hanged in Pentonville Prison, London, for the murder of his wife, Cora Henrietta Crippen. He was one of the first criminals to be captured with the aid of wireless telegraphy.

#16610

Bob Fosse

1927 - 1987 (60 years)

Robert Louis Fosse was an American actor, choreographer, dancer, and film and stage director. He directed and choreographed musical works on stage and screen, including the stage musicals The Pajama Game , Damn Yankees , How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying , Sweet Charity , Pippin , and Chicago . He directed the films Sweet Charity , Cabaret , Lenny , All That Jazz , and Star 80 .

#16611

Tawanna Dillahunt

#99205

Overall Influence

Tawanna Dillahunt is an American computer scientist and information scientist based at the University of Michigan School of Information. She runs the Social Innovations Group, a research group that designs, builds, and enhances technologies to solve real-world problems. Her research has been cited over 2,700 times according to Google Scholar.

#16612

Ingeborg Rapoport

Ingeborg Rapoport

#26357

Overall Influence

1912 - 2017 (105 years)

Ingeborg Rapoport was a German pediatrician who was a prominent figure in East German medicine and, at age 102, the oldest person to receive a Doctorate degree. Rapoport studied medicine in Hamburg in Nazi Germany, but was denied a medical degree because her mother was of Jewish ancestry. She fled Nazi persecution and emigrated to the United States in 1938, where she completed her education in medicine. In the early 1950s, as a result of an investigation of her and her husband for un-American activities, she left the United States and eventually, after staying in Vienna for a year, moved to the German Democratic Republic .

#16613

Erwin Bälz

1849 - 1913 (64 years)

Erwin Otto Eduard von Bälz , often simply known as Erwin Bälz without the noble "von" particle, was a German internist, anthropologist, and personal physician to the Japanese Imperial Family and cofounder of modern western medicine in Japan.

#16614

Sabrina Kitaka

#142925

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Sabrina Bakeera Kitaka , commonly known as Sabrina Kitaka, is a Ugandan physician, pediatrician, pediatric infectious diseases specialist and academic, who serves as a senior lecturer in the Department of Pediatrics at Makerere University School of Medicine.

#16615

Neera K. Badhwar

#186043

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Neera K. Badhwar is an Indian philosopher and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Oklahoma. She is known for her works on ethics and political philosophy. Books Friendship: A Philosophical Reader .Is Virtue Only A Means to Happiness? , 2nd edition .Well-Being: Happiness in a Worthwhile Life .

#16616

Edward W. Crosby

Edward W. Crosby

#85292

Overall Influence

1932 - 2021 (89 years)

Edward Warren Crosby , was an African-American professor/administrator emeritus, in the Department of Pan-African Studies at Kent State University . As a pioneer in the field of Black education his most notable accomplishments include the establishment of Black History Month and the Department of Pan-African Studies at KSU. The Institute for African American Affairs and the Center of Pan-African Culture were two of the first institutions of their kind to be established at institutions of higher education.

#16617

Claire McLintock

#148805

Overall Influence

1965 - 2022 (57 years)

Marie Claire McLintock was a New Zealand haematologist and obstetric physician. She was an expert in medical conditions and disorders related to bleeding and blood clotting, and medical problems associated with pregnancy.

#16618

Georg Theodor August Gaffky

Georg Theodor August Gaffky

1850 - 1918 (68 years)

Georg Theodor August Gaffky was a Hanover-born bacteriologist best known for identifying bacillus salmonella typhi as the cause of typhoid disease in 1884. Early life and career Gaffky's parents were the shipping agent Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Gaffky, and Emma Schumacher. His medical studies at the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin were completed in 1873 after an interruption by the Franco-Prussian War in 1870. His dissertation postulated a relationship between lead poisoning and kidney disease. He worked as an assistant at the Berlin Charité hospital and passed the state medical exams in 1875.

#16619

Neal Zaslaw

#56728

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Neal Zaslaw is an American musicologist. Life and career Born in New York, Zaslaw graduated from Harvard in 1961 with a BA and obtained his master's from Juilliard in 1963. He played flute in the American Symphony Orchestra under Leopold Stokowski from 1962 to 1965. In 1970 he received his Ph.D from Columbia University; he also taught at CUNY, 1968-70. Since 1970 he has taught at Cornell University.

#16620

Ray Bush

#102032

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Raymond Carey Bush is a professor of African studies at the school of politics and international studies at the University of Leeds. He is a member of the Leeds University Centre for African Studies advisory board and deputy chair of the Review of African Political Economy . Bush is married to Dr. Mette Wiggen, a fellow academic at POLIS.

#16621

Isaac Abarbanel

Isaac Abarbanel

1437 - 1508 (71 years)

Isaac ben Judah Abarbanel , commonly referred to as Abarbanel , also spelled Abravanel, Avravanel, or Abrabanel, was a Portuguese Jewish statesman, philosopher, Bible commentator, and financier. Name Some debate exists over whether his last name should be pronounced Abarbanel or Abravanel. The traditional pronunciation is Abarbanel. Modern scholarly literature, since Graetz and Baer, has most commonly used Abravanel, but his own son Judah insisted on Abarbanel, and Sefer HaTishbi by Elijah Levita, who was a nearby contemporary, twice vowels the name as Abarbinel .

#16622

Bruce Mann

#90437

Overall Influence

Gregory Bruce Mann is an Australian surgical oncologist. He is the Director of Breast Cancer Services at the Royal Women's Hospital in Melbourne, Australia, the largest specialist women's care hospital in Australia.

#16623

Kevin P. Clements

#39258

Overall Influence

Kevin Clements is an Emeritus Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Otago, New Zealand. He was formerly Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies and Foundation Director of the Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Queensland. He has also been Secretary General of the International Peace Research Association since January 2009. Since 2016 he was appointed Director of the Toda Peace Institute , Tokyo, Japan.

#16624

Rudolf Kaltenbach

Rudolf Kaltenbach

1842 - 1893 (51 years)

Rudolf Kaltenbach was a German gynecologist who was a native of Freiburg im Breisgau. In 1865 he earned his medical doctorate from the University of Vienna, and afterwards trained under Johann von Dumreicher at the surgical hospital in Vienna. From 1867 to 1873 he was an assistant to Alfred Hegar in Freiburg, and was later a professor of gynecology and obstetrics at the University of Giessen. In 1887 he became an OB/GYN professor at Halle, where he succeeded Robert Michaelis von Olshausen . Kaltenbach served in the military during the Austro-Prussian and Franco-Prussian Wars.

#16625

Peter Petersen

#88493

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Peter Petersen is a German musicologist, professor emeritus of the University of Hamburg. He focus on 20th-century music, rhythm, and was instrumental in the university's Exile Music Working Group and the online Lexikon verfolgter Musiker und Musikerinnen der NS-Zeit.

#16626

Levi Watkins

#22770

Overall Influence

1944 - 2015 (71 years)

Levi Watkins Jr. was an American heart surgeon and civil rights activist. On February 4, 1980, he and Vivien Thomas were the first to successfully implant an automatic defibrillator in a human patient at Johns Hopkins University. This took place only a mere seven months after Watkins completed his surgical education at Johns Hopkins. Today, millions of patients everywhere use this device, which detects irregular heart beats and corrects them.

#16627

Emanuel Levy

#57833

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Emanuel Levy is an American film critic and professor emeritus of sociology and film of Arizona State University. For the past four decades, he has taught a wide variety of courses in the areas of sociology and politics of film, and popular culture at Columbia University, New School for Social Research, Wellesley College, UCLA School of Theater, Film & Television, and Arizona State University.

#16628

Mordaunt Hall

1878 - 1973 (95 years)

Mordaunt Hall was the first regularly assigned motion picture critic for The New York Times, working from October 1924 to September 1934. His writing style was described in his Times obituary as "chatty, irreverent, and not particularly analytical. […] The interest of other critics in analyzing cinematographic techniques was not for him."

#16629

George Skene

1741 - Present (285 years)

Prof George Skene of Rubislaw was an 18th-century Scottish physician who co-founded the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1783. Life He was born in Rubislaw House in Aberdeen in 1741 the son of Francis Skene, Regent of Marischal College and great grandson of George Skene, Provost of Aberdeen.

#16630

David Regan

#155635

Overall Influence

1939 - 1994 (55 years)

David Regan was a British academic who was a head of the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham. Regan was a Francis Hill Professor of Local Government at the University of Nottingham and a member of the Bruges Group that rejected the idea of a 'federal' European Union.

#16631

Kurt Schwaen

#95587

Overall Influence

1909 - 2007 (98 years)

Kurt Schwaen was a German composer. Professional career Schwaen studied piano, organ and composition under Fritz Lubrich. From 1929 to 1933 he studied at the universities of Berlin and Breslau, where his teachers included Curt Sachs and Arnold Schering. In 1930 he met Hanns Eisler who had a profound impact on his compositional style. After becoming active in an anti-fascist student group, he joined the Communist Party of Germany; from 1935 to 1938 he was imprisoned because of his political views.

#16632

Mandan Mishra

#61080

Overall Influence

1929 - 2001 (72 years)

Dr. Mandan Mishra was a noted Sanskrit scholar from India and founder of Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha. In 2000 he was awarded Padma Shri by Government of India for his excellent and devoted work in the field of Sanskrit.

#16633

Walter Mackenzie

Walter Mackenzie

1909 - 1978 (69 years)

Walter Campbell Mackenzie was a Canadian surgeon and academic. Born in Glace Bay, Cape Breton, Mackenzie received his BSc in 1927 and MD in 1932 from Dalhousie University and was honoured as one of two Malcolm Honour Society Medal winners. He began surgery training at McGill University then moved to the Mayo Clinic in 1933 to complete his MSc. From 1940 to 1945 served in the Royal Canadian Navy where he was promoted to surgeon-commander.

#16634

Antonios Zavaliangos

#186083

Overall Influence

Antonios Zavaliangos is an American material scientist and engineer, and currently the A. W. Grosvenor professor at Drexel University. He is also a published author. Zavaliangos is also the Director of the CMSE Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need, Director of GAANN-Pharma, and Co-Director of the Drexel Research Experiences in Advanced Materials NSF REU Site.

#16635

Suzanne M. De La Monte

#186085

Overall Influence

#16636

Roger Field

#57031

Overall Influence

Roger John Field is a retired New Zealand plant scientist and university administrator. He served as the vice-chancellor of Lincoln University from 2004 to 2012. Career Born in Birmingham, England, on 5 July 1946, Field completed a joint honours degree in botany and zoology at the University of Hull, and a PhD in plant science, also at Hull. The title of his doctoral thesis was The movement of plant growth regulators and herbicides.

#16637

Joy Wolfram

#125070

Overall Influence

1989 - Present (37 years)

Joy Wolfram is a Finnish nanoscientist. She is known for her pioneering work in nanomedicine concerning the treatment of cancer, cardiovascular diseases and other life-threatening illnesses. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Queensland, in the school of Chemical Engineering and the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology. She was the forefront of the Extracellular Vesicles and Nanomedicine laboratory at Mayo Clinic. She is also an affiliate faculty member at Houston Methodist Hospital's Department of Nanomedecine. Wolfram sits as a scientific advisor and a...

#16638

Gerhard Jorch

#108326

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Gerhard Jorch is a German pediatrician. He is Professor for general pediatrics and neonatology at the Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg and director of the University children's hospital. Curriculum vitae Gerhard Jorch was born as the eldest of seven siblings in Neuhaus. He got highschool education at Gymnasium Theodorianum Paderborn and thereafter performed his medical study at the Philipps-University of Marburg from 1970-1977 supported by a national grant . He finished his doctoral thesis work in 1976. From 1977 – 1982 he performed pediatric training at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Univ...

#16639

Isabella Akyinbah Quakyi

#138362

Overall Influence

Isabella Akyinbah Quakyi is a Ghanaian academic. She is a professor of Immunology and Parasitology at the University of Ghana and the Foundation Dean of the University of Ghana School of Public Health. She is also a researcher in the field of medicine and a health practitioner. She is a fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a fellow of the African Academy of Sciences. Professor Quakyi was recognized by Newsweek magazine as one of “seven women scientists who defied the odds and changed science forever”.

#16640

Juan de Mal Lara

Juan de Mal Lara

1524 - 1571 (47 years)

Juan de Mal Lara was a Spanish humanist, poet, playwright and paremiologue at the University of Seville during the period of the Spanish Renaissance in the reign of Philip II of Spain. Biography Mal Lara studied Latin and Greek grammar at the College of San Miguel in Sevilla. His teacher was Pedro Fernandez de Castilleja and later Mal Lara taught humanities to Mateo Alemán. It was a decade later, after studying at the University of Salamanca, where he was student of Hernán Núñez one of classmates was Francisco Sánchez de las Brozas, known as the "Brocense"; later he went to Valencia and Barcelona, where he completed his studies with Francisco Escobar before returning again to Salamanca.

#16641

Francisco Moreno Capdevila

#92670

Overall Influence

1926 - 1995 (69 years)

Francisco Moreno Capdevila was a Mexican artist of Spanish origin, best noted for his engraving and other graphic work. He came to Mexico as a political refugee after the fall of the Republicans in 1939. Unlike other Spanish artists of his generation, he was young when he arrived and did not begin studying or working in art until he was in Mexico. His work generally had cultural and political themes, but also included a portable mural about the fall of Tenochtitlan. This work was at the Museo de la Ciudad de México for thirty years, but today it is at the law school of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

#16642

Richard Abel

#142720

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Richard Owen Abel is a professor of Comparative Literature in the University of Michigan, United States. He has presented several anthologies of French texts translated in English including Colette's first review about The Cheat, Louis Delluc's critics, and Marcel L'Herbier's manifesto. He won the Theatre Library Association Award in 1985, 1995 and 2006.

#16643

Laura Bentivolgio Davia

1689 - Present (337 years)

Laura Bentivoglio Davia was an Italian aristocratic philosopher engaged in the pursuit of knowledge and natural philosophy. She was known primarily for creating relationships with leading natural philosophers associated with the University of Bologna and the Istituto delle Scienze .

#16644

Walter Channing

1786 - 1876 (90 years)

Walter Channing was an American physician and professor of medicine. He was the brother of preacher William Ellery Channing and of fellow Harvard professor , Edward Tyrrel Channing. He was also the father of the poet William Ellery Channing. He was married to Eliza Wainwright Channing from 1831 until her death in 1834.

#16645

Edward G. Holley

#72102

Overall Influence

1927 - 2010 (83 years)

Edward G. Holley was an American librarian, library historian and educator. Holley graduated from David Lipscomb College in Nashville, Tennessee in 1949 with a bachelor's degree in English. In 1951 he graduated from George Peabody College for Teachers in Nashville, Tennessee with a master's in library science. Holley went on to receive his Ph.D. in library science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1961. He wrote, Charles Evans : American Bibliographer.

#16646

Joan Straumanis

#125550

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (89 years)

Joan Straumanis is an academic administrator, philosopher, second-wave feminist, mathematician, civil libertarian, public speaker, and American pioneer in women's studies. She co-created the first women's studies program outside a public university, and served as president of both Antioch College and the Metropolitan College of New York and as academic dean at other institutions.

#16647

Mao Xinyu

#129162

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Mao Xinyu is a grandson of Mao Zedong and a major general in the People's Liberation Army of the People's Republic of China. Early life and education Mao was born in 17 January 1970 at People's Liberation Army General Hospital in Beijing. He is the only child of Mao Anqing and Shao Hua and one of Mao Zedong's twelve grandchildren. He spent the first 11 years of his life away from his parents, who were based in Russia. He graduated from the History Department of Renmin University of China in 1992. He works as a researcher at the People's Liberation Army Academy of Military Sciences, where he c...

#16648

Þorsteinn Gylfason

#148081

Overall Influence

1942 - 2005 (63 years)

Þorsteinn Gylfason was an Icelandic philosopher, translator, musician and poet. Þorsteinn distinguished himself in Icelandic public life with his writings in newspapers, journals and publications.

#16649

Joan Kaderavek

#131204

Overall Influence

Joan Nybell Kaderavek is an American Speech-Language Pathologist, currently a retired Distinguished Professor at University of Toledo. She has published the book "Language Disorders in Children: Fundamental Concepts of Assessment and Intervention."

#16650

Thomas Reid

Thomas Reid was a Scottish humanist and philosopher who became Latin secretary to King James VI and I. Life He was second son of James Reid, minister of Banchory Ternan, Kincardineshire, a cadet of the Pitfoddels family. Alexander Reid the surgeon, was a younger brother. Thomas was educated at the grammar school, Aberdeen, and at Marischal College and University, where he appears to have graduated M.A. about 1600. In 1602 he was appointed to a mastership in the grammar school, which he resigned in the following year on being chosen one of the regents in Marischal College.

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