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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#16751

Mike Lesser

#58832

Overall Influence

1943 - 2015 (72 years)

Michael John Lesser was a mathematical philosopher and political activist. Early life The youngest member of the Committee of 100, he was sent, aged 16, to Wormwood Scrubs Prison along with most of the committee. He served two spells as contributor to London's underground journal International Times.

#16752

Darlene Dixon

#108050

Overall Influence

Darlene Dixon is an American veterinary scientist and toxicologic pathologist researching the pathogenesis/carcinogenesis of tumors affecting the reproductive tract of rodents and humans and assessing the role of environmental and endogenous hormonal factors in the growth of these tumors. She is a senior investigator at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.

#16753

Ophira Ginsburg

#110375

Overall Influence

Ophira Michal Ginsburg is a Canadian oncologist. Early life and education Ginsburg was born and raised in Canada, where she completed her undergraduate degree and medical degree. Ginsburg attended Queen's University at Kingston for her Bachelor of Science degree before enrolling at McGill University for her Master of Science degree in human genetics. Ginsburg eventually returned to Queen's for her medical degree before accepting a residency and fellowship at the University of Toronto .

#16754

Michael Casey

#92656

Overall Influence

Michael A. Casey is James Wright Professor of Music at Dartmouth College, where he is also the Chair of the Department of Music. He was educated at Lutterworth College, the University of East Anglia where he received a BA in music, at Dartmouth College where he received an MA in music, and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he completed his PhD in media arts and sciences in 1998. He was previously Professor of Computer Science at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he directed the Media Futures Laboratory. He has an h-index of 32 according to Google Scholar.

#16755

Gottfried Wilhelm Fink

Gottfried Wilhelm Fink

1783 - 1846 (63 years)

Gottfried Wilhelm Fink was a German composer, music theorist, poet, and a Protestant clergyman. Life From 1804 until 1808 Fink studied theology at the University of Leipzig where he joined the Corps Lusatia. There he made his first attempts at composition and poetry. Most of his song compositions are attributed to this period. From 1811 he held the office of vicar in Leipzig for some years, where he also founded an educational institution which he led until 1829. Since the beginning of the 19th century he worked for the Allgemeine musikalische Zeitschrift . In 1827 he became the magazine's...

#16756

Peter Tudvad

#173877

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Peter Tudvad is a Danish Søren Kierkegaard scholar, author, philosopher and social critic, formerly at the Søren Kierkegaard Research Center and at the University of Copenhagen; he left the Søren Kierkegaard Research Center after a heated debate with colleague Joakim Garff, whose Kierkegaard biography he lambasted in his own book Kierkegaards København.

#16757

Edwin-Michael Cortez

#92943

Overall Influence

1951 - 2018 (67 years)

Edwin-Michael Cortez was a library science professor and director of the School of Information Sciences at the University of Tennessee. Early life Cortez was born in New York City the son of Michael and Cecilia Cortez. He graduated from Wagner College in 1972, received his Master of Library Science from University of Arizona in 1973 and Doctor of Philosophy in Information Science and Management Communication from the University of Southern California in 1980.

#16758

Anna Luise Kirkengen

#179786

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Anna Luise Kirkengen is a Norwegian physician and researcher. She is a professor of public health at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. Born and trained in Germany, she has been a general practitioner in Oslo for over 30 years, being the only female GP in her district. Her PhD thesis studied health problems in adulthood associated with childhood sexual abuse which she has authored into a book entitled Inscribed Bodies: Health Impact of Child Sexual Abuse.

#16759

Henning von Gierke

#142101

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Henning von Gierke, born December 22, 1947 in Karlsruhe, is a German painter, set designer, production designer and art director. He has collaborated with director Werner Herzog on a number of projects. Among his many collaborations with other film, theatre and opera directors, Gierke is most notable as a painter.

#16760

Lou Lumenick

#95411

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Louis J. Lumenick is an American film critic. He was the chief film critic and film editor for the New York Post where he reviewed films from 1999 until his retirement in 2016. He is currently researching the history of theatrical motion pictures on television.

#16761

Milena Králíčková

#114238

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Milena Králíčková is a Czech physician and university professor, specializing in histology and embryology. Since February 2022, she has served as the Rector of Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, making her the first woman to hold this position.

#16762

Adriane Rini

#70047

Overall Influence

Adriane Allison Rini is an academic and professor of philosophy at Massey University in New Zealand. Her research interests include Aristotelian logic, modal logic, and the history of logic. Academic career Rini earned a bachelor's degree at Smith College. She graduated with a PhD from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1997, with the thesis Modal Propositions in Aristotle's Syllogistic supervised by Gareth Matthews.

#16763

Rudolf Hausner

#35652

Overall Influence

1914 - 1995 (81 years)

Rudolf Hausner was an Austrian painter, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor. Hausner has been described as a "psychic realist" and "the first psychoanalytical painter" . Early life Of Jewish origins, Hausner's father was a commercial employee, and he worked as a Sunday painter, which made his son enthusiastic about art since early on. From 1923 to 1925 he attended the Schubert Realschule , then the Realgymnasium Schottenbastei in Vienna, until 1931. Hausner studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna from 1931 until 1936, with Carl Fahringer and Karl Sterrer.

#16764

George Montgomery

#156100

Overall Influence

1905 - 1993 (88 years)

George Lightbody Montgomery CBE FRSE TD was a 20th-century Scottish pathologist and medical author, holding multiple senior positions in the Scottish medical profession. Life He was born on 3 November 1905 in Glasgow the son of Jeanie Lightbody and John Montgomery. He attended Hillhead High School then studied medicine at the University of Glasgow graduating with an MB ChB in 1928. In 1931 he began lecturing in clinical pathology at the University of St Andrews, also gaining a doctorate there in 1937. In 1937 he moved home to Glasgow as a lecturer in pathology and pathologist to several hos...

#16765

Filipp Ovsyannikov

Filipp Ovsyannikov

1827 - 1906 (79 years)

Filipp Vasilievich Ovsyannikov was the first Russian histologist and the founder of sturgeon breeding. Ovsyannikov graduated from the University of Dorpat in 1853. He worked in Claude Bernard's laboratory in 1860 and in Carl Ludwig's laboratory in 1869. He held the chair in physiology at the University of Kazan from 1858 to 1862 and the chair in anatomy at the University of Saint Petersburg from 1864 to 1886. In 1864, he established the Physiological Laboratory for the Petersburg Academy of Sciences. Ovsyannikov's laboratory was used for research by such young physiologists as Elias von Cyon ...

#16766

François-Rodolphe de Weiss

1751 - 1818 (67 years)

François-Rodolphe de Weiss was a Swiss military officer, diplomat, writer, philosopher, and a follower of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Life He was born at Yverdon, son of François Rodolphe, seigneur de Daillens, and Henriette Russillon. He entered French military service in 1766, and Prussian in 1777. In 1785 he became a member of the Grand Conseil at Berne.

#16767

Adetokunbo Lucas

#71052

Overall Influence

1931 - 2020 (89 years)

Adetokunbo Oluwole Lucas was a Nigerian doctor who was considered a global leader in tropical diseases. Born in Lagos, he was educated in the United Kingdom and commenced his professional career in Nigeria. Lucas received the Prince Mahidol Award in 1999 for his support of strategic research on the tropical diseases. He served for ten years as the Director of Special Programmes for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases based at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. He was Adjunct Professor of International Health Department of Global Health and Population of the Harvard School of Public Health.

#16768

Shuddhananda Bharati

Shuddhananda Bharati

1897 - 1990 (93 years)

Kavi Yogi Maharishi Dr. Shuddhananda Bharati was an Indian philosopher and poet. His teachings are focused mainly on the search for God in Self, through the Sama Yoga practice he created. Biography Bharati was born in Sivaganga in South India, and attained Jeeva Samadhi in nearby Sholapuram. He spent 25 years in silence in Pondicherry from 1925 to 1950, in the Ashram of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother Mirra Alfassa. From the early 1950s to the 1970s, he lived beside the IIT near Adyar, Chennai. Bharati always lived alone, without an Ashram. He founded Shuddhananda Bharati Desiya Vidyalayam High ...

#16769

Michele Savonarola

Michele Savonarola

1384 - 1468 (84 years)

Michele Savonarola was an Italian physician, humanist and historian. He was professor of practical medicine at Padua before in 1440 becoming court physician to the House of Este at Ferrara. His grandson was the Dominican Order friar and preacher Girolamo Savonarola.

#16770

Otto von Schrön

1837 - 1917 (80 years)

Otto von Schrön was a German physician and epidemiologist born in Hof, Bavaria. He served as a professor of anatomy at the University of Napoli. Biography From 1855 he studied medicine at the Universities of Erlangen and Munich. After obtaining his medical degree, he relocated to Italy, working at the Universities of Turin and Pavia. In 1864 he became a professor of pathological anatomy at the University of Naples.

#16771

Judy Green

#87364

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Judith Green is an American logician and historian of mathematics who studies women in mathematics. She is a founding member of the Association for Women in Mathematics; she has also served as its vice president, and as the vice president of the American Association of University Professors.

#16772

Steve Irwin

#130643

Overall Influence

1962 - 2006 (44 years)

Stephen Robert Irwin , known as "The Crocodile Hunter", was an Australian zookeeper, conservationist, television personality, wildlife educator, and environmentalist. Irwin grew up around crocodiles and other reptiles and was educated regarding them by his father, Bob. He achieved international fame in the late 1990s from the television series The Crocodile Hunter, an internationally broadcast wildlife documentary series that he co-hosted with his wife, Terri. The couple also hosted the series Croc Files, The Crocodile Hunter Diaries, and New Breed Vets. They also co-owned and operated Australia Zoo, founded by Steve's parents in Beerwah, Queensland.

#16773

Tara N. Palmore

#97139

Overall Influence

Tara N. Palmore is an American physician-scientist and epidemiologist specializing in patient safety through prevention of hospital-acquired infections. As of 2021 she was the hospital epidemiologist at George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences.

#16774

Donald Wing

1904 - 1972 (68 years)

Donald Goddard Wing was an Associate Librarian at Yale University from 1939 to 1970, best known for his publication of the bibliographic work A Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America and of the English Books Printed in Other Countries, 1641-1700 , and companion work A Gallery of Ghosts; Books Published Between 1641-1700 Not Found in the Short-Title Catalogue . Wing's Short title catalogue was a continuation of the earlier A Short-Title Catalogue of Books….1475-1640 compiled by Pollard and Redgrave. His Short-Title Catalogue became so ...

#16775

Robert A. Schwartz

Robert A. Schwartz

#13728

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Robert Allen Schwartz is an American physician, biomedical researcher, university professor, and government official. He is Professor and Head of Dermatology, Professor of Medicine, Professor of Pediatrics, and Professor of Preventive Medicine and Community Health at the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Visiting Professor and Scholar of Public Affairs and Administration at the Rutgers School of Public Affairs and Administration, and serves on the Rutgers University Board of Trustees. He has made seminal contributions to medicine, including the discovery of AIDS-associated Kaposi sarcoma and Schwartz–Burgess syndrome.

#16776

Gertrude Van Wagenen

Gertrude Van Wagenen

1893 - 1978 (85 years)

Gertrude L. Van Wagenen was an American biologist. She was also a collector of anatomical illustrations and models. Early life Gertrude L. Van Wagenen was the daughter of Anthony Van Wagenen , a judge and lawyer in Sioux City, Iowa, and his wife Gertrude . She completed undergraduate studies at Iowa State University in 1913, where she majored in zoology and was a member of the Beta Zeta chapter of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority. For a few years after graduating, she taught in Ottumwa, Iowa, and endured a case of scarlet fever, with the quarantine it required. In 1918, she collected corals, ...

#16777

Anna-Louise Milne

#62852

Overall Influence

Anna-Louise Milne is a specialist of twentieth century Parisian history and culture. In particular she has been a leading commentator on the writer Jean Paulhan and the Nouvelle Revue Française, an important literary review of the 1930s and 1940s. She has published widely on French history and culture. She currently lectures at the University of London Institute in Paris .

#16778

Florence Pat Haseltine

Florence Pat Haseltine

#109096

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Florence Pat Haseltine is a U.S. physician, biophysicist, reproductive endocrinologist, journal editor, novelist, inventor, and advocate for women's health. She has been diagnosed with dyslexia. She built a diverse career in medicine. An associate professor at Yale University, her work specializes in obstetrics and gynecology as well as women's rights and gender bias in medicine. While at Yale, Haseltine established the embryology laboratory, which was one of the early labs to have a successful IVF baby. The Microscope used in the laboratory is now in Historical Collections of the National M...

#16779

Amin Husain

#171011

Overall Influence

Amin Husain is a Palestinian-American activist and adjunct professor. He is the lead organizer of Decolonize This Place and the MTL+ co-founder whose organization is founded on five main issues: Free Palestine, Indigenous Struggle, Black Liberation, Global Wage Workers, and de-gentrification. He is part of the part-time faculty at New York University and focuses on resistance and liberation and postcolonial theory in his teaching. He is a founding member of Global Ultra Luxury Faction; founding member and managing editor of the magazine Tidal: Occupy Theory, Occupy Strategy; founding member of the collective MTL; and founding member of NYC Solidarity with Palestine.

#16780

Catherine Brekus

#57962

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Catherine Anne Brekus is Charles Warren Professor of the History of Religion in America at Harvard Divinity School. Brekus' work is centered on American religious history, especially the religious history of women, focusing on the evangelical Protestant tradition.

#16781

Edgar A. Singer Jr.

1873 - 1954 (81 years)

Edgar Arthur Singer Jr. was an American philosopher, professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and proponent of experimentalism. Life and work Singer was a graduate student of George S. Fullerton at the University of Pennsylvania, where he received his Ph.D. in psychology in 1894 with the thesis entitled "On the composite nature of consciousness." After his dissertation, he briefly taught at Harvard for William James as an instructor in the psychology laboratory. He was professor at the University of Pennsylvania from 1909 until 1943. He was an elected member of the American Philosophical Society in 1925.

#16782

Laurence Dreyfus

#87050

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Laurence Dreyfus, FBA is an American musicologist and player of the viola da gamba who was University Lecturer and Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. Early life Dreyfus was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts, and lived in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, where he attended Cherry Hill High School West. He earned a B.A. at Yeshiva University, studied cello under Leonard Rose at the Juilliard School, and earned his Ph.D. in musicology at Columbia University, where he studied with the distinguished Bach scholar Christoph Wolff. Commuting from New York, he studied viola da gamba with Wieland Kuijk...

#16783

Michael Mackenzie

#113434

Overall Influence

1901 - Present (125 years)

Michael Mackenzie works in film, theatre and technology policy. He has directed two feature films, both theatrically released in Canada. His plays have been staged in Europe and North America and variously published in English, French, German and Hungarian. He has a Ph.D from L’Institut d'Histoire et Sociopolitique de Science, Université de Montréal. Past academic appointments include Visiting Fellow at Princeton University Professor of Humanities at Vanier College, and consultant at the United Nations.

#16784

Ulrich Hugwald

1496 - 1571 (75 years)

Ulrich Hugwald was a Swiss humanist scholar and Reformer. Born in Wilen near Bischofszell, county of Thurgau, he was enrolled in the theological faculty in Basel University from 1519. He published critical pamphlets with Basel printer Adam Petri from 1520. He was in correspondence with a number of reformers, such as Vadianus, Michael Stifel, Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples and Guillaume Farel. He also opened a private school of rhetorics in Basel. In 1524, he debated with Oecolampadius and Thomas Müntzer on the topic of believer's baptism. He joined the Basel Anabaptists in 1525, and was consequently imprisoned.

#16785

Ernst Fritz Schmid

1904 - 1960 (56 years)

Ernst Fritz Schmid was a German musicologist and Mozart scholar. Life Born in Tübingen, Schmid was the son of Wilhelm Schmid from Graz and grandson of Karl Emil Kauffmann. Initially, Schmid studied violin, viola and viola d'amore at the Akademie der Tonkunst in Munich from 1924 to 1927 and was also active as a violist in Düsseldorf in 1927. He then studied musicology in Freiburg, Tübingen and Vienna. He received his doctorate in 1929 and his habilitation in 1934. From 1935 to 1937 he was Extraordinarius for Musicology at the University of Tübingen and its university music director. Around 193...

#16786

Yi Eonjeok

1491 - 1553 (62 years)

Yi Eon-jeok , sometimes known by his art name Hoejae, was a Korean philosopher and politician during the Joseon dynasty. He was a public official and intellectual of the middle era of the Joseon Dynasty of Korea. He was born and died in Gyeongju, then the capital of Gyeongsang province. Like most intellectuals from Gyeongsang in this period, he was a member of the Sarim faction. He contributed to the polarity-nonpolarity debate in classical Korean Confucianism.

#16787

Filippo De Filippi

Filippo De Filippi

1869 - 1938 (69 years)

Filippo De Filippi was an Italian medical doctor, scientist, mountaineer and explorer. De Filippi was born in Turin on 6 April 1869 to Giuseppe De Filippi, a lawyer, and Olimpia Sella. Personal and professional life Working as a doctor De Filippi specialised in physiological chemistry and in experimental aspects of surgery, lecturing at Bologna and Genoa universities.

#16788

Luciano Salce

1922 - 1989 (67 years)

Luciano Salce was an Italian film director, comedian, tv host, producer, actor and lyricist. His 1962 film Le pillole di Ercole was shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival.

#16789

Jamie Theakston

#65415

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

James Paul Theakston is an English television presenter, producer, narrator and actor. He has hosted several television programmes for the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5. He co-presented the Saturday morning BBC One children's show Live & Kicking, alongside Zoe Ball between 1996 and 1999, and co-hosted the music programme Top of the Pops between 1998 and 2003. He currently co-hosts the national breakfast show with Amanda Holden on Heart Radio.

#16790

Vladimir Kanjuh

#66590

Overall Influence

1929 - Present (97 years)

Vladimir Kanjuh is a professor of pathology and cardiovascular pathology at the University of Belgrade's School of Medicine. He was the editor-in-chief of the journal Medical Investigation for 20 years.

#16791

Irving Bluestone

#39339

Overall Influence

1917 - 2007 (90 years)

Irving Julius Bluestone was an American trade union leader. He was the chief negotiator for almost a half a million workers at General Motors in the 1970s, and an advocate of worker participation in management. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Herman and Rebecca Chasman Bluestone, Lithuanian Jewish emigrants.

#16792

Gustav Behrend

1847 - 1925 (78 years)

Gustav Behrend was a German dermatologist who was a native of Neustettin . In 1870 he received his medical doctorate at the University of Berlin, and during the Franco-Prussian War, he served as an assistant at the Reserve Lazareth in Berlin. In 1882 he became a lecturer at Berlin, and in 1891 was appointed chief physician at the Municipal Dispensary for Sexual Diseases. In 1897 he received the title of professor.

#16793

Oskar Lassar

1849 - 1907 (58 years)

Oskar Lassar was a German dermatologist who was a native of Hamburg. After earning his medical doctorate in 1872, he worked briefly as a hospital assistant at the Berlin Charité. He later started a private hospital for dermatology and syphilis in Berlin. His clinic was known for being technologically advanced, and it was the first to have a Finsen ultraviolet light therapy device and X-ray machine. In 1902 he became a professor at the University of Berlin.

#16794

Edmund Lesser

1852 - 1918 (66 years)

Edmund Lesser was a German dermatologist who was a native of Neisse. He studied medicine at the universities of Berlin, Bonn and Strasbourg, earning his medical doctorate in 1876. Later he became an assistant to Oskar Simon at the dermatological clinic in Breslau, and in 1882 received his habilitation at the University of Leipzig. In 1892 he was an associate professor at the University of Bonn, and several years later was appointed chief physician of the syphilitic department at the Berlin-Charité . The following year he became head of the dermatological and syphilitic dispensary at the Univ...

#16795

Charlotte Clarke

#66470

Overall Influence

Charlotte Laura Clarke is the Professor of Health in Social Science at the University of Edinburgh. Her research centres on the experiences of living with dementia. Early life and education Clarke qualified as a nurse in 1986 from what was then called Glasgow College of Technology and worked clinically for a number of years in the National Health Service before moving into roles that were more focused on education and research. She received a part-time PhD studentship from the Regional Health Authority and focused on the experiences of carers of people with dementia. Her doctoral thesis, award...

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Dionysius the Renegade

330 BC - 250 BC (80 years)

Dionysius the Renegade , also known as Dionysius of Heraclea, was a Stoic philosopher and pupil of Zeno of Citium who, late in life, abandoned Stoicism when he became afflicted by terrible pain. Life He was the son of Theophantus. In early life he was a disciple of Heraclides, Alexinus, and Menedemus, and afterwards of Zeno, who appears to have induced him to adopt Stoicism. At a later time he was afflicted with terrible eye pain, which caused him to abandon Stoic philosophy, and to join the Cyrenaics, whose doctrine, that hedonism and the absence of pain was the highest good, had more charms for him than the austere ethics of Stoicism.

#16797

Nathanael Gottfried Leske

Nathanael Gottfried Leske

1751 - 1786 (35 years)

Nathanael Gottfried Leske was a German natural scientist and geologist. After his studies at Bergakademie of Freiberg in Saxony and the Franckeschen Stiftungen in Halle, Leske became a special professor of natural history at the University of Leipzig in 1775.

#16798

Georg Karl Pfahler

#47725

Overall Influence

1926 - 2002 (76 years)

Georg Karl Pfahler was a German painter, printmaker and sculptor, and one of the leading proponents of post-war art in Germany. Biography After enrolling at the Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg between 1948 and 1949, Pfahler pursued his artistic training at State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart, which he attended until 1954. Although Pfahler had mainly worked in ceramics during his student days, as a freelance artist, he focused increasingly on painting. After his early "Metropolitan" pictures, Pfahler developed pictorial configurations around 1956, in which he experimented with the spatial effects of color in a manner reminiscent of the pointillist technique used by French Divisionists.

#16799

Kristi Sweet

#183776

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (50 years)

Kristi E. Sweet is an American philosopher and associate professor of philosophy at Texas A&M University. She is known for her expertise on Kantian philosophy. Books Kant on Practical Life: From Duty to History, Cambridge University Press, 2013,

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Mungo William MacCallum

Mungo William MacCallum

1854 - 1942 (88 years)

Sir Mungo William MacCallum KCMG was Chancellor of the University of Sydney from 1934 to 1936, and a noted literary critic. Early life Mungo William MacCallum was born in Glasgow, Scotland, the son of Mungo MacCallum, merchant, and his wife Isabella, née Renton. He studied at the University of Glasgow and at Berlin and Leipzig. In Germany MacCallum concentrated on medieval literature, he published several articles in the Cornhill Magazine in 1879-80. In 1884 he published Studies in Low German and High German literature.

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