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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#16851

Sander J. H. Van Deventer

#186988

Overall Influence

#16852

Takeo Yamaguchi

Takeo Yamaguchi

1902 - 1983 (81 years)

Takeo Yamaguchi was an avant-garde Japanese painter of monochrome Art Informel works. About Yamaguchi studied Western painting at the Tokyo Art School. Upon graduation in 1927, he moved to Paris to study European painting. He developed his mature style during the mid-1950s, with a focus on flatness.

#16853

Stephen Willis

#128085

Overall Influence

1946 - 1994 (48 years)

Stephen Charles Willis was a Canadian musicologist and archivist. A graduate of the University of Western Ontario and Columbia University, he taught on the faculty of the University of Ottawa from 1979-1985. He also served as head of the manuscript collection of the Music Division at the National Library of Canada from 1977-1994. At the NLC he organized several notable exhibitions, including ones dedicated to composer Alexis Contant , famous Canadian organists , and bells through the ages .

#16854

Kumud Dhital

#73022

Overall Influence

Kumud Dhital is a Nepalese cardiothoracic specialist and Heart & Lung Transplant Surgeon at Yashoda Hospitals, Hyderabad, India. Dhital's prior work experience was at St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney and, Australia.

#16855

Maurice Lenz

1890 - 1974 (84 years)

Maurice Lenz was a pioneer in the field of radiation therapy. Born in Kovno, Russian Empire , Lenz studied at New York University and Bellevue Medical College, and received his medical degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1913. He was a professor of radiation oncology at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, a past president of the American Radium Society and held many other clinical and administrative roles throughout a long career in medicine.

#16856

Eliezer Shalev

#104480

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Eliezer Shalev is an Israeli gynecologist and current President of Tel Hai Academic College. He also serves as Chairman of the Israeli Ministry of Health National Council for Gynecology, Neonatology and Genetics.

#16857

Milton Terris

#41577

Overall Influence

1915 - 2002 (87 years)

Milton Terris was an American public health physician and epidemiologist. He graduated from Columbia University in 1935 and completed his MD at the New York University School of Medicine in 1939 and his MPH from Johns Hopkins University in 1944. He was associate professor of preventive medicine at the State University of New York at Buffalo from 1951 through 1957, and was professor of epidemiology at Tulane University from 1958 through 1960. He was head of the Chronic Disease Unit of the New York City Public Health Research Institute from 1960 through 1963. In 1964 he became professor and cha...

#16858

Robert Altman

#44494

Overall Influence

1944 - 2021 (77 years)

Robert Mark Altman was an American photographer. Altman attended Hunter College at the City University of New York and studied psychology and anthropology. Initially he had no intention of becoming a photographer, and said that the camera he wore around his neck was essentially just a prop to "meet girls". However, after graduation, he opened a shop called the Electric Lotus and displayed some of his photographs on a notice board here. The reaction here was so positive that Ansel Adams ended up taking him on as a photography apprentice.

#16859

Elmer Belt

1893 - 1980 (87 years)

Elmer Belt was an internationally recognized urologist, a pioneer in sex-change surgery, an important mover in the founding of the UCLA School of Medicine, and a book collector known for assembling a library of research materials about Leonardo da Vinci—the Elmer Belt Library of Vinciana—which he donated to the University of California, Los Angeles between 1961-66.

#16860

Thomas D. Schiano

#138796

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Thomas D. Schiano is an American specialist in liver transplantation, intestinal transplantation and in the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic liver disease. He serves as associate editor for the journals Hepatology and Liver Transplantation and has published more than 200 peer-reviewed articles and abstracts and more than 20 book chapters.

#16861

Amanda Oakley

#98193

Overall Influence

Amanda Margaret Meredith Oakley is a New Zealand-based dermatologist, specialising in melanoma research and teledermatology. She is a founder and former editor-in-chief of DermNet. Medical career Oakley graduated from the University of Bristol in 1979, and completed postgraduate studies in Auckland, London and Durham before emigrating to New Zealand. She has been a practicing dermatologist at Waikato Hospital since 1987.

#16862

Max Schede

1844 - 1902 (58 years)

Max Schede was a German surgeon born in Arnsberg. Schede studied medicine at the Universities of Halle, Heidelberg and Zurich, obtaining his medical doctorate in 1866. After serving as a doctor in the Austro-Prussian War, he became an assistant to Richard von Volkmann at Halle. During the Franco-Prussian War, he was in charge of a Feldlazaretts. In 1875, he appointed head of the surgical department at Friedrichshain Hospital in Berlin, and from onward 1880, he practiced surgery at St. Georg Hospital in Hamburg.

#16863

Amintore Galli

1845 - 1919 (74 years)

Amyntor Flaminio Claudio Galli was an Italian composer, musicologist, and journalist. Life He was born in Perticara, Italy on 12 October 1845, but began his musical studies with his uncle Pio Galli in Rimini until 1862 when he enrolled in the Milan Conservatory to be a pupil of Alberto Mazzucato. He would there compose the aria Cesare al Rubicone to be performed in the Teatro Vittorio Emanuel II in Rimini in 1864 and 1865 and after serving in the Italian Army under Giuseppe Garibaldi in the Battle of Bezzecca, graduated with the canata Espiazione.

#16864

Youssef Fares

#135976

Overall Influence

Youssef Fares is a Lebanese neurosurgeon, academic and healthcare leader. He is a Professor and the Dean of the Lebanese University Faculty of Medicine, where he also serves as the founding director of the Neuroscience Research Center. Fares is also the CEO and Chairman of Al-Zahraa Hospital University Medical Center, the founding president of the Lebanese Association of Spine Surgery and the Senior Executive Vice President of the World Academy of Medical Sciences. In addition, he serves as an editor for the neurosurgical journal Surgical Neurology International.

#16865

Fritz Volbach

1861 - 1940 (79 years)

Fritz Volbach was a German conductor, composer and musicologist. Life Volbach was born in 1861 in Wipperfürth. After he was briefly a pupil of the with Ferdinand Hiller, he resumed his school education in Bruchsal, where he also passed his Abitur. He studied philosophy at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. In 1886 he became a pupil of the Royal Institute for Church Music, before continuing his studies with Eduard Grell at the Academy of Arts, Berlin in the composition department; he was probably his last pupil. During his studies in ...

#16866

Daisy Maud Bellis

1887 - 1971 (84 years)

Daisy Maud Bellis was an American painter. Bellis was a native of Waltham, Massachusetts; her birthplace has also been given as Branford, Connecticut, where she later lived. She studied at the Massachusetts College of Art, the University of Vermont, and the Breckenridge School of Painting, and had further lessons at institutions in Montreal and Paris.

#16867

Murdoch Cameron

Murdoch Cameron

1847 - 1930 (83 years)

Murdoch Cameron was Regius Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Glasgow from 1894 to 1926. He was a pioneer of the Caesarean section under modern antiseptic conditions, becoming world famous after the success of his first such operation in 1888, at what was then the Glasgow Lying-in Hospital and Dispensary, now the Princess Royal Maternity Hospital, an institution he was deeply involved with. He was honorary President of the first international Congress on Obstetrics and Gynaecology, in 1892. His son Samuel James Cameron followed in his footsteps, becoming Reguis Profe...

#16868

Lez Edmond

#122284

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Lez Edmond was an American philosopher, social activist, civil rights journalist, public intellectual author and academic primarily concerning the Civil rights movement . Early life Edmonds was born in Jacksonville, Florida. He was raised a Seventh-day Adventist who initially attended Adelphi University for his BA and MA degree. He later earned his PHD from Union Institute. Edmonds stated in an interview that he was forced into Civil Rights while working for an electronic store. It was here that a German co-worker called him a "god-damn black nigger." When Edmonds reported this to HR, ...

#16869

Jan Boxill

#124750

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Jeanette Marie Boxill is an American academic who was Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She was also Chair of the Faculty and Director of Parr Center for Ethics. Her writing and teaching relate broadly with ethical issues in social conduct, social and political philosophy, feminist theory, and ethics in sports. She is editor of Sports Ethics: An Anthology and Issues in Race and Gender. She is past president of the International Association for Philosophy in Sport, serves on the board of the NCAA Scholarly Colloquium Committee, and chairs both the 2011 NCAA Scholarly Colloquium and the Education Outreach Program for the U.S.

#16870

Edward L. Schneider

#31311

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Edward L. Schneider is a Professor of Gerontology at the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, Professor of Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, with a joint appointment in biological sciences and molecular biology at the Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.

#16871

Henry Pelham

1749 - 1806 (57 years)

Henry Pelham was an American painter, engraver, and cartographer active during the late 18th century. Pelham's many illuminating letters, especially to his half-brother John Singleton Copley, provide an important contemporary perspective of the events of the American Revolution.

#16872

Lisa Sanders

#23069

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Lisa Sanders is an American physician, medical author and journalist, and associate professor of internal medicine and education at Yale School of Medicine. In 2002, she began writing a column for The New York Times called Diagnosis, that covered medical mystery cases. She is an attending physician at Yale-New Haven Hospital, which serves as the model on which Princeton-Plainsboro Hospital was fashioned for the series House M.D. Her column was the inspiration for the television series House M.D., and she worked as a consultant on the show. In 2019, Netflix aired the program Diagnosis, featuri...

#16873

Howard Gimbel

#50633

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (92 years)

Howard V. Gimbel FRCSC, AOE, FACS, CABES, is a Canadian ophthalmologist, university professor, senior editor, and amateur musician. He is better known for his invention, along with Thomas Neuhann, of the continuous curvilinear capsulorhexis , a technique employed in modern cataract surgery.

#16874

Carl Ferdinand Becker

1804 - 1877 (73 years)

Karl Ferdinand Becker , was a German writer on music, composer and an organist. Biography Becker was the son of physician and writer Gottfried Wilhelm Becker. He attended the Thomasschule in Leipzig in his early years, where his teachers Johann Gottfried Schicht and Friedrich Schneider trained him in music. He made his debut as a pianist at 14. From 1820 to 1833, he was a violinist in the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. In 1825, he became an organist in the Peterskirche and then in 1837 at the St. Nicholas Church. In 1846, he became an instructor of organ and music history at the University of Music and Theatre at Leipzig.

#16875

Harrison Allen

1841 - 1897 (56 years)

Harrison Allen was an American physician and anatomist, born in Philadelphia. He graduated from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1861, and in 1862 became a surgeon in the United States Army and served until the conclusion of the Civil War in 1865.

#16876

J. A. R. Lenman

1924 - 1985 (61 years)

John Andrew Reginald Lenman FRSE FRCPE was a British neurologist and medical author. Life He was born at Shillong in India in 1924, the son of the Bishop of Bhagalpur. He was educated at the Rudolph Steiner School in London. He then studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, graduating with an MB ChB in 1948. He undertook further training under Sir Stanley Davidson and Professor Norman Dott.

#16877

Todd Joseph Miles Holden

#111703

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Todd Joseph Miles Holden is an American-born social scientist, essayist, philosopher, and novelist. He was the first tenured foreign professor at Tohoku University, one of Asia’s elite universities, where he taught for 26 years. His scholarship has been multi- and trans-disciplinary, embracing globalization, media studies, cultural studies, semiotics, advertising, television, Japanese popular culture, sociology, cultural anthropology, political communication, gender, identity, and digital youth. Between 2000 and 2009 he was a contributor to the international webzine PopMatters, writing a regu...

#16878

Peter Alward

#186920

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Peter Wallace Brannen Alward is a Canadian philosopher. He is a Professor in Philosophy and the Department Head in Philosophy at the University of Saskatchewan. He is known for his works on philosophy of fiction, philosophy of art and environmental philosophy. In 2016 Alward was awarded Tenured Professor Essay Prize by The Canadian Philosophical Association.

#16879

Earl Carroll

1893 - 1948 (55 years)

Earl Carroll was an American theatrical producer, director, writer, songwriter and composer. Early life Carroll was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1893. He lived as an infant in the Nunnery Hill section of the North Side. Carroll later said he left the area "because there were too many tin cans and goats up there then."

#16880

David Morley

#50570

Overall Influence

1923 - 2009 (86 years)

David Cornelius Morley was a British paediatrician and Emeritus Professor of Child Health, UCL Institute of Child Health who saved the lives of many thousands of children in developing countries. Early life David Cornelius Morley was born on 15 June 1923 in Rothwell, Northamptonshire in the UK. He was the youngest of seven children born to a vicar and his wife. He attended school at Haywards Heath and then Marlborough College.

#16881

Eric Salzman

#110330

Overall Influence

1933 - 2017 (84 years)

Eric Salzman was an American composer, scholar, author, impresario, music critic, and record producer. He is known for advancing the concept of "New Music Theater" as an independent art form differing in scope, both economically and aesthetically, from grand opera and contemporary popular musicals. He co-founded the American Music Theater Festival and was, at the time of his death in 2017, Composer-in-Residence at the Center for Contemporary Opera.

#16882

Belsazar Hacquet

Belsazar Hacquet

1739 - 1815 (76 years)

Belsazar de la Motte Hacquet was a Carniolan physician of French descent in the Enlightenment Era. He was a war surgeon, a surgeon in the mining town of Idrija, and a professor of anatomy and surgery in Laibach . He researched the geology and botany of Carniola, Istria, and nearby places, and was the first explorer of the Julian Alps. He also did ethnographical work among the South Slavic peoples, particularly among the Slovene-speaking population. He self-identified primarily as a chemist and introduced the methods of chemical analysis to Carniola.

#16883

Margaret E. Chisholm

#111072

Overall Influence

1921 - 1999 (78 years)

Margaret Elizabeth Chisholm was an American librarian and educator and served as president of the American Library Association from 1987 to 1988. She promoted librarians as skilled in information technology.

#16884

Danielle Ofri

#37445

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Danielle Ofri is an American essayist, editor, and practicing internist. She is an attending physician at Bellevue Hospital, and a clinical professor of medicine at the New York University School of Medicine. Her writing appears in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The Lancet.

#16885

Frank Scheck

#88322

Overall Influence

1901 - Present (125 years)

Frank Scheck is an American film critic. He is best known for his reviews in the New York Post and The Hollywood Reporter. He formerly edited STAGES Magazine and worked as a theater critic for the Christian Science Monitor in the 1990s.

#16886

J. David Embury

#177921

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

J. David Embury is a Canadian material scientist and engineer, having been a Distinguished University Professor at McMaster University. In 2002, Embury was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for outstanding contributions to fundamental structure/mechanical property relations of materials and their applications.

#16887

Anthony Page

#84557

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (91 years)

Anthony Page is a British stage and film director. Biography When Page was 19, he went to Canada on a free passage with the Royal Canadian Air Force and hitchhiked to New York where he studied with Sanford Meisner. In 1964, he took over directing at the Royal Court when George Devine fell ill. He directed Inadmissible Evidence with Nicol Williamson.

#16888

Robert M. Blizzard

#80166

Overall Influence

1957 - 2003 (46 years)

Robert M. Blizzard was an American pediatric endocrinologist and a founding member of the Lawson Wilkins Pediatric Endocrine Society. Life and career Blizzard was born in East St. Louis, Illinois, and raised in Greenville, Illinois. He attended Northwestern University, interrupting his undergraduate studies to serve in the United States Army for three years during the Second World War. He later returned and graduated from the Feinberg School of Medicine in 1952.

#16889

Robert de Hoog

#142914

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Robert de Hoog is a Dutch social scientist and Emeritus Professor Information and knowledge management at the University of Twente, known for his contributions in the field of scientific modelling. Biography De Hoog received his PhD in 1978 at the University of Amsterdam with a thesis entitled "Politieke voorkeur: oordelen en beslissen" under supervision of Robert J. Mokken.

#16890

Harry Burns

#55280

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Sir Henry Burns , known generally as Harry Burns, is the professor of global public health, University of Strathclyde, having been the Chief Medical Officer for Scotland from September 2005 to April 2014. He has become known for his work to address health inequalities. He is a member of the Council of Economic Advisers in Scotland.

#16891

Johann Jakob Müller

1650 - 1716 (66 years)

Johann Jakob Müller was a German moral philosopher. Life Johann Jakob Müller was born at Jena in 1650. His father, another Johann Müller , was the deputy head of the city school. Johann Jakob Müller attended the school, then under the rectorship of Johann Martin Ringler. Recognising an exceptional talent, his parents also arranged for him to receive private tutoring at home from Anton Mosnern, a churchman from nearby Saalfeld. Aged only 15 Müller started attending lectures at the university. At the Philosophy faculty his teachers included Johann Frischmuth, Erhard Weigel, , , , Joha...

#16892

José Narro Robles

#34352

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

José Narro Robles is a Mexican physician, researcher, academic, and politician. He is a former director of the Faculty of Medicine of the National Autonomous University of Mexico and was elected its 23rd Rector on November 20, 2007. After two 4-year periods leading UNAM, in February 2016, he was appointed by Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto to replace Mercedes Juan as head of the Mexican Secretariat of Health.

#16893

Eric Chivian

#32481

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Eric S. Chivian is the founder and director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School, where he is also an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry. Life and career A 1964 graduate of Harvard University , he went on to graduate from Harvard Medical School in 1968.

#16894

Pamela Y. Collins

#135040

Overall Influence

Pamela Y. Collins is an American psychiatrist. She is the Director of the International Training and Education Center for Health and the Global Mental Health Program at the University of Washington School of Medicine and School of Public Health. Collins is professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and of global health. She previously worked as the director of the Office for Research on Disparities and Global Mental Health at the National Institute of Mental Health .

#16895

Robert C. May

#110388

Overall Influence

Robert C. May is an American philosopher and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of California, Davis. He is known for his works on philosophy of language. Books Logical Form: Its Structure and Derivation. MIT Press, Cambridge, Ma., 1985.The Grammar of Quantification, Garland Publishing, New York, 1991.Indices and Identity, with Robert Fiengo. MIT Press, Cambridge, Ma., 1994.De Lingua Belief, with Robert Fiengo. MIT Press, Cambridge, Ma, 2006.

#16896

Clifford Allbutt

Clifford Allbutt

1836 - 1925 (89 years)

Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt was an English physician best known for his role as president of the British Medical Association 1920, for inventing the clinical thermometer, and for supporting Sir William Osler in founding the History of Medicine Society.

#16897

Matthias Herrmann

#122566

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Matthias Herrmann is a German musicologist and university professor. Life Born in Mildenau, Herrmann became a member of the Dresdner Kreuzchor conducted by Kreuzkantor Rudolf Mauersberger, later Martin Flämig. He then studied musicology at the University of Leipzig and later became a staff member of the music department of the Saxon State Library in Dresden as well as of the cultural editorial staff of the .

#16898

John Westbrook

1922 - 1989 (67 years)

John Aubrey Westbrook was an English actor. Born in Teignmouth, Devon, John Westbrook worked mainly in theatre and in radio. He also made occasional film and television appearances. His most famous role was as Christopher Gough in Roger Corman's The Tomb of Ligeia. Noted for his deep, mellifluous voice, he also recorded radio plays and audiobooks, and provided the role of Treebeard in the 1978 animated adaptation of The Lord of the Rings. Westbrook also recorded the spoken roles in the choral/orchestral works An Oxford Elegy by Ralph Vaughan Williams and Morning Heroes by Arthur Bliss, as wel...

#16899

Sue Stott

#185636

Overall Influence

Ngaire 'Sue' Susan Stott is a New Zealand paediatric orthopaedic surgeon, and as of 2019 is a full professor at the University of Auckland and holds a position at Starship Hospital. Academic career After an undergrad at the University of Auckland and a 1997 PhD at University of Southern California titled 'Regulation of chondrogenesis in vitro : the role of hedgehog and Wnt genes' , Stott joined the staff at Auckland University, rising to full professor in 2013. Stott has multiple research fundings and holds multiple roles, including ministerial appointments.

#16900

Francis Brodie Imlach

Francis Brodie Imlach

1819 - 1891 (72 years)

Francis Brodie Imlach FRCSEd was a Scottish pioneer of modern dentistry, and the first person to use chloroform on a dental patient. He helped to raise the profile of dentistry from a back street trade to full professional status.

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