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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#16951

William J. Rogers

#187351

Overall Influence

#16952

Edgar Meyer

1853 - 1925 (72 years)

Edgar Meyer was an Austrian painter who built himself a castle and engaged in politics. Life Professor Edgar Meyer was born on 5 September 1853 in Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria. His parents were Martin Meyer , and Theresia Megucher . He studied at the Akademie der Bildenkünste in Munich, and from 1874 to 1877 at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under the direction of Eugen Dücker. He extended his studies by visiting Rome and Venice. Between 1880 and 1881, he was a member of an association of artists and academics called Malkasten in Düsseldorf. He lived in Weimar and was also Professor at Charlotte...

#16953

Leopold Pfaundler

1839 - 1920 (81 years)

Leopold Pfaundler von Hadermur was an Austrian physicist and chemist born in Innsbruck. He was the father of pediatrician Meinhard von Pfaundler , and the father-in-law of pediatrician Theodor Escherich .

#16954

Hrvoje Turković

#132982

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Hrvoje Turković is a Croatian film theorist, film critic and university professor. With 14 books and more than 700 articles on film, ranging from essayistic criticism to scientific works on film theory, Turković established himself as one of Croatia's most important critics and film scholars. He is a recipient of the Vladimir Nazor Lifetime Achievement Award for Contribution to Film.

#16955

Anne C. Roberts

#79724

Overall Influence

Anne Christine Roberts is an American interventional radiologist who is credited with the invention of the Roberts Uterine Catheter , a catheter designed to facilitate navigation through the uterine arteries and currently used widely for uterine artery embolization procedures. She also served as president of the Society of Interventional Radiology and was the second woman to become president of the society.

#16956

Carl Reichenbach

Carl Reichenbach

1788 - 1869 (81 years)

Carl Ludwig von Reichenbach was a German chemist, geologist, metallurgist, naturalist, industrialist and philosopher, and a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences. He is best known for his discoveries of several chemical products of economic importance, extracted from tar, such as eupione, waxy paraffin, pittacal and phenol . He also dedicated himself in his last years to research an unproved field of energy combining electricity, magnetism and heat, emanating from all living things, which he called the Odic force.

#16957

Humphry Rolleston

Humphry Rolleston

1862 - 1944 (82 years)

Sir Humphry Davy Rolleston, 1st Baronet, was a prominent English physician. Rolleston was the son of George Rolleston and Grace Davy, daughter of John Davy and niece of Sir Humphry Davy, Bt . He was educated at Marlborough College, proceeded to St John's College, Cambridge and graduated in Natural Sciences in 1886. After clinical training at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London he qualified MB in 1888 and MD in 1892.

#16958

Denis Parsons Burkitt

Denis Parsons Burkitt

#23318

Overall Influence

1911 - 1993 (82 years)

Denis Parsons Burkitt, MD, FRCS, FRS was an Irish surgeon who made significant advances in health, such as the etiology of a pediatric cancer, now called Burkitt's lymphoma, and the finding that rates of colorectal cancer are higher in those who eat limited dietary fibre.

#16959

Francis Mitchell Caird

Francis Mitchell Caird

1853 - Present (173 years)

Francis Mitchell Caird FRCSEd was a Scottish surgeon who was an early advocate of Listerian antisepsis and then asepsis. He was a pioneer of gastrointestinal surgery. From 1908 to 1919 he was Regius Professor of Clinical Surgery at the University of Edinburgh and was President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh from 1912 to 1914.

#16960

Julia Crick

#82598

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Julia Catherine Crick, is a British historian, medievalist, and academic. She is Professor of Palaeography and Manuscript Studies at King's College London. Academic career Studying at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, Crick completed the tripos in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic in 1984.

#16961

Corinne Maury

#157193

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Corinne Maury is a French lecturer in film studies as well as a film director. Career Maury defended her doctoral thesis Habiter le monde : figures poétiques dans le cinéma du réel at the University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle in 2008.

#16962

Emilio del Valle Escalante

#164175

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Emilio del Valle Escalante, now known as Emil' Keme, is a Guatemalan/K'iche Maya professor and researcher in Indigenous literatures and cultures at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has written and edited books on his fields of expertise as well as various journal articles. He has also presented talks at other U.S. educational institutions.

#16963

Manuel Valls

1920 - 1984 (64 years)

Manuel Valls i Gorina was a Spanish composer, pianist, music critic, and music educator. Valls was born in Badalona. He was a first cousin of painter Xavier Valls, himself the father of former French Prime Minister Manuel Valls. He studied at the University of Barcelona and the Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu. At the Liceu he was mentored by Aita Donostia with whom he studied music theory, music composition, and orchestration. He became a successful composer writing symphonic works, chamber music, choral music, operas, art songs, and songs for solo piano. For many years he taught composition at the University of Barcelona and wrote music reviews for El País..

#16964

Christine F. Baes

#185505

Overall Influence

Dr. Christine F. Baes is chair of the Department of Animal Biosciences at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. She began her five-year term in the role in May 2023. She is also a professor and Canada Research Chair in Livestock Genomics at Ontario Agricultural College at the University of Guelph.

#16965

Ivan Vyshenskyi

Ivan Vyshenskyi

1550 - 1620 (70 years)

Ivan Vyshenskyi was a Ukrainian Orthodox monk and religious philosopher. He is considered to be an important polemicist of the time. Biography Not much is known about the life of Vyshenskyi. It is considered to be likely that he spent part of his youth in Lutsk and was connected with scholars from the Ostroh Academy. Within the years 1576–1580 he traveled to Mount Athos in Greece, which was the center of Orthodox monk culture. He stayed there until his death, with the exception of a short visit to Ukraine between 1604 and 1606 when he quarreled with members of the Lviv brotherhood.

#16966

Benjamin B. Dunlap

#51734

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (89 years)

Benjamin Bernard "Bernie" Dunlap is an American author and academic, who was the president of Wofford College from July 2000 to 2013. Early days and education A native of Columbia, South Carolina, with an affinity for extinction, Dunlap drowned and was resuscitated at the age of 13 and, amidst a succession of medical emergencies, had a near-fatal motorcycle accident when he was 33.

#16967

Faye McMillan

#101139

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Faye Beverley McMillan is a Wiradjuri yinna from Trangie NSW. She is an Australian academic and pharmacist known for her work on improving Indigenous healthcare. She is a Senior Atlantic Fellow for Social Equity , as well as being a Senior Fellow with Advance HE. She is a founding member of Indigenous Allied Health Australia and was a board member of IAHA from 2009-2017 . She joined UTS in 2022 with over 20 years of experience in the Higher Education Sector and over 30 years in the health sector.

#16968

Robert B. Hall

1896 - 1975 (79 years)

Robert Burnett Hall , born in Española, New Mexico, was an American geographer known for his work on Japan. He taught for most of his career at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Honors and positions The Japanese government conferred on him the Order of the Rising Sun, and the Order of the Sacred Treasure, the highest decoration granted to a foreigner by Japan. He was one of seven foreign geographers, and the only American, honored by the Silver Medal of the Tokyo Geographical Society. He served in Japan as the representative of the Asia Foundation 1955–1960, and founding director of University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies, 1947–1957.

#16969

Ricardo Ramina

#32202

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Ricardo Ramina is a notable Brazilian neurosurgeon and university Professor. Ramina is well known around the world for his expertise in the treatment of complex neurosurgical problems such as Vestibular schwannomas, skull base tumors, glomus jugulare, Meningiomas and Aneurysms.

#16970

Robert Shaw

1927 - 1978 (51 years)

Robert Archibald Shaw was an English actor, novelist, playwright and screenwriter. Beginning his career in theatre, Shaw joined the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre after the Second World War and appeared in productions of Macbeth, Henry VIII, Cymbeline, and other Shakespeare plays. With the Old Vic company , he continued primarily in Shakespearean roles. In 1959 he starred in a West End production of The Long and the Short and the Tall.

#16971

Steven A. Narod

#187466

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#16972

Theodore Salisbury Woolsey Jr.

1880 - 1933 (53 years)

Theodore Salisbury Woolsey Jr. was a United States Forest Service employee, forestry researcher, professor at Yale University and author of books and articles related to forestry and forest regulation.

#16973

Rafael Núñez Florencio

#153041

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Rafael Núñez Florencio is a Spanish historian, philosopher, and critic. Works El terrorismo anarquista 1888–1909 Utopistas y autoritarios en 1900 El ejército español en el desastre de 1898 Tal como éramos: España hace un siglo Sol y sangre. La Imagen de España en el mundo Con la salsa de su hambre. Los extranjeros ante la mesa hispana Hollada piel de toro: del sentimiento de la naturaleza a la construcción nacional del paisaje Tierra y Libertad. Cien años de anarquismo en España, edited by Julián Casanova Ruiz El peso del pesimismo. Del 98 al desencanto

#16974

Petrus Ryff

1552 - 1629 (77 years)

Petrus Ryff was a Swiss mathematician, physician and chronicler from Basel. Life and work Petrus Ryff was born in Basel, Switzerland. He was the son of Daniel Ryff , and Ursula Zimmermann, and the grandnephew of Basler chronicler Fridolin Ryff.

#16975

Curtis Price

#56255

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Sir Curtis Alexander Price, KBE was the Warden of New College, Oxford, between October 2009 and September 2016. He was previously principal of the Royal Academy of Music from 1995 to 2008 and Professor of Music in the University of London. He retired as the warden of New College at the end of August 2016.

#16976

Jacqueline Eubanks

#174359

Overall Influence

1938 - 1992 (54 years)

Jacqueline Eubanks was an activist and reference librarian at Brooklyn College who advocated for alternative publishing venues and who spoke out about institutional marginalization and discrimination. Eubanks was an active member of the American Library Association and a founding member of the ALA Social Responsibilities Roundtable. As a proponent of alternative press and radical, counter-mainstream publications, Eubanks founded Alternatives in Print that served to document books, pamphlets, periodicals, and other materials not easily found in other indices. The initial reception to Altern...

#16977

Alain Badiou

#187505

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#16978

Gerard Boate

1604 - 1650 (46 years)

Gerard Boate was a Dutch physician, known for his Natural History of Ireland. Life Boate was born Gerrit/Gerard Boot, in Gorinchem, son of the knight Godfried de Boot and of Christine van Loon. He entered the university of Leyden as a medical student and graduated there as doctor of medicine on 3 July 1628. His younger brother Arnold Boate followed him to study medicine in Leiden. Both moved to London around 1630, where their family had settled earlier. Gerard became employed as physician to Charles I of England and Arnold as physician to the Earl of Leicester. In 1631 in London Gerard married Catharina Menning with whom he had three children.

#16979

Suzanne Rutland

#62025

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Suzanne Dorothy Rutland OAM is Professor Emerita at the University of Sydney. She was previously Chair of the Department of Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies, at Sydney University's Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, serving in that position for 11 years. She specializes in the history of Australian Jews and religious education. Her work Edge of the Diaspora: Two Centuries of Jewish Settlement in Australia was first published in 1988 with further editions in 1997 and 2001. Her work The Jews in Australia was published by Cambridge University Press in 2005. Her book co-written with journali...

#16980

Utako Okamoto

#15059

Overall Influence

1918 - 2016 (98 years)

Utako Okamoto was a Japanese medical doctor working as a medical scientist who discovered tranexamic acid in the 1950s in her quest to find a drug that would treat bleeding after childbirth . After publishing results in 1962 she became a chair at Kobe Gakuin University, where she worked from 1966 until her retirement in 1990. Okamoto's career was hampered by a very male dominated environment. During her lifetime she was unable to persuade obstetricians at Kobe to trial the antifibrinolytic agent, which had become a drug on the WHO list of essential medicines in 2009. She lived to see the 2010 ...

#16981

August Eduard Martin

1847 - 1933 (86 years)

August Eduard Martin was a German obstetrician and gynecologist. His father, Eduard Arnold Martin , was also a specialist in OB/GYN. He studied medicine at the universities of Jena and Berlin, receiving his doctorate at the latter institution in 1870. He worked as an assistant to his father in Berlin, where he obtained his habilitation in 1876. In Berlin he opened a private clinic that became renowned for operative gynecology. From 1899 to 1907 he served as a full professor at the University of Greifswald, where he was also appointed head of the Frauenklinik.

#16982

Jyeṣṭhadeva

1500 - 1575 (75 years)

Jyeṣṭhadeva was an astronomer-mathematician of the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics founded by Madhava of Sangamagrama . He is best known as the author of Yuktibhāṣā, a commentary in Malayalam of Tantrasamgraha by Nilakantha Somayaji . In Yuktibhāṣā, Jyeṣṭhadeva had given complete proofs and rationale of the statements in Tantrasamgraha. This was unusual for traditional Indian mathematicians of the time. The Yuktibhāṣā is now believed to contain the essential elements of calculus like Taylor and infinity series. Jyeṣṭhadeva also authored Drk-karana, a treatise on astronomical obser...

#16983

William Temple

1555 - 1627 (72 years)

Sir William Temple was an English Ramist logician and fourth Provost of Trinity College Dublin. Early life William Temple was born the son of the Leicestershire man Anthony Temple, whose family name was said to descend from the Knight Templars, a once powerful monastic order during the Crusades, but which was outlawed by Pope Clement V. The rituals and the secrets of the order survived and many of the Knight Templars families came to prominence in 16th-century England when Protestantism was embraced. He was educated at Eton College and passed with a scholarship to King's College, Cambridge, in 1573.

#16984

Ned Abraham

#138278

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Ned Abraham was an Associate Professor of surgery at the Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales and is a general & colorectal surgeon, a clinical academic and a retired Australian Army Reserve Officer. He has spoken at multiple national and international meetings in four continents and his published articles in general, colorectal and academic surgery have been cited in the medical literature close to two thousand times. He continues to practice surgery in Coffs Harbour, NSW, Australia.

#16985

Thomas Cecil Gray

#40145

Overall Influence

1913 - 2008 (95 years)

Thomas Cecil Gray CBE KCSG was a pioneering English anaesthetist. Early life Gray was born in Liverpool in 1913. The only son of Thomas and Ethel Gray of Thornton, he was educated at Ampleforth College in Yorkshire. At the age of 18, he joined the order of monks at the Benedictine college of Ampleforth, but after two months it became clear that this was not the vocation for him and he returned to Liverpool to pursue medicine, qualifying in 1937.

#16986

Denisa Wagner

#78268

Overall Influence

Denisa D. Wagner is an American scientist currently the Edwin Cohn Professor of Pediatrics at Boston Children's Hospital , Harvard Medical School. Wagner first arrived in the United States in 1975 as a refugee from Czechoslovakia. She received her PhD in Biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and taught at the University of Rochester and Tufts University before joining the Harvard faculty in 1994.The Wagner Lab contributes in the fields of vascular biology, inflammation, and thrombosis. Her Lab focuses on how blood cells and endothelial cells respond to vascular injury. Also her lab has been studying NETs for more than a decade.

#16987

Cécile Morrisson

#103876

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Cécile Morrisson is a French historian and numismatist. She is Director of Research emeritus at the French National Center for Scientific Research and specializes in the study of the Byzantine Empire.

#16988

Leif Wenar

#187552

Overall Influence

Leif Wenar is an American Philosopher and Olive H. Palmer Professor in Humanities at Stanford University. He is known for his works on political science. Books Blood Oil: Tyrants, Violence, and the Rules that Run the World

#16989

Louis Théophile Joseph Landouzy

Louis Théophile Joseph Landouzy

1845 - 1917 (72 years)

Louis Théophile Joseph Landouzy was a French neurologist from Reims, and whose father and grandfather were also physicians. He studied medicine in Reims and Paris, earning his doctorate in 1876. He spent much his career at the University of Paris, becoming a professor of therapy in 1893 and a dean of medicine in 1901.

#16990

Richard Taylor

1805 - 1873 (68 years)

Richard Taylor was a Church Missionary Society missionary in New Zealand. He was born on 21 March 1805 at Letwell, Yorkshire, England, one of four children of Richard Taylor and his wife, Catherine Spencer.

#16991

Ferdinand Dorsch

1875 - 1938 (63 years)

Ferdinand Franz Engelbert Dorsch was a German painter, graphic artist, and art Professor. Life and work While he was still very young, his family moved to Vienna, where he grew up. In 1891, thanks to a scholarship from the Principality of Reuss-Gera, he was able to study at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts with Leon Pohle and Ferdinand Pauwels. From 1895 to 1898, he worked with Gotthardt Kuehl, who became a lifelong friend and patron.

#16992

Henry Dalton

1847 - Present (179 years)

Henry Clay Dalton was superintendent of the St. Louis City Hospital, Missouri, United States, from 1886 to 1892, and later a professor of abdominal and clinical surgery at Marion Sims College of Medicine . He is noted for being the first American to perform the suturing of the pericardium on record. Spanish surgeon Francisco Romero was documented with performing two successful surgeries in 1801 and French surgeon Dominique Jean Larrey was documented as successfully performing surgery on a woman's pericardium in 1810.

#16993

Keith Jones

#67717

Overall Influence

1911 - 2012 (101 years)

Sir Keith Stephen Jones, MB BS FRCS FRACS FRAGP FACEM was an Australian general practitioner, surgeon and medical executive, who served as the 6th President of the Australian Medical Association, from 1973–1976, during the introduction of universal health care in Australia.

#16994

Franz Volhard

1872 - 1950 (78 years)

Franz Volhard was a German internist born in Munich. Academic career He studied medicine at the universities of Bonn, Strasbourg, and Halle. As a student his instructors included Eduard Friedrich Wilhelm Pflüger , Bernhard Naunyn , Oswald Schmiedeberg , and Joseph von Mering . From 1897 to 1905 he worked at the university medical clinic at Giessen under Franz Riegel . In 1905 he became head of the medical department at the city hospital in Dortmund, and in 1908 was named director of the Krankenanstalt in Mannheim, now University Hospital Mannheim. Afterwards, he served as a professor at the u...

#16995

Richard Smith

#76348

Overall Influence

1931 - 2016 (85 years)

Richard Smith, CBE was an English painter and printmaker. Smith produced work in a range of styles, and is credited with extending the field of painting through his shaped, sculptural canvases. A key figure in the British development of Pop Art, Smith was chosen to represent Britain in the 1970 Venice Biennale.

#16996

Jacob Plange-Rhule

#132721

Overall Influence

1957 - 2020 (63 years)

Jacob Plange-Rhule, was a Ghanaian physician, academic, and Rector of the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons from October 2015 until his death in 2020. At the time of his death, Plange-Rhule was a professor and Head of the Department of Physiology of the School of Medical Sciences in Kumasi, Ghana. He was also a consulting physician at the Department of Medicine of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi, where he founded the Hypertension and Renal Clinic and headed it for more than two decades.

#16997

John F. Murray

#70593

Overall Influence

1927 - 2020 (93 years)

John Frederic Murray was an American pulmonologist best known for his work on acute respiratory distress syndrome , which was responsible for his death after he fell ill with COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic.

#16998

Brenda Chawner

#142515

Overall Influence

Brenda Chawner is a Canadian-New Zealand library academic specialising in the intersection between librarianship and information technology. After a BA and MLS at the University of Alberta in Canada, she did a PhD at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand on the use of free and open source software in libraries. The thesis was an early example of the release of academic outputs under a Creative Commons license.

#16999

Oscar Gonzalez-Perez

Oscar Gonzalez-Perez

#159529

Overall Influence

Oscar Gonzalez-Perez is professor of neuroscience in the School of Psychology at the University of Colima, Mexico. He has been honorary professor of neuroscience in the Doctorado en Ciencias Biomedicas at the University of Guadalajara and invited professor of neuroscience and cellular medicine in the Brain Tumor Stem Cell Laboratory of Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is the leader of a scientific network named Neuro-biopsychology Basic and Applied.

#17000

Adil Ahmad Haque

#81954

Overall Influence

1980 - Present (46 years)

Adil Ahmad Haque is a professor of law and Judge Jon O. Newman Scholar at Rutgers University. His scholarship focuses on the international law of armed conflict and the philosophy of international law. His first book, Law and Morality at War, was published by Oxford University Press in 2017. He is also an executive editor of Just Security, based at the Reiss Center on Law and Security in NYU Law School. His father was comparative literature scholar Aijaz Ahmad.

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