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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

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Alexander Fleming

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Akinwunmi Isola

#110369

Overall Influence

1939 - 2018 (79 years)

Akinwumi Isola was a Yoruba playwright, novelist, actor, dramatist, culture activist and scholar. He was known for his writing in, and his work in promoting, the Yoruba language. As an actor, he was known for Agogo Eèwò , Efunsetan Aniwura and Efunsetan Aniwura .

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Koert van Mensvoort

Koert van Mensvoort

#158167

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (52 years)

Koert van Mensvoort is an artist, philosopher and scientist best known for his work on the philosophical concept of Next Nature. Academic Van Mensvoort was the head of the Next Nature Lab at the Industrial Design Department of the Eindhoven University of Technology, a position he has held from 2003 until 2015. In 1997 Van Mensvoort received a Master of Science degree in computer science, specializing in computer graphics from the Eindhoven University of Technology. In 2000 he completed a Master of Fine Arts degree at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam. In 2008 he was Visionary in Residence at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.

#17354

Eduard Arning

1855 - 1936 (81 years)

Eduard Christian Arning was an English-German dermatologist and microbiologist from Manchester. Biography Arning received his early education from private tutors and at the Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums in Hamburg. In 1879 he obtained his medical doctorate from Strassburg, and afterwards was a medical assistant in Strassburg under Adolf Kussmaul and Oswald Kohts , and later in Berlin under Oskar Lassar . From 1884 to 1886, he researched leprosy in the Hawaiian Islands. In 1887 he became a specialist of dermatology and venereal disease in Hamburg, where from 1906 he served as physician-in-chief in the department of skin and venereal diseases at the "Allgemeines Krankenhaus St.

#17355

Kazuyoshi Torii

#184465

Overall Influence

1946 - 2022 (76 years)

Kazuyoshi Torii was a Japanese manga artist and university professor. Life and career Born in Kamata, a defunct village today part of Okazaki, Torii started his career as an assistant of Fujio Akatsuka. He made his official debut as a mangaka in 1968 in Weekly Shōnen Sunday with the manga Kuchinashi Inu . He is best known for the provoking, taboo-free serializated manga . The manga debuted in Weekly Shōnen Jump and sold over 10 million copies.

#17356

John Sutherland

John Sutherland

1808 - 1891 (83 years)

John Sutherland was a physician and promoter of sanitary science. Sutherland was born in Edinburgh, where he completed his high school studies. He became a licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1827, and graduated M.D. at the university in 1831.

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Kang Zhang

#52585

Overall Influence

Kang Zhang is a Chinese-American ophthalmologist specializing in ophthalmic genetics and aging processes in the eye. He is currently a Professor of the Faculty of Medicine at Macau University of Science and Technology. He was previously a Professor of Ophthalmology and the Founding Director of the Institute for Genomic Medicine at the University of California, San Diego. Zhang is particularly known for his work on lanosterol, stem cell research , gene editing, and artificial intelligence.

#17358

Pyotr Nikolsky

1858 - 1940 (82 years)

Pyotr Vasilyevich Nikolsky was a Ukrainian ans Russian dermatologist. He was born in Usman in the Russian Empire and earned his medical degree from the Saint Vladimir Imperial University of Kyiv in 1884. After graduating, he studied under Mikhail Stukovenkov at the Department of Dermatology and Venerology in Kyiv. In 1896, he defended his doctoral thesis on pemphigus foliaceus, in which he described a dermatological condition involving a weakening relationship among the epidermal layers. The sloughing of skin associated with certain varieties of this condition is now referred to as Nikolsky's sign.

#17359

Mary Harris Thompson

1829 - 1895 (66 years)

Mary Harris Thompson, MD, , was the founder, head physician and surgeon of the Chicago Hospital for Women and Children, renamed Mary Harris Thompson Hospital after her death in 1895. She was one of the first women to practice medicine in Chicago.

#17360

Sharon Fonn

#179706

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Sharon Fonn is a South African Professor of Public Health at the University of the Witwatersrand. Her work has focused on cervical cancer, health systems and developing African capacity for public health research.

#17361

John Clark Murray

1836 - 1917 (81 years)

John Clark Murray was a Scottish philosopher and professor. He held the Chair of Mental and Moral Philosophy at Queen's University from 1862 to 1872, and at McGill University from 1872 until 1903. During his academic career, Murray became the first professor at Queen's to offer courses to women; however, his equality advocacy caused unrest among the male professors. He was married to Margaret Polson Murray who founded the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire.

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Carl Johann Lasch

1822 - 1888 (66 years)

Carl Johann Lasch was a German artist of historical paintings. He was born in Leipzig. He attended the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. One of his teachers was Eduard Bendemann. He later attended the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. There he studied under Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld and Wilhelm von Kaulbach.

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Emil Frei

#20591

Overall Influence

1924 - 2013 (89 years)

Emil "Tom" Frei III was an American physician and oncologist. He was the former director and former physician-in-chief of the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Massachusetts. He was also the Richard and Susan Smith Distinguished Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

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Enrico Fazzini

#26954

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Enrico Fazzini is an American neurologist. He is considered an expert on Parkinson's disease and has published numerous research publications on the subject. He has been involved in a number of clinical trials for new pharmaceutical treatments for Parkinson's disease. He attended the University of Osteopathic Medicine and Health Sciences in Des Moines, Iowa. He is board certified in neurology by both the M.D. and D.O. medical boards. He began his practice in 1989. Dr. Enrico Fazzini completed his neurology training at Boston University in 1987 and his fellowship in Movement Disorders at Columbia Presbyterian in 1989.

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Stanisław Wigura

Stanisław Wigura

1903 - 1932 (29 years)

Stanisław Wigura was a Polish aircraft designer and aviator, co-founder of the RWD aircraft construction team and lecturer at the Warsaw University of Technology. Along with Franciszek Żwirko, he won the international air contest Challenge 1932.

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Arthur Hollis Edens

Arthur Hollis Edens

1901 - 1968 (67 years)

Arthur Hollins Edens served as President of Duke University from 1949 to 1960. Duke's third president after the school's expansion from college to university, Edens was first president hired from outside the university since 1894, when John C. Kilgo was hired away from Wofford College. An executive with the Rockefeller Foundation and a native Southerner, Edens launched a capital gifts program and a national development campaign. The success of these efforts allowed Duke University to strengthen its endowment and experience a period of great growth during his presidency with the Duke Universit...

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Cai Qiao

1897 - 1990 (93 years)

Cai Qiao or Chiao Tsai was a Chinese physiologist and physician. Cai is famous for his discovery in 1920s, the ventral tegmental area, which also known as the ventral tegmental area of Tsai. He was elected as a member of Academia Sinica in 1948, also a member of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1955.

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Shemariah of Negropont

1275 - 1352 (77 years)

Shemariah ben Elijah Ikriti of Negropont was a Greek-Jewish philosopher and Biblical exegete, contemporary of Dante and Immanuel the Roman. Life He was born probably at Rome, the descendant of a long line of Roman Jews. His father, in his youth, went as rabbi to Crete, whence his surname, "Ha-Yewani" , or "Ha-Iḳriṭti" . Shemariah had a critical mind, and knew Italian, Latin, and Greek. Up to 1305 he studied the Bible exclusively; then he took up Talmudic aggadah and philosophy. The earliest Tractatus version in Hebrew was translated by Shemariah and presented as his own work, titled Sefer ha...

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Oleg Atkov

#19756

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Oleg Yur'yevich At'kov is a Russian cardiologist and former Soviet cosmonaut. With a doctorate from the Russian Academy of Medical Science, Atkov was chosen to be the health specialist on board Soyuz T-10 and Soyuz T-11. After Atkov's rather long time in space, he returned to work at the Myasnikov Institute of Clinical Cardiology to continue his research on the adaptation of weightlessness and cardiology. With his published research and time in space, Atkov holds two of the USSR's highest honors; the Order of Lenin and the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. Atkov is a professor of medicine at...

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Wayne Hankey

#172089

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Wayne John Hankey was a Canadian religious philosopher. Hankey had a lengthy career in academia, holding the title of professor emeritus in the Classics department at Dalhousie University until charged with historic sexual assault in February 2021. Hankey died on February 5, 2022, before standing trial on sexual abuse charges.

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Virendra Nath Pandey

#60227

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Virendra Nath Pandey is an Indian geneticist, molecular virologist and enzymologist, known for his studies on the DNA recombinase enzyme complex. He is an associate professor at the New Jersey Medical School of the Rutgers University and a former scientist at Bhabha Atomic Research Center. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards, in 1991, for his contributions to biological sciences.

#17372

Friedrich Konrad Griepenkerl

1782 - 1849 (67 years)

Friedrich Konrad Griepenkerl was a German Germanist, pedagogue, musicologist and conductor. Life Griepenkerl was born in Peine the son of a preacher, he first attended the school in Peine and changed in 1796 to the . From 1805 to 1808 he studied theology at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, where he also studied philosophy and pedagogy with Johann Friedrich Herbart and philology with Christian Gottlob Heyne. In addition he studied music theory, piano and organ with Johann Sebastian Bach's devotee Johann Nikolaus Forkel . In 1808, on Herbart's advice, he went to Hofwil in Switzerland, wh...

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James M. Matarazzo

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Overall Influence

1941 - 2018 (77 years)

James M. Matarazzo was an American academic and librarian who taught at Simmons University for almost 50 years. He was a national and global leader in the field of special libraries. Education and academic career Matarazzo held bachelor's and master's degrees in Political Science from Boston College, a master's in Library Science from Simmons College and a doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh. He first worked as a librarian at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . From 1969 to 2002, he held a series of combined faculty and leadership positions at the Graduate School of Library a...

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Hilda Bastian

#75787

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Hilda Bastian is a health consumer advocate. Starting in Australia in the 1980s and 1990s and moving to Europe and the USA, she is involved in evidence-based medicine and communicating medical science to the public.

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Nancy November

#107079

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Nancy Rachel November is a New Zealand academic, and is professor of musicology at the University of Auckland, specialising in late 18th- and 19th-century chamber music. Academic career After a BSc in mathematics in 1994 and a Bachelor of Music with honours in musicology a year later, both from Victoria University of Wellington, November travelled to Cornell University to complete an MA in 1999 and a 2003 PhD titled Haydn's vocality and the ideal of “true” string quartets. November studied baroque violin with Peter Walls and received instruction from the New Zealand String Quartet. November m...

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Yog Raj Sharma

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Yog Raj Sharma is an Indian ophthalmologist and ex-chief of Dr. Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences , New Delhi, the apex body of the National Programme for the Control of Blindness, a Government of India initiative to reduce the prevalence of blindness in India. He is the Chairman of the Task Force on Prevention and Control of Diabetic Retinopathy Group and the Co-Chairman of the National Task Force on Prevention of Blindness from Retinopathy of Prematurity under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare of the Government of India. An advisor to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, India.

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Souhel Najjar

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Souhel Najjar is a Syrian-American neurologist whose story with Susannah Cahalan turned into an American drama film. He is considered an expert in the field of encephalopathy, specifically the treatment of encephalitis.

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Tara O'Toole

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Tara O'Toole served as the Under Secretary of Homeland Security for Science and Technology from 2009 to 2013. She is currently a senior fellow and executive vice president at In-Q-Tel. Background Prior to her confirmation as Under Secretary , O'Toole founded, and served as chief executive officer and director of, the Center for Biosecurity at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Concurrently, she was a Professor of Medicine and of Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh. She stepped down from her position as Under Secretary on September 23, 2013

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George Gilbert Ramsay

1839 - 1921 (82 years)

George Gilbert Ramsay was the Professor of Humanity at the University of Glasgow and the first president of the Scottish Mountaineering Club. External links

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Linda Laubenstein

Linda Laubenstein

#20128

Overall Influence

1947 - 1992 (45 years)

Linda Jane Laubenstein was an American physician and early HIV/AIDS researcher. She was among the first doctors in the United States to recognize the AIDS epidemic of the early 1980s; she co-authored the first article linking AIDS with Kaposi's sarcoma.

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Charalampos Tzoulis

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Charalampos Tzoulis is a Professor of Neurology and Neurogenetics. He is a trained neurologist and co-director of the Neuro-SysMed Center for Clinical Trials Research in neurological diseases, at the University of Bergen and Haukeland University Hospital, funded amongst others by the Norwegian Research Council. In 2022, he established the K.G. Jebsen Center for Translational Research in Parkinson's Disease at the University of Bergen, with funding from the K.G. Jebsen Foundation, focusing on better diagnostics and identification of disease subtypes in order to offer personalized treatments.

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Alfred Hirschmeier

#139660

Overall Influence

1931 - 1996 (65 years)

Alfred Hirschmeier was a German production designer. In 1995, he was a member of the jury at the 45th Berlin International Film Festival. Selected filmography Five Cartridges Naked Among Wolves The Turning Point Spring Symphony

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John F Sarwark

#108415

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Dr. John F. Sarwark is Martha Washington Foundation Professor of Pediatric Orthopedics at Lurie Children's Hospital; Former Head, Pediatric Orthopedic Surgery, Lurie Children's Hospital; and Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois.

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James Marriott

#172931

Overall Influence

1972 - 2012 (40 years)

James Patrick Blackden Marriott was an English film critic and writer of fiction and non-fiction. Marriott was educated at Rokeby Preparatory School and Wellington College, Berkshire. A graduate of the University of Manchester, he completed an MA in Film Studies at University of Exeter in 2010. His main interest was horror film, although his work included short stories and true crime fiction.

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William W. Cates

#181869

Overall Influence

1939 - 2018 (79 years)

William Wesley Cates was an American writer and vintner. Early life Cates was born in New Orleans, Louisiana and grew up in Virginia. He received a BA in Philosophy from Roanoke College in Virginia and a MA in Theatre Arts from Hollins University.

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Frederic Poole Gorham

1871 - 1933 (62 years)

Frederic Poole Gorham was an American bacteriologist and educator. Born in Providence, Rhode Island, the son of businessman Samuel Gorham and his wife Abby Harding Fish, he was educated in local schools before graduating from Providence High School in 1889 and matriculating to Brown University. After graduating in 1893, he became an instructor of Biology at Brown and was awarded his A.M. in 1894 upon examination, with special studies performed at Harvard. On June 24, 1897, he was married to Emma Mary Lapham in Burrillville, Rhode Island. Thereafter he became an assistant professor in 1899, then associate professor in 1901.

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K. W. Monsarrat

1872 - 1968 (96 years)

Keith Waldegrave Monsarrat was an English physician, surgeon, philosopher and writer. Biography Monsarrat was born in Kendal. He was educated at King William's College on the Isle of Man. In 1890 he joined the University of Edinburgh as a medical student and graduated with an MB ChB in 1894. He worked at Nottingham General Hospital and Great Yarmouth Hospital. He moved to Liverpool and obtained FRCS in 1897. He married the same year and took up medical practice in Liverpool.

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Leopold von Schrötter

Leopold von Schrötter

1837 - 1908 (71 years)

Leopold Schrötter Ritter von Kristelli, was an Austrian internist and laryngologist born in Graz. He was the son of chemist Anton Schrötter von Kristelli, and father to physician Hermann Schroetter-Kristelli .

#17389

Esther MacCallum-Stewart

Esther MacCallum-Stewart

#132301

Overall Influence

Esther MacCallum-Stewart is a British author and academic on games and sex, sexuality and gender in gaming as well as on the narrative of games. Biography Esther MacCallum-Stewart attended the University of Sussex where she completed her degrees from BA to doctorate. Though her doctorate thesis was on Popular Culture and the First World War MacCallum-Stewart has gone on to become the Associate Professor of Game Studies at Staffordshire University. MacCallum-Stewart researches how narratives in games are understood by the player as well as publishing articles on sex, sexuality, and gender in games.

#17390

Israel Hwasser

1790 - 1860 (70 years)

Israel Hwasser was a Swedish medical doctor and professor, who became a member of the Swedish Academy in 1854. Hwasser was the son of the vicar in Älvkarleby parish, Lars Adolph Hwasser, and Margareta Catharina Djurman. He grew up in the vicarage, receiving his schooling at home. When he was 14 years old he took the finishing exam, studentexamen, in Uppsala, and went on to study medicine there. In 1813 he finished his studies and defended his dissertation to become a Doctor of Medicine. The subject of his dissertation was the treatment of fevers with cold water.

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William Henry Beierwaltes

#73306

Overall Influence

1916 - 2005 (89 years)

William Henry Beierwaltes was an American physician who was a pioneer in the use of nuclear medicine. Beierwaltes building on the established work of Dr.Saul Hertz, developed innovations in the use of iodine-131 and in surgery in treating thyroid cancer, in establishing a university training program in nuclear medicine and in the use of radiolabeled antibodies to detect cancer.

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Peter Evans

#95308

Overall Influence

1929 - 2018 (89 years)

Peter Angus Evans was an English musicologist, most noteworthy for his book The Music of Benjamin Britten. Evans was born in West Hartlepool and received his early education at the local Grammar school. He studied with Arthur Hutchings and A.E.F. Dickinson at Durham University from 1947 to 1951 and gained a first-class BA in 1950. He taught music at Bishop Wordsworth's School in Salisbury before gaining his Fellowship Diploma from the Royal College of Organists in 1952. He was then appointed a lecturer at Durham University in 1953. He graduated with a BMus from Durham in that year and took the MA with a dissertation on 17th-century chamber music manuscripts in Durham Cathedral Library.

#17393

Orlando J. Smith

1842 - 1908 (66 years)

Orlando Jay Smith was an early 20th-century American philosopher. Though he was an avowed agnostic, he advocated for the search to a meaning in life which would be commensurate with the possible existence of an ultimate intelligence.

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Abraham Buschke

Abraham Buschke

1868 - 1943 (75 years)

Abraham Buschke was a Jewish German dermatologist who was a native of Nakel in the Province of Posen. Life In 1891 he received his doctorate in Berlin, and afterwards was a surgical assistant in Greifswald. Later he worked at dermatological clinics in Breslau under Albert Neisser and in Berlin with Edmund Lesser . In 1906 he became head of dermatology at Rudolf Virchow Hospital in Wedding.

#17395

James Tyler

#181316

Overall Influence

1940 - 2010 (70 years)

James Tyler was a 20th-century American lutenist, banjoist, guitarist, composer, musicologist and author, who helped pioneer an early music revival with more than 60 recordings. Background James Henry Tyler was born in Hartford, Connecticut. His father worked for Pratt-Whitney. Initially, he studied the banjo and Mandolin with Walter K. Bauer , then the lute with Joseph Iadone and mandoline with Martha Blackman - he also played the cello.

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Winifred Cullis

Winifred Cullis

1875 - 1956 (81 years)

Winifred Cullis was a physiologist and academic, and the first woman to hold a professorial chair at a medical school. Early life and education Born in Gloucester, Winifred was the youngest daughter of the six children of Frederick John and Louisa Cullis. Her brother Cuthbert Edmund Cullis became a mathematician. The family moved to Birmingham in 1880. She was initially educated at a middle school, the Summer Hill School, and at 16 transferred to the associated King Edward VI High School for Girls, Birmingham and took extra science classes at Mason College.

#17397

Mahmoud K. Muftić

1925 - 1971 (46 years)

Mahmoud Kamal Muftić Career Muftić, a keenly religious Bosnian Muslim, grew up in Sarajevo in what is now Bosnia and Herzegovina. While still a teenager Muftić became involved in the Croatian counter-insurgency campaign against communist-led Yugoslav partisans. By 1945 he and other Bosnian Muslims found themselves in refugee camps in Italy, unable to return to now-communist Yugoslavia, but courted by several Muslim nations of the Middle East who saw them as fellow Muslims in need and also sought their military experience. In 1947 he was among the 135 Bosnian and Albanian Muslims who were granted asylum by Egypt at the behest of Prince Amr Ibrahim, a member of the Egyptian royal family.

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Robert Smith

1840 - 1885 (45 years)

Robert Smith FRCSE , also known as Bob Smith, was a Sierra Leonean medical doctor who served as an Assistant Colonial Surgeon in Sierra Leone during the late nineteenth century. Smith was the first African to become a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh after completing his medical studies at the University of Edinburgh.

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Isabella Forshall

Isabella Forshall

1900 - 1989 (89 years)

Isabella Forshall FRCSE was an English paediatric surgeon who played a leading role in the development of the speciality of paediatric surgery in the United Kingdom. She took a particular interest in neonatal surgery and was instrumental in the establishment of the Liverpool Neonatal Surgical Unit, the first neonatal intensive care unit in the UK and indeed in the world.

#17400

John Stuart of Inchbreck

1751 - Present (275 years)

Prof John Stuart of Inchbreck FRSE FSA was an 18th/19th century Scottish scholar. He was one of the joint founders of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1783. Life He was born at Castletown in the Mearns in 1751, the second son of Dr John Stuart of Inchbreck and his first wife, Elizabeth Lawson. The family estate was Inchbreck House near Glenbervie. He was educated at Glenbervie then Arbuthnott school. His older brother, Dr David Stuart, initially inherited the Inchbreck estate.

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