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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#17451

Beverly P. Lynch

#177321

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

Beverly P. Lynch is an American scholar, professor, librarian, and administrator. She was president of the American Library Association from 1985-1986. Education Lynch earned a Bachelor of Science degree with majors in English and music from North Dakota State University, a Masters of Science degree in library sciences from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

#17452

Glenn Laffel

#77797

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Glenn Laffel is a physician and health IT entrepreneur. He formerly served as the Senior Vice President of Clinical Affairs for Practice Fusion, a San Francisco-based company that offers a Web-based Electronic Health Record for free to physicians.

#17453

Bartholomew Nnaji

#167860

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Bartholomew Nnaji is a Nigerian engineer, innovator and one of the inventors of the E-Design concept. Biography He was born in Enugu State, Nigeria and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in physics at St John's University, New York USA. He then proceeded to the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University for his Masters and PhD in Engineering. He also obtained a Post Doctorate Certificate in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, .

#17454

Henry Augustus Ward

Henry Augustus Ward

1834 - 1906 (72 years)

Henry Augustus Ward was an American naturalist and geologist. Biography Henry Augustus Ward was born in Rochester, New York on March 9, 1834. After attending Williams College and the Lawrence Scientific School, Harvard, where he was an assistant of Louis Agassiz, he traveled in Egypt, Arabia, and Palestine, and studied at the Jardin des Plantes, the Sorbonne, and the School of Mines in Paris, and at the universities of Munich and Freiberg. Subsequently, he traveled in West Africa and the West Indies, making natural history collections.

#17455

Gary Marchionini

#32060

Overall Influence

Gary Marchionini is an American information scientist and educator at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . Early life and education Marchionini received a PhD in 1981 from Wayne State University in the subject of "Curriculum Development: Mathematics Education". His thesis was titled Computer enhanced practice and introductory algebra.

#17456

Arnoldus Arlenius

1510 - 1582 (72 years)

Arnoldus Arlenius Peraxylus, , born Arndt or Arnout van Eyndhouts or van Eynthouts, also known as Arnoud de Lens, was a Dutch humanist philosopher and poet. He was born in Aarle, near Helmond, , North Brabant, in the Netherlands, at that time part of the possessions of the Habsburgs. He studied under Macropedius and later travelled to Paris, and Ferrara and studied at the University of Bologna for five years, becoming a first-rate Greek scholar and supporting himself by bookselling and acting as a scout for the printers of Basel, arranging the publication of books such as Caelius Rhodiginus's ...

#17457

Lauren Klein

Lauren Klein is an American academic who works as an associate professor, and director of the Digital Humanities Lab at Emory University. Klein is best known for her work in digital humanities and for co-authoring the book Data Feminism with Catherine D'Ignazio.

#17458

Susan Quaggin

#70850

Overall Influence

Susan E. Quaggin is a Canadian nephrologist. She is the Charles Horace Mayo Professor of Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Director of the Feinberg Cardiovascular Research Institute and chief of the Division of Nephrology.

#17459

Maha H. Hussain

#77006

Overall Influence

Maha H. Hussain is the Genevieve E. Teuton Professor of Medicine and deputy director of the Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine. She is an oncologist focusing on genitourinary cancers.

#17460

Igor Sikorsky

1889 - 1972 (83 years)

Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky was a Russian–American aviation pioneer in both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft. His first success came with the S-2, the second aircraft of his design and construction. His fifth airplane, the S-5, won him national recognition as well as F.A.I. license number 64. His S-6-A received the highest award at the 1912 Moscow Aviation Exhibition, and in the fall of that year the aircraft won first prize for its young designer, builder and pilot in the military competition at Saint Petersburg.

#17461

Ganapati Muni

1878 - 1936 (58 years)

Ayyala Somayajulu Ganapathi Sastry, also known as Ganapati Muni , was a disciple of Ramana Maharshi. He was also variously known as "Kavyakantha" , and "Nayana" by his disciples. Biography Ganapati Muni was born in Kalavarayai near Bobbili in Andhra Pradesh on 17 November 1878. His parents, Narasimha Sastri and Narasamamba had three sons, Muni being the second. Ganapati, when 18 years old, set out and wandered from one place to another, residing in places like Bhuvaneshwar, where he performed his tapas. When Ganapati was staying in Varanasi he learned of an assembly of Sanskrit scholars in the city of Nabadwip in Bengal.

#17462

Helmut Brenner

#126359

Overall Influence

1957 - 2017 (60 years)

Helmut Brenner was an Austrian ethnomusicologist. Biography Education Brenner received music degrees in 1981 and 1984 at the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Graz, Austria, and earned a master's degree in history in 1993 and Ph.D. in musicology in 1995 at the University of Vienna, .

#17463

Louise Reed Stowell

Louise Reed Stowell

1850 - 1931 (81 years)

Louise Reed Stowell was an American scientist, microscopist, author, and editor. She was the University of Michigan's first woman teacher , and the first woman appointed on District of Columbia Public Schools . She also served on the Board for the Girls' Reform School for District of Columbia. Stowell died in 1932.

#17464

Ben Bradley

#174937

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Ben Bradley is an American philosopher and Anita and Allan D. Sutton Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Syracuse University. He is known for his works on ethical theory and philosophy of death. Bradley is an editor-in-chief of Ergo.

#17465

John Glaister

1856 - 1932 (76 years)

Professor John Glaister was a Scottish forensic scientist who worked as a general practitioner, police surgeon, and as a lecturer at Glasgow Royal Infirmary Medical School and the University of Glasgow. Glasgow University's Glaister Prize is named in his honour.

#17466

John McClintock

John McClintock

1814 - 1870 (56 years)

John McClintock was an American Methodist Episcopal theologian and educationalist, born in Philadelphia. Biography McClintock matriculated at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. Ill health, however, forced him to leave Wesleyan in his freshman year. Unable to return, he graduated subsequently from the University of Pennsylvania in 1835, and was assistant professor of mathematics , professor of mathematics , and professor of Latin and Greek in Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He opposed the Mexican–American War, as well as slavery, but did not consider himself an abolitionist.

#17467

Deb Verhoeven

#102175

Overall Influence

Deb Verhoeven is currently the Canada 150 Research Chair in Gender and Cultural Informatics at the University of Alberta. Previously she was Associate Dean of Engagement and Innovation at the University of Technology Sydney, and before this she was Professor of Media and Communication at Deakin University. Until 2011 she held the role of director of the AFI Research Collection at RMIT. A writer, broadcaster, film critic and commentator, Verhoeven is the author of more than 100 journal articles and book chapters. Her book Jane Campion published by Routledge, is a detailed case study of the com...

#17468

David Bowen

#93139

Overall Influence

1924 - 2011 (87 years)

David Aubrey Llewellyn Bowen was a Welsh pathologist. He studied medicine at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He was involved in the Dennis Nilsen case, and also that of John Duffy and David Mulcahy, the murder of PC Keith Blakelock and the death of the financier Roberto Calvi.

#17469

Rigby Graham

#97863

Overall Influence

1931 - 2015 (84 years)

Rigby Graham MBE was an English landscape and topographical artist who worked within the English Romanticism tradition but in his choice of colours owed a debt to German Expressionism. Life and career Graham trained as a mural painter at the Leicester College of Art. After teaching at a number of local schools, Graham returned to lecture at the College of Art, firstly in Graphic Design and Printing, then in Education and latterly in Bookbinding. Graham illustrated more than 250 books and pamphlets and wrote extensively on art and artists. Graham retired from teaching in 1983.

#17470

Bernhard von Langenbeck

Bernhard von Langenbeck

1810 - 1887 (77 years)

Bernhard Rudolf Konrad von Langenbeck was a German surgeon known as the developer of Langenbeck's amputation and founder of Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery. Life He was born at Padingbüttel, and received his medical education at Göttingen, where one of his teachers was his uncle Konrad Johann Martin Langenbeck. He took his doctorate in 1835 with a thesis on the structure of the retina. After a visit to France and England, he returned to Göttingen as Privatdozent, and in 1842 became Professor of Surgery and Director of the Friedrichs Hospital at Kiel. Six years later he succeeded Johann Fried...

#17471

Caterina Moriggi

1437 - 1478 (41 years)

Caterina Moriggi was an Italian Roman Catholic who became a professed religious and adhered to the teachings and traditions of Augustine of Hippo. She lived in contemplation in the Italian mountains before establishing a new order, dubbed Order of Saint Ambrose ad Nemus which followed the Augustinian rule. Moriggi became known as Catherine of Pallanza when she became a religious and was noted for her austere model of living and for her deep personal holiness.

#17472

Ricky Kanee Schachter

#83358

Overall Influence

1918 - 2007 (89 years)

Ricky Kanee Schachter, FRCP, CM was a dermatologist who practiced in the Toronto area, and was invested as a Member of the Order of Canada in 1998, as "a researcher, teacher, administrator and healer, whose work in the areas of skin cancer and psoriasis has improved the lives of her patients, and inspired fellow researchers across Canada."

#17473

Alexander Matthews

#101651

Overall Influence

Alexander Matthews is an American playwright and philosopher. Matthews was born in New York City. He taught Philosophy in a number of universities between 1975 and 1989 and in 1986 was awarded a Visiting Fellowship to Princeton University.

#17474

Omar Fakhri

#55557

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (92 years)

Dr. Omar Fakhri - الدكتور عمر فخري – B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D. FRCPath is a medical scientist who is best known for his research in several areas: the role of vitamin K in treating hemorrhagic diathesis in children, the cooperation between antibodies and lymphocytes and their role in immune response, the use of peritoneal macrophages in the treatment of resistant infections in leukemia patients, the effect of electroconvulsive therapy on diabetes and the use of low voltage electrotherapy in the treatment of resistant skin burns, psoriasis, exophthalmos, aplastic anaemia and other diseases.

#17475

Chiara Ottaviano

#184317

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Chiara Ottaviano, is an Italian historian, writer and film director. Biography After obtaining a degree in philosophy, at the Università di Catania, thanks to scholarships of Einaudi Foundation of Torino, has done research on social and cultural history in Italy, England and South Africa.

#17476

Arne Kaijser

#57537

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Arne Kaijser is a professor emeritus of history of technology at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, and a former president of the Society for the History of Technology. Kaijser has published two books in Swedish: Stadens ljus. Etableringen av de första svenska gasverken and I fädrens spår. Den svenska infrastrukturens historiska utveckling och framtida utmaningar, and has co-edited several anthologies. Kaijser is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences since 2007 and also a member of the editorial board of two scientific journals: Journal of Urban Technology and Centaurus.

#17477

Knud Jeppesen

1892 - 1974 (82 years)

Knud Jeppesen was a Danish musicologist and composer. He was the leading scholar of the composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, about whose life and music he wrote numerous studies. Biography Jeppesen demonstrated early musical talent at age 10 when he was first encouraged by Hakon Andersen and Paul Hellmuth, although he was largely self-taught. Completing primary education in 1911, he first worked in Elbing and Liegnitz as an opera coach and conductor. He found employment in Berlin in 1914, but returned to Denmark because of the outbreak of war. In Copenhagen he became a pupil of promine...

#17478

Karine Nahon

#34896

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Karine Nahon is an Israeli information scientist in the area of information, technology, and society. She holds a dual position as an associate professor in The Information School at University of Washington and at Reichman University. In July 2017, Nahon was named #24 on Forbes' list of 50 Most Influential Women in Israel. Her co-authored book "Going Viral" was awarded Best Information Science Book Award by the Association for Information Science and Technology and the 2014 Outstanding Academic Title Award by the American Library Association.

#17479

Oluf Gerhard Tychsen

1734 - 1815 (81 years)

Oluf Gerhard Tychsen was a German Orientalist and Hebrew scholar. He is known today as one of the founding fathers of Islamic numismatics. As a Lutheran Christian, he attended the Christianeum grammar school in Altona, then Holstein and the rabbinic school attached to the Altona Ashkenazi synagogue, led by Jonathan Eybeschütz, chief rabbi of the Triple Community of Altona-Hamburg-Wandsbek. From 1756 he studied Oriental languages at the University of Halle.

#17480

Celedonio Calatayud

Celedonio Calatayud

1880 - 1931 (51 years)

Celedonio Calatayud Costa was a Spanish scientist and radiologist, remembered for his achievements on radiology, radiotherapy, and electrology. He pioneered the use of radiology and electrology in Europe for both diagnostics and therapeutical purposes, introducing radiotherapy in Spain in 1906. He founded the Spanish Medical Electrology and Radiology Society , promoted the doctoral chair of Electro-radiology and was elected as the first professor to chair it at the Universidad Central . He also was the driving force behind and creator of the First National Medical Congress that took place in ...

#17481

Manfred Bukofzer

1910 - 1955 (45 years)

Manfred Fritz Bukofzer was a German-born American musicologist. Life and career He studied at Heidelberg University and the Stern conservatory in Berlin, but left Germany in 1933 for Switzerland, where he obtained a doctorate from the University of Basel in 1936. In 1939 he moved to the United States where he remained, becoming a U.S. citizen. He taught at the University of California, Berkeley from 1941 until his premature death from multiple myeloma.

#17482

Thurston Dart

1921 - 1971 (50 years)

Robert Thurston Dart , was an English musicologist, conductor and keyboard player. Along with Nigel Fortune, Oliver Neighbour and Stanley Sadie he was one of Britain's leading musicologists of the post-World War II generation. From 1964 until his death he was King Edward Professor of Music at the University of London, based at King's College London.

#17483

Swami Kalyandev

1876 - 2004 (128 years)

Kalyandev ji Maharaj , known as Swami Kalyandev, was an Indian-born ascetic who was awarded the Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian award in India, for his social work in the villages of India.

#17484

Siegmund Helms

#152904

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

Siegmund Helms is a German musicologist and music educator. Life Born in Nordhorn, Helms studied school music and geography as well as musicology in Hanover, Marburg and Berlin from 1958. In 1967, his doctorate was awarded the a PhD degree from the Free University of Berlin with a dissertation on Die Melodiebildung in den Liedern von J. Brahms und ihr Verhältnis zu Volksliedern und volkstümlichen Weisen. He passed the first and second Staatsexamen in 1964 in Berlin and 1968 in Kassel. Afterwards he worked as a teacher in Göttingen.

#17485

Louis Duret

1527 - 1586 (59 years)

Louis Duret was a French physician to Charles IX of France and his brother Henry III of France as their chief physician. Early life Duret was born in Bâgé-la-Ville in the French province of Bresse in the year 1527. He came from a minor French nobility family. Leaving his father's home as a teenager. he made little money and subsisted at the poverty level. Around age nineteen, Duret decided to go to Paris to seek a good career. At first he was trained in academic disciplines by a private tutor, French magistrate Achilles Harlay, who took him under his wing because he demonstrated talent in ma...

#17486

Iimura Takahiko

#169851

Overall Influence

1937 - 2022 (85 years)

was a Japanese avant-garde filmmaker and fine artist. He is considered one of the pioneers of experimental and independent filmmaking in Japan. Iimura was born in Tokyo and was a graduate of Keio University. His film Onan won the Special Prize at the Brussels International Independent Film Festival in 1964. He published a seminal work on experimental filmmaking in 1970, Geijutsu to higeijutsu no aida, and a biography of Yoko Ono, Ono Yōko hito to sakuhin, in 1985. Iimura made much of his film in New York City, but became a professor at the Nagoya Zokei University of Art & Design in 1992.

#17487

Wendy Henderson

#169550

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Wendy A. Henderson is an American nurse practitioner, scientist, and academic administrator working as the director of the Center of Nursing Scholarship and Innovation at the University of Connecticut. She was previously a clinical investigator and lab chief of the National Institute of Nursing Research digestive disorders unit. Henderson is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing.

#17488

Sara J. Dent

#104681

Overall Influence

1901 - 1999 (98 years)

Sara J. Dent was the first chief of Anesthesiology and the first female division chief in the Department of Surgery at Duke University. She assumed this role in 1968 and served as chair until 1971, when Dr. Merel H. Harmel became chair. She conducted the earliest high-impact clinical research in anesthesiology at Duke that focused on postoperative nausea and vomiting .

#17489

Bill Oddie

#109847

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

William Edgar Oddie is an English actor, artist, birder, comedian, conservationist, musician, songwriter, television presenter and writer. He was a member of comedy trio The Goodies. A birder since his childhood in Quinton, Birmingham, Oddie has established a reputation as a naturalist, conservationist, and television presenter on wildlife issues. Some of his books are illustrated with his own paintings and drawings. His wildlife programmes for the BBC include Springwatch and Autumnwatch, How to Watch Wildlife, Wild in Your Garden, Birding with Bill Oddie, Britain Goes Wild with Bill Oddie a...

#17490

Vincent Baron

1604 - 1674 (70 years)

Vincent Baron was a French Dominican theologian and preacher. Biography He was born at Martres, in the département of the Haute-Garonne, France, 17 May 1604, and died in Paris on 21 January 1674. At the age of seventeen he passed from the college of the Jesuits in Toulouse to the Dominican convent of St. Thomas in the same city. He made his religious profession there on 16 May 1622, where he also completed his course in philosophy and theology, and taught these subjects.

#17491

John Boyd Wilson

#189242

Overall Influence

1928 - Present (98 years)

#17492

Helen Elizabeth Nash

Helen Elizabeth Nash

#126121

Overall Influence

1921 - 2012 (91 years)

Helen Elizabeth Nash was a pediatrician known for breaking racial and gender barriers in the medical field. She began her career at the Homer G. Phillips Hospital, and later worked at the Saint Louis Children’s Hospital. She started her own private practice and was a faculty member at the Washington University School of Medicine. Her earliest work included decreasing infant mortality in Homer G. Phillips Hospital. Her private practice was notable for educating teens on proper sexual health. Additionally, she was one of the first medical doctors to address patient health as care for the patien...

#17493

Henning Kagermann

#189245

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Gerald Sufrin

#160401

Overall Influence

Gerald Sufrin is an American urologist. He is a professor in the department of urology at University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. He was the president of the American Association of Genitourinary Surgeons from April 15, 2015, to April 14, 2016. In 2017, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Urological Association. He is the father of Carolyn Sufrin.

#17495

Bonnie J. Blackburn

#118508

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Bonnie Jean Blackburn is an American musicologist. Career She graduated in 1970 from the University of Chicago with a PhD. She studied with Edward Lowinsky and Howard Mayer Brown. She was lecturer at Northwestern University, and visiting faculty member at the University of Chicago in 1986, and University at Buffalo, The State University of New York in 1989–90. She moved to Oxford in 1990 and became a freelance editor.

#17496

Michael W. Bevan

#31631

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Michael Webster Bevan is a professor at the John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK. Education Bevan was educated at the University of Auckland where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science in 1973 and a Master of Science in 1974. He went on to study at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he was awarded a PhD in 1979 for work on differentiation in plant tissue cultures.

#17497

David R. Morrow

#187583

Overall Influence

David R. Morrow is an American philosopher and the Director of Research for the Institute for Carbon Removal Law and Policy and the Forum for Climate Engineering Assessment at American University. He is also a Research Fellow in the Institute for Philosophy & Public Policy at George Mason University. Morrow is known for his works on climate policy and ethics.

#17498

Theodore Levin

#136682

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Theodore Craig Levin is an American ethnomusicologist. He is a professor of music at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire and earned his undergraduate degree at Amherst College and obtained his Ph.D. from Princeton University. Levin has focused his research on the people of the Balkans, Siberia, and Central Asia. His recordings from these regions have been released on various labels.

#17499

Stephanie J. Murphy

Stephanie J. Murphy

#111417

Overall Influence

Stephanie J. Murphy is an American veterinary scientist. She is the director of the Division of Comparative Medicine in the Office of Research Infrastructure Programs at the National Institutes of Health. Murphy was previously a faculty member at the Oregon Health & Science University.

#17500

Schahan Berberian

1891 - 1956 (65 years)

Schahan R. Berberian was an Armenian philosopher, composer, and psychologist. Biography Early years Berberian was born in Constantinople . Shortly thereafter, along with his parents Retheos and Zaruhi and his elder brother Onnig, Berberian moved to Geneva, Switzerland to escape the atrocities against the Armenians perpetrated by the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II from 1894 to 1896.

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