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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#17601

Daniel M. Neuman

#106175

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Daniel M. Neuman is the Mohindar Brar Sambhi Chair of Indian Music and Interim Director of the Herb Alpert School of Music, University of California, Los Angeles and also a published author of 10 books, being held in 1,163 libraries, the highest book is in 728 libraries worldwide. He has also been active in multimedia development, having received several grants for developing the World Music Navigator, a computerized ethnographic atlas from the early 1990s.

#17602

Peter W. Marx

#136622

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (53 years)

Peter W. Marx is a German Theatre and Performance studies Scholar. He holds the Chair of Theatre and Media Studies at the University of Cologne where he functions also the director of its Theaterwissenschaftliche Sammlung.

#17603

Hilary D. Marston

#99233

Overall Influence

Hilary D. Marston is an American physician-scientist and global health policy advisor specializing in pandemic preparedness. She is the Chief Medical Officer of the Food and Drug Administration. Career Marston worked for McKinsey & Company and at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as a program officer and special assistant. She then studied internal medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital. In 2013, Marston joined National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases . She has experience in outbreak response, including Zika virus and Ebola. Marston served as a medical officer and policy advisor for global health and pandemic preparedness at NIAID.

#17604

Elli Alexiou

1894 - 1988 (94 years)

Elli Alexiou was a Greek author, playwright and journalist. The daughter of a printer and publisher, Alexiou was born in Heraklion, Crete. She taught French in a high school, and was politically active, joining the Communist Party in 1928 and working with the National Liberation Front resistance during World War II. After the war, she received a scholarship from the French government and studied in Paris. She was stripped of Greek citizenship in 1950, living as an exile until it was restored in 1965.

#17605

Adrienne Williams Scott

#166348

Overall Influence

Adrienne Williams Scott is an American ophthalmologist specialized in diabetic retinopathy, epiretinal membranes, and macular degeneration. She is chief of the Wilmer Eye Institute in Bel Air, Harford County, Maryland. She is an associate professor of ophthalmology at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

#17606

Michelle van Ryn

#183279

Overall Influence

Michelle van Ryn is an American health researcher who is the Grace Phelps Distinguished Professor at the Oregon Health & Science University. Her research considers the social determinants of health and equity in healthcare. She demonstrated that physicians' perceptions of patients was impacted by their socio-demographic status. She is the founder of Diversity Sciences, a consultancy company who provide evidence-based training for organizations looking to eliminate bias.

#17607

Johann Hasler

1548 - 1593 (45 years)

Johann Hasler , also known as Haslerus, was a 16th-century Swiss theologian and physician. He is known for his association with a group of antitrinitarians including Johann Sylvan and Adam Neuser and for developing Galen's concept of heat and cold into the idea of a scale of temperature.

#17608

Qian Jiaqi

#72684

Overall Influence

1939 - 2019 (80 years)

Qian Jiaqi , also romanized as Jia-Qi Qian, was a Chinese nephrologist and professor at Renji Hospital of Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine. He was the first clinical physician to perform hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis in China, and established a Kt/V value of at least 1.7 as the target for peritoneal dialysis.

#17609

Hosmer Allen Johnson

1822 - 1891 (69 years)

Hosmer Allen Johnson, M.D., L.L.D. was an American physician, academic, and Mason from New York. Badly injured on the family farm, Johnson turned to teaching to support himself. After graduating from the University of Michigan, he moved to Chicago, Illinois, to attend Rush Medical College. There, he became an understudy of William B. Herrick and joined his medical practice. Receiving a Doctor of Medicine in 1852, Johnson was named Lecturer on Physiology at Rush, eventually chairing a department there. In 1859, he co-founded the Chicago Medical College at Lind University, which later became the Feinberg School of Medicine of Northwestern University.

#17610

Robert O. Work

#77010

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Robert Orton Work is an American national security professional who served as the 32nd United States Deputy Secretary of Defense for both the Obama and Trump administrations from 2014 to 2017. Prior to that, Work was the United States Under Secretary of the Navy from 2009 to 2013, and before that served as a colonel in the United States Marine Corps; Work retired in 2001 and worked as a civilian at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments and the George Washington University in various positions relating to military and strategic study. From 2013 to 2014, he was the CEO of the Center for a New American Security .

#17611

Lars Georg Svensson

#52323

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Lars Georg Svensson is a cardiac surgeon and the chairman of the heart and vascular institute at Cleveland Clinic. He is the Director of the Aorta Center, Director of the Marfan Syndrome and Connective Tissue Disorder Clinic, and is a professor of surgery at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine and Case Western Reserve University. He is also the Director of Quality Outcomes and Process Improvement for the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery and Affiliate Cardiac Surgery Program at Cleveland Clinic.

#17612

Wilhelm Uhthoff

Wilhelm Uhthoff

1853 - 1927 (74 years)

Wilhelm Uhthoff was a German ophthalmologist born in Klein-Warin. In 1877 earned his doctorate at the University of Berlin, and later became a professor of ophthalmology at the Universities of Marburg and Breslau , where he succeeded Carl Friedrich Richard Förster .

#17613

Arthur Hutchings

1906 - 1989 (83 years)

Arthur James Bramwell Hutchings was an English musicologist, composer and professor of music. Life Born in Sunbury-on-Thames, Hutchings had no formal musical education but played piano and violin to a high standard and sang as a chorister. He taught, performed and composed, and was appointed organist at All Saints Church, East Sheen in 1929. While training as a teacher in London he made some key musical friendships during the 1930s: with Constant Lambert, Cecil Gray, Sorabji, Cyril Rootham and Edmund Rubbra .

#17614

Carl Steffeck

1818 - 1890 (72 years)

Carl Constantin Heinrich Steffeck was a German painter and graphic artist. He was especially well known for his paintings of horses and dogs. Life He was the son of a "gentleman of independent means" who was interested in art. While he was still in the Gymnasium he sat in on classes at the Prussian Academy of Arts. In 1837, he entered the master class of horse painter Franz Krüger and later worked in the studios of Carl Joseph Begas. He went to Paris in 1839, where he spent two months studying with Paul Delaroche and was influenced by the work of Horace Vernet. From 1840 to 1842, he lived in ...

#17615

Rajmund Zamanja

Rajmund Zamanja

1587 - 1647 (60 years)

Rajmund Zamanja or Raymundo Giamagnik was a Croatian theologian, philosopher and linguist from Dubrovnik. Biography He was born in Dubrovnik in 1587. He joined the Dominicans in 1601 from which he learned philosophy and theology. Four years later, in 1605, he went to the end of the study in Bologna. In 1612 he returned to Dubrovnik as a lecturer. Three times he was a general vicar of the Dominicans. Fourteen years later, in 1626, he established the first public gymnasium on the ground floor of the Dominican monastery . There he was a teacher and he emphasized the importance of learning Croat...

#17616

Mikhail Averbakh

Mikhail Averbakh

1872 - 1944 (72 years)

Mikhail Iosifovich Averbakh was a Russian Empire and Soviet ophthalmologist, Doctor of Medicine , Full Member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR , founder and first director of the Helmholtz Central Institute of Ophthalmology.

#17617

Ian Gainsford

#80673

Overall Influence

1930 - 1997 (67 years)

Sir Ian Derek Gainsford is a British retired dentist and academic. He was dean of King's College School of Medicine and Dentistry, King's College London and vice-principal of King's College London . He is president of the Maccabaeans, a Zionist society.

#17618

Susan Ofori-Atta

Susan Ofori-Atta

1917 - 1985 (68 years)

Susan Barbara Gyankorama Ofori-Atta, also de Graft-Johnson, was a Ghanaian medical doctor – the first female doctor on the Gold Coast. She was the first Ghanaian woman and fourth West African woman to earn a university degree. Ofori-Atta was also the third West African woman to become a physician after the Nigerians Agnes Yewande Savage and Elizabeth Abimbola Awoliyi . In 1933, Sierra Leonean political activist and higher education pioneer, Edna Elliot-Horton became the second West African woman university graduate and the first to earn a bachelor's degree in the liberal arts. Eventually Of...

#17619

James E. K. Hildreth

#77223

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

James Earl King Hildreth is an American immunologist and academic administrator. Hildreth is the 12th president and chief executive officer of Meharry Medical College. He is known for his work on HIV/AIDS and was the first African American to hold a full tenured professorship in basic research at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Edward D. Miller calls Hildreth "one of the most influential HIV researchers in the world".

#17620

Hilary Cass

Hilary Dawn Cass is a British medical doctor and a consultant in paediatric disability at St Thomas' Hospital, London. She was the President of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health from 2012 to 2015.

#17621

J. Glenn Morris

#149628

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

John Glenn Morris, Jr. is an American physician and epidemiologist. He is the founding and current director of the Emerging Pathogens Institute, an interdisciplinary research facility located within the University of Florida, having served since 2007.

#17622

Dominick Angiolillo

#101964

Overall Influence

Dominick J. Angiolillo is an Italian cardiologist. Angiolillo attended Catholic University of the Sacred Heart Medical School, where he met Attilio Maseri. Angiolillo specialized in cardiology at the Complutense University of Madrid, and completed further training with Carlos Macaya. Angiolillo joined the University of Florida College of Medicine-Jacksonville in 2004. He is an ISI highly cited researcher.

#17623

Akio Suzuki

#35152

Overall Influence

1929 - 2010 (81 years)

Akio Suzuki was a Japanese doctor, medical scientist, educator and president of Tokyo Medical and Dental University . He was best known as an expert on heart surgery. Early life Suzuki earned his medical degree from TMDU in 1956. His training continued as a surgical intern in Tokyo at the U.S. Army Hospital. He was a surgical resident at Albany Medical School in New York.

#17624

Robert Swinhoe

1836 - 1877 (41 years)

Robert Swinhoe FRS was an English diplomat and naturalist who worked as a Consul in Taiwan . He catalogued many Southeast Asian birds, and several, such as Swinhoe's pheasant, are named after him. Biography Swinhoe was born in colonial-era Kolkata where his father, who came from a Northumberland family, was a lawyer. There is no clear record of the date of his arrival in England, but it is known he attended the University of London, and in 1854 joined the China consular corps.

#17625

Sigmund Spaeth

1885 - 1965 (80 years)

Sigmund Gottfried Spaeth was an American musicologist who sought to de-mystify classical music for the general public. His extensive knowledge of both the classical repertoire and popular song enabled him to trace the melodies of current hits back to earlier sources; this talent garnered him fame as the "Tune Detective," a role he played as an entertainer, educator, and as an expert witness in cases of plagiarism and infringement of copyrighted music.

#17626

Pamela Rendi-Wagner

#130609

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Pamela Rendi-Wagner is an Austrian physician, environmentalist, feminist, trade unionist and politician who served as chairwoman of the Social Democratic Party between November 2018 and June 2023. She was the first woman to lead the SPÖ.

#17627

Charles Alston

1685 - 1760 (75 years)

Charles Alston was a Scottish botanist. Career Alston was born in Hamilton, Lanarkshire, and was apparently raised by the Duke and Duchess of Hamilton. In 1715 he went to Leyden to study under the Dutch physician Hermann Boerhaave. On his return to Scotland he became lecturer in materia medica and botany at Edinburgh and also superintendent of the botanical gardens. He was a critic of Linnaeus's system of plant classification.

#17628

Francis H. Parker

#189581

Overall Influence

1920 - 2004 (84 years)

Francis Haywood Parker was an American philosopher and Charles A. Dana Professor of Philosophy at Colby College. Life He was born in Kuala Lumpur to Reverend Walter G. and Alma Shell Parker. He received his BA from the University of Evansville, his MA from Indiana University and his PhD from Harvard University. He was a president of the Metaphysical Society of America.

#17629

Leopold Nowak

#110407

Overall Influence

1904 - 1991 (87 years)

Leopold Nowak was an Austrian musicologist chiefly known for editing the works of Anton Bruckner for the International Bruckner Society. He reconstructed the original form of some of those works, most of which had been revised and edited many times.

#17630

Friedrich Ruttner

#31364

Overall Influence

1914 - 1998 (84 years)

Friedrich Ruttner was an Austrian SA-member, NSDAP member, SS-physician, neurologist, zoologist and bee expert. He became internationally known for his advances in honey bee breeding, instrumental insemination, classification of various subspecies and as a co-founder of Apidologie.

#17631

Heather Currie

#182042

Overall Influence

Heather Currie MBE is an associate specialist gynaecologist. Her work relates specifically to menopause and she is the founder of Menopause Matters, a web resource providing to the public up-to-date, accurate information about the health at the menopause, menopause at work menopausal symptoms and treatment options.

#17632

Siegfried Schmalzriedt

#167505

Overall Influence

1941 - 2008 (67 years)

Siegfried Schmalzriedt was a German musicologist, University lecturer and vice-rector of the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe. Life and career Born in Stuttgart, Schmalzriedt studied musicology, Roman philology and comparative literature at the Universities of Tübingen, Paris and Bologna. He received his doctorate in 1969 in Tübingen with Walter Gerstenberg on the topic Heinrich Schütz und andere zeitgenössische Musiker in der Lehre Giovanni Gabrielis. From 1970 to 1976 he was assistant to Georg von Dadelsen at the musicology seminar. Until 1983 he was employed in Freiburg im Breisgau as a rese...

#17633

Riko Muranaka

#69755

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

is a medical doctor, journalist and recipient of the 2017 John Maddox Prize for fighting to reduce cervical cancer and countering misinformation about the human papilloma virus vaccine dominating the Japanese media, despite facing safety threats. Despite the lack of evidence, the HPV vaccine is infamous in Japan due to misattributed adverse effects, with government suspending promotion and coverage. While the World Health Organization safety and efficacy information about the vaccine is consistent with Muranaka's reporting, a court ruled against Muranaka in an unrelated slander lawsuit in 2016 for claims of alleged fabrication.

#17634

Cornelius L. Keedy

1834 - 1911 (77 years)

Cornelius Luther Keedy was an American pastor, physician, and academic administrator. He served as owner and president of Kee Mar College for 25 years. Life Keedy was born March 28, 1834, in Rohrersville, Maryland to Daniel and Sophia Miller Keedy. He was admitted to Pennsylvania College and the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg. Keedy was ordained to preach by the East Pennsylvania Lutheran Synod. He was licensed in 1859. He was pastor of Lutheran churches at various times at Johnstown, Riegelsville, Barren Hill, and Waynesboro. In 1860, Keedy married Elizabeth Wyatt Marbourg, the daughter of a Alexander Marbourg, a Johnstown merchant.

#17635

Cyril Hopkirk

1894 - 1987 (93 years)

Cyril Spottiswoode Moy Hopkirk was a New Zealand animal science administrator and veterinary scientist. He was a world authority on bovine mastitis. Early career Born at Hamua, north of Eketāhuna, in 1894, Hopkirk started his scientific career as a cadet in the laboratory of the Biology Department of Victoria University College and in 1912 became a laboratory assistant at the Wallaceville Animal Diagnostic and Research Laboratory.

#17636

Jan Helcelet

1812 - 1876 (64 years)

Jan Helcelet was a Czech naturalist, journalist, revolutionary and politician. He was one of the leaders of the Old Czech Party in Moravia. Biography His family originated in the Swiss city of Porrentruy, where their name was spelled "Hölzlet". He attended the grammar schools in Brno and, after graduation, following family tradition, trained as a miller. After extensive travels throughout Silesia and Moravia, he entered the University of Vienna, where he studied medicine from 1834 to 1838, then spent a year at the University of Padua.

#17637

Harvey E. Jordan

1878 - 1963 (85 years)

Harvey Ernest Jordan was a professor of anatomy and dean of the University of Virginia School of Medicine. Harvey Jordan was born in Coopersburg, Pennsylvania to Genaah and Emma Jordan. Jordan earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from Lehigh University, and his doctorate from Princeton University. He joined the faculty at UVA in 1907. He became Dean of the School of Medicine in 1939. Jordan was president of the American Genetic Association and the Virginia Academy of Science, which awarded him its Science Research Prize in 1931. He was well recognized for his research in histology and e...

#17638

Dionysius of Lamptrai

Dionysius of Lamptrai was an Epicurean philosopher, who succeeded Polystratus as the head of the Epicurean school at Athens . He died and was succeeded by Basilides.

#17639

Hieronymus Medices

1569 - 1622 (53 years)

Hieronymus Medices , was a Roman Catholic philosopher and interpreter of the works of Thomas Aquinas; b. 1569 in Camerino, Umbria, the origin of his surname de Medicis a Camerino. He was clothed with the Dominican habit at Ancona. He first distinguished himself as professor of philosophy and theology in various houses of the Province of Lombardy, whence he was advanced to a professorship in the more important theological school at Bologna. He was approved by the general chapter of his Order held in Paris, 1611, and raised to the mastership and doctorate. He was then performing the duties of ge...

#17640

Mark Josephson

#29238

Overall Influence

1943 - 2017 (74 years)

Mark E. Josephson was an American cardiologist and writer, who was in the 1970s one of the American pioneers of the medical cardiology subspecialty of cardiac electrophysiology. His book titled Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology: Techniques and Interpretations is widely acknowledged as the definitive treatment of the discipline. He served as Herman Dana Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, director of the Harvard-Thorndike Electrophysiology Institute and Arrhythmia Service and the chief of cardiology at Harvard University's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.

#17641

Rocke Robertson

#87294

Overall Influence

1912 - 1998 (86 years)

Harold Rocke Robertson , was a Canadian physician and the former Principal and Vice-Chancellor of McGill University . Biography Rocke Robertson was born in Victoria, British Columbia in 1912. He studied in Switzerland before moving to Montreal in 1929 to attend McGill University, where he received his B.S. in 1932 and M.D. in 1936.

#17642

Clara Chu

#163293

Overall Influence

Clara Chu is a Chinese-Canadian library and information science scholar. She is the Director of the Mortenson Center for International Library Programs at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research interest is in multicultural library and information services.

#17643

Alonso Gutiérrez

Alonso Gutiérrez

1504 - 1584 (80 years)

Alonso Gutiérrez, also known as Alonso de la Vera Cruz was a Spanish philosopher and Augustinian, who took the religious name da Vera Cruz. He became a major intellectual figure in New Spain, where he worked from 1535 to 1562, and from 1573 to his death, and in the history of Mexico.

#17644

Karl Evang

1902 - 1981 (79 years)

Karl Evang was a Norwegian physician and civil servant. He was born in Kristiania as a son of assisting secretary Jens Ingolf Evang and Anna Beate Wexelsen . He was a brother of Vilhelm Evang, and a relative of Vilhelm Andreas Wexelsen, Per Kvist and Gunnar Jahn. His sister Anne Beate married another civil servant, Karl Ludvig Bugge. Karl Evang met physician Gerda S. Landmark Moe in 1926, and married her in 1929.

#17645

Katarina Majerhold

Katarina Majerhold

#186437

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Katarina Majerhold is a Slovenian philosopher, writer and editor. She is particularly interested in philosophy of emotions, especially in philosophy of love and sexuality, happiness, philosophical counseling and ethics. In 2017 she published an article on the History of Love in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. She has been a member of Society for the Philosophy of Sex + Love since 1998. In 2020 she wrote her concept of love as a creative dynamic work In which she claims that all known western concepts of love are based on lack of something or someone, such as primordial wholeness, God...

#17646

Jack Penn

#25829

Overall Influence

1909 - 1996 (87 years)

Jack Penn , M.B., Ch.B., F.R.C.S., Mil. Dec. M.B.E., S.M., was a plastic and reconstructive surgeon, sculptor and author, who was also for a time a member of the President's Council in South Africa. Early years Penn was born in Cape Town in 1909, the youngest of 7 children. After World War I, the family moved to Johannesburg, where he was educated at Parktown Boys' High School and the University of the Witwatersrand.

#17647

Hiram D. Williams

#115049

Overall Influence

1917 - 2003 (86 years)

Hiram Draper Williams was a painter and professor of art at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. Williams was inducted into the Florida Artist Hall of Fame. His work is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum, all of New York, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

#17648

Carl G. Streed

#66997

Overall Influence

Carl G. Streed Jr. is an American physician, researcher, and advocate for the LGBTQ+ community. He is an assistant professor of medicine at Boston University School of Medicine. Early life and education Streed grew up in Zion, Illinois. He completed a B.S. in biological chemistry and B.A. in chemistry at University of Chicago in 2007. While at Chicago, Streed became an advocate for LGBTQ issues and served on the university's committee for enhancing support for the LGBTQ community. He came out as gay to his family before graduating. Streed volunteered at the Broadway Youth Center with their HIV and STI services.

#17649

Carl Gussenbauer

Carl Gussenbauer

1842 - 1903 (61 years)

Carl Gussenbauer was an Austrian surgeon. Biography Gussenbauer was a native of Obervellach. He received his medical doctorate in 1867 from the University of Vienna, and after graduation worked as an assistant to Theodor Billroth. Later on, he served as professor at the universities of Liège and Prague . In 1894 he returned to Vienna, where he succeeded Billroth as director of the second surgical university clinic.

#17650

Frederick Dickins

1838 - 1915 (77 years)

Frederick Victor Dickins was a British naval surgeon, barrister, orientalist and university administrator. He is now remembered as a translator of Japanese literature. Life Dickins was born at 44 Connaught Terrace in Paddington, London to Thomas Dickins and Jane Dickins. He first visited Japan as a medical officer on HMS Coromandel in 1863. For three years he was at Yokohama in charge of medical facilities there. During this time he was in contact with Japanese doctors and culture, and also Ernest Satow who became a lifelong correspondent and friend. He began publishing English translations of Japanese classical works at this time.

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