The Most Influential People Across History
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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,
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Seeley G. Mudd
1895 - 1968 (73 years)
Seeley Greenleaf Mudd, M.D. was an American physician, professor, and major philanthropist to academic institutions. Early life Mudd was born in Denver, Colorado in 1895, and was the son of noted mining engineer Seeley W. Mudd and Della Mullock Mudd. His brother, Harvey Seeley Mudd, was a miner, businessman, and philanthropist. He was eight when his family moved to Los Angeles, California. He attended Stanford University for two years before transferring to Columbia University, where he received a B.A in 1917 and a B.S. degree in mining engineering. He later attended Harvard Medical School where he received his M.D.
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James Douglas Pearson
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Overall Influence
1911 - 1997 (86 years)
James Douglas Pearson was a British librarian and bibliographer in the field of Islamic studies who founded the Index Islamicus. Life James Pearson grew up in Cambridge, where he was also educated. His first job was as a book fetcher in the Cambridge University Library at the age of 16.
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Miyoshi Kiyotsura
847 - 919 (72 years)
Miyoshi Kiyotsura was a Japanese Confucian scholar, now most notable for his opprobrium of Buddhism. Life Kiyotsura was a scholar and professor of literature, eventually becoming the Daigaku-no-kami and writing a biography of Fujiwara no Yasunori. He also enjoyed a distinguished career in politics, as both a provincial governor and later as the State Chancellor, dying while holding this office. In 914, Kiyotsura authored the Memorial of Opinion , the purpose of which was to make the Emperor Daigo aware of the deterioration of both the morality of the Imperial Court's nobles and of public finances.
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Sean Doherty
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Overall Influence
1980 - Present (46 years)
Sean William Doherty is a British Anglican priest and academic specialising in Christian ethics. Since June 2019, he has been Principal of Trinity College, Bristol, an evangelical Anglican theological college.
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Allan Hahn
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1951 - Present (75 years)
Allan Geoffrey Hahn OAM is a leading Australian sports scientist. Between 1984 and 2011, he made a significant contribution to the Australian Institute of Sport in the areas of sports physiology and technology. In September 2011, he was appointed Emeritus Professor at the AIS.
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Tess Cramond
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1926 - 2015 (89 years)
Teresa Rita O'Rourke Cramond AO, OBE was an Australian doctor and the director of the Multidisciplinary Pain Centre at the Royal Brisbane Hospital. Her career spanning fifty years, was dedicated to improving the use of anaesthesia, resuscitation and pain medicine, with specific reference to the relief of cancer pain and palliative care.
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Moritz Kaposi
1837 - 1902 (65 years)
Moritz Kaposi was a physician and dermatologist from the Austro-Hungarian Empire who discovered the skin tumor that received his name . Biography Early life and name Born in Kaposvár, Hungary, Austrian Empire, to a Jewish family, originally his surname was Kohn; but, with his conversion to the Catholic faith, he changed it to Kaposi in 1871, in reference to his town of birth. One purported reason behind this is that he wanted to marry a daughter of current dermatology chairman, Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra, and advance in the society, which he could not have done being of Jewish faith. This se...
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Ferdinand Gottlieb von Gmelin
1782 - 1848 (66 years)
Ferdinand Gottlieb von Gmelin was a German physician. He was a nephew of botanist Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin . In 1802 he received his medical doctorate from the University of Tübingen, then following graduation, took a study trip through Germany, Italy and France. In 1805 he became an associate professor, and from 1810 onward, was a full professor of natural sciences and medicine at Tübingen. In 1823 he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of the Württemberg Crown.
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Frieda Fraser
1899 - 1994 (95 years)
Frieda Fraser was a Canadian physician, scientist and academic who worked in infectious disease, including research on scarlet fever and tuberculosis. After finishing her medical studies at the University of Toronto in 1925, she completed a two-year internship in the United States, studying and working in Manhattan and Philadelphia. Afterward, she conducted research in the Connaught Laboratories concentrating on infectious disease, making important contributions in the pre-penicillin age to isolation of the strains of streptococci likely to lead to disease. From 1928, she lectured in the Dep...
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Roy Johnston
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1929 - 2019 (90 years)
Roy H. W. Johnston was an Irish theoretical physicist and republican political activist. He was a Marxist who as a member of the IRA in the 1960s argued for a National Liberation Strategy to unite the Catholic and Protestant working classes. He wrote extensively for such newspapers as The United Irishman and The Irish Times.
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Thomas Hocken
1836 - 1910 (74 years)
Thomas Morland Hocken was a New Zealand collector, bibliographer and researcher. Early life He was born in Rutlandshire on 14 January 1836, the son of Wesleyan minister Joshua Hocken, and educated at Woodhouse Grove School and a school in Newcastle. He studied medicine at Durham University and Trinity College Dublin, and in 1859 became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons.
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Onyema Ogbuagu
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1978 - Present (48 years)
Onyema Eberechukwu Ogbuagu is an American-born infectious diseases physician, educator, researcher, and clinical trial investigator, who was raised and educated in Nigeria. He is an associate professor at Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, CT and is the director of the Yale AIDS Program clinical trials unit. His research contributions have focused on HIV/AIDS prevention and COVID-19 vaccination and treatment clinical trials. He switched his focus at the beginning of the 2019 COVID pandemic and participated as a principal investigator on the Pfizer-BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine trials and the Remdesivir SIMPLE trial in 2020 and 2021.
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Lance Becker
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1901 - Present (125 years)
Lance B. Becker is an American physician and academic, specializing in emergency medicine and treatment for cardiac arrest, currently at Northwell Health. He is the chairman of the department of emergency medicine at North Shore University Hospital, as well as chair and professor of emergency medicine at Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine.
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Thomas G. McGinn
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Thomas G. McGinn is an American physician, Educator, and researcher in Evidence Based Medicine, Clinical Prediction Rules, clinical decision support. McGinn is the EVP of CommonSpirit Health and Professor of Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine
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John Christopher Schwab
1865 - 1916 (51 years)
John Christopher Schwab was a librarian and a historian of political economy. He was the son of Gustav Schwab, of the firm of Oelrichs & Company, and was named for his great-grandfather, a privy counsellor of Stuttgart, Germany. His paternal grandparents were Gustav Schwab, a German poet of note, and Sophie Schwab. His mother was Catherine Elizabeth, daughter of Laurence Henry and Henrietta Margaretta Von Post. Through her, he was descended from Heinrich Melchior Mühlenberg, the chief founder of the Lutheran Church in America.
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Michael Levin
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1943 - Present (83 years)
Michael Levin may refer to:Michael Levin , American philosopherMichael Levin , American biologistMichael Levin , American soldier in the Israel Defense ForcesMichael Graubart Levin , American authorMike Levin , American politician from CaliforniaMike Levin , British professor of paediatrics
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Mark Williams
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1959 - Present (67 years)
Mark Williams is an English actor, comedian, presenter and screenwriter. He first achieved widespread recognition as one of the central performers in the popular BBC sketch show The Fast Show. His film roles include Horace in the 1996 version of 101 Dalmatians and Arthur Weasley in seven of the Harry Potter films. He made recurring appearances as Brian Williams in the BBC television series Doctor Who and as Olaf Petersen in Red Dwarf. Since 2013, Williams has portrayed the title character in the long-running BBC series loosely based on the Father Brown short stories by G. K. Chesterton.
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Frank L. Douglas
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1943 - Present (83 years)
Frank Lennox Douglas is a Guyanese-American biomedical researcher and business executive. Education and career Douglas was born April 30, 1943, in Georgetown, Guyana. He graduated with a BS in Engineering from Lehigh University in 1966. He went on to a PhD in Physical Chemistry from Cornell University, which he received at the beginning of 1973, with a thesis on chlorophyll-a. After a brief stint working at Xerox, Douglas moved to New York City to pursue a medical degree from the Cornell University Medical School. After finishing the MD, Douglas completed an internship and residency in inte...
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William H. Stewart
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1921 - 2008 (87 years)
William H. Stewart was an American pediatrician and epidemiologist. He was appointed tenth Surgeon General of the United States from 1965 to 1969. Biography Early life and education Stewart was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He began college at the University of Minnesota and completed his undergraduate degree at Louisiana State University , after his father moved the family to Baton Rouge during World War II to chair the pediatrics department at LSU. Stewart earned his medical degree through an accelerated program at the LSU Health Sciences Center in New Orleans, under the auspices of the U.S.
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Don Harper Mills
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1927 - 2013 (86 years)
Don Harper Mills was an American pathologist and medical-legal scholar. He was a clinical professor of pathology and psychiatry at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California, president of the American College of Legal Medicine from 1974 to 1976, and a Distinguished Fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, of which he served as president from 1986 to 1987. He was also a practicing lawyer who served as medical director of the County of Los Angeles Medical Malpractice Program. He is known for telling the "Ronald Opus" story to members of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences in 1987, when he was the Academy's president.
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William Weston Patton
1821 - 1889 (68 years)
William Weston Patton , was an abolitionist, academic administrator, and scholar. He served as the fifth president of Howard University, and one of the contributors to the words of "John Brown's Body". He was the son of Rev. William Patton and the grandson of Anglo-Irish Congregationalist immigrant and Revolutionary War soldier Major Robert Patton.
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Robert Balfour
1553 - 1621 (68 years)
Robert Balfour was a Scottish philosopher. He was educated at the University of St Andrews and the University of Paris. He was for many years principal of the College of Guienne at Bordeaux. Works His great work is his Commentarii in Organum Logicum Aristotelis ; the copy in the British Museum contains a number of highly eulogistic poems in honour of Balfour, who is described as Graium aemulus acer. Balfour was one of the scholars who contributed to spread over Europe the fame of the praefervidum ingenium Scotorum. His contemporary, Thomas Dempster, called him the "phoenix of his age, a philo...
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Kenneth Crews
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Overall Influence
1955 - Present (71 years)
Kenneth D. Crews is an American copyright scholar and librarian. He is particularly noted for his scholarship around educational and library exceptions in copyright law, and was commissioned by WIPO to write an examination of those exceptions around the world. He is a frequent speaker and consultant on library-related copyright matters, and was called for expert testimony in the Cambridge University Press v. Becker copyright case challenging the practice of Georgia State University's e-reserves system. Crews is noted for pioneering the concept of the "fair use checklist", which has enjoyed w...
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Joe Sam Robinson
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1945 - Present (81 years)
Joe Sam Robinson Jr. is an American neurosurgeon. He is a professor and chief of neurosurgery at Mercer University and a clinical professor at Georgia Regents University. Early life and education The son of Joe Sam Robinson and Nell Mixon Robinson, he was born on July 21, 1945, in Atlanta, Georgia. Robinson grew up in Macon, Georgia, and attended Harvard University, graduating cum laude in 1967. While at Harvard he ran and lettered in varsity track and football and was a Rhodes Scholar nominee. Robinson then attended the University of Virginia medical school where he played first side on their rugby team and graduated as a member of the medical honors society AOA.
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Thomas H. Green
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1932 - 2009 (77 years)
Thomas Henry Green SJ was an American Jesuit, spiritual director, educator and author of spiritual books. He taught primarily in the Philippines. Early life Thomas Henry Green was the son of George Charles and Marie Margaret Green . After graduating from Catholic The Aquinas Institute of Rochester, he entered the noviciate of the Society of Jesus in Poughkeepsie on September 7, 1949. He studied Philosophy and Theology at Bellarmine College in Plattsburgh, New York, and at Woodstock College in Maryland. At Fordham University he earned a M.A. degree in education and a M.S. degree in Physics .
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Howard A. Howe
1901 - 1976 (75 years)
Howard Atkinson Howe was an American physician, whose work at the Johns Hopkins medical institutions helped to lay the groundwork for the Salk polio vaccine. Early years and education A native of Wabash, Indiana who credited a high school teacher in Indianapolis with arousing his interest in biology, Howe attended Butler University and graduated from Yale University in 1925. In 1929, he graduated from the Hopkins medical school and remained there serving in a number of faculty posts. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Omega Alpha and other professional groups.
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Nils Bergman
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1955 - Present (71 years)
Nils Bergman, is a Swedish specialist in perinatal neuroscience and a promoter of skin-to-skin contact between a mother and newborn. Background Bergman was born in Sweden but grew up in Zimbabwe, and then moved to Cape Town, South Africa, where he received his medical degree at the University of Cape Town, followed by a Masters in Public Health at the University of the Western Cape and a doctoral dissertation on scorpion stings. He returned to Zimbabwe in the 1980s as a mission doctor, and started practising what is now known as Kangaroo Mother Care on babies born prematurely.
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Philo Judson Farnsworth
1832 - 1909 (77 years)
Philo Judson Farnsworth was a United States physician who worked in Iowa. He graduated from the University of Vermont in 1854, and at its medical department in 1858. He practised at Philipsburg, Canada, until 1860, in which year he received a second medical degree from the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons. He was in Lyons, Iowa, in 1862-66, then went to Clinton, Iowa, and in 1870 was elected to the chair of materia medica and diseases of children in the University of Iowa.
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Zhong Nanshan
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1936 - Present (90 years)
Zhong Nanshan is a Chinese pulmonologist. He was president of the Chinese Medical Association from 2005 to 2009 and is currently the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Thoracic Disease. He is a recipient of Medal of the Republic, the highest honour of China.
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Terence Rees
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1928 - 2014 (86 years)
Terence Albert Ladd Rees was a microbiologist but was best known as a collector of material relating to the theatre and music in Wales and Britain. He was also a published theatre historian and researcher, and, in particular, was an authority on the works of W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan who, as Gilbert and Sullivan, wrote 14 comic operas in the late Victorian era.
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Vanja Radauš
1906 - 1975 (69 years)
Vanja Radauš was a Croatian sculptor, painter and writer. Life After attending elementary and high school in his home town of Vinkovci, he studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb from 1924 to 1930. During World War II he participated in the National Liberation movement. He was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts from 1945 to 1969.
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Nick Lemoine
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1957 - Present (69 years)
Nicholas Robert Lemoine, is a British academic, professor at Queen Mary University of London, director of the Barts Cancer Institute and centre lead, Centre for Molecular Oncology. Lemoine's main interests are "the genomics and molecular pathology of pancreatic cancer and the development of oncolytic virotherapy".
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Charles Odamtten Easmon
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1913 - 1994 (81 years)
Charles Odamtten Easmon or C. O. Easmon, popularly known as Charlie Easmon, was a medical doctor and academic who became the first Ghanaian to formally qualify as a surgeon specialist and the first Dean of the University of Ghana Medical School. Easmon performed the first successful open-heart surgery in Ghana in 1964, and modern scholars credit him as the "Father of Cardiac Surgery in West Africa". Easmon was of Sierra Leone Creole, Ga-Dangme, African-American, Danish, and Irish ancestry and a member of the distinguished Easmon family, a Sierra Leone Creole medical dynasty of African-Americ...
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Juan Pascual-Leone
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1933 - Present (93 years)
Juan Pascual-Leone is a developmental psychologist and founder of the neo-Piagetian approach to cognitive development. He introduced this term into the literature and put forward key predictions about developmental growth of mental attention and working memory.
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Catherine Itzin
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1944 - 2010 (66 years)
Catherine Lenore Itzin , also known as Cathy Itzin, was a critic specialising in alternative theatre and later an advisor on women's issues. Itzin immigrated to Britain in the late 1960s and completed an MPhil at University College London and a PhD at the University of Kent some years later. A co-editor of Theatre Quarterly until 1977 she began the Alternative Theatre Directory as a short section of the journal in 1971; the directory itself had become a substantial periodical by 1975. She was drama critic of Tribune for about a decade, and wrote a history of the alternative theatre movement, ...
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Francine Leca
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1938 - Present (88 years)
Francine Leca is a French cardiac surgeon and professor of medicine specializing in heart surgery, a pioneer of the discipline in pediatrics. Biography Francine Leca gravitated toward medicine at a very young age. During an internship in cardiac surgery under professor Jean Mathey at Laennec Hospital, she assisted her first open heart surgery. As an intern at hôpitaux de Paris, she discovered pediatric cardiac surgery under Professor George Lemoine. She went on to specialize in congenital heart defects.
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Tiffany Stewart
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Overall Influence
1974 - Present (52 years)
Tiffany M. Stewart is an American clinical psychologist and the Dudley and Beverly Coates Endowed Professor at Pennington Biomedical Research Center of the Louisiana State University System. Stewart is a licensed clinical psychologist who provides mental health treatment and conducts behavioral health research as Director of the Behavior Technology Laboratory. She was the lead scientist who developed one of the first computerized procedures for measuring body image called the Body Morph Assessment . Stewart also established the first treatment clinic at Pennington Biomedical Research Center, ...
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Norman Longworth
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Overall Influence
1936 - Present (90 years)
Norman Longworth is a British educational theorist who was a professor of lifelong learning at several universities. He is probably best known for the creation of the 'learning Ladder' a diagram describing the stages in human learning, and for his international reputation in the field of Lifelong Learning and, in particular, the development of Learning cities. In his writings 'Cities, Towns and Regions are where the development of human and social potential takes first priority' . In the same book Longworth says ' A learning City, Town or Region goes beyond its statutory duty to provide educa...
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William Edward Quine
1847 - 1922 (75 years)
William Edward Quine was a Manx American physician, academic, and philanthropist. Immigrating to Chicago, Illinois, United States in 1853, Quine attended the Northwestern University College of Medicine and accepted a professorship there upon his graduation. In 1883, he joined the College of Physicians and Surgeons, where he taught for the rest of his life. From 1892 until the merge with the University of Illinois in 1913, he served as dean. Quine donated funds to build a hospital and four schools in China and established a deaconess in Normal, Illinois.
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Krista Lawlor
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Krista Lawlor is an American philosopher and Henry Waldgrave Stuart Memorial Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University. She is known for her works on philosophy of mind and epistemology. Books Assurance: An Austinian View of Knowledge and Knowledge Claims New Thoughts about Old Things: Cognitive Policies as the Ground of Singular Concepts
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Celso-Ramón García
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1922 - 2004 (82 years)
Celso-Ramón García was an American physician who specialized in reproductive endocrinology and infertility. He oversaw early clinical trials of the first oral contraceptive pill in Puerto Rican women and later became a professor of human reproduction at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Jackie Benschop
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Jackie Benschop is a New Zealand Professor of Veterinary Public Health at Massey University, specialising in the animal–human–environment interface, particularly for Leptospira, Campylobacter and Salmonella. She is a member of the World Health Organisation's Steering Committee for the Global Leptospirosis Environmental Action Network, and a co-founder of the African Leptospirosis Network.
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Silvio Almeida
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1976 - Present (50 years)
Silvio Luiz de Almeida is a Brazilian lawyer, philosopher, university professor, and the current Minister of Human Rights and Citizenship. Recognized as one of greatest Brazilian specialist on racial issues, Almeida is chair of Luiz Gama Institute and is author of book Racismo Estrutural, Sartre: Direito e Política and O Direito no Jovem Lukács: A Filosofia do Direito em História e Consciência.
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Monique Ryan
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1967 - Present (59 years)
Monique Marie Ryan is an Australian paediatric neurologist and politician. She is currently the member of parliament for the federal seat of Kooyong, having won the seat at the 2022 Australian federal election.
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Tom Oppé
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1925 - 2007 (82 years)
Thomas Ernest Oppé CBE was an English paediatrician and a professor of paediatrics at St Mary's Hospital, London. He is regarded as a pioneer in children's health services and infant nutrition. Early life Oppé was born in 1925 in Hampstead to Ernest Frederick, a banker, and Ethel Nellie . His paternal uncle was the historian and art collector Paul Oppé. Tom Oppé attended University College School, and went into banking at the age of 15. He left after six months, deciding that he would prefer to study medicine, and began his pre-clinical training at Guy's Hospital in 1942. He was evacuated to Tunbridge Wells for much of the Second World War, and graduated with honours in 1947.
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Tikam Singh Rana
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1969 - Present (57 years)
Tikam Singh Rana , is an Indian plant biologist, specializing in Plant Taxonomy, Conservation Biology, and Molecular Systematics. He is presently working as Chief Scientist, Head and Area Coordinator of the Plant Diversity, Systematics and Herbarium Division at CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute , Lucknow. Rana’s contributions to understanding the taxonomy and phylogeny of taxonomically complex and economically important taxa like Murraya sp., Chenopodium sp., Ocimum sp., Jatropha curcas, Taxus sp., Ephedra sp., Acorus calamus, Ficus sp., Sapindus sp., Bergenia sp., Betula sp., Uraria sp., Gymnema sp., etc.
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Rudolph Hjalmar Gjelsness
1894 - 1968 (74 years)
Rudolph Hjalmar Gjelsness was a prominent American librarian and literary translator who served as Dean of the University of Michigan's Library Science Department from 1940 to 1964. He was the first recipient of the Beta Phi Mu Award recognizing distinguished service to education for librarianship.
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Sonia Y. Angell
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Sonia Yris Angell is an American public health figure. She is an assistant clinical professor of medicine in the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. In 2020, after resigning as director of the California Department of Public Health, Angell was elected a Member of the National Academy of Medicine.
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Felix Lewandowsky
1879 - 1921 (42 years)
Felix Lewandowsky was a German dermatologist. Biography In 1902, he earned his doctorate at the University of Strassburg. From 1903 to 1907, he worked at the dermatological clinic in Bern, where he served as an assistant to Josef Jadassohn . Afterwards, he returned to his hometown of Hamburg, where he worked in dermatologist Eduard Arning’s department at St. Georg's Hospital. In 1917, he was appointed director of the dermatological clinic at Basel. While at Basel, he was the author of works on leprosy.
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Mark Henderson
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Overall Influence
1957 - Present (69 years)
Mark Henderson is a British lighting designer who won the 2006 Tony Award for Best Lighting Design for The History Boys. Henderson began his Broadway career with a 1986 comedy revue starring Rowan Atkinson. His Broadway credits include revivals of The Merchant of Venice , Cat on a Hot Tin Roof , Hamlet , The Iceman Cometh , The Real Thing , Faith Healer , and A Moon for the Misbegotten , and the original productions of Indiscretions , Copenhagen , Decocracy , Chitty Chitty Bang Bang , and Deuce .
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