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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#17801

Misty Jenkins

#103108

Overall Influence

Misty Rayna Jenkins is an Australian scientist known for her research into lymphocytes and cancer treatment. Jenkins leads an Immunology Laboratory at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research where she researches brain cancer and aims to establish a world-leading immunotherapy lab specialising in researching the possibilities of new treatments for both adult and paediatric brain cancer.

#17802

Jean Bauhin

1511 - 1582 (71 years)

Jean Bauhin was a French physician. He was born in Amiens, France and died in Basel, Switzerland, where he had to relocate after converting to Protestantism. He was the physician to Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre.

#17803

Dean Winslow

#175152

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Dean Winslow is an American physician, academic, and retired United States Air Force colonel. He had been nominated by President Donald Trump to become the next Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, but he withdrew his nomination in December 2017 after it was put on indefinite hold. He is Professor and former Vice Chair of Medicine at Stanford University. He previously served as Chair of the Department of Medicine and Chief of the Division of AIDS Medicine at the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center. In the Air Force, he deployed twice to Afghanistan and four times to Iraq as a fli...

#17804

Michael Kenny

#116794

Overall Influence

1941 - 1999 (58 years)

Michael Kenny was a British artist. Best known as a sculptor, he also made important reliefs and drawings as well as sculptural constructions in wood and metal. Brief Biography Having studied at Liverpool College of Art and then Slade School of Fine Art, Kenny taught at Slade 1970-1982 and at Goldsmiths School of Art 1983–88. He was made a Royal Academician in 1986 and completed many public commissions and exhibitions including retrospectives at Wilhelm-Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg , Hansard Gallery in Southampton , and Dulwich Picture Gallery following a residency there from 1992 to 1993. He died on 28 December 1999.

#17805

Jack Ohman

#46548

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Jack Ohman is an American editorial cartoonist and educator. He is currently a contributing opinion columnist and cartoonist for the San Francisco Chronicle. He formerly worked for The Sacramento Bee and the The Oregonian. His work is syndicated nationwide to over 300 newspapers by Tribune Media Services. In 2016, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning.

#17806

Tarjei Rygnestad

#122313

Overall Influence

1954 - 2013 (59 years)

Tarjei Rygnestad was a Norwegian physician. He was a professor of medicine at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and a physician at St. Olav Hospital. He had specialization in anesthesiology and clinical pharmacology. He chaired the Norwegian Board of Forensic Medicine from 2009 to his death from heart failure in February 2013.

#17807

David Suter

#189268

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (48 years)

David Suter is a Swiss physician and molecular and cell biologist. His research focuses on quantitative approaches to study gene expression and developmental cell fate decisions. He is currently a professor at EPFL , where he heads the Suter Lab at the Institute of Bioengineering of the School of Life Sciences.

#17808

Jan G. Waldenström

#10825

Overall Influence

1906 - 1996 (90 years)

Jan Gösta Waldenström was a Swedish doctor of internal medicine, who first described the disease that bears his name, Waldenström's macroglobulinemia. He was born in Stockholm into a medical family: his father, Johann Henning Waldenström , was a professor of orthopedic surgery in Stockholm, and his grandfather Johan Anton Waldenström was professor of internal medicine in Uppsala.

#17809

Richard Brinkley

1330 - 1379 (49 years)

Richard Brinkley was an English Franciscan scholastic philosopher and theologian. He was at the University of Oxford in the mid-fourteenth century; he produced a Summa Logicae in a nominalist vein in the 1360s or early 1370s, and other works.

#17810

Dhayendre Moodley

#190145

Overall Influence

Dhayendre Moodley is a South African scientist and Associate Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Career She received an Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation fellowship to work with John Sullivan at his laboratory. She is a member of the Academy of Science of South Africa. Over 100 journal papers have been co-authored by Moodley.

#17811

Augustus Thorndike

1896 - 1986 (90 years)

Augustus Thorndike, M.D. , was the chief of surgery at Harvard University Health Service from 1931 to 1962 and a pioneer in sports medicine. Thorndike served in World War I and was a 1919 graduate of Harvard College and a 1921 graduate of Harvard Medical School. He pioneered many advancements in sports medicine, including the rules that a physician must be present at every sports event and that a doctor must decide if an injured athlete should play. He also designed advanced equipment for football players and was the first to insist that hockey players wear helmets.

#17812

Karl Rottmanner

1783 - 1824 (41 years)

Karl Borromäus Rottmanner was a German poet, philosopher, and politician. Born in Munich, he was the son of lawyer and agricultural reformer Simon Rottmanner and his wife Maria Anna Barbara Paur . His first cousin once removed was German composer and organist Eduard Rottmanner. He studied law at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich where he earned a PhD. While a student there he belonged to a student patriotic movement led by Johann Nepomuk von Ringseis. After graduating, he became a member of the Landtag of Bavaria. He died in Ast.

#17813

Ian Crozier

#85229

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Ian Crozier is an American physician who contracted Ebola virus disease in September 2014, while working in West Africa. Early life Crozier was born in in the Rhodesian city of Fort Victoria. His family moved to the United States when he was ten years old. He attended Vanderbilt University, earning his M.D. in 1997, and also completed his training in internal medicine and infectious disease at Vanderbilt.

#17814

Carl Werner

1808 - 1894 (86 years)

Carl Friedrich Heinrich Werner was a German watercolor painter. Biography Born in Weimar, Werner studied painting under Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld in Leipzig. He switched to studying architecture in Munich from 1829 to 1831, but thereafter returned to painting. He won a scholarship to travel to Italy, where he ended up founding a studio in Venice and remaining until the 1850s, making a name for himself as a watercolor painter. He exhibited around Europe, in particular travelling often to England, where he exhibited at the New Watercolour Society.

#17815

Günther Massenkeil

#179042

Overall Influence

1926 - 2014 (88 years)

Günther Massenkeil was a German musicologist, academic teacher, writer and concert singer . His main field of research was sacred music of the 16th to 20th century. He served as director of the musicology department at the University of Bonn from 1966 to 1991. He became known beyond academia for his editing and supplementing of the eight-volume encyclopaedia, Das Große Lexikon der Musik.

#17816

Karl Gottfried Hagen

Karl Gottfried Hagen

1749 - 1829 (80 years)

Karl Gottfried Hagen was a German chemist. Hagen was born and died in Königsberg, Prussia. He founded the first German chemical laboratory at the University of Königsberg, thus establishing the scientific discipline of pharmaceutical chemistry in Germany. He worked as a professor in the field of physics, chemistry and mineralogy.

#17817

Traci C. West

#187650

Overall Influence

Traci C. West is a scholar and activist. She is the James W. Pearsall Professor of Christian Ethics and African American Studies at Drew University Theological School and Professor Extraorinarius in the Institute for Gender Studies in the College of Human Sciences at the University of South Africa. She is the author of numerous articles on gender, racial, and sexuality justice. Her notable books include Solidarity and Defiant Spirituality: Africana Lessons on Religion, Racism, and Ending Gender Violence , Disruptive Christian Ethics: When Racism and Women's Lives Matter , Our Family Values: Sa...

#17818

Cecco d'Ascoli

1269 - 1327 (58 years)

Cecco d'Ascoli is the popular name of Francesco degli Stabili , an Italian encyclopaedist, physician and poet. Cecco is the diminutive of Francesco, Ascoli was the place of his birth. The lunar crater Cichus is named after him.

#17819

Duncan Archibald Graham

Duncan Archibald Graham

1882 - 1974 (92 years)

Duncan Archibald Graham, was a Canadian physician and academic who held the first position in the British Empire of chair of clinical medicine, established by John Craig Eaton at the University of Toronto in 1919. He held this position and was chair of the department of medicine and physician-in-chief at the Toronto General Hospital, until 1947.

#17820

Ramsey Faragher

#167761

Overall Influence

1981 - Present (45 years)

Ramsey Faragher is the Founder, President, and CTO of Focal Point Positioning Ltd, and the Chairman and President of Focal Point Positioning Inc. He is also a Bye-Fellow of Queens' College and lives in Cambridge with his wife and three children. Previously he was a Senior Research Associate at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory in England, working in the Digital Technology Group on infrastructure-free smartphone positioning.

#17821

Walter Blankenburg

1903 - 1986 (83 years)

Walter Blankenburg was a German Protestant pastor, director of church music and musicologist, who focused in several publications on liturgy, hymnology, and on the sacred music of the early Baroque period, especially by Johann Sebastian Bach.

#17822

Lisa Campo-Engelstein

#189943

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Lisa Campo-Engelstein is an American bioethicist and fertility/contraceptive researcher. She currently works at the University of Texas Medical Branch as the Harris L. Kempner Chair in the Humanities in Medicine Professor, the Director of the Institute for Bioethics & Health Humanities, and an Associate Professor in Preventive Medicine and Population Health. She is also a feminist bioethicist specializing in reproductive ethics and sexual ethics. She has been recognized in the BBC's list of 100 inspiring and influential women from around the world for 2019.

#17823

Ruth Dayhoff

#85999

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Ruth Dayhoff is an American physician and medical bioinformatician. Early life Dayhoff is the daughter of Margaret Oakley Dayhoff, an early bioinformatician, and Edward S Dayhoff, a distinguished Physicist in the area of Electro-optics. From a young age, Dayhoff was encouraged by her mother to pursue scientific interests. In Dayhoff's words:

#17824

Paul Frederick White

#57587

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Paul Frederick White, FANZCA is a researcher in anesthesiology, research consultant at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center at Los Angeles, retired professor and former holder of the Margaret Milam McDermott Distinguished Chair of Anesthesiology at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, and the author and editor of several journals and textbooks on the subject. With over 450 peer-reviewed publications and authorship in 9 anesthesiology textbooks, White has helped shape and revolutionize the field of ambulatory anesthesia and intravenous anesthesia.

#17825

David Drummond

1852 - 1932 (80 years)

Sir David Drummond CBE was an Anglo-Irish physician and president of the British Medical Association. He was warden and vice-chancellor of the University of Durham between 1920 and 1922, having also served as the president of the University's College of Medicine in Newcastle.

#17826

Francis Kiernan

1800 - 1874 (74 years)

Francis Kiernan FRS was an anatomist and physician. He was born in Ireland, the eldest of four children. His father, Francis Kiernan , was also a physician and brought the family to England in the early 19th century. Francis junior was educated at the Roman Catholic College at Ware, Hertfordshire, and was trained in medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London.

#17827

Hermann Biggs

1859 - 1923 (64 years)

Hermann Michael Biggs was an American physician and pioneer in the field of public health who helped apply the science of bacteriology to the prevention and control of infectious diseases. He was born in Trumansburg, New York.

#17828

Dawn Elder

#175998

Overall Influence

Dawn Elizabeth Elder is a New Zealand academic and paediatrician. As of 2018, she is a full professor and head of department at the University of Otago, Wellington. Early life and family Elder is the daughter of Ivan Elder, who served as mayor of Gore in the 1970s. She was educated at Gore High School.

#17829

Gregory Blaxland

Gregory Blaxland

1778 - 1853 (75 years)

Gregory Blaxland was an English pioneer farmer and explorer in Australia, noted especially for initiating and co-leading the first successful crossing of the Blue Mountains by European settlers. Early life Gregory Blaxland was born 17 June 1778 at Fordwich, Kent, England, the fourth son of John Blaxland, mayor from 1767 to 1774, whose family had owned estates nearby for generations, and Mary, daughter of Captain Parker, R.N. Gregory attended The King's School, Canterbury. In July 1799 in the church of St George the Martyr there, he married 20-year-old Elizabeth, daughter of John Spurdon; the...

#17830

Wolfgang Mattheuer

#92786

Overall Influence

1927 - 2004 (77 years)

Wolfgang Mattheuer was a German painter, graphic artist and sculptor. Together with Werner Tübke and Bernhard Heisig he was a leading representative of the Leipzig School, a figurative art current in East Germany. He came to prominence with allegorical, pessimistic and sometimes heroic paintings which were accused of expressing political dissidence. He was later an open critic of both socialism and capitalism. He taught at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig for many years. In 1974 he resigned from his position as professor at the HGB to work as a freelance painter. In 1988 he le...

#17831

Alison Park

#109537

Overall Influence

Alison Macdonald Park is a British social scientist who is a professor and previous executive chair of the Economic and Social Research Council . Her research has focused on longitudinal data collection and social attitudes. She was appointed a Commander of the British Empire in the 2019 New Year Honours for services to the Social Sciences.

#17832

Barrie R. Jones

#93341

Overall Influence

1921 - 2009 (88 years)

Barrie Russell Jones was a British-New Zealand ophthalmologist, ophthalmic surgeon, and pioneer of preventive ophthalmology. Biography Jones studied physics and chemistry with B.Sc. from Victoria College in Wellington and then medicine with M.B., B.Chir. from the University of Otago in Dunedin, where he specialized in ophthalmology under Rowland Wilson. From 1951 Jones worked in London at the ophthalmology department of Moorfields Eye Hospital and at Moorfields' Institute of Ophthalmology under Stewart Duke-Elder. In 1963 he became a professor of clinical ophthalmology of the University of Lo...

#17833

John Bate

John Bate was an English or Welsh theologian and philosopher. Life Bate was, according to Leland's account, born west of the River Severn , but seems to have been brought up in the Carmelite monastery at York, where his progress in learning was so great that he was dispatched to complete his studies at Oxford. Philosophy and theology seem to have divided his attention, and on asking his master's degree in both these subjects he proceeded to add to his reputation by authorship. He was acknowledged to be an authority in his own university and the news of his acquirements soon spread abroad. His...

#17834

Manuel Martínez Maldonado

#59170

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (89 years)

Dr. Manuel Martínez Maldonado , MD; MACP, an internist and nephrologist, administrator, educator, poet and author, has authored numerous scientific publications and edited several books. His research interests are the regulation of body fluids and the pathophysiology of blood pressure and its effects on the kidneys. He also focuses on the renin angiotensin system, a hormone system that helps regulate long-term blood pressure and blood volume in the body and which is controlled primarily by the kidneys. His clinical research has included polycycstic kidney disease, renal stones and hypercalcemia.

#17835

Giuseppe Saverio Poli

Giuseppe Saverio Poli

1746 - 1825 (79 years)

Giuseppe Saverio Poli was an Italian physicist, biologist and natural historian. His collections, together with those stored in the Royal Bourbon Museum, were the foundation of the Zoological Museum of Naples. The specimens were from locations all over the world, and included especially, Lepidoptera, Cnidaria and Mollusca.

#17836

Karl Gottfried Konstantin Dehio

Karl Gottfried Konstantin Dehio

1851 - 1927 (76 years)

Karl Gottfried Konstantin Dehio was a Baltic German internist and professor of pathology. In 1877 he earned his doctorate from the University of Dorpat, and following graduation continued his studies at the University of Vienna. From 1879 to 1883 he was a physician at the Prince of Oldenburg Children's Hospital in St. Petersburg, returning to Dorpat in 1884 as a lecturer at the university. In 1886, he became a professor of pathology, being chosen university rector in 1918.

#17837

Carlos Llano Cifuentes

Carlos Llano Cifuentes

#183218

Overall Influence

1932 - 2010 (78 years)

Carlos Llano Cifuentes was a Mexican philosopher and university professor, as well as one of the founding members of IPADE Business School and founder of Universidad Panamericana. Early life and education He received his BA and PhD in Philosophy from the Complutense University of Madrid, the University of Saint Thomas in Rome , and the National Autonomous University of Mexico , while also studying Economics in the Complutense University.

#17838

Alex Gil

#176088

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (53 years)

Alex Gil is a scholar of digital humanities and Caribbean studies. He is a Senior Lecturer II and Associate Research Faculty at the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University. He is a leading scholar in the field of digital humanities. Gil is a founder of the Group for Experimental Methods in the Humanities at Columbia University, which focuses on rapid prototyping of new forms of digital scholarship.

#17839

Secundus the Silent

Secundus the Silent

100 - 200 (100 years)

Secundus the Silent was a philosopher who lived in Athens in the early 2nd century, who had taken a vow of silence. An anonymous text entitled Life of Secundus purports to give details of his life as well as answers to philosophical questions posed to him by the emperor Hadrian. The work enjoyed great popularity in the Middle Ages.

#17840

Toomas Asser

#35959

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Toomas Asser is an Estonian medical scientist. He has been a member of the Estonian Academy of Sciences since 2011 and the Rector of the University of Tartu since 1 August 2018. His research focuses on clinical and molecular-biological aspects of brain tumors, pituitary surgery, surgical treatment of intracranial aneurysms, functional surgery and spinal cord injuries.

#17841

Trevor Owens

#168757

Overall Influence

1985 - Present (41 years)

Trevor J. Owens is an American librarian and archivist. He currently serves as the first Head of Digital Content Management at the Library of Congress. He previously served as the Senior Program Officer responsible for the development of the National Digital Platform portfolio at the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Before that, he worked as a Digital Archivist with the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program. In 2014 the Society of American Archivists granted him the Archival Innovator Award, presented annually to recognize the archivist, repository, or ...

#17842

Arnold Aberman

#169742

Overall Influence

Arnold Aberman is a Canadian physician who is a pioneer in critical care medicine and a medical administrator. Early life Aberman was born in Montreal Quebec and received his BSc from McGill University.

#17843

Giorgio Sirilli

#67644

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Giorgio Sirilli is an Italian scholar in the field of science and technology policy. Biography After graduation in economics from the University of Rome "La Sapienza", he did research at the Science Policy Research Unit at Sussex University in England with Christopher Freeman and Keith Pavitt, and at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development .

#17844

Adolf Sandberger

Adolf Sandberger

1864 - 1943 (79 years)

Adolf Wilhelm August Sandberger was a German musicologist and composer, with a particular interest in 16th-century music. He founded the School of Musicology at the University of Munich, where he worked as a professor of musicology from 1904 to his retirement in 1930. In addition to his academic work, Sandberger composed two operas, several choruses and some chamber and instrumental music. His Violin Sonata, Op, 10 was dedicated to Benno Walter.

#17845

Abu'l-Fadl ibn al-Amid

912 - 970 (58 years)

Abu 'l-Fadl Muhammad ibn Abi Abdallah al-Husayn ibn Muhammad al-Katib, commonly known after his father as Ibn al-'Amid was a Persian statesman who served as the vizier of the Buyid ruler Rukn al-Dawla for thirty years, from 940 until his death in 970. His son, , also called Ibn al-'Amid, succeeded him in his office.

#17846

Leslie Halliwell

1929 - 1989 (60 years)

Robert James Leslie Halliwell was a British film critic, encyclopaedist and television rights buyer for ITV, the British commercial network, and Channel 4. He is best known for his reference guides, Filmgoer's Companion , a single volume film-related encyclopaedia featuring biographies and technical terms, and Halliwell's Film Guide , which is dedicated to individual films.

#17847

Marian Ewurama Addy

#34504

Overall Influence

1942 - 2014 (72 years)

Marian Ewurama Addy was a Ghanaian biochemist and the first Host of the National Science and Maths Quiz. The first Ghanaian woman to attain the rank of full professor of natural science, Addy became a role model for school girls and budding female scientists on the limitless opportunities in science, technology, engineering and mathematics disciplines. Marian Addy was also a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences, elected in 1999. In the same year, she was awarded the UNESCO Kalinga Prize for the Popularization of Science.

#17848

Bosede Afolabi

#189929

Overall Influence

Bosede Bukola Afolabi is a UK-born Nigerian Gynaecologist, Professor, and Head of Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the College of Medicine, Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Lagos, Nigeria. She is the founder and chairperson of the Maternal and Reproductive Health Research Collective , a research and training NGO. She is also the Director at the Centre for Clinical Trials, Research and Implementation Science .

#17849

David Benjamin Levy

#61902

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

David Benjamin Levy is a musicologist. He is a music professor at Wake Forest University. He is a visiting professor of musicology at the Eastman School of Music. He is especially distinguished as a Beethoven scholar, but he also deals generally with the classical and romantic periods.

#17850

Placida Gardner Chesley

Placida Gardner Chesley

1879 - 1966 (87 years)

Placida Gardner Chesley was an American medical doctor and college professor. She was the City Bacteriologist of Los Angeles, and worked in Europe with the Red Cross during World War I. Early life Vera Placida Gardner was born in Orange, California, the daughter of Henri F. Gardner and Emma Howard Gardner. She attended Santa Ana High School, and completed undergraduate studies the University of Southern California, graduating in 1910. She earned her medical degree at the University of Michigan, where she was elected to the medical honor fraternity Alpha Omega Alpha.

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