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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#17901

Neal Flomenbaum

#53520

Overall Influence

Neal Flomenbaum is an emergency physician, author, editor, and an expert in emergency medicine and clinical toxicology. He is emergency physician-in-chief at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center; medical director of the NewYork-Presbyterian Emergency Medical Service; and professor of clinical medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University.

#17902

Jennie Kidd Trout

Jennie Kidd Trout

1841 - 1921 (80 years)

Jennie Kidd Trout was the first woman in Canada to become a licensed medical doctor, on March 11, 1875. Trout was the only woman in Canada licensed to practice medicine until July 1880, when Emily Stowe completed the official qualifications.

#17903

Friedrich von Esmarch

Friedrich von Esmarch

1823 - 1908 (85 years)

Johannes Friedrich August von Esmarch was a German surgeon. He developed the Esmarch bandage and founded the Deutscher Samariter-Verein, the predecessor of the Deutscher Samariter-Bund. Life Esmarch was born in Tönning, Schleswig-Holstein. He studied at Kiel and Göttingen, and in 1846 became Bernhard Rudolf Konrad von Langenbeck's assistant at the Kiel surgical hospital. He served in the Schleswig-Holstein War of 1848 as junior surgeon, and this directed his attention to the subject of military surgery. He was taken prisoner, but afterwards exchanged, and was then appointed as surgeon to a field hospital.

#17904

Konrad Küster

#128773

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Konrad Küster is a German musicologist. Born in Stuttgart, Küster studied musicology, Medieval and Modern History and Comparative Regional Studies at the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen and received his doctorate in 1989 with a thesis on the design of the first movements in Mozart's concerts . In 1993 he habilitated in Freiburg with the thesis Opus primum in Venice - tradition of the vocal movement, 1590-1650. Since 1995 he has been professor of musicology at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg. From 1995 to 1997 he was dean, and from 2002 to 2006 dean of studies. From 2003 to 2018 h...

#17905

Ole Fyrand

#105194

Overall Influence

1937 - 2017 (80 years)

Ole Lennart Fyrand was a Norwegian physician. He was born in Drammen. A professor of medicine at the University of Oslo from 1978, he was a recognized specialist in dermatology and venereology from the year before.

#17906

Josiah Warren

1798 - 1874 (76 years)

Josiah Warren was an American utopian socialist, American individualist anarchist, individualist philosopher, polymath, social reformer, inventor, musician, printer and author. He is regarded by anarchist historians like James J. Martin and Peter Marshall among others as the first American anarchist and the four-page weekly paper he edited during 1833, The Peaceful Revolutionist, the first anarchist periodical published, was an enterprise for which he built his own printing press, cast his own type, and made his own printing plates.

#17907

Anthony Fokker

1890 - 1939 (49 years)

Anton Herman Gerard "Anthony" Fokker was a Dutch aviation pioneer, aviation entrepreneur, aircraft designer, and aircraft manufacturer. He produced fighter aircraft in Germany during the First World War such as the Eindecker monoplanes, the Dr.1 triplane and the D.VII biplane.

#17908

Thais Russomano

Thais Russomano

#57268

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Thais Russomano is a Brazilian doctor and scientific researcher specialising in space medicine, space physiology, biomedical engineering, telemedicine and telehealth. She founded the Microgravity Centre at PUCRS university, Porto Alegre, Brazil, in 1999, coordinating it for 18 years until 2017. The MicroG is the first educational and research centre in Space Life Sciences in Latin America. She is a senior lecturer at King's College London, lecturing in Aviation and Space related courses; coordinator of the Space Network , University of Lisbon; guest lecturer at Aalto University, Finland in S...

#17909

Alexis Belonio

#50771

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Alexis T. Belonio is a professor, engineer, scientist, innovator and inventor from the Philippines. He was "the first Filipino to receive the Rolex Award for Enterprise" in 2008 for his invention of a low-cost and environment friendly rice husk stove. Belonio was included by the Rolex watchmaking company on its list of 10 model innovators in November 2008. He serves as the incumbent chair of the Agricultural Engineering and Environmental Management department of Central Philippine University.

#17910

Eric Esrailian

#37449

Overall Influence

Eric Esrailian is an American physician at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles . He is also an Emmy-nominated film producer and is active in charity and community service activities in Los Angeles.

#17911

Beverly McIver

#141623

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Beverly McIver is a contemporary artist, mostly known for her self-portraits, who was born and raised in Greensboro, NC. She is currently the Esbenshade Professor of the Practice of Art, Art History and Visual Studies at Duke University.

#17912

Lynn H. Hough

1877 - 1971 (94 years)

Lynn Harold Hough was an American Methodist clergyman, theologian, and academic administrator. He served as the 9th president of Northwestern University from 1919 to 1920. Early life and education Lynn H. Hough was born on September 10, 1877, in Cadiz, Ohio. He earned a bachelor's degree from Scio College in 1898 and Drew University in 1905, followed by a doctorate from Garrett Biblical Institute in 1918.

#17913

Whitney Smith

#10406

Overall Influence

1940 - 2016 (76 years)

Whitney Smith Jr. was an American vexillologist. He coined the term vexillology, which refers to the scholarly analysis of all aspects of flags. He was a founder of several vexillology organizations. Smith was a Laureate and a Fellow of the International Federation of Vexillological Associations.

#17914

Lisa Welander

#48452

Overall Influence

1909 - 2001 (92 years)

Lisa Welander was a Swedish neurologist, and was Sweden's first professor of neurology, taking up her professorship at Umeå University from 1964–75. Career Welander graduated from Örebro University in 1928, and became a medical licentiate in Stockholm in 1937. She received her doctorate of medicine in 1952 from the Karolinska Institute and then became an associate professor of neurology there, and in 1953 at the Medical College of the University of Gothenburg. Welander became a professor of neurology at Umeå University from 1964–75.

#17915

Charles Bolton

1870 - 1947 (77 years)

Charles Bolton was a British physician and pathologist. Bolton was born in Whitby, Yorkshire, the younger brother of psychiatrist Joseph Shaw Bolton . He trained as a doctor at University College Hospital in London and worked there in later life, holding the positions of resident medical officer, consulting physician, director of pathological studies and research, and lecturer in clinical medicine and general pathology at the medical school. He was also physician to the Queen's Hospital for Children. He held the degrees of Doctor of Medicine and Doctor of Science and was elected Fellow of ...

#17916

Bisola Ojikutu

#164033

Overall Influence

Bisola Ojikutu is an American physician, infectious disease specialist, and health equity researcher. In July 2021, she was appointed as the Executive Director of the Boston Public Health Commission. Ojikutu is the fifth Commissioner of Public Health for the City of Boston and the first Black person to permanently hold this position. She currently serves on the Cabinet of Mayor Michelle Wu.

#17917

Jean Berger

#151756

Overall Influence

1909 - 2002 (93 years)

Jean Berger was a German-born American pianist, composer, and music educator. He composed extensively for choral ensemble and solo voice. Early years Berger was born Arthur Schloßberg into a Jewish family in Hamm, Westphalia. He studied musicology at the universities of Vienna and Heidelberg, where he received his Ph.D. in 1931 with Heinrich Besseler as his advisor. He also studied composition with Louis Aubert in Paris. While working as the assistant conductor at an opera house in Mannheim, he was forcibly removed from a rehearsal by nazi Brown Shirts.

#17918

Karol Rathaus

1895 - 1954 (59 years)

Karol Rathaus was a German-Austrian Jewish composer who immigrated to the United States via Berlin, Paris, and London, escaping the rise of Nazism in Germany. Life Born in the Ukrainian city of Ternopil , Rathaus began composing at an early age, beginning his studies in 1913/1914 at the Academy of Performing Arts and Music in Vienna. His studies were interrupted by military service during the First World War. As one of the favorite pupils of Franz Schreker, Rathaus followed him to the Academy of Music in Berlin, where he continued to study music and composition. After graduation, Rathaus accepted the position of a teacher of composition and music theory at the Berlin University of the Arts.

#17919

Jacqueline Wernimont

Jacqueline Wernimont

#137633

Overall Influence

Jacqueline D. Wernimont is an American academic who is the Distinguished Professor in Digital Humanities and Social Engagement at Dartmouth College. Her first book, Numbered Lives Life and Death in Quantum Media, was released by MIT Press in January 2019. It is the first book to map connections in feminist media history. She is the founding Director of Human Security Collaborator , a collaboration of interdisciplinary academics working on digital civil rights and big data.

#17920

Lyndsey Stonebridge

#105759

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Lyndsey Stonebridge FBA FEA is an English scholar and professor of humanities and human rights at the University of Birmingham. Her work relates to refugee studies, human rights, and the effects of violence on the mind in the 20th and 21st centuries. She is also a regular radio and media commentator, writing for publications such as The New Statesman, Prospect Magazine, and New Humanist.

#17921

Metrodorus of Stratonicea

140 BC - 70 BC (70 years)

Metrodorus of Stratonikeia was at first a disciple of Epicureanism, but afterwards attached himself to Carneades. His defection from the Epicurean school is almost unique. It is explained by Cicero as being due to his theory that the scepticism of Carneades was merely a means of attacking the Stoics on their own ground. Metrodorus held that Carneades was in reality a loyal follower of Plato. Cicero speaks of him as an orator of great fire and volubility. He flourished about 110 BC.

#17922

Dona Nelson

#106564

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Dona Nelson is an American painter, best known for immersive, gestural, primarily abstract works employing unorthodox materials, processes and formats to disrupt conventional notions of painting and viewership. A 2014 New Yorker review observed, "Nelson gives notice that she will do anything, short of burning down her house to bully painting into freshly spluttering eloquence." Since 2002, long before it became a more common practice, Nelson has produced free-standing, double-sided paintings that create a more complex, conscious viewing experience. According to New York Times critic Roberta S...

#17923

Franklin Rhoda

1854 - 1929 (75 years)

Franklin Rhoda . In the words of historian Mike Foster, Frank Rhoda was an "artist, musician, writer, surveyor, naturalist, social critic, defender of civil liberties and champion of Christ - the only theme unifying his versatile life was idealism that aimed to reform almost everything he encountered."

#17924

Nieca Goldberg

#102420

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Nieca Goldberg is an American physician and author. Her specialty is as a cardiologist. The American College of Cardiology describes Goldberg as a "clinical innovator" and "a nationally recognized pioneer in women’s heart health".

#17925

Anne Edwards

#83479

Overall Influence

Anne Edwards is a British plant scientist, based at the John Innes Centre and was the first person in the UK to identify Ash dieback disease in England, Ash dieback Edwards was the first person to identify Ash Dieback, caused by the fungus Hymenoscyphus fraxineus, discovering it in Ashwellthorpe Woods, Norfolk in 2012. Four years later she found a tree that was resistant to the disease and named it Betty which was used to help identify three genetic markers associated with resistance against the disease. Anne is heavily involved in the Nornex consortium, an open-access and crowdsourcing approach, which was established to respond to this outbreak.

#17926

Jan Jakuš

#169567

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Jan Jakuš is a Slovak medical researcher, author and professor of Pathophysiology. Career He studied medicine at, and is currently serving as a professor of biophysics at the Jessenius School of Medicine in Martin which is a part of the Comenius University in Bratislava. He has also served as the head of the department of Biophysics since 2007.

#17927

Walter Gross

1904 - 1945 (41 years)

Dr. Walter Gross was a German physician appointed to create the Office for Enlightenment on Population Policy and Racial Welfare for the Nazi Party. He headed this office, renamed the Office of Racial Policy in 1934, until his suicide at the close of World War II.

#17928

John Paul Jones

#107579

Overall Influence

1924 - 1999 (75 years)

John Paul Jones was an American painter and printmaker, described as "one of America's foremost printmakers" in the 1950s and '60s. He had a write-up in Time magazine in 1962. In 1963 he had a retrospective exhibition of his prints and drawings at The Brooklyn Museum, New York City. A posthumous retrospective exhibition was held at the Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, in 2010.

#17929

Naila Zaman Khan

#177033

Overall Influence

Naila Zaman Khan is a Bangladeshi neurologist. She was the founder head of the Department of Pediatric Neuroscience, Dhaka Shishu Hospital, Bangladesh Institute of Child Health in 1992, till 2018. She is the founder chairperson of the "Shishu Bikash Network", General Secretary of the "Bangladesh Protibondhi Foundation" , Secretary General of the Bangladesh Society for Child Neurology, Development and Disability and Chairperson of the Bangladesh Society of Pediatric Neuro Electro- Physiologists , and National Delegate of the Asia Oceania Child Neurology Association . From 2008 to 2018 she was...

#17930

Allen Lein

#122520

Overall Influence

1913 - 2003 (90 years)

Allen Lein was an endocrinologist and medical school professor. He was a Guggenheim Fellow for the academic year 1958–1959. Lein was a student at the University of Chicago and then transferred to the University of California, Los Angeles , where he graduated with bachelor's degree and Ph.D. in zoology, with a focus on endocrinology. During WW II, he served from 1943 to 1946 as an aviation physiologist in the U.S. Army and left with the rank of captain. After teaching at the Ohio State University and Vanderbilt medical schools, he became in 1947 an assistant professor in the physiology department of Northwestern University Medical School.

#17931

Dosa ben Saadia

935 - 1018 (83 years)

Dosa ben Saadia was a Talmudic scholar and philosopher who was the Gaon of Sura from 1012 until his death in 1018. Biography Born in Tiberias in about 935, his father Saadia Gaon was a prominent figure, the Sura Gaon from 928 to 942. In a letter written in 928, his father mentions his older brother Sheerit, although he does not mention Dosa. This has led scholars to place Dosa's birth around 935, meaning that he was only a young boy when his father died in 942. In 953, Sheerit and Dosa compiled a list of their father's books. Ibn Daud states in Sefer ha-Qabbalah that Dosa wrote a biography ab...

#17932

Jackie Lomax

#56006

Overall Influence

1944 - 2013 (69 years)

John Richard Lomax was an English guitarist and singer-songwriter. He is best known for his association with George Harrison, who produced Lomax's recordings for the Beatles' Apple record label in the late 1960s.

#17933

Franco Borruto

#151393

Overall Influence

Franco Borruto is an Italian professor, author and gynecologist resident since many years in Monte Carlo, Principality of Monaco. Career In May 2002, he was appointed Professor of Gynecology and Obstetrics in the University of Verona. Until September 2010 he worked in Verona, Head of the Unit of Pathology and Gynecologic Endocrinology for Adolescents. Currently he is member of the “Ordre des Medecins” of Monaco and he exercised for five years his activities at the Gynecology Service of the Princess Grace Hospital Centre .

#17934

Wye Jamison Allanbrook

#183423

Overall Influence

1943 - 2010 (67 years)

Wye Jamison "Wendy" Allanbrook was an American musicologist whose writings demonstrated that much of the music of Mozart and his contemporaries was influenced by the social dances of the time. Allanbrook was born on March 15, 1943, in Hagerstown, Maryland. She attended Vassar College where she earned her undergraduate degree in classics. She earned a Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1974, where her doctoral dissertation became the basis for her 1983 book Rhythmic Gesture in Mozart: 'Le Nozze di Figaro' and 'Don Giovanni published by the University of Chicago Press, in which she demonstrated that Mozart's music integrated references to the social practices and dances of his period.

#17935

Werner Zoege von Manteuffel

Werner Zoege von Manteuffel

1857 - 1926 (69 years)

Werner Maximilian Friedrich Zoege von Manteuffel was a Baltic German medical surgeon. He was the earliest advocate of sterilisedd gloves. He studied at the University of Dorpat and became a doctor in 1886.

#17936

Nancy B. Olson

#137506

Overall Influence

1936 - 2018 (82 years)

Nancy Grace Butterfield Olson was an American librarian and educator, an expert on cataloging rules for non-print materials, and the founder of the Online Audiovisual Catalogers . Education and personal life Olson was born April 10, 1936, in Estherville, Iowa, to Stuart and Vivian Butterfield. She died December 24, 2018, in Austin, Minnesota. Nancy married Jean Engebrit Olson in 1956, and they had four children together.

#17937

Frank Barna Bigelow

1869 - 1949 (80 years)

Frank Barna Bigelow was an American librarian. Frank Barna was born at Amherst, Massachusetts, Feb. 7, 1869, third child of six of prominent Amherst physician Orvis Furman Bigelow, M.D. and Mary Helen Bigelow; grandson of Judge William Morrill Pingry of Vermont; and nephew of California Forty-niner Adoniram Judson Biglow [this branch of the singularly-related Bigelow/Biglow family was dropping the "e" in the name around this time], having sailed on a clipper ship around Cape Horn which docked in San Francisco on 10 October 1849. Frank Barna was educated at the schools of Amherst and was gra...

#17938

Fritz de Quervain

Fritz de Quervain

1868 - 1940 (72 years)

Fritz de Quervain was a Swiss surgeon born in Sion. He was a leading authority on thyroid disease. In 1892 he received his doctorate from the University of Bern, and several years later became director of the surgical department at a hospital in La Chaux-de-Fonds in the canton of Neuchâtel. In 1910 he was appointed to the chair of surgery at the University of Basel, and from 1918 was a professor of surgery at Bern and director of the Inselspital.

#17939

Charles Alexandre Lesueur

Charles Alexandre Lesueur

1778 - 1846 (68 years)

Charles Alexandre Lesueur was a French naturalist, artist, and explorer. He was a prolific natural-history collector, gathering many type specimens in Australia, Southeast Asia, and North America, and was also responsible for describing numerous species, including the spiny softshell turtle , smooth softshell turtle , and common map turtle . Both Mount Lesueur and Lesueur National Park in Western Australia are named in his honor.

#17940

Michael J. Campbell

#190503

Overall Influence

#17941

Bernhard Fischer-Wasels

Bernhard Fischer-Wasels

1877 - 1941 (64 years)

Bernhard Fischer-Wasels , known as Bernhard Fischer until 1926, was a German physician and anatomical pathologist, who served as Director of the Senckenberg Institute of Pathology , Professor of Pathology and Rector of the Goethe University Frankfurt . He was a leading cancer researcher and is world-renowned as the father of petrochemical carcinogenesis.

#17942

Nikolay Petrovich Krasnikov

#183163

Overall Influence

1921 - Present (105 years)

Nikolay Petrovich Krasnikov was active in Soviet academia as a philosopher, historian, and religious scholar. Early life Krasnikov graduated from high school in Leningrad in 1940. He was released from military service due to poor eyesight. During World War II, he worked as a mechanic at a repair plant. In addition, he dug trenches for anti-aircraft gunners on the Field of Mars. In 1942, he graduated from Leningrad School of Military Communications and was sent to the 12th Front Railway Park of the North Caucasian Front as a senior equipment repair technician. He served in the railway units on the Ukrainian Front.

#17943

Rangi Te Kanawa

#180242

Overall Influence

Rangituatahi Te Kanawa is a New Zealand textile conservator and weaver. She is affiliated with the Ngāti Maniapoto iwi. Biography Te Kanawa received a scholarship from the Department of Internal Affairs to train in conservation of textiles. The committee of the Aotearoa Moananui a Kiwa Weavers were keen for Māori to be involved in the conservation of Māori textile artefacts held by museums and other cultural institutions. Her introductory training on conservation of cultural material was in Canberra, after which she completed a year of pre-training at the conservation unit of the National Museum in Wellington.

#17944

John S. Richards

John S. Richards

1892 - 1979 (87 years)

John S. Richards was a librarian who served as the president of the American Library Association from 1955 to 1956. Early life and career John Stewart Richards was born February 16, 1892, in Chicago, Illinois. His family moved to the Pacific Northwest when he was four years old, and he grew up in Yakima Valley. In 1912 Richards began his studies at the University of Washington; under the tutelage of University Librarian William E. Henry, Richards studied library science and became the first alumnus to graduate from the University of Washington Library School with an A.B. degree in 1916.

#17945

Roger Williams

#69006

Overall Influence

1931 - 2020 (89 years)

Roger Stanley Williams CBE FRCS FRCP FRCPE FRACP FMedSci was a British professor of hepatology . He was Director of the Institute of Hepatology, London and Professor of Hepatology, King's College London. He was also Medical Director of the charity, the Foundation for Liver Research a UK registered charity and was the lead person of the Lancet Commission into Liver Disease in the UK.

#17946

Bernard Wagenaar

1894 - 1971 (77 years)

Bernard Wagenaar was a Dutch-American composer, conductor and violinist. Wagenaar was born in Arnhem. He studied at Utrecht University before starting his career as a teacher and conductor in 1914. He moved to the U.S. in 1920, and he became a citizen in 1927. From 1925 to 1968 he taught at the Juilliard School, where Ned Rorem, Jacob Druckman, Norman Dello Joio, Bernard Herrmann, Robert Ward, Tutti Camarata, Charles Jones, Alan Shulman, Katharine Mulky Warne, and James Cohn were among his pupils. He was an active member of the League of Composers and similar organizations and was an officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau in the Netherlands.

#17947

Tayfun Uzbay

#100023

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

İsmail Tayfun Uzbay is a Turkish neuropsychopharmacologist. Life Uzbay graduated from Ünye High School and received his bachelor's degree in the Faculty of Pharmacy from Istanbul University in 1982. He completed his doctorate in 1992 at Gülhane Military Medical Academy in the field of Medical Pharmacology. He received the title of Associate Professorship in 1995. He worked in the field of Pharmacology in the Institute of Medical Sciences in North Texas University with scholarships from both TÜBİTAK and North Texas University. In 1999, he won a scholarship and worked as a research assistant in the department of Toxicology in the Faculty of Pharmaceutics in Cagliari University in Italy.

#17948

Jonathan Larmonth Meakins

#94653

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Jonathan Larmonth Meakins, is a Canadian surgeon, academic, and expert in immunobiology and surgical infections. Life Born in Toronto, Ontario, he was the son of Jonathan Fayette Meakins, in turn the son of Jonathan Campbell Meakins. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from McGill University and a Doctor of Medicine from the University of Western Ontario in 1966. He received a Doctor of Science from the University of Cincinnati in 1972.

#17949

John David Spence

#97896

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

John David Spence is a Canadian medical doctor, medical researcher and Professor Emeritus at the University of Western Ontario. He is affiliated with the University of Western Ontario and the Robarts Research Institute, one of Canada's leading medical research organizations. Before his retirement from clinical practice in July 2022, he was also affiliated with the London Health Sciences Centre's University Hospital . He is a recognized expert in stroke prevention and stroke prevention research, with more than 600 peer-reviewed publications since 1970. He delivered more than 600 lectures on stroke prevention in 42 countries.

#17950

Gyula Kornis

1885 - 1958 (73 years)

Gyula Kornis was a Hungarian Piarist, philosopher, educator, professor and politician, who served as Speaker of the House of Representatives for a short time in 1938. He had an important role in implementation of educational policy of Count Kuno von Klebelsberg, Minister of Religion and Education in the cabinet of István Bethlen in the 1920s. Kornis also served as interim President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1945, after the Second World War.

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