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#17951

Galeazzo di Santa Sofia

Galeazzo di Santa Sofia

1352 - 1427 (75 years)

Galeazzo di Santa Sofia was an Italian physician and anatomist. Life He taught medicine at the universities in Bologna and Padua. He was called to Vienna where he introduced anatomy as a subject of study and in 1404 made the first dissection north of the Alps.

#17952

Indira Hinduja

#34623

Overall Influence

Indira Hinduja is an Indian gynecologist, obstetrician and infertility specialist based in Mumbai. She pioneered the Gamete intrafallopian transfer technique resulting in the birth of India's first GIFT baby on 4 January 1988. Previously she delivered India's first test tube baby at KEM Hospital on 6 August 1986. She is also credited for developing an oocyte donation technique for menopausal and premature ovarian failure patients, giving the country's first baby out of this technique on 24 January 1991.

#17953

Richard Yarde

#102466

Overall Influence

1939 - 2011 (72 years)

Richard Yarde was an American artist and professor, who specialized in watercolor painting. Biography Richard Yarde's parents were immigrants. His father worked as a machinist and his mother was a seamstress. He recalled this as a source of inspiration, saying “There were patterns everywhere." Healing was a recurring theme in his works and he drew on the images from his own x-ray scans. He worked on oil paintings, then switched to watercolors in 1977 and received almost immediate critical acclaim for his works that drew upon themes of African-American history, Yarde's own family history, and...

#17954

Melvyn Rubenfire

#68349

Overall Influence

Melvyn Rubenfire is a cardiologist in the University of Michigan Health System, as well as a professor in the department of internal medicine. He is also director of the preventive cardiology department.

#17955

Wilhelm Pfannenstiel

Wilhelm Pfannenstiel

1890 - 1982 (92 years)

Wilhelm Hermann Pfannenstiel was a German physician, member of the Nazi Party from 1933, , and SS officer from 1934, . In August 1942 he witnessed, together with Kurt Gerstein, the gassing of Jews in Bełżec extermination camp. He may also share responsibility with other SS officials in criminal medical experimentations on unwilling and uninformed human beings, mainly Jews prisoners in Dachau concentration camp.

#17956

Ödön Pártos

1907 - 1977 (70 years)

Ödön Pártos [alternate transcription in English: Oedoen Partos, , ] was a Hungarian-Israeli violist and composer. A recipient of the Israel Prize, he taught and served as director of the Rubin Academy of Music, now known as the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music in Tel Aviv.

#17957

Joseph Igersheimer

1879 - 1965 (86 years)

Joseph Igersheimer was a German born ophthalmologist known for his work on arsphenamine for the treatment of syphilis. A Jew, after escaping the Nazis, While in forced exile from Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1939, Joseph Igersheimer was the architect of modern ophthalmology in Turkey. Earlier he was a pioneer in addressing the impact of syphilis on eyesight. He was the first to use arsphenamine in the treatment of syphilis of the eye and the first to operate on retinal detachment by closing the holes. In 1939 he joined the faculty of Tufts University School of Medicine and became a major c...

#17958

John Miller Turpin Finney

1863 - 1942 (79 years)

John Miller Turpin Finney was an American surgeon and academic who also served as a brigadier general during World War I. He is best remembered for serving as the first president of the American College of Surgeons.

#17959

John Thomson

1765 - 1846 (81 years)

John Thomson FRS FRSE PRCPE was a Scottish surgeon and physician, reputed in his time "the most learned physician in Scotland". He was President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh from 1834 to 1836.

#17960

Ralph Munn

1894 - 1975 (81 years)

Ralph W. Munn was an eminent figure in the field of American and international library and information science. Recognized by the journal American Libraries as one of "100 of the most important leaders we had in the 20th century", and described as an "administrator, educator, and author ... known for his fairness, clarity, and grace", he was also widely known within the profession as "the father of the modern library movement in Australia and New Zealand".

#17961

William T. Bovie

William T. Bovie

1882 - 1958 (76 years)

William T. Bovie was an American scientist and inventor. He is credited with conceptualizing the field of biophysics and with inventing a modern medical device known as the Bovie electrosurgical generator. Bovie taught or conducted research at Harvard University, Northwestern University, Jackson Laboratory and Colby College.

#17962

J. D. Sheffield

#156870

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Jesse David Sheffield II, known as J. D. Sheffield , is a physician from Gatesville, Texas, who was a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives. On July 14, 2020, Sheffield was defeated in his re-election effort by Stephenville, Texas attorney Shelby Slawson by over 20% in the Republican primary runoff.

#17963

F. John Lewis

#23164

Overall Influence

1916 - 1993 (77 years)

Floyd John Lewis was an American surgeon who performed the first successful open heart operation, closing an atrial septal defect in a 5-year-old girl, on 2 September 1952. For the next 3 years, Lewis and colleagues operated on 60 patients with atrial septal defects using hypothermia and inflow occlusion. He was best friends with C. Walton Lillehei and they worked together at the University of Minnesota.

#17964

Charles McBurney

Charles McBurney

1845 - 1913 (68 years)

Charles Heber McBurney, MD was an American surgeon, well known for describing McBurney's point in appendicitis. Life and career Charles McBurney was born in 1845. He graduated in the arts from Harvard College in 1866, and qualified in medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University in New York City with an M.D. in 1870. He trained further in Europe for 2 years, and started practice in New York in 1873. He became assistant surgeon to the Bellevue Hospital in 1880, and surgeon-in-chief of the Roosevelt Hospital in 1888. Here he did his most famous work on appendicitis, presenting his report on operative management to the New York Surgical Society in 1889.

#17965

Mhoira Leng

#183398

Overall Influence

Mhoira E.H. Leng FRSE MBChB MRCP FRCP is one of the first Scottish specialists in palliative care, who has developed the palliative care services internationally, working in Eastern Europe, India and Africa and advises international institutions and agencies on palliative care in the developing world. In 2021, Leng was admitted as one of the new female Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

#17966

Linda Barwick

#85316

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Linda Mary Barwick is an Australian musicologist and professor emerita at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Barwick has focused on researching Australian Indigenous music and the music of immigrant communities. She also works in the field of digital humanities, archiving recordings.

#17967

John Britton

1771 - 1857 (86 years)

John Britton was an English antiquary, topographer, author and editor. He was a prolific populariser of the work of others, rather than an undertaker of original research. He is remembered as co-author of nine volumes in the series The Beauties of England and Wales ; and as sole author of the Architectural Antiquities of Great Britain and Cathedral Antiquities of England .

#17968

Xie Daoyun

349 - 409 (60 years)

Xie Daoyun was a Chinese poet, writer, scholar, calligrapher and debater of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Family Born in Yangxia County, Henan, Daoyun belonged to the Xie clan and was a sister of the general Xie Xuan. Though her mother is unknown, it is known that she gave birth to five more children. She was also the favourite niece of prime-minister Xie An. There were Daoist and Confucianist influences in her work.

#17969

Ardis B. Collins

#190258

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

Ardis B. Collins is an American philosopher and Professor Emerita of Philosophy at Loyola University Chicago. She is known for her works on Hegel's philosophy and is Editor-in-chief of the Owl of Minerva.

#17970

E. J. Josey

#111508

Overall Influence

1924 - 2009 (85 years)

Elonnie J. Josey was an African-American activist and librarian. Josey was the first chair of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association, having been instrumental in its formation in 1970; served as president of the American Library Association from 1984 to 1985; and was the author of over 400 books and other publications.

#17971

Doug Wright

1917 - 1983 (66 years)

Douglas Austin Wright was a Canadian cartoonist, best known for his weekly comic strip Doug Wright's Family . The Doug Wright Awards are named after him to honour excellence in Canadian cartooning.

#17972

Mark Ridley

1560 - 1624 (64 years)

Dr Mark Ridley was an English physician and lexicographer, born in Stretham, Cambridgeshire, to Lancelot Ridley. He became physician to the English merchants in Russia, and then personal physician to the Tsar of Russia.

#17973

Claire Jowitt

#151685

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Claire Elaine Jowitt is an English academic who writes on race, cross-gender, piracy, identity, empire and performance. She is currently a Professor in English and History within the Schools of History and Literature, Drama and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. Previously, she held a personal chair in English at Southampton University , was Professor of Renaissance English Literature at Nottingham Trent University and Lecturer and Senior Lecturer at Aberystwyth University .

#17974

Judith A. Salerno

#47979

Overall Influence

Judith A. Salerno, MD, MS is a physician executive and the President of the New York Academy of Medicine. Career The New York Academy of Medicine Salerno became President of The New York Academy of Medicine in September 2017. During her tenure she honed the organizational focus on health equity and introduced progressive initiatives such as a Health Equity Action Agenda, taking a stand in support of the removal of the J. Marion Sims statue, and awarding posthumous fellowship to the eminent physician and abolitionist Dr. James McCune Smith, an 1847 candidate who was denied NYAM fellowship due ...

#17975

Lenrie Olatokunbo Aina

#132363

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Lenrie Olatokunbo Aina is a professor of Library and Information Science, and former National Librarian/Chief Executive Officer of the National Library of Nigeria Abuja. Education Professor Aina obtained a bachelor's degree in chemistry from the University of Lagos, in 1974; a Postgraduate Diploma in Librarianship, from the University of Ibadan, in 1976 and an M.Phil. Information Science, City University, London,1980. In 1986, he bagged PhD in Library Studies, from the University of Ibadan, Ibadan.

#17976

John Kirkpatrick

#190570

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#17977

Louis Appia

1818 - 1898 (80 years)

Louis Paul Amédée Appia was a Swiss surgeon with special merit in the area of military medicine. In 1863 he became a member of the Geneva "Committee of Five", which was the precursor to the International Committee of the Red Cross. Six years later he met Clara Barton, an encounter which had significant influence on Clara Barton's subsequent endeavours to found a Red Cross society in the United States and her campaign for an accession of the US to the Geneva Convention of 1864.

#17978

Avraham Sharon

1878 - 1957 (79 years)

Avraham Sharon was an Israeli philosopher, musician, scholar and publicist. Sharon established the Autographs and Portraits Collection in the National Library of Israel. Biography Abraham Schwadron was born in the village of Bieniów , near Zolochiv in Galicia . His parents were Isaac Schwadron, a beverage manufacturer, and Rivka Gelernter. In his childhood he studied with his uncle, Sholom Mordechai Schwadron and later on in the Jewish Gymnasium in Suceava. Sharon studied in the University of Vienna, where he received three doctoral degrees – in philosophy, law, and chemistry – the latter ...

#17979

David Campbell

1889 - 1978 (89 years)

Sir David Campbell MC FRSE was a Scottish physician and pharmacologist. He was Professor of Materia Medica at Aberdeen University from 1930 to 1959. He won the Military Cross in 1918 due to his bravery serving in the Royal Army Medical Corps.

#17980

Juan José Segura-Sampedro

#116589

Overall Influence

1985 - Present (41 years)

Juan José Segura-Sampedro MBE is a Spanish surgeon and researcher at in Mallorca, Spain, and adjunct professor of surgery at University of the Balearic Islands. He is best known for his research in major trauma, focused on the balconing phenomenon and a preventive campaign in collaboration with the British Foreign Office.

#17981

Rudolf Jakob Camerarius

Rudolf Jakob Camerarius

1665 - 1721 (56 years)

Rudolf Jakob Camerarius or Camerer was a German botanist and physician. Life Camerarius was born at Tübingen, and became professor of medicine and director of the botanical gardens at Tübingen in 1687. He is chiefly known for his investigations on the reproductive organs of plants .

#17982

Ottomar Rosenbach

1851 - 1907 (56 years)

Ottomar Ernst Felix Rosenbach was a German physician. Krappitz was a Silesian city where his father, Samuel Rosenbach, practised medicine. He received his education at the universities of Berlin and Breslau . His studies were interrupted by the Franco-Prussian war, in which he took an active part as a volunteer. From 1874 to 1877 he was assistant to Wilhelm Olivier Leube and Carl Wilhelm Hermann Nothnagel at the medical hospital and dispensary of the University of Jena; in 1878 he was appointed assistant at the Allerheiligen-Hospital at Breslau, and became privatdozent at the university of ...

#17983

Yael Bar-Zeev

#189225

Overall Influence

Yael Bar-Zeev is an Israeli Public Health Physician, behavioral scientist, epidemiologist, and a tobacco treatment specialist. She has been a faculty member at the Hebrew University-Hadassah Braun School of Public Health and Community Medicine since 2019. She is also the Chair of the Israel Medical Association for Smoking Cessation and Prevention.

#17984

Candy Dawson Boyd

#79420

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Candy Dawson Boyd is an American writer, activist, and educator. She is an author of more than six children's books focused on African-American youth. Early life and education Boyd was born in 1946 in Chicago, Illinois. Her birth name is Marguerite Cecille Dawson. Her parents were Mary Ruth Ridley and Julian Dawson. Boyd had two siblings and she was the oldest of the three. Her mother and father divorced. Boyd was raised by her mother. They lived in South Chicago. Boyd attended racially segregated elementary and middle schools. The library she used was also segregated. The library books were used from white schools that no longer wanted them.

#17985

Li Ye

1192 - 1279 (87 years)

Li Ye , born Li Zhi , courtesy name Li Jingzhai , was a Chinese scientist and writer who published and improved the tian yuan shu method for solving polynomial equations of one variable. Along with the 4th-century Chinese astronomer Yu Xi, Li Ye proposed the idea of a spherical Earth instead of a flat one before the advances of European science in the 17th century.

#17986

Arthur Getz

#161771

Overall Influence

1913 - 1996 (83 years)

Arthur Kimmig Getz was an American illustrator best known for his fifty-year career as a cover artist for The New Yorker magazine. Between 1938 and 1988, two hundred and thirteen Getz covers appeared on The New Yorker, making Getz the most prolific New Yorker cover artist of the twentieth century. Getz was also a fine artist, painted murals for the Works Progress Administration Program, wrote and illustrated children's books, and taught at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, the University of Connecticut, and the Washington Art Association in Washington, Connecticut. In addition to hi...

#17987

Helen Katharine Forbes

Helen Katharine Forbes

1891 - 1945 (54 years)

Helen Katharine Forbes was a Californian artist and arts educator specializing in etching, murals and painting. She is best known for western landscapes, portrait paintings, and her murals with the Treasury Section of Fine Arts and Work Progress Administration . Forbes was skilled in painting in oil, watercolor, and egg tempera. She painted landscapes of Mexico, Mono Lake and the Sierras in the 1920s, desert scenes of Death Valley in the 1930s, and portraits and still-lifes.

#17988

Fedor Krause

1857 - 1937 (80 years)

Fedor Krause was a German neurosurgeon who was native of Friedland . Biography He originally studied music at the Conservatoire in Berlin, and later switched to medicine, earning his doctorate at Humboldt University in Berlin. In 1883 he became a medical assistant to Richard von Volkmann at the surgical university clinic at Halle. Afterwards, he was a pathologist at the Senckenberg Institute in Frankfurt am Main , a surgeon at the city hospital at Hamburg-Altona , and later head of the surgical department at Augusta Hospital in Berlin. In 1901 he became an associate professor at the University of Berlin.

#17989

Martin Staehelin

#105510

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (89 years)

Martin Staehelin is a Swiss musicologist and university lecturer. Life Born in Basel, Staehelin first studied ancient languages, history, school music and flute. In 1967 he received his doctorate in musicology and ancient languages as minor subjects.

#17990

Otto Spiegelberg

1830 - 1881 (51 years)

Otto Spiegelberg was a German gynecologist. He was born in Peine and died in Breslau. He studied medicine at the University of Göttingen, afterwards furthering his education in Berlin, Prague and throughout the United Kingdom. In 1851 he earned his medical doctorate, and subsequently obtained his habilitation at Göttingen . Later he was a professor of obstetrics at the Universities of Freiburg, Königsberg and Breslau.

#17991

Paul Friedrich Meyerheim

Paul Friedrich Meyerheim

1842 - 1915 (73 years)

Paul Friedrich Meyerheim was a German painter and graphic artist. He did portraits and landscapes, but is best known as a painter of animals. Life Paul Friedrich Meyerheim was born in Berlin on 13 July 1842. He and his brother took their first art lessons from his father. As a young boy, he was fascinated with the new Berlin Zoological Gardens and went there so often he was able to befriend Martin Lichtenstein, the zoo's founder, who allowed him into areas that were normally closed to the public. This experience led him to specialize in animal painting.

#17992

Feng Chuanhan

#169228

Overall Influence

1914 - 2019 (105 years)

Feng Chuanhan was a Chinese orthopaedic surgeon and professor. He served as Vice President of Beijing Medical College and President of Peking University People's Hospital. A pioneer in the research of bone cancer in China, he was awarded the Ho Leung Ho Lee Prize and the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Chinese Medical Association.

#17993

Jeannette Bastian

#178930

Overall Influence

Jeannette Bastian is an archival scholar, academic, author, and a Fellow of the Society of American Archivists. From 1987 to 1998, she was the Territorial Librarian of the U.S. Virgin Islands and has published widely on topics related to colonial archives and decolonial archival practices.

#17994

P. Kanagasabapathy

1923 - 1977 (54 years)

Perampalam Kanagasabapathy was a Ceylon Tamil mathematician, academic and dean of the Faculty of Science at the Jaffna Campus of the University of Sri Lanka. Early life and family Kanagasabapathy was born in 1923. He was the son of Iyampillai Perampalam from Erlalai in northern Ceylon. He was educated at Jaffna Hindu College. After school he joined the University of Ceylon. He then went to the University of Cambridge, graduating with a master's degree in mathematics.

#17995

Kjell Noreik

#170428

Overall Influence

1929 - 2015 (86 years)

Kjell Noreik was a Norwegian physician. He was born in Oslo. He was appointed professor of social medicine at the University of Oslo from 1986 to 1999. He was frequently used as an expert forensic psychiatrist, and was a member of the Norwegian Board of Forensic Medicine. He resided at Slependen.

#17996

Temitayo Shokunbi

#190603

Overall Influence

Matthew Temitayo Shokunbi is a Nigerian Neurosurgeon and Professor of Anatomy. He got his MBBS degree at the University of Ibadan shortly after completing his A levels after which he started a residency program in Neurosurgery in Ontario, Canada. He is a lecturer in Anatomy at the University of Ibadan, and in Neurological surgery at the University College Hospital, Ibadan where he also doubles as a Honorary Consultant Neurosurgeon.

#17997

Jo Ivey Boufford

#95015

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Jo Ivey Boufford is an American physician and Dean of the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University, as well as a Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the NYU Medical School.

#17998

Abu Bakr az-Zubaydi

928 - 989 (61 years)

Abū Bakr az-Zubaydī , also known as Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ‘Abd Allāh ibn Madḥīj al-Faqīh and Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan az-Zubaydī al-Ishbīlī , held the title Akhbār al-fuquhā and wrote books on topics including philology, biography, history, philosophy, law, lexicology, and hadith.

#17999

Jan A. Aertsen

#190196

Overall Influence

1938 - 2016 (78 years)

Jan Adrianus Aertsen was a Dutch philosopher and theologian. Born in Amsterdam, Aertsen received his PhD title at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and taught there from 1984 up to his death. From 1993 to 2004, he served as a professor at the University of Cologne, and was the founding director of Thomas Instituut te Utrecht. He wrote several works on Thomism, starting from his doctoral thesis, Nature and Creature. Thomas Aquinas’s Way of Thought , published in Dutch four years later.

#18000

Andrew Jaszi

#144577

Overall Influence

1917 - 1998 (81 years)

Andrew Oscar Jászi was a Hungarian-born philosopher and literary scholar. He taught as professor of German at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1948 to 1984. Biography Jászi was born in Budapest into a distinguished family of assimilated Jews. His father, Oszkár Jászi, was a sociologist, historian, and politician who served as Minister of Nationalities in Mihály Károlyi's cabinet during the Hungarian Democratic Republic of 1918–19 before moving to the United States in 1925 to join the faculty of Oberlin College as Professor of Political Science. Andrew Jászi’s mother, Anna Lesznai,...

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