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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#18451

Nora Fisher McMillan

#169331

Overall Influence

1908 - 2003 (95 years)

Born Eleanor Fisher, the first of Ernest and Janet Fisher's two daughters, in Belfast on 16 March 1908, but known even then as "Nora", Nora Fisher McMillan, as she became, was a larger-than-life self-taught expert in natural history, especially conchology, specialising in post-glacial fresh-water Mollusca, but with broad academic interests in the history of natural history, geology and other areas, as well as being a keen amateur botanist, naturalist and local historian. She wrote prolifically, with over 400 publications to her name.

#18452

Ayoka Olufunmilayo Adebambo

#84641

Overall Influence

Ayoka Olufunmilayo Adebambo is a Nigerian scientist and professor of Animal Breeding and Genetics. She is the first female professor of Animal Breeding and Genetics. In September 2010, she was awarded the status of a Fellow of the Animal Science Association of Nigeria .

#18453

John Charles

1893 - 1971 (78 years)

Sir John Alexander Charles was the tenth Chief Medical Officer of the Home Office of the United Kingdom. Life Charles was the son of John Charles, a physician and JP who practised medicine in Stanley, County Durham. His mother was Margaret Dewar.

#18454

James Bogen

#187338

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (91 years)

James Bogen is an American science philosopher currently at University of Pittsburgh and an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

#18455

Uché Blackstock

#92467

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (49 years)

Uché Blackstock is an American emergency physician and former associate professor of emergency medicine at the New York University School of Medicine. She is the founder and CEO of Advancing Health Equity, which has a primary mission to engage with healthcare and related organizations around bias and racism in healthcare with the goal of mobilizing for health equity and eradicating racialized health inequities. During the COVID-19 pandemic Blackstock used social media to share her experiences and concerns as a physician working on the front lines and on racial health disparities and inequities exposed by the pandemic.

#18456

A Satyanarayana Shastri

#172023

Overall Influence

1925 - 2004 (79 years)

A Satyanarayana Shastri was an Indian philosopher. After his BSc in 1943 from Central College and MSc from Dharwar, he worked at Vijaya College as a lecturer and later as a Professor for 18 years in the Department of Chemistry.

#18457

Armen Dzhigarkhanyan

Armen Dzhigarkhanyan

#75197

Overall Influence

1935 - 2020 (85 years)

Armen Borisovich Dzhigarkhanyan was a Soviet, Armenian, and Russian actor. Born and raised in Yerevan, Dzhigarkhanyan started acting in the academic and Russian theaters of the city, before moving to Moscow to continue stage acting. Since 1960, he appeared in a number of Armenian films. He became popular in the 1970s with the various roles he portrayed in Soviet films like The New Adventures of the Elusive Avengers , its sequel The Crown of the Russian Empire, or Once Again the Elusive Avengers and The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed . After almost 30 years on the stage of the Mayakovsky The...

#18458

Norma Restieaux

#120239

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (92 years)

Dame Norma Jean Restieaux is a New Zealand physician, medical researcher, cardiologist and author. Early life Restieaux was born in the Dunedin suburb of St Kilda on 16 July 1934, the daughter of Frank Charles Restieaux and Florence Jean May Restieaux . She was educated at Otago Girls' High School.

#18459

Alan Farthing

#22961

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Alan John Farthing is an English obstetrician and gynaecologist who served as Surgeon-Gynaecologist to Queen Elizabeth II's Royal Household. Career Farthing was born in Winchester, Hampshire. He attended Beacon School in Crowborough, East Sussex, where his father was headmaster. After training at St George's Hospital Medical School, London, Farthing qualified as a doctor in 1986. He became a member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1991, and a Fellow in 2003.

#18460

Henci Goer

#70962

Overall Influence

Henci Goer is an American author who writes about pregnancy and childbirth. She is the author of The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth. Her previous book, Obstetric Myths Versus Research Realities is a resource for childbirth professionals. Goer has written consumer education pamphlets and articles for magazines such as Reader's Digest, Birth, Journal of Perinatal Education, Midwifery today with international midwife, and the Journal of Perinatal & Neonatal Nursing. Previously appearing on ParentsPlace.com as the “Birth Guru,” she is currently a resident expert for the Lamaze Institute for Normal Birth Forum.

#18461

Al-Bahrani

1238 - 1299 (61 years)

Kamal al-Din Maitham bin Ali bin Maitham al-Bahrani , commonly known as Sheikh Maitham al-Bahrani was a leading thirteenth-century Twelver Eastern Arabian theologian, author and philosopher. Al Bahrani wrote on Twelver doctrine, affirmed free will, the infallibility of prophets and imams, the appointed imamate of `Ali, and the occultation of the Twelfth Imam. Along with Kamal al-Din Ibn Sa’adah al Bahrani, Jamal al-Din ‘Ali ibn Sulayman al-Bahrani, Maytham Al Bahrani was part of a thirteenth-century Bahrain school of theology that emphasised rationalism.

#18462

Maria T. Accardi

#149685

Overall Influence

Maria T. Accardi is an academic in the field of library science at Indiana University Southeast. She is the 2014 recipient of the Association of College and Research Libraries Award for Significant Achievement in Woman's Studies Librarianship for her book Feminist Pedagogy for Library Instruction. Published in 2013 by Library Juice Press, the work examines "the intersection of information literacy and feminist theory." The chair of the awarding committee, Jennifer Mayer of the University of Wyoming, hailed the book as a "must-read for any librarian with interests in feminist issues, pedagogy,...

#18463

Ann-Marie MacDonald

Ann-Marie MacDonald

#126535

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Ann-Marie MacDonald is a Canadian playwright, author, actress, and broadcast host who lives in Toronto, Ontario. Life and career MacDonald is the daughter of a member of Canada's military; she was born at an air force base near Baden-Baden, West Germany. She is of partial Lebanese descent through her mother.

#18464

Robin Peace

#82867

Overall Influence

Robin Peace is a social scientist from New Zealand. In 2018 she was appointed a Companion of the Royal Society Te Apārangi for her contribution to the promotion and advancement of the social sciences in New Zealand.

#18465

Lisa Kahn

#186134

Overall Influence

1927 - 2013 (86 years)

Liselott Margarete "Lisa" Kahn was a German-American poet and scholar of psychology and German studies. She studied at the University of Heidelberg, where she obtained a PhD in psychology in 1953. She married the German-American scholar Robert L. Kahn and emigrated to the United States, where she was a teacher at The Kinkaid School from 1964 to 1968 and professor of German at Texas Southern University from 1968 to 1990, serving as head of the foreign language department from 1988.

#18466

Eduard Sonnenburg

1848 - 1915 (67 years)

Eduard Sonnenburg was a German surgeon. He was a son-in-law to neurologist Karl Friedrich Otto Westphal. After receiving his medical doctorate in 1872, he spent several years as an assistant to Georg Albert Lücke at the surgical clinic in Strassburg. In 1876 he qualified as a lecturer of surgery at the university. In 1880 he relocated to Berlin, where he worked under Bernhard von Langenbeck and Ernst von Bergmann.

#18467

Go Hui-dong

1886 - 1965 (79 years)

Go Hui-dong , also known by the pen name Chun-gok, born in Seoul, was the first Korean painter to adopt Western styles. He spent most of his life in Seoul. He studied French there from 1899 to 1903 and briefly took a post with the Korean government. Leaving the post in 1905, he studied Korean painting for several years and then traveled to Japan, where he studied Western-style painting under Kuroda Seiki from 1909 to 1915. He returned to Korea in 1915 and sought to fuse traditional and Korean styles. Currently his house located in Bukchon Village is open to public.

#18468

Roganie Govender

#178818

Overall Influence

Roganie Govender is a British-South African speech and language therapist. She is a consultant clinical academic speech and language therapist at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

#18469

Ivan Prpić

#169900

Overall Influence

1927 - 2019 (92 years)

Ivan Prpić was a Croatian physician. He was born in Sisak in 1927 and graduated from the University of Zagreb School of Medicine in 1952, specializing in plastic reconstructive surgery. Prpić became a full professor at the Faculty of Medicine in 1976.

#18470

W. L. Newman

1834 - 1923 (89 years)

William Lambert Newman, FBA was a British ancient historian and philosopher. Early life and education Born on 21 August 1834, Newman was the son of a solicitor from Cheltenham. In 1851, he went up to Balliol College, Oxford, as a scholar ; he took first class honours in literae humaniores in 1855 and graduated the following year with a BA.

#18471

Clarence Major

#53046

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

Clarence Major is an American poet, painter, and novelist; winner of the 2015 "Lifetime Achievement Award in the Fine Arts", presented by the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation. He was awarded the 2016 PEN Oakland/Reginald Lockett Lifetime Achievement Award.

#18472

Angela Okolo

#68999

Overall Influence

Angela Okolo is a Nigerian professor of pediatrics and child health, neonatologist in the department of Pediatrics, Federal Medical Center, Asaba and President of the Nigerian Society of Neonatal Medicine .

#18473

John Flett

1869 - 1947 (78 years)

Sir John Smith Flett was a Scottish physician and geologist. Early life Born in Kirkwall, Orkney, the son of James Ferguson Flett, a merchant and baillie, and Mary Ann . He was educated at Kirkwall Burgh School, George Watson's College in Edinburgh, and the University of Edinburgh .

#18474

Heinrich Auspitz

Heinrich Auspitz

1835 - 1886 (51 years)

Carl Heinrich Auspitz was a Jewish Austrian dermatologist. He was the husband of pianist Auguste Auspitz-Kólar . He was a member of the famous Moravian-Austrian . Heinrich was a son of Jewish surgeon . His younger brother was an Imperial & Royal Generalmajor and writer. In 1840, Moritz was given a job at a Jewish hospital in Vienna, and allowed better education to his sons.

#18475

Joyonna Gamble-George

#175981

Overall Influence

Joyonna Gamble-George is an American neuroscientist, innovator, and entrepreneur known for her research with the endocannabinoid system in stress-induced maladaptations of the brain. She is an Adjunct Professor at St. Petersburg College, Florida.

#18476

Barbara Stripling

Barbara Stripling

#191525

Overall Influence

Barbara Stripling is an American librarian and is the President of the Freedom to Read Foundation, a non-profit legal and educational organization affiliated with the American Library Association. Stripling served as president of the American Library Association from 2013 to 2014. During her term as president, she stressed that "Libraries Change Lives."

#18477

William Rutherford Sanders

William Rutherford Sanders

1828 - 1881 (53 years)

William Rutherford Sanders FRSE was a 19th-century Scottish pathologist. He was one of the first to advocate the use of digitalis in heart conditions. He served as President of the Royal Medical Society 1847/8.

#18478

Saskia Popescu

#112836

Overall Influence

Saskia Popescu is an infectious disease epidemiologist and Senior Infection Preventionist in Phoenix, Arizona. She holds academic appointments at the University of Arizona and George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government, where she lectures on biopreparedness and pandemic and outbreak response. Since the start of the Coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, Popescu has worked to prepare for and mitigate the spread of the disease. She has been recognized for her communication efforts around the pandemic, as well as her work on the front lines.

#18479

Adenike Akinsemolu

#174510

Overall Influence

1990 - Present (36 years)

Adenike Adebukola Akinsemolu is a Nigerian sustainability advocate, educator, author, and a social entrepreneur. She is a lecturer at Obafemi Awolowo University . She is known as one of the country's leading experts on environmental sustainability.

#18480

Stephen Smith

1823 - 1922 (99 years)

Stephen Smith was a New York City surgeon and civic leader who made important contributions to medical education, nursing education, public health, housing improvement, mental health reform, charity oversight, and urban environmentalism. Smith maintained an active medical practice, was an attending physician at Bellevue Hospital for thirty-seven years, and authored three surgical texts, but he was best known for his public service. Three mayors, seven governors, and two U.S. presidents appointed Smith to almost fifty years of public responsibilities. Shortly before Smith’s death in 1922, Colu...

#18481

Roger Covell

#87273

Overall Influence

1931 - 2019 (88 years)

Roger David Covell AM FAHA was an Australian musicologist, critic and author. He was Professor Emeritus in the School of the Arts and Media at the University of New South Wales, in Sydney, and continued until shortly before his death to contribute articles and reviews to The Sydney Morning Herald, where he served as principal music critic from 1960 until the late 1990s.

#18482

Peter Strasser

1876 - 1918 (42 years)

Peter Strasser was chief commander of German Imperial Navy Zeppelins during World War I, the main force operating bombing campaigns from 1915 to 1917. He was killed when flying the German Empire's last airship raid over the United Kingdom.

#18483

Edward Sayers

1902 - 1985 (83 years)

Sir Edward George Sayers was a New Zealand medical doctor, parasitologist, Methodist missionary, military medical administrator, consultant physician and, from 1958 to 1968, Dean of the University of Otago, School of Medicine. Having trained as a doctor, from 1927 to 1934 he worked at the Methodist mission in the Solomon Islands where he carried out fieldwork in the treatment of malaria. The significance of this work became apparent when Sayers used his knowledge to reduce deaths of American, Australia and New Zealand military forces during the invasion of Pacific Islands during World War II.

#18484

Georg Puppe

1867 - 1925 (58 years)

Georg Puppe was a German social physician and medical examiner. Life Georg Puppe attended the Raths- and Friedrichs-Gymnasium in Kostrzyn nad Odrą, where he graduated in 1884. He then studied medicine in Berlin and Göttingen. In 1887, he became a member of the fraternity Burschenschaft Brunsviga. In 1888, Puppe completed his exams in Berlin and received his doctorate in the same year with the subject: "Investigations on the sequelae after Abortus".

#18485

Paul Fürbringer

Paul Fürbringer

1849 - 1930 (81 years)

Paul Walther Fürbringer was a German physician and chemist born in Delitzsch, in the Prussiann Province of Saxony. He was a brother to anatomist Max Fürbringer . He studied medicine at the Universities of Jena and Berlin. He served as an assistant physician during the Franco-Prussian War, afterwards working as an assistant in the institute of pathology at Jena, and in Nikolaus Friedreich's clinic at the University of Heidelberg. In 1876 he received his habilitation for pharmacology and medicinal chemistry with a dissertation involving oxalic acid excretion in the urine.

#18486

Elsie McKee

#137473

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Elsie Anne McKee is an Archibald Alexander Professor of Reformation Studies and the History of Worship at Princeton Theological Seminary. She is famous for the Study of John Calvin.

#18487

Ahn Cheol-soo

#187528

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Ahn Cheol-soo is a South Korean politician, medical doctor, businessperson, and software entrepreneur. He currently serves as a member of the National Assembly as part of the conservative People Power Party.

#18488

Karl Nef

1873 - 1935 (62 years)

Karl Nef was a Swiss musicologist. Life Born in St. Gallen, Nef first studied cello at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig, but then turned to musicology under the influence of Hermann Kretzschmar. In 1896 his dissertation "Die Collegia Musica in der deutschen reformierten Schweiz von ihrer Entstehung bis zum Beginn des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts. With an introduction on the reformed and the cultivation of profane music in Switzerland in the early days" at the Zollikofer'sche Buchdruckerei St. Gallen. In 1897, he moved to Basel, where he first worked as an editor for the Schweizer Musi...

#18489

Judith Poxson Fawkes

#171418

Overall Influence

1941 - 2019 (78 years)

Judith Poxson Fawkes was an American tapestry weaver based in Portland, Oregon, who exhibited her works nationally beginning in the 1960s. Early life and education The daughter of Elijah Goute Poxon and Helen Poxson, Judith Mary Poxson was born October 5, 1941, in Lansing Michigan. She earned a B.F.A. at Michigan State University and an M.F.A at Cranbrook Academy of Art. While at Cranbrook, she met Tom Fawkes, who became her husband of 52 years. In 1972 they moved to Portland, Oregon, and had two daughters. She taught weaving at four colleges in Portland, including Lewis & Clark College.

#18490

Zoltán Szabó

#109839

Overall Influence

1929 - 2015 (86 years)

Zoltán Szabó was a Hungarian heart surgeon, cardiologist, and professor emeritus of the Városmajor Heart and Vascular Centre. Szabo served as the Director of the Városmajor Heart and Vascular Centre from 1981 until 1992. In January 1992, he performed Hungary's first successful heart transplant following years of research.

#18491

Henryk Stepien

#164068

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Henryk Mikołaj Stępień is a Polish endocrinologist, neurologist and professor of medicine who is head of the Department of Endocrinology at the Medical University of Lodz and was rector of the Medical Academy of Lodz from 1996 to 2002.

#18492

Rosa M. Abella

#100664

Overall Influence

1920 - 2007 (87 years)

Rosa Margarita Abella was an exiled Cuban librarian who worked at the University of Miami's Otto G. Richter Library.she was the one who started the Cuban Heritage Collection in 1962 Biography A native of Havana, Abella received her library technician degree in 1955, a professional publicist certificate in 1957, and a PhD in 1958. She served as the head of the circulation department for the National Library of Cuba from 1960 to 1961, at which point she left the island for Miami, Florida, as a political refugee. She worked as a librarian at Assumption Academy until she was hired as an acquisitions librarian for the Otto G.

#18493

Sharon Haynie

#138591

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Sharon Loretta Haynie is an American chemist who develops biocatalysis for green chemistry. She is a Fellow of the American Chemical Society. Haynie was the first woman to be awarded the NOBCChE Henry Aaron Hill Award in 2006 and the first woman to win the Percy L. Julian Award in 2008.

#18494

Hans Hickmann

1908 - 1968 (60 years)

Hans Robert Hermann Hickmann was an eminent German musicologist. He lived in Egypt and specialized in the music and organology of Ancient Egypt, and survivals thereof in Egyptian traditional music. He wrote about Egypt's tradition of cheironomy for the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.

#18495

Georg Ledderhose

1855 - 1925 (70 years)

Georg Otto Ledderhose was a German surgeon, professor and pioneering traumatologist. Biography Early life He was born in the Bockenheim district of Frankfurt am Main. His father was the politician and university rector Karl Ledderhose and his mother was Wilhelmine Justine Charlotte . Wilhelmine's father was Johann Georg Heinrich Pfeiffer , the third son of Johann Jakob Pfeiffer, and brother of Burkhard Wilhelm, Carl Jonas, and Franz Georg Pfeiffer. Two of Ledderhose's uncles, the husbands of his mother's sisters, were the chemist Friedrich Wöhler and the jurist Otto Bähr, and another of his mother's sisters was the mother of the Prussian cavalry general Adolf von Deines.

#18496

Gibson Byrd

#118202

Overall Influence

1923 - 2002 (79 years)

Decatur Gibson Byrd , was an American painter of Shawnee ancestry known for landscape and figurative paintings. He was a master of coloristic subtleties and atmospheric effects, and his work often emphasized social commentary and injustice, and the angst and banality of modern materialism.

#18497

Carleton Sprague Smith

#134664

Overall Influence

1905 - 1994 (89 years)

Carleton Sprague Smith was an American music librarian and musicologist. Early years and education Smith was born in New York City to Clarence Bishop Smith, an admiralty lawyer and Catherine Cook Smith, author and patron of the arts. In 1917, at age twelve Smith took up study of the flute with Georges Barrère at the Institute of Musical Art . For high school he attended the Hackley School from 1920—1922. Upon graduation, he went to France to study French at École Yersin and flute with Louis Fleury in Paris. In 1923 he entered Harvard University, while studying flute with Georges Laurent, principle flutist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

#18498

Janette Sherman

#74655

Overall Influence

1930 - 2019 (89 years)

Janette Dexter Sherman was a physician, toxicologist, author, and activist in the U.S. She researched pesticides, nuclear radiation, birth defects, breast cancer, and illnesses caused by toxins in homes and was a pioneer in the field of occupational and environmental health. Sherman was an expert witness or consultant in 5,000 workers' compensation cases about deadly chemicals, contaminated water, and toxic pesticides.

#18499

Joseph Shaw Bolton

1867 - 1946 (79 years)

Joseph Shaw Bolton was a British physician, pathologist, psychiatrist and neurologist who was Professor of Mental Diseases at the University of Leeds. Early life and education After education at Spring Hill School in Whitby, Bolton worked as an assistant without formal qualification at an asylum and as an assistant to a general practitioner in Manchester. He graduated BSc in 1888. He then studied at University College London Medical School where he graduated MB ChB in 1894 and became a demonstrator of anatomy. By 1896 he graduated MD.

#18500

Kate Soper

#164985

Overall Influence

1981 - Present (45 years)

Kate Soper is a composer and vocalist. She was a recent Rome Prize winner American Academy in Rome and Guggenheim Fellow Guggenheim Fellow as well as a 2012–13 fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She was a finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Music for her chamber opera, Ipsa Dixit.

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