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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#18551

Rachel Hinrichs

#191631

Overall Influence

#18552

Mehmed Tahir Münif Pasha

1830 - 1910 (80 years)

Mehmed Tahir Münif Pasha was an Ottoman writer and statesman. A veteran official, he served thrice as Minister of Education and twice as ambassador to Qajar Iran . During his first ambassadorship to Iran, he was awarded the Order of the Lion and the Sun medal. He also served as a trusted advisor to Sultan Abdul Hamid II, until he fell out of grace.

#18553

Adam Kuhn

1741 - 1817 (76 years)

Adam Kuhn was an American physician and naturalist, and one of the earliest professors of medicine in a North American university. Formative years Kuhn was born in Germantown, Province of Pennsylvania, a son of German immigrant parents. He studied medicine under his father, Dr. Adam Simon Kuhn. Then he went to Sweden and studied medicine and natural history 1761–1764 at Uppsala University, where he studied with Carl Linnaeus. Linnaeus named a flower in Kuhn's honor: Kuhnia eupatoriodes. He continued his studies at the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated as M.D. in June 1767, and publi...

#18554

Reid Robison

#112270

Overall Influence

Reid Robison is an American board-certified psychiatrist known primarily for his work with psychedelic medicines. As an early adopter and researcher of the use of ketamine in psychiatry, Robison has made significant contributions to ketamine-assisted psychotherapy and other treatment modalities using ketamine for mental health conditions. He previously served as coordinating investigator for a study on MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for eating disorders, sponsored by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies , and he continues to lead research and psychiatric clinical trials involving psychedelics.

#18555

Fevzi Aksoy

#125895

Overall Influence

1930 - 2020 (90 years)

Fevzi Aksoy was a Turkish sports writer, medical doctor, neurologist and academic. He graduated from Pertevniyal High School in 1947. He continued his education at the Istanbul University Faculty of Medicine and graduated in 1953. He received the title of "Associate Professor" in 1968 and "Professor" in 1982. He worked on EEG and epilepsy in Germany between 1960 and 1967.

#18556

Tsutomu Ōhashi

#14658

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (93 years)

Tsutomu Ōhashi is a Japanese agricultural scientist, composer, and record producer. He is also known by his pseudonym, Shoji Yamashiro. Early life Born in Tochigi Prefecture, he attended Tohoku University and graduated from the Faculty of Agriculture. He received a Doctorate of Agriculture.

#18557

Joel Salinas

#81695

Overall Influence

1983 - Present (43 years)

Joel Salinas is an American-born Nicaraguan neurologist, writer, and researcher, who is currently an Assistant Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. He practices general neurology, with subspecialty in behavioral neurology and neuropsychiatry, at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. He is also a clinician-scientist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Framingham Study at the Boston University School of Medicine.

#18558

Göran Wahlenberg

Göran Wahlenberg

1780 - 1851 (71 years)

Georg Wahlenberg was a Swedish naturalist. He was born in Kroppa, Värmland County. Wahlenberg matriculated at Uppsala University in 1792, received his doctorate in Medicine in 1806, was appointed botanices demonstrator in 1814, and professor of medicine and botany in 1829, succeeding Carl Peter Thunberg. He was the last holder of the undivided chair that in the previous century had been held by Linnaeus. After his death in 1851, the chair was divided into more delimited professorships, and botany became the main duty of the borgströmian professorship, at the time held by Elias Fries.

#18559

Karl Otto Weber

Karl Otto Weber

1827 - 1867 (40 years)

Karl Otto Weber was a German surgeon and pathologist born in Frankfurt am Main. Biography He received his early education in the gymnasium at Bremen which his father directed. There Weber showed a special interest in the natural sciences, and in 1846, when he went on to the University of Bonn, he studied botany, geology and mineralogy with an emphasis on paleontological botany. As a student at Bonn, he was a member of the Burschenschaft Franconia, which at that time also included Carl Schurz, Johannes Overbeck, Julius Schmidt, Friedrich Spielhagen, Ludwig Meyer and Adolf Strodtmann. In 1851, he received a degree of doctor of medicine and surgery from Bonn.

#18560

George Fell

1849 - 1918 (69 years)

George Edward Fell was an American surgeon and inventor. He was an early developer of artificial ventilation and also investigated the physiology of electrocution, a line of research that led to Fell creating the final design for the first electric chair.

#18561

Ganbold Lundeg

#178529

Overall Influence

Ganbold Lundeg is a Mongolian anesthetist based at the Mongolian National University of Medical Sciences where he is Head of Critical Care Medicine and Anesthesia Department. He has been the president of the Mongolian Society of Anesthesiologists for several years, and is a member of The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery.

#18562

Eudo Mason

1901 - 1969 (68 years)

Eudo Colecestra Mason was a scholar and professor of German at Edinburgh University, joining in 1946 and becoming Chair of German in 1951, a position he held until his death in 1969, only the third person to take the role since 1919. He had previously worked as a lecturer in Münster, Leipzig, and Basle.

#18563

Richard Smith

#174691

Overall Influence

Richard Smith CBE FMedSci is a British medical doctor, editor, and businessman. He is the director of the UnitedHealth Chronic Disease Initiative at Emory University , which together with the US National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute has created 11 centres in low and middle income countries that work on non-communicable disease.

#18564

Errett Weir McDiarmid

Errett Weir McDiarmid

#126585

Overall Influence

1909 - 2000 (91 years)

Errett Weir McDiarmid was an American librarian and academic who was president of the American Library Association from 1948 to 1949. McDiarmid was born in West Virginia and received his bachelor's degree in 1929 from Texas Christian University and his master's degree in 1930, also from Texas Christian. He went on to receive a bachelor's degree in Library Science in 1931 from Emory University and his doctorate from the University of Chicago Graduate Library School in 1934.

#18565

Kevin Fickenscher

#49948

Overall Influence

Kevin Fickenscher, M.D., CPE, FACPE, FAAFP currently serves as the president/CEO of CREO Strategic Solutions, LLC – a consulting, advisory and management services company involved in all aspects of the telecare field – from care delivery to both undergraduate and continuing education related to virtual care delivery. He is also extensively involved in leadership development for organizations of all sizes. CREO is an organization which provides a network of senior-level people resources with extensive backgrounds in all aspects of healthcare. He has also previously served as the director for he...

#18566

Robert Kotler

#82498

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Robert Kotler, M.D. FACS, born in 1942, is an American ear, nose, and throat surgeon. He has performed more than 10,000 major cosmetic procedures, with over 40 years in private practice, and was a featured surgeon in the first season of the E! cosmetic surgery series Dr. 90210.

#18567

Frederick Sefton Delmer

1864 - 1931 (67 years)

Frederick Sefton Delmer was an Australian linguistics university lecturer and journalist. Life He was born in Battery Point, Tasmania, to James Delmer and Margaret Sefton Burgess . Delmer studied at Trinity College of the University of Melbourne and continued his studies in Europe, where he made the acquaintance of Herman Grimm, son of Wilhelm Grimm. After his return to Australia, he was a teacher in 1896, but also wrote travel reports. He soon returned to Europe where he became a lecturer at the University of Königsberg in 1900 and, from 1901 to 1914, he was a lecturer at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin.

#18568

Georg Waaler

1895 - 1983 (88 years)

Georg Waaler was a Norwegian physician, a professor of forensic medicine, and chairman of the Norwegian Board of Forensic Medicine. Personal life Waaler was born in Hamar on 21 March 1895 to physician Peder Ferdinand Waaler and musician Fredrikke Amalie Holtemann Rynning, and was a brother of Rolf and Erik Waaler. In 1920 he married Sophie Amalie Koller.

#18569

Paul Rapoport

#177596

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Paul Rapoport is a Canadian musicologist, music critic, composer and professor at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. Biography Rapoport was born in 1948 in Toronto, Ontario. He received his bachelor's degree in linguistics and music at the University of Michigan in 1970 and his master's degree at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1972 with a thesis on Havergal Brian's Gothic Symphony. He went on to gain a doctorate at the same university in 1975, with a dissertation about Vagn Holmboe's four Symphonic Metamorphoses.

#18570

Barbara Balmer

#84241

Overall Influence

1929 - 2017 (88 years)

Barbara Balmer RSA was a Scottish artist and teacher. Biography Balmer was born in Birmingham and, between 1946 and 1951, studied art at Coventry School of Art and then at the Edinburgh College of Art. A travelling scholarship enabled Balmer to further her studies in France and Spain during 1951 and 1952. She also visited Italy with a group led by Douglas Percy Bliss. From 1970 to 1980, Balmer was a visiting lecturer at Gray's School of Art in Aberdeen. Seven of her paintings were adapted as dust jackets for editions in the Virago Modern Classics series. A large mural by Balmer is situated in...

#18571

Alan Jones

#159628

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Alan Jones is a film critic, broadcaster, and reporter primarily focused on movies in production, especially in the horror fantasy genre. His first assignment was on Star Wars in 1977, after which he became the London correspondent for Cinefantastique magazine from 1977 to 2002 and reviewed for the British magazine Starburst from 1980 until 2008. A film critic for Film Review and Radio Times, he has made contributions to the Radio Times Guide to Films, the Radio Times Guide to Science Fiction, and Halliwell's Film Guide. He has also been a film critic for BBC News 24, Front Row on BBC Radio 4, and Sky News programme Sunrise.

#18572

Nathaniel Wallich

Nathaniel Wallich

1786 - 1854 (68 years)

Nathaniel Wolff Wallich FRS FRSE was a surgeon and botanist of Danish origin who worked in India, initially in the Danish settlement near Calcutta and later for the Danish East India Company and the British East India Company. He was involved in the early development of the Calcutta Botanical Garden, describing many new plant species and developing a large herbarium collection which was distributed to collections in Europe. Several of the plants that he collected were named after him.

#18573

Friedrich Benjamin Osiander

Friedrich Benjamin Osiander

1759 - 1822 (63 years)

Friedrich Benjamin Osiander was an obstetrician at Göttingen, who invented uterine traction forceps. He was the father of obstetrician Johann Friedrich Osiander. He studied medicine at the University of Tübingen, and following graduation , settled as a general practitioner in Kirchheim unter Teck. In 1792 he became an associate professor of obstetrics at the University of Göttingen.

#18574

Eugen Rehfisch

1862 - 1937 (75 years)

Eugen Rehfisch was a German physician of Jewish descent born in Kempen, Kingdom of Prussia . He studied medicine at the Universities of Berlin and Würzburg, earning his doctorate in 1887. Soon afterwards he worked as a physician in Berlin, where he was a colleague of urologist Leopold Casper . From 1896 to 1900 he performed important urodynamic research at the university's institute of physiology. Later, he was awarded the title of professor.

#18575

Arthur Kreindler

1900 - 1988 (88 years)

Arthur Kreindler was a Romanian neurologist of Jewish origin, academic, professor of neurology at the Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Bucharest, and director of the Institute of Neurology Research of the Romanian Academy.

#18576

Herbert Scheinberg

#102193

Overall Influence

1919 - 2009 (90 years)

Israel Herbert Scheinberg was an American physician who specialized in Wilson's disease and other rare hereditary diseases. Scheinberg was born in Manhattan and attended DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx, New York City; he won a place at Harvard University, graduating with a bachelor's degree in chemistry in 1940. He then attended Harvard Medical School, graduating in 1943. He undertook his medical internship at Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, followed by time in the Army Medical Corps.

#18577

Cyril Chantler

#56257

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Sir Cyril Chantler is a British paediatric nephrologist. Chantler was notable for devising a method with Norman Veale of measuring glomerular function in children and later researched diet and growth failure in children with renal impairment. Chantler was most notable for holding an independent review of public health evidence for standardised tobacco packaging that later became known as the Chantler Review that led to standardised packaging for tobacco and cigarette packets.

#18578

Karl Friedrich Canstatt

1807 - 1850 (43 years)

Karl Friedrich Canstatt was a German physician and medical author. Biography He received his education at the University of Vienna, followed by studies under Johann Lukas Schönlein at the University of Würzburg, where in 1831 he obtained his medical doctorate. The following year, he went to Paris to study Asiatic cholera, a disease that was then epidemic in the French capital. Canstatt's study of the disease, published in 1832, attracted the attention of the Belgian government, which commissioned him to take charge in establishment and management of a cholera hospital.

#18579

Douglas Kennedy

Douglas Kennedy

#99962

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Douglas Kennedy is an American novelist. He is known for international bestsellers The Big Picture, The Pursuit of Happiness, Leaving the World and The Moment. Biography Douglas Kennedy was born in New York City in 1955, the son of a commodities broker and a production assistant at NBC. He was educated at The Collegiate School and graduated with a B.A. magna cum laude from Bowdoin College in 1976. He also spent a year studying at Trinity College Dublin. "I was a history major," Kennedy explained. "Retrospectively, I think the history major provides much better training for a novelist. So much of what I do in my own fiction is observational; is looking at behavior.

#18580

Keith Lyons

#118494

Overall Influence

1952 - 2020 (68 years)

Keith Lyons was an educator and sport scientist who specialized in the observation and analysis of performance in sport. He was the author of the first book on the use of video in sport. Lyons founded the Centre for Notational Analysis at the Cardiff Institute of Higher Education in 1992 with the help of John Pugh, Peter Treadwell, David Cobner and Sean Power. He moved to Australia in 2002 to take up a position as the founding Coordinator of Performance Analysis at the Australian Institute of Sport. He was the founding Director of the Institute of Sport Studies at the University of Canberra in 2009.

#18581

Krystyna Marek

#81888

Overall Influence

1914 - 1993 (79 years)

Krystyna Marek was a Swiss-Polish professor of international law. Edward Raczynski, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Polish government in exile, called her "one of the first Polish female diplomats."

#18582

Sediq Afghan

#27114

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Sediq Afghan is an Afghan mathematician. He is the founder and head of the World Philosophical Math Research Center in Kabul, Afghanistan. He is also a political activist. He had a prominent role in protests in Kabul about Afghanistan- and Islam-related issues, including an anti-American protest in 2003, a hunger strike to protest beatings of journalists by Afghan security officers in 2006, and another one to protest the 2008 Danish Muhammad cartoons.

#18583

Jean Clam

#146473

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Jean Clam is a philosopher, sociologist and psychologist. He is Research Fellow at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique , Paris, presently affiliated to the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. His numerous researches deal mainly with sociology and psychology of intimacy, legal theory and general theory of the human and social sciences.

#18584

Roderick D. Bush

#141281

Overall Influence

1945 - 2013 (68 years)

Roderick Douglas Bush was an U.S. born sociologist, social activist, author, public intellectual author and academic primarily concerning the Civil rights movement . Biography Born on November 12, 1945, Bush grew up in the "Jim Crow" South before moving to Rochester, New York, as a child. As a teen, he attended Howard University and became involved in the Black Power Movement. He attended the University of Kansas, where he began his doctoral work. He left to become a full-time political activist only to return to academia in 1998. He earned his Ph.D. from Binghamton University in 1992. He served as a faculty member at St.

#18585

Randor Guy

#107903

Overall Influence

1937 - 2023 (86 years)

Madabhushi Rangadorai , better known by his pen name Randor Guy , was an Indian lawyer, columnist and film and legal historian associated with the English language newspaper The Hindu. He was also the official editor of the weekly column "Blast from the Past" that appeared in The Hindufor many years; in this series Randor Guy wrote about not so well known details about the Tamil movies and the personalities , produced since mid 1930s to late 1960s.

#18586

Aida Huseynova

#105229

Overall Influence

1964 - 2022 (58 years)

Aida Huseynova was a musicologist, pianist, and ethnomusicologist from Azerbaijan. She spent the last decade and a half of her career teaching in the Music in General Studies program at Indiana University--Bloomington and serving as an arts consultant for Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Ensemble, the Mike Morris Dance group, and other ensembles and initiatives.

#18587

Elliot Schrage

#173805

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Elliot J. Schrage is an American lawyer and business executive. Until June 2018, he was vice president of global communications, marketing, and public policy at Facebook, where he directed the company's government affairs and public relations efforts. He then served as vice president of special projects at Facebook.

#18588

Joachim Bauer

#8530

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Joachim Bauer is a German medical doctor with education in internal medicine, psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine. He teaches as a professor at the University of Freiburg. Bauer is the author of several scientific non-fiction books.

#18589

Boyo Ockinga

#92584

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Boyo Ockinga is an Egyptologist, epigrapher, and philologist of the ancient Egyptian language, who holds the position of Associate Professor in the Department of Ancient History at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.

#18590

Daniel Rutherford Haldane

1824 - 1887 (63 years)

Daniel Rutherford Haldane FRSE PRCPE LLD was a prominent Scottish physician, who became president of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1881. Life His was born in Edinburgh the son of Rev James Haldane by his second wife Margaret Rutherford, a daughter of Professor Daniel Rutherford. He was educated at the High School in Edinburgh then studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, graduating in 1848. He then undertook further postgraduate study in Vienna and Paris.

#18591

Anatoly Pokrovsky

Anatoly Pokrovsky

#85573

Overall Influence

1930 - 2022 (92 years)

Anatoly Vladimirovich Pokrovsky was a Russian vascular surgeon. Positions Chief of Vascular Surgery Department at Vishnevsky Institute of Surgery of Russian Academy of Medical SciencesHead of the Department of Angiology and Vascular Surgery of Russian Medical Academy for Post-Graduate EducationChief editor of "Angiology and vascular surgery" monthly journal President of Russian Association of Angiologists and Vascular SurgeonsPresident of European Society for Vascular Surgery Honorary member of American Association for Vascular Surgery

#18592

Kentaro Iwata

#46579

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Kentaro Iwata is a Japanese physician, professor and infectious diseases expert at Kobe University. Career After his graduation from the Shimane Medical University in 1997, Iwata became a medical intern worked at . In the next year, he became a medical intern worked at St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital of Columbia University.

#18593

William Petrek

#191700

Overall Influence

1928 - 2011 (83 years)

William Joseph Petrek was an American philosopher and professor of philosophy at Hofstra University. He was the President of The American International University in London, England. He was also a former provost of Hofstra University.

#18594

Dieter Koch-Weser

#99244

Overall Influence

1916 - 2015 (99 years)

Dieter Koch-Weser was a German-American physician and social medicine and HIV/AIDS researcher based in the Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health. He was a long-time advocate of Dr. Albert Schweitzer's philosophy of Reverence for Life and a supporter of the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship. He was medically noted for his HIV/AIDS research in Peru and authorization of a book on the heterosexual transmission of AIDS. In public health and healthcare, he had long advocated "a shift from treating illness to preventing it."

#18595

Peter Byrne

#150609

Overall Influence

1928 - 2018 (90 years)

Peter James Byrne was an English actor and director. He was born in West Ham, Essex; his father was a musician. He was educated at grammar school and trained as an actor at the Italia Conti Stage School. He made his name by playing George Dixon's son-in-law Andy Crawford in the long-running BBC Television serial Dixon of Dock Green for twenty years from 1955. He was Director of Productions for the Bournemouth Theatre Company .

#18596

James Mahoney

#181947

Overall Influence

1957 - 2020 (63 years)

James A. "Charlie" Mahoney was an American pulmonologist and internist. He was head of the intensive care unit and a clinical assistant professor of medicine at the SUNY Downstate Medical Center. Early life and education James A. Mahoney was born in either 1957 or 1958 to Leila and Oscar Mahoney. His father was a member of the United States Air Force. Mahoney was raised in military housing in Bermuda and the South Shore in Nassau County, New York. He had 4 siblings. As a child, a family friend nicknamed him Charlie. He began working with his older brother at the age of 8. They worked at a laundromat, German delicatessen, and a lunch counter.

#18597

Charles H. Liebermann

1813 - 1886 (73 years)

Charles H. Liebermann was a Russian-American physician and one of the co-founders of the Georgetown University School of Medicine. Biography Liebermann was born in Riga, then part of the Russian Empire. His father, a military surgeon, died when Liebermann was young, but his uncle ensured that he received a quality education. He studied medicine at the University of Dorpat in Russia, but he was arrested for his involvement in the Polish independence movement. He escaped from prison in Siberia and continued the study of medicine at the University of Berlin. He became an assistant to the surgeon...

#18598

Karl-Heinz Reinfandt

Karl-Heinz Reinfandt

#124098

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (94 years)

Karl-Heinz Reinfandt was a German musicologist and music educator. Life Born in Danzig, Reinfandt studied music and the German language from 1953 to 1955 at the University of Flensburg. He then worked at various primary and secondary schools as well as secondary modern schools in Schleswig-Holstein. In 1958 he began studying again, this time school and church music at the Hamburg Academy of Music and the subjects musicology, literature and educational science at the universities in Hamburg and Kiel, which he completed in 1966 with a doctorate . From 1963 to 1968, he again served as a student ...

#18599

Donald Landes

#191705

Overall Influence

1980 - Present (46 years)

#18600

Caroline Maun

#181077

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Caroline C. Maun is a professor, author, poet, lyricist, and musician. She teaches creative writing in the English Department at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. Other areas of research include modernism, American Literature, African-American literature, and Internet Writing.

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