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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#19001

Younan Nowzaradan

#32810

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Younan Nowzaradan , also known as Dr. Now, is an American doctor, TV personality, and author. He specializes in vascular surgery and bariatric surgery. He is known for helping morbidly obese people lose weight on My 600-lb Life .

#19002

Peter Butterworth

Peter Butterworth

1919 - 1979 (60 years)

Peter William Shorrocks Butterworth was an English actor and comedian best known for his appearances in the Carry On film series. He was also a regular on children's television and radio. Butterworth was married to actress and impressionist Janet Brown.

#19003

Anton Sebastianpillai

#130706

Overall Influence

1944 - 2020 (76 years)

Anton Sebastianpillai FRCP , was a British historian, author and consultant geriatrician, of Sri Lankan Tamil origin. Biography He had his primay and secondary education at St Sylvester's College, Kandy and trained at Peradeniya Medical School, in Sri Lanka, qualifying in 1967.

#19004

Jay Webber Seaver

1855 - 1915 (60 years)

Jay Webber Seaver was an American physician and a pioneer of anthropometry. Life Seaver was born in Craftsbury, Vermont as son of William Seaver and Betsy Urie, and had four siblings. He studied at the Yale School of Medicine, where he became professor in his later life. Seaver measured the bodies of thousands of people attending the summer school resort at Chautauqua, New York., and published the results of his studies in his work Anthropometry and physical examination. A book for practical use in connection with gymnastic work and physical education.. On July 1, 1886, he married Leona Nancy...

#19005

Ashley Taylor Dawson

Ashley Taylor Dawson

#180137

Overall Influence

1982 - Present (44 years)

Philip Ashley Taylor Dawson , known as Ashley Taylor Dawson, is an English actor and singer. He is known for portraying the role of Darren Osborne in the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks, as well as being a member of the pop group allSTARS*.

#19006

Hans Ulrich Lehmann

#182437

Overall Influence

1937 - 2013 (76 years)

Hans Ulrich Lehmann was a Swiss composer. Education Hans Ulrich Lehmann studied violoncello at the Biel Conservatory in his hometown and music theory with Paul Müller-Zürich at the Zurich University of the Arts. From 1960 to 1963 he attended master classes in composition with Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen at the City of Basel Music Academy. He also studied musicology with Kurt von Fischer at the University of Zurich. From 1961 to 1972 he was a lecturer at the City of Basel Music Academy and from 1969 to 1990 lecturer for Neue Musik and music theory at the University of Zurich and from 1990 at the University of Bern.

#19007

Albert Kappis

1836 - 1914 (78 years)

Albert Kappis was a German painter and draughtsperson specializing in landscapes and genre motifss. Biography From 1850 to 1857, Kappis trained as a lithographer in his uncle's workshop. he also took drawing lessons and, from 1855 to 1860, attended classes at the Royal Art School in Stuttgart under Heinrich von Rustige and Bernhard von Neher. In 1860, he began his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich under Karl von Piloty. While there, he made friends with fellow painters from Swabia, including Anton Braith, Ludwig Willroider, Friedrich Salzer and Jakob Grünenwald.

#19008

Alfred Charles Post

Alfred Charles Post

1806 - 1886 (80 years)

Alfred Charles Post was an American surgeon. Post was born in New York City. He graduated from Columbia College in 1822 and from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1827, studied in Paris, Vienna, Berlin, and London .

#19009

Angela Annabell

#189239

Overall Influence

1929 - 2000 (71 years)

Angela Ruth Annabell was a New Zealand musicologist. She researched and wrote largely about folk music. Biography Annabell completed a master's degree in music at the University of Auckland in 1968. Her 1975 doctoral thesis, titled New Zealand Cultural and Economic Development Reflected in Song, is considered the most thorough discussion of New Zealand folk music and song.

#19010

Mohsen Naghavi

#192176

Overall Influence

Mohsen Naghavi is an Iranian-American researcher and Professor of Health Metrics Sciences at the University of Washington. He is one of the top highly cited researchers according to webometrics.

#19011

Friedrich Gustav von Bramann

1854 - 1913 (59 years)

Friedrich Gustav von Bramann was a German surgeon born in Wilhelmsberg near Darkehmen, East Prussia. He studied medicine at the University of Königsberg and joined the Corps Hansea. He became assistant surgeon to Ernst von Bergmann at the Charité in Berlin. In 1889 he declined the call to the University of Greifswald and became a senior lecturer at the Charité. In 1890 he was appointed professor of surgery at the University of Halle an der Saale, succeeding Richard von Volkmann

#19012

Wilhelm Prausnitz

1861 - 1933 (72 years)

Wilhelm Prausnitz was a hygiene specialist. In 1879 he completed his university entrance examination together with Siegfried Czapski, Richard Reitzenstein and Felix Skutsch. A full professor since 1899 of hygiene and was head of the hygiene institute; the dean of the medical school at Graz, Austria, as well as a Privy Counsellor.

#19013

Jennie Lea Knight

#173887

Overall Influence

1933 - 2007 (74 years)

Jennie Lea Knight was an American sculptor. Early life and education Knight was a native of Washington, D.C., and received her artistic training in that city, beginning her studies with classes in design and music at the King-Smith School of Creative Arts.

#19014

Malcolm Macnaughton

#74842

Overall Influence

1925 - 2016 (91 years)

Sir Malcolm Campbell Macnaughton was a Scottish obstetrician and gynaecologist. He was an Emeritus Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, and an influential voice in promoting legislation allowing for experimentation on early embryos.

#19015

David Hackam

#106160

Overall Influence

David J. Hackam is a surgeon-scientist. Hackam obtained his bachelor's and medical degrees from the University of Western Ontario, then earned a doctorate in cell biology from the University of Toronto. He joined the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in 2002, and was named the Watson Family Professor of Surgery in 2010. Hackam left for the Robert Garrett Professorship of Pediatric Surgery at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 2014. Hackam specializes in necrotizing enterocolitis.

#19016

Richard Root

#88067

Overall Influence

1937 - 2006 (69 years)

Richard K. Root was the former Chairman of Medicine at Yale University, Chairman of Medicine at University of California, San Francisco, and Chairman of Medicine at University of Washington. He also launched the Infectious Disease division at the University of Pennsylvania while a professor there in 1971.

#19017

Peter Cox

#95366

Overall Influence

Peter M. Cox is professor of Climate System Dynamics within the Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Exeter. He is also the director of the Global Systems Institute. Until 2006 he was the Science Director - Climate Change at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, and before that he worked at the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research .

#19018

Chris Griffiths

#144249

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Christopher Ernest Maitland Griffiths is Foundation Professor of Dermatology at the University of Manchester, Director of the Manchester Centre for Dermatology Research, and Head of the Dermatology Theme of the National Institute for Health Research Manchester Biomedical Research Centre. He is an Honorary Consultant Dermatologist at Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust.

#19019

Karen Bryan

#90026

Overall Influence

Karen Bryan OBE FRCSLT, is a speech therapist, and Vice Chancellor of York St John University since April 2020. Prior to this, Bryan was Deputy Vice Chancellor at the University of Greenwich. Career Bryan qualified as a speech and language therapist from the University of Newcastle and also gained her PhD there. Her research interests are in workforce development and the effectiveness of interventions for communication disorders associated with stroke, dementia and other neurological conditions.

#19020

Michael P. Busch

#192190

Overall Influence

Michael P. Busch is a physician specializing in blood-borne pathogens. He has developed screening tests to prevent HIV and West Nile virus infections from blood transfusions. Busch is a professor of laboratory medicine at the University of California, San Francisco and director of the Blood Systems Research Institute. He received his undergraduate education at the University of California, Santa Barbara and his medical training at University of Southern California.

#19021

Kenzo Futaki

1873 - 1966 (93 years)

was a Japanese doctor who studied infectious diseases. Futaki was educated at Tokyo Imperial University. He received the prestigious Order of Culture from the Emperor for his academic contributions, which included identifying the infectious agents of dysentery and rat bite fever, He was a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. In addition to his medical research, he had a strong understanding of traditional Japanese folk remedies.

#19022

Públia Hortênsia de Castro

Públia Hortênsia de Castro

1548 - 1595 (47 years)

Públia Hortênsia de Castro was a scholar and humanist in the court of Catherine of Austria, Queen of Portugal. Born in 1548 in Vila Viçosa, Portugal, she was named for Hortensia, the famous Roman orator and daughter of Quintus Hortensius, suggesting that her parents intended for her to become a well-educated woman. She evidently studied Greek and Latin, and by the time she was seventeen she was engaged in public debates on Aristotle. There are stories that, dressed as a boy and chaperoned by her brother, she attended the University of Coimbra, in Lisbon, but historians consider this unlikely....

#19023

Sari Feldman

#93602

Overall Influence

Sari Feldman is an American librarian. Sari was president of the American Library Association from 2015 to 2016. During her presidency, she launched the Libraries Transform public awareness campaign that increased funding support for libraries and sought to advance information policy.

#19024

Naohisa Inoue

#60589

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Naohisa Inoue is a fantasy artist influenced by both the Surrealism and Impressionism movements. Most of his paintings are set in the fantastical land of Iblard. He created reference and background art for the Studio Ghibli film Whisper of the Heart and also provided a cameo appearance as the voice of Minami. More recently, his works were given a more direct adaptation in the short film which is shown exclusively at the Ghibli Museum. He directed the 2007 OVA Iblard Jikan, produced by Studio Ghibli.

#19025

Laura Alberta Linton

Laura Alberta Linton

1853 - 1915 (62 years)

Laura Alberta Linton was an American chemist and physician. Early life and education Linton was born in Mahoning County, Ohio, on April 8, 1853, the oldest child of Joseph and Christina Linton. The family were Quakers. The family farmed in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey before settling in Wabasha County, Minnesota. Linton graduated from the Winona Normal School in 1872, and went on to the University of Minnesota, from which she graduated with a Bachelor of Science in chemistry.

#19026

Paul Ross

#94289

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Paul Ross is an English television and radio presenter, journalist and media personality. He is the son of Martha Ross and the elder brother of Jonathan Ross. Early life Growing up in outer east London, Ross was educated at Norlington School for Boys, and later read English at the University of Kent. Realising he would not be able to follow the academic career he favoured, "an English lecturer at a polytechnic", he commenced training as a journalist at the University of Exeter and subsequently started his career with the Western Times in Exeter in 1982.

#19027

Rudolf Pöch

1870 - 1921 (51 years)

Rudolf Pöch was an Austrian medical doctor, anthropologist, and ethnologist. Pöch is also known as a pioneer in photography, cinematography, and audio engineering. He can be regarded as a founding father of the Institute for Anthropology and Ethnography at the University of Vienna.

#19028

Arlene Zallman

#185124

Overall Influence

1934 - 2006 (72 years)

Arlene Zallman was an American composer and music educator. Life Zallman was born in Philadelphia and graduated from the Juilliard School of Music. She received a master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania, where she studied composition with Vincent Persichetti and George Crumb. In 1959 she received a two-year Fulbright Scholarship to Florence, Italy, to study with Luigi Dallapiccola. She held positions on the faculty of the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music and Yale University and then became a professor of composition at Wellesley, Massachusetts in 1976.

#19029

Henry Kitchener

#106747

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Professor Henry Kitchener, MD FRCOG FRCS FMedSci, is a leading British expert in gynaecological oncology, based at the University of Manchester. He is a fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. Research Prof. Kitchener's work has centred on research into Human Papillomavirus .

#19030

Hanne Albert

#173854

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Hanne Albert is a Danish physiotherapist with a Ph.D. in medical science. Her main research interest is in lower back pain and pelvic girdle pain. Albert's studies have revealed that bone œdema could be caused by a bacterial infection and treated with antibiotics.

#19031

Henry Hayes Vowles

1843 - 1905 (62 years)

Henry Hayes Vowles was an English author, theologian and a Wesleyan Minister. He also published religious poetry. Parents He was the son of Henry Vowles of Bath and Mary Yeoman Harding of "The Chancellor" Wanstrow, Somerset. The parents of Henry Vowles were James Vowles of 2 Quiet Street Bath, and Martha Edney . James Vowles was the son of William Vowles of Walcot and Hannah Hancock. William Vowles was the son of James Vowles and Martha Jane married at Bath Abbey on 6 August 1728.

#19032

Rudolf Spanner

1895 - 1960 (65 years)

Rudolf Spanner was Director of the Danzig Anatomical Institute during World War II and Nazi Party member . During the Second World War Spanner used human corpses in the creation of anatomical models for the institute, which after a soap-like byproduct from the model-creation process was presented in the Nuremberg trials as soap made from victims of the Holocaust, has led to numerous accusations against Spanner of crimes against humanity.

#19033

Heinrich von Rustige

1810 - 1900 (90 years)

Heinrich Franz Gaudenz von Rustige was a German painter specializing in historical subjects and genres. Life and work From 1828, he was a student of Wilhelm von Schadow at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. After 1832, he began participating in exhibitions there.

#19034

John Starr

#189224

Overall Influence

1901 - 2018 (117 years)

John Starr was a British geriatrician. He was Honorary Professor at University of Edinburgh and a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Public Health.

#19035

Stephanie Amiel

#54663

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Stephanie Anne Amiel, Lady Alberti, is a British physician and academic, specialising in type 1 diabetes. Since 1995, she has been the R. D. Lawrence Professor of Diabetic Medicine at King's College London and a consultant at King's College Hospital.

#19036

Bobby Jones

#184509

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Bobby Jones is an American Gospel music singer television host, and radio broadcaster from Nashville, Tennessee and the host and executive producer of several cable television gospel music programs including the former Bobby Jones Gospel.

#19037

Ronald Garet

#180876

Overall Influence

Ronald Reed Garet is an American religion law scholar, currently the Carolyn Craig Franklin Chair in Law and Religion at USC Gould School of Law. He graduated from Harvard University, magna cum laude, received his PhD in religious studies from Yale University, and his JD from USC Gould. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

#19038

Shigehiko Hasumi

#129014

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

Shigehiko Hasumi is a film critic and an academic researcher on French literature from Japan. He was president of the University of Tokyo from 1997 to 2001. Life and work Hasumi's father Shigeyasu was a professor at Kyoto University. His wife Chantal Van Melkebeke is a teacher from Belgium.

#19039

Edward Mott Moore

Edward Mott Moore

1814 - 1902 (88 years)

Edward Mott Moore was an American surgeon. He served as president of the American Medical Association and as president of the Board of Trustees of the University of Rochester. One type of radial fracture is named for him.

#19040

Ferdinand Gumprecht

1864 - 1947 (83 years)

Ferdinand Adolph Gumprecht was a German internist born in Berlin. He studied medicine at the Universities of Heidelberg, Berlin, Göttingen and Jena, earning his doctorate at the latter institution in 1889. In 1890 he became an assistant at the Krankenhaus Friedrichshain in Berlin, followed by work at the pathological institute and at the medical clinic at the University of Jena, where he served as an assistant to Paul Fürbringer and Roderich Stintzing .

#19041

Kurt Köster

1912 - 1986 (74 years)

Kurt Köster, also spelled Koetser , was a German librarian and historian. Life and work Köster was the son of Daniel Köster and his wife Emilie, née Loev. In 1930 he graduated from the Wiesbaden high school on Zietenring and then attended the Pedagogical Academy in Frankfurt am Main. Köster worked as a primary school teacher from 1932 to 1939 then studied history, historical auxiliary sciences, German and musicology in Frankfurt and Munich. On 9 September 1942 he was drafted into the German army. He received his doctorate on 12 February 1944 in Frankfurt on the subject of "The Colmar historical sources of the thirteenth century".

#19042

Elsie Gerlach

1900 - 1967 (67 years)

Dr. Elsie Gerlach was named the first superintendent of the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry Children's Clinic in 1927 after having served as an instructor at the University of Pennsylvania. Gerlach stayed for 38 years and became nationally known and respected as a pioneer in the teaching and development of pediatric dentistry. In the early years of the clinic, she looked for children on the street who needed dental care and brought them to the clinic.

#19043

María del Carmen Rovira Gaspar

#187202

Overall Influence

1923 - 2021 (98 years)

María del Carmen Rovira Gaspar was a Spanish historian, researcher and academic. She arrived in Mexico in 1939, after the National victory in Spain.

#19044

Puri Soltani

#192044

Overall Influence

1931 - 2015 (84 years)

Puri Soltani was an academic who was a "pioneer of Iranian librarianship". Soltani was born in Hamadan. Her father, a prominent constitutionalist lawyer, died while she was a child. Her husband, the poet and newspaper editor, Morteza Keyvan, was executed three months after their wedding, prompting Soltani to leave Iran for several years. After returning to Iran, Soltani founded multiple library organizations, expanded the library system of the University of Tehran, and oversaw the digitization of Iranian national documents. Soltani is credited with modernizing libraries and information science in Iran.

#19045

Tommaso del Garbo

Tommaso del Garbo

1305 - 1370 (65 years)

Tommaso del Garbo or Thomas de Garbo was a professor of medicine in Perugia and Bologna. He was the son of the physician Dino del Garbo and a friend of the poet Petrarch. It is said that the physician Pietro da Tossignano studied under Garbo at the University of Bologna.

#19046

Kenneth Gordon Lowe

#129713

Overall Influence

1917 - 2010 (93 years)

Kenneth Gordon Lowe was a Scottish physician who did pioneering research as a nephrologist and as a cardiologist. Biography After education at Arbroath High School, he studied medicine at the University of St Andrews and the Dundee Royal Infirmary . In 1941 he graduated MB ChB from the University of St Andrews and shortly thereafter married Nancy Young, a medical student in his graduating class. He worked at the DRI and assisted with Daniel F. Cappell's pioneering blood transfusion service in Dundee. In 1942 he became a captain in the RAMC; for about two years he specialised in tropical dise...

#19047

Pierre Bardin

1590 - 1635 (45 years)

Pierre Bardin , born in Rouen, was a French philosopher and mathematician and Doctor of Letters. He was one of the first members of the Académie française and the first occupant of Seat 29.

#19048

Sydney Dodd

1874 - 1926 (52 years)

Sydney Dodd, FRCVS , was a British veterinary surgeon and scientist. He contributed to the development of bacteriology and protozoology in England, South Africa and Australia. Dodd established a research station in Queensland that was to become the Animal Research Institute, and he was the first lecturer in veterinary bacteriology at the University of Sydney. He became one of the foremost bacteriologists in Australia.

#19049

Niu Lizhi

#108186

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Niu Lizhi is a surgeon who specializes in minimally invasive cryosurgery for cancers. In 1996, he graduated from the Fourth Military Medical University with a doctoral degree in Thoracic & Cardiac Surgery.

#19050

Joel Sheveloff

#192225

Overall Influence

1934 - 2015 (81 years)

Joel Leonard Sheveloff was an American musicologist, teacher and author. Reception Sheveloff graduated from the City University of New York, Queens College, majoring in clarinet then earned a master's and a doctorate from Brandeis University. His 1970 dissertation on the keyboard instrument music of Domenico Scarlatti attracted attention by scholars. According to Robert Marshall and Carlo Grante, Ralph Kirkpatrick's iconic, exemplary work was eventually challenged by Joel Sheveloff. Sheveloff's Scarlatti scholarship, based on a close analysis and comparison of the manuscript and printed histo...

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