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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#19051

Louis Diamond

#30675

Overall Influence

1902 - 1999 (97 years)

Louis Klein Diamond was an American pediatrician, known as the "father of pediatric hematology." Early life and career Diamond was born in Chişinău, Bessarabia Governorate as the son of Jewish parents, Eliezer Dimant and Lena Klein. His family emigrated to the United States in 1904, following the Kishinev pogrom.

#19052

Helen Hart

1900 - 1971 (71 years)

Helen Hart was an American plant pathologist, and Professor Emeritus at the University of Minnesota. Hart was the first woman president of the American Phytopathological Society, and was instrumental in making the University of Minnesota's Department of Plant Pathology a world-leader in stem rust.

#19053

Winston Tabb

#120482

Overall Influence

Winston Tabb was the Sheridan Dean of University Libraries and Museums at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland from September 2002 to December 2022. Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Tabb received his B.A. from Oklahoma Baptist University and earned an M.A. from Harvard University as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow. After returning from Thailand as an instructor of English for the U.S. Army, Tabb received his degree in library science in 1972 from Simmons College. Upon his graduation from Simmons, he was recruited to join the professional staff of the Library of Congress.

#19054

Maryla Falk

1906 - 1980 (74 years)

Maryla Falk was a Polish indologist and religious scholar. A member of the Polish Oriental Society, she is best remembered for her book Mit psychologiczny w starożytnych Indiach , and her treatises l misteri di Novalis published in Naples, and Nāma-rūpa and Dharma-rūpa. Origin and Aspects of an Ancient Indian Conception published at the University of Calcutta.

#19055

Amico Bignami

1862 - 1929 (67 years)

Amico Bignami was an Italian physician, pathologist, malariologist and sceptic. He was professor of pathology at Sapienza University of Rome. His most important scientific contribution was in the discovery of transmission of human malarial parasite in the mosquito.

#19056

Peter F. Rothermel

Peter F. Rothermel

1812 - 1895 (83 years)

Peter Frederick Rothermel was an American painter. Biography Rothermel was born in Nescopeck, Pennsylvania on July 8, 1812, although various sources give his birth year as 1813, 1814, and 1817. The artist's gravestone in Philadelphia gives the date as 1812. He had a common-school education, and studied land surveying. At age 20, he moved to Philadelphia and became a sign painter. Then at age 22, he took up the study of art. He was instructed in drawing by John Rubens Smith, and subsequently became a pupil of Bass Otis in Philadelphia.

#19057

William S. Dix

1910 - 1978 (68 years)

William Shepherd Dix was a scholar and librarian who had a 22-year career as Librarian at Princeton University in New Jersey, without a degree in library science. His contributions to the field of librarianship, however, are varied and notable, making him worthy of recognition in the American Libraries' 100 most important figures.

#19058

Liselle Terret

#189226

Overall Influence

Liselle Terret is a co-programme leader and a senior lecturer at the University of East London. She has more than twenty years of experience within the field as a teacher, facilitator and manager of Applied Theatre related projects within and outside of the UK working with a diverse selection of groups.

#19059

Anne Rasmussen

#120117

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Anne K. Rasmussen is an American educator and ethnomusicologist. Much of her research focuses on Arab music in the US and Islamic ritual and performance. She has been the director of the William & Mary Middle Eastern Music Ensemble since 1994. Rasmussen was named the William M. and Annie B. Bickers Professor of Middle Eastern Studies in 2014.

#19060

Josef Matyáš Trenkwald

Josef Matyáš Trenkwald

1824 - 1897 (73 years)

Josef Matyáš Trenkwald was a Czech-Austrian painter. He was best known for his religious and historical paintings. Biography Josef Matyáš Trenkwald was born on 13 March 1824 in Prague. His father was a tax commissioner. He studied art with Christian Ruben at the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague from 1841 to 1851, where he began painting scenes from Czech history, especially the era of the Hussite wars. In 1852, he moved to the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts and illustrated the Book of Songs by Heinrich Heine.

#19061

Viktor Savelyev

#106044

Overall Influence

1928 - 2013 (85 years)

Viktor Sergeyevich Savelyev was a Soviet and Russian surgeon. He was a full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, from 1997 until his death, and of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences. He was also a member of the Presidium of the Academy of Medical Sciences and Head of the Department of Surgery of the Russian State Medical University. He died on 25 December 2013 in Moscow, Russia at the age of 85.

#19062

Douglas Argyll Robertson

Douglas Argyll Robertson

1837 - 1909 (72 years)

Douglas Moray Cooper Lamb Argyll Robertson FRSE, FRCSEd LLD was a Scottish ophthalmologist and surgeon. He introduced physostigmine into ophthalmic practice and the Argyll Robertson pupil is named after him. He was president of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.

#19063

David Bawden

#29266

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

David Allen Bawden , who took the name Pope Michael, was an American conclavist claimant to the papacy. Bawden believed that the Catholic Church had apostatized from the Catholic faith since Vatican II, and that there had been no legitimate popes elected since the death of Pope Pius XII in 1958. In 1990 he was elected pope by a group of six laypeople, including himself and his parents. In 2011, he was ordained a priest and consecrated a bishop by an Independent Catholic bishop.

#19064

Gianni Rondolino

#54344

Overall Influence

1932 - 2016 (84 years)

Gianni Rondolino was an Italian film critic and historian. Born in Turin, Rondolino was professor of History and Criticism of Film at the University of Turin. Rondolino was the author of several essays and monographies, including books on Luchino Visconti, Roberto Rossellini, Walt Disney, Tex Avery, the magic lantern and the Turin-based silent cinema industry. He was best known for a book on the history of world cinema he released in 1977, Storia del cinema, informally known as "Il Rondolone". He founded and also directed for several years the Turin Film Festival.

#19065

Antonio Mano Azul

#174561

Overall Influence

Antonio Mano Azul is a Portuguese physician specialising in stomatology. He was president of the European Association of Oral Medicine in 2000–02. He was professor of microbiology and oral surgery at the Faculty of Medicine of Lisbon.

#19066

Judith Stamper

#106974

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Judith Stamper is an English former television presenter, journalist and academic. Early life Stamper was born in Cockermouth, Cumberland. She attended Cockermouth Grammar School . She graduated in English in 1975 from St David's University College, Lampeter . She gained a postgraduate diploma in Journalism from University College, Cardiff.

#19067

Émile Forgue

1860 - 1943 (83 years)

Émile Auguste Forgue was a French surgeon. In 1893 he received his medical doctorate from the University of Montpellier with the thesis Distribution des racines motrices dans les muscles des membres. In 1896 he obtained his agrégation for surgery, and later on, became a professor of operative medicine and clinical surgery at Montpellier. In 1899 he became a correspondent member of the Académie de Médecine. In 1924 he was appointed director of the Centre anticancéreux de Montpellier.

#19068

Bertha Van Hoosen

1863 - 1952 (89 years)

Bertha Van Hoosen was an American surgeon devoted to women's health issues and the advancement of fellow women surgeons. Among other notable achievements, Van Hoosen was the first president and a founder of the American Medical Women's Association in 1915 and the first woman to be head of a medical division at a coeducational university. She published an autobiography detailing her personal experiences in medicine, Petticoat Surgeon.

#19069

Alcante

#180051

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Alcante, pen name of Didier Swysen is a Belgian comics writer, best known for his series Pandora’s Box. Biography Alcante has studied economic sciences and worked in academic research, when he won a comics writing contest of publisher Dupuis in 1995. The winning story was published in Spirou magazine. It took another seven years before he regularly began to publish short stories there. Pandora Box is his first series. He is the younger brother of comics creator Bernard Swysen.

#19070

Rory Jack Thompson

#166901

Overall Influence

1942 - 1999 (57 years)

Jack Newman , better known by his birth name Rory Jack Thompson, was an Australian CSIRO scientist and murderer. In September 1983, he was charged for murdering his wife, Maureen Thompson, in their Hobart, Tasmania home and after dismembering her body, he dumped the remains down a toilet. He was not sentenced to serve in prison on the grounds of insanity, but instead, was detained in a hospital attached to the Risdon Prison Complex for an unspecified period of time.

#19071

Enn Kasak

#103291

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Enn Kasak is an Estonian philosopher and astrophysicist. 1981 he graduated from University of Tartu in astrophysics speciality. 1981-1995 he worked at Tõravere Observatory. 1998-2007 he taught at Tallinn University. Since 2007 he is teaching at Tartu University.

#19072

David Celermajer

#55545

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

David Stephen Celermajer is an Australian cardiologist and the Scandrett Professor of Cardiology at the University of Sydney. Early life and education Celermajer is the son of John and Tina Celermajer, both Polish Jews who survived the Holocaust. When he was eleven, Celermajer won a scholarship to Sydney Grammar School. He went on to win the World Universities Debating Championship. He graduated from the University of Sydney with a medical degree in 1983, and won a Rhodes Scholarship that same year. He has a PhD in children's heart disease from the University of London, which he received in 1993, and a higher-doctorate D.Sc.

#19073

Robert Turner

#125196

Overall Influence

1938 - 1999 (61 years)

Professor Robert Turner MD, FRCP was a British physician endocrinologist and Professor in Medicine at the Nuffield Department of Medicine, Oxford. He was trained at Cambridge and qualified from the Middlesex Hospital, London in 1963. He then developed an interest in diabetes and went to work in the Endocrine and Diabetes Units at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston in 1971, before joining the Nuffield Department of Medicine, Oxford University as a Lecturer.

#19074

Tang Zhen

1630 - 1704 (74 years)

Tang Zhen , born Tang Dadao , courtesy name Zhuwan , was a Chinese philosopher and educator born in Dazhou during the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. His given name was Dahao, but later he changed his given name to Zhen and his courtesy name to Puyuan .

#19075

John Meehan

#177659

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

John Meehan SJ is a Canadian Jesuit priest, historian and academic. He is Director of the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History at Trinity College, University of Toronto. He was president and vice-chancellor of the University of Sudbury in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada from September 2019 until 2021. He was formerly rector of the Church of the Gesù in Montreal and president of Campion College in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.

#19076

Mabel Bianco

#71298

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Mabel Bianco is an Argentine physician who has devoted her career to fighting for women's access to improved health services and sex education. In 1989, she established the Foundation for Studies and Research on Women , and has continued to serve as its president. She has been an activist in Latin America and the world, introducing policies addressing breast cancer, HIV/AIDS, reproductive rights and gender reform in the UN.

#19077

Nathan W. Levin

#125731

Overall Influence

Nathan W. Levin is an American physician and founder of the Renal Research Institute, LLC., a research institute dedicated to improving the outcomes of patients with kidney disease, particularly those requiring dialysis. Levin is one of the most prominent and renowned figures in clinical nephrology as well as nephrology research. He has authored multiple book chapters and over 350 peer-reviewed publications, including articles in leading journals such as Nature, the New England Journal of Medicine, and The Lancet.

#19078

Paul Corder

1879 - 1942 (63 years)

Paul Walford Corder was an English composer and music professor. Corder was born at Pimlico, London, the son of musician Frederick Corder and his wife Henrietta Walford. He was baptised at St Gabriel's, Warwick Square, London, on 1 March 1880. He studied under his father at the Royal Academy of Music and won the Goring Thomas scholarship for composition in 1901. In 1907 he joined the staff of the Academy as Professor of Composition and Harmony.

#19079

Fred Kelsey

1884 - 1961 (77 years)

Frederick Alvin Kelsey was an American actor, film director, and screenwriter. Kelsey directed one- and two-reel films for Universal Film Manufacturing Company. He appeared in more than 400 films between 1911 and 1958, often playing policemen or detectives. He also directed 37 films between 1914 and 1920. Kelsey was caricatured as the detective in the 1943 MGM cartoon Who Killed Who? directed by Tex Avery. He was born in Sandusky, Ohio and died at the Motion Picture Country Home in Hollywood, California, aged 77.

#19080

Rebecca Miriam Cunningham

#173683

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Rebecca Miriam Cunningham is an American emergency physician and researcher. She is the vice president for research at the University of Michigan, and William G. Barsan Collegiate Professor in the Michigan Medicine Department of Emergency Medicine, and Professor of Health Behavior and Health Education at the School of Public Health.

#19081

Edward S. Farrow

1855 - 1926 (71 years)

Edward Samuel Farrow, born in Worcester County, Maryland, was an author and a commander in the American Indian Wars of the late 19th century. He is particularly known for his service in the Sheepeater Indian War. Farrow was a graduate of the West Point Military Academy in 1876, and was a commanding officer of Indian Scouts in the Departments of the Columbia. He went on to become Assistant Instructor of Tactics at the US Military Academy , and published prolifically on the subject of Native American Indians, Military Training, and Mountain Scouting.

#19082

Albert Pitres

1848 - 1928 (80 years)

Jean Marie Marcel Albert Pitres was a French neurological physician. He was born in Bordeaux and received his training in Paris, where he was the student of Jean Martin Charcot and Louis-Antoine Ranvier . He served as dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Bordeaux – appointed 1885.

#19083

Walter Kolneder

#187604

Overall Influence

1910 - 1994 (84 years)

Walter Kolneder was an Austrian musicologist and violist. Life and career Koldener was born in Wels, Upper Austria. From 1925 to 1935 he studied music with Bernhard Paumgartner , Theodor Müller and Friedrich Frischenschlager at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. He also attended a master class for viola with Max Strub and was a member of the Mozarteum orchestra . Privately he studied composition with Johann Nepomuk David in Wels from 1927 to 1929. In 1934/35, he began musicological studies at the University of Vienna. In 1936 he became head of department at the Conservatory of the and in 1939 lect...

#19084

Elsie Few

1909 - 1980 (71 years)

Elsie Evelyn Few, was a Jamaican-born artist, who had a long career in Britain and was associated with the Euston Road School. Throughout her career Few produced oil paintings of landscapes but later in her life began using collage techniques to create abstract designs.

#19085

Kim Soo-jung

#81508

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Kim Soo-jung is a South Korean cartoonist and animator best known as the creator of Dooly the Little Dinosaur. His debut occurred in 1975 after he won the Hanguk Ilbo daily comics contest. In April 1983, Dooly the Dinosaur was first published in Bomulseom.

#19086

Douglas Volk

1856 - 1935 (79 years)

Stephen Arnold Douglas Volk was an American portrait and figure painter, muralist, and educator. He taught at the Cooper Union, the Art Students League of New York, and was one of the founders of the Minneapolis School of Fine Arts. He and his wife Marion established a summer artist colony in western Maine.

#19087

Donald Morton

#71774

Overall Influence

1934 - 2014 (80 years)

Donald Lee Morton was an American surgical oncologist who was best known for developing sentinel lymph node evaluation, a procedure that, by some estimates, saves the U.S. healthcare system nearly $4 billion annually in the treatment of melanoma and breast cancer. At the time of his death, he was Chief of the melanoma program and co-director of the surgical oncology fellowship program at the John Wayne Cancer Institute in Santa Monica, California, now known as Saint John’s Cancer Institute. He published in excess of 600 articles in peer reviewed journals and received funding for his research from the National Institutes of Health for 35 years.

#19088

Jasmine Zapata

#100578

Overall Influence

Jasmine Y. Zapata is an American physician and epidemiologist. She is the chief medical officer and state epidemiologist for community health at Wisconsin Department of Health Services. Her career includes work as a pediatrician, public health researcher, assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin, author, and her support for youth empowerment with a variety of initiatives.

#19089

Takehiko Ogawa

#32254

Overall Influence

is a Japanese urologist and developmental biologist, known for his pioneer research on in vitro spermatogenesis. He is Professor of Proteomics at Graduate School of Medical Life Science, Yokohama City University.

#19090

Jack Shallcrass

#165587

Overall Influence

1922 - 2014 (92 years)

John James Shallcrass was a New Zealand author, educator and humanist. Biography Born in Takapuna in 1922, Shallcrass was educated at Wellington College, and served in the Pacific during World War II. He later studied at Victoria University College, from where he graduated with a Diploma of Education in 1952, a Bachelor of Arts in 1959 and Master of Arts in 1961.

#19091

Peter de Rivo

1420 - 1500 (80 years)

Peter de Rivo was a Flemish scholastic philosopher, teaching at the Old University of Leuven. His views on future contingents were controversial, being opposed by Henry of Zomeren, also at Leuven . De Rivo went to Rome in 1472 to defend his views to Pope Sixtus IV; they were condemned in 1473. Under pressure from the influence of Cardinal Bessarion to whom Henry had as secretary, de Rivo retracted partially his opinions in 1473, and more fully three years later. This meant that views going back at least to Peter Auriol, that future contingents lacked a truth value, had become heretical in th...

#19092

Lee Eun-sook

#187348

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Lee Eun-sook is a South Korean surgical oncologist with expertise in breast cancer at National Cancer Center and previously served as its president from 2017 to 2020. Lee was the first woman to lead the center since its creation in 2000. She was an ex officio president of the NCC Graduate School of Cancer Science and Policy and NCC Foundation's board. She has also served as the secretary-general of Asian National Cancer Centers Alliance from the beginning of her presidency.

#19093

Marie Bernard

#73364

Overall Influence

Marie A. Bernard, M.D. is the Chief Officer for Scientific Workforce Diversity at the National Institutes of Health . Prior to this, she was the deputy director of the National Institute on Aging at the NIH, where she oversaw approximately $3.1 billion in research focused on aging and Alzheimer's disease. Bernard co-leads the NIH UNITE initiative, launched in 2021 to end structural racism in biomedicine. She co-chairs the Inclusion Governance Committee, which promotes inclusion in clinical research by sex/gender, race/ethnicity, and age. She also co-chairs two of the Department of Health and H...

#19094

Henry Beeching

1859 - 1919 (60 years)

Henry Charles Beeching was a British clergyman, author and poet, who was Dean of Norwich from 1911 to 1919. Biography H.C Beeching was born on 15 May 1859 in Sussex, the son of J. P. G. Beeching of Bexhill. He was educated at the City of London School and at Balliol College, Oxford. He took holy orders in 1882, and began work in a Liverpool parish at Mossley Hill. He was Rector of Yattendon from 1885 to 1900; Clark Lecturer at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1900; professor of Pastoral Theology at King's College London from 1900 to 1903; Chaplain of Lincoln's Inn from 1900 to 1903; Canon of Westminster Abbey from October 1902 until 1911 and Dean of Norwich from 1911 until his death.

#19095

Milan Balabán

#56396

Overall Influence

1929 - 2019 (90 years)

Milan Balabán was a Czechoslovak theologian, professor of religion and the Old Testament, Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren pastor, and poet. Balabán, an anti-communist dissident during Czechoslovakia's communist era, was a Charter 77 signatory. He was also among of group of Czech Old Testament scholars who wrote and translated the Old Testament theologians the Czech Ecumenical Translation of the Bible, which remains the most widely used Czech language translation of the Bible today.

#19096

Hardy R. Franklin

Hardy R. Franklin

#141453

Overall Influence

1929 - 2004 (75 years)

Hardy Rogers Franklin was an American librarian and served as president of the American Library Association from 1993 to 1994. Franklin received a bachelor's degree from Morehouse College and began a career as a teacher and librarian in Conyers, Georgia. He served as a librarian in the U.S. Army from 1953 to 1955 in Okinawa, Japan. He received a master's degree in library science from Atlanta University in 1956 and moved to New York to work at the Brooklyn Public Library. In 1971, after graduating from Rutgers University with a doctorate in library science, he taught at Queens College.

#19097

Daniel Kalla

#112556

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Daniel Kalla is a Canadian author and physician. He has written several popular novels in the thriller and historical fiction genres, all with medical themes. He was the director of Emergency Medicine at St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver, British Columbia.

#19098

Sharad Panday

#14009

Overall Influence

1934 - 2004 (70 years)

Sharad Pandey was an Indian heart surgeon. He was on the team of surgeons who performed the first-ever heart transplant in India at the King Edward Memorial Hospital and Seth Gordhandas Sunderdas Medical College in Mumbai. He was a specialist in bloodless heart surgery, and was an early exponent of bloodless open heart surgery in India.

#19099

Rob Krier

#27651

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

Rob Krier was a Luxembourgish sculptor, architect, urban designer, and theorist. He was a professor of architecture at Vienna University of Technology, Austria. From 1993 to mid-2010s he worked in partnership with architect Christoph Kohl in a joint office based in Berlin, Germany.

#19100

Diana Egerton-Warburton

#183593

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Diana Egerton-Warburton is an Australian medical professional, specialising in emergency medicine. Egerton-Warburton serves as the director of Emergency Medicine Research at Monash Medical Centre and Medical Co-chair at Monash University of the Monash Emergency Research Collaborative .

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