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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#19101

Nitya Anand

#16118

Overall Influence

1925 - Present (101 years)

Nitya Anand is a medicinal chemist who was the director of Central Drug Research Institute in Lucknow from 1974 to 1984. In 2005, Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission appointed him chairman of its scientific committee. In 2012, he was awarded the Padma Shri by the Indian government.

#19102

Gerald Green

#176100

Overall Influence

1922 - 2006 (84 years)

Gerald Green was an American author, journalist, and television writer. Biography Green was born in Brooklyn, New York as Gerald Greenberg. He was the son of a physician, Dr. Samuel Greenberg. He was Jewish.

#19103

Bruce Alan Brown

#118839

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Bruce Alan Brown is a professor of musicology at the USC Thornton School of Music Los Angeles, California. Life and career Bruce Alan Brown acquired degrees from the University of California at Berkeley , and also studied harpsichord with Gustav Leonhardt at the Sweelinck Conservatorium, Amsterdam.

#19104

Jo Bradwell

#189058

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

A. R. Bradwell is a British philanthropist, physician and businessman. Bradwell donated £15 million to Birmingham University to establish new forestry research centre. The Birmingham Institute of Forest Research is currently being established. BIFoR will focus on the impact of climate and environmental change on woodlands, and the resilience of trees to pests and diseases.

#19105

Ugo Orlandi

#140172

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Ugo Orlandi is a musicologist, a specialist in the history of music, a university professor and internationally renowned mandolinist virtuoso. Among worldwide musicians, professional classical musicians are a small group; among them is an even smaller group of classical mandolinists. Among members of this group, Ugo Orlandi is considered "distinguished." Music historian Paul Sparks called him "a leading figure in the rehabilitation of the eighteenth-century mandolin repertoire, having recorded many concertos from this period."

#19106

Miloš Velimirović

#87176

Overall Influence

1922 - 2008 (86 years)

Miloš Milorad Velimirović was an American musicologist. Twice a recipient of a Fulbright fellowship, he was considered an international expert in the areas of Byzantine music, the history of Slavonic music, and the history of Italian opera in the 18th century.

#19107

Arbie Orenstein

#135735

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (89 years)

Arbie Orenstein is an American musicologist, author, academic and pianist, known as a scholar of the life and works of the composer Maurice Ravel and, more generally, as an expert on Jewish music. Life and career Orenstein was born in New York and was educated at the High School of Music and Art, Queens College, and Columbia University, receiving a doctorate in musicology. He is known as a Ravel scholar, and his books include The Vocal Works of Maurice Ravel , Ravel: Man and Musician and Ravel: Lettres, Ecrits, Entretiens , translated into English as A Ravel Reader .

#19108

Ivan Neumyvakin

#111646

Overall Influence

1928 - 2018 (90 years)

Ivan Pavlovich Neumyvakin was a Soviet physician, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor and Fellow of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences. Laureate of the 1982 Latvian SSR State Prize and of the 2005 "" International Prize. He is known in Russia as one of the founders of space medicine. He also is known as a healer. He received the honorary titles 1979 "Honoured Inventor of the RSFSR" and the 2006 "The Person of Russia" and the title "Distinguished Healer of the Russia" and the title "Maitre of Science and Practice". He was a popular author. His book Endoecology of health is a best seller.

#19109

Cyndi Shein

#192283

Overall Influence

#19110

Luis Castro Leiva

#167974

Overall Influence

1943 - 1999 (56 years)

Luis Hernan Castro Leiva was a Venezuelan political philosopher, historian, writer and columnist. He is known for his televised speech on 23 January 1998 for the National Congress in which he warns against bolivarianism, cronyism and atavistic absolutism. He was one of the country's foremost advocates for democracy and an outspoken critic of Hugo Chávez, which he considered a populist. Castro is also credited with introducing rugby to Venezuela.

#19111

George Smith

1713 - 1776 (63 years)

George Smith was an English landscape painter and poet, known as "George Smith of Chichester". He and his two brothers, all artists, are known as the "Smiths of Chichester". Life and work George was born at Chichester in Sussex, where his father, William Smith, was a tradesman and Baptist minister. He was the second and most gifted of three brothers, who all practised painting and were known as 'the Smiths of Chichester.' When a boy he was placed with his uncle, a cooper, but, preferring art, became a pupil of his brother William, whom he accompanied to Gloucester; there and in other places ...

#19112

Brian Williams

#140109

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Brian H. Williams is an American surgeon and Professor of Trauma Surgery at the University of Chicago. He specialises in acute surgery and critical care. Alongside his work as a clinician, Williams looks to end racial inequities in healthcare and end the American epidemic of gun violence.

#19113

William Manderstown

1485 - 1552 (67 years)

William Manderstown was a Scottish philosopher and Rector of the University of Paris. Life He was born in the diocese of St. Andrews, probably at the town of Manderston, Stirlingshire. Educated apparently at St. Andrews, he then attended the University of Paris, where he graduated licentiate in medicine, and became one of the school of Terminists . On 15 December 1525, he succeeded Jean Tixier de Ravisi as rector of the University of Paris. Before 1539 he returned to Scotland, where he and John Mair co-founded a bursary or chaplaincy in St. Salvator's, and endowed it with the rents of houses in South Street, St.

#19114

Wolfgang Plath

#88697

Overall Influence

1930 - 1995 (65 years)

Wolfgang Plath was a German musicologist specialising in research on Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Life Born in Riga, Plath studied musicology under Walter Gerstenberg, first at the Free University of Berlin, then at University of Tübingen. His PhD thesis in 1958 dealt with the Klavierbüchlein für Wilhelm Friedemann Bach.

#19115

Tadeusz Lubelski

Tadeusz Lubelski

#62396

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Tadeusz Lubelski is a Polish film historian, theorist and critic specializing in Polish and French cinema, translator, professor of the humanities, member of the European Film Academy. A film academic, he was associated with the University of Silesia and with the Jagiellonian University respectively. He was the director of the Institute of the Audio-Visual Arts of the Jagiellonian University . He also taught Polish language at Sorbonne . He authored and edited a number of books, including the first Polish thematic Encyklopedia kina and the comprehensive series Historia kina . Since 1994, he has been the deputy editor-in-chief of the Kino monthly.

#19116

Giovanni Scognamillo

#121539

Overall Influence

1929 - 2016 (87 years)

Giovanni Scognamillo was a Turkish Levantine film critic. Scognamillo was born to a family of Italian Levantines; his father was the son of an immigrant from Naples and his mother was descended from Genoese settlers of Tinos. As his father, Leone, was the manager of the prestigious movie theatre Elhamra Sineması of Beyoğlu, Scognamillo became acquainted with cinema in early years of his life. After graduation from Liceo Italiano, he started to write cinema articles for various Italian-language media. By 1961, he began his career in Turkish language press.

#19117

Wilhelm Weismann

1900 - 1980 (80 years)

Wilhelm Weismann was a German composer and musicologist. Life On 20 September, Weismann was born in Alfdorf/Württemberg on the plateau of Welzheim forest. His parents ran a general store. His mother, sister of the renowned musicologist Alfred Heuß, encouraged his artistic inclinations and he received his first piano and music lessons. At an early age the son of a merchant showed his musical interest by composing small choral pieces.

#19118

Ana Vásquez-Bronfman

#179152

Overall Influence

1931 - 2009 (78 years)

Ana Vásquez-Bronfman was a Chilean Jewish sociologist and writer. Exiled from the country during the dictatorship in 1973, she relocated to Paris, where she worked as a professor and researcher at the National Center for Scientific Research. Much of her literary work centered on the cultural heritage of Jews in predominantly Catholic Latin America, the effects of military dictatorship on human rights and racial prejudices and exile. Her research evaluated the psycho-sociology of children and women's sexuality. She won a National Book prize in Chile for her fiction and a bronze medal from the ...

#19119

Grace Arabell Goldsmith

Grace Arabell Goldsmith

1904 - 1975 (71 years)

Grace Arabell Goldsmith was a U.S. physician best known for her research on nutritional deficiency diseases, B-complex vitamins, and the vitamin enrichment of foods. She identified the cause of the disease pellagra.

#19120

Ejnar Nielsen

1872 - 1956 (84 years)

Ejnar Nielsen was a Danish painter and illustrator, who was a central proponent of Symbolist painting in Danish art. He is also known for his large mosaic on Stærekassen, an extension to the Royal Danish Theatre on Kongens Nytorv in Copenhagen. He was a professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 1920 to 1930 and received the Academy's Eckersberg Medal in 1908 and its Thorvaldsen Medal in 1913.

#19121

Fausto J Pinto

#171622

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Fausto J. Pinto is a Portuguese academic. He is Professor of Cardiology at Hospital de Santa Maria. Former dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Lisbon. Career From 2002 to 2004, Pinto served as president and founder of the European Association of Echocardiography. From 2008 to 2010, he was Chairman of the ESC's Congress Program Committee, followed by President from 2014 to 2016 and chair of the European Heart Agency from 2016 to 2018.

#19122

Tetyana Yablonska

#56615

Overall Influence

1917 - 2005 (88 years)

Tetyana Nylivna Yablonska was a Ukrainian painter. Her early vital pictures were devoted to the work and life of Ukrainian people . She moved to general images of nature, delivering a subtlety of plastic and color rhythms .

#19123

Christobel Saunders

#110348

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Christobel Mary Saunders is a British-Australian oncologist and breast cancer specialist, who holds the position of Winthrop Professor of Surgical Oncology at the University of Western Australia. Education and career Saunders completed her medical training at the University of London, taking her Bachelor of Science with Distinction in 1986. In 1987, she won a Royal Society of Medicine Travelling Scholarship, before becoming a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1991. Her early career was spent at hospitals in London and south east England, including Newham and Whipps Cross Hospitals....

#19124

Peter J. Haas

#184665

Overall Influence

Peter J. Haas is an American Reform Judaism rabbi who was the Abba Hillel Silver Professor of Jewish Studies at Case Western Reserve University. Education and Career Haas earned a bachelor's degree in Ancient Near Eastern History from the University of Michigan in 1970. After studying for a M.A.H.L. at Hebrew Union College, he was ordained in 1974. He completed a Ph.D. in Religious Studies and History of Religions from Brown University in 1980.

#19125

Asım Akin

#187440

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Asım Akin is a Turkish physician. He attended the St. Joseph High School in Istanbul and studied at the University of Istanbul at the Medicical School of Çapa. He earned his P.h.D. at the University of Ankara. There he was made a lecturer in 1975 and in 1982 a professor. From 1976 until 1977 he worked interim at the University of Paris. In 1978, he founded the scientific division for nuclear medicine at the University of Ankara.

#19126

Heinrich Philipp August Damerow

1798 - 1866 (68 years)

Heinrich Philipp August Damerow was a German psychiatrist born in Stettin, Province of Pomerania, Prussia . He made significant contributions in the field of institutional psychiatry. In 1822 he earned his doctorate in Berlin, where he was a student of Friedrich Hegel, Friedrich Schleiermacher and psychiatrist Anton Ludwig Ernst Horn. He continued his education in Paris, where he studied under Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol, and at the Siegburg asylum north of Bonn, where he met with Carl Wigand Maximilian Jacobi. In 1830 he became an associate professor, and in 1836 was appointed director of Provinzial-Irrenanstalt near Halle.

#19127

Willem Anton van Vloten

#115341

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Willem Anton van Vloten is a Dutch dermatologist. Van Vloten studied medicine at the University of Leiden where he graduated on 19 June 1974. He was appointed as a professor of dermatology and venereology in 1980. Later he was appointed as a dermatology professor at the University of Utrecht on 8 November 1984 and worked there till 1 June 2001.

#19128

Albert Ronsin

#110956

Overall Influence

1928 - 2007 (79 years)

Albert Ronsin was a 20th-century French scholar, historian, librarian, and curator in Saint-Dié-des-Vosges. Historian He undertook historical research, especially about the Age of Discovery. He was particularly interested in the history of the name America given by Martin Waldseemüller to the continent that Amerigo Vespucci passed through and described. He studied globes and World maps of the early sixteenth, including Johannes Schöner globe created by Johann Schoener and Waldseemüller's maps.

#19129

Riccardo Polosa

#104774

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Riccardo Polosa is an Italian respiratory physician. According to a paper published in BMC Public Health, he is the most prolific author in the field of electronic cigarettes, as of 2014. "Full Professor of Internal Medicine and specialist of Respiratory Diseases and Clinical Immunology at the University of Catania as well as the Founder and Clinical Director of the Center for Tobacco Research and Scientific Director of the Center of Excellence for the acceleration of Harm Reduction at the same University." His research interests center on asthma, COPD, respiratory diseases, smoking-related diseases, smoking prevention and cessation, tobacco harm reduction, and new tobacco products.

#19130

Anahera Morehu

#189305

Overall Influence

Anahera Morehu is a New Zealand public servant. As at 2023, she is the Chief Archivist of New Zealand and general manager of Archives New Zealand. She was appointed on 14 June 2023. She had previously been appointed as acting Chief Archivist from November 2022.

#19131

Kanji Nishio

#26416

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (91 years)

is a Japanese intellectual and professor emeritus of literature at the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo, Japan. He was awarded a degree in German literature and a PhD in literature from the University of Tokyo. He has translated the works of Friedrich Nietzsche and Arthur Schopenhauer into Japanese and has written over seventy published works and over thirty translations.

#19132

Fabrizio Mordente

1532 - 1608 (76 years)

Fabrizio Mordente was an Italian mathematician. He is best known for his invention of the "proportional eight-pointed compass" which has two arms with cursors that allow the solution of problems in measuring the circumference, area and angles of a circle. In 1567 he published a single sheet treatise in Venice showing illustrations of his device.

#19133

Bernd Baselt

#88994

Overall Influence

1934 - 1993 (59 years)

Bernd Baselt was a German musicologist noted for his works on the Baroque composer George Frideric Handel. He was born in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt and died in Hanover. From 1953 to 1955 Baselt studied at the Academy for Music and Theater, and at the Martin Luther University in Halle from 1953 to 1958. He gained professorial rank in music at the university in 1975.

#19134

Eliza Maria Mosher

Eliza Maria Mosher

1846 - 1928 (82 years)

Eliza Maria Mosher was a United States physician, inventor, medical writer, and educator whose wide-ranging medical career included an educational focus on physical fitness and health maintenance. She was the first Dean of Women at the University of Michigan, and the first woman professor to be recognized by the university.

#19135

Arthur Thost

1854 - 1937 (83 years)

Hermann Arthur Thost was a German physician and otolaryngologist. He studied medicine at several universities in Europe, receiving his doctorate at Heidelberg University in 1879. After graduation, he remained in Heidelberg as an assistant to pathologist Nikolaus Friedreich. Later on, he was associated with the General Hospital in Eppendorf, then in 1919 was appointed an associate professor of otolaryngology at the newly established University of Hamburg. He was interested in local politics, being known for his advocacy of public medical insurance.

#19136

Walter Kaufmann

1907 - 1984 (77 years)

Walter Kaufmann was a composer, conductor, ethnomusicologist, librettist and educator. Born in Karlsbad, Bohemia , he trained in Prague and Berlin before fleeing the Nazi persecution of Jews to work in Bombay until Indian Independence. He then moved to London and Canada before settling in the USA as a professor of musicology at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana in 1957. In 1964, he became a naturalized U.S. citizen.

#19137

Suzanne Baker

#177783

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Suzanne Dale Baker is an Australian film producer, print and television journalist, writer, historian and feminist. In 1977, she became the first Australian woman to win an Academy Award, winning for the animated short film Leisure in the category Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.

#19138

Thomas Porter

#131817

Overall Influence

Thomas R. Porter is an American cardiologist. He holds the Theodore F. Hubbard Distinguished Chair of Cardiology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. Porter obtained his Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Nebraska Medical Center in 1984 and was a resident and fellow at the Medical College of Virginia. The Web of Science lists more than 100 publications in peer-reviewed medical journals, which have been cited over 4000 times, giving him an h-index of 34.

#19139

Zoran Radojičić

#120229

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Zoran Radojičić is a Serbian pediatric surgeon and politician who served as the mayor of Belgrade from 2018 to 2022. Biography Early life and education He was born on 24 October 1963 in Lazarevac, Serbia, at the time part of Yugoslavia. In 1989, he graduated from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Medicine, and later obtained magisterial and doctoral thesis in 1998 and 2006, respectively.

#19140

Raoul Gregory Vitale

Raoul Gregory Vitale

#42983

Overall Influence

1928 - 2003 (75 years)

Raoul Gregory Vitale was a Syrian musicologist who introduced the total description of the ancient Babylonian musical scales used in Music of Mesopotamia and Near East, and also a complete interpretation of the musical notation of the Hurrian Hymn 6 discovered in Ugarit which is considered to be the first known complete musical notation.

#19141

Robert Kudicke

1876 - 1961 (85 years)

Heinrich Robert Hellmuth Kudicke was a German physician, epidemiologist and one of the leading experts on tropical diseases in his lifetime. He worked in German East Africa and China for several years. A long-time collaborator of Nobel laureate Robert Koch, he is especially known for his work with African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness in the early 20th century. As director of the State Institute of Hygiene in German occupied Warsaw in 1941, he tested a new Typhus vaccine on Jewish residents of the Warsaw ghetto, with ensuing adverse effects and deaths. During the early Cold War era, h...

#19142

Judy Dlamini

#192101

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Judy Dlamini is a South African businesswoman and author who is the Chancellor of the University of the Witwatersrand and the founding chairman of Mbekani Group. She served as chairperson of the board of Aspen Pharmacare Holdings from November 2007 until December 2015 while concurrently serving as non-executive director from July 2005 until December 2015. In 2020 the magazine Forbes called her one of Africas 50 most powerful women. In 2022, she was mentioned by Forbes as one of the 50 over 50 women leading the way throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

#19143

Orlando Mejía Rivera

#155993

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Orlando Mejía Rivera is a Colombian internist and graduated M.Phil., writer and thanatologist. He was born in Bogotá. Currently he lives in Manizales and is titular professor at the Universidad de Caldas faculty of medicine.

#19144

Charles Hercus

1888 - 1971 (83 years)

Sir Charles Ernest Hercus was a New Zealand doctor and professor of public health. He was born in Dunedin, New Zealand, on 13 June 1888. He was for many years dean of the University of Otago Dunedin School of Medicine. The Hercus Building of the Dunedin campus, on the corner of Great King and Hanover Streets, is named for him.

#19145

Joice NanKivell Loch

Joice NanKivell Loch

1887 - 1982 (95 years)

Joice NanKivell Loch MBE was an Australian author, journalist and humanitarian worker who worked with refugees in Poland, Greece and Romania after World War I and World War II. Biography Joice Mary NanKivell was born at Farnham sugar cane plantation in Ingham in far north Queensland in 1887. Her father acted as manager of the plantation for Fanning, NanKivell, a company run by the Fanning brothers and her wealthy grandfather, Thomas NanKivell. The family fortune was lost however when Kanaka labour was abolished and Joice and her parents walked off the property virtually penniless. Her father,...

#19146

Ludwig Laqueur

1839 - 1909 (70 years)

Ludwig Laqueur was a German ophthalmologist born in Festenberg, Silesia. He was the father of historian Richard Laqueur . He studied medicine in Breslau and Berlin, earning his doctorate in 1860. From 1863 to 1869 he worked as an assistant at Richard Liebreich's ophthalmological hospital in Paris. In 1872 he became an associate professor at the University of Strasbourg, where in 1877 he was appointed a full professor of ophthalmology. Among his assistants at Strasbourg was Paul Silex .

#19147

Eugene Lazowski

Eugene Lazowski

#27894

Overall Influence

1913 - 2006 (93 years)

Eugene Lazowski born Eugeniusz Sławomir Łazowski was a Polish medical doctor who saved thousands of people during World War II by creating a fake epidemic which played on German phobias about hygiene. He also used his position as a doctor treating people travelling through a nearby train station to conceal his supply of medicine to Jews in the local ghetto, which backed on to his home. By doing this, he risked the death penalty, which was applied to Poles who helped Jews in the Holocaust.

#19148

William Pole

1561 - 1635 (74 years)

Sir William Pole of Colcombe House in the parish of Colyton, and formerly of Shute House in the parish of Shute , both in Devon, was an English country gentleman and landowner, a colonial investor, Member of Parliament and, most notably, a historian and antiquarian of the County of Devon.

#19149

Gerhard Lomer

1882 - 1970 (88 years)

Gerhard Richard Lomer was a librarian, editor, and writer. He was the librarian for McGill University Library from 1920 until 1947 and established the university's graduate level library school. He wrote for reference works including The Warner Library and Allen Johnson's series Chronicles of America. He also edited books by prominent authors of his day including John Moody, the founder of Moody's.

#19150

Sándor J. Kovács

Sándor J. Kovács

#75779

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Sándor J. Kovács is a Hungarian-American academic cardiologist and cardiovascular physiologist, best known for his work on the physiological dynamics of the human heart. He is a professor of medicine, physics, physiology, and biomedical engineering at Washington University in St. Louis.

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