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#19201

Rebeca Quintáns

#157042

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Rebeca Quintáns López is a Spanish journalist, research writer and teacher. Biography Rebeca Quintáns graduated in Spanish Philology by the University of Santiago de Compostela. She got a doctorate in Journalism from the Complutense University of Madrid with a thesis about the speech of Juan Carlos I.

#19202

Ahmad ibn al-Tayyib al-Sarakhsi

833 - 899 (66 years)

Ahmad ibn al-Tayyib al-Sarakhsi was a Persian traveler, historian and philosopher from the city of Sarakhs. He was a pupil of al-Kindi. Al-Sarakhsi was killed by Caliph al-Mu'tadid because, according to an anecdote preserved in Yaqut al-Hamawi's Mu'jam al-Udaba, he had urged the caliph towards apostasy. Al-Biruni reports in his Chronology that al-Sarakhsi had written books in which he denounced prophecy and ridiculed the prophets, whom he styled charlatans. However, Rosenthal has disputed the historicity of the stories that claim al-Sarakhsi was executed for heretical beliefs.

#19203

Josephine Adams Rathbone

Josephine Adams Rathbone

1864 - 1941 (77 years)

Josephine Adams Rathbone was a librarian, library educator, author, and president of the American Library Association in 1931–32. She was born in Jamestown, New York. She began her studies at the University of Michigan from 1887 to 1891, then moved to New York where she graduated from the New York State Library School in 1893 earning a B.L.S. After working for two years as an assistant cataloger at the Pratt Institute Free Library she was appointed "chief instructor" at the Pratt Institute Library School in 1895 under Mary Wright Plummer. When Plummer went to the New York Public Library to e...

#19204

Myrna Báez

#64885

Overall Influence

1931 - 2018 (87 years)

Myrna Báez was a Puerto Rican painter and printmaker, considered one of the most important visual artists in Puerto Rico. She has been instrumental in promoting art and art education in her country. Her work has been shown and collected by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Her work has been characterized as confident and complex. She lived and worked in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

#19205

Kanzen Teruya

#100630

Overall Influence

1920 - 2004 (84 years)

Kanzen Teruya was an Okinawan physician who contributed much to the Okinawan medical world in post-World War II days. He reported a mass Cycas revoluta poisoning in people living on Miyako-jima island in 1956. He later became a professor at the University of the Ryukyus .

#19206

Tina Engels-Schwarzpaul

#189280

Overall Influence

Anna-Christina Engels-Schwarzpaul is a German-New Zealand design academic. She is currently a full professor at the Auckland University of Technology. Academic career After a 2001 PhD thesis titled 'Myth, symbol, ornament: The loss of meaning in transition' at the University of Auckland, she moved to the Auckland University of Technology, rising to full professor. Notable students include Lana Lopesi.

#19207

Vladimir Blok

#189162

Overall Influence

1932 - 1996 (64 years)

Vladimir Mikhailovich Blok was a Russian musicologist, composer and orchestrator of the works of Prokofiev, of Udmurt ethnicity.V.M. Blok is to be distinguished from the Russian theatre critic Vladimir Borisovich Blok

#19208

Jean-Henri Jaeger

#159335

Overall Influence

1944 - 2022 (78 years)

Jean-Henri Jaeger was a French surgeon and academic. He was well known for developing a surgical technique to repair the anterior cruciate ligament , using the fascia lata as a form of transplant. Biography Jaeger was born in Thionville to an engineer father who worked for the SNCF. He became devoted to working in surgery after a near-death experience from a kick to the stomach during a football match at the age of six. He studied at the University of Strasbourg I, where he met his lifelong friend Arsène Wenger.

#19209

John Black Cowan

1829 - 1896 (67 years)

John Black Cowan was Regius Professor of Materia Medica at the University of Glasgow. External links

#19210

Catherine Neill

#110638

Overall Influence

1921 - 2006 (85 years)

Catherine Annie Neill was a British pediatric cardiologist who spent the majority of her career at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center in Baltimore, where she worked alongside Helen B. Taussig. Her primary interest was congenital heart defects; she discovered one type of defect, scimitar syndrome, in 1960.

#19211

Mariam Budia

#162073

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Mariam Budia Spanish writer, researcher, and playwright. Biography Mariam Budia has a doctorate in Spanish Studies in the "Theory, History and Practice of Drama" from the University of Alcalá. She graduated in Drama at the Royal Superior Drama School, RESAD, and has diplomas of honor in Music from the La Rioja Professional Music Conservatory.

#19212

Günter Philipp

#177375

Overall Influence

1927 - 2021 (94 years)

Günter Philipp was a German pianist, musicologist, composer and amateur painter. Life Born in Sohland an der Spree, Philipp grew up in Riesa, Oppach and Bautzen. Attracted by music and figure drawing, he was instructed by Rudolf Warnecke in nature study and visual art. In post-war Germany, forced labour damaged his left hand. Nevertheless, he became a student in Leipzig in 1947, a pupil of Hugo Steurer and Wilhelm Weismann . In 1948, he was able to enrol at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig and begin studying with Heinz Eberhard Strüning. For financial reasons, he had to break off his studies in 1949 and make a living as a freelance artist in Oppach.

#19213

Tadanobu Tsunoda

#42810

Overall Influence

1926 - Present (100 years)

Tadanobu Tsunoda is a physician and a Japanese author, most known for his ideas regarding the "Japanese brain". Theory According to Tsunoda's theory, the Japanese people use their brains in a unique way, different from "western" brains. The Japanese brain, argues Tsunoda, hears or processes music using the left hemisphere, where western brains use the opposite or right hemisphere to process music. Tsunoda further argues that brains use languages as operating systems, thus the user "giving meaning to vowels." Tsunoda has had one essay, "An approach to an integrated sensorimotor system in the hu...

#19214

Katsuya Takasu

#95720

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Katsuya Takasu is a plastic surgeon based in Tokyo. He has attracted controversies regarding his stances of Holocaust and Nanking Massacre denial. Takasu is a member of Japan Medical Association, Japan Society of Aesthetic Surgery, Japanese Association of Cosmetic Surgeons, Japan Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, and is a former member of the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery. In January 2011, Takasu was also appointed to be a visiting professor of cosmetic surgery at Showa University School of Medicine.

#19215

Karl Stoerk

1832 - 1899 (67 years)

Karl Stoerk was an Austrian laryngologist who was a native of Ofen. He studied medicine at the Universities of Prague and Vienna, and received his doctorate in 1858. Afterwards he was an assistant to Ludwig Türck in Vienna, where he practiced medicine for the remainder of his career. In 1891 Stoerk was appointed head of the laryngological clinic.

#19216

Herman Kiefer

1825 - 1911 (86 years)

Herman Kiefer , also spelled Hermann Kiefer, was a physician, politician and diplomat of the United States. Biography Germany He was the only son of a physician, Conrad Kiefer. His mother was a daughter of the gardener of the Grand Duke in Karlsruhe. Thus, he was brought up in a conservative environment and trained to respect the established order of things. He attended gymnasia at Freiburg, Mannheim, and Karlsruhe. His childhood hero was Frederick the Great. He wrote his first poem, "The Death of Socrates," in 1839, while at Freiburg. He continued writing poems for the rest of his life, and spent much of his youth wandering in the Black Forest.

#19217

Carl Breus

1852 - 1914 (62 years)

Carl Breus was an Austrian obstetrician born in Vienna. He studied medicine at the University of Vienna, earning his doctorate in 1876. Afterwards he was an assistant at the Vienna Maternity Clinic, and in 1883 received his habilitation.

#19218

Emily Temple-Wood

Emily Temple-Wood

#75266

Overall Influence

1994 - Present (32 years)

Emily Temple-Wood is an American physician and Wikipedia editor who goes by the name of Keilana on the site. She is known for her efforts to counter the effects and causes of gender bias on Wikipedia, particularly through the creation of articles about women in science. She was declared a joint recipient of the 2016 Wikipedian of the Year award, by Jimmy Wales, at Wikimania on June 24, 2016. Temple-Wood graduated from Loyola University Chicago and Midwestern University. She practices medicine in Chicago.

#19219

Harry Williams

1879 - 1922 (43 years)

Harry Hiram Williams was an American composer, lyricist, and publisher of popular music from 1903 until his death in 1922. One of his early hits, written in 1905 with Egbert Van Alstyne, is "In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree". He also produced story ideas and directed silent movies with Mack Sennett for Keystone Studios, according to Sennett's biography The King of Comedy. Williams joined The Lambs Club in 1908.

#19220

Juan C. Parodi

#37544

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Juan Carlos Parodi is an Argentinian vascular surgeon who introduced the minimally invasive endovascular aneurysm repair to the world and performed the first successful endovascular repair of an abdominal aortic aneurysm on 7 September 1990 in Buenos Aires. In 1992 he was the first in the United States to perform minimally invasive aortic aneurysm surgery together with Drs. Frank Veith, Michael L. Marin and Claudio J. Schonholz. He continues to develop new techniques, including seat belt and air bag technique for cerebral protection during carotid stenting. He is recognized as a renowned ...

#19221

Fitzhugh Mullan

Fitzhugh Mullan

#91209

Overall Influence

1942 - 2019 (77 years)

Fitzhugh Mullan was an American physician, writer, educator, and social activist. He participated in the founding of the Student Health Organization, the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship, Seed Global Health, and the Beyond Flexner Alliance. Mullan was a professor of Health Policy and Management and of Pediatrics at the George Washington University and the George Washington University Health Workforce Institute, now renamed the Fitzhugh Mullan Institute for Health Workforce Equity. He was an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine.

#19222

Shinzaburo Takeda

#80830

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (91 years)

Shinzaburo Takeda is a Japanese-Mexican painter and printmaker. He is considered one of Oaxaca's most important artists. Takeda has lived in Mexico for over fifty years and trained several generations of Mexican artists, many of them indigenous Zapotecs and Mixtecs.

#19223

Ernst Adolf Coccius

Ernst Adolf Coccius

1825 - 1890 (65 years)

Ernst Adolf Coccius was a German ophthalmologist who was a native of Knauthain, which today is part of the city of Leipzig. He studied medicine in Leipzig, Prague and Paris, and earned his degree in 1848 with the thesis "De morbis typhum sequentibus". From 1849 to 1857 he served as an assistant to Friedrich Philipp Ritterich at the Leipzig Eye Clinic, becoming its director and a full professor in 1867, positions he held up until his death in 1890. After his death, he was succeeded by Hubert Sattler at the University of Leipzig.

#19224

Hippolito Salviani

Hippolito Salviani

1514 - 1572 (58 years)

Hippolito Salviani was an Italian physician, scholar and naturalist, noted for his Renaissance book Aquatilium animalium historiae, depicting about hundred Mediterranean fish species, some from Illyria, and a few mollusks. He also wrote works on medicine, such as that dealing with Galen's theory of crises, and a topical play. Salviani taught at the University of Rome until 1568. From 1550 until 1555 he was chief physician to the House of Farnese and three successive popes, Pope Julius III, Pope Marcellus II and Pope Paul IV.

#19225

Mario Roberto Dal Poz

#149003

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Mário Roberto Dal Poz is a Brazilian physician and researcher, who worked as coordinator of the "Health Workforce Information and Governance" program at the World Health Organization in Switzerland from 2002 to 2012. He holds the position of associate professor at the Social Medicine Institute of the University of the State of Rio de Janeiro. He is also currently editor-in-chief of the Human Resources for Health journal, and a member of the editorial board of the Bulletin of the World Health Organization and Revista Espaço para a Saude.

#19226

Mario Deng

#139050

Overall Influence

Mario Chih-Hsiung Karl Deng is a German-Chinese cardiologist specialized in the care of patients with advanced heart failure. Deng is a Professor of Medicine in the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles.

#19227

Jane Winters

#169966

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Jane Frances Winters FRHistS is Professor of digital humanities at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. Life and career Jane Winters was born in 1970. She trained as a medieval historian and completed her PhD at King's College London in 1999. Her doctoral thesis was entitled The Forest Eyre, 1154-1368.

#19228

Michael Blumlein

Michael Blumlein

#62357

Overall Influence

1948 - 2019 (71 years)

Michael Blumlein, M.D. was an American fiction writer and a physician. Profile Blumlein attended medical school at the University of California, San Francisco and worked as a practicing doctor and member of the faculty at the University of California, San Francisco for decades. The majority of Blumlein's fiction was in the fields of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. He was nominated for the World Fantasy Award and the Bram Stoker Award. His short fiction was published in venues incuding Interzone and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and republished in anthologies and collections.

#19229

Carlos Alberto de Barros Franco

#115209

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Carlos Alberto de Barros Franco , is a Brazilian physician and professor, specializing in Pneumology. He graduated in 1971. Early life Barros Franco was born in Rio de Janeiro. His interest for medicine possibly arose from his contact with his uncle, Admiral Barros Barreto, a noted radiologist. In 1966 he defined his vocation when he was approved for graduation in medicine from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro .

#19230

Uhwudong

1430 - 1480 (50 years)

Eowudong or Uhwudong , also known as Eoeuludong , née Park , was a Korean dancer, writer, artist, and poet from a noble family in the Joseon Dynasty of the 15th century. Most of her work has not been preserved. She is described to be one of the evil women from the Joseon Dynasty along with Queen Munjeong, Jang Nok-su, and Royal Noble Consort Hui.

#19231

Paolo G. Casali

#192418

Overall Influence

Paolo Giovanni Casali is an Italian oncologist who served as chair of the European Society for Medical Oncology public policy committee, and is head of the Adult Mesenchymal Tumour Medical Oncology Unit at Istituto Nazionale Tumori in Milan.

#19232

Jesús Prieto

#184599

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Jesus M. Prieto is a Spanish medical doctor and scientist who is at present Emeritus Professor of Medicine at the University of Navarra. Biography He studied at the University of Valladolid where he obtained the degree in Medicine in 1967 and the PhD degree in 1969. He specialized in Internal Medicine and Gasteoenterology at the University Hospital of Valladolid and in Hepatology at the Royal Free Hospital of London where he was Research Fellow in the Department of Professor Sheila Sherlock. In 1976 he was appointed Associated Professor of Medicine of the University of Oviedo and in 1977 he ...

#19233

Franz Beyer

#170133

Overall Influence

1922 - 2018 (96 years)

Franz Beyer was a German musicologist, who is best known for his revising and restoration of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's music, in particular his unfinished Requiem, KV 626, which he restored in the early 1970s.

#19234

Seung Chan Kim

#93849

Overall Influence

1991 - Present (35 years)

Seung Chan Kim KTM is a South Korean medical scientist and inventor. His main area of research is biomagnetism [nonsensical translation]. He received the 2009 Talent Medal of Korea along with Yuna Kim. Kim serves as World Talent Exchange and Sharing Organization's Chairperson.

#19235

Jerzy Zathey

#163211

Overall Influence

1911 - 1999 (88 years)

Jerzy Krzysztof Stanisław Zathey was a Polish historian of Medieval and Renaissance culture, librarian, manuscripts expert. He was a co-originator of the scientific method of elaborating medieval manuscripts. Publisher of numerous source documents .

#19236

Howard Y. Chang

#59568

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Howard Yuan-Hao Chang is a Taiwan-born American physician-scientist. He is the Virginia and D. K. Ludwig Professor of Cancer Genomics and of Genetics at Stanford University School of Medicine and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.

#19237

Otto Hildebrand

1858 - 1927 (69 years)

Otto Hildebrand was a German pathologist and surgeon. He was the son of economist Bruno Hildebrand and the brother of sculptor Adolf von Hildebrand . He studied anatomy and surgery at the University of Jena, and from 1886 served as assistant to Franz König at the University of Göttingen. In 1888 he obtained his habilitation for surgery, and in 1896 was named head of the surgical polyclinic at the Berlin-Charité. In 1899 he succeeded August Socin as a professor of surgery at the University of Basel, then in 1904 returned to Berlin as successor to his former mentor, Franz König, at the Charité...

#19238

Sean Kenniff

#73681

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

#19239

César Carballo

#61344

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

César Carballo Cardona is a Spanish physician and emergency medicine doctor. He is an emergency service physician at the Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal and vice president of the Sociedad Española de Medicina de Urgencias y Emergencias of Madrid. He is a prolific television guest since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain, having been called by the Huffington Post one of the most recognizable medical experts of the Spanish crisis.

#19240

Elizabeth Bartlet

#68117

Overall Influence

1948 - 2005 (57 years)

Mary Elizabeth Caroline Bartlet was a Canadian-born musicologist known for her scholarship on French music, and particularly opera, in the 18th and 19th centuries. She also produced pioneering critical editionss of the scores for Rossini's Guillaume Tell and Rameau's Platée. At the time of her death, she was a professor of music at Duke University and a director of the American Musicological Society.

#19241

Ana Hatherly

#102731

Overall Influence

1929 - 2015 (86 years)

Ana Hatherly was a Portuguese academic, poet, visual artist, essayist, filmmaker, painter, and writer. She was considered one of the pioneers of the experimental poetry and experimental literature movement in Portugal.

#19242

Martin Scherer

#93362

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Martin Scherer is a German university professor and specialist for general practice and primary care. He is director of the Department of General practice and Primary care and head of the Division of Primary Medical Care at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf. Since 2015 he is vice president of the German College of General Practitioners and Family Physicians and since 2006 speaker of the Clinical Guidelines Committee.

#19243

David Forman

1745 - 1797 (52 years)

David Forman was born in Monmouth County, New Jersey of parents Joseph Forman and Elizabeth Lee. His father was a wealthy shipowner and he was educated at Princeton. At the start of the American Revolutionary War he rallied to the patriot cause and was appointed lieutenant colonel of a New Jersey state regiment. When his commander assumed command of the brigade, he was promoted colonel of the regiment during the New York and New Jersey Campaign in 1776. At the time of the battles of Trenton and Princeton Forman's regiment waged a merciless war against the American Loyalists of Monmouth County.

#19244

Gail Tremblay

#77939

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Gail Tremblay was an American writer and artist from Washington State. She is known for weaving baskets from film footage that depicts Native American people, such as Western movies and anthropological documentaries. She received a Washington State Governor's Arts and Heritage Award in 2001.

#19245

Edmund von Neusser

Edmund von Neusser

1852 - 1912 (60 years)

Edmund von Neusser was an Austrian internist of Polish origin. He studied medicine in Kraków and Vienna, earning his medical doctorate in 1877. At the University of Vienna, he was a student of epidemiologist Anton Drasche. Beginning in 1880, he spent several years as an assistant to Heinrich von Bamberger in Vienna, afterwards being named primary physician at the Rudolfspital . In 1893 he became a full professor and director of the second medical clinic in Vienna.

#19246

Hierius

#192432

Overall Influence

Hierius was a Neoplatonist philosopher, a son of Plutarch of Athens, and brother of Asclepigenia, who lived in the early 5th century. Plutarch instructed both Hierius and Asclepigenia in the Neoplatonist philosophies of his school, and after his death they continued his teachings together with their colleague, Syrianus.

#19247

Hermann Fehling

Hermann Fehling

1847 - 1925 (78 years)

Hermann Johannes Karl Fehling was a German obstetrician and gynecologist who was a native of Stuttgart. He was the son of the chemist Hermann von Fehling . In 1872 he received his medical doctorate from the University of Leipzig, and following graduation remained in Leipzig as an assistant to obstetrician Carl Siegmund Franz Credé . In 1877 he became director of the Württemberg state midwifery school in Stuttgart, and later accepted a teaching job at the University of Tübingen .

#19248

Rudolf Blasius

1842 - 1907 (65 years)

Rudolf Heinrich Paul Blasius was a German physician, bacteriologist, naturalist and ornithologist.Blasius was the son of Johann Heinrich Blasius, professor of natural history at the Collegium Carolinum and director of the Ducal Museum and Luise . The family came from Sophiental and Rudolf became interested in natural history of the region while visiting his grandparents. His brother Wilhelm Blasius became an ornithologist. He later went on field trips with Adolph Nehrkorn and they published a list of the birds of the Braunschweig region. Rudolf studied at the Collegium Carolinum and then stu...

#19249

Wilhelm Alexander Freund

Wilhelm Alexander Freund

1833 - 1917 (84 years)

Wilhelm Alexander Freund was a German gynecologist who was a native of Krappitz, Silesia. Born into a Jewish family, in 1855 he earned his medical degree at the University of Breslau, afterwards practicing gynecology in the same city. In 1874 he became an associate professor at Breslau. In 1879 he relocated to Strasbourg, where he served as a professor of gynecology and obstetrics. He died in Berlin.

#19250

Allan Ronald

#106437

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

Allan R. Ronald is a Canadian doctor and microbiologist. He has been instrumental in the investigation into sexually transmitted infections in Africa, particularly in the fields of HIV/AIDS. Ronald is the recipient of multiple awards and honours.

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