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#3451

Friedrich Jodl

1849 - 1914 (65 years)

Friedrich Jodl was a German philosopher and psychologist. Biography Friedrich Jodl grew up in a Munich family association which, due to its proximity to the royal court, had provided numerous senior civil servants in Bavaria. The painter Heinrich Bürkel, a family friend, introduced him to the fine arts at an early age.

#3452

Daniel A. Helminiak

#18310

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Daniel A. Helminiak is a Catholic priest, theologian and author in the United States. He is most widely known for his international best-seller What the Bible Really Says about Homosexuality. He was a professor in the Department of Humanistic and Transpersonal Psychology at the University of West Georgia, near Atlanta. There from 1995 to 1997 and 2000 until early 2018, he regularly taught Human Sexuality, Statistics for the Social Sciences, Foundations of Neuroscience, and Animal Mind. On the graduate level he has taught courses related to the psychology of spirituality, which is his specia...

#3453

Constantin Brunner

Constantin Brunner

1862 - 1937 (75 years)

Constantin Brunner was the pen-name of the German Jewish philosopher Arjeh Yehuda Wertheimer . He was born in Altona on 27 August 1862. He came from a prominent Jewish family that had lived in the vicinity of Hamburg for generations; his grandfather, Akiba Wertheimer, was chief Rabbi of Altona and Schleswig-Holstein. Brunner studied philosophy under a number of prominent scholars, but never completed his doctorate. He established himself as a literary critic, and enjoyed a wide celebrity. In the 1890s, he withdrew from public life to devote himself to writing. He lived in Germany until 1933...

#3454

Marshall R. Urist

#34903

Overall Influence

1914 - 2001 (87 years)

Marshall R. Urist was a United States orthopedic surgeon working at University of California, Los Angeles who made discoveries in treating broken bones. He was best known for his discovery in 1965 of bone morphogenic protein.

#3455

Chauncey D. Leake

1896 - 1978 (82 years)

Chauncey Depew Leake was an American pharmacologist, medical historian and ethicist. Leake received a bachelor's degree with majors in biology, chemistry, and philosophy from Princeton University. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in pharmacology and physiology.

#3456

Lie Yukou

449 BC - 500 BC (-51 years)

Lie Yukou was a Chinese philosopher who is considered the author of the Daoist book Liezi, which uses his honorific name Liezi . Early life Lie Yukou was born in the State of Zheng, near today's Zhengzhou, Henan Province.

#3457

Jacob Taubes

1923 - 1987 (64 years)

Jacob Taubes was a sociologist of religion, philosopher, and scholar of Judaism. Taubes was born into an old rabbinical family. He was married to the writer Susan Taubes. He obtained his doctorate in 1947 for a thesis on "Occidental Eschatology" and initially taught religious studies and Jewish studies in the United States at Harvard, Columbia and Princeton University.

#3458

Danielle Macbeth

#34296

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Danielle Monique Macbeth is a Canadian philosopher whose work focuses on the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of language, metaphysics, and the philosophy of logic. She is T. Wistar Brown Professor of Philosophy at Haverford College in Pennsylvania where she has taught since 1989. Macbeth also taught at the University of Hawaii from 1986–1989.

#3459

David of Dinant

1160 - 1217 (57 years)

David of Dinant was a pantheistic philosopher. He may have been a member of, or at least been influenced by, a pantheistic sect known as the Amalricians. David was condemned by the Church in 1210 for his writing of the "Quaternuli" , which forced him to flee Paris. When and where he died is unknown; all that can be ascertained is that he died after the year 1215, as he was condemned again in the council of 1215.

#3460

Chiara Bottici

#35661

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (51 years)

Chiara Bottici is an Italian philosopher, critical theorist and historian of philosophy. Biography Bottici is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of Gender Studies at The New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College, New York. Bottici studied philosophy at the University of Florence, then obtained a PhD from the European University Institute in 2004. After a post-doctorate at the SUM under the guidance of Roberto Esposito, she taught at the University of Frankfurt, subsequently joining the faculty of The New School for Social Research, where she has been teaching since 2...

#3461

Kah Kyung Cho

#21006

Overall Influence

1927 - 2022 (95 years)

Kah Kyung Cho was a Korean-American philosopher. He specialized in phenomenology, hermeneutics, contemporary German philosophy, and east–west comparative philosophy. He had worked with continental philosophers such as Martin Heidegger and Hans-Georg Gadamer. He taught at State University of New York from 1971 to 2017 and took retirement as a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor. Cho's seminars have traditionally centered on discussions anchored in close textual and hermeneutical readings of works in the phenomenological tradition, including Heidegger's Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics, ...

#3462

Francesc Pujols

Francesc Pujols

1882 - 1962 (80 years)

Francesc Pujols i Morgades was a Catalan writer and philosopher. Biography Pujols began to write poetry during his studies in secondary school, influenced by the work of Jacint Verdaguer and Joan Maragall. He took part in the literary competition Jocs Florals of Barcelona in 1902, and won the Natural Flower with the poem “Idil·li”.

#3463

Alfred Blalock

1899 - 1964 (65 years)

Alfred Blalock was an American surgeon most noted for his work on the medical condition of shock as well as tetralogy of Fallot – commonly known as blue baby syndrome. He created, with assistance from his research and laboratory assistant Vivien Thomas and pediatric cardiologist Helen Taussig, the Blalock–Thomas–Taussig shunt, a surgical procedure to relieve the cyanosis from tetralogy of Fallot. This operation ushered in the modern era of cardiac surgery. He worked at both Vanderbilt University and Johns Hopkins University, where he studied medicine and later served as chief of surgery. He i...

#3464

J. Budziszewski

#30051

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

J. Budziszewski is an American philosopher and professor of government and philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin, where he has taught since 1981. He specializes in ethics, political philosophy and the interaction of these two fields with religion and theology.

#3465

Rudolf Makkreel

#36222

Overall Influence

1939 - 2021 (82 years)

Rudolf Adam Makkreel was an American philosopher and Charles Howard Candler Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Emory University. Early life Rudolf Makkreel was born in 1939 in Antwerp, Belgium and grew up in The Hague in the Netherlands. He immigrated to the US in 1951 and received his BA and PhD from Columbia University.

#3466

Vydūnas

1868 - 1953 (85 years)

Wilhelm Storost, artistic name Vilius Storostas-Vydūnas , mostly known as Vydūnas, was a Prussian-Lithuanian teacher, poet, humanist, philosopher and Lithuanian writer, a leader of the Prussian Lithuanian national movement in Lithuania Minor, and one of leaders of the theosophical movement in East Prussia.

#3467

Gadis Arivia

#20868

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Gadis Arivia is an Indonesian feminist philosopher, lecturer, scholar, and activist. While teaching feminism and philosophy at the University of Indonesia, Arivia founded , Indonesia's first feminist journal, in 1996. She was arrested by the Suharto government for protesting against the regime in 1998.

#3468

Aloys Fischer

1880 - 1937 (57 years)

Aloys Fischer was a German educationalist and worked on the foundations of a modern theory of education. Life Fischer was born in Furth im Wald, Bavaria on 10 April 1880. He attended the local elementary school. In 1891 he was awarded a scholarship to the grammar school based at the Benedictine Metten Abbey. He finished there 1899 and then attended the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich studying Classical Philology, German and history. After passing the First State Exam in 1902 he studied for a doctorate under Theodor Lipps. From 1903 to 1906 Fischer tutored the children of Adolf von Hildebrand.

#3469

Adam Swift

#22415

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Adam Swift is a British political philosopher and sociologist who specialises in debates surrounding liberal egalitarianism. He has published books on communitarianism, on the philosophical aspects of school choice, on social justice, on the ethics of the family, and on how to make education policy, as well as an introduction to contemporary political philosophy.

#3470

Philipp Albert Stapfer

Philipp Albert Stapfer

1766 - 1840 (74 years)

Philipp Albert Stapfer was a Swiss politician and philosopher. He was the plenipotentiary envoi of the Helvetic Republic to the French consulate in Paris from 1801 till 1803. He married and settled in France, at the Chateau de Talcy and in Paris where he became the friend of Maine de Biran in 1805 at informal gatherings of Cabanis circle at Auteuil. He was also vice-president of the Paris Protestant society.

#3471

Sandro Galea

#19946

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Sandro Galea is a physician, epidemiologist, and author. He is the Robert A. Knox professor and dean at the Boston University School of Public Health. He is the former Chair of Epidemiology at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Dr. Galea is past president of the Society for Epidemiologic Research and an elected member of the American Epidemiological Society. He was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2012, chairing two of the organization's reports on mental health in the military. He formerly served as chair of the New York City Department of Health and Menta...

#3472

György Márkus

#33643

Overall Influence

1934 - 2016 (82 years)

György Márkus was a Hungarian philosopher, belonging to the small circle of critical theorists closely associated with György Lukács and usually referred to as the Budapest School. Biography Márkus was born in Budapest in 1934 and survived the Holocaust as a young boy. After the war and the final victory of the Communist government he was sent to complete his philosophical training at Lomonosov University in Moscow from 1953 until 1957. There he met his future wife Maria Márkus who was also studying philosophy. They had their first of two sons György in 1956 and Andras two years later in Bud...

#3473

Julie Buring

#45383

Overall Influence

Julie Elizabeth Buring is an American epidemiologist and professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Biography Buring works with Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital. She is a professor in the epidemiology department at Harvard and also a professor at the Boston University School of Public Health. She is the chair of the Institutional Review Board of Harvard Medical School. She graduated from Pomona College , University of Washington , and the Harvard School of Public Health .

#3474

Samuel Adams

1722 - 1803 (81 years)

Samuel Adams was an American statesman, political philosopher, and a Founding Father of the United States. He was a politician in colonial Massachusetts, a leader of the movement that became the American Revolution, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and other founding documents, and one of the architects of the principles of American republicanism that shaped the political culture of the United States. He was a second cousin to his fellow Founding Father, President John Adams.

#3475

Walter Raleigh

1554 - 1618 (64 years)

Sir Walter Raleigh was an English statesman, soldier, writer and explorer. One of the most notable figures of the Elizabethan era, he played a leading part in English colonisation of North America, suppressed rebellion in Ireland, helped defend England against the Spanish Armada and held political positions under Elizabeth I.

#3476

Franciscus Donders

Franciscus Donders

1818 - 1889 (71 years)

Franciscus Cornelius Donders FRS FRSE was a Dutch ophthalmologist. During his career, he was a professor of physiology in Utrecht, and was internationally regarded as an authority on eye diseases, directing the Netherlands Hospital for Eye Patients. Along with Graefe and Helmholtz, he was one of the primary founders of scientific ophthalmology.

#3477

Malcolm Budd

#51716

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Malcolm Budd is a British philosopher. Biography Budd studied mathematics and philosophy at Jesus College, Cambridge. He taught at University College London from 1970 until 2001, and was appointed the Grote Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic from 1998 until his retirement. He now holds an emeritus position.

#3478

Isabelle Soerjomataram

#61737

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#3479

Gerald Weissmann

Gerald Weissmann

#17833

Overall Influence

1930 - 2019 (89 years)

Gerald Weissmann was an Austrian-born American physician/scientist, editor, and essayist. He was Professor Emeritus and Research Professor of Medicine at New York University School of Medicine. He was editor-in-chief of The FASEB Journal. At the time of his death he was its book review editor. In 1965, he was one of the discoverers of liposomes and is credited with coining that term.

#3480

James Brusseau

#44907

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

James Brusseau is a philosopher specializing in contemporary Continental philosophy, history of philosophy and ethics. In 1994 Brusseau joined the faculty of Philosophy and Letters at the Mexican National University in Mexico City teaching graduate courses in philosophy and comparative literature. He has also taught in Europe and the California State University. Currently he teaches at Pace University in New York City. Brusseau took a Ph.D. in Philosophy under the direction of Alphonso Lingis He is currently a professor at Pace University in New York City. He is married to a Spaniard and has t...

#3481

Hasok Chang

#22844

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Hasok Chang is a Korean-born American historian and philosopher of science currently serving as the Hans Rausing Professor at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge and a board member of the Philosophy of Science Association. He previously served as president of the British Society for the History of Science from 2012 to 2014.

#3482

Menachem Kellner

Menachem Kellner

#21515

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Menachem Kellner is an American-Israeli academic and Jewish scholar of medieval Jewish philosophy with a particular focus on the philosophy of Maimonides. He is a retired Professor of Jewish Thought at the University of Haifa and is the founding chair of the Department of Philosophy and Jewish Thought at Shalem College in Jerusalem. He has taught courses in philosophy, religious studies, medieval and modern Jewish philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis, the College of William & Mary, the University of Virginia, and the University of Haifa. He is probably best known for his book Must...

#3483

Pasquale Galluppi

Pasquale Galluppi

1770 - 1846 (76 years)

Pasquale Galluppi was an Italian philosopher. Biography and philosophy Galluppi was born at Tropea, Calabria, into the patrician Galluppi family. From 1831 he was a professor at the University of Naples, where he died in 1846.

#3484

Aristippus the Younger

400 BC - 400 BC (0 years)

Aristippus the Younger , of Cyrene, was a Cyrenaic philosopher in the second half of the 4th century BC. He was the grandson of Aristippus of Cyrene, the founder of the school. According to Diogenes Laërtius, he received the nickname "Mother-taught" . because he learned philosophy from his mother, Arete of Cyrene, who was the daughter of the elder Aristippus. Diogenes lists Theodorus the Atheist as one of his students. According to Aristocles of Messene, as quoted by Eusebius, he may have formalized the principles of Cyrenaic philosophy.: He quite plainly defined the end to be the life of pleasure, ranking as pleasure that which lies in motion.

#3485

Anacharsis

700 BC - 600 BC (100 years)

Anacharsis was a Scythian prince and philosopher of uncertain historicity who lived in the 6th century BC. Life Anacharsis was the brother of the Scythian king Saulius, and both of them were the sons of the previous Scythian king, Gnurus.

#3486

Jiang Qing

#21952

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Jiang Qing is a contemporary Chinese Confucian. He is best known for his criticism of New Confucianism, which according to him, deviated from the original Confucian principles and is overly influenced by Western liberal democracy. He proposes an alternative path for China: Constitutional Confucianism, also known as Political Confucianism, or Institutional Confucianism, through the trilateral parliament framework.

#3487

David Hawkins

#5312

Overall Influence

1913 - 2002 (89 years)

David Hawkins was an American scientist whose interests included the philosophy of science, mathematics, economics, childhood science education, and ethics. He was also an administrative assistant at the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory and later one of its official historians. Together with Herbert A. Simon, he discovered and proved the Hawkins–Simon theorem.

#3488

Seán Patrick O'Malley

Seán Patrick O'Malley

#4318

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Seán Patrick O'Malley is an American cardinal of the Catholic Church serving as archbishop of the Archdiocese of Boston in Massachusetts since 2003. He is a member of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin and was elevated by the Vatican to the rank of cardinal in 2006.

#3489

C. D. C. Reeve

#45075

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

C. D. C. Reeve is a philosophy professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He works primarily in Ancient Greek philosophy, especially Plato and Aristotle. He has also published work in the philosophy of sex and love, and on film. He has translated many Ancient Greek texts, mostly by Plato and Aristotle.

#3490

Edward H. Sargent

#52286

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (53 years)

Edward H. Sargent is a Canadian scientist, who serves as University Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Vice-President of Research and Innovation, and Strategic Initiatives at the University of Toronto. He also is the Canada Research Chair in Nanotechnology. He will join the Departments of Chemistry and of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northwestern University, and will be affiliated with the International Institute for Nanotechnology at Northwestern.

#3491

Walter Brown Shelley

#61862

Overall Influence

#3492

Julius Binder

1870 - 1939 (69 years)

Julius Binder was a German philosopher of law. He is principally known as an opponent of legal positivism, and for having remained as an active scholar during the 1930s in Nazi Germany who did not speak out against the prevailing government of that time.

#3493

R. Rox Anderson

R. Rox Anderson

#28655

Overall Influence

1950 - 2007 (57 years)

Richard Rox Anderson, FAAD , is a Boston-based dermatologist and entrepreneur. Education and career Anderson earned his BS degree from MIT, and then pursued his MD degree graduating magna cum laude from the joint MIT-Harvard medical program, Health Sciences and Technology. Anderson completed his residency in dermatology and research fellowship at Harvard University.

#3494

Arthur J. Moss

#54927

Overall Influence

1932 - 2018 (86 years)

Arthur Jay Moss was an American cardiologist. Early life and education Moss was born June 21, 1931, and attended Yale University graduating in 1953 with a degree in psychology. He then attended Harvard Medical School and graduated in 1957. After completing his internship at Massachusetts General Hospital, he then served in the United States Navy. In 1961, he joined the University of Rochester Medical School where he completed his training in cardiology in 1966.

#3495

Hector Zagal

#9404

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Héctor Jesús Zagal Arreguín is a Mexican philosopher, essayist, novelist, and associate member of Opus Dei. As a scholar he specializes in Aristotle. Academic career Zagal has written books on ecology, ethics, Aristotle, gastronomy and literature. He obtained a PhD from the Universidad de Navarra, with a dissertation on Aristotle's epagoge and has since then written several articles and books on Aristotle. He has written on several topics of culture, politics, art history and literature. He gained notoriety in the 2006 presidential election, when he wrote two books on two respective candidates...

#3496

T. Berry Brazelton

T. Berry Brazelton

#3759

Overall Influence

1918 - 2018 (100 years)

Thomas Berry Brazelton was an American pediatrician, author, and the developer of the Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale . Brazelton hosted the cable television program What Every Baby Knows, and wrote a syndicated newspaper column. He wrote more than two hundred scholarly papers and twenty-four books.

#3497

Aseem Shukla

#6040

Overall Influence

Aseem Ravindra Shukla is the Director of Minimally Invasive Surgery in the Department of Urology at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, PA and is a Professor of Surgery at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Shukla is the co-founder and board member of the Hindu American Foundation.

#3498

Jonael Schickler

#47813

Overall Influence

1976 - 2002 (26 years)

Jonael Angelus Schickler was a Swiss philosopher who died in a rail crash in England at the age of 25. Life Schickler was born in Dornach, Switzerland. His family later moved to Forest Row, East Sussex, and he attended Michael Hall, the Rudolf Steiner school located there. At the age of sixteen he attended Sevenoaks School.

#3499

Werner Ulrich

#18791

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Werner Ulrich is a Swiss social scientist and practical philosopher, and a former professor of the theory and practice of social planning at the University of Fribourg. He is known as one of the originators of critical systems thinking and in particular for the development of critical systems heuristics.

#3500

Shadworth Hodgson

1832 - 1912 (80 years)

Shadworth Hollway Hodgson, FBA was an English philosopher. Biography He worked independently, without academic affiliation. He was acknowledged by William James as a forerunner of Pragmatism, although he viewed his work as a completion of Kant's project. Hodgson was a member of a London philosophy club with James, called the "Scratch Eight". Hodgson regarded the poets William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge as his chief inspirations, and had no academic background, though he was a member of the Metaphysical Society.

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