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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#3801

Stanley Stewart Davis

#84669

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Stanley Stuart Davis is emeritus professor of pharmacy at the University of Nottingham. Early life and education Davis was born in Warwick, England. He obtained his bachelor's degree in pharmacy from the School of Pharmacy at the University of London in 1964. He remained at the same university to study for a PhD in colloid science .

#3802

Naftali Rothenberg

#44398

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Naftali Rothenberg is an Israeli scholar, rabbi and author. He is known for his studies on the wisdom of love in Jewish Canonical literature and his inclusive leadership in the Israeli rabbinate. Education and career In 1973 Rothenberg was ordained at Yeshivas Kaminetz of Jerusalem and in 1980-1984 studied philosophy and Jewish thought at the Hebrew University. He served as the chief rabbi of the Ashkenazi community in Lima, Peru and chaplain and senior education officer in the IDF . Served as an Associate Professor of Jewish Studies at the School of Management of Touro College in the Jerusalem branch .

#3803

Steven D. Waldman

Steven D. Waldman

#45246

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Steven D. Waldman is a pain management specialist, author and a pioneer in the sub-specialty of interventional pain management. He holds joint academic appointments as Professor of Anesthesiology and Professor of Medical Humanities and Bioethics at the University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Medicine where he currently serves as Vice Dean and Chairman of the Department of Medical Humanities and Bioethics.

#3804

Myron F. Weiner

#98884

Overall Influence

#3805

Jamaica Kincaid

Jamaica Kincaid

#7389

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Jamaica Kincaid is an Antiguan-American novelist, essayist, gardener, and gardening writer. She was born in St. John's, Antigua . She lives in North Bennington, Vermont and is Professor of African and African American Studies in Residence at Harvard University during the academic year.

#3806

Raphael Debono

#98918

Overall Influence

Raphael Debono was a Maltese minor philosopher. In philosophy he mostly specialised in logic. No portrait of him is known to exist. Life Almost nothing is known about the personal life of Debono. He was probably one of the thousands of Maltese emigrants in Cairo, Egypt, around the end of the 19th century.

#3807

Frank A. Chervenak

#37542

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Frank A. Chervenak, MD currently serves as Chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Lenox Hill Hospital; Chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Associate Dean of International Medicine, Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell.

#3808

Camillo Ricordi

Camillo Ricordi

#54841

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Camillo Ricordi is a diabetes researcher based in Miami, FL. He currently serves as Director of the Diabetes Research Institute, a position he has held since 1996. He is the Chief Academic Officer of the Diabetes Research Institute of the University of Miami and is director of the DRI's Cell Transplant Center. He has been active in stem cell research and its applications to treating diabetes, particularly Type 1 Diabetes. He specializes in pancreatic islet transplantation.

#3809

Anne-Lise Børresen-Dale

#64669

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Anne-Lise Børresen-Dale is a Norwegian biochemist. She is a senior scientist at Oslo University Hospital and Professor of molecular tumor biology at the University of Oslo. She received the 2002 Nordic Medical Prize. In 2015 she received the Fritjof Nansen medal and award for Outstanding Research from the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, and in 2017 she was appointed to Commander of the Royal Norwegian St. Olavs Order by the King of Norway.

#3810

Chris Beyrer

#30850

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Chris Beyrer is the Director of the Duke Global Health Institute. He was previously a professor of epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States. He was president of the International AIDS Society from 2014 to 2016.

#3811

H. Bryan Jr. Brewer

#98985

Overall Influence

#3812

Thomas Royle Dawber

#99014

Overall Influence

#3813

Desmond Paul Henry

Desmond Paul Henry

#46643

Overall Influence

1921 - 2004 (83 years)

Desmond Paul Henry was a Manchester University Lecturer and Reader in Philosophy . He was one of the first British artists to experiment with machine-generated visual effects at the time of the emerging global computer art movement of the 1960s . During this period, Henry constructed a succession of three electro-mechanical drawing machines from modified bombsight analogue computers which were employed in World War II bombers to calculate the accurate release of bombs onto their targets . Henry's machine-generated effects resemble complex versions of the abstract, curvilinear graphics which accompany Microsoft's Windows Media Player.

#3814

David H. Ingvar

#99039

Overall Influence

#3815

Neil R. Powe

#90352

Overall Influence

Neil R. Powe is an American professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco and the chief of medicine at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center. Previously he was professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His research has mainly related to kidney disease, cardiovascular disease and health disparities.

#3816

Rudi Schmid

#54827

Overall Influence

1922 - 2007 (85 years)

Rudi Schmid was a Swiss-born American medical researcher specializing in hepatology. Among his contributions to biomedical science, Schmid led a team to discover heme oxygenase. Schmid was born on 2 May 1922 to physician parents. He was born and raised in Glarus, which inspired his interest in mountain climbing. Schmid became a skilled alpinist and skier. Schmid was a member of the Swiss national ski team from 1941 to 1945, and led the Academic Alpine Club while studying at the University of Zurich. In 1946, while still at university, Schmid became one of the first climbers to ascend Mont Bla...

#3817

Sonja Smets

#56961

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Sonja Smets is a Belgian and Dutch logician and epistemologist known for her work in belief revision and quantum logic. She is Professor of Logic and Epistemology at the University of Amsterdam, where she was the director of the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation and is affiliated with both the Faculty of Science and the Department of Philosophy. She also holds a visiting professor position at the University of Bergen in Norway.

#3818

Mario Rizzetto

#76825

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Mario Rizzetto is an Italian virologist who in 1977 first reported the Hepatitis D virus as a nuclear antigen in patients infected with HBV who had severe liver disease. He graduated in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Padua in 1969. He was awarded the King Faisal International Prize in Medicine in 1985, the Robert Koch Prize in 1987, the William Beaumont Prize of the American Gastroenterological Association in 1988, and the Hans Popper Award in 1992.

#3819

Barbara Noske

#68106

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Barbara Miriam Noske is a Dutch cultural anthropologist and philosopher. She introduced the concept animal–industrial complex in her 1989 book Humans and Other Animals. Academic career Noske holds a MA in socio-cultural anthropology and a PhD in philosophy from the University of Amsterdam. In the 1990s, Noske taught environmental ethics, ecology and ecofeminism at York University in Toronto while a research fellow in the Faculty of Environmental Studies. She then worked as a research fellow at the Research Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Sydney.

#3820

John Forrest Goodwin

#99162

Overall Influence

#3821

Aman U. Buzdar

#99171

Overall Influence

#3822

Thomas A. Jr Medsger

#99188

Overall Influence

#3823

Hallvard Lillehammer

#84738

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Hallvard Lillehammer is a professor of philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London. His research relates to "the interpretation and criticism of basic ideas in contemporary moral and political thought, including reason, objectivity, impartiality, autonomy, and detachment." He formerly taught at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge, where he was a Fellow of King's College from 2000 to 2009 and a Senior Research Fellow of Churchill College from 2010 to 2013. He was educated at University College London and Peterhouse, Cambridge. Of Norwegian, German and Swedish descent, Li...

#3824

Roland Pattillo

#39019

Overall Influence

Roland A. Pattillo was an American medical doctor and researcher, who was noted for his involvement with the HeLa line of cells and his connection to the family of Henrietta Lacks, from whom the cells were cultured.

#3825

David J. Burke

#99206

Overall Influence

#3826

Heather Douglas

#87363

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Heather Douglas is a philosopher of science best known for her work on the role of values in science, science policy, the importance of science for policymaking, and the history of philosophy of science. Douglas is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Michigan State University. She formerly held the Waterloo Chair in Science and Society at the University of Waterloo, and taught at University of Pittsburgh, University of Tennessee, and University of Puget Sound. She is the author of Science, Policy, and the Value Free Ideal, an influential book on the way that values do and s...

#3827

Giora G. Z. Feuerstein

#99227

Overall Influence

#3828

Bruce Wilshire

#88354

Overall Influence

1932 - 2015 (83 years)

Bruce W. Wilshire was an American philosopher who taught in the philosophy department at Rutgers University, from which he retired as Professor Emeritus in 2009. Beginning as a specialist in William James, he became known for his work on philosophy and theater, his criticisms of analytic philosophy, and his interest in Native American philosophy.

#3829

Alan Thomas

#74184

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Alan Thomas is a British philosopher in the Department of Philosophy at the University of York. He is best known for his works on ethics and political philosophy. Career Thomas was educated at the Graig Comprehensive School, Llanelli, before undergraduate study at King's College, Cambridge. Following a year at Harvard University as a Kennedy Scholar, Thomas returned to Oxford University to complete his doctorate under the supervision of Bernard Williams. Thomas began his career at King's College, London before taking up a lectureship at the University of Kent at Canterbury. Thomas became a pr...

#3830

David Favrholdt

#63652

Overall Influence

1931 - 2012 (81 years)

David Favrholdt was a Danish philosopher, educated with M.A.ss in psychology and philosophy and later Dr. Phil. from Copenhagen University. He is one of few Danes to be included in the International Who's Who.

#3831

Tito Fojo

#99297

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

#3832

J. Peter Burgess

J. Peter Burgess

#49193

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

J. Peter Burgess is a philosopher and political scientist. He is Professor and Director of the Chair of Geopolitics of Risk at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris. He is series editor of the Routledge New Security Studies collection. His research and writing concern the meeting place between science, culture and politics in particular in Europe, focusing most recently on value theory and digital technologies. He has published 18 books and over 100 articles in the fields of philosophy, political science, gender studies, cultural history, security studies and cultural theory. He has contributed to research and educational policy in Norway, France, Poland and the European Commission.

#3833

Claude J. M. Lenfant

#99309

Overall Influence

#3834

Donald Watson Goodwin

#99319

Overall Influence

#3835

Robert Hariman

#36570

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Robert Hariman is an American scholar of rhetoric and public culture. He received his BA from Macalester College in 1973, and received his MA in 1975 and PhD in 1979 from the University of Minnesota. He was a member of the faculty at Drake University from 1979 to 2004, and since then has been a professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University. He also served as department chair at both institutions.

#3836

Erin Manning

#82005

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Erin Manning is a Canadian cultural theorist and political philosopher as well as a practicing artist in the areas of dance, fabric design, and interactive installation. Manning's research spans the fields of art, political theory, and philosophy. She received her Ph.D in Political Philosophy from University of Hawaii in 2000. She currently teaches in the Concordia University Fine Arts Faculty.

#3837

Douglas K. Owens

#99374

Overall Influence

#3838

Peter J. Ratcliffe

Peter J. Ratcliffe

#12028

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Sir Peter John Ratcliffe, FRS, FMedSci is a British Nobel Laureate physician-scientist who is trained as a nephrologist. He was a practising clinician at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford and Nuffield Professor of Clinical Medicine and head of the Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine at the University of Oxford from 2004 to 2016. He has been a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford since 2004. In 2016 he became Clinical Research Director at the Francis Crick Institute, retaining a position at Oxford as a member of the Ludwig Institute of Cancer Research and director of the Target Discovery ...

#3839

Phillip Anson Low

#99389

Overall Influence

#3840

Melville Y. Stewart

#87430

Overall Influence

1935 - 2020 (85 years)

Melville Y. Stewart was an American Philosopher and Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Bethel University, Minnesota. Bibliography The Greater-Good Defence, An Essay on the Rationality of Faith, author, London:Macmillan//New York: St. Martin's, 1993. .Проблемы Христианской Философии , co-editor with Dan Clendenin, Moscow: Progress Academy Press, 1994. .Philosophy of Religion, An Anthology of Contemporary Views, editor, in the Jones and Bartlett Series in Philosophy, second printing, Wadsworth Press, 1996. .《当代西方宗教哲学》, , Melville Y. Stewart, editor, Beijing: Peking University Press, 2005, .《东西方宗教伦理及其他》, co-editor with Zhang Zhigang, Beijing: Central Compilation and Translation Press, 1997.

#3841

Philip Clayton

#33188

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Philip Clayton is an American philosopher of religion and philosopher of science. His work focuses on the intersection of science, ethics, and society. He currently holds the Ingraham Chair at Claremont School of Theology and serves as an affiliated faculty member at Claremont Graduate University. Clayton specializes in the philosophy of science, philosophy of biology, and philosophy of religion, as well as in comparative theology.

#3842

John David

#99462

Overall Influence

John David is an American physician that is currently the Richard Pearson Strong Professor of Tropical Public Health, Emeritus at Harvard School of Public Health. David earned his medical degree at the University of Chicago.

#3843

Joseph Milic‐emili

#99468

Overall Influence

#3844

Richard W. Light

#99490

Overall Influence

#3845

Desmond Clarke

#71260

Overall Influence

1942 - 2016 (74 years)

Desmond M. Clarke was an Irish author and professor of philosophy at University College Cork . His research interests include history of philosophy and theories of science, with a specific interest in the writings of René Descartes, as well as contemporary church/state relations, human rights, and nationalism.

#3846

David M. Levy

#37150

Overall Influence

David Levy is an American computer scientist and professor at University of Washington Information School. He is known for his research, writing, and teaching on the prevention of information overload.

#3847

Joel D. Cooper

#15560

Overall Influence

Joel D. Cooper, F.A.C.S., a thoracic surgeon, is known for having completed the first successful lung transplant and the first successful double lung transplant. Career Cooper graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1964, completed his fellowship, and then obtained his first faculty appointment in 1972 at the University of Toronto. He performed the world's first successful lung transplant on pulmonary fibrosis patient Tom Hall on November 7, 1983 at Toronto General Hospital. He performed the world's first successful double lung transplant on emphysema patient Ann Harrison in 1986 at the same hospital.

#3848

Peter A. McCullough

#10476

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Peter Andrew McCullough is an American cardiologist. He was vice chief of internal medicine at Baylor University Medical Center and a professor at Texas A&M University. During the COVID-19 pandemic, McCullough has promoted misinformation about COVID-19, its treatments, and mRNA vaccines.

#3849

Abdennour Bidar

Abdennour Bidar

#45807

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Abdennour Bidar is a French writer and philosopher of Islamic culture. Author of several books and many articles, he came to public attention in the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo shooting, when he wrote an "Open Letter to the Muslim World".

#3850

Ken Caldeira

#18144

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Kenneth Caldeira is an American atmospheric scientist. His areas of research include ocean acidification, climate effects of trees, intentional climate modification, interactions in the global carbon cycle/climate system, and sustainable energy.

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