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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#3951

Stevo Julius

#101158

Overall Influence

#3952

Roger Trigg

#95618

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Roger Hugh Trigg is a British philosopher and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick. He is known for his works on philosophy of religion. Trigg has been President of the Mind Association, Founding President of the British Society for the Philosophy of Religion, President of the European Society for Philosophy of Religion, and the first President of the British Philosophical Association.

#3953

Carsten Bokemeyer

#101170

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

#3954

Mohammad Arab-Salehi

#38290

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Mohammad Arab-Salehi is an Iranian philosopher and associate professor of religion at the Research Institute for Islamic Culture and Thought. He is also the head of Hikmat and Religious Studies Faculty of the Institute. Arab-Salehi is known for his works on hermeneutics and historicism and is a recipient of the Iranian Book of the Season Award for his book Historicism and Religion .

#3955

Kunio Okuda

#101190

Overall Influence

#3956

Steven Zeisel

#62560

Overall Influence

Steven H. Zeisel is a Kenan Distinguished University Professor in Nutrition and Pediatrics; former chairman, Department of Nutrition; Director Nutrition Research Institute, Director UNC Human Clinical Nutrition Research Center, Director UNC Center for Excellence in Children's Nutrition, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

#3957

Roy Walford

#5276

Overall Influence

1924 - 2004 (80 years)

Roy Lee Walford, M. D. was a professor of pathology at University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine, a leading advocate of calorie restriction for life extension and health improvement, and a crew member of Biosphere 2.

#3958

José van Dijck

#12125

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Johanna Francisca Theodora Maria "José" van Dijck is a new media author and a distinguished university professor in media and digital society at Utrecht University since 2017. From 2001 to 2016 she was a professor of Comparative Media Studies where she was the former chair of the Department of Media Studies and former dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Amsterdam. She is the author of ten authored and edited books including Mediated Memory in the Digital Age; The Culture of Connectivity.; and The Platform Society. Public Values in a Connective World. Her work has been trans...

#3959

Glyn Elwyn

#73807

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Glyn Elwyn is a professor and physician-researcher at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Dartmouth College, USA, where he directs the Patient Engagement Research Program. He also leads The Preference Laboratory, an international interdisciplinary team at The Dartmouth Institute, examining the implementation of shared decision making into clinical settings, using tools and measures such as collaboRATE, a patient experience measure of shared decision making, and Observer OPTION, a process measure for shared decision making for use on recorded data.

#3960

Don Michael Randel

#13537

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Don Michael Randel is an American musicologist, specializing in the music of the Middle Ages and Renaissance in Spain and France. He is currently the chair of the board of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a trustee of the Carnegie Corporation, and a member of the Encyclopædia Britannica editorial board, and has previously served as the fifth president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, twelfth president of the University of Chicago, Provost of Cornell University, and Dean of Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences. He has served as editor of the third and fourth editions of the Harv...

#3961

Keith D. Lillemoe

#101239

Overall Influence

#3962

Ram Samudrala

#36027

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Ram Samudrala is a professor of computational biology and bioinformatics at the University at Buffalo, United States. He researches protein folding, structure, function, interaction, design, and evolution.

#3963

Ama Ata Aidoo

#12546

Overall Influence

1942 - 2023 (81 years)

Ama Ata Aidoo was a Ghanaian author, poet, playwright, politician, and academic. She was Secretary for Education in Ghana from 1982 to 1983 under Jerry Rawlings's PNDC administration. Her first play, The Dilemma of a Ghost, was published in 1965, making Aidoo the first published female African dramatist. As a novelist, she won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 1992 with the novel Changes. In 2000, she established the Mbaasem Foundation in Accra to promote and support the work of African women writers.

#3964

Bartley. P. Griffith

#101260

Overall Influence

#3965

Keith Flaherty

#55975

Overall Influence

Keith Flaherty is Director of Clinical Research at the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He was previously a professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He is known for his research on targeted therapies for cancer, and in particular for his work on the melanoma drug vemurafenib. In 2013, Massachusetts General Hospital partnered with AstraZeneca to partner Flaherty's research into developing a formula to identify vulnerabilities of tumors with AstraZeneca's library of drugs.

#3966

Daniel A. Haber

#64226

Overall Influence

Daniel A. Haber is the director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, a professor of oncology at Harvard Medical School, and an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute . Career Haber earned his B.S. in life sciences and M.S. in toxicology from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his M.D. and Ph.D. in biophysics from Stanford University School of Medicine under the mentorship of Robert T. Schimke. He did his postdoctoral training at Massachusetts Institute of Technology with David E. Housman.

#3967

Howard E. Gendelman

#93844

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Howard E. Gendelman is an American physician-scientist whose research intersects the disciplines of neuroimmunology, pharmacology, and infectious diseases. Gendelman was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His research is focused on harnessing immune responses for therapeutic gain in HIV/AIDS and Neurodegenerative disease. He is the Margaret R. Larson Professor of infectious diseases and internal medicine at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha.

#3968

Roger Woolhouse

#82640

Overall Influence

1940 - 2011 (71 years)

Roger Stuart Woolhouse was an English philosopher, an expert on empiricism and rationalism and a biographer of John Locke. He was born in Wath-upon-Dearne and educated at Saltburn Primary School, Sir William Turner's Grammar School, London University and then Selwyn College, Cambridge for his Doctorate.

#3969

Tatjana Višak

#88437

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (52 years)

Tatjana Višak , often credited as Tatjana Visak, is a German philosopher specialising in ethics and political philosophy who is currently based in the Department of Philosophy and Business Ethics at the University of Mannheim. She is the author of the monographs Killing Happy Animals and Capacity for Welfare Across Species , and the editor, with the political theorist Robert Garner, of The Ethics of Killing Animals .

#3970

Albert W. Schömig

#101425

Overall Influence

#3971

Roger I. Glass

#64974

Overall Influence

Roger I. Glass is an American physician-scientist who served as the Director of the John E. Fogarty International Center. Education and early career Glass graduated from Harvard College in 1967, received a Fulbright Fellowship to study at the University of Buenos Aires in 1967, and received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School and his M.P.H. from the Harvard School of Public Health in 1972. He interned from 1972 to 1973 at Cambridge Hospital. He completed a residency in internal medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital from 1974 to 1976. At Sinai, Glass was also an instructor in the department of medicine and an epidemiology fellow with Thomas C.

#3972

Marilyn S. Albert

#101430

Overall Influence

#3973

Ahmad Jalali

#32449

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Ahmad Jalali is an Iranian scholar and philosopher. He authored a dozen articles in social, cultural, historical, philosophical, political and international fields. Jalali was instrumental in registering five Iranian sites as World Heritage Site in UNESCO.

#3974

Frans Van de Werf

#92465

Overall Influence

Frans Van de Werf is a Belgian cardiologist at the University Hospital Leuven and Professor Emeritus, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. He was the chair of the university hospital's cardiovascular medicine department until 2011.

#3975

David Johnson

#85718

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Professor David Wayne Johnson is an Australian nephrologist known for kidney treatments and transplants in Australia. In 2009 he was a Queensland State Finalist for Australian of the Year, for his work in the early recognition and care of people with chronic kidney disease and specifically for his work in detection of chronic kidney disease.

#3976

H. Ralph Jr. Schumacher

#101517

Overall Influence

#3977

Lucian Leape

#48186

Overall Influence

Lucian Leape is a physician and professor at Harvard School of Public Health, who has been active in trying to improve the medical system to reduce medical error. In 1994 he had an article, "Error in Medicine," published in JAMA, which called for the application of systems theory to prevent medical errors. In 1997, he testified before a subcommittee of the US Senate with his recommendations for improving medical safety.

#3978

G. Jeannette Thorbecke

#101534

Overall Influence

#3979

Enno Christophers

#100811

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

Enno Christophers is emeritus professor of dermatology and venereology at the University of Kiel, Germany. He was appointed editor-in-chief of the Archives of Dermatological Research in 1975. In 1982 he delivered the Kung Sun Oh lecture, on the topic of psoriasis.

#3980

Ouida Ramón-Moliner

#28639

Overall Influence

1929 - 2020 (91 years)

Ouida Ramón-Moliner was an Irish-born Canadian anaesthetist. She began working at Montreal General Hospital, helping Wilder Penfield perform awake craniotomies and the anaemia cure pioneer Harold Griffith. Ramón-Moliner also worked at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C, Université Laval and the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at the Université de Sherbrooke. She received the Quebec Lieutenant Governor's Seniors Medal in 2012 and a scholarship issued by Champlain Regional College is named after her.

#3981

Achim Freyer

#31571

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (92 years)

Achim Freyer is a German stage director, set designer and painter. A protégé of Bertolt Brecht, Freyer has become one of the world's leading opera directors, working throughout Europe and, since 2002, in the United States, principally with the Los Angeles Opera. Since 1992, Freyer has developed a number of productions featuring his own troupe of performers, known as the Freyer Ensemble.

#3982

Meaghan Morris

#29314

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Meaghan Morris is an Australian scholar of cultural studies. She is currently a Professor of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. Life Born in Tenterfield, New South Wales, Morris was raised in Newcastle, New South Wales. Morris enrolled in a B.A. program in English and French at the University of Sydney. In Sydney, she met John Flaus, a film theorist and actor famous who would become a significant influence in the development of Australian cultural studies. She also became engaged in the work of British feminist scholar Juliet Mitchell and gave seminars on Mitchell's book...

#3983

Philippe Ravaud

#101570

Overall Influence

#3984

Irwin H. Rosenberg

#101600

Overall Influence

#3985

Susan Bordo

#44667

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Susan Bordo is an American philosopher known for her contributions in the field of contemporary cultural studies, particularly in the area of feminist theory. Bordo specializes in contemporary culture and its relation to the body, focusing on eating disorders which primarily affect females, such as anorexia and bulimia; cosmetic surgery; beauty; and evolutionary theory. She also explores racism and the body, masculinity, and sexual harassment.

#3986

Kenneth Lance Gould

#101615

Overall Influence

#3987

Richard Thomas Nolan

Richard Thomas Nolan

#54204

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (89 years)

Richard Thomas Nolan is a canon of Christ Church Episcopal Cathedral in Hartford, Connecticut and a former college professor of philosophy and religious studies. He is the editor/coauthor of The Diaconate Now , and coauthor of Living Issues In Philosophy , Living Issues in Ethics , and Soul Mates: More than Partners . Nolan is also the editor of a non-commercial, educational website: philosophy-religion.org. His books have been translated into several languages, including Indonesian and Chinese.

#3988

Leemon McHenry

#45185

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Leemon McHenry is a bioethicist and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Northridge, in the United States. He has taught philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, Old Dominion University, Davidson College, Central Michigan University, Wittenberg University and Loyola Marymount University, and has held visiting research positions at Johns Hopkins University, UCLA and at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities in the University of Edinburgh. His research interests center on medical ethics, metaphysics, and philosophy of science.

#3989

J. S. Dungan

#101667

Overall Influence

#3990

David Resnik

#86700

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

David Benjamin Resnik is an American bioethicist who works at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences . He is known for his work on scientific misconduct. He earned his B.A. in philosophy from Davidson College, his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and his J.D. from Concord University School of Law. He taught at the University of Wyoming from 1990 to 1998, and directed the Center for the Advancement of Ethics there from 1995 to 1998. He then joined the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University as associate professor of medical humanities and associate director of the Bioethics Center.

#3991

Jean Soldini

#73900

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Jean Soldini is a Swiss and French philosopher, art historian and poet. Biography He studied in Paris, where he earned the Habilitation à diriger des recherches , after he graduated with a Ph.D. in philosophy and with a preceding Ph.D. in history of architecture.

#3992

John Mendelsohn

#25365

Overall Influence

1936 - 2019 (83 years)

John Mendelsohn was a president of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. He was an internationally recognized leader in cancer research. Mendelsohn served as MD Anderson president from 1996 to 2011. When Ronald DePinho became president, he stepped down September 1, 2011. Mendelsohn remained on the faculty as co-director of the new Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Institute for Personalized Cancer Therapy. Also, he was a senior fellow in health and technology at the Baker Institute.

#3993

Michael R. Harrison

#10219

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Michael R. Harrison served as division chief in pediatric surgery at the Children's Hospital at the University of California, San Francisco for over 20 years, where he established the first fetal treatment center in the U.S. He is often referred to as the father of fetal surgery. He is currently a professor of surgery and pediatrics and the director emeritus of the UCSF Fetal Treatment Center.

#3994

David Joel Cohen

#101734

Overall Influence

#3995

Siva Vaidhyanathan

Siva Vaidhyanathan

#16879

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Siva Vaidhyanathan is an American cultural historian and media scholar, and the Robertson professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia. Vaidhyanathan is a permanent columnist at The Guardian and Slate; he is also a frequent contributor on media and cultural issues in various periodicals including The Chronicle of Higher Education, New York Times Magazine, The Nation, Slate, and The Baffler. He directs the Center for Media and Citizenship at the University of Virginia, which produces a television show, a radio program, several podcasts, and the Virginia Quarterly Review.

#3996

Robert Frodeman

#88686

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Robert Frodeman is former Professor and former Chair, Dept of Philosophy and Religion, University of North Texas, previously at the University of Colorado, and Director of UNT's Center for the Study of Interdisciplinarity. He publishes in the philosophy of geology, the philosophy of interdisciplinarity, and practical philosophy. Frodeman is now a writer and consultant living in Hoback, Wyoming.

#3997

Ben Witherington III

#15483

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Ben Witherington III is an American Wesleyan-Arminian New Testament scholar. Witherington is Professor of New Testament Interpretation at Asbury Theological Seminary, a Wesleyan-Holiness seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky, and an ordained pastor in the United Methodist Church.

#3998

Hugo Moser

#65792

Overall Influence

1924 - 2007 (83 years)

Hugo Wolfgang Moser was a Swiss-born American research scientist and director of the Neurogenetics Research Center at the Kennedy Krieger Institute. Moser was also University Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University. His research on peroxisomal disorders achieved international recognition.

#3999

Giovanni Gasbarrini

Giovanni Gasbarrini

#60453

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

Giovanni Gasbarrini is an Italian physician whose work in the field of internal medicine, hepatology and gastroenterology earned him the 2013 lifetime achievement award of the United European Gastroenterology association.

#4000

Ulrich Dirnagl

#101795

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

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