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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#4351

Christopher J. Packard

#106782

Overall Influence

#4352

Martin Reivich

#106785

Overall Influence

#4353

Bert Sakmann

#1122

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Bert Sakmann is a German cell physiologist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Erwin Neher in 1991 for their work on "the function of single ion channels in cells," and the invention of the patch clamp. Bert Sakmann was Professor at Heidelberg University and is an Emeritus Scientific Member of the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, Germany. Since 2008 he leads an emeritus research group at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology.

#4354

Roya Kelishadi

#106810

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

#4355

Philippe Amouyel

Philippe Amouyel

#106818

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

#4356

John M. Walshe

#106823

Overall Influence

#4357

Scott Gottlieb

#5217

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Scott Gottlieb is an American physician and investor who served as the 23rd commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration from May 2017 until April 2019. He is presently a senior fellow at the conservative think tank the American Enterprise Institute , a partner at the venture capital firm New Enterprise Associates , a member of the board of directors of drug maker Pfizer, Inc, a member of the board of directors of Illumina, Inc., a contributor to the cable financial news network CNBC, and a frequent guest on the CBS News program Face the Nation. An elected member of the National Academy ...

#4358

Jimmy Altham

#95111

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

James Edward John Altham , known as Jimmy Altham and normally cited as J. E. J. Altham, is a British philosopher and a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Biography He obtained his BA degree in Philosophy at Cambridge followed in 1969 by a Ph.D. also in Philosophy. His dissertation was entitled 'Assertion, Command and Obligation. Philosophical Foundations of the Logic of Imperatives and Deontic Logic'.

#4359

Constantine G. Lyketsos

#89918

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Constantine G. Lyketsos is the Elizabeth Plank Althouse Professor in Alzheimer's Disease Research in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States. He is the founding director of the Richman Family Precision Medicine Center of Excellence in Alzheimer's Disease, and an associate director of the Johns Hopkins Alzheimer's Disease Research Center .

#4360

Jeffrey Sconce

#36632

Overall Influence

Jeffrey Sconce is a professor and cultural historian of media and film. He is a professor in the Screen Cultures program at Northwestern University. Early life and education Sconce has a B.A., B.S., and M.A. from the University of Texas, Austin, and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin Madison.

#4361

Vladimir Smirnov

#101908

Overall Influence

1931 - 1996 (65 years)

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Smirnov was a Russian philosopher. He worked at both Tomsk University in Siberia and later at the Department of Logic of the Institute of Philosophy, Moscow. He revived interest in the work of Nicolai A. Vasiliev.

#4362

Kōji Taki

#45357

Overall Influence

1928 - 2011 (83 years)

was a Japanese critic and philosopher. Life and career Taki graduated with a degree in art history from Tokyo University. Taki began his professional career as a core figure at the Japanese photography magazine Provoke, which he co-founded and where he worked from 1968 to 1970. He also provided most of the funds for the magazine. However, because of his "aloofness" and greater focus on writing, he was best known as a critical writer rather than a visual artist. Next to art, he also wrote frequently on philosophy, politics and history.

#4363

Amy Kass

#65244

Overall Influence

1940 - 2015 (75 years)

Amy Judith Kass was an American academic and a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. She spent most of her career as a professor of classic texts in the College of the University of Chicago. Her scholarly interests included courtship, marriage, citizenship and philanthropy. Her books include Giving Well, Doing Good: Readings for Thoughtful Philanthropists, Wing to Wing, Oar to Oar: Readings on Courting and Marrying, and What So Proudly We Hail: America’s Soul in Story, Speech, and Song.

#4364

Esteban Domingo

#106953

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

#4365

Richard J. Glassock

#106957

Overall Influence

#4366

Armand Hatchuel

Armand Hatchuel

#51587

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Armand Hatchuel is a French researcher and professor of management science and design theory at the Centre for Management Science, Ecole des Mines de Paris. A pioneer in the study of the cognitive and organizational dynamics at play in innovative enterprises, he is behind the development of several theories aimed at re-establishing management science as a fundamental science of collective action.

#4367

John Wennberg

#23876

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (92 years)

John E. "Jack" Wennberg is the pioneer and leading researcher of unwarranted variation in the healthcare industry. In four decades of work, Wennberg has documented the geographic variation in the healthcare that patients receive in the United States. In 1988, he founded the Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences at Dartmouth Medical School to address that unwarranted variation in healthcare.

#4368

James R. Andrews

#106994

Overall Influence

#4369

Sherwin B. Nuland

Sherwin B. Nuland

#12371

Overall Influence

1930 - 2014 (84 years)

Sherwin Bernard Nuland was an American surgeon and writer who taught bioethics, history of medicine, and medicine at the Yale School of Medicine, and occasionally bioethics and history of medicine at Yale College. His 1994 book How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter was a New York Times Best Seller and won the National Book Award for Nonfiction, as well as being a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

#4370

Karen Swassjan

#77812

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Karen A. Swassjan , *1948 in Tbilisi, is an Armenian philosopher, literary critic, historian of culture and anthroposophist. He is one of the best known contemporary philosophers in the Russian-speaking world.

#4371

Jordan U. Gutterman

#107019

Overall Influence

#4372

Amanda Anderson

#69215

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Amanda Anderson is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities and English and Director of the Cogut Institute for the Humanities at Brown University. She is a literary scholar and theorist who has written on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and culture as well as on contemporary debates in literary and cultural theory.

#4373

Andreas G. Tzakis

#107035

Overall Influence

#4374

Monique Desroches

#35501

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Monique Desroches is a Canadian ethnomusicologist from Quebec who specializes in the music of the West Indies and the Mascarene Islands in the Indian Ocean. Early life Desroches was born in Grand-Mère in Quebec on March 18, 1948. From 1968 to 1974, Desroches was part of a folk group, "Les Contretemps" who released two LPs and three 45s and toured in Canada, the United States and Japan.

#4375

Elizabeth J. Feinler

Elizabeth J. Feinler

#3345

Overall Influence

1931 - Present (95 years)

Elizabeth Jocelyn "Jake" Feinler is an American information scientist. From 1972 until 1989 she was director of the Network Information Systems Center at the Stanford Research Institute . Her group operated the Network Information Center for the ARPANET as it evolved into the Defense Data Network and the Internet.

#4376

Donald Francis Hoelzl Wallach

#107051

Overall Influence

#4377

Tamara Horowitz

Tamara Horowitz

#90399

Overall Influence

1950 - 2000 (50 years)

Tamara Horowitz was an American philosopher who worked on epistemology, feminist philosophy and the philosophy of science. She spent much of her career at the University of Pittsburgh, and was appointed chair of the philosophy department there in September 1999, but died a few months later.

#4378

Menachem Fisch

#60658

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Menachem Fisch is an Israeli philosopher. He is the Joseph and Ceil Mazer Professor Emeritus of History and Philosophy of Science, and co-Director of the Frankfurt-Tel Aviv Center for the Study of Religious and Interreligious Dynamics at Tel Aviv University. He is also Senior Fellow of the Goethe University's Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften, Bad Homburg.

#4379

Wendy Levinson

#56480

Overall Influence

Wendy Levinson MD is a Canadian physician and academic. She is the Chair of Choosing Wisely Canada, "a campaign to help physicians and patients engage in conversations about unnecessary tests, treatments and procedures". She is also Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto.

#4380

Robert Glen Hart

#107088

Overall Influence

#4381

Carl Grunfeld

#107092

Overall Influence

#4382

Vincent A. Miller

#107106

Overall Influence

#4383

William Oh

#107109

Overall Influence

#4384

Stewart Sell

#107121

Overall Influence

#4385

Wolfram Sterry

#107122

Overall Influence

#4386

William Beverly White

#107133

Overall Influence

#4387

Hiroshi Nakajima

#16049

Overall Influence

1928 - 2013 (85 years)

Hiroshi Nakajima was a Japanese doctor known chiefly for his tenure as Director-General of the World Health Organization. Early life and education He was born in Chiba, Japan, on 16 May 1928. In 1955 Nakajima received his M.D. from Tokyo Medical University, Japan. He then studied in Paris.

#4388

James Lawson

#18208

Overall Influence

1928 - Present (98 years)

James Morris Lawson Jr. is an American activist and university professor. He was a leading theoretician and tactician of nonviolence within the Civil Rights Movement. During the 1960s, he served as a mentor to the Nashville Student Movement and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. He was expelled from Vanderbilt University for his civil rights activism in 1960, and later served as a pastor in Los Angeles for 25 years.

#4389

Kari Juhani Syrjänen

#107211

Overall Influence

#4390

Raymond F. Burk

#107224

Overall Influence

#4391

Andrzej Szczeklik

Andrzej Szczeklik

#20071

Overall Influence

1938 - 2012 (74 years)

Andrzej Szczeklik was a Polish immunologist working at the Jagiellonian University School of Medicine in Kraków. Having received numerous distinctions for his research, Szczeklik was also well known as a writer.

#4392

Ignac Fogelman

#107232

Overall Influence

#4393

Leslie Cannold

#45494

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Leslie Cannold is an Australian philosopher, ethicist, educationalist, writer, activist, and public intellectual. Education and career Born and raised in Armonk and Scarsdale, New York, Leslie Cannold migrated to Melbourne in her early twenties. She began writing for The Age as an opinion and education section columnist while raising young children and completing her graduate degrees.

#4394

Alexander Gordon Bearn

#47730

Overall Influence

1923 - 2009 (86 years)

Alexander Gordon Bearn informally Alick Bearn , a physician, scientist and author, was professor at Rockefeller University and Cornell University Medical College. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and had been Executive Officer of the American Philosophical Society. He died Friday, May 15, 2009, in Philadelphia. Prior to his death Bearn was working on a family history that followed the Bearn family from Béarn, France to Angus, Scotland and finally to the United States.

#4395

Prasenjit Biswas

#88276

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Prasenjit Biswas is a Professor of philosophy at North Eastern Hill University, Shillong. His research interests reflect an interdisciplinary orientation that includes ethno-philosophy, ethnicity, and indigenous identities. He is a human rights defender who works with Barak Human Right Protection Committee , Silchar. The BHRPC defended human rights of labourers and their families in tea gardens of Barak Valley of Assam, who faced deaths due to starvation in 2011–12. The National Human Rights' Commission of India granted relief and compensation to some of the families who suffered due to starvation deaths.

#4396

Anthony Beavers

#75432

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Anthony Beavers is an American philosopher. he holds the positions of professor of philosophy, director of cognitive science, and director of The Digital Humanities Laboratory at the University of Evansville. Beavers received his MA and BA from Trinity College, Hartford and his PhD from Marquette University. He was the fourth president of the International Association for Computing and Philosophy .

#4397

Rajesh Thakker

#69590

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Rajesh Vasantlal Thakker is May Professor of Medicine in the Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Somerville College, Oxford. Thakker is also a Consultant physician at the Churchill Hospital and the John Radcliffe Hospital, Principal investigator at the Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism and was Chairman of the NIHR/MRC Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation Board until Spring 2016.

#4398

Daniel Francis Mcauley

#107304

Overall Influence

#4399

Nir Giladi

#107320

Overall Influence

#4400

Nikša Gligo

#85939

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Nikša Gligo is a Croatian musicologist and university professor. Gligo's scientific interests include 20th-century music, music terminology, the aesthetics of music, and music semiology. He has been involved with the Music Biennale Zagreb in various capacities from 1973 to 1991 and from 2002 to the present. He served as the art director of the 10th Biennale in 1979. He has been a full member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts since 2006 and a member of section Musicology & History of Art & Architecture of the Academia Europaea since 2014.

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