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#4701

Lawrence Alma-Tadema

Lawrence Alma-Tadema

1836 - 1912 (76 years)

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, , RWS was a Dutch painter who later settled in the United Kingdom, becoming the last officially recognised denizen in 1873. Born in Dronryp, the Netherlands, and trained at the Royal Academy of Antwerp, Belgium, he settled in London, England in 1870 and spent the rest of his life there.

#4702

Edmundo Cetina Velázquez

1896 - 1959 (63 years)

Edmundo Cetina Velázquez was a Mexican philosopher and writer from Tenosique, Tabasco. He was born in 1896 and died in 1959. He was the son of Joaquin Cetina Moreno and Maria de Jesus Velázquez. He studied at the Instituto Juárez and later became a self-taught physician and a passionate student of philosophy and exact sciences. He wrote several essays on topics such as metaphysics, ethics, logic, mathematics, physics, and biology. Some of his writings are: Algunos balbuceos sobre una filosofía de la vida , Algunos aspectos de la Relatividad , La vida y la muerte , El problema del conocimiento , and El problema del ser .

#4703

Juliana González Valenzuela

#63276

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

Juliana González Valenzuela is a Mexican philosopher. Academic biography Juliana Gonzalez is a Mexican philosopher who has worked primarily in the areas of Greek Philosophy, Ontology, Ethics and Bioethics. She was born in Mexico City in 1936. She studied in the Faculty of Philosophy and Literature of the National Autonomous University where she received an ample humanistic education in philosophy, psychology, theater and history. The time she attended university was marked by an intellectual boom due mainly to the presence of the Spanish exiles that arrived in Mexico from 1939 until the end of the Spanish Civil War.

#4704

Ronald A. Kuipers

#21322

Overall Influence

Ronald A. Kuipers is a Canadian philosopher of religion based in Toronto, Ontario. History Ronald A. Kuipers was born in Edmonton, Canada. From 1989 to 1990, Kuipers worked as the Entertainment Editor of The Gateway newspaper. In 2012, Kuipers became an Associate Professor of the philosophy of religion at the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto, Canada.

#4705

Melissa Lane

#52608

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Melissa Lane is a full professor of politics at Princeton University, a position she has held since 2009. Prior to this, she was a Senior Research Fellow of King's College, Cambridge and Associate Director of their Centre for History and Economics. She was a lecturer at Cambridge from 1994 to 2009. Her expertise is in political theory.

#4706

Eduard Verhagen

#30702

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Eduard Verhagen is an attorney and the medical director of the department of pediatrics at the University Medical Center Groningen . He is mainly known for his involvement in infant euthanasia in the Netherlands.

#4707

Carl Erik Mogensen

#81296

Overall Influence

#4708

C. Kenneth Waters

C. Kenneth Waters

#48768

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

C. Kenneth Waters holds the Canada Research Chair in Logic and the Philosophy of Science and is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Calgary, where he specializes in philosophy of biology. Education and career Waters received his undergraduate education from the University of Vermont and his M.A and PhD from Indiana University. Waters has taught at the University of Calgary since 2014, and has held previous appointments at John Carroll University, Rice University, and the University of Minnesota. Waters was the Samuel Russell Chair of Humanities at the University of Minnesota and was ...

#4709

Crates of Mallus

Crates of Mallus

200 BC - 145 BC (55 years)

Crates of Mallus was a Greek grammarian and Stoic philosopher, leader of the literary school and head of the library of Pergamum. He was described as the Crates from Mallus to distinguish him from other philosophers by the same name. His chief work was a critical and exegetical commentary on Homer. He is also famous for constructing the earliest known globe of the Earth.

#4710

Uku Masing

1909 - 1985 (76 years)

Uku Masing was an Estonian philosopher. He was a significant figure in Estonian religious philosophy. Masing also wrote poetry, mostly on religious issues. Masing authored one novel, Rapanui vabastamine ehk Kajakad jumalate kalmistul in the late 1930s, which was published posthumously in 1989. As a folklorist, he was a distinguished researcher of fairy tales, contributing to the international Encyclopedia of the Folktale. He was awarded the Righteous Among The Nations by Yad Vashem and the Israeli Supreme Court for his participation during the Holocaust in helping a Jew in Estonia escape capture from 1941 until the end of the war.

#4711

Michel Seymour

#33790

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Michel Seymour is a Canadian philosopher from Quebec and a professor at the Université de Montréal, where he has been teaching analytical philosophy since 1990. Biography After having obtained a Ph.D. in philosophy from the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières in 1986, he continued to study in the same field for several years at the Oxford University under the direction of John McDowell and at the University of California, Los Angeles under the direction of Tyler Burge. He was president of the Société de philosophie du Québec from 1994 to 1996.

#4712

Hákon Hákonarson

#80931

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Hákon Hákonarson is an Icelandic genomics researcher and physician. He is the founder and director of the Center for Applied Genomics, endowed chair in genomics at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and a professor of pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

#4713

Helen Caldicott

Helen Caldicott

#7182

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

Helen Mary Caldicott is an Australian physician, author, and anti-nuclear advocate. She founded several associations dedicated to opposing the use of nuclear power, depleted uranium munitions, nuclear weapons, nuclear weapons proliferation, and military action in general.

#4714

Boris Chicherin

Boris Chicherin

1828 - 1904 (76 years)

Boris Nikolayevich Chicherin was a Russian jurist and political philosopher, who worked out a theory that Russia needed a strong, authoritative government to persevere with liberal reforms. By the time of the Russian Revolution, Chicherin was probably the most reputable legal philosopher and historian in Russia.

#4715

Francis Asbury

1745 - 1816 (71 years)

Francis Asbury was a British-born Methodist minister who became one of the first two bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States. During his 45 years in the colonies and the newly independent United States, he devoted his life to ministry, traveling on horseback and by carriage thousands of miles to those living on the frontier.

#4716

Grover Hutchins

#68438

Overall Influence

1933 - 2010 (77 years)

Grover M. Hutchins was an American professor of pathology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, for more than 30 years, including 22 years as director of autopsy services. He was a world-renowned expert in the fields of cardiac and pediatric pathology.

#4717

Ashton Nichols

#20445

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Brooks Ashton Nichols is the Walter E. Beach ’56 Distinguished Chair Emeritus in Sustainable Studies and Professor of English Language and Literature Emeritus at Dickinson College. His interests are in literature, contemporary ecocriticism, Romanticism, and nature writing. Nichols taught courses in Romanticism, 19th century literature, literature and the environment, and nature writing. He is especially well-known for his study of James Joyce's literary concept of "epiphany," his definition of Romantic natural histories, and his coinage of the phrase "Urbanatural roosting," an idea which link...

#4718

Jeffrey M. Friedman

Jeffrey M. Friedman

#9553

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Jeffrey M. Friedman is a molecular geneticist at New York City's Rockefeller University and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. His discovery of the hormone leptin and its role in regulating body weight has had a major role in the area of human obesity. Friedman is a physician scientist studying the genetic mechanisms that regulate body weight. His research on various aspects of obesity received national attention in late 1994, when it was announced that he and his colleagues had isolated the mouse ob gene and its human homologue. They subsequently found that injections ...

#4719

Paul Ziff

#51111

Overall Influence

1920 - 2003 (83 years)

Paul Ziff was an American artist and philosopher specializing in semantics and aesthetics. Life and career He was born in New York City in 1920 to William Ziff and Bessie Goldstein Ziff. His brother Morton was born three years earlier. He studied art at Columbia University and New York's Master Institute of Arts in 1937–1939, and was a practicing artist, partially subsidized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation until 1942. He returned to New York in 1945 after serving in the United States Coast Guard to study art and philosophy at Cornell University, receiving his BFA in January 1949, and...

#4720

Claire Bombardier

#4721

Ivan Focht

#59903

Overall Influence

1927 - 1992 (65 years)

Ivan Focht was a Yugoslav philosopher and mycologist. Focht was born in Sarajevo to a Jewish family on June 7, 1927. All members of his family were killed during the Holocaust. He finished elementary and high school in Sarajevo. Focht graduated from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, after which he returned to Sarajevo where he was elected assistant at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Sarajevo. Shortly after he moved back to Zagreb where he lived for the rest of his life, until his death. Focht was philosopher of phenomenological orientation, who in the early works departed from the Marxist and psychological interpretations of art.

#4722

William Peter Castelli

#81556

Overall Influence

#4723

William of Champeaux

1070 - 1121 (51 years)

Guillaume de Champeaux , known in English as William of Champeaux and Latinised to Gulielmus de Campellis, was a French philosopher and theologian. Biography William was born at Champeaux near Melun. After studying under Anselm of Laon and Roscellinus, he taught in the school of the cathedral of Notre-Dame, of which he was made canon in 1103. Among his pupils was Peter Abelard, whom he had a disagreement with because Abelard challenged some of his ideas, and because William thought Abelard was too arrogant. Abelard calls him the "supreme master" of dialectic after he replaced his master as the new teacher.

#4724

Ecphantus the Pythagorean

Ecphantus or Ecphantos or Ephantus was an Ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher. He is identified as a Pythagorean of the 4th century BCE from Syracuse, Magna Graecia, but the details concerning his life are historically obscure; he may have not been a historical person, but rather a fictional character invented by Heraclides of Pontus for use in his philosophical dialogues. He also may have been the same figure as the attested Ecphantus of Croton.

#4725

Miyake Setsurei

Miyake Setsurei

1860 - 1945 (85 years)

Miyake Setsurei was a Japanese philosopher and author. He helped found the Society for Political Education and its magazine Nihonjin . Biography He graduated from the University of Tokyo's Department of Philosophy in 1883.

#4726

Micha Brumlik

#17041

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Micha Brumlik is professor of education at the Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. From October 2000 to 2005 he was director of the Fritz Bauer Institute for the Study and Documentation of the History of the Holocaust.

#4727

Hideo Yagita

#81652

Overall Influence

#4728

Michael Schmidt-Salomon

#42849

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Michael Schmidt-Salomon is a German author, philosopher, and public relations manager. As chairman of the Giordano Bruno Foundation, a humanist organization that is critical of religion, he has been identified as Germany's "Chief Atheist." His books include the Manifesto of Evolutionary Humanism: A Plea for a Contemporary Culture, and Die Kirche im Kopf . His children's book Wo bitte geht's zu Gott?, fragte das kleine Ferkel caused controversy for its depiction of religion.

#4729

W. Norris Clarke

#61988

Overall Influence

1915 - 2008 (93 years)

William Norris Clarke, SJ was an American Thomist philosopher and Jesuit priest. He was a president of the Metaphysical Society of America, as well as founder and editor of the International Philosophical Quarterly.

#4730

Hossein Ziai

#43377

Overall Influence

1944 - 2011 (67 years)

Hossein Ziai was a professor of Islamic Philosophy and Iranian Studies at UCLA where he held the inaugural Jahangir and Eleanor Amuzegar Chair in Iranian Studies until his passing. He received his B.S. in Intensive Physics and Mathematics from Yale University in 1967 and a Ph.D. in Islamic Philosophy from Harvard University in 1976. Prior to UCLA, Ziai taught at Tehran University, Sharif University, Harvard University, Brown University, and Oberlin College. As Director of Iranian Studies at UCLA, where he taught since 1988, Ziai established an undergraduate major in Iranian in the Department ...

#4731

Maurice Utrillo

Maurice Utrillo

1883 - 1955 (72 years)

Maurice Utrillo , born Maurice Valadon; 26 December 1883 – 5 November 1955 Biography Utrillo was the son of the artist Suzanne Valadon , who was then an eighteen-year-old artist's model. She never revealed the father of her child; speculation exists that he was the offspring of a liaison with an equally young amateur painter named Boissy, or with the well-established painter Pierre-Cécile Puvis de Chavannes, or even with Renoir. . In 1891 a Spanish artist, Miquel Utrillo, signed a legal document acknowledging paternity, although the question remains as to whether he was in fact the child's fa...

#4732

J. wayne Streilein

#81743

Overall Influence

#4733

Nader Rifai

#81758

Overall Influence

#4734

Maria Márkus

#58928

Overall Influence

1936 - 2017 (81 years)

Maria Renata Márkus was a Polish sociologist and philosopher. She was educated in philosophy at the Lomonosov University in Moscow from 1952 to 1957 and was awarded her master's degree in Poland in 1957. She moved to Hungary in 1957 and became a research fellow at the Institute of Philosophy of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and was a founding member of the Institute of Sociology at the Academy. In 2010, a Festschrift was published in her honour.

#4735

Diogenes Allen

#31495

Overall Influence

1932 - 2013 (81 years)

Diogenes Allen was an American philosopher and theologian who served as the Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Princeton Theological Seminary. He was an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church, which he served from 1958. He died in Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

#4736

Stephan Körner

#25215

Overall Influence

1913 - 2000 (87 years)

Stephan Körner, FBA was a British philosopher, who specialised in the work of Kant, the study of concepts, and in the philosophy of mathematics. Born to a Jewish family in what would soon become Czechoslovakia, Körner left that country to avoid certain death at the hands of the Nazis after the German occupation in 1939, and came to the United Kingdom as a refugee, where he began his study of philosophy; by 1952 he was a professor of philosophy at the University of Bristol, taking up a second professorship at Yale in 1970. He was married to Edith Körner, and was the father of the mathematician Thomas Körner and the biochemist, writer and translator Ann M.

#4737

Eubulides

500 BC - 400 BC (100 years)

Eubulides of Miletus was a philosopher of the Megarian school who is famous for his paradoxes. Life According to Diogenes Laërtius, Eubulides was a pupil of Euclid of Megara, the founder of the Megarian school. He was a contemporary of Aristotle, against whom he wrote with great bitterness. He taught logic to Demosthenes, and he is also said to have taught Apollonius Cronus, the teacher of Diodorus Cronus, and the historian Euphantus.

#4738

Mohammad Khatami

Mohammad Khatami

#4423

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

#4739

Larisa Maksimova

#23221

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Larisa Lvovna Maksimova is a Russian mathematical logician known for her research in non-classical logic. Education and career Maksimova was born on November 5, 1943, in Kochenyovo, the daughter of two biologists who had temporarily moved there from Tomsk State University to escape the war. She grew up in Novosibirsk, where her parents became geographers at the Novosibirsk Pedagogical Institute. She studied mechanics and mathematics at Novosibirsk State University, publishing her first paper on Wilhelm Ackermann's axioms for strict implication in relevance logic in 1964 and graduating in 1965...

#4740

Valerie G. Hardcastle

#39963

Overall Influence

Valerie G. Hardcastle is a professor of Philosophy and Psychology at The University of Cincinnati who grew up in Houston, Texas. Education She was a double major at the University of California, Berkeley, earning bachelor's degrees in Political Science and Philosophy in 1986, and then a master's degree in Philosophy from The University of Houston, and an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Cognitive Science and Philosophy from the University of California, San Diego. Her coursework has been affiliated with areas such as; Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and has most recently been focusing her time and research on the study of the neuroscience of violence.

#4741

Chuck Yeager

#588

Overall Influence

1923 - 2020 (97 years)

Brigadier General Charles Elwood Yeager was a United States Air Force officer, flying ace, and record-setting test pilot who in October 1947 became the first pilot in history confirmed to have exceeded the speed of sound in level flight.

#4742

Peter Wright

#37233

Overall Influence

Peter Edwin Wright is a scientist, an NMR spectroscopist and a professor at the Scripps Research Institute. He serves as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Molecular Biology. Education and early life Wright is from New Zealand and studied at the University of Auckland. He graduated in 1968 with a Bachelor of Science degree followed by a Master of Science degree in 1969. He completed his PhD in chemistry in 1972 with a thesis on the physico-chemical properties of metal ion sites in cuproproteins: an investigation of selected copper complexes.

#4743

A. A. Luce

1882 - 1977 (95 years)

Arthur Aston Luce was professor of philosophy at Trinity College Dublin, and also Precentor of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin . Luce held many clerical appointments, including Vice-Provost of Trinity from 1946 to 1952. He was widely known as an authority on the philosopher George Berkeley. His fellowship of Trinity College from 1912 to 1977 is a record.

#4744

Claudio Franceschi

#81840

Overall Influence

#4745

Lindley Darden

#28668

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Lindley Darden is a contemporary philosopher of science, with a research focus on the philosophy of biology. Biography She received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1974 and B.A. in 1968 from Rhodes College, and is currently Distinguished Scholar Teacher at the University of Maryland. Between 2001 and 2003, she was the president of the International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology.

#4746

Alfred Cuschieri

#20682

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

Sir Alfred Cuschieri is a Maltese-British surgeon and academic. He is most notable for his pioneering contribution to the development and clinical implementation of minimal access surgery, also known as key-hole surgery. He has been Professor of Surgery at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa, Italy, since 2003 as well as Chief Scientific Advisor to the Institute of Medical Science and Technology at the University of Dundee since 2008.

#4747

Riccardo Pozzo

#61692

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Riccardo Pozzo is an Italian philosopher and historian of philosophy. Biography Graduated in philosophy at the University of Milan in 1983, he received his Ph.D. in 1988 at Saarland University and Habilitation in 1995 at University of Trier. In 1996 he went to the U.S. to teach Kant and Hegel at the School of Philosophy of the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. In 2003 he came back to Italy to take up the chair of the History of Philosophy at University of Verona.

#4748

Joseph Lister

1827 - 1912 (85 years)

Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, was a British surgeon, medical scientist, experimental pathologist and a pioneer of antiseptic surgery and preventative medicine. Joseph Lister revolutionised the craft of surgery in the same manner that John Hunter revolutionised the science of surgery.

#4749

Rado Riha

#45595

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Rado Riha is a Slovene philosopher. He is a senior research fellow and currently the head of the Institute of Philosophy, Centre for Scientific Research at the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and coordinator of the philosophy module at the post-graduate study programme of the University of Nova Gorica.

#4750

Matt Stone

#19284

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Matthew Richard Stone is an American actor, animator, filmmaker, and composer. He is best known for co-creating South Park and The Book of Mormon with his creative partner Trey Parker. Stone was interested in film and music as a child and at high school, and attended the University of Colorado Boulder, where he met Parker. The two collaborated on various short films, and starred in the feature-length musical Cannibal! The Musical .

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