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#29201

Timothy B. Schmit

Timothy B. Schmit

#29212

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Timothy Bruce Schmit is an American musician, singer, and songwriter. He has performed as the bassist and vocalist for Poco and the Eagles, having replaced bassist and vocalist Randy Meisner in both cases. Schmit has also worked for decades as a session musician and solo artist. In 1998, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Eagles.

#29202

Mitch Kupchak

#29213

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Mitchell Kupchak is an American professional basketball executive and retired player. He is the current president of basketball operations and general manager of the Charlotte Hornets of the National Basketball Association . As a college player, Kupchak was an All-American at the University of North Carolina and a member of the gold medal-winning 1976 United States Olympic team. As a professional player, he won three NBA titles – one as a member of the Washington Bullets and two with the Los Angeles Lakers.

#29203

Garry Monk

#29214

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (47 years)

Garry Alan Monk is an English football manager and former professional player who played as a centre back, and was most recently the manager of Championship club Sheffield Wednesday. His managerial career includes spells at Swansea City, Leeds United, Middlesbrough and Birmingham City.

#29204

William H. Beaver

#29215

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

William H. Beaver is an accounting researcher and educator. He is the Joan E. Horngren Professor of Accounting, Emeritus, at Stanford University. Early in his career, he was professor at University of Chicago.

#29205

Susan Montgomery

#29216

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

M. Susan Montgomery is a distinguished American mathematician whose current research interests concern noncommutative algebras: in particular, Hopf algebras, their structure and representations, and their actions on other algebras. Her early research was on group actionss on rings.

#29206

Sandie Shaw

#29217

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Sandie Shaw is a retired English pop singer. One of the most successful British female singers of the 1960s, she had three UK number one singles with " Always Something There to Remind Me" , "Long Live Love" and "Puppet on a String" . With the latter, she became the first British entry to win the Eurovision Song Contest. She returned to the UK Top 40, for the first time in 15 years, with her 1984 cover of the Smiths song "Hand in Glove". Shaw retired from the music industry in 2013.

#29207

H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr.

#29218

Overall Influence

1941 - 2018 (77 years)

Hugo Tristram Engelhardt Jr. was an American philosopher, holding doctorates in both philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin and medicine from Tulane University. He was a professor of philosophy at Rice University, in Houston, Texas, specializing in the history and philosophy of medicine, particularly from the standpoint of continental philosophy. He was also a professor emeritus at Baylor College of Medicine, and a member of the Baylor Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy.

#29208

Norman Mineta

#29219

Overall Influence

1931 - 2022 (91 years)

Norman Yoshio Mineta was an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party, Mineta served in the United States Cabinet for Presidents Bill Clinton, a Democrat, and George W. Bush, a Republican.

#29209

Norman Orentreich

#29220

Overall Influence

1922 - 2019 (97 years)

Norman Orentreich was a New York dermatologist and the father of modern hair transplantation. Orentreich created Estee Lauder Companies' Clinique line of skin care products, invented a number of dermatologic procedures and was the first president of the American Society for Dermatologic Surgery. He is the founder of the Orentreich Medical Group and the Orentreich Foundation for the Advancement of Science, and the co-director of the latter organization.

#29210

Lawrence Weed

#29221

Overall Influence

1923 - 2017 (94 years)

Lawrence Leonard Weed was an American physician, researcher, educator, entrepreneur and author, who is best known for creating the problem-oriented medical record as well as one of the first electronic health records.

#29211

Henry Morgan

#29222

Overall Influence

1915 - 1994 (79 years)

Henry Morgan was an American humorist. He first became familiar to radio audiences in the 1930s and 1940s as a barbed but often self-deprecating satirist. In the 1950s and later he was a regular and cantankerous panelist on the game show I've Got a Secret as well as other game and talk shows.

#29212

Alex F. T. W. Rosenberg

#29223

Overall Influence

1926 - 2007 (81 years)

Alex F. T. W. Rosenberg was a German-American mathematician who served as the editor of the Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society from 1960 to 1965, and of the American Mathematical Monthly from 1974 to 1976.

#29213

Benjamin Olken

#29224

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (51 years)

Benjamin A. Olken is an American economist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . Olken is one of the directors of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab , a research centre specializing on the use of randomized evaluations for the purpose of studying poverty alleviation. His research focuses on the political economy of developing countries, especially regarding the role of corruption and the impact of interventions addressing corruption.

#29214

Nicholas Kollerstrom

#29225

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Nicholas Kollerstrom is an English historian of science and author who is known for the promotion of Holocaust denial and other conspiracy theories. Formerly an honorary research fellow in The Department for Science and Technology Studies at University College London , he is the author of several books, including Gardening and Planting by the Moon , Newton's Forgotten Lunar Theory , Crop Circles , and Terror on the Tube . He has also written entries for the Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers.

#29215

John Whiting

#29226

Overall Influence

1908 - 1999 (91 years)

John Wesley Mayhew Whiting was an American sociologist and anthropologist, specializing in child development. Whiting grew up on Martha's Vineyard, on the Massachusetts coast. He received his B.A. in 1931 and his Ph.D. in sociology & anthropology in 1938, both from Yale University. He remained at Yale until 1947 on the staff of Yale Institute of Human Relations. After two years at the State University of Iowa, he was offered a position at Harvard in the Graduate School of Education. In 1963 he transferred to the Department of Social Relations, where he taught and conducted research in anthro...

#29216

Harold A. Netland

#29227

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Harold A. Netland , is a missionary educator turned academic. He is the author or editor of nine books and many journal articles on the topic of religion and philosophy. Career Netland did his undergraduate work at Biola University and received his M.A. and Ph.D. from Claremont Graduate University. He worked in Japan for the Evangelical Free Church of America for nine years. In 1993 he moved back to the United States and joined Trinity Evangelical Divinity School as Professor of Philosophy of Religion and Intercultural Studies. He is the Director of the PhD/Intercultural Studies program at 'T...

#29217

Endre Süli

#29228

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Endre Süli is a mathematician. He is Professor of Numerical Analysis in the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, Fellow and Tutor in Mathematics at Worcester College, Oxford and Adjunct Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford. He was educated at the University of Belgrade and, as a British Council Visiting Student, at the University of Reading and St Catherine's College, Oxford. His research is concerned with the mathematical analysis of numerical algorithms for nonlinear partial differential equations.

#29218

Christopher Coyne

Christopher Coyne

#29229

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (49 years)

Christopher J. Coyne is the F.A. Harper Professor of Economics at George Mason University and the associate director of the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center.

#29219

Dimiter Skordev

Dimiter Skordev

#29230

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

Dimiter Skordev is a professor in the Department of Mathematical Logic and Applications, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Sofia. Chairman of the department in 1972-2000. Doyen and pioneer of mathematical logic research in Bulgaria who developed a Bulgarian school in the theory of computability, namely the algebraic recursion theory. He was the 1981 winner of Acad. Nikola Obreshkov Prize, the highest Bulgarian award in mathematics, bestowed for his monograph Combinatory Spaces and Recursiveness in Them.

#29220

Ulf Ellervik

#29231

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Ulf Ellervik is a Swedish professor of bioorganic chemistry at Lund University. Ellervik's main research area is carbohydrates, such as eye drops against the viral disease epidemic keratoconjunctivitis and the carbohydrate xylose as the cure for cancer. Ellervik received his undergraduate training at the Faculty of Engineering where he started in 1989. He graduated as M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering in 1993 and began research in organic chemistry in 1994. After presenting his thesis in October 1998 he spent almost two years working at California Institute of Technology as a post-doctoral fellow.

#29221

Guy Bertrand

#29232

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Guy Bertrand, born on July 17, 1952, at Limoges is a chemistry professor at the University of California, San Diego. Bertrand obtained his B.Sc. from the University of Montpellier in 1975 and his Ph.D. from the Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, in 1979. He was a postdoctoral researcher at Sanofi Research, France, in 1981.

#29222

Susan Friedlander

Susan Friedlander

#29233

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Susan Jean Friedlander is an American mathematician. Her research concerns mathematical fluid dynamics, the Euler equations and the Navier-Stokes equations. Education Friedlander graduated from University College, London with a BS in Mathematics in 1967. She was awarded a Kennedy Scholarship to study at MIT, where she earned an MS in 1970. She completed her doctorate in 1972 from Princeton University under the supervision of Louis Norberg Howard.

#29223

M. Shahid Qureshi

M. Shahid Qureshi

#29234

Overall Influence

Muhammad Shahid Qureshi or Shahid Qureshi, styled as M. Shahid Qureshi, is a Pakistani mathematician, astrophysicist and a renowned astronomer. He is an academic and an eminent educationist from Pakistan who has published articles in the fields of astrophysics and astronomy. He is the retired professor of astrophysics and astronomy at Karachi University and Institute of Space and Planetary Astrophysics , and former director of ISPA, the country's prominent institution in the field of planetary astrophysics and planetary astronomy. He previously served as an assistant professor of mathematics and computer science.

#29224

Javed Miandad

#29235

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Mohammad Javed Miandad PP SI , popularly known as Javed Miandad , is a Pakistani cricket coach, commentator and former cricketer known for his unconventional style of captaincy and batting. ESPNcricinfo described him as "the greatest batsman Pakistan has ever produced" and his contemporary Ian Chappell extolled him as one of the finest batsmen in the history of cricket.

#29225

Christopher Fynsk

#29236

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Christopher Ingebreth Fynsk is an American philosopher. He is Professor and Dean of the Division of Philosophy, Art, and Critical Thought at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland and Professor Emeritus at the University of Aberdeen. He is well known for his work relating the political and literary aspects of continental philosophy. Fynsk's work is closely involved with that of Martin Heidegger, Maurice Blanchot, Emmanuel Levinas, Walter Benjamin and several contemporary artists, including Francis Bacon and Salvatore Puglia.

#29226

Donald L. Turcotte

#29237

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (94 years)

Donald Lawson Turcotte is an American geophysicist most noted for his work on the boundary layer theory of mantle convection as part of the theory of plate tectonics. He works at the University of California, Davis.

#29227

Mark Josephson

#29238

Overall Influence

1943 - 2017 (74 years)

Mark E. Josephson was an American cardiologist and writer, who was in the 1970s one of the American pioneers of the medical cardiology subspecialty of cardiac electrophysiology. His book titled Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology: Techniques and Interpretations is widely acknowledged as the definitive treatment of the discipline. He served as Herman Dana Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, director of the Harvard-Thorndike Electrophysiology Institute and Arrhythmia Service and the chief of cardiology at Harvard University's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.

#29228

Giovanni Orsina

Giovanni Orsina

#29239

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Giovanni Orsina is a full professor of Contemporary History at LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome. His main fields of research and teaching are the history of political parties, comparative history of European political systems and the history of journalism. For the academic year 2008/2009 he was director of the new Master in European Studies programme.

#29229

Barbara Stühlmeyer

Barbara Stühlmeyer

#29240

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Barbara Stühlmeyer OblOSB is a German theologian, musicologist, author, especially a Hildegard scholar and a science journalism. Biography Stühlmeyer was born in Bremen. After completing her A levels at the Altes Gymnasium in Bremen and her organ studies with church music director Winfrid Langosz, whom she assisted at the Catholic Provost church St. John's Bremen, she studied Christian music at the University of the Arts Bremen . During her scientific studies from 1988 to 1994 she studied Catholic theology with Arnold Angenendt and Klemens Richter, philosophy with Berthhold Wald and musicology with Axel Beer and Winfried Schepporst at the Westfaelische Wilhelms Universitaet in Muenster.

#29230

Satyabrata Rai Chowdhuri

Satyabrata Rai Chowdhuri

#29241

Overall Influence

1935 - 2016 (81 years)

Satyabrata Rai Chowdhuri was an Indian political scientist, political historian and international relations expert. He was a senior research fellow in international relations at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, United Kingdom, and an Emeritus Professor of Political Science at India's University Grants Commission. Earlier he taught at the universities of Calcutta, Rabindra Bharati, London and Oxford.

#29231

Susan Rubin Suleiman

#29242

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Susan Rubin Suleiman is a Hungarian-born American literary scholar. She is the C. Douglas Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University.

#29232

Carol Meyers

#29243

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Carol Lyons Meyers is an American feminist biblical scholar. She is the Mary Grace Wilson Professor Emerita of Religious Studies at Duke University. Meyers' field of research is focused on biblical studies, archaeology in the Middle East, and the study of women in the biblical world.

#29233

Les Ebdon

#29244

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Sir Leslie Colin Ebdon CBE DL is the former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bedfordshire and Director of Fair Access to Higher Education . Education Ebdon attended Hemel Hempstead Grammar School . Ebdon went on to obtain both his BSc in Chemistry in 1968 and PhD in 1971 at Imperial College London.

#29234

C. J. F. Williams

#29245

Overall Influence

1930 - 1997 (67 years)

Christopher John Fardo Williams was a British philosopher. His areas of interest were philosophical logic, on which topic he did most of his original work, and ancient philosophy, as an editor and translator.

#29235

Brian Kemp

#29246

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Brian Porter Kemp is an American politician serving since January 2019 as the 83rd governor of Georgia. A member of the Republican Party, Kemp served as the 27th secretary of state of Georgia from 2010 to 2018, and as a member of the Georgia State Senate from 2003 to 2007.

#29236

Alvin Francis Poussaint

#29247

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (92 years)

Alvin Francis Poussaint is an American psychiatrist well known for his research on the effects of racism in the black community. He is a noted author, public speaker, and television consultant, and dean of students at Harvard Medical School. His work in psychiatry is influenced greatly by the civil rights movement in the South, which he joined in 1965.

#29237

James Robert Hightower

#29248

Overall Influence

1915 - 2006 (91 years)

James Robert Hightower was an American sinologist. He was a professor of Chinese at Harvard University who specialized in the translation of Chinese literature. Although he spent his youth in Colorado, Hightower lived most of his life in Cambridge, Massachusetts studying and teaching at Harvard.

#29238

Graeme Catto

#29249

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Sir Graeme Robertson Dawson Catto FRSE, Hon FRCSE, FRCP, FRCGP, FFPM, FAoP, FMedSci FKC is a Scottish doctor who was president, later chair, of the General Medical Council until April 2009. He is also currently Emeritus Professor of Medicine at the Universities of London and Aberdeen and was an honorary consultant nephrologist at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.

#29239

John Riggins

#29250

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Robert John Riggins , nicknamed "Riggo" and "Diesel", is an American former professional football player who was a fullback in the National Football League for the New York Jets and Washington Redskins. He played college football for the Kansas Jayhawks. Riggins was known for his "bell cow" running style and productivity well into the later years of his career. In the 1983 season, at age 34, he rushed for a then-NFL record of 24 touchdowns, a record which stood for almost 20 seasons. Riggins again led the league in rushing touchdowns during the 1984 season at age 35. Although he earned only o...

#29240

Trey Fanjoy

#29251

Overall Influence

Trey Fanjoy is an American music video director. Fanjoy has directed over 150 major label music videos. Her videos have appeared on CMT, VH1, GAC, The Nashville Network, CMT Canada, and MTV. She is the first woman to win the Country Music Association Award for Video of the Year and to date, the only woman to win the award twice and one of two people to win the award three times.

#29241

Arnold Friberg

#29252

Overall Influence

1913 - 2010 (97 years)

Arnold Friberg was an American illustrator and painter noted for his religious and patriotic works. He is perhaps best known for his 1975 painting The Prayer at Valley Forge, a depiction of George Washington praying at Valley Forge. He is also well known for his 15 "pre-visualization" paintings for the Cecil B. DeMille film The Ten Commandments which were used to promote the film worldwide and for which he received an Academy Award nomination.

#29242

Mary Ellen Mazey

#29253

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Mary Ellen Mazey is an American academic who is President Emeritus of Bowling Green State University. Career Mazey served as Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs at Auburn University, as Dean of the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences at West Virginia University, and as Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Wright State University. In 1996-1997, Mazey was the appointed Director of the Office of University Partnerships for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development . In that capacity, she had oversight of HUD's $25 million in grant programs to colleges and universities across the country.

#29243

June Allyson

#29254

Overall Influence

1917 - 2006 (89 years)

June Allyson was an American stage, film, and television actress. Allyson began her career in 1937 as a dancer in short subject films and on Broadway in 1938. She signed with MGM in 1943, and rose to fame the following year in Two Girls and a Sailor. Allyson's "girl next door" image was solidified during the mid-1940s when she was paired with actor Van Johnson in six films. In 1951, she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for her performance in Too Young to Kiss. From 1959 to 1961, she hosted and occasionally starred in her own anthology series, The DuPont Show with June Allyson, whic...

#29244

Antonina Kłoskowska

#29255

Overall Influence

1919 - 2001 (82 years)

Antonina Kłoskowska , was a Polish sociologist. In her work, she focused on the sociology of culture. Kłoskowska taught at the universities Łódź and Warsaw . She was a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences since 1973 and worked in its Institute for Political Studies since 1990. Since 1983, she edited the journal Kultura i Społeczeństwo. From 1989 until 1993, she was the president of the Polish Sociological Association. With Władysław Markiewicz and others, Kłoskowska co-edited a multi-volume Polish complete edition of Bronisław Malinowski's works which appeared 1984-1990.

#29245

Eleanor Riley

#29256

Overall Influence

Eleanor Mary Riley was Director of the Roslin Institute, Dean of Research at the Royal School of Veterinary Studies, and professor of Immunology at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focusses on understanding the immune response of the host to malaria and other diseases using human data and mouse models.

#29246

Endymion Wilkinson

Endymion Wilkinson

#29257

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Endymion Porter Wilkinson is an English diplomat and sinologist who served as the European Union Ambassador to China and Mongolia from 1994 to 2001. He is particularly noted for Chinese History: A New Manual, the first version of which appeared in 1973, an authoritative guide to Sinology and Chinese history for which he was awarded the Prix Stanislas Julien for 2014. The 2022 revised and enlarged Sixth Edition consists of two volumes, 1.7-million-words, covering topics, primary sources, and scholarship from earliest times to 1976.

#29247

Michael Stuart

#29258

Overall Influence

Michael J. Stuart is an American sports physician and orthopedic surgeon. He is a professor and vice-chairman of orthopedic surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota and a co-director of the Mayo Clinic Sports Medicine Center. He has published more than 370 journal articles and 50 book chapters, as of 2022. He specializes in sports medicine, and advocates for strength, flexibility, and awareness, to reduce injuries in ice hockey. He collaborated to arrange the 2010, 2013 and 2017 Ice Hockey Summits, which focused on concussions, and educational programs for players, coaches and parents.

#29248

Jacqueline McGlade

Jacqueline McGlade

#29259

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Jacqueline Myriam McGlade is a British-born Canadian marine biologist and environmental informatics professor. Her research concerns the spatial and nonlinear dynamics of ecosystems, climate change and scenario development. She is currently professor of resilience and sustainable development at the University College London Institute for Global Prosperity and Faculty of Engineering, UK, and professor at Strathmore University in the Institute for Public Policy and Governance, Kenya.

#29249

Howard Schnellenberger

Howard Schnellenberger

#29260

Overall Influence

1934 - 2021 (87 years)

Howard Leslie Schnellenberger was an American football coach with long service at both the professional and college levels. He held head coaching positions with the National Football League 's Baltimore Colts and in college for the University of Miami, University of Oklahoma, University of Louisville, and Florida Atlantic University. He won a national championship with Miami in 1983.

#29250

Erwin Engeler

#29261

Overall Influence

1930 - Present (96 years)

Erwin Engeler is a Swiss mathematician who did pioneering work on the interrelations between logic, computer science and scientific computation in the 20th century. He was one of Paul Bernays' students at the ETH Zürich.

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