The Most Influential People Across History
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List of the most influential people
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William T. Williams
#36313
Overall Influence
1942 - Present (84 years)
William T. Williams is an American painter and educator. He is known for his process-based approach to painting that engages motifs drawn from personal memory and cultural narrative to create non-referential, abstract compositions. He was a Professor of Art at Brooklyn College, City University of New York from 1971 to 2008.
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Sara van de Geer
#36314
Overall Influence
1958 - Present (68 years)
Sara Anna van de Geer is a Dutch statistician who is a professor in the department of mathematics at ETH Zurich. She is the daughter of psychologist John P. van de Geer. Education She earned a master's degree in 1982 and a doctorate in mathematics in 1987 from Leiden University. Her dissertation, entitled Regression Analysis and Empirical Processes, was supervised by Willem Rutger van Zwet and Richard D. Gill.
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Lennart Olsson
#36315
Overall Influence
1961 - Present (65 years)
Lennart Olsson, born 1961, is a Swedish zoologist and embryologist, professor of comparative zoology at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany. Olsson focuses his research primarily on the embryological development of the vertebrate head. He is also a major contributor to the history of ideas in comparative anatomy.
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Rico Verhoeven
#36316
Overall Influence
1989 - Present (37 years)
Ricardo Verhoeven is a Dutch professional kickboxer who currently competes in the heavyweight division of GLORY, where he is the reigning Glory Heavyweight Champion. A professional since 2004, he also competed in the K-1, It's Showtime and SUPERKOMBAT promotions. He is currently ranked the number one heavyweight in the world by Combat Press. Verhoeven has been continually ranked as the number one heavyweight kickboxer in the world by Combat Press since September 2014, when the rankings were first established.
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Pancho Segura
#36317
Overall Influence
1921 - 2017 (96 years)
Francisco Olegario Segura Cano , better known as Pancho "Segoo" Segura, was a leading tennis player of the 1940s and 1950s, both as an amateur and as a professional. He was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador, but moved to the United States in 1940. Throughout his amateur career he was listed by the USTA as a "foreign" player resident in the U.S. As a professional player, he was referred to as the "Ecuadorian champ who now lives in New York City". After acquiring U.S. citizenship in 1991 at the age of seventy, Segura was a citizen of both countries, although he never represented the U.S. in tennis co...
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Quirino Principe
#36318
Overall Influence
1935 - Present (91 years)
Quirino Principe is an Italian philosopher of music, Germanist, translator and dramatist. actor. Teaching activity Principe holds a degree in Philosophy from the University of Padua. He taught on the musicology courses of the "G. Verdi" Conservatory of Milan. Further teaching engagements have included those at the University of Trieste , at Roma Tre "Ostiense" University and at Verona Accademia per l'Opera Italiana .
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Nikolaus Wachsmann
#36319
Overall Influence
1971 - Present (55 years)
Nikolaus Daniel Wachsmann is a professor of modern European history in the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology at Birkbeck College, University of London. Academic career Wachsmann was born in Munich. He graduated from the London School of Economics with a Bachelor of Science degree, from the University of Cambridge with a taught Master of Philosophy degree, and from the University of London with a Doctor of Philosophy degree. His doctoral thesis, which he completed in 2001, was titled "Reform and Repression: Prisons and Penal Policy in Germany, 1918–1939".
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Anneli Cahn Lax
#36320
Overall Influence
1922 - 1999 (77 years)
Anneli Cahn Lax was an American mathematician, who was known for being an editor of the Mathematics Association of America's New Mathematical Library Series, and for her work in reforming mathematics education with the inclusion of language skills. Anneli Lax received a bachelor's degree in 1942 from Adelphi University and her doctorate in 1956. She was a professor of mathematics at New York University's Courant Institute. She was married to the mathematician Peter Lax.
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Dolph Schluter
#36321
Overall Influence
1955 - Present (71 years)
Dolph Schluter is a Canadian professor of Evolutionary Biology and a Canada Research Chair in the Department of Zoology at the University of British Columbia. Schluter is a major researcher in adaptive radiation and currently studies speciation in the three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus.
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Monika Fludernik
#36322
Overall Influence
1957 - Present (69 years)
Monika Fludernik , a native Austrian, is professor of English literature and culture at the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg, Germany. Fludernik earned her doctorate at the University of Graz, Austria, where she studied with professor Franz Karl Stanzel. In 1984, she took up an associate professorship at the University of Vienna, and since 1994 she has been a full professor at Freiburg. Fludernik has held several temporary fellowships, at the Universities of Oxford, and Harvard, among other places, and she is a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Since 2008 she is al...
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Domina Eberle Spencer
#36323
Overall Influence
1920 - 2022 (102 years)
Domina Eberle Spencer was an American mathematician who was Professor at the University of Connecticut. Spencer was born on September 26, 1920, and earned her Ph.D. in 1942 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the supervision of Dirk Jan Struik. She worked on electrodynamics and field theory.
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Eddie Glaude
#36324
Overall Influence
1968 - Present (58 years)
Eddie S. Glaude Jr. is an American academic, author, and current-affairs pundit. He is currently the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University. He has previously been the chair of Princeton's Center for African American Studies and the chair of its Department of African American Studies. He has authored five books, and edited or co-edited two others. He has published articles on U.S. media platforms such as Time and the Huffington Post. He is a contributor to the MSNBC cable news channel, and frequently appears as a commentator o...
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Chris Columbus
#36325
Overall Influence
1958 - Present (68 years)
Chris Joseph Columbus is an American filmmaker. Born in Spangler, Pennsylvania, Columbus studied film at Tisch School of the Arts where he developed an interest in filmmaking. After writing screenplays for several teen comedies in the mid-1980s, he made his directorial debut with a teen adventure, Adventures in Babysitting . Columbus gained recognition soon after with the highly successful Christmas comedy Home Alone and its sequel Home Alone 2: Lost in New York .
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Karen Kwiatkowski
#36326
Overall Influence
1960 - Present (66 years)
Karen U. Kwiatkowski, née Unger, is an American activist and commentator. She is a retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel whose assignments included duties as a Pentagon desk officer and a variety of roles for the National Security Agency. Since retiring, she has become a noted critic of the U.S. government's involvement in Iraq. Kwiatkowski is primarily known for her insider essays which denounce a corrupting political influence on the course of military intelligence leading up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003. In 2012, she challenged incumbent Bob Goodlatte, in the Republican primary for ...
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Finn Bálor
#36327
Overall Influence
1981 - Present (45 years)
Fergal Devitt is an Irish professional wrestler. He is currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the Raw brand under the ring name Finn Bálor . He is a member of The Judgment Day stable and is one-half of the Undisputed WWE Tag Team Champions with stablemate Damian Priest in their second reign. Under the Undisputed Tag Team Championship banner, this is his second reign with both the Raw Tag Team Championship and SmackDown Tag Team Championship, making him an overall four-time tag team champion in WWE.
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Donald F. Hunt
#36328
Overall Influence
Donald F. Hunt is the University Professor of Chemistry and Pathology at the University of Virginia. He is known for his research in the field of mass spectrometry, he developed electron capture negative ion mass spectrometry. He has received multiple awards for his work including the Distinguished Contribution Award from the American Society for Mass Spectrometry and the Thomson Medal from the International Mass Spectrometry Society.
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Amy Bower
#36329
Overall Influence
Amy Bower is an American physical oceanographer at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. She is known for her research on ocean circulation and for being one of the few blind oceanographers. Career Bower received a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics at Tufts University and her PhD in Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island. Bower is a senior scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. She was the chair of the Physical Oceanography Department from 2018 to 2022. She attended Tufts University as an undergraduate and the University of Rhode Island fo...
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Amanda Chetwynd
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Overall Influence
Amanda G. Chetwynd is a British mathematician and statistician specializing in combinatorics and spatial statistics. She is Professor of Mathematics and Statistics and Provost for Student Experience, Colleges and the Library at Lancaster University, and a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
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Anna D. Shapiro
#36331
Overall Influence
1967 - Present (59 years)
Anna Davida Shapiro is an American theater director, was the artistic director of the Steppenwolf Theater Company, and a professor at Northwestern University. Throughout her career, she has directed both the Steppenwolf Theater Company production of August: Osage County along with its Broadway debut , the Broadway debuts of The Motherfucker with the Hat and Fish in the Dark , and Broadway revivals of This Is Our Youth and Of Mice and Men, both in 2014. She won the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play for her direction of August: Osage County.
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Yuan Weishi
#36332
Overall Influence
1931 - Present (95 years)
Yuan Weishi is a Chinese historian and philosopher. Biography Yuan was born in Xingning, Guangdong. He was admitted to Zhongshan University Department of Economics in 1950, and then went to a master program in political economy at Fudan University. He worked as a faculty member at Zhongshan University Department of Philosophy.
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Anne Cheng
#36333
Overall Influence
1955 - Present (71 years)
Anne Cheng is a French Sinologist who teaches at the Collège de France and specializes in Chinese history and the history of Chinese philosophy. Pablo Ariel Blitstein, the author of "A new debate about alterity," describes her as an "important representative of French sinology".
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Mark L. Wolf
#36334
Overall Influence
1946 - Present (80 years)
Mark Lawrence Wolf is a Senior Judge for the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts and founder and chair of Integrity Initiatives International. In 1985, Wolf was nominated to the U.S. District Court by the President, confirmed by the Senate, and took office. In 2006, he became Chief Judge of the Court of Massachusetts and served in the position until 2013. He was also a member of the Judicial Conference of the United States, having previously served on its committees on Criminal Law, the Rules of Criminal Procedure, and Codes of Conduct. On January 1, 2013, Wolf took Senior Status.
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Sarah O'Connor
#36335
Overall Influence
1950 - Present (76 years)
Sarah E. O'Connor is an American molecular biologist working to understand the molecular machinery involved in assembling important plant natural products – vinblastine, morphine, iridoids, secologanin – and how changing the enzymes involved in this pathway lead to diverse analogs. She was a Project Leader at the John Innes Centre in the UK between 2011 and 2019. O'Connor was appointed by the Max Planck Society in 2018 to head the Department of Natural Product Biosynthesis at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, taking up her role during 2019.
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Stephen Ailes
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Overall Influence
1912 - 2001 (89 years)
Stephen Ailes was a prominent member of the District of Columbia Bar and a partner in the firm of Steptoe & Johnson. He served as the United States Under Secretary of the Army from February 9, 1961, to January 28, 1964, and as United States Secretary of the Army from January 28, 1964, to July 1, 1965. He received his undergraduate education at Princeton University, and attended the law school of West Virginia University, where he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity.
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Thomas S. Lundgren
#36337
Overall Influence
1935 - Present (91 years)
Thomas S. Lundgren is an Americann fluid dynamicist and Professor Emeritus of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics at the University of Minnesota He is known for his work in the field of theoretical fluid dynamics. In 2006, Lundgren received Fluid Dynamics Prize by the American Physical Society "for his insightful theoretical contributions to numerous areas of fluid mechanics, most notably in the fields of turbulence and vortex dynamics"
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Bipasha Basu
#36338
Overall Influence
1979 - Present (47 years)
Bipasha Basu is an Indian actress. Primarily known for her work in Hindi films, she has also appeared in Tamil, Telugu, Bengali and English films. Basu is the recipient of numerous accolades, including one Filmfare Award. Particularly known for her work in the thriller and horror film genres, and for several item numbers, she is frequently cited in the media as a sex symbol and a scream queen.
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Patrice Mangin
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Overall Influence
Professor Patrice Mangin is a widely published forensic pathologist and toxicologist, director of the University Center of Legal Medicine in Lausanne and Geneva, Switzerland. Education Mangin graduated from the Faculty of medicine Broussais-Hôtel-Dieu, University René Descartes in 1973. In 1978 he obtained his M.D. thesis at Faculty of medicine, Louis Pasteur University - Strasbourg I and later got his board certification in legal medicine in France and Switzerland in 1980 and 1996 respectively. He defended his Ph.D thesis in toxicology under Professor of Pharmacy G. Dirrheimer at Louis Pasteur University - Strasbourg I in 1985.
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David Borwein
#36340
Overall Influence
1924 - 2021 (97 years)
David Borwein was a Lithuanian-born Canadian mathematician, known for his research in the summability theory of series and integrals. He also did work in measure theory and probability theory, number theory, and approximate subgradients and coderivatives. He latterly collaborated with his son, Jonathan Borwein, and with B.A. Mares Jr. on the properties of single-variable and many-variable sinc integrals.
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Christopher Polge
#36341
Overall Influence
1926 - 2006 (80 years)
Ernest John Christopher Polge was an English biologist, most noted for his work in cryopreservation. The son of a Buckinghamshire farmer, he was educated at Bootham School in York, before going to the University of Reading where he studied Agriculture, graduating with an Ordinary degree. He worked briefly as an agricultural economist before joining the Division of Experimental Biology at the National Institute for Medical Research at Mill Hill, London, and later the Animal Research Station at Cambridge, where he worked under Sir John Hammond
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Ellis R. Kerley
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Overall Influence
1924 - 1998 (74 years)
Ellis R. Kerley was an American anthropologist, and pioneer in the field of Forensic anthropology, which is a field of expertise particularly useful to criminal investigators and for the identification of human remains for humanitarian purposes. Best known for his work in age dating of specimens, Kerley also made humanitarian contributions by identifying the remains of repatriated American soldiers from the Korean and Vietnam Wars.
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Tino Villanueva
#36343
Overall Influence
1941 - Present (85 years)
Tino Villanueva is an American poet and writer. His early work was associated with the Chicano literary renaissance of the 1960s and 1970s, and Villanueva is considered to be a primary figure in that literary movement. More recently, Villanueva's work has treated themes from Greek mythology.
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E. Norman Veasey
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Overall Influence
1933 - Present (93 years)
E. Norman Veasey is a former Chief Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court. Born in Wilmington, Delaware, Veasey attended the local schools, before completing his secondary education at the Peddie School, and receiving a B.A. from Dartmouth College in 1954, and an LL.B. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1957. From his admission to the Delaware bar in 1958 until 1993, Veasey practiced was the law firm of Richards, Layton & Finger. There, he became a partner in 1963, managing partner in the 1970s, and president of the firm in the mid-1980s.
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Tsuneo Nakahara
#36345
Overall Influence
1930 - 2016 (86 years)
Tsuneo Nakahara was a Japanese communications engineer, executive advisor to the CEO of Sumitomo Electric. He was one of the main researchers contributing to the development of optical fiber technology.
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Stanley M. Horton
#36346
Overall Influence
1916 - 2014 (98 years)
Stanley Monroe Horton , was an American Renewal theologian within the Pentecostal movement and the author of numerous books. He served as the senior editorial advisor for the Modern English Version Bible, and he was Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Bible and Theology at the Assemblies of God USA, Springfield, Missouri.
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Charles Thomas
#36347
Overall Influence
1928 - 2016 (88 years)
Antony Charles Thomas, was a British historian and archaeologist who was Professor of Cornish Studies at Exeter University, and the first Director of the Institute of Cornish Studies, from 1971 until his retirement in 1991. He was recognised as a Bard of the Cornish Gorseth with the name Gwas Godhyan in 1953.
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Hollis B. Chenery
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Overall Influence
1918 - 1994 (76 years)
Hollis Burnley Chenery was an American economist well known for his pioneering contribution in the field of development economics. Early life Chenery was born in Richmond, son of Christopher Chenery, a businessman and horseman. He was educated in Virginia, Pelham Manor, New York and at the University of Arizona , the University of Oklahoma , and California Institute of Technology . He served in the United States Army Air Forces in World War II. After the war he earned degrees from the University of Virginia and Harvard University . His doctoral dissertation, entitled Engineering Bases of Eco...
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Daniel Kastler
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Overall Influence
1926 - 2015 (89 years)
Daniel Kastler was a French theoretical physicist, working on the foundations of quantum field theory and on non-commutative geometry. Biography Daniel Kastler was born on March 4, 1926, in Colmar, a city of north-eastern France. He is the son of the Physics Nobel Prize laureate Alfred Kastler. In 1946 he enrolled at the École Normale Superieure in Paris. In 1950 he moved to Germany and became lecturer at the Saarland University. In 1953, he was promoted to associate professor and obtained a doctorate in quantum chemistry. In 1957 Kastler moved to the University of Aix-Marseille and became a full professor in 1959.
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Robert Legget
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Overall Influence
1904 - 1994 (90 years)
Robert Ferguson Legget was a civil engineer, historian and non-fiction writer. He is internationally known for his contributions to engineering, geology and building research and standardization. He is credited with the establishment of co-operation among Canadian geotechnical engineers, geologists and pedologists.
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Michael Harris
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Overall Influence
1953 - Present (73 years)
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Ibtesam Badhrees
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Overall Influence
1901 - Present (125 years)
Ibtesam Saeed Badhrees is a research scientist in experimental particle physics at King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology and a Distinguished Fellow of New Westminster College. Badhrees is the first Saudi woman member of CERN. In addition, she is the first Saudi female PhD holder to work in the National Center for Mathematics and Physics in King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology. Her research areas are in Experimental Elementary Particle Physics, Astrophysics, Medical Physics and Nuclear Physics. In addition, Badhrees acts as an adjunct professor at Carleton University in Can...
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Goli Taraghi
#36353
Overall Influence
1939 - Present (87 years)
Zohreh Taraghi-Moghadam, better known as Goli Taraghi is an Iranian novelist and short story writer. Life Goli Taraghi's father Lotfollah Taraghi was a member of parliament, publisher and journalist, and her mother was from a widely cultured family. Born and raised in Tehran, she attended Drake University in the United States, gaining an undergraduate degree in philosophy. Returning to Iran, she obtained a master's degree from Tehran University in 1967 and worked throughout the 1960s as a specialist in international relations for the Plan Organization. In the 1970s she taught courses in philosophy, mythology and symbolism at Tehran University.
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Harvey Einbinder
#36354
Overall Influence
1926 - 2013 (87 years)
Dr. Harvey Einbinder was an American physicist, author and amateur historian. Early life Einbinder was born to Jacob B. Einbinder and Dora in New Haven, Connecticut. He had one brother, David, and one sister, Hinde.
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John Kenrick
#36355
Overall Influence
1959 - Present (67 years)
John Kenrick is an American author, teacher and theatre and film historian. Kenrick is an adjunct teacher of musical theatre history at New York University, Brind School – University of the Arts and The New School, and lectures frequently on the subject elsewhere. His 2008 book Musical Theatre: A History is a comprehensive history of musical theatre from ancient times to the present. Kenrick is the curator of the extensive musical theatre and film website Musicals101.com: The Cyber Encyclopedia of Musical Theatre, TV and Film
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Marion Koopmans
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Overall Influence
1956 - Present (70 years)
Maria Petronella Gerarda Koopmans is a Dutch virologist who is Head of the Erasmus MC Department of Viroscience. Her research considers emerging infectious diseases, noroviruses and veterinary medicine. In 2018 she was awarded the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research Stevin Prize. She serves on the scientific advisory group of the World Health Organization.
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Krzysztof Michalski
#36357
Overall Influence
1948 - 2013 (65 years)
Krzysztof Michalski was a Polish philosopher and the rector of Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen founded by him in Vienna in 1982. Life Krzysztof Michalski was born in Warsaw. He studied philosophy at the University of Warsaw, where he received his Ph.D. in 1974 with a thesis on Heidegger and Contemporary Philosophy. In 1977, he spent one year in Germany as a Humboldt Fellow, from 1978 onwards he taught philosophy at the University of Warsaw. In 1981/82 he was a Thyssen Fellow at the Heidelberg University and in 1982/1983 a Fellow Commoner of Churchill College at Cambridge. In 1986, he was habilitated for Philosophy at the University of Warsaw with the study Logic and Time.
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Kazim Ali
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Overall Influence
1971 - Present (55 years)
Kazim Ali is an American poet, novelist, essayist, and professor. His most recent books are Inquisition and All One's Blue . His honors include an Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council. His poetry and essays have been featured in many literary journals and magazines including The American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Barrow Street, Jubilat, The Iowa Review, West Branch and Massachusetts Review, and in anthologies including The Best American Poetry 2007.
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John Allen Clements
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Overall Influence
1923 - Present (103 years)
John Allen Clements is a physician known for his role in the study of pulmonary surfactant. He graduated from Weill Cornell Medical College in 1947. He is a professor at University of California, San Francisco.
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C. K. Stead
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Overall Influence
1932 - Present (94 years)
Christian Karlson "Karl" Stead is a New Zealand writer whose works include novels, poetry, short stories, and literary criticism. He is one of New Zealand's most well-known and internationally celebrated writers.
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James F. Jones
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Overall Influence
1947 - Present (79 years)
James F. Jones Jr. is an American academic administrator and educator. He began his career as a professor of Romance languages and other humanities. His administrative posts have included being vice provost of Southern Methodist University and dean of its Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences; president of Kalamazoo College; president of Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut; and interim president of Sweet Briar College.
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Antoine de La Garanderie
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Overall Influence
1920 - 2010 (90 years)
Antoine de La Garanderie was a French educator and philosopher. Honours 1970, Montyon Prize: La Valeur de l'ennui Bibliography Charles Gardou , La gestion mentale en questions. À propos des travaux d'Antoine de La Garanderie. Ramonville Saint-Agne, Éditions Érès, 1995.Jean-Pierre GatéÉduquer au sens de l'écrit. Paris, Éditions Nathan, 1998.T. Payen de la Garanderie , Introduction à Antoine de La Garanderie. Naissance d'un pédagogue. Lyon, Chroniques sociales, 2007.A. Géninet, M. Giroul, T. Payen de La Garanderie , Vocabulaire de la gestion mentale. Lyon, Chroniques sociales, 2009.La pensée d'...
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