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#37251

Brigitte Granville

#37263

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Brigitte Evelyne Granville is an economist with dual French and British nationality. She is Professor of International Economics and Economic Policy in the School of Business and Management at Queen Mary University of London. She founded the Centre for Globalisation Research .

#37252

Gunther E. Rothenberg

#37264

Overall Influence

1923 - 2004 (81 years)

Gunther Erich Rothenberg was an internationally known military historian, best known for his publications on the Habsburg military and Napoleonic Wars. He had a fifteen-year military career, as a British Army soldier in World War II, a Haganah officer in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and in the United States Air Force during the Korean War.

#37253

John Bell

#37265

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Sir John Irving Bell is a Canadian-British immunologist and geneticist. From 2006 to 2011, he was President of the United Kingdom's Academy of Medical Sciences, and since 2002 he has held the Regius Chair of Medicine at the University of Oxford. He was since 2006 Chairman of the Office for Strategic Coordination of Health Research but in 2020 became a normal member. Bell was selected to the Vaccine Taskforce sometime before 1 July 2020. Bell is also on the board of directors of the SOE quango Genomics England.

#37254

David Gollaher

#37266

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

David L. Gollaher was the founding President & CEO of the California Healthcare Institute , 1993–2014, from which he joined Gilead Sciences. Initially, in 1998, he was a charter member of Gilead's Health Policy Advisotry Board, then, from 2014 to 2018, he served as the company's head of worldwide Government Affairs and Policy. Subsequently, in early 2019, he was appointed Senor Vice President of global policy and government affairs at Vir Biotechnology, an emerging growth biotech company focused on infectious diseases. He retired from Vir in 2021. Previously, in 2018, he was appointed Senior Fellow at the Leonard D.

#37255

Mordechai Rozanski

#37267

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Mordechai Rozanski served as Rider University’s sixth president from August 1, 2003, until he retired on July 31, 2015. Previously, he had served as president of the University of Guelph in Ontario Canada for ten years. Overall, he served as a faculty member and administrator for 47 years in higher education.

#37256

Chris Stevenson

#37268

Overall Influence

1901 - 2014 (113 years)

Chris Stevenson was an author and professor of mental health nursing at Dublin City University, where she was also head of the School of Nursing. She was appointed in 2005, having begun her career as a psychiatric nurse.

#37257

Chang Chun-yen

#37269

Overall Influence

1937 - 2018 (81 years)

Chang Chun-yen was a Taiwanese electrical engineer and professor who served as President of National Chiao Tung University . He was a member of Academia Sinica. He was also elected an international member of the US National Academy of Engineering in 2000 for contributions to Taiwanese electronics industry, education, and materials technology.

#37258

Hermann Korte

#37270

Overall Influence

1949 - 2020 (71 years)

Hermann Korte was a German academic specialising in German literature, language and linguistics. Early years Korte was born in Meppen, where he successfully concluded his schooling and his Community Service in 1968 before moving on to Münster University, where between 1969 and 1972 he studied History, Sociology and German Studies. He continued his academic studies at Bochum. He passed the first stage of a teaching qualification in 1975, and held various teaching traineeship positions finally obtaining the second stage teaching qualification in 1978. His doctorate, entitled "War in the p...

#37259

Deanell Reece Tacha

#37271

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Deanell Reece Tacha is a retired United States circuit judge who served on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. She was the Dean of the Pepperdine University School of Law from 2011 to 2016.

#37260

Peter Robinson

#37272

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Peter Robinson is a British poet born in Salford, Lancashire. Life and career Born Salford, Lancashire, the son of an Anglican curate and geography teacher, Peter Robinson grew up, with the exception of five years spent in Wigan , in poor urban parishes of north and south Liverpool. He graduated from the University of York in 1974. In the 1970s he edited the poetry magazine Perfect Bound and helped organise several international Cambridge Poetry Festivals between 1977 and 1985, acting as festival coordinator in 1979. He was awarded a doctorate from the University of Cambridge in 1981 for a thesis on the poetry of Donald Davie, Roy Fisher and Charles Tomlinson.

#37261

Steve Lamacq

#37273

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Stephen Paul Lamacq , sometimes known by his nickname Lammo , is an English disc jockey, currently working with the BBC radio station BBC Radio 6 Music. Early life He attended The Ramsey Academy from 1976, which had been formed the previous year from two grammar schools. He was brought up in the Essex village of Colne Engaine.

#37262

Alan Burns

#37274

Overall Influence

1929 - 2014 (85 years)

Alan Burns was an English author and one of the key figures in the short-lived group of experimental writers working in Britain in the 1960s and early 1970s, which included writers such as B. S. Johnson, Christine Brooke-Rose, Ann Quin and Giles Gordon. Burns wrote eight novels, a play and the script for two short films , as well as several short pieces, a book of interviews with writers, articles and edited an American report on pornography and censorship for publication in the UK. Burns was one of the earliest teachers of creative writing as an academic discipline in Britain, appointed as t...

#37263

Henry Snaith

#37275

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (48 years)

Henry James Snaith is a professor in physics in the Clarendon Laboratory at the University of Oxford. Research from his group has led to the creation of a new research field, based on halide perovskites for use as solar absorbers. Many individuals who were PhD students and postdoctoral researchers in Snaith's group have now established research groups, independent research portfolios and commercial enterprises. He co-founded Oxford Photovoltaics in 2010 to commercialise perovskite based tandem solar cells.

#37264

Eleanor Holmes Norton

Eleanor Holmes Norton

#37276

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (89 years)

Eleanor Holmes Norton is an American lawyer and politician serving as a delegate to the United States House of Representatives, representing the District of Columbia since 1991. She is a member of the Democratic Party.

#37265

Pak Noja

#37277

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (53 years)

Vladimir Tikhonov , known mainly by his Korean art name Pak Noja , is a Soviet-born Korean activist, historian, Koreanist, and writer. Biography Pak was born as Vladimir Tikhonov to Russian Jewish family in Leningrad, Soviet Union. His Russian name is Vladimir Tikhonov, but after immigrating to South Korea in 1997, he changed his name into a Korean name, Pak Noja and became naturalized as a South Korean citizen in 2001.

#37266

Isamu Shiina

#37278

Overall Influence

is professor of chemistry at Tokyo University of Science , Japan. He completed his BSc and MSc at TUS, and he joined the group of Prof. Teruaki Mukaiyama at TUS as an assistant professor in 1992. After receiving his PhD from the University of Tokyo in 1997, he was promoted to lecturer at the TUS, and then appointed to an associate professor and a full professor . He has received the Chemical Society of Japan Award for Young Chemists , the CSJ Award for Creative Work , and the Commendation for Science and Technology Prizes by the Ministries of Japan . His research interests include the development of useful synthetic methods and the total synthesis of natural products.

#37267

Peter Garlake

#37279

Overall Influence

1934 - 2011 (77 years)

Peter Storr Garlake was a Zimbabwean archaeologist and art historian, who made influential contributions to the study of Great Zimbabwe and Ife, Nigeria. Life Garlake began his career in African art and archaeology as a Nuffield Research Student, British Institute in Eastern Africa from 1962 to 1964, carrying out excavations at Manekweni in Mozambique.

#37268

Frederick Cooper

#37280

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Frederick Cooper is an American historian who specializes in colonialization, decolonialization, and African history. After finishing his BA at Stanford University in 1969, Cooper received his Doctor of Philosophy from Yale University in 1974. From 1974 to 1982 he was Assistant, then Associate Professor at Harvard University. Becoming Professor of History at the University of Michigan in 1982, he left for a professorship of history at New York University where he has worked since 2002.

#37269

Odd Aalen

#37281

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Odd Olai Aalen is a Norwegian statistician and a professor at the Department of Biostatistics at the Institute of Basic Medical Sciences at the University of Oslo. Life Aalen completed his examen artium in 1966 at Oslo Cathedral School before studying first mathematics and physics and then statistics in which he graduated at the University of Oslo in 1972.

#37270

Alan Cheuse

#37282

Overall Influence

1940 - 2015 (75 years)

Alan Stuart Cheuse was an American writer, editor, professor of literature, and radio commentator. A longtime NPR book commentator, he was also the author of five novels, five collections of short stories and novellas, a memoir and a collection of travel essays. In addition, Cheuse was a regular contributor to All Things Considered. His short fiction appeared in respected publications like The New Yorker, Ploughshares, The Antioch Review, Prairie Schooner, among other places. He taught in the Writing Program at George Mason University and the Community of Writers.

#37271

Dan Meis

#37283

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Dan Meis, FAIA, RIBA is an American architect best known for designing sports and entertainment facilities including Staples Center, Safeco Field, Paycor Stadium, Stadio Della Roma, and Everton FC's new Everton Stadium. He began his career in Chicago under the mentorship of well-known architect Helmut Jahn, and later included time at sports architecture firms, including co-founding the sports and entertainment practice of NBBJ. Meis currently operates his own independent studio established in 2007, MEIS Architects, with offices in New York City and Los Angeles, California.

#37272

Ranko Radović

#37284

Overall Influence

1935 - 2005 (70 years)

Ranko Radović was a Montenegrin and Yugoslav architect, professor and theoretician of architecture. He taught contemporary architecture and urbanism at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Architecture between 1972 and 1992. In 1996 he founded the Novi Sad School of Architecture, a division within the University of Novi Sad.

#37273

Jean Burgess

#37285

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Jean Burgess is a Distinguished Professor of Digital Media at the QUT Digital Media Research Centre, and in the QUT School of Communication. She is currently Associate Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society. She was the Deputy Director of the former ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation at the Queensland University of Technology. From 2010-2013 Jean was an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow , working with Axel Bruns on the ARC Discovery Project 'New Media and Public Communication'. She researches and publishe...

#37274

David Warner

#37286

Overall Influence

1941 - 2022 (81 years)

David Hattersley Warner was an English actor who worked in film, television and theatre. Warner's lanky, often haggard appearance lent itself to a variety of villainous characters as well as more sympathetic roles across stage and screen. He received accolades such as a Primetime Emmy Award and nominations for a BAFTA Award and Screen Actors Guild Award.

#37275

Benmont Tench

#37287

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Benjamin Montmorency "Benmont" Tench III is an American musician and singer, and a founding member of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Early years Tench was born in Gainesville, Florida, the second child of Benjamin Montmorency Tench Jr. and Mary Catherine McInnis Tench. His father was born and raised in the city of Gainesville, and served as a circuit court judge.

#37276

Rostam Batmanglij

#37288

Overall Influence

1983 - Present (43 years)

Rostam Batmanglij , known mononymously as Rostam, is an American record producer, musician, singer, songwriter, and composer. He was a founding member of the band Vampire Weekend, whose first three albums he produced. He has been described by Stereogum as one of the greatest pop and indie-rock producers of his generation. Rostam also works as a solo artist and is a member of electro-soul group Discovery. He produced his first number-one album, Vampire Weekend's Contra, when he was 27 years old.

#37277

Raymond W. Alden III

#37289

Overall Influence

Raymond W. Alden III is the current Provost of Touro University Nevada. Alden attended the Stetson University for his bachelor's degree in biology, and he received his Doctorate in Zoology from the University of Florida. He began his academic career on the faculty at Old Dominion University, spending 21 years there. Later Alden went to the University of Nevada Las Vegas, and served for 10 years as the Provost. In January 2006, Alden accepted the position as Provost at Northern Illinois University. In April 2015, Alden left NIU and joined Touro University Nevada as Provost.

#37278

Roland W. Schmitt

#37290

Overall Influence

1923 - 2017 (94 years)

Roland Walter Schmitt was an American physicist, business executive and the sixteenth president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He was born on July 24, 1923, in Seguin, Texas to Walter L. Schmitt and Myrtle F. Schmitt. On June 2, 1951, he married Alice V. Calhoun and they had two sons: Lorenz and Brian . Alice died on July 17, 1956. He later married Claire F. Kunz on September 19, 1957; they had two children: Alice and Henry .

#37279

Manouchehr Taslimi

#37291

Overall Influence

1923 - 1998 (75 years)

Manouchehr Taslimi was a professor, university chancellor, and member of government in Iran during the Pahlavi regime. Biography Manouchehr Taslimi completed primary education in Qazvin. He received a master's degree in Mechanical engineering from Tehran University in 1946. Taslimi then attended Case Institute of technology in 1948. He then completed an M.Sc. in history and philosophy of science at the University of London followed by a doctoral degree in history and philosophy of science

#37280

Josh Gordon

#37292

Overall Influence

1991 - Present (35 years)

Joshua Caleb Gordon is an American football wide receiver for the Seattle Sea Dragons of the XFL. Nicknamed "Flash", he previously played in the National Football League for 11 seasons. Gordon played college football at Baylor University and was selected by the Cleveland Browns in the second round of the 2012 NFL Supplemental Draft. Throughout his career, Gordon has been lauded for his on-field production, but has also faced several suspensions for violating the NFL's substance abuse policy.

#37281

John Haddox

#37293

Overall Influence

1929 - 2017 (88 years)

John Herbert Haddox was an American philosopher known for his thought in the area of ethics and social philosophy, and for his groundbreaking work of introducing Mexican philosophers to the English-speaking world. He taught over 56 years at the University of Texas at El Paso before becoming professor emeritus in philosophy upon his retirement in 2013. His best known books were Vasconcelos of Mexico: Philosopher and Prophet, and Antonio Caso: Philosopher of Mexico, both of which were published by the University of Texas Press. He also wrote extensively on Chicano and Native American thought...

#37282

Robert D. English

#37294

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Robert David English is an American academic, author, historian, and international relations scholar who specializes in the history and politics of contemporary Eastern Europe, the USSR, and Russia. He is an associate professor of International Foreign Policy and Defense Analysis at the University of Southern California School of International Relations.

#37283

Kevin Beaver

#37295

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (49 years)

#37284

Jay M. Savage

#37296

Overall Influence

1928 - Present (98 years)

Jay Mathers Savage is an American herpetologist known for his research on reptiles and amphibians of Central America. He is a past president of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, the Society of Systematic Biologists, and the Southern California Academy of Sciences. He received his bachelor's , master's , and doctoral degrees from Stanford University. He has produced around 200 publications, including the books Evolution and The Amphibians and Reptiles of Costa Rica . He is an emeritus professor at the University of Miami and adjunct professor at San Diego State Unive...

#37285

John Ritter

#37297

Overall Influence

1948 - 2003 (55 years)

Johnathan Southworth Ritter was an American actor. Ritter was a son of the singing cowboy star Tex Ritter and the father of actors Jason and Tyler Ritter. He is known for playing Jack Tripper on the ABC sitcom Three's Company , and received a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award for the role in 1984. Ritter briefly reprised the role on the spin-off Three's a Crowd, which aired for one season, producing 22 episodes before its cancellation in 1985.

#37286

Wolfhart Heinrichs

#37298

Overall Influence

1941 - 2014 (73 years)

Wolfhart P. Heinrichs was a German-born scholar of Arabic. He was James Richard Jewett Professor of Arabic at Harvard University, and a co-editor of the second edition of the Encyclopaedia of Islam. He taught Classical Arabic language and literature, particularly Arabic literary theory and criticism.

#37287

Stephen Emmott

#37299

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Stephen Emmott is a British scientist, entrepreneur and chief scientist of Scientific. Emmott was named one of London's most influential scientists, and one of the most influential people in London by the Evening Standard in 2012.

#37288

Amira Abdelrasoul

#37300

Overall Influence

Amira Abdelrasoul is a researcher and associate professor at the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Saskatchewan, where she is the principal investigator of the Hemodialysis Membrane Science and Nanotechnology Research Centre. She is also a membrane technology leader in Canada, and her interdisciplinary research program focuses on solving existing hemodialysis system problems.

#37289

Itai Anghel

#37301

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Itai Anghel is an Israeli correspondent and documentary filmmaker. He is a staff reporter for , a television news program on Channel 12 . He mainly covers conflict zones all over the world. In 2017 Anghel was awarded the 'Sokolov Award' which is Israel's highest award for journalism. Anghel is also a lecturer of history and international relations. He teaches a course about world conflicts in universities in Tel Aviv.

#37290

John Bryan Taylor

#37302

Overall Influence

1928 - Present (98 years)

John Bryan Taylor is a British physicist known for his contributions to plasma physics and their application in the field of fusion energy. Notable among these is the development of the "Taylor state", describing a minimum-energy configuration that conserves magnetic helicity. Another development was his work on the ballooning transformation, which describes the motion of plasma in toroidal configurations, which are used in the fusion field. Taylor has also made contributions to the theory of the Earth's Dynamo, including the Taylor constraint.

#37291

Georges Condominas

#37303

Overall Influence

1921 - 2011 (90 years)

Georges Louis Condominas was a French cultural anthropologist, known for his field studies of the Mnong people of Vietnam. Biography Condominas was born in 1921 in Haiphong . His father was a French officer in the colonial army and his mother has Chinese, Vietnamese and Portuguese ancestry. He died in the night of Saturday to Sunday 17 July 2011 from a heart attack at the hôpital Broca in Paris where he had been hospitalized for some time.

#37292

Padmapadacharya

#37304

Overall Influence

Padmapadacharya was an Indian philosopher, a follower of Adi Shankara. Padmapāda's dates are unknown, but some modern scholarship places his life around the middle of the 8th century; similarly information about him comes mainly from hagiographies. What is known for certain is that he was a direct disciple of Shankara, of whom he was a younger contemporary. Padmapada was the first head of Puri Govardhana matha. He is believed to have founded a math by name Thekke Matham in Thrissur, Kerala. Keralites believe that he was a Nambuthiri belonging to Vemannillom, though according to textual source...

#37293

Ayşe Şahin

#37305

Overall Influence

Ayşe Arzu Şahin is a Turkish-American mathematician who works in dynamical systems. She was appointed the Dean of the College of Science and Mathematics at Wright State University in June 2020, and is a co-author of two textbooks on calculus and dynamical systems.

#37294

Kevin Robert Elz

#37306

Overall Influence

Kevin Robert Elz, often referred to in computing circles as Robert Elz, or simply kre, is a computer programmer and a pioneer in connecting Australia to the Internet, and more recently, in connecting Thailand.

#37295

Sami Zubaida

#37307

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (89 years)

Sami Zubaida , left Iraq in 1953 at the age of sixteen. He is now an Emeritus Professor of Politics and Sociology at Birkbeck, University of London and, as a Visiting Hauser Global Professor of Law in Spring 2006, taught Law and Politics in the Islamic World at New York University School of Law. He is a regular participant at the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery, and organized a conference at the London School of Oriental and African Studies, in 1992, which focused on the culinary cultures of the Middle East. The conference papers were published in book form in 1994.

#37296

Aaron Boone

#37308

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (53 years)

Aaron John Boone is an American baseball manager and former infielder who is the manager of the New York Yankees in Major League Baseball . He previously played in MLB for 13 seasons from 1997 to 2009. As a player, Boone is most recognized for his 2003 campaign with the Yankees, during which he hit the winning walk-off home run of the 2003 American League Championship Series.

#37297

Gerry Ryan

#37309

Overall Influence

1956 - 2010 (54 years)

Gerard Ryan was an Irish presenter of radio and television employed by Raidió Teilifís Éireann . He presented The Gerry Ryan Show on radio station RTÉ 2fm each weekday morning from 1988 until hours before his sudden death. He was presented with a Jacob's Award for this show in 1990.

#37298

Kevin Ayers

#37310

Overall Influence

1944 - 2013 (69 years)

Kevin Ayers was an English singer-songwriter who was active in the English psychedelic music movement. Ayers was a founding member of the psychedelic band Soft Machine in the mid-1960s, and was closely associated with the Canterbury scene. He recorded a series of albums as a solo artist and over the years worked with Brian Eno, Syd Barrett, Bridget St John, John Cale, Elton John, Robert Wyatt, Andy Summers, Mike Oldfield, Nico and Ollie Halsall, among others. After living for many years in Deià, Mallorca, he returned to the United Kingdom in the mid-1990s before moving to the south of France. His last album, The Unfairground, was released in 2007.

#37299

Cecilia Lo

#37311

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Cecilia Wen-ya Lo is a professor and the F. Sargent Cheever Chair of Developmental Biology at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research focuses on the study of congenital heart defects. Education Lo received her bachelor's degree in biology in 1974 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she worked with David Baltimore. She received her Ph.D. in 1979 from Rockefeller University.

#37300

Sara Solla

#37312

Overall Influence

Sara A. Solla is an Argentine-American physicist and neuroscientist whose research applies ideas from statistical mechanics to problems involving neural networks, machine learning, and neuroscience. She is a professor of physics and of physiology at Northwestern University.

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