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Who influenced Albert Einstein?

  • Benedictus de Spinoza

    Dutch philosopher (1632–1677)

    Influenced 46

    Influenced by 18

  • Fyodor Dostoyevsky

    Russian novelist (1821–1881)

    Influenced 37

    Influenced by 18

  • Arthur Schopenhauer

    German philosopher (1788–1860)

    Influenced 28

    Influenced by 6

  • David Hume

    Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian

    Influenced 20

    Influenced by 4

  • Isaac Newton

    English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)

    Influenced 19

    Influenced by 1

  • Mahatma Gandhi

    Indian independence activist (1869–1948)

    Influenced 17

    Influenced by 9

  • Ernst Mach

    Austrian physicist and university educator (1838–1916)

    Influenced 9

    Influenced by 4

  • Henry George

    American political economist and journalist (1839–1897)

    Influenced 7

    Influenced by 0

  • Paul Valéry

    French poet, essayist, and philosopher (1871–1945)

    Influenced 6

    Influenced by 0

  • Karl Pearson

    English mathematician, biometrician, and eugenicist (1857–1936)

    Influenced 5

    Influenced by 0

  • Bernhard Riemann

    German mathematician

    Influenced 2

    Influenced by 1

  • George Bernard Shaw

    Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist (1856–1950)

    Influenced 2

    Influenced by 5

  • James Clerk Maxwell

    Scottish physicist (1831–1879)

    Influenced 2

    Influenced by 2

  • Moritz Schlick

    German philosopher (1882-1936)

    Influenced 2

    Influenced by 0

  • Hendrik Lorentz

    Dutch physicist (1853–1928)

    Influenced 1

    Influenced by 0

  • Hermann Minkowski

    German mathematician and physicist

    Influenced 1

    Influenced by 0

  • Riazuddin

    Pakistani nuclear physicist

    Influenced 1

    Influenced by 0

  • Thomas Young

    English polymath (1773-1829)

    Influenced 1

    Influenced by 0

Who was influenced by Albert Einstein?

  • Henri Bergson

    French philosopher (1859–1941)

    Influenced 16

    Influenced by 21

  • Gaston Bachelard

    French writer and philosopher (1884-1962)

    Influenced 9

    Influenced by 3

  • Karl Popper

    Austrian-British philosopher of science and social and política e falsificationism and for criticism of Plato, Hegel and Marx as totalitarian opponents of open society (1902-1994)

    Influenced 8

    Influenced by 10

  • Rudolf Carnap

    German philosopher and logician

    Influenced 5

    Influenced by 10

  • David Bohm

    American theoretical physicist

    Influenced 2

    Influenced by 1

  • Jean Gebser

    philosopher, linguist (1905-1973)

    Influenced 1

    Influenced by 10

  • Théophile de Donder

    Belgian physicist

    Influenced 1

    Influenced by 1

  • Boris Podolsky

    Russian-American physicist (1896-1966)

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 1

  • Gunnar Nordström

    Finnish physicist

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 1

  • Han Terra

    South Korean inventor and composer

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 9

  • Hugo Bergmann

    Israeli philosopher born in Austria-Hungary (1883-1975)

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 14

  • John Harnad

    Hungarian mathematical physicist

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 1

  • Julius Sumner Miller

    American physicist

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 1

  • Mujahid Kamran

    Pakistani academic

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 1

  • Robert Kraichnan

    American physicist

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 1

  • Samarendra Kumar Mitra

    Indian computer scientiest (1916–1998)

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 1

  • Satyendra Nath Bose

    Indian Bengali physicist and polymath (1894–1974)

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 1

  • Sean M. Carroll

    American theoretical cosmologist

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 4

  • Stephen Hawking

    British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 7