Barry Smith
Academic
Barry Smith is an academic working in the fields of ontology and biomedical informatics. Smith is the author of more than 700 scientific publications, including 15 authored or edited books. He is one of the most widely cited living philosophers. Wikipedia
Born: 1952 (age 71 years), Bury, United Kingdom
Doctoral students: Berit Brogaard
Education: University of Oxford; University of Manchester (PhD, 1976)
Known for: Truthmaker theory; European Society for Analytic Philosophy; IFOMIS; OBO Foundry; Basic Formal Ontology
Other notable students: David Koepsell; Amie Thomasson
Thesis: The Ontology of Reference: Studies in Logic and Phenomenology (1976)