Famous People with Name Cassin

John Cassin            Origin/Culture/Country: American

John Cassin: was an American ornithologist. He is considered to be one of the giants of American ornithology, and was America's first taxonomist, describing 198 birds not previously mentioned by Alexander Wilson and John James Audubon. Cassin drew, printed and hand-colored many of the illustrations for the Railroad Surveys as the western regions of the United States were explored. He was named curator of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences in 1842, and after John T. Bowen's death, he took control of the Academy. His "Illustrations" was intended to be a 3-volume work, but financial considerations prevented more than one volume being published.

Riccardo Cassin            Origin/Culture/Country: Italian

Riccardo Cassin: is an Italian mountaineer, developer of mountaineering equipment and author.Cassin started mountaineering around 1930 together with a group known as the Ragni di Lecco.[4] In 1934, he made the first ascent of the Piccolissima of the Tre Cime di Lavaredo.

Barbara Cassin            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Barbara Cassin: is a French philologist and philosopher,[1][2] born in 1947 in Boulogne-Billancourt. A past Director at Jacques Derrida's Collège international de philosophie and director of research (senior research chair) at the CNRS,[3] she succeeded to the head chair of Jonathan Barnes at the Centre Leon-Robin in 2006. Her work centers on Sophism and rhetoric, and their relation to philosophy. Her work is considered a synthesis of the Heideggerian heritage with the linguistic turn.