Professional/specialist Famous Names

Was a professor of geology at the University of California, Berkeley. He was the editor and co-autho

Was a professor of geology at the University of California, Berkeley. He was the editor and co-author of the 1908 report on the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake which became known as the "Lawson Report". He was also the first person to identify and name the San Andreas Fault in 1895, and after the 1906 quake, the first to delineate the entire length of the San Andreas Fault which previously had been noted only in the San Francisco Bay Area. He also named the Franciscan Complex.

An astronomy professor at Foothill College[1] and the 2007 California Professor of the Year awarded

An astronomy professor at Foothill College[1] and the 2007 California Professor of the Year awarded by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.[2] Fraknoi also won the Astronomical Society of the Pacific's 2007 Richard H. Emmons award, [3] the American Institute of Physics's 2007 Andrew Gemant Award (given for a lifetime of contributions to the intersection of physics and culture), and the American Astronomical Society's 1994 Annenberg Foundation Award (for a lifetime of contributions to astronomy education.)

South African geologist, road engineer, palaeontologist and explorer.The only child of Alexander Bai

South African geologist, road engineer, palaeontologist and explorer.The only child of Alexander Bain and Jean Geddes, both of whom died when Bain was still a young boy. He was raised by an aunt who lived near Edinburgh. Here he received a classical education, but no vocational training. In 1816 he emigrated to Cape Town accompanied by his uncle Lieutenant Colonel William Geddes of the 83rd Regiment, who was stationed in the Cape. He married Maria Elizabeth von Backstrom on 16 November 1818 and had 3 sons and 7 daughters. In 1822 he bought property in Graaff Reinet and carried on for some years the business of a saddler. In 1825 he accompanied John Burner Biddulph on a trading expedition to Kuruman,

Was an Irish astronomer/computer.He later worked on the Markree Catalogue, which consists of observa

Was an Irish astronomer/computer.He later worked on the Markree Catalogue, which consists of observations of about sixty thousand stars along the ecliptic taken between August 8, 1848 and 27 March 1856 and was published in four Volumes over the years 1851, 1853, 1854, 1856 respectively. Whilst working on this, he developed the square-bar micrometer, which greatly increased the efficiency of determining positions (right ascension and declination) of celestial objects.He later worked as First Assistant at the Cambridge Observatory, England from 1864 to 1903 where he worked on the Cambridge Catalogue, in many ways an extension of his work at Markree but of southern zone stars, published in 1897.

The Fisher Professor of Natural History and a Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard U

The Fisher Professor of Natural History and a Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University. He is best known for his work on Precambrian microfossils and using stable isotopes for stratigraphic correlation, but has longstanding interests in geobiology, paleobotany and stamp collecting, also on the planetary evolution of Mars. He is a member of the Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Earth and Planetary Sciences faculty at Harvard, and a member of well known "We ride together we die together" branch of the Cambridge bicycling club, and the National Academy of Sciences.

Was an American ornithologist and artist.Grayson was the author of Birds of the Pacific Slope (1853-

Was an American ornithologist and artist.Grayson was the author of Birds of the Pacific Slope (1853-69), which he considered to be a completion of John James Audubon's Birds of America. Grayson was born August 20, 1819, in the northwest corner of Louisiana, on the Ouachita River, where his father had a cotton plantation.

Andrew Wiles was born in Cambridge, England in 1953 and attended King's College School, Cambridge (w

Andrew Wiles was born in Cambridge, England in 1953 and attended King's College School, Cambridge (where his maths teacher, David Higginbottom first introduced Fermat's Last Theorem to him) and The Leys School

Head of the Department of Linguistics at the Australian National University, Australia. His research

Head of the Department of Linguistics at the Australian National University, Australia. His research interests include Austronesian and Papuan languages and cultures, the prehistory of Pacific Island peoples, folk taxonomies and ethnobiology, lexicography, phraseology and idiomaticity.

A judge in Hong Kong, and is currently Chief Justice of the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong, rank

A judge in Hong Kong, and is currently Chief Justice of the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong, ranking second only to the Chief Executive of Hong Kong in the Hong Kong order of precedence and a post he held since 1997 Hong Kong handover.Born in Hong Kong, Li received his early education at St. Paul's Co-educational College, and then at Repton School in Derbyshire, England. After obtaining an M.A. and an LL.B. from the University of Cambridge, where he was a scholar at Fitzwilliam College, he passed his bar finals in 1973 and commenced his practice of law in Hong Kong.

An American linguist and comparative Indo-Europeanist.Sihler received his Bachelor of Arts cum laude

An American linguist and comparative Indo-Europeanist.Sihler received his Bachelor of Arts cum laude in 1962 from Harvard College, where he studied Germanic languages, literature, and linguistics. He earned his Master of Arts from Yale in 1965, taking his doctorate in 1967 at the same university. Sihler trained in general linguistics but with a concentration in historical-comparative linguistics — Indo-European in particular — studying under Warren Cowgill and Stanley Insler, among others. Upon graduation, he joined the faculty of the Department of Linguistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, from which he retired in the spring of 1999.

Is an American-born, Canadian-raised economist.

Is an American-born, Canadian-raised economist.

Was an American missionary and scholar of East Asian languages and literature, best-known for his wo

Was an American missionary and scholar of East Asian languages and literature, best-known for his work in Japanese lexicography.He was born in Great Falls, Montana to Swedish immigrant parents and earned his B.A. from Walla Walla University. In 1918, he began his long career of service in the Seventh-day Adventist missions of East Asia, where he gained particular distinction in the fields of general education and language training. The University of Washington awarded Nelson a Ph.D. in 1938 for his dissertation on The origin, history, and present status of the temples of Japan.

Is an Australian mathematician

Is an Australian mathematician

Is a professor of computer science at Princeton University, New Jersey. He is especially well-known

Is a professor of computer science at Princeton University, New Jersey. He is especially well-known because of his compiler books, the Modern Compiler Implementation in ML (ISBN 0-521-58274-1) series, as well as Compiling With Continuations (ISBN 0-521-41

American biologist and Professor of pathology and of genetics at the Stanford University School of M

American biologist and Professor of pathology and of genetics at the Stanford University School of Medicine.

Is a Russian linguist who specializes in the research of linguistic monuments of Old Novgorod.

Is a Russian linguist who specializes in the research of linguistic monuments of Old Novgorod.

Was a Russian and Soviet jurist and later diplomat. He served as the Soviet Foreign Minister from 19

Was a Russian and Soviet jurist and later diplomat. He served as the Soviet Foreign Minister from 1949 to 1953. Vyshinsky was of Polish descent and spoke some English and excellent French.

Was a Russian mathematician. He is best known for his work on theory of stochastic processes. His re

Was a Russian mathematician. He is best known for his work on theory of stochastic processes. His research later became known as Markov chains.

Was a Soviet mathematician who made major advances in different scientific fields (among them probab

Was a Soviet mathematician who made major advances in different scientific fields (among them probability theory, topology, intuitionistic logic, turbulence, classical mechanics and computational complexity). Kolmogorov is widely considered to be one of t

Was a notable Croatian meteorologist and seismologist. He is best known as the eponym for the Mohoro

Was a notable Croatian meteorologist and seismologist. He is best known as the eponym for the Mohorovicic discontinuity.Andrija Jr. obtained his elementary education in his home town, continued his study in the gymnasium of a neighboring town, Rijeka, and received his higher education in mathematics and physics at the Faculty of Philosophy in Prague in 1875. There, one of his professors was the famous physicist Ernst Mach. At the age of 15 the junior Mohorovicic knew Italian, English and French and later he learned German, Latin and Ancient Greek.

Was a Polish linguist and polyglot. Professor of Jagiellonian University and Lviv University, (since

Was a Polish linguist and polyglot. Professor of Jagiellonian University and Lviv University, (since 1916), the author of the first Polish handbook of Sanskrit (Podrecznik sanskrytu, 1932), founder of Polish Oriental Society (1922).Gawronski was a member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences (1921 a member-columnist, 1926 an active member), as well as the Scientific Society in Lviv (1920, an active member), the Society of Friends of Polish Language (1920), Polish Oriental Society (1922 a member and founder, 1922-23 chairman). In 1925 he was decorated with the Order of Poland Restored (Polonia Restituta) (Commander). Also, he initiated the activity of the “Eastern Library” at the Ossolinski National Institute in Lviv and the “Annual of Oriental Studies” and the Institute of Oriental Studies at the University of Lviv.

Is a Polish mathematician. He is known for his work in computability, logic, and the foundations of

Is a Polish mathematician. He is known for his work in computability, logic, and the foundations of mathematics (Krajewski and Wolenski, 2008). Grzegorczyk was the first to describe the Grzegorczyk hierarchy, a subrecursive hierarchy that foreshadowed computational complexity theory.

Is a Polish mathematician, studying mainly number theory. His principal interest is the theory of po

Is a Polish mathematician, studying mainly number theory. His principal interest is the theory of polynomials. He is a professor at the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IM PAN). A conjecture of his on the prime values of polynomials, known as Schinzel's hypothesis H, has attracted the attention of many number theorists.

A Polish economist and Professor of Economics at the Warsaw School of Economics. He is a member of t

A Polish economist and Professor of Economics at the Warsaw School of Economics. He is a member of the Council of Monetary Policies since 2004.He received his M.A. in economics in 1973 and Ph.D. in international finance in 1979 both from the Warsaw School of Economics.His research work concentrates on central banks functioning, financial crises in developing economies and financial (especially derivatives ) markets. Considered one of the top professors at the Warsaw School of Economics, author of numerous publications, and a magnificent teacher.

Was a Polish philosopher and Messianist religious leader.Towianski was born in Antoszwince, a villag

Was a Polish philosopher and Messianist religious leader.Towianski was born in Antoszwince, a village near Vilnius, Lithuania. He was the charismatic leader of the Towianskiite sect, known also as Kolo Sprawy Bozej (the Circle of God's Cause). Among those influenced by his thinking was the Polish Romantic poet Adam Mickiewicz.