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Was a French chef and a pupil of Carême.In 1866 he became the head chef of the Café Anglais which

Was a French chef and a pupil of Carême.In 1866 he became the head chef of the Café Anglais which was the most famous Paris restaurant of the 19th century and where he is believed to have created the dish Pommes Anna. The Café Anglais was named in honour

Was a notable entomologist, botanist and ethnographer of Amazonia.Recruited by Emílio Goeldi, Ducke

Was a notable entomologist, botanist and ethnographer of Amazonia.Recruited by Emílio Goeldi, Ducke started to work in Amazônia as an entomologist for the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, but due to the influence of botanists Jacques Hüber and Paul Le Cointe he became a botanist. He travelled all regions of Amazônia to study the complicated tree system of the rainforest. He published 180 articles and monographs mainly about the Leguminosae. He described 900 species and 50 new genera. In 1918 he continued his work for the Paraense Museum where he collaborated with other institutions

Was a Dutch geometer and astronomer. He was born in Alkmaar. The name Metius comes from the Dutch wo

Was a Dutch geometer and astronomer. He was born in Alkmaar. The name Metius comes from the Dutch word meten ("measuring"), and therefore means something like "measurer" or "surveyor."

Is a Dutch astronomer.Blaauw studied in Leiden and Groningen. In the 1950s he worked a few years at

Is a Dutch astronomer.Blaauw studied in Leiden and Groningen. In the 1950s he worked a few years at the Yerkes Observatory. In 1957 he became director of the "Kapteyn Astronomical Institute" in Groningen. Blaauw was closely involved in the founding of the European Southern Observatory, and was its general director from 1970 to 1975. He stayed at Leiden until his retirement in 1981, during which he was president of the International Astronomical Union and led the scientific programme of the astronometric satellite Hipparcos. His research has involved star formation, the motions of star clusters and stellar associations, and distance scale. His main contributions are the explanation of the origin of stars that move with high velocity in our galaxy and the description of star formation in associations.

A Dutch linguist based in the UK. He is Professor of Linguistics at University College London.He com

A Dutch linguist based in the UK. He is Professor of Linguistics at University College London.He completed his PhD at the University of Utrecht in 1994. Since then, he has written extensively on syntax, semantics and phonology, and particularly on the interfaces between them. His work is part of the tradition of generative grammar.Neeleman is co-author of the monographs Flexible Syntax: A Theory of Case and Arguments (1998; with Fred Weerman) and Beyond Morphology (2004; with Peter Ackema). His work has also appeared in journals such as Linguistic Inquiry, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory and Lingua.

A Dutch ethologist.He is famous for his work on displacement activities (Dutch: overspronggedraging)

A Dutch ethologist.He is famous for his work on displacement activities (Dutch: overspronggedraging) [1] and the hierarchy of instincts. Already in the thirties he realised the common characteristics between instincts in humans and other animals. In one of his experiments in Western Africa he exposed a stuffed panther with an electronic moving head to chimpanzees, who attacked it with sticks, thus illustrating to which extent early man could have kept wild animals at bay even before spears and other weapons were invented.

Was a Dutch scholar, cartographer and philologist.Reland was the son of Johannes Reland, a Protestan

Was a Dutch scholar, cartographer and philologist.Reland was the son of Johannes Reland, a Protestant minister, and Aagje Prins in the small North Holland village of De Rijp. Adriaan's brother, Peter (1678-1714) was an influential lawyer in Haarlem[1]. Reeland first studied in Amsterdam and enrolled at University of Utrecht in 1693. After obtaining his PhD in Utrecht he moved to Leiden where he tutored the son of Hans Willem Bentinck, later the 1st Earl of Portland. The latter invited him to move to England, but Reland declined because of his father's deteriorating health [1].

Was a Dutch-American astronomer.Van Maanen, born into a well-to-do family in Friesland, studied astr

Was a Dutch-American astronomer.Van Maanen, born into a well-to-do family in Friesland, studied astronomy at the University of Utrecht (earning his Ph.D. in 1911) and worked briefly at the University of Groningen. In 1911, he came to the United States to work as a volunteer in an unpaid capacity at Yerkes Observatory. Within a year he got a position at the Mount Wilson Observatory, where he remained active until his death in 1946.He is well known for his astrometric measurements of internal motions in spiral nebulae. Being of the belief that nebulae were local, stellar and gaseous systems that existed in our galaxy, his measurements came to be at odds with Edwin Hubble's discovery that the Andromeda Nebula and other spiral nebulae were extragalactic objects. The speed at which he calculated the nebulae to rotate would have had the Cepheid stars

Was a Dutch botanist. He was a professor at Leiden and is associated with Carl Linneaus. [1Van Royen

Was a Dutch botanist. He was a professor at Leiden and is associated with Carl Linneaus. [1Van Royen trained at the University of Leiden and graduated as a medical doctor in 1728 for his thesis Dissertatio botanico-medica de anatome et œconomia plantarum. He was later appointed professor of botany at the university from 1732-1755 and later professor of medicine (1755-1775).He is best known for his work on flora of Southeast Asia. He was a colleague of George Clifford, a wealthy English merchant and governor of the Dutch East India Company living in Harlem, and a noted source of new introductions from the East Indies and the Cape. Adriaan van Royen formed a close relationship with Linnaeus, who had visited the Leiden Botanic Garden during a stay in Leiden between 1737 and 1738.

Was a Dutch book publisher and mathematician. Born in Gouda, Vlacq published a table of Henry Briggs

Was a Dutch book publisher and mathematician. Born in Gouda, Vlacq published a table of Henry Briggs' logarithms from 1 to 100,000 to 10 decimal places in 1628 in his Arithmetica logarithmica. Briggs' original tables only covered the values 1-20,000 and 90,000 to 100,000 so Vlacq calculated and added 69,999 further values to complete the tables.

Has been a justice of the Supreme Court of Ireland since 7 February 2000 and is not due to retire fr

Has been a justice of the Supreme Court of Ireland since 7 February 2000 and is not due to retire from that post until 2021. He received the rare honour of being appointed directly from the Bar to Ireland's highest court. Many commentators were surprised

Has been a justice of the Supreme Court of Ireland since February 7, 2000 and is not due to retire f

Has been a justice of the Supreme Court of Ireland since February 7, 2000 and is not due to retire from that post until 2021. He received the rare honour of being appointed directly from the Bar to Ireland's highest court. Many commentators were surprised by his appointment as he was (by judicial standards) a relatively young man making it likely he would serve on the court for an unusually long time. Hardiman was also a noted bon viveur whilst a barrister and by tradition was required post appointment to not socialise in the same manner that he had done before. Prior to his elevation to the Supreme Court, he was one of the leading and best paid members of the Irish bar.

Was a French astronomer.His educational background is unknown. In 1664–1665 he made observations o

Was a French astronomer.His educational background is unknown. In 1664–1665 he made observations of comets, and argued in favor of their following elliptical or parabolic orbits. (In this he was opposed by his rival Johannes Hevelius.) Adrien was briefly a member of the Académie Royale des Sciences from 1666 to 1668, and a founding member of the French Royal Obseratory. (He may have left the academy due to a dispute.) He then left for Italy and spent the next 20 years in that region, finally dying in Rome in 1691. Little is known about his activities during this last period.Auzout made contributions in telescope observations, including perfecting the use of the micrometer. In 1647 he performed an experiment that demonstrated the role of air pressure in function of the mercury barometer. He is noted for briefly considering the construction of a huge telescope 1,000 feet in length that he would use to observe animals on the Moon. In 1667–68, Arien and Jean Picard attached a telescopic sight to a 38-inch quadrant, and used it to accurately determine positions on the Earth.

Was a French mathematician.He was a student of Henri Cartan, and initially worked in homological alg

Was a French mathematician.He was a student of Henri Cartan, and initially worked in homological algebra. Subsequently, he became more interested in the work of Pierre Fatou and Gaston Julia and made significant contributions to the fields of analytic geometry and dynamical systems.

Was a French botanist, based at the Paris Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. He is noted for his

Was a French botanist, based at the Paris Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. He is noted for his extensive work describing the flora of China and Japan, based on the collections made by Armand David, Pierre Jean Marie Delavay, Paul Guillaume Farges and

Was a French mathematician. He made important contributions to statistics, number theory, abstract a

Was a French mathematician. He made important contributions to statistics, number theory, abstract algebra and mathematical analysis. Adrien-Marie Legendre was born in Paris (or possibly, in Toulouse, depending on sources) on 18 September 1752 to a wealthy family. He was given a top quality education at the Collège Mazarin in Paris

Was a celebrated Roman jurist, magister libellorum and, after the death of Gaius Fulvius Plautianus

Was a celebrated Roman jurist, magister libellorum and, after the death of Gaius Fulvius Plautianus in 205, praetorian prefect.Papinianus was an intimate friend of the emperor Severus and accompanied him to Britain. Before his death the emperor commended his two sons Caracalla and Geta into his charge. Papinian tried to keep peace between the brothers, but with no better result than to encourage the hatred of Caracalla to which he felt victim in the general slaughter of Geta's friends which followed the fratricide of 212. The author of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article states that the details of Papinianus' death "are variously related, and have undergone legendary embellishment."

Was a Russian embryologist who studied medicine at the University of Heidelberg and became professor

Was a Russian embryologist who studied medicine at the University of Heidelberg and became professor at St Petersburg. He showed that all animals go through a period of gastrulation.

Was born in Cirebon, West Java, in 1907, as the son of R. Koesoema, who was a surveyor at a local su

Was born in Cirebon, West Java, in 1907, as the son of R. Koesoema, who was a surveyor at a local sugar factory. Affandi finished his upper secondary school in Jakarta, but he forsook his study for the desire to become an artist. Affandi taught himself how to paint since 1934. In the 1950s, Affandi began to create expressionistic paintings. Carrying the First Grandchild (1953) was the piece that marked his newfound style: “squeezing the tube.” Affandi paints by directly squeezing the paint out of its tube. He came across this technique by accident, when he intended to draw a line one day.

Is an important Brazilian economist and former president of the Brazilian Central Bank.He serves as

Is an important Brazilian economist and former president of the Brazilian Central Bank.He serves as Latin Source’s economist in Brazil and is President and Founder of A.C. Pastore & Associados, an economic consulting firm based in São Paulo. Dr. Pastore serves as Brazil advisor for Latin Source, a network of independent advisors.Dr. Pastore was President of the Central Bank of Brazil from 1983-1985. He previously served as Secretary of Finance for the State of São Paulo, and prior to that as Director of Research for the Instituto de Pesquisas Econômicas, a foundation associated with the Department of Economics at the University of São Paulo. He also served as Director of Research at the “Fundação Centro de Estudos do Comércio Exterior” (FUNCEX).

Was a Danish mathematician, statistician and engineer, who invented the fields of traffic engineerin

Was a Danish mathematician, statistician and engineer, who invented the fields of traffic engineering and queueing theory.A distant relative provided free board and lodging, and Erlang prepared for and took the University of Copenhagen entrance examination in 1896, and passed with distinction. He won a scholarship to the University and majored in mathematics, and also studied astronomy, physics and chemistry.

Was a prolific British author who wrote fiction with moral or religious themes for children and also

Was a prolific British author who wrote fiction with moral or religious themes for children and also books on astronomy for young people.Educated by governesses in Europe and England after her father Major Charles Giberne retired from service in India, Agnes Giberne started publishing didactic novels and short stories with improving themes under her initials A.G., some of it for the Religious Tract Society. Later she used her full name for her fiction, for her well-received works on astronomy and the natural world, and for her biography of the children's writer Charlotte Maria Tucker. Most of her writing was done before 1910.

Is a French–Armenian astronomer. Born in Istanbul, he received his BA in Mathematical and Astronom

Is a French–Armenian astronomer. Born in Istanbul, he received his BA in Mathematical and Astronomical Science in 1945.[1] He received a Master's degree in Astronomy in 1949, and a PhD from Lyon University in 1965.[1]

Was an Italian botanist.He was born in Palermo, Italy, where he died. He was a professor of botany a

Was an Italian botanist.He was born in Palermo, Italy, where he died. He was a professor of botany and became the director of the botanical gardens in Palermo. He published the Hortus Botanicus Panormitanus in 1876-1878.

A Russian-born Israeli comparative linguist and one of the modern founders of comparative Nostratic

A Russian-born Israeli comparative linguist and one of the modern founders of comparative Nostratic linguistics.he arrived at the long-forgotten Nostratic hypothesis in the 1960s, at around the same time but independently of Vladislav Illich-Svitych. Together with Illich-Svitych, he was the first to undertake a multilateral comparison of the daughter-languages of Nostratic.After teaching Nostratics at Moscow University for 8 years, Dolgopolsky moved to Israel in 1976, and is currently at Haifa University.