Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter C

Was a French botanist.His greatest claim to fame was serving as botanist on a circumglobal expeditio

Was a French botanist.His greatest claim to fame was serving as botanist on a circumglobal expedition from 1817-1820. He accompanied Freycinet, who made the expedition on the ships Uranie and Physicienne. He is known for his collections in Australia.In 1831 Gaudichaud sailed on L'Herminie to South America, visiting Chile, Brazil and Peru. In 1836 he undertook a third voyage, circumnavigating the globe on La Bonite.

Was a leading French economist and historian of economic thought. He was a professor at the Universi

Was a leading French economist and historian of economic thought. He was a professor at the University of Bordeaux, at Montpellier, at Université de Paris and finally at Collège de France.

Was an American astrophysicist, astronomer and Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. He was born

Was an American astrophysicist, astronomer and Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. He was born in Wilton, New Hampshire.Abbot graduated from Phillips Academy in 1891 and MIT in 1894, with a degree in chemical physics. Samuel Pierpont Langley was looking for an assistant at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO), and hired Abbot in 1895 because of his skill at laboratory work, despite his lack of experience in astronomy.Langley focused on aeronautics experiments, while Abbot became acting director of the SAO in 1896. When Langley died in 1906, Abbot succeed him as director (in 1907), and Charles Walcott became Smithsonian secretary. Abbot, recognizing that the solar constant was badly approximated, proposed a more accurate value of 1.93 cal/cm²/min for the solar constant (the modern value is measured in watts per square meter)

Was a British astronomer, noted for his assignment by the Royal Society in 1768 to the expedition se

Was a British astronomer, noted for his assignment by the Royal Society in 1768 to the expedition sent to the Pacific Ocean in order to observe the transit of Venus, aboard James Cook's Endeavour.A farmer's son, he became assistant to the Astronomer Royal in Greenwich in in 1761, before joining the navy and Cook's expedition.

Was a British physician and social critic who published The Effects of Civilization on the People in

Was a British physician and social critic who published The Effects of Civilization on the People in European States in 1805, condemning capitalism for its inability to provide for the poor. In the book, Hall argued that inequalities in wealth and the pro

Was an American zoologist, born at Parnassus, Pennsylvania[1]. From 1897 to 1902 he was connected wi

Was an American zoologist, born at Parnassus, Pennsylvania[1]. From 1897 to 1902 he was connected with the United States Fish Commission, serving as chief of the fisheries division. He then served as director of the New York Aquarium at Castle Garden, from 1902 until his retirement in 1937[1]. He wrote extensively on fisheries, whaling, fur seals, deep-sea exploration and zoology.

Was an American fossil collector and amateur paleontologist. His older brother, Dr. George M. Sternb

Was an American fossil collector and amateur paleontologist. His older brother, Dr. George M. Sternberg (1838-1915) was a military surgeon assigned to Fort Harker near Ellsworth, Kansas and brought the rest of Sternberg family to Kansas to live on his ranch about 1868. Once there, Charles became interested in collecting fossil leaves from the Dakota Sandstone Formation.

Was an American ichthyologist who worked with Seth Eugene Meek and David Starr Jordan.[1] Later he b

Was an American ichthyologist who worked with Seth Eugene Meek and David Starr Jordan.[1] Later he became a professor at Stanford University, and studied the marine fisheries of the Pacific northwest.

A British applied botanist, past President of the British Ecological Society, and a world authority

A British applied botanist, past President of the British Ecological Society, and a world authority on heathlands and heathers.He was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he was an open Scholar and graduated BA in 1944, then at Aberdeen University, graduating Doctor of Philosophy.[1]

Was a French mathematician who did research on number theory, quadratic forms, invariant theory, ort

Was a French mathematician who did research on number theory, quadratic forms, invariant theory, orthogonal polynomials, elliptic functions, and algebra. Hermite polynomials, Hermite interpolation, Hermite normal form, Hermitian operators, and cubic Hermite splines are named in his honor. One of his students was Henri Poincaré.

Was an amateur American astronomer.He spent the following years helping his family estate, and becam

Was an amateur American astronomer.He spent the following years helping his family estate, and became an insurance broker. He also performed clerical work, primarily for the Merchants' Exchange Association. By 1917 he was made executive secretary of the association, and held this position until 1940. His family estate was eventually settled successfully.After gaining a three-inch (76 mm) telescope and learning to enjoy the hobby of star-gazing, he joined the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. He became the secretary-treasurer of that organization in 1925, and held the office until he retired in 1950.

Was a British colonial administrator, zoologist and ethnologist.He was born in Hertfordshire, Englan

Was a British colonial administrator, zoologist and ethnologist.He was born in Hertfordshire, England, and was educated at Felsted School in Essex and at the University of Cambridge. He was offered an administrative cadetship in Sarawak by the second Rajah, Sir Charles Brooke, which he took up in 1884.

An American linguist, and an Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Berk

An American linguist, and an Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Michigan in 1961. Professor Fillmore spent ten years at The Ohio State University before joining Berkeley's Department of Linguistics in 1971. He has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.He has been extremely influential in the areas of syntax and lexical semantics; he was one of the founders of cognitive linguistics, and developed the theories of Case Grammar (Fillmore 1968), and Frame Semantics (1976). In all of his research he has illuminated the fundamental importance of semantics,

His father, Michael Gahan was the Master of Erasmus Smith's School in Tipperary. He was educated fir

His father, Michael Gahan was the Master of Erasmus Smith's School in Tipperary. He was educated first at Queens College Galway, where he achieved distinction, and then at the Royal School of Mines in Kensington. In 1886 he joined the Natural History Mus

Was a French mathematician and chemist. He entered into the École Polytechnique in 1804 at the age

Was a French mathematician and chemist. He entered into the École Polytechnique in 1804 at the age of eighteen, and studied under Monge, graduating first in his class in 1808, after which he took up a career as a lieutenant in Napoleon's artillery. Later, in 1818, Brianchon became a professor in the Artillery School of the Royal Guard at Vincennes.

Was a Scottish economist, often considered one of the finest theorists of his generation.After the W

Was a Scottish economist, often considered one of the finest theorists of his generation.After the War he re-entered academia, lecturing in Economics for a year at Imperial College London and another at Balliol. In 1948 he was elected Fellow of Economics at Queens College, Oxford, and in 1950 gained a University lectureship. In 1955, he travelled to the West Indies, where he spent a large amount of time painting; six years later, fond memories persuaded him to leave Oxford and take up a Chair in Economics at the University of the West Indies in 1961, shortly after being married.

Was a German naturalist.he anglicised his name when he was appointed as assistant to George Shaw at

Was a German naturalist.he anglicised his name when he was appointed as assistant to George Shaw at the British Museum in 1806. He was given the task of cataloguing the mineral collection. In 1813 he succeeded Shaw as Keeper of the Department of Natural History. In 1837, following a House of Commons Select Committee report on the British Museum, the Department was divided into three branches, with Konig being put in charge of the Mineralogical and Geological branch.

An American observational astrophysicist and a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the Johns Hopki

An American observational astrophysicist and a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the Johns Hopkins University.[1] He is the Principal Investigator of NASA's highly successful Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP).[2] Prior to 2005, Bennett was a Senior Scientist for Experimental Cosmology, Goddard Senior Fellow, and Infrared Astrophysics Branch Head at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.[3] Bennett was at the Carnegie Institution of Washington's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism during the summers from 1976 to 1978.[4]His National Academy of Sciences (NAS) membership citation states, "As leader of the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) mission, Bennett has helped quantify, with unprecedented precision and accuracy, many key properties of the universe, including its age, the dark and baryonic matter content,

Was an English-born Canadian geneticist who specialized in the field of cytogenetics. He is also som

Was an English-born Canadian geneticist who specialized in the field of cytogenetics. He is also sometimes referred to as C. Leonard Huskins or C.L. Huskins.After the war Huskins returned to Canada and enrolled in the University of Alberta from which he received his Bachelor's degree in 1923 and his Master's degree in 1925. With the aid of a scholarship for graduate study abroad, he went to England where he obtained his Ph.D. from King's College London in 1927. Huskins stayed on in England from 1927 to 1930 to do research with the renowned geneticist William Bateson at what is now the John Innes Centre.[2]

Was a notable palaeontologist and zoologist, working from the University of California, Berkeley. He

Was a notable palaeontologist and zoologist, working from the University of California, Berkeley. He took part in excavations at the 'Placerias Quarry', in 1930 and the 40 Shonisaurus skeleton discoveries of the 1960s, in what is now the Berlin-Ichthyosau

An American mathematician at Princeton University. His primary field of research is mathematical ana

An American mathematician at Princeton University. His primary field of research is mathematical analysis.A child prodigy, Fefferman entered college by twelve and had written his first scientific paper by the age of 15 in German. After receiving his bache

Was a French naturalist and ornithologist. He was the son of Lucien Bonaparte and Alexandrine de Ble

Was a French naturalist and ornithologist. He was the son of Lucien Bonaparte and Alexandrine de Bleschamp, and nephew of Emperor Napoleon.Bonaparte was raised in Italy and, after his marriage to his cousin Zenaida on June 29, 1822 in Brussels, travelled to the United States. Before leaving Italy he had already discovered a warbler new to science, the Moustached Warbler, and on the voyage he collected specimens of a new storm-petrel. On arrival in the United States he presented a paper on this new bird, which was later named after Alexander Wilson.

Was a German-Dutch botanist.He was born at Braunschweig in Germany, but studied at Leiden University

Was a German-Dutch botanist.He was born at Braunschweig in Germany, but studied at Leiden University and spent his professional life working in the Dutch East Indies and in the Netherlands, where he was Director of the Rijksherbarium (state herbarium) at

Was a French astronomer most notable for publishing an astronomical catalog consisting of deep sky o

Was a French astronomer most notable for publishing an astronomical catalog consisting of deep sky objects such as nebulae and star clusters that came to be known as the 103 "Messier objects". The purpose of the catalogue was to help comet hunters (like himself) and other astronomical observers to distinguish between permanent and transient objects in the sky.In 1751 he entered the employ of Joseph Nicolas Delisle, the astronomer of the French Navy, who instructed him to keep careful records of his observations. Messier's first documented observation was that of the Mercury transit of May 6, 1753.

Was an American herpetologist, and curator of herpetology and researcher for the American Museum of

Was an American herpetologist, and curator of herpetology and researcher for the American Museum of Natural History.