Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter D

Was a Dutch mathematician, well known for the construction in topology of the dyadic solenoid.

Was a Dutch mathematician, well known for the construction in topology of the dyadic solenoid.

Was an American economist and statistician.He was born at Burlington, Vermont, on 7 April 1858. Like

Was an American economist and statistician.He was born at Burlington, Vermont, on 7 April 1858. Like his younger brother, John Dewey, he was educated at the University of Vermont and Johns Hopkins University. He later became professor of economics and sta

Was an American ornithologist and an authority on birds of prey.Amadon was born in Milwaukee, Wiscon

Was an American ornithologist and an authority on birds of prey.Amadon was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Arthur and Mary Amadon. He received a BS from Hobart College in 1934 and a Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1947. In 1937 he joined the American Museum of Natural History in New York City and was Chairman of the Department of Ornithology there from 1957 until 1973. In 1940, he married Octavia Gardella and had two daughters: Susan and Emily.

An American macroeconomist and co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. He previo

An American macroeconomist and co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. He previously was a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute and an assistant professor of economics at Bucknell University. He has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan. His B.A. is from Swarthmore College. He blogs for The American Prospect.

An American geneticist. Hamer is the director of the Gene Structure and Regulation Unit at the U.S.

An American geneticist. Hamer is the director of the Gene Structure and Regulation Unit at the U.S. National Cancer Institute (part of the National Institutes of Health). He obtained his BA at Trinity College, CT, U.S. and his Ph.D from Harvard Medical School. He has won numerous awards including the Maryland Distinguished Young Scientist Award and the Ariens Kappers Award for Neurobiology.In the 1990s Hamer began studies of the role of genes in human behavior. In 1993 he published a paper suggesting the existence of genes that predispose men towards homosexuality, and presented evidence that one of these genes was associated with the Xq28 marker on the X chromosome.[1] This finding was replicated in two studies in the United States but not in a study performed by researchers at the University of Western Ontario in Canada;

Was an Indian statistician, who specialised in the foundations of statistics. Basu’s theorem on th

Was an Indian statistician, who specialised in the foundations of statistics. Basu’s theorem on the independence of a complete sufficient statistic and an ancillary statistic was given in a 1955 paper.

A renowned economist from Bangladesh currently working as a Distinguished Fellow at the CPD, Dhaka.D

A renowned economist from Bangladesh currently working as a Distinguished Fellow at the CPD, Dhaka.Debapriya Bhattchariya studied at St. Gregory's High School, Dhaka and Dhaka College, Dhaka. He did his M.Sc. in Economics with distinction. He obtained his Ph.D. (Economics) from the Plekhanov Institute of National Economy, Moscow. He researched as a post-doctoral fellow at the Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford.In 2004-2005 was associated with the Centre for Global Development (CGD), Washington D.C. as a Senior Fulbright Fellow. He was also a Visiting Fellow at the United Nations University-Institute of New Technology (UNU-INTECH), Maastricht and Department of Economics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. Also, he has conducted joint research with the Institute of Developing Economies (IDE), Tokyo and Institute of Development Planning and Management (IDPM), Manchester.

Charlesworth received a PhD in genetics from Cambridge University in 1968, and did postdoctoral work

Charlesworth received a PhD in genetics from Cambridge University in 1968, and did postdoctoral work at Cambridge, the University of Chicago, and Liverpool University. She taught at the University of Chicago from 1988-1997, leaving to take up a Professorial Research Fellowship at the University of Edinburgh.[2] She is best known for her work on the evolution of genetic self incompatibility in plants and is recognised as a leader in that field. Charlesworth was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2001 and of the Royal Society of London in 2005.[1] According to the Web of Science she has published over 300 articles in peer-reviewed journals. These articles have been cited over 10.000 times and she has an h-index of 53.[3] She is married to the British evolutionary biologist Brian Charlesworth.

Julius Silver Professor of Economics and Director of Graduate Studies in Economics at New York Unive

Julius Silver Professor of Economics and Director of Graduate Studies in Economics at New York University. He has held long-term positions at Stanford University, the Indian Statistical Institute, and at Boston University, where he was Director of the Institute for Economic Development. He has held visiting appointments at Harvard University, MIT, the Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (Rio de Janeiro), the People's University of China (Beijing) and the London School of Economics. He is a Research Affiliate of the Instituto de Análisis Económico (Barcelona).

An Irish jurist and former politician from the Fine Gael Party, who served as a Teachta Dála (TD) f

An Irish jurist and former politician from the Fine Gael Party, who served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for twenty years, as Attorney-General for four and a High Court judge for another twenty years before his retirement. Educated in University College Dublin, he was an auditor of the UCD Law Society.Costello was born in Dublin, the son of John A. Costello who served as Taoiseach on two occasions. At the 1951 general election he was elected to the Dáil Éireann as a Fine Gael Teachta Dála for the Dublin North West constituency and was re-elected on every subsequent election until he stood down at the 1969 general election. He stood again in the Dublin South West constituency at the 1973 general election, and was elected for a final time, to the 20th Dáil.

A prominent Sri Lankan ornithologist. His early working career was in electronics, but for many year

A prominent Sri Lankan ornithologist. His early working career was in electronics, but for many years he has studied birds and also works as a professional guide for birding tours of the island.He discovered a new species of bird endemic to Sri Lanka, the Serendib Scops Owl. His expertise in vocalizations had enabled him to realize that an owl he heard calling near Kitulgala was an unknown species, and he later saw this bird in January 2001 in the Sinharaja rainforest..He has also identified (each for the first time) 15 new migrant species of birds in Sri Lanka, and has published a large number of articles on the avifauna of Sri Lanka.

A sociolinguist, anthropologist, and folklorist whose work has dealt primarily with languages of the

A sociolinguist, anthropologist, and folklorist whose work has dealt primarily with languages of the Pacific Northwest. He was one of the first to call the fourth subfield of anthropology "linguistic anthropology" instead of "anthropological linguistics." The terminological shift draws attention to the field's grounding in anthropology rather than in what by that time was already become an autonomous discipline (linguistics).He was educated at Reed College, studying under David H. French, and graduated in 1950 after a stint in pre-war Korea. His work in the Army as a decoder is part of what influenced him to become a linguist. Hymes earned his Ph.D. from Indiana University in 1955,[1] and took a job at Harvard University.

Is a Greek-American mathematician-physicist, well known in the field of general relativity for his p

Is a Greek-American mathematician-physicist, well known in the field of general relativity for his proof, together with Sergiu Klainerman, of the nonlinear stability of the Minkowski spacetime of special relativity in the framework of general relativity.

Democritus was a student of Leucippus and co-originator of the belief that all matter is made up of

Democritus was a student of Leucippus and co-originator of the belief that all matter is made up of various imperishable, indivisible elements which he called atoma (sg. atomon) or "indivisible units", from which we get the English word atom. It is virtually impossible to tell which of these ideas were unique to Democritus and which are attributable to Leucippus.

Biogerontologist is Professor emeritus at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. Dr. Harman is w

Biogerontologist is Professor emeritus at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. Dr. Harman is widely known as the "father of the free radical theory of aging". In 1995 he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in medicine.

Was an Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. H

Was an Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. He was a cultural geographer, whose work focused upon the concepts of landscape and representations. He was a leading proponent of the 'new cultural geography' which encouraged a focus upon the complex interconnections between the many different aspects of landscapes and the world.Cosgrove's research interests evolved from a focus on the meanings of landscape in human and cultural geography, especially in Western Europe since the fifteenth century, to a broader concern with the role of spatial images and representations in the making and communicating of knowledge. His work included how visual images have been used in history to shape geographical imaginations and in connection between geography as a formal discipline, imaginative expressions of geographical knowledge and experience in the visual arts (including cartography).

Was a French Jesuit theologian. After spending two years at Bourges he returned to Paris, and began

Was a French Jesuit theologian. After spending two years at Bourges he returned to Paris, and began a correspondence with Fronton du Duc, the editor of John Chrysostom. In 1605 he became a Jesuit, taught rhetoric at Reims (1609), La Flèche (1613), and at the Collège de Clermont (1618). During this last period he began a correspondence with the Bishop of Orléans, Gabriel de Laubépine (Albaspinaeus), on the first year of the primitive Church. Beginning in 1622

An artist, author, cartographer and a former professor of Design at North Carolina State University.

An artist, author, cartographer and a former professor of Design at North Carolina State University. Born in 1945, Wood grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, receiving a BA in English (in 1967) from then Western Reserve University (now Case Western Reserve University). He received an MA (in 1971) and a PhD (in 1973) in geography from Clark University, in Worcester, Massachusetts. Wood taught environmental psychology, landscape history, and design in then School of Design (now College of Design) at North Carolina State University from 1974 through 1996. In 1992 he curated The Power of Maps exhibition at the Cooper-Hewitt National Museum of Design in New York, which he remounted in 1994 at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington.

Is a British statistician, decision theorist and leading advocate of Bayesian statistics.Dennis Lind

Is a British statistician, decision theorist and leading advocate of Bayesian statistics.Dennis Lindley grew up in the south-west London suburb of Surbiton. He was an only child and his father was a local building contractor. Dennis recalled (to Adrian Sm

Is a judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Chin was nomin

Is a judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Chin was nominated by President Clinton on March 24, 1994, and confirmed in August of that same year. He is the first Asian American appointed as a U.S. District Judge outside of the Ninth Circuit.

Was an American agricultural geneticist, sesame researcher, and founder of the Genesa Foundation.He

Was an American agricultural geneticist, sesame researcher, and founder of the Genesa Foundation.He is known as the "father of sesame" in the Western Hemisphere for his basic research on the genetics of sesame. Most of the sesame lines grown in the Americas came from his breeding work. Sesame plants are a rich source of vitamins and minerals, and Langham focused on cross-breeding the plant into more fruitful versions. He also attempted to look for other uses of sesame beyond a mere food source.

A linguist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Hawaii, Manoa. Based on his work in creole la

A linguist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Hawaii, Manoa. Based on his work in creole languages in Guyana and Hawaii, he has proposed that the features of creole languages provide powerful insights into the development of language both by individuals and as a feature of the human species. He is the father of contemporary artist Ashley Bickerton.A graduate of the University of Cambridge, England in 1949, Derek Bickerton entered academic life in the 1960s, first as a lecturer in English Literature at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana, and then, after a year's postgraduate work in linguistics at the University of Leeds, as Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Guyana (1967-71). For twenty-four years he was a Professor of Linguistics at the University of Hawaii, having meanwhile received a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Cambridge (1976).

An influential British geographer from the United Kingdom. He is currently professor of geography at

An influential British geographer from the United Kingdom. He is currently professor of geography at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, having previously worked at Cambridge University.Gregory is best known for his book The Colonial Present:Afghanistan, Palestine and Iraq, published in 2004. This book discusses the actions of Israel, the United States of America and the United Kingdom in the Middle East after 9/11. It reflects how the popular discourses found in the media and in political circles indicates a continued Orientalism and colonialism. His writings are heavily influenced by the work of Edward Said. Gregory is said to be a post-modern geographer.

A barrister, former Irish government advisor and businessman born in Cork, Ireland in 1949. He is ma

A barrister, former Irish government advisor and businessman born in Cork, Ireland in 1949. He is married with four children and lives in Dublin.Educated in Blackrock College, Dublin, Gleeson holds B.A. and LL.M degrees and qualified as a barrister at the King's Inns, Dublin. His father was formerly a solicitor and barrister and was later appointed a Circuit Court Judge and some of his brothers (John and Michael another brother is a practicising General practitioner Dr. Tim Gleeson) also work as lawyers (Senior Counsel). Called to the Irish bar in 1970 he first practised outside of Dublin, Ireland's main legal centre, on the Cork Circuit. In the early 1970s he was a part time lecturer in Constitutional Law at University College Cork. He then moved to the capital when he was appointed a Senior Counsel in 1979 when only 30 years old. He is believed to have been the youngest ever "silk" appointed anywhere in the common law world in modern times.

Was an American mathematician who refined Edouard Lucas' work in the 1930s and devised the Lucas-Leh

Was an American mathematician who refined Edouard Lucas' work in the 1930s and devised the Lucas-Lehmer test for Mersenne primes. Lehmer's peripatetic career as a number theorist, with he and his wife taking numerous types of work in the United States and abroad to support themselves during the Great Depression, fortuitously brought him into the center of research into early electronic computing.