Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter H

Was an English-born Australian statistician.After five years in Australia, Hayter joined the Victori

Was an English-born Australian statistician.After five years in Australia, Hayter joined the Victorian registrar-general's department in 1857 and gave particular attention to the statistics of the colony. In 1862 he was put at the head of the statistical

Was a Welsh physician, surgeon, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons (MRCS), geologist, President

Was a Welsh physician, surgeon, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons (MRCS), geologist, President of the Geological Society and Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS). He studied the Precambrian rocks of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire and Pembrokeshire, the Devonian rocks of Devon and Somerset, cave deposits and other Quaternary sediments.Following in the footsteps of his father Thomas, he studied medicine at Guy's Hospital in London, and where he qualified as a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (MRCS) in 1862. He practised in St Davids until 1871 when he moved to Hendon in London where he specialised in mental disease, taking a degree at St Andrews in 1878.

Was a prominent judge in the United States, who sat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Se

Was a prominent judge in the United States, who sat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit from 1959 through 1974 (including service as Chief Judge from 1971 to 1973) and in senior status until his death by suicide in 1986.Judge Friendly graduated from Harvard College in 1923 and received his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1927 ([1]). It is widely rumored that Friendly graduated with the highest grade point average ever attained (before or since) at Harvard Law School, but confirmation of this claim is difficult to find, and the claim is sometimes also made for U.S. Supreme Court Justices Louis Brandeis and Felix Frankfurter. Frankfurter, while still a professor at Harvard Law School, sent his student to work as a clerk for Justice Louis D. Brandeis of the United States Supreme Court([2])

Is a Czech linguist who was a pioneer in corpus linguistics and linguistic software.In the 1950s, Ku

Is a Czech linguist who was a pioneer in corpus linguistics and linguistic software.In the 1950s, Kucera found his way to Brown University, in the United States, where he was able to further pursue his interest in linguistics (he remained there for the rest of his career). At Brown, he became interested in the computational analysis of human language, though at the time there were scarcely any tools for this type of research.

Was an American astronomer.He worked at Lowell Observatory using the blink comparator, and hired Rob

Was an American astronomer.He worked at Lowell Observatory using the blink comparator, and hired Robert Burnham, Jr. to work there.He also discovered a number of asteroids, including the Apollo asteroid 2201 Oljato and the Amor asteroid 2061 Anza. Some have tentatively identified Oljato as the parent body of the Chi Orionids meteor shower. The asteroid 1741 Giclas, discovered January 26, 1960 by the Indiana Asteroid Program, is named for him.

A retired judge in Hong Kong.After passing the Bar exam in 1959, Litton entered into private practic

A retired judge in Hong Kong.After passing the Bar exam in 1959, Litton entered into private practice in Hong Kong where he was eminently successful as a trial lawyer. He was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1970 and co-founded the Hong Kong Law Journal with Gerald de Basto Q.C., another local barrister. He also served as Chairman of the Bar from 1971 to 1973, from 1977 to 1980 and again from 1983 to 1985.Litton was appointed in 1989 an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for his contribution to the law and was elevated to the bench in 1992 as a Justice of Appeal.

Was an American economist known for his pioneering work in econometrics.Moore was born in Charles Co

Was an American economist known for his pioneering work in econometrics.Moore was born in Charles County, Maryland, the first of 15 children. He received a B.A. from Randolph-Macon College in 1892 and a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1896. His the

Was a German-American botanist and educator.He joined his uncle in Columbus, Ohio and enrolled in th

Was a German-American botanist and educator.He joined his uncle in Columbus, Ohio and enrolled in the Columbus Lutheran Seminary. He graduated from the seminary and was ordained a minister but never served in a religious office. Instead, he began his care

Was an English botanist. He was largely responsible for establishing the rubber industry on the Mala

Was an English botanist. He was largely responsible for establishing the rubber industry on the Malay peninsula.[1]

Was an American astronomer who, along with Ejnar Hertzsprung, developed the Hertzsprung-Russell diag

Was an American astronomer who, along with Ejnar Hertzsprung, developed the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram (1910). In 1923, working with Frederick Saunders, he developed RS coupling which is also known as LS coupling.He co-wrote an influential two-volume textbook in 1927 with Raymond Smith Dugan and John Quincy Stewart: Astronomy: A Revision of Young’s Manual of Astronomy (Ginn & Co., Boston, 1926–27, 1938, 1945). This became the standard astronomy textbook for about two decades. There were two volumes: the first was The Solar System and the second was Astrophysics and Stellar Astronomy. The textbook popularized the idea that a star's properties (radius, surface temperature, luminosity, etc.) were largely determined by the star's mass and chemical composition,

Was a Scottish explorer, ornithologist, and botanist. Educated at Aberdeen Grammar School, the Unive

Was a Scottish explorer, ornithologist, and botanist. Educated at Aberdeen Grammar School, the University of Aberdeen and the University of Edinburgh, he was primarily active in the Moluccas and New Guinea, he served as director of the Canterbury Museum in New Zealand between 1890-1893, and eventually moved to Liverpool, England, where he served as a consulting director of museums there until his death.

Is an Austrian-American mathematician, known for his contributions to information theory.Pollak then

Is an Austrian-American mathematician, known for his contributions to information theory.Pollak then joined Bell Labs (1951), where he in the early 1960s became director of the Mathematics and Statistics Research Center. He authored near forty papers, man

An American economist and university administrator. From 1973 to 1987 he was the Dean of the Faculty

An American economist and university administrator. From 1973 to 1987 he was the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. At Harvard, where he was a Professor of Economics, he also served as Acting President in 1984 and 1987. After stepping down from the dean’s position in 1987, he become a member of Harvard’s governing body, the Harvard Corporation.Professor Rosovsky received his A.B degree in 1949 from the College of William and Mary and his Ph.D. degree from Harvard in 1959. He taught economics, history and Japanese and Korean studies at the University of California at Berkeley until 1965. He has taught as a visiting professor in Japan and Israel and has worked variously as a consultant with the United States government, the Asian Development Bank, the World Bank and UNESCO.

Was an American geographer, geologist, and ethnologist, noted for his early studies of Native Americ

Was an American geographer, geologist, and ethnologist, noted for his early studies of Native American cultures, as well as for his discovery in 1832 of the source of the Mississippi River. He married Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, who was Ojibwe and Irish-American. Her knowledge of the Ojibwe language and of Ojibwe legends, which she shared with Schoolcraft, formed in part the source material for Longfellow's epic poem, The Song of Hiawatha.

Was an American economist and statistician, one of the founders of econometrics.Henry Schultz[1] was

Was an American economist and statistician, one of the founders of econometrics.Henry Schultz[1] was born on September 4, 1893 in a Polish family in Szarkowszczyzna[citation needed], the Russian Empire (now part of Belarus). His family moved to the United

Was an English steel manufacturer, and amateur ornithologist, oologist and traveller.He was one of t

Was an English steel manufacturer, and amateur ornithologist, oologist and traveller.He was one of the first European ornithologists to accept the American trinomial system to classify sub-species.Seebohm's other publications included A History of British Birds (1883), The Geographical Distribution of the family Charadriidae (1887), The Birds of the Japanese Empire (1890) and A Monograph of the Turdidae (1898).A number of birds were named after Seebohm, including the Grey Emu-tail Dromaeocercus seebohmi by Richard Bowdler Sharpe.

Was an English philologist, phonetician and grammarian.[1] As a philologist, he specialized in the G

Was an English philologist, phonetician and grammarian.[1] As a philologist, he specialized in the Germanic languages, particularly Anglo-Saxon (Old English), Old Icelandic, and West Saxon. In addition, Sweet published works on larger issues of phonetics and grammar in language and the teaching of languages. Many of his ideas have remained influential, and a number of his works continue to be in print, being used as course texts at colleges and universities.Henry Sweet was born in London and educated at King's College School, London.[1] In 1864, he spent a short time studying at the University of Heidelberg.[1][3] Upon his return to England, he took up an office job with a trading company in London.[3] Five years later, aged twenty-four, he won a scholarship in German and entered Balliol College in Oxford.[3]

Was an English naturalist and explorer who gave the first scientific account of mimicry in animals.

Was an English naturalist and explorer who gave the first scientific account of mimicry in animals. He was most famous for his expedition to the Amazon with Alfred Russel Wallace in 1848. Wallace returned in 1852, but lost his collection in a shipwreck. When Bates arrived home in 1859 after a full eleven years he had sent back over 14,000 specimens (mostly insects) of which 8,000 were new to science.

Was an American zoologist born in Holmesburg, Pennsylvania.He studied at Stanford University under D

Was an American zoologist born in Holmesburg, Pennsylvania.He studied at Stanford University under David Starr Jordan. He joined the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia and worked as an assistant from 1903 to 1922, associate curator of vertebrates from 1922 to 1934, curator of fish and reptiles from 1934 to 1940 and curator of fish from 1940 to 1965.

Was an American ornithologist.Henshaw studied at Cambridge High School where he met William Brewster

Was an American ornithologist.Henshaw studied at Cambridge High School where he met William Brewster. In 1869 he was forced to give up school due to ill health, and went on a collecting trip to Louisiana. This marked the start of his career as a field naturalist.

An authority in the field of applied linguistics and language teaching, specifically English languag

An authority in the field of applied linguistics and language teaching, specifically English language learning and teaching.Widdowson is perhaps best known for his contribution to communicative language teaching. However, he has also published on other related subjects such as discourse analysis and critical discourse analysis, the global spread of English, English for Special Purposes and stylistics. The Routledge Encyclopedia of Language Teaching and Learning calls him "probably the most influential philosopher of the late twentieth century for international ESOL" (674).

An American geologist. He helped pioneer and develop the modern approach to sequence stratigraphy, b

An American geologist. He helped pioneer and develop the modern approach to sequence stratigraphy, blending the disciplines of sedimentology, stratigraphy, and depositional systems analysis, largely within the context of oil and gas exploration. During the past decade he pioneered and popularized the discipline of seismic geomorphology, which, when integrated with seismic geomorphology and seismic stratigraphy, leverages both 2D and 3D seismic data to better understand the paleogeographic distribution of lithologies.

Polish economist, professor and rector of the Academy of Foreign Trade in Lwów.Before 1918, he publ

Polish economist, professor and rector of the Academy of Foreign Trade in Lwów.Before 1918, he published under the name Dr. Henryk Kornreich. During the First World War, he served as an officer in the Austro-Hungarian Army and, after Polish independence, in the Polish Army, during the Polish-Soviet War, on the Volhynia front

Is a Polish philosopher. He completed technical studies, musicology and philosophy in Warsaw. He rec

Is a Polish philosopher. He completed technical studies, musicology and philosophy in Warsaw. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Oxford University.[1]Skolimowski's work is targeted at overcoming human angst and disconnection caused in part by the overwhelming preponderance of modern technology, which had its seeds in the Industrial Revolution. Our accelerating dependence on technology at the expense of a right relationship with Nature and the planet is a prime concern within Skolimowski's work, as is the increasing inability of organized patriarchal religions to provide a meaningful spiritual platform from which modern human beings may appropriately evolve.

Heraclitus is known for his doctrine of change being central to the universe, and that the Logos is

Heraclitus is known for his doctrine of change being central to the universe, and that the Logos is the fundamental order of all.