Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter H

Was a Japanese essayist and astronomer.In 1930 he coined the Japanese word Meiosei (???, Meiosei?) f

Was a Japanese essayist and astronomer.In 1930 he coined the Japanese word Meiosei (???, Meiosei?) for the newly-discovered planet Pluto.

A professor of economics and statistics at Stanford University’s Food Research Institute, is known

A professor of economics and statistics at Stanford University’s Food Research Institute, is known for his contributions on hedging, the theory of futures prices – which anticipated the efficient market hypothesis, an early theory of market maker behavior

A Danish linguist who made significant contributions to language science and wrote about 30 authorit

A Danish linguist who made significant contributions to language science and wrote about 30 authoritative works concerning several languages.As a young man, he traveled to Korfu with the great Indo-Europeanist Karl Brugmann to gather material on Albanian.Pedersen received his doctorate in 1897 from the University of Copenhagen and stayed on there as a professor.Among students of the Celtic languages he is best known for his Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen, 'Comparative Grammar of the Celtic Languages', which is still regarded as the principal reference work in Celtic historical linguistics.

Was a Danish American astronomer.[1]Holger Thiele discovered a number of asteroids. He also discover

Was a Danish American astronomer.[1]Holger Thiele discovered a number of asteroids. He also discovered the comet C/1906 V1 and calculated the orbits of other comets. He worked at Hamburg-Bergedorf Observatory at Bergedorf, in Hamburg, Germany. He immigrated to the United States during 1912.[2] In 1917, he started working as a fellow for the University of California at Lick Observatory, near San Jose, California. During 1946. Holger Thiele died in Alameda County, California. [3]

Was a Chinese philosopher who lived during the end of Ming Dynasty. He is often quoted in the contex

Was a Chinese philosopher who lived during the end of Ming Dynasty. He is often quoted in the contexts of chess and vegetarianism. He wrote Vegetable Roots Discourse: Wisdom From Ming China on Life and Living: Caigentan.

Was an English Quaker teacher and writer, pacifist and ornithologist. He was the youngest of four so

Was an English Quaker teacher and writer, pacifist and ornithologist. He was the youngest of four sons of Joseph Gundry Alexander (1848–1918).[1] One of his brothers was Wilfred Backhouse Alexander.Alexander was a life-long dedicated and gifted birdwatcher, keenly involved in the twentieth century movements for the protection and observation of birds. Along with his two younger brothers, Wilfred and Christopher, he took a keen interest in nature. Growing up in a Quaker home devoid of any other forms of entertainment, he found an interest in birds starting at the age of eight when his older brother Gilbert presented him a book on natural history.[3] It was not until he was 20 that he obtained his first pair of binoculars.[4] He was one of a small group of amateur birdwatchers who developed the skills and set new standards for combining the pleasures of birdwatching with the satisfaction of contributing to ornithological science.

Was an American astronomer, and brother of Charles Wesley Tuttle.He discovered or co-discovered nume

Was an American astronomer, and brother of Charles Wesley Tuttle.He discovered or co-discovered numerous comets, including 55P/Tempel-Tuttle (parent body of the Leonid meteor shower), and 109P/Swift-Tuttle (parent body of the Perseid meteor shower). Other periodic comets that bear his name are 8P/Tuttle and 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak. The asteroid 5036 Tuttle was named in his honour.Asteroid Tuttle (aka 1991 US2, 1965 DC, 1971 FY, 1977 KA2, 1982 KA1, 1985 UB2, 1988 KK1 or 1990 ST12), 2.73au from Earth on 19SEP2001. It has a magnitude of 11.4, a rotation period of 3.8 hours and a period of 5.57 years.

Was an American meteorologist who pioneered in aviation meteorology, synoptic weather analysis (weat

Was an American meteorologist who pioneered in aviation meteorology, synoptic weather analysis (weather forecasting), severe convective storms, cloud physics, and weather modification. Byers is most well known for his work as director of U.S. Weather Bureau's Thunderstorm Project in which, among other things, the modern cell morphology and life cycle of a thunderstorm were established. He is also known for his professional involvement with Carl-Gustaf Arvid Rossby and Tetsuya Theodore Fujita.

Was an American astronomer. He was the son of Harold D. Babcock.He invented and built a number of as

Was an American astronomer. He was the son of Harold D. Babcock.He invented and built a number of astronomical instruments, and in 1953 was the first to propose the idea of adaptive optics. He specialized in spectroscopy and the study of magnetic fields of stars. He proposed the Babcock Model, a theory for the magnetism of sunspots.During World War II, he was engaged in radiation work at MIT and Caltech. After the war he began a productive collaboration with his father.

He graduated from University of Bucharest's Faculty of Physics in 1981, university degree about lase

He graduated from University of Bucharest's Faculty of Physics in 1981, university degree about lasers. Post-graduate, Faculty of Philosophy, thesis " Philosophyc imaginary of physics. Pierre Duhem case". Scientific researcher (1986-1994), university assistant (1990-1994), director of Center for German studies, University of Bucharest - Faculty of Philosophy (1994-1996).

Is a German jurist and legal philosopher. He currently holds a chair at the University of Würzburg.

Is a German jurist and legal philosopher. He currently holds a chair at the University of Würzburg. In 2008 he was the initial candidate to replace Winfried Hassemer at the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany, but his nomination was opposed by the CDU

Is a German economist and professor of management economics and business administration at the Unive

Is a German economist and professor of management economics and business administration at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. He has published several scholarly papers that have been featured in online databases such as the Social Science Research Netw

Was a professor of invertebrate zoology at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology. His primary re

Was a professor of invertebrate zoology at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology. His primary research was on starfish and sea urchins; however, Fell is also widely known for his controversial work in New World epigraphy.Fell moved to New Zealand with his mother in the early 1920s, after his father, who was a merchant seaman, died in a shipboard fire. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Edinburgh in 1941, after which he served in the British Army during World War II. In 1946 he returned to New Zealand where he resumed his academic career. In 1964 he joined the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard, where he stayed until retirement in 1979.

Was an American sportsman best known as the long-time men's basketball coach at New York University.

Was an American sportsman best known as the long-time men's basketball coach at New York University. He was also an Olympic shot putter and a college basketball and football player.Howard first attended Barringer High School in Newark, New Jersey and then the High School of Commerce in New York City. At Commerce he was Captain of the Basketball Team, member of the Track Team and member of the Omega Gamma Delta Fraternity.He briefly attended Dartmouth College and then transferred to New York University. During his freshman year in 1914, Howard was the leading scorer on the NYU Violets men's basketball team. He was captain of the 1916-1917 football team, where he played as a tackle, a punter, and also played in the backfield.

A Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Maryland.

A Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Maryland.He studied at the Carnegie Institute of Technology (B.S., 1967), Harvard University (M.A., 1969) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D., 1972). He joined the faculty of the University of Connecticut in 1972, and took up his present post at University of Maryland in 2002.He has been a prominent contributor to the syntax literature within a Chomskyan framework, and is one of few linguists to have co-written articles with Chomsky.[1][2] Describing himself as a "conservative", Lasnik says that he often finds himself "...trying to resurrect old analyses or maintain current analyses that are being supplanted." (p. 4) [3]

Was a British ornithologist.Saunders was born in London and received his early education iat Leather

Was a British ornithologist.Saunders was born in London and received his early education iat Leatherhead and Rottingdean. Subsequently he earned his money as a merchant banker. This allowed him to travel widely. In 1855 he went to Brazil and Chile, returning in 1862. He then devoted his time to the investigation of the avifauna of Spain, publishing a number of articles on the subject in The Ibis, and visiting the Pyrenees in 1883 and 1884.

Was an American botanist recognized as the world's leading authority on the agaves.He worked for the

Was an American botanist recognized as the world's leading authority on the agaves.He worked for the United States Department of Agriculture, and was a research botanist with the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, Arizona after 1971. He also collected many of the specimens now at the Huntington Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California.His 1942 study of the plants of the Río Mayo region of northwestern Mexico became a classic for the extent of its coverage of a previously little-known area.

Was a noted American geologist and volcanologist. He was born of Welsh parents in Liverpool, England

Was a noted American geologist and volcanologist. He was born of Welsh parents in Liverpool, England, on October 12, 1898. He received a BA in geography in 1923 and an MA in archaeology in 1924 from Liverpool University. He studied geology at the Imperial College of Science and Technology in London; his twin brother David Williams also became a geologist. Howel Williams moved to the University of California at Berkeley in 1926. In 1928 he was awarded the degree of D.Sc. from the University of Liverpool and published his first papers on the geology of various California volcanic regions. Williams was a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Was a Chinese philosopher and essayist. His courtesy name was Shizhi (??). Hu is widely recognized t

Was a Chinese philosopher and essayist. His courtesy name was Shizhi (??). Hu is widely recognized today as a key contributor to Chinese liberalism and language reform in his advocacy for the use of vernacular Chinese. He was also an influential Redology scholar.

Was a Chinese mathematician born in Jintan, Jiangsu. He was the founder and pioneer of many fields i

Was a Chinese mathematician born in Jintan, Jiangsu. He was the founder and pioneer of many fields in mathematical research. He wrote more than 200 papers and monographs, many of which became classic documents. Since his sudden death while delivering a lecture in the University of Tokyo, Japan, many mathematics secondary education programs have been named after him. In the early 1930's, his book on cumulative prime number theory has been influential to many subsequent number theorists in China, including renowned Chen Jingrun who obtained the best result so far in the binary Goldbach conjecture. Hua also made contributions to the development of college education in China. He was the first Chair of the Department of Mathematics and Vice President of University of Science & Technology of China (USTC), a new type of Chinese university established by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 1958, which was aimed to foster skilled researchers necessary for the economic development, defense and education in science and technology.

Was an official of the Chinese dynasty Tang Dynasty and Wu Zetian's Zhou Dynasty, serving as chancel

Was an official of the Chinese dynasty Tang Dynasty and Wu Zetian's Zhou Dynasty, serving as chancellor during the reign of Emperor Zhongzong. He was a key figure in the coup that overthrew Wu Zetian and restored Emperor Zhongzong in 705, but was later exiled due to false accusations instigated by Wu Zetian's nephew Wu Sansi and killed in exile in a cruel manner.

Is a French philosopher specialised in aesthetics and art history, and professor at the École des H

Is a French philosopher specialised in aesthetics and art history, and professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris from 1975 until 1996. Damisch studied at the Sorbonne with Maurice Merleau-Ponty and, later, with Pierre Francastel. In 1967 he founded the Cercle d’histoire/théorie de l’art that would later become the CEHTA (Centre d'histoire et théorie des arts)[1] at the EHESS[2].

Was an English climatologist who founded the Climatic Research Unit in 1971 in the School of Environ

Was an English climatologist who founded the Climatic Research Unit in 1971 in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia.Most of his scientific life Lamb spent at the Meteorological Office, UK, where he started as a Technical Officer by special merit promotion. As a Quaker, Lamb refused to work on the meteorology of gas spraying during World War II, and was transferred to the Irish Meteorological Service, then still closely associated with the UK Met Office[1]. On returning to the UK service after the war his responsibilities were in the fields of long range weather forecasting, world climatology and climate change. In this capacity he spent some years in Antarctica and in Malta and North Africa and became a Member of the WMO Working Group on Climate Fluctuations and the first Director of the Climatic Research Unit in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia

Was a French diplomat and reformer. The leading idea of his diplomacy was that of religious and civi

Was a French diplomat and reformer. The leading idea of his diplomacy was that of religious and civil liberty for the protection and expansion of Protestantism. He did everything in his power to advance the union of the Protestant churches.

Was an American zoologist.Clark worked at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University fr

Was an American zoologist.Clark worked at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University from 1905, and was curator of echinoderms from 1910 to 1926.