Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter H

Was an American statistician, noted for his introduction of the Lilliefors test. He was a professor

Was an American statistician, noted for his introduction of the Lilliefors test. He was a professor of statistics at George Washington University for 39 years.

Was a physician and botanist, specialising in South American flora.Painswick near Gloucester, Englan

Was a physician and botanist, specialising in South American flora.Painswick near Gloucester, England but was raised in France and educated at the Lycée Henri IV, where he received a medical degree in 1841. He had also studied botany and became a respected member of the French botanical fraternity. While studying he accompanied Adrien-Henri de Jussieu (1797-1853) on numerous botanizing expeditions and he became a collaborator with Ernest Cosson (1819-1889) and Jacques Germain de Saint-Pierre (1815-1882) in the preparation of Flore des environs de Paris (1845). In 1843, he was invited to join the expedition of François Louis de la Porte, comte de Castelnau to South America, and he explored and collected botanical specimens in that continent for five years.

Was an English geologist, ornithologist and systematist.Strickland was born at Reighton, in the East

Was an English geologist, ornithologist and systematist.Strickland was born at Reighton, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, and was grandson of Sir George Strickland, Bart. As a boy he acquired a taste for natural history which dominated his life. He received his early education from private tutors and in 1829 entered Oriel College, Oxford.

Is an Australian humanitarian and the founder and former director of the Oaktree Foundation.

Is an Australian humanitarian and the founder and former director of the Oaktree Foundation.

Was a distinguished Scottish geologist, botanist, palaeontologist and paleoanthropologist. He studie

Was a distinguished Scottish geologist, botanist, palaeontologist and paleoanthropologist. He studied the flora, fauna and geology of India, Assam and Burma, and made the first discovery of the modern evolutionary theory of punctuated equilibrium. He may also have been the first person to discover a fossil ape.Falconer was the youngest son of David Falconer of Forres, Elginshire. In 1826 Hugh Falconer graduated at the University of Aberdeen, where he studied natural history. He afterwards studied medicine in the University of Edinburgh, taking the degree of M.D. in 1829. During this period he zealously attended the botanical classes of Prof. R. Graham (1786-1845), and those on geology by Prof. Robert Jameson, the teacher of Charles Darwin.

Was the only Attorney-General of Southern Ireland and the first Attorney-General of the Irish Free S

Was the only Attorney-General of Southern Ireland and the first Attorney-General of the Irish Free State, and later the first Chief Justice of the Irish Free State. As a member of the Irish Free State Constitution Commission, he was also one of the constitutional architects of the Irish Free State. He was also elected to the 4th Dáil.On 5 June 1924 he was appointed Chief Justice, thereby becoming the first Chief Justice of the Irish Free State. Although the High Court of Justice and the Court of Appeal had been abolished and replaced by the High Court and the Supreme Court respectively, one of his first acts was to issue a practice note that the wearing of wigs and robes would continue in the new courts.[citation needed] This practice is still continued in trials and appeals in the High Court and the Supreme Court (except in certain matters).[citation needed] He held the position of Chief Justice until his death on 12 December 1936.

Was a British ecologist and bush pilot.He became famous for his UN report on desertification in the

Was a British ecologist and bush pilot.He became famous for his UN report on desertification in the African Sahel region, where he stated that "the desert southern boundary has shifted south by an average of 90 to 100 kilometres in the last 17 years". This statement has been instrumental to the belief that desertification is a great threat to the world and especially Africa, but has since been rejected several times.

Was a Scot who trained as a mathematician and evolved into a logician. MacColl was the youngest son

Was a Scot who trained as a mathematician and evolved into a logician. MacColl was the youngest son of a poor highland family which was at least in part Gaelic-speaking. Hugh's father died when he was still an infant and it is largely thanks to the effort

Was the Bishop of Grenoble from 1080[1] to his death. He was a partisan of the Gregorian reform and

Was the Bishop of Grenoble from 1080[1] to his death. He was a partisan of the Gregorian reform and opposed to Guy of Burgundy, Archbishop of Vienne, later Pope as Callistus II.

Worked as a jurist in the Dutch Republic and laid the foundations with Francisco de Vitoria and Albe

Worked as a jurist in the Dutch Republic and laid the foundations with Francisco de Vitoria and Alberico Gentili for international law, based on natural law. He was also a philosopher, Christian apologist, playwright, and poet.Aided by his continued association with van Oldenbarnevelt, Grotius made considerable advances in his political career, being retained as Oldenbarnevelt's resident advisor in 1605, Advocate General of the Fisc of Holland, Zeeland and Friesland in 1607, and then as Pensionary of Rotterdam (the equivalent of a mayoral office) in 1613.[4] In 1608 he married Maria van Reigersbergen, with whom he would have eight children (four surviving beyond youth) and who would be invaluable in helping him and the family to weather the storm to come.

Was a Dutch botanist and one of the first geneticists. He is known chiefly for suggesting the concep

Was a Dutch botanist and one of the first geneticists. He is known chiefly for suggesting the concept of genes, rediscovering Gregor Mendel's laws of heredity in the 1890s, and for developing a mutation theory of evolution.

Worked as a jurist in the Dutch Republic and laid the foundations with Francisco de Vitoria for inte

Worked as a jurist in the Dutch Republic and laid the foundations with Francisco de Vitoria for international law, based on natural law. He was also a philosopher, Christian apologist, playwright, and poet.

Was a Chilean pharmacist, botanist, and university professor.As assistant of botany to the Prof. Alc

Was a Chilean pharmacist, botanist, and university professor.As assistant of botany to the Prof. Alcibíades Santa Cruz, he demonstrated his interest in nature, stimulated by his parents who offered him frequent excursions that allowed him to observe natur

Was a German politician, jurist and pacifist.[1] Haase belonged to the so-called revisionist wing of

Was a German politician, jurist and pacifist.[1] Haase belonged to the so-called revisionist wing of the party, which in contrast to the Marxists, supported gradual reforms and no longer saw the best path to social and political change in revolution. In 1

Was a German botanist from Stuttgart.This seems to have determined his career as a botanist, and he

Was a German botanist from Stuttgart.This seems to have determined his career as a botanist, and he started in 1828 those anatomical investigations which continued till his death. In 1832 he was appointed professor of botany in Tübingen, a post which he never left. Unmarried, his pleasures were in his laboratory and library, and in perfecting optical apparatus and microscopic preparations, for which he showed extraordinary manual skill. He was largely a self-taught botanist from boyhood, and, little influenced in his opinions even by his teachers, preserved always his independence of view on scientific questions. He received many honours during his lifetime, and was elected foreign fellow of the Royal Society in 1868.

Was a Chinese philosopher during the Warring States Period. He was a representative of the School of

Was a Chinese philosopher during the Warring States Period. He was a representative of the School of Names (Sophists or Dialecticians), and is famous for ten paradoxes about the relativity of time and space, for instance, "I set off for Yue (southernmost China) today and came there yesterday.

Was an Indian ornithologist, and a cousin of Salim Ali. He started with bird egg collection and shik

Was an Indian ornithologist, and a cousin of Salim Ali. He started with bird egg collection and shikar. Charles McCann said of him that 'he know something about everything.' While studying Zoology at St Xavier's college in Bombay he put together a collection of birds from Bombay which led to the publication of a six part series on the Birds of Bombay and Salsette in the Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society (1936-1939) co authored by Salim Ali. His first publication was in 1931 on 'Eleven Koel eggs in a crows nest'. He published 348 notes in his lifetime and his greatest contribution was the cataloguing of the specimens in the collection of the BNHS. After joining the Bombay Natural History Society as an Honorary Secretary in 1949,

Was a prolific Bangladeshi author and scholar. He wrote more than seventy titles. He was widely know

Was a prolific Bangladeshi author and scholar. He wrote more than seventy titles. He was widely known for his anti-establishment, anti-religion and anti-military voice and was reputed for caustic remarks.Towards the end of 1980s he started to write newspaper column focusing on contemporary socio-political issues. His commentaries continued throughout the 1990s and were later published as books as they grew in numbers. Through his writings of 1990s, he established himself as a freethinker and appeared to be an atheist. He fearlessly and openly criticized in his works religious extremism, including Islam, the major religion in Bangladesh.

Was a British psychiatrist, known for inventing the word psychedelic and for his groundbreaking rese

Was a British psychiatrist, known for inventing the word psychedelic and for his groundbreaking research in using psychedelic drugs in medical research. Osmond also explored aspects of the psychology of social environments, in particular how they influenced welfare or recovery within mental institutions.

An American human geneticist. In 2003 he became the Nanaline H. Duke Professor of Genome Sciences, t

An American human geneticist. In 2003 he became the Nanaline H. Duke Professor of Genome Sciences, the first Director of the Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, and Vice Chancellor for Genome Sciences at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina.Willard graduated from the Belmont Hill School in Belmont, Massachusetts in 1971. He received his A.B. degree in biology from Harvard University in 1975 and his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1979. He did a postdoctoral fellowship in medical genetics at Johns Hopkins University from 1979-81.