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Was a distinguished Romanian mathematician and poet.He was the son of Constantin Barbilian and Smara

Was a distinguished Romanian mathematician and poet.He was the son of Constantin Barbilian and Smaranda, née Soiculescu. He attended Gheorghe Lazar High School in Bucharest. During that time, he discovered his mathematics talents, and started publishing in Gazeta matematica; it was also then that he discovered his passion for poetry. Between 1914 and 1921 Barbu studied mathematics at the University of Bucharest, obtaining his Ph.D. in 1929.

Was a Romanian revolutionary, mathematician, diplomat and twice Prime Minister of Romania (between 1

Was a Romanian revolutionary, mathematician, diplomat and twice Prime Minister of Romania (between 1866 and 1867, and between 1870 and 1871). He was a full member of the Romanian Academy and its president for four times (1876-1882, 1884-1887, 1890-1893 and 1894-1895). He was the older brother an associate of Pantazi Ghica, a prolific writer and politician.

Was a judge of the Soviet Union.Nikitchenko was one of the three main drafters of London Charter. He

Was a judge of the Soviet Union.Nikitchenko was one of the three main drafters of London Charter. He was also the Soviet Union's judge at the Nuremberg trials, and was President for the session at Berlin. Nikitchenko's prejudices were evident from the out

Was a Romanian linguist, philologist, diplomat, journalist, and left-wing agrarian, later communist,

Was a Romanian linguist, philologist, diplomat, journalist, and left-wing agrarian, later communist, politician. The author of works on a large variety of topics, most of them dealing with issues of the Romanian language and Romance languages in general, he was elected a full member of the Romanian Academy in 1945. He was head of its Institute of Linguistics (currently named after him and Alexandru Rosetti) between 1949 and his retirement in 1962.

Was a Soviet astronomer and astrophysicist. His last name is sometimes given as Shklovskii or Shklov

Was a Soviet astronomer and astrophysicist. His last name is sometimes given as Shklovskii or Shklovskij, and his first name is sometimes given as Josif

Was an American astronomer. A graduate of Oberlin College and the California Institute of Technology

Was an American astronomer. A graduate of Oberlin College and the California Institute of Technology, he taught physics at Caltech from 1921 to 1945. He served as director of both the Mount Wilson Observatory and the Palomar Observatory, holding the latter position until 1964.In 1927 he discovered that Nebulium was not really a chemical element but instead doubly ionized oxygen.

A Canadian scientist and Down's Syndrome researcher.she initially studied English literature at the

A Canadian scientist and Down's Syndrome researcher.she initially studied English literature at the University of British Columbia. As a child and teenager she played Violin and piano, and was described as "out-going" and "social" She went to visit her mother and sister who were in Japan at the time, and was able to catch a ship out of Japan prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 1941.In 1944 she continued her studies at the University of Toronto where she wanted to get a masters degree in social work. Her professors encouraged her to pursue a career in genetics, and as a result she completed PhD in human genetics at the University of Toronto in 1951 and worked at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.

Was an American economist, health campaigner, and eugenicist, and one of the earliest American neocl

Was an American economist, health campaigner, and eugenicist, and one of the earliest American neoclassical economists and, although he was perhaps the first celebrity economist, his reputation today is probably higher than it was in his lifetime. Several concepts are named after him, including the Fisher equation, Fisher hypothesis and Fisher separation theorem.Fisher's best subject was mathematics, but economics better matched his social concerns. He went on to write a doctoral thesis combining both subjects, on mathematical economics. Irving was granted the first Yale Ph.D. in economics, in 1891. His advisors were the physicist Willard Gibbs and the economist William Graham Sumner.

Is a British statistician who worked also as a cryptographer at Bletchley Park. He was born Isidore

Is a British statistician who worked also as a cryptographer at Bletchley Park. He was born Isidore Jacob Gudak to a Jewish family in London. In his publications he is called I. J. Good. He read mathematics at Jesus College, Cambridge, graduating in 1938.

Was a Canadian mathematician. He was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada after his parents emigrated fr

Was a Canadian mathematician. He was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada after his parents emigrated from Poland and attended the University of Toronto as an undergraduate. After receiving his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1941[1] as Saunders Mac Lane's first studen

Was a Dutch philosopher and scientist.

Was a Dutch philosopher and scientist.

Was a Dutch philosopher and scientist.

Was a Dutch philosopher and scientist.

Was a French Protestant churchman, now best known for his history of Manichaeism, Histoire Critique

Was a French Protestant churchman, now best known for his history of Manichaeism, Histoire Critique de Manichée et du Manichéisme in two volumes (Amsterdam 1734–1739). Beausobre was born at Niort, Deux-Sèvres. After studying theology at the Protestant Academy of Saumur, he was ordained at the age of twenty-two, becoming pastor at Châtillon-sur-Indre. After the revocation of the edict of Nantes he fled to Rotterdam (November 1685), and in 1686 was appointed chaplain to the princess of Dessau, Henrietta Catherine of Orange.

Was an Orientalist specializing in Mongolian and Tibetan. Schmidt was a Moravian missionary to the K

Was an Orientalist specializing in Mongolian and Tibetan. Schmidt was a Moravian missionary to the Kalmyks and devoted much of his labours to bible translation.He published the first grammar and dictionary of Mongolian, as well as a grammar and dictionary of Tibetan. He also translated Sagang Sechen's Erdeni-yin tobci into German, and several Geser Khan epics into Russian and German. His works are regarded as ground-breaking for the establishment of Mongolian and Tibetan studies.

Was the chief meteorologist at the Galveston, Texas office of the US Weather Bureau from 1889 to 190

Was the chief meteorologist at the Galveston, Texas office of the US Weather Bureau from 1889 to 1901.In March 1889, a Texas section of the weather service was being established, and Cline was sent to Galveston to organize and oversee it. Cline stayed with the office when it became part of the U.S. Weather Bureau in the 1891 transfer from the Signal Corps to the Department of Agriculture. In 1892, Isaac's younger brother, Joseph Cline, also began work as a meteorologist at the Galveston Weather Bureau.

Is a logician who introduced the subject of positive set theory in his 1976 Ph.D. Thesis at UCLA.

Is a logician who introduced the subject of positive set theory in his 1976 Ph.D. Thesis at UCLA.

Was a Russian mathematician and economist. He studied and worked in Voronezh State University.

Was a Russian mathematician and economist. He studied and worked in Voronezh State University.

Was an Australian botanist who specialised in palaeobotany and palynology.She continued working at t

Was an Australian botanist who specialised in palaeobotany and palynology.She continued working at the University of Melbourne, until she visited the Imperial College of Science and Technology between 1925 and 1926, and, on a return visit in the University of Manchester between 1926 and 1927. At Manchester she began a long and productive academic relationship with W. H. Lang, Lang named the genus Cooksonia in her honour. Form 1929 her research focussed on palaeobotany, she wrote several papers on fossil plants including early vascular plants from the Silurian and Early Devonian which helped to shape theories of early land-plant evolution.[2] She also studied more resent coal forming deposits. Her work on the early terrestrial fossil plants of Victoria and field work showing associated graptolites and plants led to her research thesis and to a D.Sc. from the University of Melbourne in 1932.[3]

Was a political philosopher and historian of ideas, regarded as one of the leading liberal thinkers

Was a political philosopher and historian of ideas, regarded as one of the leading liberal thinkers of the twentieth century. He excelled as an essayist, lecturer and conversationalist; a brilliant speaker who made rapid and spontaneous delivery of richly

Was an American geographer. He was educated at Harvard and Yale where he taught from 1905 to 1915, a

Was an American geographer. He was educated at Harvard and Yale where he taught from 1905 to 1915, after which time he became the director of the American Geographical Society, a position he held for 20 years from 1915 to 1935. He was chief territorial adviser to President Woodrow Wilson at the Versailles conference and served the Department of State as territorial adviser in World War Two. Some of his more notable works include;

Was a French zoologist and an authority on deviation from normal structure. He coined the term ethol

Was a French zoologist and an authority on deviation from normal structure. He coined the term ethology.In his earlier years he showed an aptitude for mathematics, but eventually he devoted himself to the study of natural history and of medicine, and in 1824 he was appointed assistant naturalist to his father. In 1832-1837 he published his great teratological work, Histoire générale et particulière des anomalies de l’organisation chez l’homme et les animaux.In 1829 he delivered for his father the second part of a course of lectures on ornithology, and during the three following years he taught zoology at the Athne, and teratology at the Ecole pratique. He was elected a member of the French Academy of Sciences in 1833, was in 1837 appointed to act as deputy for his father at the faculty of sciences in Paris

Is a leading economist in the Austrian School.Kirzner's major work is in the economics of knowledge

Is a leading economist in the Austrian School.Kirzner's major work is in the economics of knowledge and entrepreneurship and the ethics of markets. He is emeritus professor of economics at New York University, and is a leading authority on Ludwig von Mise

Was a Japanese astronomer.He was professor of astronomy at Kyoto University. In 1920 he became the f

Was a Japanese astronomer.He was professor of astronomy at Kyoto University. In 1920 he became the first president of the Oriental Astronomical Association. He was director of the Kwasan Observatory in Kyoto.

Was a Soviet paleontologist and science fiction author. He originated taphonomy, the study of fossil

Was a Soviet paleontologist and science fiction author. He originated taphonomy, the study of fossilization patterns.

Was a Russian mathematician, who was one of the creators of modern analytic number theory, and also

Was a Russian mathematician, who was one of the creators of modern analytic number theory, and also a dominant figure in mathematics in the USSR. He was born in the Velikiye Luki district, Pskov Oblast.