Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter P

Was a French Huguenot minister, ordained by John Calvin, but later in England a critic of some Calvi

Was a French Huguenot minister, ordained by John Calvin, but later in England a critic of some Calvinist theological positions. His views in relation to the Lambeth Articles cost him his position as Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge. He was a forerunner of views, to be called Arminian or Laudian, more common a generation later in England.

A medical geneticist, was born in England in 1934 and qualified in medicine in 1957 at the Universit

A medical geneticist, was born in England in 1934 and qualified in medicine in 1957 at the University of London's St Mary's Hospital. After several internships, Beighton served as a Medical Officer in the Parachute Regiment and with the United Nations forces during the Congo Crisis. In 1962 Beighton began training in internal medicine at St Thomas' Hospital in London. Beighton had a research fellowship in clinical genetics in 1968-69 with Dr. Victor McKusick at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.In 1968 Beighton published a report in the British Heart Journal outlining that air travel can produce "an ideal climate for precipitating deep vein thrombosis". The airlines refused to warn passengers and it was only in the early 1990s that the link between long flights and deep vein thrombosis was made public.

An American writer born in 1945. He lives in Montana and is the author of the Yellowstone Kelly hist

An American writer born in 1945. He lives in Montana and is the author of the Yellowstone Kelly historical novels and the Gabriel Du Pré mysteries.

Is an American mathematician and Professor of Mathematics at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburg

Is an American mathematician and Professor of Mathematics at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1964 under the tutelage of Alonzo Church. He received the Herbrand Award in 2003. His r

Is a Justice of the Federal Court of Australia

Is a Justice of the Federal Court of Australia

A British marine geologist and geophysicist specializing in the geology of Asia and the western Paci

A British marine geologist and geophysicist specializing in the geology of Asia and the western Pacific. He is currently Kilgour Professor of Geology at the University of Aberdeen, where he has been since 2004.Clift is a geologist who applies marine geophysical, geochemical and classical geological methods to understand the history of geological basins over the last 50 million years. In particular, he works on understanding the relationships between mountain building in the Himalaya and Tibet Plateau and the intensification of the Asian monsoon. Clift has worked on evolution the Indus River, which he dated to being older than 45 million years. He has proposed that the Indus captured the four major rivers of the Punjab region into its basin after around 5 million years ago. Prior to this time the Chenab,

Was a Fellow of the Royal Society, an avid gardener, and the middleman for an international exchange

Was a Fellow of the Royal Society, an avid gardener, and the middleman for an international exchange of scientific ideas in mid-18th century London. He is best known for his horticultural friendship with John Bartram and his correspondence with Benjamin F

Was a Russian philosopher who invoked euclidean and noneuclidean geometry in his discussions of psyc

Was a Russian philosopher who invoked euclidean and noneuclidean geometry in his discussions of psychology and higher dimensions of existence.

A mathematician working in the areas of pure and applied mathematics. He has made important contribu

A mathematician working in the areas of pure and applied mathematics. He has made important contributions to integrable systems, fluid dynamics and shock waves, solitonic physics, hyperbolic conservation laws, and mathematical and scientific computing, am

Is an American economic commentator, author and licensed stock broker who currently serves as presid

Is an American economic commentator, author and licensed stock broker who currently serves as president of Euro Pacific Capital Inc., a fully accredited brokerage firm based in Darien, Connecticut.

Was a Danish bishop, historian, linguist and professor of theology.

Was a Danish bishop, historian, linguist and professor of theology.

Was a Swedish explorer, orientalist and naturalist.In Uppsala he was one of the students of Linnaeus

Was a Swedish explorer, orientalist and naturalist.In Uppsala he was one of the students of Linnaeus, but apparently also studied with the orientalist Carl Aurivillius, whose contacts with the Göttingen orientalist Johann David Michaelis are likely to be seen as the reason Forsskål travelled to the University of Göttingen in 1753; he studied Oriental languages and Philosophy and completed a doctorate there with a dissertation entitled Dubia de principiis philosophiae recentioris (1756). Returning to Uppsala in 1756, he wanted to pursue studies in Economics, but his 1759 dissertation De libertate civili ("On civil freedom"), advocating complete freedom of print, was censored by the "Hat" government and caused him to be warned by the Royal Chancellery.

Was a French saint in the Roman Catholic Church and priest of Mattaincourt (Vosges) who founded the

Was a French saint in the Roman Catholic Church and priest of Mattaincourt (Vosges) who founded the Daughters of Our Lady order.[1] He began his monastic career as a canon in the abbey at Chaumousey, and was ordained a priest at the extraordinary age of twenty-four. He was a scholastic theologian who knew the Summa Theologica by heart.

Was a German malacologist.Very little is known about this naturalist who lived in Hamburg. He was th

Was a German malacologist.Very little is known about this naturalist who lived in Hamburg. He was the principle author of a 1798 catalogue of an important mollusc collection. This was entitled Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturae. Pars secunda contens Conchylia…and was publihed in Hamburg. It is a sale catalogue and was ignored until William Healey Dall recognized that it introduced new valid taxa, though with long names and short descriptions.So Röding is credited with many names of his own.His other descriptions (often simply a German rendition of the Latin binomial name) are of the species of earlier authors such as Johann Hieronymus Chemnitz

Is an Australian researcher in probability theory and mathematical statistics.Hall is among the worl

Is an Australian researcher in probability theory and mathematical statistics.Hall is among the world's most prolific and highly-cited authors in both probability and statistics. Mathscinet lists him with more than 500 publications as of January 2008.

An American astrophysicist whose research focuses on planetary rings, helioseismology and neutron st

An American astrophysicist whose research focuses on planetary rings, helioseismology and neutron stars.[1] He is currently the Lee DuBridge Professor of Astrophysics and Planetary Physics at California Institute of Technology. Since 2005 he has also been a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.[2][3] Asteroid 3805 Goldreich is named after him.[4] Goldreich received a bachelor of science in engineering physics from Cornell in 1960, and obtained a Ph.D. from Cornell university in 1963 under the supervision of Thomas Gold.[5][6][7][8] In 1963 and 1964 Goldreich was a postdoctoral fellow at Cambridge University.[9] Goldreich joined the faculty at Caltech in 1966 as an associate professor.[10][6] He later became a full professor in 1969 while remaining at Caltech, and in 1981 he became the Lee A. DuBridge Professor of Astrophysics & Planetary Physics also at Caltech.

Was a Swedish physician and naturalist.Tengmalm was born in Stockholm and studied medicine at Uppsal

Was a Swedish physician and naturalist.Tengmalm was born in Stockholm and studied medicine at Uppsala University. He spent his spare time studying birds and became an accomplished taxidermist. He graduated in 1785 and moved to the town of Eskilstuna, where he worked as the provincial medical officer. In 1792 he travelled to Scotland and England, meeting other naturalists including Joseph Banks, and returning to Stockholm in the following year.Tengmalm then became medical officer for Västmanland. He contributed papers on both medicine and ornithology to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, becoming a member in 1797. He died of dysentery, which he caught from his patients during an epidemic.

An eminent British geographer and academic, Professor Emeritus and Senior Research Fellow in Urban a

An eminent British geographer and academic, Professor Emeritus and Senior Research Fellow in Urban and Regional Geography at the School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol.[2] In an academic career spanning half a century, Professor Haggett is noted for his significant research contributions to the field of human geography, and is the author or editor of over 30 books on geographical practice, theory and individual research topics. In the latter half of his career Haggett specialised in the geographical study of epidemiology and the spatial relationships and distribution of infectious diseases. He has held numerous teaching posts and visiting professorships at institutions around the world, but is most particularly associated with the University of Bristol where he has been a lecturer and professor of geography since 1966. Among the many awards and distinguished recognitions conferred,

Is a Danish linguist and professor of English language at the University of Copenhagen. He is notabl

Is a Danish linguist and professor of English language at the University of Copenhagen. He is notable as a cofounder of the Danish Functional Linguistics stage of the Copenhagen School in linguistics. He has worked extensively with functional linguistic theories and speech act theory. [1]

A British linguist. He is a fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, and was formerly Professor and H

A British linguist. He is a fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, and was formerly Professor and Head of the Department of Linguistics at the University of Cambridge (1980-2000).Matthews is perhaps best known for his writings on linguistic morphology. He has published two monographs on the subject.Matthews was an early follower of Noam Chomsky, but lost enthusiasm for the 'generative enterprise' during the 1960s. He has since become a trenchant critic of Chomsky.

An American economist of the Austrian School.After receiving his doctoral degree, Boettke taught at

An American economist of the Austrian School.After receiving his doctoral degree, Boettke taught at several schools, including Oakland University, Manhattan College, and New York University. In 1998, he returned to George Mason University as a faculty member. In 2004, he was named a Hayek Fellow at the London School of Economics. He has also been a Faculty Fellow at the Charles University/Georgetown University American Institute for Political and Economic Studies in Prague and a Visiting Scholar at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University. Boettke is Deputy Director of the James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy at George Mason University where he is a professor of economics. He is also senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center. Until 2007,

Is a professor of philosophy at the University of Marburg. Janich studied physics, philosophy and ps

Is a professor of philosophy at the University of Marburg. Janich studied physics, philosophy and psychology at the Universities of Erlangen and Hamburg. He attained a doctorate in philosophy in 1969 and during 1969/70 was a guest lecturer at the Universi

Was a Slovene lawyer, geographer, cartographer, activist and manufacturer. He was of an ethnic Germa

Was a Slovene lawyer, geographer, cartographer, activist and manufacturer. He was of an ethnic German origin, but identified himself with Slovenian culture and advocated a peaceful co-existence of the Slovene and German cultures in Carniola.Kozler was born in Koce, a village south of Kocevje in Gottschee County, in what was then the Austrian Kingdom of Illyria and is now Slovenia. He is probably most famous for creating the first map of Slovene Lands, called Zemljovid Slovenske dežele in pokrajin ("A map of the Slovene Land and Regions") in a scale 1:576000. The map was made during the Spring of Nations in 1848

Is a German jurist. Between 1964 and 1996 he held a chair for constitutional law at the Ludwig Maxim

Is a German jurist. Between 1964 and 1996 he held a chair for constitutional law at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. His research interests also included media law. Lerche studied law at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, earning his H

A professor of philosophy at the Northwestern University. Before moving to Northwestern, Ludlow taug

A professor of philosophy at the Northwestern University. Before moving to Northwestern, Ludlow taught for several years at University of Toronto, the University of Michigan, State University of New York at Stony Brook and was Visiting Professor of Philosophy at Syracuse University and Cornell University. He has done much interdisciplinary work on the interface of linguistics and philosophy. His dissertation at Columbia University was on intensional transitive verbs, such as "seeks" and "worships". Among his influential early articles were "Implicit Comparison Classes" (Linguistics and Philosophy,