Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter R

Was an American astronomer.He worked at Lick Observatory in California.[1] He systematically studied

Was an American astronomer.He worked at Lick Observatory in California.[1] He systematically studied double stars, measuring their positions and calculating their orbits around one another. He methodically created a very large catalog of such stars, which was published in 1932 and entitled New General Catalogue of Double Stars Within 120o of the North Pole,[1] with the orbit information enabling astronomers to calculate stellar mass statistics for a large number of starsAitken also measured positions and computed orbits for comets and natural satellites of planets.

A Scottish-Australian astronomer at the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics of the Austral

A Scottish-Australian astronomer at the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics of the Australian National University. He has collaborated with David J. Asher of the Armagh Observatory.He is a prolific discoverer of asteroids, and participates in the Siding Spring Survey. He is also a co-discoverer of periodic comet 130P/McNaught-Hughes and, using the Uppsala Schmidt telescope, discovered comet C/2006 P1 on August 7, 2006, which became the brightest comet in several decades [1]. It made perihelion on 12 January 2007, and has become easily visible to the naked eye for observers in the Southern Hemisphere.

Was a Canadian geneticist and biophysicist. He was the Distinguished Research Professor in the Depar

Was a Canadian geneticist and biophysicist. He was the Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Biology at York University. Haynes was best known for his contributions to the study of DNA repair and mutagenesis, and for helping promote the concept of terraforming through his invention of the term, ecopoiesis.

Was an American author, anthropologist and historian of early Mexico, and expert in the Nahuatl lang

Was an American author, anthropologist and historian of early Mexico, and expert in the Nahuatl language.Barlow spent much of his youth at Fort Benning, Georgia, where his father, Colonel E. D. Barlow, was stationed; around 1932 Col. Barlow received a medical discharge and settled his family in the small town of DeLand, in central Florida. Family difficulties later forced Barlow to move to Washington, D.C., and Kansas.Barlow had been a friend of writers H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard since he was 13. He collaborated with Lovecraft on several stories, and Lovecraft made Barlow his literary executor. Barlow came to Providence shortly after Lovecraft's death and donated most of the manuscripts and some printed matter to the John Hay Library of Brown University.

Was an American economist and historian of economic thought. The author of some twenty books, Heilbr

Was an American economist and historian of economic thought. The author of some twenty books, Heilbroner was best known for The Worldly Philosophers (1953), a survey of the lives and contributions of famous economists, notably Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes.

Was a Hungarian linguist who focused primarily on Afro-Asiatic languages, especially those in Ethiop

Was a Hungarian linguist who focused primarily on Afro-Asiatic languages, especially those in Ethiopia and Gurage Ethiopian Semitic languages. The 35th annual meeting of the North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics (NACAL 35, San Antonio, 2007), which was initiated by Robert Hetzron at Santa Barbara in 1972, is dedicated to his memory.

An American economist of the Austrian School. His writings in economics and economic history have mo

An American economist of the Austrian School. His writings in economics and economic history have most often focused on the causes, means, and effects of government growth.He is a Senior Fellow in Political Economy at the Independent Institute (since September 1994), and is editor of Independent Review (since 1995).[1] He is an adjunct faculty member of the Ludwig von Mises Institute[2] and is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute.[3] Higgs is also a contributor to LewRockwell.com.[4] His areas of special interest include defense economics, natural resource economics, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and health care issues, government growth, property rights, race relations, and war.

A meteorologist, hurricane specialist, first director of the National Hurricane Research Project (19

A meteorologist, hurricane specialist, first director of the National Hurricane Research Project (1955-1959), and a former director (1967-1974) of the National Hurricane Center. He was the co-developer of the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale with Herbert Saffir.he survived the devastating landfall of a hurricane at age six. Fascinated by the weather, he went on to get a bachelor's degree in physics from Southwestern University in 1932, and a graduate degree in physics from Emory University in 1935. Finding no work as a physicist during the Great Depression, he taught music in Texas high schools.[1] In 1940,he was hired by the United States Weather Bureau. First assigned as an observer at Brownsville, Texas, he was then temporarily assigned to Swan Island. After the Pearl Harbor attack, he was promoted to forecaster at the New Orleans office. After a year, he was enrolled at the University of Chicago for graduate studies.

Was an English natural philosopher and polymath who played an important role in the scientific revol

Was an English natural philosopher and polymath who played an important role in the scientific revolution, through both experimental and theoretical work.Hooke is known principally for his law of elasticity (Hooke's Law). He is also remembered for his work as "the father of microscopy" — it was Hooke who coined the term "cell" to describe the basic unit of life — he also assisted Robert Boyle and built the vacuum pumps used in Boyle's gas law experiments. Hooke was an important architect of his time, and a chief surveyor to the City of London after the Great Fire, built some of the earliest Gregorian telescopes, observed the rotations of Mars and Jupiter, and was an early proponent of the theory of evolution through his observations of microscopic fossils

An economics professor at Northwestern University. He also holds the title of "Stanley G. Harris, Pr

An economics professor at Northwestern University. He also holds the title of "Stanley G. Harris, Professor in the social sciences".He is an expert on measuring and explaining productivity, growth, the causes of unemployment, and airline economics.From 1995 to 1997, he served on the Boskin Commission to assess the accuracy of the United States Consumer Price Index (CPI), having written the definitive criticism of CPI inflation overstatement in 1990.Bob Gordon is a member of a family of economists. Both his parents Robert Aaron and Margaret earned distinction independently, each contributing to economic knowledge with a view to real practical benefit for society, as did his brother David, himself more of a radical. For example,

Was a professor and researcher at the University of Minnesota known for pioneering research into cra

Was a professor and researcher at the University of Minnesota known for pioneering research into craniofacial disorders.He fought in the 2nd world war, and later received his D.D.S. In 1956 he came on as a professor at the University of Minnesota, where he stayed until his death in the summer of 2006.Gorlin received numerous honorary degrees from prestigious universities all over the world, and is known to have worked on the discovery of a number of craniofacial disorders.[citation needed]

Israeli mathematician and a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences.

Israeli mathematician and a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences.

An American classical liberal macroeconomist and the Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics at Harva

An American classical liberal macroeconomist and the Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics at Harvard University. He is among the most influential economists in the world according to IDEAS/RePEc.[1]Barro graduated with a B.S. in physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1965 and earned a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 1970. He first reached wide notice with a 1974 paper entitled "Are Government Bonds Net Wealth?", a paper which argued that, under certain assumptions, present borrowing would be matched by increased bequest to future generations in order to pay future taxes expected to pay the debt on the government bonds.

Was a Swiss-American astronomer. He was born in Zürich, Switzerland and obtained his early educatio

Was a Swiss-American astronomer. He was born in Zürich, Switzerland and obtained his early education in that country. He then studied in Germany where he earned his Ph.D. in 1910. In 1915, during World War I he emigrated to the United States, and joined the University of California. He took a position at Allegheny Observatory, and later went to Lick Observatory. In 1921, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States. He was elected a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1932.[1]He is most noted for observing that the brightness of the more distant open clusters was lower than expected, and the stars appeared more red. This was explained by the interstellar dust scattered through the galaxy, resulting in the absorption (extinction) of light or interstellar extinction of light[1].

Was an American lexicographer and editor of various specialized dictionaries. He was co-editor, with

Was an American lexicographer and editor of various specialized dictionaries. He was co-editor, with his father Clarence Barnhart, on some editions of the Thorndike-Barnhart dictionaries and The World Book Dictionary. With his father and Sol Steinmetz, he edited the three volumes of The Barnhart Dictionary of New English (1973,1980, 1990).He also edited The Hammond Barnhart Dictionary of Science (1986), also published as The American Heritage Dictionary of Science (1988). Perhaps his major work is The Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology (1988), one of the most comprehensive volumes of its kind. He edited an abridgement, The Barnhart Concise Dictionary of Etymology (1995). His Barnhart Abbreviations Dictionary (1995) includes a reverse list of what the abbreviations stand for.

Was a scientific writer and translator from Scotland.He studied medicine at the University of Edinbu

Was a scientific writer and translator from Scotland.He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and practised at the Edinburgh Foundling Hospital as a surgeon. He translated several scientific works into English, such as Antoine Lavoisier's Traitée Elémentaire de Chimie in 1789. In 1792, he published The Animal Kingdom, the first two volumes of a four-tome translation of Linnaeus' Systema Naturae, which is often cited as the taxonomic authority for a great many species. (He never did the remaining two volumes.)In 1794 he left his post as a surgeon to manage a paper mill. He lost much of his fortune with this enterprise. Out of economical necessity he began writing again in 1809, publishing a variety of minor works,

N American evolutionary biologist and sociobiologist, most noted for proposing the theories of recip

N American evolutionary biologist and sociobiologist, most noted for proposing the theories of reciprocal altruism (1971), parental investment (1972), and parent-offspring conflict (1974). Other areas in which he has made influential contributions include an adaptive view of self-deception (first described in 1976) and intragenomic conflict. Along with George C. Williams, Trivers is arguably one of the most influential evolutionary theorists alive today.

Was a mathematical logician, and one of the founders of model theory.Vaught was a bit of a musical p

Was a mathematical logician, and one of the founders of model theory.Vaught was a bit of a musical prodigy in his youth, in his case the piano. He began his university studies at Pomona College, at age 16. When World War II broke out, he enlisted US Navy

American economist at the University of Chicago. He is among the 10 best economists in the world acc

American economist at the University of Chicago. He is among the 10 best economists in the world according to IDEAS/RePEc. He received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1995. He is married to economist Nancy Stokey.

Was a Scottish-Australian statistician and man of science.Johnson was born near Inverness, Scotland,

Was a Scottish-Australian statistician and man of science.Johnson was born near Inverness, Scotland, the son of a crofter. He was educated at the village school where his ability was quickly recognized. He was influenced by the life of Hugh Miller whose b

Was a French economist and politician involved in the formation of the European Economic Community.

Was a French economist and politician involved in the formation of the European Economic Community. After the June 1940 French surrender to Germany during the Second World War, Marjolin became an economic advisor to the De Gaulle Government-in-exile in Great Britain. Before the final phase of the war he had already sketched plans for the reconstruction of France and the rest of Europe. In 1943 he represented the Government-in-exile in Washington as director of a purchasing mission. He rejected attempts by the American economy to win itself a prominent position in this mission. While in America he met an artist who would later become his wife.

Is an American economist particularly known for his work on the theory of economic growth. He was aw

Is an American economist particularly known for his work on the theory of economic growth. He was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal (in 1961) and the 1987 Nobel Prize in Economics.

An American economist particularly known for his work on the theory of economic growth. He was award

An American economist particularly known for his work on the theory of economic growth. He was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal (in 1961) and the 1987 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.By the end of 1942, Solow left the university and joined the U.S. Army. He served briefly in North Africa and Sicily, and later served in Italy during World War II until he was discharged in August 1945.He returned to Harvard in 1945, and studied under Wassily Leontief. As his research assistant he produced the first set of capital-coefficients for the input-output model. Then he became interested in statistics and probability models. From 1949-50, he spent a fellowship year at Columbia University to study statistics more intensively

Was an American geochemist. Garrels applied experimental physical chemistry data and techniques to g

Was an American geochemist. Garrels applied experimental physical chemistry data and techniques to geology and geochemistry problems. The book Solutions, Minerals, and Equilibria co-authored in 1965 by Garrels and Charles L. Christ revolutionized aqueous geochemistry.Garrels earned a bachelor's degree in geology from The University of Michigan in 1937. He went on to earn an M.S. degree from Northwestern in 1939, his thesis work was on iron ores of Newfoundland in 1938. His Ph.D was awarded in 1941 based on lab studies of complex formation between lead and chloride ions in aqueous solution.

Was an American philosopher and Pellegrino University Professor at Harvard University. Schooled at C

Was an American philosopher and Pellegrino University Professor at Harvard University. Schooled at Columbia, Princeton, and Oxford, he was a prominent American political philosopher in the 1970s and 1980s. He did additional but less influential work in such subjects as decision theory and epistemology. His Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974) was a libertarian answer to John Rawls's A Theory of Justice, published in 1971.