Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter R

Is an American practitioner of magnetic resonance imaging. Damadian was born in Melville, New York,

Is an American practitioner of magnetic resonance imaging. Damadian was born in Melville, New York, who earned his BS in mathematics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1956, and an M.D. degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New Y

Was an American philologist and phonetician, born at Tabor, Iowa. He graduated from Phillips Academy

Was an American philologist and phonetician, born at Tabor, Iowa. He graduated from Phillips Academy, Andover in 1887 and from Harvard in 1890. In 1897 he took his Ph.D. at Harvard. In 1910 he founded, in collaboration with H. A. Todd and other scholars, the Romanic Review, and he became general editor of the "Oxford French Series."He wrote numerous articles in Old French Literature, and was assistant editor on the New Standard Dictionary (1913). His works include:

A beauty queen from Vestavia Hills, Alabama who has competed in the Miss USA pageant.Moore won the M

A beauty queen from Vestavia Hills, Alabama who has competed in the Miss USA pageant.Moore won the Miss Alabama USA 2007 title in a state pageant held in Birmingham on 1 October 2006. She had previously placed first runner-up to Carla Baumann in the Miss Alabama Teen USA 2006 pageant, making her one of very few highly placed Miss Teen USA state contestants to win a Miss USA state title the following year. Moore also placed first runner-up in the 2005 Miss Alabama's Outstanding Teen pageant, the teen counterpart of the Miss Alabama title. Her "sister" titleholder, Miss Alabama Teen USA 2007, is Canden Jackson.

Was a British colonial judge in Victoria, Australia.Barry emigrated to Australia, and after a short

Was a British colonial judge in Victoria, Australia.Barry emigrated to Australia, and after a short stay at Sydney went to Melbourne in 1839, a city with which he was ever afterwards closely identified. After practicing his profession for some years, he became commissioner of the Court of Requests, and after the creation in 1851 of the colony of Victoria, out of the Port Phillip district of New South Wales, was the first Solicitor-General, with a seat in the Legislative Council and a member of the Executive Council. In 1852 he was appointed judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria. He also served as acting Chief Justice and Administrator of the government.

An American yeast geneticist. Wickner proposed that the [PSI+] and [URE3][1] phenotypes in Saccharom

An American yeast geneticist. Wickner proposed that the [PSI+] and [URE3][1] phenotypes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, a form of budding yeast, were caused by prion forms of native proteins.Reed Wickner graduated from Cornell University with a B.A. degree in 1962. He then went to medical school at Georgetown University and received his M.D. degree in 1966. He is currently (as of 2007) Chief of the Laboratory of Biochemistry and Genetics at the National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health. His research interests pertain to prions and amyloid diseases.

Was a British geneticist who co-founded, with William Bateson, the Journal of Genetics in 1910. Punn

Was a British geneticist who co-founded, with William Bateson, the Journal of Genetics in 1910. Punnett is probably best remembered today as the creator of the Punnett square, a tool still used by biologists to predict the probability of possible genotypes of offspring. His Mendelism (1905) is sometimes said to have been the first textbook on genetics; it was probably the first popular science book to introduce genetics to the public.

Was a British zoologist.Pocock was born in Clifton, Bristol, the fourth son of Rev. Nicholas Pocock

Was a British zoologist.Pocock was born in Clifton, Bristol, the fourth son of Rev. Nicholas Pocock and Edith Prichard. He began showing interest in natural history at St. Edward's School, Oxford. He received tutoring in zoology from Sir Edward Poulton, and was allowed to explore comparative anatomy at the Oxford Museum. He studied biology and geology at University College, Bristol under Conwy Lloyd Morgan and William Johnson Sollas. In 1885 he became an assistant at the Natural History Museum, and worked in the section of Entomology for a year. He was put in charge of the collections of Arachnida and Myriapoda. He was also tasked with arranging the British birds collections,

Was a Dutch mathematician. Lobatto was born in Amsterdam to a Portuguese family. As a schoolboy Loba

Was a Dutch mathematician. Lobatto was born in Amsterdam to a Portuguese family. As a schoolboy Lobatto already displayed remarkable talent for mathematics[1]. He studied mathematics under Adolphe Quetelet coediting "Correspondance Mathématique et Physique." Working for the Dutch government he became secretary of a statistical commission in 1831.[2] In 1842 he became a teacher at the Polytechnical School of Delft.

Is a German economist.Selten was born in Breslau (Wroc?aw) in Lower Silesia, now in Poland. For his

Is a German economist.Selten was born in Breslau (Wroc?aw) in Lower Silesia, now in Poland. For his work in game theory, He is also well known for his work in bounded rationality, and can be considered as one of the founding fathers of experimental economics. He developed an example of a game called Selten's Horse because of its extensive form representation. He is noted for his publishing in non-refereed journals to avoid being forced to make unwanted changes to his work.

Was a Flemish physician and botanist, also known under his Latinized name Rembertus Dodonaeus.In 153

Was a Flemish physician and botanist, also known under his Latinized name Rembertus Dodonaeus.In 1530 he started his studies of medicine, cosmography and geography at the University of Leuven, where he graduated in 1535. He established himself as a physician in Mechelen in 1538. He married Kathelijne De Bruyn(e) in 1539. He had a short stay in Basel (1542-1546). He turned down a chair at the University of Leuven in 1557. He equally turned down an offer to become court physician of emperor Philip II of Spain. He became the court physician of the Austrian emperor Rudolph II in Vienna (1575-1578). He then became professor in medicine at the University of Leiden in 1582.

German sociologist. He was very influential on West German sociology after 1949.

German sociologist. He was very influential on West German sociology after 1949.

Is a political philosopher and critical social theorist. After studying in Paris, Madrid, London and

Is a political philosopher and critical social theorist. After studying in Paris, Madrid, London and Rome she received advanced degrees at the University of Wisconsin-Madison(USA). Her dissertation focused on the Italian enlightenment philosopher Giambattista Vico

Italian virologist who won a 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on reverse tran

Italian virologist who won a 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on reverse transcriptase. In 1973 he was awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University together with Theodore Puck and Harry Eagle.

Currently a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago. He helpe

Currently a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago. He helped start the law and economics movement while a professor at the University of Chicago Law School; he currently serves as a lecturer at the Law School.Posner is the author of nearly 40 books on jurisprudence, legal philosophy, and several other topics, including The Problems of Jurisprudence; Sex and Reason; Overcoming Law; Law, Pragmatism and Democracy; and The Problematics of Moral and Legal Theory. He has been cited by at least one journal as the most cited legal scholar of all time[1] and is considered to be one of the most respected judges in the United States.[2]

Was, like his father Karl Andree, a German geographer noted for devoting himself especially to ethno

Was, like his father Karl Andree, a German geographer noted for devoting himself especially to ethnography. He wrote numerous books on this subject, dealing notably with the races of his own country, while an important general work was Ethnographische Parallelen und Vergleiche (Stuttgart, 1878).Andree was born in Brunswick. As a director of the Geographical Institute of Velhagen & Klasing, Leipzig (1873-1890), he also took up cartography, having a chief share in the production of the Physikalisch-Statistischer Atlas des Deutschen Reichs (together with O. Peschel, Leipzig, 1877), and Droysens Allgemeiner Historischer Handatlas, (Leipzig, 1886), as well as school atlases.

An American-born molecular biologist, who developed the reporter gene system GUS, a widespread molec

An American-born molecular biologist, who developed the reporter gene system GUS, a widespread molecular technique. In 2003 he was named by Scientific American as one of the 50 most influential technologists in the world.[1] As a postdoc he worked at the Plant Breeding Institute in Cambridge, England: here he adapted the GUS assay for the use in plants. [3] His GUS system was a breakthrough in plant molecular sciences, useful for the development of efficient transformation methods for crop plants. During his postdoc in Cambridge he also managed the world's first field release of a transgenic food crop (June 1, 1987). [4]

Was an English astronomer.He is best remembered for having produced one of the earliest maps of Mars

Was an English astronomer.He is best remembered for having produced one of the earliest maps of Mars in 1867 from 27 drawings by the English observer William Rutter Dawes.His map was later superseded by those of Giovanni Schiaparelli and Eugène Antoniadi and his nomenclature was dropped (for instance, his "Kaiser Sea" became Syrtis Major).He used old drawings of Mars dating back to 1666 to try to determine the sidereal day of Mars. His final estimate, in 1873, was 24h 37m 22.713s, reasonably close to the modern value of 24h 37m 22.663s.[1][2][3] Nevertheless, Frederik Kaiser's value of 24h 37m 22.622s is closer.

Was a British botanist. He was born in Leeds, England, the son of Richard Markham. He changed his la

Was a British botanist. He was born in Leeds, England, the son of Richard Markham. He changed his last name to Salisbury following a supposed financial arrangement for support in his studies. This arrangement was claimed to have been made with a Mrs. Anna Salisbury, related by marriage to his grandmother, but this was apparently a fiction.He married Caroline Staniforth in 1796. Only one child, Eleanor, was born to the couple, in 1797. The two separated shortly thereafter. Apparently Salisbury had misrepresented his finances to Caroline when he had proposed marriage. By the times of his daughter's birth, he was deeply, hopelessly in debt. He was subsequently arrested for his financial misrepresentations. He apparently recovered financially by 1802, when he bought a house.

Was a British philosopher noted for original work on mind and emotions, especially as related to the

Was a British philosopher noted for original work on mind and emotions, especially as related to the visual arts, specifically, painting.Son of an actress and a theatre impresario, Richard Wollheim attended Westminster School, London, and Balliol College, Oxford (1941-2, 1945-8), interrupted by active military service in World War II. In 1949 he obtained a first in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, and began teaching at University College London, where he became Grote Professor of Mind and Logic and Department Head from 1963 to 1982. He was visiting professor at Harvard University, Columbia University, the University of Minnesota, Graduate Center, CUNY, the University of California-Berkeley, UC Davis and elsewhere. He chaired the Department at UC Berkeley, 1998-2002. On retirement from Berkeley, he served briefly as a guest lecturer at Balliol College. Wollheim gave several distinguished lecture series, most notably the Andrew M. Mellon lectures in Fine Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (1984), published as Painting as an Art.

American neuroscientist whose work on the olfactory system won him and Linda B. Buck, a former post-

American neuroscientist whose work on the olfactory system won him and Linda B. Buck, a former post-doctoral scientist in his research group, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2004

Was a German-born American geneticist. He is considered the first to integrate genetics, development

Was a German-born American geneticist. He is considered the first to integrate genetics, development, and evolution[1]. He pioneered understanding of reaction norms, genetic assimilation, dynamical genetics, and heterochrony. Controversially, Goldschmidt advanced a model of macroevolution through macromutations that is popularly known as the "Hopeful Monster" hypothesis.Goldschmidt also described the nervous system of the nematode, a piece of work that later influenced Sydney Brenner to study the wiring diagram of C. elegans, an achievement that later won Brenner and his colleagues the Nobel Prize in 2002.

Was an English zoologist.In 1867 Sharpe was given the post of librarian of the Zoological Society, o

Was an English zoologist.In 1867 Sharpe was given the post of librarian of the Zoological Society, on the recommendation of Osbert Salvin and Philip Sclater. On the death of George Robert Gray in 1872 he joined the British Museum as a Senior Assistant in the Department of Zoology, taking charge of the bird collection. He became Assistant Keeper in 1895, remaining there until his death from pneumonia.

An American geographer who specializes in macro-engineering.

An American geographer who specializes in macro-engineering.

A professor and American economist, who has served as president of Yale University since 1993. He is

A professor and American economist, who has served as president of Yale University since 1993. He is currently the longest serving Ivy League president still in office.Levin became an Assistant Professor of Economics at Yale in 1974 and was elevated to Associate Professor in 1979. In 1982, he was promoted to Professor of Economics and Management at the Yale School of Management. In 1992, he was appointed Frederick William Beinecke Professor of Economics. Before becoming president, he served as chairman of the Economics Department and dean of Yale's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

Was an English amateur astronomer who discovered the differential rotation of the sun by means of su

Was an English amateur astronomer who discovered the differential rotation of the sun by means of sunspot observations in 1863.In 1859, Carrington and Richard Hodgson, another English amateur astronomer, independently made the first observations of a solar flare. Because of a simultaneous "crochet" observed in the Kew Observatory magnetometer record by Balfour Stewart and a geomagnetic storm observed the following day, Carrington suspected a solar-terrestrial connection. World wide reports on the effects of the geomagnetic storm of 1859 were compiled and published by Elias Loomis which support the observations of Carrington and Balfour Stewart.