Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter S

Was a Russian mathematician, working in mathematical analysis and partial differential equations. He

Was a Russian mathematician, working in mathematical analysis and partial differential equations. He was born in St. Petersburg, and died in Moscow.

Is a Russian mathematician, noted for work in both algebraic topology and soliton theory.

Is a Russian mathematician, noted for work in both algebraic topology and soliton theory.

Was one of the early contributors to the development of the field of genetics. His research showed h

Was one of the early contributors to the development of the field of genetics. His research showed how early genetic theories applied to natural populations, and has therefore contributed towards the modern synthesis of evolutionary theory. Some of Chetverikov's ideas have stood the test of time, and some have not: he was generally right about mutation and the importance of natural selection, but wrong in his opinions on polymorphism. However, to have entered this field at all at that time was noteworthy.Between the two World Wars, Russian biological research managed to connect genetics with field research on natural populations. Chetverikov lead a team at the Koltsov Institute in Moscow, and in 1926 produced what should have been one of the landmark papers of the modern evolutionary synthesis. However, published only in Russian, it was largely ignored in the English-speaking world (though J.B.S. Haldane possessed a translation)

Was a Russian mathematician who, among his other accomplishments was a co-author with Kolmogorov of

Was a Russian mathematician who, among his other accomplishments was a co-author with Kolmogorov of Introductory real analysis, a book that is widely read in Russian and English.

Was a Russian zoologist and naturalist, remembered for his work on mammalogy. He graduated from Mosc

Was a Russian zoologist and naturalist, remembered for his work on mammalogy. He graduated from Moscow University in 1910, the same year in which he published his first monograph. In 1928, he was ranked a professor at the Pedagogical Institute. He published a variety of textbooks in zoology and economy. His magnum opus, Mammals of Russia and adjacent territories, was never completed.

Was an American astronomer.In 1914, at the University of California's Lick Observatory, while observ

Was an American astronomer.In 1914, at the University of California's Lick Observatory, while observing the recently-discovered Jupiter moon Pasiphaë, he discovered a new one: Sinope, whose orbit he computed for his Ph.D. thesis in 1915.He spent his entire career at Mount Wilson Observatory, where he discovered three more Jovian moons: Lysithea and Carme in 1938 and Ananke in 1951, as well as a Trojan asteroid 1647 Menelaus, and computed orbits of several comets and of Pluto.Sinope, Lysithea, Carme and Ananke were simply designated as "Jupiter IX", "Jupiter X", "Jupiter XI" and "Jupiter XII". They were not given their present names until 1975. Nicholson himself declined to propose names. [1]

Was an American ichthyologist at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. He was the first co

Was an American ichthyologist at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. He was the first compiler of a book on Mexican freshwater fishes.[1] Together with his assistant, Samuel F. Hildebrand, he produced the first book on the freshwater fishes of Panama.[2]

Was an American geneticist known for his influential work on evolutionary theory and also for his wo

Was an American geneticist known for his influential work on evolutionary theory and also for his work on path analysis. With R. A. Fisher and J.B.S. Haldane, he was a founder of theoretical population genetics. He is the discoverer of the inbreeding coefficient and of methods of computing it in pedigrees. He extended this work to populations, computing the amount of inbreeding of members of populations as a result of random genetic drift, and he and Fisher pioneered methods for computing the distribution of gene frequencies among populations as a result of the interaction of natural selection, mutation, migration and genetic drift. The work of Fisher, Wright, and Haldane on theoretical population genetics was a major step in the development of the modern evolutionary synthesis of genetics with evolution. Wright also made major contributions to mammalian genetics and biochemical genetics.

Was an accomplished American physicist, molecular biologist and behavioral geneticist. With a career

Was an accomplished American physicist, molecular biologist and behavioral geneticist. With a career that started with the molecular biology revolution of the 1950s, Seymour Benzer was to the end very active as a researcher, where he led a productive lab as the James G. Boswell Professor of Neuroscience, Emeritus, at the California Institute of Technology.[1][2]As a boy, he had his first experiences in studying biology, catching frogs and dissecting them. For his 13th birthday he received a microscope, “and that opened up the whole world,” Benzer recalled in a 1990 interview for an oral history project at Caltech. In 1938 he enrolled at Brooklyn College where he majored in physics.[1]

Was a statistician noted for emphasizing the role of prediction in statistical inference. In his boo

Was a statistician noted for emphasizing the role of prediction in statistical inference. In his book Predictive Inference: An Introduction (CRC Press, 1993), he held that conventional statistical inference about unobservable population parameters amounts

Was an American neuroscientist who was credited with making modern psychiatry a rigorous and heurist

Was an American neuroscientist who was credited with making modern psychiatry a rigorous and heuristic branch of medicine by applying basic science to the study of human behavior in health and disease.[1] After Kety died, his colleague Louis Sokoloff noted that: "He discovered a method for measuring blood flow in the brain, was the first scientific director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and produced the most-definitive evidence for the essential involvement of genetic factors in schizophrenia."[2]

Was a Georgian philosopher, translator and public benefactor, one of founders of the Tbilisi State U

Was a Georgian philosopher, translator and public benefactor, one of founders of the Tbilisi State University (TSU), founder of Alethology, one of founders of the scientific school in the field of history of Georgian philosophy, Academician of the Georgia

He is notable for his work along with R. C. Bose and E. T. Parker in their disproof of the famous co

He is notable for his work along with R. C. Bose and E. T. Parker in their disproof of the famous conjecture made by Leonhard Euler dated 1782 that there do not exist two mutually orthogonal latin squares of order 4n + 2 for every n.

A professor of linguistics at the University of Arizona. She is the coauthor of one book, and has ha

A professor of linguistics at the University of Arizona. She is the coauthor of one book, and has had several papers published on formal syntactic theory and linguistic typology.

Was an itinerant Chinese philosopher from Zhao who also served at the Jixia academy in Qi. His own o

Was an itinerant Chinese philosopher from Zhao who also served at the Jixia academy in Qi. His own original 42 essays have been lost, and only 7 are still extant, and he is known largely through short references and the writings of others, notably Han Fei and Zhuang Zi.

Was a polymathic Chinese scientist and statesman of the Song Dynasty (960–1279). Excelling in many

Was a polymathic Chinese scientist and statesman of the Song Dynasty (960–1279). Excelling in many fields of study and statecraft, he was a mathematician, astronomer, meteorologist, geologist, zoologist, botanist, pharmacologist, agronomist, archaeologist, ethnographer, cartographer, encyclopedist, general, diplomat, hydraulic engineer, inventor, academy chancellor, finance minister, governmental state inspector, poet, and musician. He was the head official for the Bureau of Astronomy in the Song court, as well as an Assistant Minister of Imperial Hospitality.[2] At court his political allegiance was to the Reformist faction known as the New Policies Group, headed by Chancellor Wang Anshi (1021–1086).

Was a polymathic Chinese scientist and statesman of the Song Dynasty (960–1279). Excelling in many

Was a polymathic Chinese scientist and statesman of the Song Dynasty (960–1279). Excelling in many fields of study and statecraft, he was a mathematician, astronomer, meteorologist, geologist, zoologist, botanist, pharmacologist, agronomist, archaeologist, ethnographer, cartographer, encyclopedist, general, diplomat, hydraulic engineer, inventor, academy chancellor, finance minister, governmental state inspector, poet, and musician. He was the head official for the Bureau of Astronomy in the Song court, as well as an Assistant Minister of Imperial Hospitality.

Was an American astronomer.He worked at Yerkes Observatory. All his working life, he served during t

Was an American astronomer.He worked at Yerkes Observatory. All his working life, he served during the day as a court reporter and was an amateur astronomer, except for four years as a full-time astronomer at Lick Observatory.He served as a military stenographer in the Union Army in the Civil War. In 1873 – 1874, he produced a catalog of double stars. He became a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. He continued to identify double stars and later published the General Catalogue of 1290 Double Stars. In 1906, he published the Burnham Double Star Catalogue, containing 13,665 pairs of double stars.

Was an American labor economist. He had ties with many American universities and academic institutio

Was an American labor economist. He had ties with many American universities and academic institutions including the University of Chicago, the University of Rochester, Stanford University and its Hoover Institution. At the time of his death, Rosen was Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago and president of the American Economic Association.Rosen received his B.S. in economics from Purdue University in 1960, his A.M. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago in 1962 and 1966 respectively.He was chair of the Economics department at the University of Chicago and colleague to an impressive range of celebrated economists including friend Gary S. Becker. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1997.

Was a Chinese astronomer and contemporary of Gan De born in the State of Wei, also known as the Mast

Was a Chinese astronomer and contemporary of Gan De born in the State of Wei, also known as the Master Shi Shen (Shi Shenfu) [1].

Was a Japanese scholar and the first official astronomer appointed of the Edo period. He revised the

Was a Japanese scholar and the first official astronomer appointed of the Edo period. He revised the Chinese lunisolar calendar at the imperial request, which was issued in 1684 during the Jokyo era. In 1702, he changed his name to Shibukawa Sukezaemon Shunkai and retired by 1711.

Was a Chinese American mathematician, one of the leaders in differential geometry of the twentieth c

Was a Chinese American mathematician, one of the leaders in differential geometry of the twentieth century.

A Japanese mathematician. He was a student of Norbert Wiener at MIT (PhD 1930). Ikehara, using Wiene

A Japanese mathematician. He was a student of Norbert Wiener at MIT (PhD 1930). Ikehara, using Wiener's Tauberian theory, established his famous Tauberian theorem, and derived a new proof of the prime number theorem. In particular he showed that the prime number theorem is equivalent to the non-vanishing of the zeta function on the line Re s = 1. Earlier proofs of the prime number theorem relied on the just mentioned non-vanishing property of the zeta function, together with some bounds on the order of growth of the zeta function (see Landau's book).

Was the first Japanese astronomer to discover an asteroid. In 1900 he discovered 498 Tokio and 727 N

Was the first Japanese astronomer to discover an asteroid. In 1900 he discovered 498 Tokio and 727 Nipponia.Hirayama crater on the Moon is jointly named after him and Kiyotsugu Hirayama.

Is a mathematician working in differential geometry, and involved in the theory of Calabi-Yau manifo

Is a mathematician working in differential geometry, and involved in the theory of Calabi-Yau manifolds.