Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter W

Was a Japanese mathematician. He was born in Yedo in the province Harima under the name of Koyama Na

Was a Japanese mathematician. He was born in Yedo in the province Harima under the name of Koyama Naoaki. In his early years he served in a buddhist temple in Yedo under the name Zojoji. When he left the temple he changed his name for unknown reasons to Wada Nei and worked under the patronage of lord Tsuchimikado the calendar maker of the court of Mikado. There he started to take up mathematics and was a student of Kusaka Sei. Kusaka Sei himself was a student of Ajima Chokuyen. Wada Nei extended Ajima Chokuyen's development of an integral calculus within the Enri (??, "circle principle") context. He worked on the computation of minimum and maximum values (roughly by equating the first derivative to 0) and gave reasoning and insight to the computation method that was given without explanation by Seki Takakazu about 100 years earlier. He was also the first Japanese mathematician to study roulettes.

Was a U.S. zoologist and herpetologist from the University of California, Berkeley. He specialized i

Was a U.S. zoologist and herpetologist from the University of California, Berkeley. He specialized in the anatomy of snakes and the systematics of the western Garter snakes.

Was a Swedish-American economic geologist. He attended the Freiberg Mining Academy, Germany from 187

Was a Swedish-American economic geologist. He attended the Freiberg Mining Academy, Germany from 1878-82, graduating as a mining engineer. In 1884 he began a 31-year career with the U.S. Geological Survey, working on ore deposits in the Rocky Mountains. In 1905 he helped found the journal Economic Geology. In 1912, he was appointed head of the Department of Geology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

An influential American-Swiss geographer and cartographer. Tobler's idea that "Everything is related

An influential American-Swiss geographer and cartographer. Tobler's idea that "Everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related to each other" is referred to as the "first law of geography". Dr. Tobler is a Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Santa Barbara Department of Geography.Dr. Tobler was one of the principal investigators and a Senior Scientist in the National Science Foundation sponsored National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis. He has used computers in geographic research since the 1960s, with emphasis on mathematical modeling and graphic interpretations. Well known for his publications, he formulated the "first law of geography" in 1970 while producing a computer movie, and is the inventor of novel and unusual map projections, among which was the first derivation of the partial differential equations for area cartograms. He also invented a method for smooth two-dimensional mass-preserving areal data redistribution.

The Newberry Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University

The Newberry Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University and a scientist at Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.Broecker's areas of research include Pleistocene geochronology, radiocarbon dating and chemical oceanography, including oceanic mixing based on stable and radioisotope distribution. This included research on the biogeochemical cycles of the element carbon and on the record of climate change contained in polar ice and ocean sediments.He attended Wheaton College and interacted with J. Laurence Kulp and Paul Gast. Broecker then transferred to Columbia University. At Columbia, he worked at the Lamont Geological Observatory with W. Maurice Ewing and Walter Bucher.

Was an American economist and political theorist who served as Special Assistant for National Securi

Was an American economist and political theorist who served as Special Assistant for National Security Affairs to U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.Prominent for his role in the shaping of American policy in Southeast Asia during the 1960s, he was a staunch opponent of communism, and was noted for a belief in the efficacy of capitalism and free enterprise. Rostow served as a major adviser on national security affairs under the John F. Kennedy and Johnson administrations. He supported American military involvement in the Vietnam War. In his later years he taught at Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin with his wife, Elspeth Rostow, who would later become dean of the school. He wrote extensively in defense of free enterprise economics,

Son of Nobel Prize winning physicist Luis Alvarez, is a professor in the Earth and Planetary Science

Son of Nobel Prize winning physicist Luis Alvarez, is a professor in the Earth and Planetary Science department at the University of California, Berkeley.He worked for American Overseas Petroleum Limited in The Netherlands, and in Libya at the time of Colonel Gadaffi’s revolution. Having developed a side interest in archaeological geology, he left the oil company and spent some time in Italy, studying the Roman volcanics and their influence on patterns of settlement in early Roman times.Alvarez then moved to Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory of Columbia University, and began studying the Mediterranean tectonics in the light of the new theory of plate tectonics. His work on tectonic paleomagnetism in Italy led to a study of the geomagnetic reversals recorded in Italian deep-sea limestones, and he and his colleagues were able to date the reversals for an interval of more than 100 million years of Earth history.

Was a Canadian geologist. He worked for the Geological Survey of Canada for over 40 years and author

Was a Canadian geologist. He worked for the Geological Survey of Canada for over 40 years and authored or co-authored 70 publications, mostly concerning Carboniferous stratigraphy, paleobotany and paleontology of Atlantic Canada. He also contributed significantly to central and western Canadian Mesozoic and Cenozoic paleobotany. His work provided support for the theory of continental drift.In 1911, Bell began his work with the Geological Survey of Canada examining the Carboniferous plants of Joggins near the Bay of Fundy. His scientific work was interrupted by World War I. From 1916 to 1919, he served with the Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery and fought at Ypres, Vimy and Arras. After the war, Ball stayed in England for several months independently examining British fossils before returning to his studies at Yale. In 1920, he received his PhD with distinction.

Was an American physicist, engineer and statistician, sometimes known as the father of statistical q

Was an American physicist, engineer and statistician, sometimes known as the father of statistical quality control.Bell Telephone’s engineers had been working to improve the reliability of their transmission systems. Because amplifiers and other equipment

Was a British-Australian biologist and anthropologist.Reuben Spencer, who had come from Derbyshire i

Was a British-Australian biologist and anthropologist.Reuben Spencer, who had come from Derbyshire in his youth, obtained a position with Rylands and Sons, cotton manufacturers, and rose to be chairman of its board of directors when Rylands became a company. Baldwin was educated at Old Trafford) school, and on leaving entered the Manchester School of Art. He stayed only one year but never forgot his training in drawing. After leaving the school of arts Spencer went to Owens College and, where Milnes Marshall guided him in his study of biology, he gained a scholarship at Exeter College, Oxford. Before going to Oxford he won the Dalton Prize for natural history.

German-Jewish Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator, and philosopher. He was at times assoc

German-Jewish Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator, and philosopher. He was at times associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory and was also greatly inspired by the Marxism of Bertolt Brecht and Jewish mysticism as presented by Gershom Scholem.

Was a judge on the Supreme Court of Queensland

Was a judge on the Supreme Court of Queensland

A free market economist and anarcho-capitalist associated with the Austrian School.Block now holds t

A free market economist and anarcho-capitalist associated with the Austrian School.Block now holds the Harold E. Wirth Endowed Chair in Economics at Loyola University in New Orleans. From 1979 to 1991, he was the Senior Economist with the Fraser Institute, and, from 1998 to 2002, he was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Aspen Institute. In addition to his faculty position at Loyola, Block is also a Senior Faculty member of the Ludwig von Mises Institute for Austrian Economics. His most famous work is Defending the Undefendable, of which John Stossel said, "Defending the Undefendable... opened my eyes to the beauties of libertarianism

Was a German geographer whose principal contribution to the discipline is Central Place Theory [1],

Was a German geographer whose principal contribution to the discipline is Central Place Theory [1], first published in 1933. This groundbreaking theory was the foundation of the study of cities as systems of cities, rather than simple hierarchies or single entities.At the end of the 1930s he held a short-lived academic appointment, but then joined the Nazi Party in 1940. He moved into government service, in Himmler's SS-Planning and Soil Office, during the Second World War. Christaller’s task was to draw up plans for reconfiguring the economic geography of Germany's eastern conquests ("General plan of the East") – primarily Czechoslovakia and Poland, and if successful, Russia itself. Christaller was given special charge of planning occupied Poland, and he did so using his central place theory as an explicit guide. [2]

Was an English plant collector, who collected in South America for James Veitch & Sons of Chelsea, L

Was an English plant collector, who collected in South America for James Veitch & Sons of Chelsea, London.He remained in South America for three years, during which time he crossed the Andean Cordilleras in Peru, Colombia and Bolivia at least twenty times

A Professor Emeritus of North Carolina State University, most well-known for his discovery and furth

A Professor Emeritus of North Carolina State University, most well-known for his discovery and further research on the probiotic bacterium Lactobacillus reuteri.He grew up in Erie, Pennsylvania, and received his B.S., Masters, and Ph. D. degrees in bacteriology and biochemistry from Penn State University. In 1960-62, Dobrogosz held an NIH-supported postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and afterwards began teaching at N.C. State University. He became a full Professor of Microbiology at N. C. State in 1968 and remained there until his retirement in 2003. While at N. C. State, he taught the graduate courses 'Metabolic Regulatory Mechanisms,' 'Microbial Physiology and Bioenergetics,' and 'Metabolism, Growth, and Regulation,'

Was a German philosopher. Walter Ehrlich was born on May 16, 1896, as the son of the merchant, Jakob

Was a German philosopher. Walter Ehrlich was born on May 16, 1896, as the son of the merchant, Jakob Ehrlich, and his wife, Nina Ehrlich, née Flatow, in Berlin. He attended the Königlich Französisches Gymnasium (Royal French Gymnasium) in Berlin until Eas

Was a German geographer.He taught at the Frankfurt University (1923-), Free University of Berlin (19

Was a German geographer.He taught at the Frankfurt University (1923-), Free University of Berlin (1948-).

Was an American statistician. He was born in Reading, Massachusetts. He graduated from Phillips Acad

Was an American statistician. He was born in Reading, Massachusetts. He graduated from Phillips Academy, Andover, in 1880; Amherst College in 1884 and Columbia (Ph.D., 1891).He was a Cornell University faculty member within the President White School of H

Was a Canadian geologist and mining engineer.He graduated form McGill University’s school of minin

Was a Canadian geologist and mining engineer.He graduated form McGill University’s school of mining engineering. He was a tireless mineral collector and was known for walking straight into mining offices to request specimens. Consequently, he amassed large collections of mineral specimens of a quality still admired to this day. Many classic specimens would never be in collections today had it not been for his effort and skill. The mineral collections he put together were instrumental in creating the mineral collections of the Smithsonian in Washington DC, the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada and the museum particularly dear to his heart, the Redpath Museum at McGill in Montreal, Canada.

Was a marine biologist and zoologist who was one of the first to study the functional biology of mar

Was a marine biologist and zoologist who was one of the first to study the functional biology of marine invertebrate larvae. His best known works on marine larvae were his poems which were published together after his death as Larval Forms and Other Zoolo

Professor at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel, Switzerland. He obtained his Ph.D. at the Un

Professor at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel, Switzerland. He obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Zurich in 1965 and after two years as a research assistant of Professor Ernst Hadorn he joined Professor Alan Garen's group at Yale University in New Haven as a postdoctoral fellow.In 1969 he was appointed as an associate professor at the Yale Medical School and 1972 he returned to Switzerland to become a professor of developmental biology and genetics at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel. He is Secretary General of the European Molecular Biology Organization, President of the International Society for Developmental Biologists, a Foreign Member of the National Academy of the USA, Great Britain, France, Germany and Sweden. In 2000 he received the Kyoto Prize for Basic Science. In 2002 he received the Balzan Prize for Developmental Biology.

Was a New Zealand lawyer, naturalist and ornithologist.Buller was the author of A History of the Bir

Was a New Zealand lawyer, naturalist and ornithologist.Buller was the author of A History of the Birds of New Zealand (1872-1873, 2nd ed. 1887-1888), with illustrations by John Gerrard Keulemans. In 1882 he produced the Manual of the Birds of New Zealand as a cheaper, popular alternative. In 1905, he published a two-volume Supplement to the History of the Birds of New Zealand which brought the work up to date.

Was a British zoologist and marine biologist, famous for his study of mysids.In 1909 he became the d

Was a British zoologist and marine biologist, famous for his study of mysids.In 1909 he became the director of the Manchester Museum and also worked as a tutor in marine biology at the universities of Manchester and Sheffield. In 1911, he obtained the doc

Brazilian jurist, catholic thinker, professor of the University of São Paulo Faculty of Law, judge

Brazilian jurist, catholic thinker, professor of the University of São Paulo Faculty of Law, judge at the High Court of São Paulo. Studied in the minor seminary of the Divine Word Missionaries. Married Sonia dos Santos Moraes in 1959, with whom had two children. Graduated in Law and Philosophy by the University of São Paulo. Began his career as Judge in municipalities of Casa Branca, Quata and Campos do Jordao. Pioneered many fields of juridical science in Brazil including Copyright, Inheritance and Family Law. Reformer of the Brazilian Children's code together with Prof. Antonio Chaves. Important supporter and theorist of the Brazilian pro-life movement. Spoke against legal abortion in his famous conference "The Farce of Legal Abortion", given in the Chamber of Deputies of Brazil on 24th September 1997, less than two months before his death.[1][2][3][4]