Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter W

Was an American astronomer.The principal theme in Morgan's work was the study of stellar and galaxy

Was an American astronomer.The principal theme in Morgan's work was the study of stellar and galaxy classification. Along with Philip Keenan he developed the MK system for the classification of stars through their spectra. He also developed several galaxy morphological classification systems, including the first systems to use the physical properties of galaxies, as opposed to simple eye-ball estimates favoured by Edwin Hubble. He invented the now widely used classification cD for massive galaxies in the centres of clusters.He worked at Yerkes Observatory. Along with Donald Osterbrock and Stewart Sharpless, he used distance measurements of O and B type stars to show the existence of spiral arms in the Milky Way Galaxy.

Was an English botanist, geologist, chemist, physician and the discoverer of digitalis.he attended E

Was an English botanist, geologist, chemist, physician and the discoverer of digitalis.he attended Edinburgh Medical School from 1762 to 1766. In 1767 he started as a consultant at Stafford Royal Infirmary. He married Helena Cookes (an amateur botanical illustrator, and erstwhile patient of his) in 1772; they had three children (the first, Helena was born in 1775 but died a few days later, William was born in 1776, and Charlotte in 1778). In 1775 he was appointed physician to Birmingham General Hospital (at the suggestion of Erasmus Darwin, a physician and founder member of the Lunar Society), but in 1783 he diagnosed himself as having pulmonary tuberculosis and went twice to Portugal hoping the better winter climate would improve his health; it didn't

Was an English bookseller and naturalist.Yarrell is best known as the author of The History of Briti

Was an English bookseller and naturalist.Yarrell is best known as the author of The History of British Fishes (2 vols., 1836) and The History of British Birds (2 vols., 1843). The latter went into several editions and was the standard reference work for a generation of British ornithologists. He was also the first person to describe the Bewick's Swan in 1830, distinguishing it from the larger Whooper Swan.He acquired the reputation of being the best shot and the best angler in London, and soon also became an expert naturalist. He became a member of the Royal Institution in 1817 and he made his first publication at the age of 40 in 1825 "On the Occurrence of some Rare British Birds

Was an American economist and statistician.He attended the University of Minnesota, Class of 1932, w

Was an American economist and statistician.He attended the University of Minnesota, Class of 1932, where he was a member of the Chi Phi Fraternity. After a year of graduate work at the University of Minnesota, he began studies at the University of Chicago

Was a Brazilian physician and physiologist, a co-discoverer of bradykinin.Beraldo graduated in medic

Was a Brazilian physician and physiologist, a co-discoverer of bradykinin.Beraldo graduated in medicine in 1942, having studied at the Federal University of Minas Gerais. He was also associate professor of physiology of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of São Paulo, and full professor and chairman of physiology of the Faculty of Medicine of the Federal University of Minas Gerais (1962). Beraldo was also a fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation (1949) and of the British Council (1954), a member of the New York Academy of Sciences and of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences.

Was a Polish philosopher, author, and member of the Polish National League[1]. One of the things he

Was a Polish philosopher, author, and member of the Polish National League[1]. One of the things he is most famous for is coining the term "stylometry".[2]

A British broadcaster who found television success in the 1980s.She was born Florence Winsome Dimmoc

A British broadcaster who found television success in the 1980s.She was born Florence Winsome Dimmock, but dropped her first name and contracted the middle name to Wincey. When she married Malcolm Willis, the names proved so harmonious that she continued to use the surname Willis even after they divorced.Wincey's first job as a radio presenter was working with Les Ross on a successful Saturday morning programme at Radio Tees. She became famous as a weather presenter on TV-am, before adjudicating on the game show Treasure Hunt. She is now a writer, public speaker and conservationist, and presents a weekly show on BBC Coventry & Warwickshire.

Was a historical linguist who served as the director of the Linguistics Research Center, University

Was a historical linguist who served as the director of the Linguistics Research Center, University of Texas at Austin from 1961 until his death.He was educated in Wisconsin, receiving his Bachelor's degree from Northwestern College in Watertown in 1936, his Master's degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1938 and his Ph.D. from the same institution in 1941. He began teaching at UT-Austin in 1949 and was professor emeritus from 1986 until his death.An important contribution was his Proto-Indo-European Syntax, the first and one of the few existing treatments of Proto-Indo-European syntax in a generative framework.

Was a Polish mathematician, physicist, and pedagogue.

Was a Polish mathematician, physicist, and pedagogue.

Was a German-American mathematician. He got his Ph.D. from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Münch

Was a German-American mathematician. He got his Ph.D. from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in München (February 26, 1930) on a dissertation entitled Über die Ränderzuordnung bei konformen Abbildungen, advised by Constantin Carathéodory.[1] He joined the ma

Was a Russian born geographer, meteorologist, climatologist and botanist of German descent. After st

Was a Russian born geographer, meteorologist, climatologist and botanist of German descent. After studies in St. Petersburg, he spent the bulk of his life and professional career in Germany and Austria. His most notable contribution to science was the development of the Köppen climate classification system, which, with some modifications, is still commonly used. Köppen was one of the last scholars with a broad enough background and intellectual ability to make significant contributions to several branches of science.

Was a Polish historian of philosophy, psychologist, professor at Kraków University and member of th

Was a Polish historian of philosophy, psychologist, professor at Kraków University and member of the Polish Academy of Learning.Settling in Kraków, Heinrich conducted research in this spirit (Teorie i wyniki badan psychologicznych—Theories and Results of Psychological Research, 1902). He authored the first report in experimental psychology to be presented to the Academy of Learning, O wahaniach natezenia zaledwie dostrzegalnych wrazen (On Fluctuations in the Intensity of Barely Perceptible Sensations, 1898).[1]

Was a Polish mathematician of Lwów School of Mathematics.

Was a Polish mathematician of Lwów School of Mathematics.

Was a Polish zoologist.A member of an old noble (szlachta) magnate family from the Poznan region, Ta

Was a Polish zoologist.A member of an old noble (szlachta) magnate family from the Poznan region, Taczanowski is considered one of the most important European zoologists of the nineteenth century. Trained in Paris, he worked at museums in Vienna, Berlin, Paris and London and was curator of the zoological department of the Warsaw University Museum from 1862 (when he succeeded Feliks Pawel Jarocki) until his death. Taczanowski took part in an expedition to Algeria with Antoni S. Waga (1866-67) and wrote several significant studies including Birds of Poland (1882) and Ornithology of Peru (1884-86).

Was a Polish social activist, popularizer of learning, especially of philosophy and psychology, and

Was a Polish social activist, popularizer of learning, especially of philosophy and psychology, and organizer of learned life in partitioned Poland.[1]In 1904 he co-founded the Philosophical Society (Towarzystwo Filozoficzne) and in 1907 the Psychological Society (Towarzystwo Psychologiczne) as well as philosophical and psychological learned institutes. In 1898 he founded Przeglad Filozoficzny (The Philosophical Review), which he edited 1898–1916.[1]

Was a Polish mathematician. Professor of Warsaw Main School, Imperial University of Warsaw (now Univ

Was a Polish mathematician. Professor of Warsaw Main School, Imperial University of Warsaw (now University of Warsaw), Technical Academy in Lviv (now Lviv Polytechnic; twice a rector). Member of Polish Academy of Learning and French Academy of Sciences. He was specialising mainly in mathematical analysis and differential equation.

Was a Polish economist.hich was occupied by the Soviet Union. He continued his studies at John Casim

Was a Polish economist.hich was occupied by the Soviet Union. He continued his studies at John Casimir University (now Lviv University) and Leningrad University in the Soviet Union. He then fled to Saratov, where he was a teacher and also worked in a factory. Towards the end of the war, Brus returned to Poland with the Soviet controlled Polish First Army

Is a professor of mathematics at Auburn University, with research interests in geometry and topology

Is a professor of mathematics at Auburn University, with research interests in geometry and topology.Although much of Kuperberg's early mathematical work is in topology, he is best known today for his work in geometry, and in particular on packing and covering problems. His first paper in this area (1982) showed that the ratio of packing density to covering density of any convex body in the plane is at least 3/4. His 1990 paper with his son Greg provides the best lower bound known at that time for packing densities of arbitrary two-dimensional convex bodies; with Bezdek (1990) he calculated the exact packing density of the cylinder, which prior to Hales' 1998 solution of the Kepler conjecture was the first nontrivial calculation of the packing density of any three-dimensional convex body.

Was a scholar of Semitic languages and one of the foremost authorities on Semitic languages of Ethio

Was a scholar of Semitic languages and one of the foremost authorities on Semitic languages of Ethiopia.Leslau was born in Krzepice, a small village near Czestochowa, Poland[1]. As a child his family was very poor, and after contracting tuberculosis he usually had to keep a thermometer with him to monitor his body temperature, although the reasons for this are unclear. He was orphaned by the age of 10, and was raised by his brother, and received a yeshiva education.[2]

Was a German-French mathematician. Wolfgang is the son of the Jewish-German novelist, Alfred Döblin

Was a German-French mathematician. Wolfgang is the son of the Jewish-German novelist, Alfred Döblin. His family escaped from Nazi Germany to France where he became a citizen. Studying probability theory at the Institute Henri Poincaré under Fréchet, he quickly made a name for himself as a gifted theorist. He became a doctor and was elected to the French Academy of Sciences at age 21. After WWII broke out in 1939, he was drafted and volunteered to go to the front

Is a German economist. He is professor of economics at the University of Mannheim. Franz also is the

Is a German economist. He is professor of economics at the University of Mannheim. Franz also is the chairman of the German Council of Economic Experts since March 2009. Franz studied economics at the University of Mannheim and received his doctoral degre

Was from 1979 till his retirement in 2001 professor of philosophy at the Free University Berlin, whe

Was from 1979 till his retirement in 2001 professor of philosophy at the Free University Berlin, where he had also studied romance languages and religious studies and taken his PhD (in 1966 on the topic of "Jean-Paul Sartre and the construction of absurdi

Is a German mathematician, known for his pioneering research in multigrid methods and later hierarch

Is a German mathematician, known for his pioneering research in multigrid methods and later hierarchical matrices, a concept generalizing the fast multipole method. He was a professor at the University of Kiel and is currently one of the directors of the

Is an Austrian celebrity chef, restaurateur, and businessman based in Los Angeles. Wolfgang Puck res

Is an Austrian celebrity chef, restaurateur, and businessman based in Los Angeles. Wolfgang Puck restaurants, catering services, cookbooks and licensed products are run by Wolfgang Puck Companies, with three divisions.

Is a German mathematician which is a internationally recognized expert in Algebraic Topology. After

Is a German mathematician which is a internationally recognized expert in Algebraic Topology. After obtaining his Abitur from the Ravensberger Gymnasium in Herford in 1975 he studied at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen where he obtained his Diplom i