Scientist/researcher Famous Names Starting with Letter W

American biochemist.

American biochemist.

Was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher trained as a medical doctor. He wrote influen

Was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher trained as a medical doctor. He wrote influential books on the young science of psychology, educational psychology, psychology of religious experience and mysticism, and the philosophy of pragmatism. He was the brother of novelist Henry James and of diarist Alice James.James interacted with a wide array of writers and scholars throughout his life, including his godfather Ralph Waldo Emerson, as well as Bertrand Russell, Horace Greeley, William Cullen Bryant, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Charles Peirce, Josiah Royce, George Santayana, Ernst Mach, John Dewey, W. E. B. Du Bois, Helen Keller, Mark Twain, Horatio Alger, Jr., James George Frazer, Henri Bergson, H. G. Wells, G. K. Chesterton, Sigmund Freud, Gertrude Stein, and Carl Jung.

Was an English explorer, naturalist, traveller, artist and author. He was the son of Matthew Burchel

Was an English explorer, naturalist, traveller, artist and author. He was the son of Matthew Burchell, botanist and owner of Fulham Nursery, nine and a half acres of land adjacent to the gardens of Fulham Palace.

Was an entomologist whose work includes the first catalogue of Australian spiders.Rainbow was born i

Was an entomologist whose work includes the first catalogue of Australian spiders.Rainbow was born in 1856 in Yorkshire, England. He moved New Zealand in 1873, where he wrote for John Ballance's Wanganui Herald. In 1883 he moved to Sydney, Australia and m

German psychologist and philosopher noted as a pioneer in the field of the psychology of personality

German psychologist and philosopher noted as a pioneer in the field of the psychology of personality and intelligence.

American inorganic chemist, working in experimental and theoretical chemistry and biochemistry.

American inorganic chemist, working in experimental and theoretical chemistry and biochemistry.

Was an English entomologist.Distant was born in Rotherhithe, the son of a whaling captain Alexander

Was an English entomologist.Distant was born in Rotherhithe, the son of a whaling captain Alexander Distant.[1] A whaling trip with his father in 1867 (he considered 5 August 1867 as the most eventful day in his life[1]) to the Malay Peninsula aroused his interest in natural history, and resulted in the publication of Rhopalocera Malayana (1882-1886), a description of the butterflies of the Malay Peninsula.

Was an early twentieth century psychologist who spent the first part of his career in the UK and the

Was an early twentieth century psychologist who spent the first part of his career in the UK and the latter part in the United States. He wrote a number of highly influential textbooks, and was particularly important in the development of the theory of instinct and of social psychology in the English-speaking world. He was an opponent of behaviorism and stands somewhat outside the mainstream of the development of Anglo-American psychological thought in the first half of the twentieth century; but his work was very well known and respected among lay people.

Is a former American astronaut who served as commander of Expedition 1, the first crew on the Intern

Is a former American astronaut who served as commander of Expedition 1, the first crew on the International Space Station. Shepherd is a recipient of the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.

Was the co-founder, with David Packard, of the Hewlett-Packard Company (HP). He was born in Irving,

Was the co-founder, with David Packard, of the Hewlett-Packard Company (HP). He was born in Irving, Texas but moved to San Francisco at the age of 3 years. He attended Lowell High School and was accepted at Stanford University as a favor to his late father, Albion Walter Hewlett, who had died prematurely of a brain tumor in 1925.

is a retired American astronaut.Colonel Pogue was one of the 19 astronauts selected by NASA in Apri

is a retired American astronaut.Colonel Pogue was one of the 19 astronauts selected by NASA in April 1966. He served as a member of the astronaut support crews for the Apollo 7, 11, and 14 missions. He was also scheduled as Command-Module Pilot for Apoll

Was an American ecologist.Cooper received his B.S. in 1906 from Alma College in Michigan. In 1909, h

Was an American ecologist.Cooper received his B.S. in 1906 from Alma College in Michigan. In 1909, he entered graduate school at the University of Chicago, where he studied with Henry Chandler Cowles, and completed his Ph.D. in 1911. His first major publication, "The Climax Forest of Isle Royale, Lake Superior, and Its Development"[1] appeared in 1913.Cooper served briefly in 1914-1915 as a lecturer in plant ecology at Stanford University before beginning his long career in the botany department at the University of Minnesota, where he taught from 1915 to 1951. Among his students at Minnesota was Frank Edwin Egler and Arnold M. Schultz; the latter went on to teach "Ecosystemology" at U.C. Berkeley, and received U.C.

Was an Irish naturalist, specialized on marine biology.Born at Youghal and educated at Trinity Colle

Was an Irish naturalist, specialized on marine biology.Born at Youghal and educated at Trinity College in Dublin,[2] he was ordained a priest in 1873. Already before he left the services of the Church in 1890, he had worked on marine biology. In the 1880s

Is a retired U.S. Army Colonel, a NASA astronaut, and a veteran of three space shuttle missions and

Is a retired U.S. Army Colonel, a NASA astronaut, and a veteran of three space shuttle missions and one expedition to the International Space Station via the Russian Soyuz capsule.

Was a British naturalist.Turton was born at Olveston, Gloucestershire and was educated at Oriel Coll

Was a British naturalist.Turton was born at Olveston, Gloucestershire and was educated at Oriel College, Oxford. He commenced in practice at Swansea, but devoted his leisure time to natural history, especially conchology.

A physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1955 "for his discoveries concerning the fine stru

A physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1955 "for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum".

Was an entomologist specialising in arachnology. He classified a number of species, including the Br

Was an entomologist specialising in arachnology. He classified a number of species, including the Brown recluse spider and the Tooth cave spider.Willis John Gertsch (1906-1998) was the premier American arachnologist for half of the Twentieth Century. He was Curator of Arachnids at the American Museum of Natural History and later retired to Portal, Arizona in the Chiricahua Mountains. He was the author of hundreds of generic and specific names in a multitude of families and also the author of "American Spiders", as well as editor of a later revised printing of Comstock's "Spider Book."

Was an American entomologist, malacologist and geologist. In his biological work, Willis Blatchley m

Was an American entomologist, malacologist and geologist. In his biological work, Willis Blatchley made contributions to the study of Coleoptera, Orthoptera, Hemiptera, and the freshwater molluscs of Indiana.

Was an American entomologist, who descriped a lot of Arachnida-species. (spiders). He was employed b

Was an American entomologist, who descriped a lot of Arachnida-species. (spiders). He was employed by the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

Is a retired Dutch computer scientist who is considered one of the "fathers of Cobol".in 1979 he fou

Is a retired Dutch computer scientist who is considered one of the "fathers of Cobol".in 1979 he founded the international ISO COBOL working group. From 1967 he was a member, and from 1978 until 2003 he was the chairman of the Dutch COBOL Commission ("Ned

Is a retired United States Navy captain and former NASA astronaut.Scott entered Naval Aviation Offic

Is a retired United States Navy captain and former NASA astronaut.Scott entered Naval Aviation Officer Candidate School after graduation from Florida State University in December 1972. He completed flight training in fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft an

German mineralogist and writer of short stories and poems in Bavarian. He was born in Munich, Bavari

German mineralogist and writer of short stories and poems in Bavarian. He was born in Munich, Bavaria and died there.

Was a German psychologist who, with Max Wertheimer and Kurt Koffka, founded Gestalt theory. Köhler

Was a German psychologist who, with Max Wertheimer and Kurt Koffka, founded Gestalt theory. Köhler was born in the port city of Reval (now Tallinn), the capital of and largest city in Estonia, which was at the time a German province.

Considered one of the main representatives of Gestalt psychology (Gestalt theory) in Germany.Metzger

Considered one of the main representatives of Gestalt psychology (Gestalt theory) in Germany.Metzger was a student and associate of the founders of the Berlin school of Gestalt theory, Max Wertheimer, Wolfgang Köhler and Kurt Koffka. Metzger became Max Wertheimer's assistant in Frankfurt/Main in the 1930s and his successor when the Nazis forced Wertheimer out. Early in the 1940s Metzger became chairman at Münster, a position he held until his retirement.

German physicist, who co-developed the ion trap. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1989 for

German physicist, who co-developed the ion trap. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1989 for this work.