Academic/intellectual Famous Names

Is emeritus professor of philosophy at The College of New Jersey and visiting professor of history a

Is emeritus professor of philosophy at The College of New Jersey and visiting professor of history and philosophy of science at the University of Pittsburgh, where he has held the University's Fellowship for the Study of Objectivism since 2003[1]. He was one of the founders of the Ayn Rand Society (founded 1987), affiliated with the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, and has held the position of secretary of the Society and chairman of its Steering Committee since 1990[2].

Is a German violinist, music pedagogue, university professor and patron.[1] Alois Kottmann was raise

Is a German violinist, music pedagogue, university professor and patron.[1] Alois Kottmann was raised as one of three children of a silversmith. His mother was very much interested in music so she made every possible effort for a musical education of her children. His highschool music teacher stimulated him to play the violin so he started with private violin courses. His teacher was Marie-Louise Graef-Mönch, the assistant of Alma Moodie, who taught him in the tradition of Carl Flesch. After graduation he still got these courses and also some in the home of the Hölscher family where he befriended with Gert Hölscher (1930–2010) who especially cultivated his musical efforts. There he met the pianist Günter Ludwig. At Frankfurt University of Music he studied with Marie-Louise Graef-Mönch, his former private violin teacher.

Is a German theologian. Hammers was born at Bitburg. During his childhood he lived in Mürlenbach, E

Is a German theologian. Hammers was born at Bitburg. During his childhood he lived in Mürlenbach, Eifel. He studied philosophy and theology in Trier. He wanted to become a roman-catholic priest. During his university studies he met his wife. He married and the family has two children. Hammers stopped to become a priest and studied psychology. He worked in Roman Catholic Diocese of Trier as teacher for Roman Catholic priests in divinity school. As professor Hammers worked in sector pastoral psychology.

Is the John M. Duff, Jr. Professor of Law at Yale Law School. She joined the Yale faculty in 2001 af

Is the John M. Duff, Jr. Professor of Law at Yale Law School. She joined the Yale faculty in 2001 after teaching at Duke Law School. Prior to starting her teaching career, she was a corporate law associate at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton. She specializes in the study of international business transactions, law and development, ethnic conflict, and globalization and the law.

Was a Greek physician. He graduated from the Medical School of the University of Athens on June 26,

Was a Greek physician. He graduated from the Medical School of the University of Athens on June 26, 1849 and did his ophthalmological training in Paris and Berlin. He is credited for the development of the hand-held ophthalmoscope, thus significantly advancing the design and use of the original ophthalmoscope invented by Hermann von Helmholtz. Besides his fame as a great doctor and scientist, Anagnostakis was an accomplished author and poet. He also served as Dean of the Medical School of the University of Athens (1871-72 and 1876-770) and as President (Rector) of the University (1877-79).

Was a German theater and opera director. Meyer-Hanno was born in Berlin. His parents were Hans Meyer

Was a German theater and opera director. Meyer-Hanno was born in Berlin. His parents were Hans Meyer-Hanno and Irene Sager. Since 1949 Meyer-Hanno studied music and theater. After university studies he worked between 1956 to 1964 at the opera of Wuppertal, where he became 1959 opera director. From 1964 to 1972 he worked as opera director in Karlsruhe at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe and then from 1972 to 1976 in Braunschweig at the Staatstheater Braunschweig. In 1980 he co-founded the LGBT organisation Homosexuelle Selbsthilfe (homosexual's self-help).

Is a renowned international relations academic

Is a renowned international relations academic

Doctor of History and professor, was a Georgian archaeologist and historian specializing in the stud

Doctor of History and professor, was a Georgian archaeologist and historian specializing in the studies of ancient Georgia, and the author of widely known works on archaeology.

Is a director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany

Is a director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany, and is an internationally recognized expert in neuropsychology and linguistics.[1] She is the author of over 360 academic articles and book chapters, and has edited 15 books[2] on linguistics, neuroscience, language and psychology.

Is an American socialist organizer and professor who was associated with the Black Panther Party (BP

Is an American socialist organizer and professor who was associated with the Black Panther Party (BPP) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Davis was also a prominent member and political candidate of the Communist Party USA. She first achieved nationwide notoriety

Was a well known and very influential German Orientalist and scholar, who wrote extensively on Islam

Was a well known and very influential German Orientalist and scholar, who wrote extensively on Islam and Sufism. She began studying at the University of Berlin in 1939 at the age of 17, during the period of Nazi Germany. She received a doctorate in Islamic languages and civilization at the age of 19. Following this, she was drafted by the German Foreign Office while continuing with her scholarly work in her free time. At the age of 23, she became a professor of Arabic and Islamic studies at the University of Marburg, Germany in 1946, where she earned a second doctorate in the history of religions in 1954.

Is the 16th President of Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York

Is the 16th President of Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York

Is a German marine biologist presently serving as professor of geomicrobiology at the Max Planck Ins

Is a German marine biologist presently serving as professor of geomicrobiology at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, University of Bremen.[1] She received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, with 2.5 million euros in funding, in March 2009 for her study of sea bed microorganisms that affect the global climate.[2] She was the first person to describe anaerobic oxidation of methane,[2] and believes the earth's earliest life forms may have subsisted on methane in the absence of molecular oxygen (instead reducing oxygen-containing compounds such as nitrate or sulfate).[3] She has also suggested such life forms may be able to reduce the rate of climate change in future.[3]

Was a Ukrainian and Soviet educator and writer, one of the founders of the Soviet pedagogy, who elab

Was a Ukrainian and Soviet educator and writer, one of the founders of the Soviet pedagogy, who elaborated the theory and methodology of upbringing in self-governing child collectives and of introducing productive labor into the educational system.

Is the co-creator of Teoma, an Internet search engine that powers Ask.com. Gerasoulis is a former Pr

Is the co-creator of Teoma, an Internet search engine that powers Ask.com. Gerasoulis is a former Professor of Computer Science at Rutgers University; he co-founded Teoma along with his colleagues at Rutgers in 2000. Gerasoulis has appeared in TV commercials for Ask.com.

Is a former American collegiate football coach. He served as head coach for three teams, most notabl

Is a former American collegiate football coach. He served as head coach for three teams, most notably the University of Notre Dame team from 1964-1974. During his 11 seasons as head coach of the Fighting Irish (known popularly as "the Era of Ara"), he com

Is an Australian legal academic

Is an Australian legal academic

Is a Dutch social scientist, active in the field of Science and technology studies. During 1988-1989

Is a Dutch social scientist, active in the field of Science and technology studies. During 1988-1989 he was the President of the international Society for Social Studies of Science. From 2000 till 2005 he was the head of WTMC, the Netherlands Graduate School of Science, Technology and Modern Culture. The WTMC is a formal collaboration of Dutch researchers studying the development of science, technology and modern culture. In 2006 Rip formally retired as the Professor of Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Twente,

Is a Greek anthropologist and archaeologist. Before becoming an anthropologist, Poulianos fought dur

Is a Greek anthropologist and archaeologist. Before becoming an anthropologist, Poulianos fought during World War II as a member of ELAS from 1942 up until 1943. During the Greek Civil War, he fought on the side of the DSE from 1948 up until 1949. Poulianos studied biology at the City University of New York between 1948 and 1952. Afterwards, he studied anthropology in Moscow and earned his Ph.D in 1961. He worked at the Soviet Academy of Sciences until 1965, when he returned to Greece. He conducted research about the anthropological origins of Balkan peoples and European populations in general. During this time, he led research expeditions in Russia, Bulgaria, Romania, former Yugoslavia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.

Was a Filipino businessman and educator. He served as Secretary of Education from 1992 to 1994.Fabel

Was a Filipino businessman and educator. He served as Secretary of Education from 1992 to 1994.Fabella was named to various positions in the government of President Diosdado Macapagal, including as Assistant Executive Secretary. He also served in the administration of President Ferdinand Marcos.[1]During the administration of President Fidel Ramos, he served as Secretary of Education from 1992 to 1994. Ramos awarded him the Presidential Medal of Merit in 1998. Fabella also worked as a consultant for the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, the World Bank, and the Asian Development Bank.

Is a Filipino Lasallian Brother and incumbent Education Secretary under the cabinet of President Ben

Is a Filipino Lasallian Brother and incumbent Education Secretary under the cabinet of President Benigno Aquino III. He also served as the President and Chancellor of De La Salle University and concurrently President and CEO of De La Salle Philippines.

Was a Georgian linguist and philologist best known as for his contributions to the Caucasian studies

Was a Georgian linguist and philologist best known as for his contributions to the Caucasian studies as well as one of the most active critics of Nicholas Marr's controversial monogenetic "Japhetic" theory of language.

Is a Professor Emeritus of educational psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. Jensen

Is a Professor Emeritus of educational psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. Jensen is known for his work in psychometrics and differential psychology, which is concerned with how and why individuals differ behaviorally from one another. He is a major proponent of the hereditarian position in the nature versus nurture debate, the position that concludes genetics play a significant role in behavioral traits, such as intelligence and personality. He is the author of over 400 scientific papers published in refereed journals and currently sits on the editorial boards of the scientific journals Intelligence and Personality and Individual Differences.

An Associate Professor and a Chancellor's Fellow[1] at University of California, Irvine, CA, USA. Hi

An Associate Professor and a Chancellor's Fellow[1] at University of California, Irvine, CA, USA. His research expertise is in the field of cosmology and theoretical astrophysics and has contributed to topics in field such as cosmic microwave background, halo model of the galaxy distribution in the large-scale structure[2], and has developed ways to measure and quantify physical properties of dark energy and dark matter in the universe. Cooray is also a Science Editor of Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (JCAP), a leading journal for cosmologists published by the Institute of Physics Publishing (IOP) on behalf of the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA).

Is a Professor of Pastoral Theology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; founder and in-hono

Is a Professor of Pastoral Theology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; founder and in-honour president of the Institute for National and Religious Studies (Karipion Institute). He has studied at the Theology School of the University of Athens as well as in Belgrade's Theology School.