Academic/intellectual Famous Names Starting with Letter D

Is a German radiotherapist and internist. Matthaei studied physics and medicine at the universities

Is a German radiotherapist and internist. Matthaei studied physics and medicine at the universities of Berlin and Göttingen. In 1977, he received his doctorate from the Georg-August University of Göttingen. He was from 1983 to 1987 a research associate at the Max-Planck-Institut für biophysikalische Chemie in Göttingen and is now medical specialist for internal medicine in Göttingen.

Is a professor in the Department of Mathematical Logic and Applications, Faculty of Mathematics and

Is a professor in the Department of Mathematical Logic and Applications, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at the St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia. Chairman of the department in 1972-2000. Doyen and pioneer of mathematical logic research

Was a major Greek architect of the 20th century and had a considerable influence in Contemporary Gre

Was a major Greek architect of the 20th century and had a considerable influence in Contemporary Greek Architecture. He was a founding member of the Association of Greek Art Critics, AICA-Hellas, International Association of Art Critics.[1] He studied civil engineering at the National Technical University of Athens and then continued his studies to Paris and Munich, in sculpture and drawing. Pikionis was back then introduced to the work of Paul Cézanne and became friends with Giorgio de Chirico [2]. Later he returned to Greece and architecture, and in 1925 undertook a lecturer position at the decoration department at the National Technical University of Athens. He has been often described as a critical regionalist and sometimes as a European modernist [3]. Pikionis did not produce many works and the leitmotif in his work has been, according to architecture historians, the epiphany, the contrast between bleached marble and sodden soil [2].

Is a Greek Indologist, teacher and author. Dimitrios Vassiliadis is a Founding Member and Chairperso

Is a Greek Indologist, teacher and author. Dimitrios Vassiliadis is a Founding Member and Chairperson of the Indo-Hellenic Society for Culture and Development in Athens. He taught Hindi and Sanskrit at the School of Foreign Languages, University of Athens. He authored several books[1] and contributed academic papers in India, Greece, Spain and Japan. He is the Editor of the Indika Online, an intercultural forum for the advancement of the Indo-Greek relations. Since 2009, he is a Fellow of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations and Research Associate at the Department of Hindi, Banaras Hindu University.

Is a Greek computer science academic and author of the books "Code Reading" and "Code Quality." He i

Is a Greek computer science academic and author of the books "Code Reading" and "Code Quality." He is a Professor at the Department of Management Science and Technology at the Athens University of Economics and Business, and a member of the IEEE Software editorial board, contributing the Tools of the Trade[1] column. He is a four-time winner of the International Obfuscated C Code Contest (1988, 1990, 1991, 1995). His Erdos number is 4. He is also a committer in the FreeBSD project, and author of a number of popular free or open-source systems: the UMLGraph[2] declarative UML diagram generator, the bib2xhtml[3] BibTeX to XHTML converter, the outwit[4] Microsoft Windows data with command line programs integration tool suite, the CScout[5] source code analyzer and refactoring browser, and the socketpipe[6] fast IPC plumbing utility.

Was a Dutch mathematician and Marxian theoretician who spent most of his life in the United States.I

Was a Dutch mathematician and Marxian theoretician who spent most of his life in the United States.In 1917 he worked as a high school mathematics teacher for a while, after which he worked as a research assistant for J.A. Schouten. It was during this period that he developed his doctoral dissertation, "The Application of Tensor Methods to Riemannian Manifolds."

Was a Professor of Moscow State University (since 1943), made a great contribution to the physical s

Was a Professor of Moscow State University (since 1943), made a great contribution to the physical science of the twentieth century, especially to gravitational physics. He died on 30th December 1994. He was a long-time friend of Lev Landau and George Gam

Was an outstanding Russian scholar who was considered the world's foremost expert in Old Russian lan

Was an outstanding Russian scholar who was considered the world's foremost expert in Old Russian language and literature. He has been revered as "the last of old St Petersburgers", "a guardian of national culture", and "Russia's conscience". Likhachov graduated in 1928 from the Leningrad University. In the same year, he was arrested for his speech deploring the Bolshevik reform of Russian orthography.

A professor emeritus of cognitive science at University of California, San Diego and a Professor of

A professor emeritus of cognitive science at University of California, San Diego and a Professor of Computer Science at Northwestern University, where he also co-directs the dual degree MBA + Engineering degree program between the Kellogg school and Northwestern Engineering. He is on numerous company advisory boards including the editorial board of Encyclopædia Britannica. He currently splits his time between consulting and his teaching and writing at Northwestern from his homes in Evanston, Illinois and Palo Alto, California.

Was a Han Dynasty scholar who is traditionally associated with the promotion of Confucianism as offi

Was a Han Dynasty scholar who is traditionally associated with the promotion of Confucianism as official ideology of the Chinese imperial state.

An English-born Australian academic, literary critic and poet.

An English-born Australian academic, literary critic and poet.

Is an African American administrator, educator, social activist, and a recipient of the Congressiona

Is an African American administrator, educator, social activist, and a recipient of the Congressional Gold Medal.Height was born in Richmond, Virginia. At an early age, she moved with her family to Rankin, Pennsylvania. While in high school, Height was awarded a scholarship to Barnard College for her oratory skills; however, upon arrival, she was denied entrance. At the time, Barnard admitted only two African Americans per academic year and Height had arrived after the other two had been admitted. After this disappointment, she subsequently pursued studies at New York University, where she earned her Master's Degree in psychology.

Is a German computer scientist and professor at Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany, where he is head

Is a German computer scientist and professor at Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany, where he is head of the KWARC research group (Knowledge Adaptation and Reasoning for Content) at the School of Engineering and Science. Dr. Michael Kohlhase is president of the OpenMath Society and a trustee of the Interest Group for Mathematical Knowledge Management (MKM). He was a trustee of the Conference on Automated Deduction and the CALCULEMUS Interest Group. He has been Conference Chair of CADE-21 and Program Chair of the KI-2006, MKM-2005, and CALCULEMUS-2000 conferences and has served on the Programme Committees of more than three dozen international conferences. He has authored or edited four books and published almost 100 peer-reviewed papers.