Academic/intellectual Famous Names Starting with Letter I

Was a Georgian educator, children’s writer and journalist, considered to be the founder of the sci

Was a Georgian educator, children’s writer and journalist, considered to be the founder of the scientific pedagogy in Georgia. Through his masterly compiled children's primer, Mother Tongue, which in a modified form serves to this day as a manual in Georg

Is a British-Dutch writer and academic. Much of his work focuses on Asian culture, particularly that

Is a British-Dutch writer and academic. Much of his work focuses on Asian culture, particularly that of 20th-century Japan.He was born in The Hague, the Netherlands, to a Dutch father and British mother. He studied Chinese literature at Leiden University, and then Japanese film at Nihon University in Tokyo. He has held a number of editorial and academic positions, and has contributed numerous articles to the New York Review of Books. He has been noted as a "well-regarded European intellectual."[1]

Is a mathematical physicist and the AMSI/MASCOS Professorial Fellow at the ARC Centre of Excellence

Is a mathematical physicist and the AMSI/MASCOS Professorial Fellow at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematics and Statistics of Complex Systems

Is a Nigerian scholar and diplomat. He was Minister for External Affairs between 1984 and 1985 and i

Is a Nigerian scholar and diplomat. He was Minister for External Affairs between 1984 and 1985 and is currently the Special Adviser on the International Compact with Iraq and Other Issues for the Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he served as the Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations (USG) for the Department of Political Affairs (DPA). He was appointed on June 10, 2005 and assumed the post on July 1 of that year.

Is a German soprano singer. She is known for singing works of Johann Sebastian Bach. Reichelt focuse

Is a German soprano singer. She is known for singing works of Johann Sebastian Bach. Reichelt focused on singing oratorios and Lieder. She recorded Bach cantatas with conductors such as Helmuth Rilling, Karl Ristenpart and Kurt Thomas. She was a frequent soloist for the cycle of Bach's cantatas recorded with Fritz Werner conducting the Heinrich-Schütz-Chor Heilbronn and the Pforzheim Chamber Orchestra, including Brich dem Hungrigen dein Brot, BWV 39 with Barbara Scherler and Bruce Abel, a cantata that Bach had written for the first Sunday after Trinity of 1726.[2][3] In 1957 she recorded Bach's Mass in B minor with Werner and his choir, Helmut Krebs and Franz Kelch.[4]

Is a Greek ophthalmologist who in 1989 performed the first LASIK procedure on a human eye.[1] Pallik

Is a Greek ophthalmologist who in 1989 performed the first LASIK procedure on a human eye.[1] Pallikaris also developed Epi-LASIK.[2]. Professor Palikaris is the current lector of the University of Crete and is also the director of the Institute of Vision and Optics [3] in the same university. The institute focuses on providing high-quality specialized health services, such as refractive surgery, photodynamic therapy and the evaluation of vision operation through specialized diagnostic techniques. One of IVO's labs is the Vardinogianion Eye Institute of Crete (?a?d????????e?? ???ast???? ?etaµ?s?e?se?? ?a? ??????e?????????? ?f?a?µ??), which provides health services ranging from primary to specialized tertiary treatment. Financially its activities are administered by the University of Crete's Research Account.

Is Professor of History at the University of Minnesota, USA? and one of the leading scholars in the

Is Professor of History at the University of Minnesota, USA? and one of the leading scholars in the fields of Central Asian Studies and Iranian Studies. Fluent in English, Persian, Tajik, and several Turkic languages, Bashiri has been able to study and translate works otherwise inaccessible to the mostly Russian-speaking Central Asian studies community. Bashiri career focus started on Persia then shifted to the Tajik identity and the relations between Tajiks and the Turkic people of Central Asia, namely the Uzbeks.

Was a classical scholar and philologist, first in France and then later in England, regarded by many

Was a classical scholar and philologist, first in France and then later in England, regarded by many of his time as the most learned in Europe. At the age of nineteen Isaac was sent to the Academy of Geneva, where he read Greek under Francis Portus a Cretan. Portus died in 1581, recommending Casaubon, then only twenty-two, as his successor. He remained at Geneva as professor of Greek until 1596. There he married twice

Is the director of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina. He also chairs the Boards of Directors for each of t

Is the director of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina. He also chairs the Boards of Directors for each of the BA's affiliated research institutes and museums and was a Distinguished Professor at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. He is a member of the Senate in Egypt (Majlis Al-Shura).He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering from Cairo University and Masters' degree and a Ph.D. from Harvard University and has received 26 honorary doctorates. He has published over 60 books and monographs and over 200 papers on a variety of topics including biotechnology, rural development, sustainability, and the value of science to society. [1] He is sometimes referred to as the "most intelligent man in Egypt".[2]

Was an Italian Jewish Rabbi, who converted to Roman Catholicism. Zoller was born in Brody, in the Au

Was an Italian Jewish Rabbi, who converted to Roman Catholicism. Zoller was born in Brody, in the Austro-Hungarian province of Galicia. His father was a formerly wealthy factory owner whose properties had been seized by the Russian government. His mother sprang from a family of dynastic rabbis. He received a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Florence. At the same time, he prepared for the rabbinate at a nearby yeshiva.

Is the current U.S. Permanent Representative on the Council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organizatio

Is the current U.S. Permanent Representative on the Council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. He is also an academic, political scientist, foreign policy adviser and author in the United States. Ambassador Daalder has been a Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy studies at The Brookings Institution. He was an United States National Security Council (NSC) staffer in the Clinton administration and adviser to Democrats running for President of the United States.