Academic/intellectual Famous Names Starting with Letter L

Is the current President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.Lu studied in the Department of Mechanic

Is the current President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.Lu studied in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Zhejiang University, and majored at hydrodynamics (hydraulic mechanics). He graduated from Zhejiang University (ZJU) in 1964, and became a lecture in his department at ZJU. 1979, Lu was an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at RWTH Aachen, West Germany. Lu obtained his doctorate in 1981, based on his dissertation Entwicklung vorgesteuerter Proportionalventile mit 2-Wege-Einbauventil als Stellglied und mit geräteinterner Rückführung. Aachen: Techn. Hochsch.; Diss.; 1981.

Was a famous Chinese psychologist and linguist from Wuxing, Zhejiang.Lu went abroad to the United St

Was a famous Chinese psychologist and linguist from Wuxing, Zhejiang.Lu went abroad to the United States to study during 1915. In 1920, he graduated from the University of Columbia Psychology with the doctoral paper "Forgotten Condition". Lu returned to China that year and was hired in various academies in Nanjing. While he was teaching in the University of Nanjing, he became the first one to introduce the Pavlovian theories into China along with various other Western psychological ideas. In 1927, he arrived in Beijing and was hired as the professor of Yanjing University psychology . In 1933, he went to University of Chicago faculty of biology to pursue further education in psychology. He returned to China the next year and was appointed as the principle of Yanjing University.

Was a distinguished French physicist. After a distinguished academic career he became in succession

Was a distinguished French physicist. After a distinguished academic career he became in succession inspector general of physical science in 1902, director of secondary education at the Ministry of Public Instruction in 1910, director of higher education in 1914 and rector of the Academie de Paris in 1917. In that capacity he received President Wilson at the Sorbonne on the occasion of his visit to Paris for the Peace Conference. Poincaré died in Paris March 9, 1920. He was the brother of Raymond Poincaré and cousin of Henri Poincaré.

Is a German harpsichordist, conductor and musicologist. Ludger Rémy studied the harpsichord in Frei

Is a German harpsichordist, conductor and musicologist. Ludger Rémy studied the harpsichord in Freiburg im Breisgau and continued his studies with Kenneth Gilbert in Paris. He was a teacher at several German academies including the Folkwang Hochschule and the Hochschule für Musik "Franz Liszt", Weimar. In 1998 he was appointed professor for Early music at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden.[1]

Was a German author and historian, born at Breslau, a son of Abraham Geiger. After study at Heidelbe

Was a German author and historian, born at Breslau, a son of Abraham Geiger. After study at Heidelberg, Göttingen, and Bonn, he became docent in history at Berlin in 1873 and in 1880 was appointed to a chair of modern history there. His more important researches have been concerned with the history of humanism, to which he contributed such studies as Nikolaus Ellenbog, ein Humanist und Theolog des sechzehnten Jahrhunderts (1870); Johann Reuchlin, sein Leben und seine Werke (1871); Petrarca (1874), an examination of Petrarch's significance as author and scholar; and Renaissance und Humanismus in Italien und Deutschland (1882).

Was a poet of Lutheran chorales. Helmbold was crowned poeta laureatus by Maximilian II, Holy Roman E

Was a poet of Lutheran chorales. Helmbold was crowned poeta laureatus by Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor, in 1566 on the Reichstag at Augsburg.[1]

Was a German physicist and chemist, and professor of physics at the University of Leipzig. From 1799

Was a German physicist and chemist, and professor of physics at the University of Leipzig. From 1799-1824 he published the "Annalen der Physik", of which Poggendorffs "Annalen der Physik und Chemie" was a continuation.[2]

Was an ophthalmologist, philologist, and the inventor of Esperanto, a constructed language designed

Was an ophthalmologist, philologist, and the inventor of Esperanto, a constructed language designed for international communication.

Was an Argentine engineer prominent in the development of his country's ports.Luis Huergo was born i

Was an Argentine engineer prominent in the development of his country's ports.Luis Huergo was born in Buenos Aires, in 1837, to a family of prosperous retailers. He was sent to the Jesuit St. Mary's College of Maryland, where he obtained his secondary education from 1852 to 1857. Returning to Argentina, he assisted urbanist Pedro Benoit plan the first road to Ensenada (a harbor town 56 km (35 mi) south of Buenos Aires) and earned a degree as a surveyor from the Topography and Geodesics School of Buenos Aires, in 1862. Huergo was among the first class to enroll at the School of Engineering created by the President of the University of Buenos Aires, Juan María Gutiérrez, in 1866, and four years later, his thesis on the value of roads earned him the school's first engineering degree