Academic/intellectual Famous Names Starting with Letter M

Was an Egyptian university professor, Johnsonian scholar, and lexicographer.During 1957–1966 and 1

Was an Egyptian university professor, Johnsonian scholar, and lexicographer.During 1957–1966 and 1970–1980 Dr. Wahba taught English literature at Cairo University, Egypt. During that time he started the Annual Bulletin of English Studies which later became Cairo Studies in English published by the Department of English Language and Literature. He continued supervising countless PhD students as emeritus professor. After his death, the English Department's library at Cairo University was named after him.

Is a South African immunologist, physician, public health advocate, academic and vice-chancellor of

Is a South African immunologist, physician, public health advocate, academic and vice-chancellor of the University of KwaZulu-Natal.Makgoba was appointed the first black deputy (afropolitan) vice-chancellor at the University of the Witwatersrand in 1995 before being suspended for alleged administrative incompetence and falsifying his résumé. He later acknowledged various failings and agreed to step down from his position as Deputy Vice Chancellor in return for a Professorial Research position.

Is a Dutch professor for journalism at Groningen University[1][2] and active journalist, Corresponde

Is a Dutch professor for journalism at Groningen University[1][2] and active journalist, Correspondent (in London, Paris and Washington D.C.)[2] and commentator e.g. for NRC Handelsblad[2][3][4].

Was a 20th century French Tibetologist. Her major contribution to Tibetology is the cataloguing of t

Was a 20th century French Tibetologist. Her major contribution to Tibetology is the cataloguing of the entire Pelliot collection of Old Tibetan manuscripts from Dunhuang at the Bibliothèque Nationale. In addition she wrote articles on various aspects of Old Tibet, and published a Tibetan textbook. Among her students were Rolf A. Stein and J. W. de Jong.

Is a physicist, information architect and writer who also works as an Executive Coach.[2] After obta

Is a physicist, information architect and writer who also works as an Executive Coach.[2] After obtaining his Abitur in 1983, Birkenkrahe studied physics, mathematics and chemistry at the University of Hamburg. In 1994, he worked as a research assistant at DESY in Zeuthen near Berlin and earned his doctorate with a dissertation on multigrid computations for lattice gauge theories using object-oriented, literate programming.[3] As co-founder and chairman of the Globewide Network Academy (GNA), he received the awards for "Best Campus-Wide Information System"[4] and "Best Educational Site"[5] at the First World-Wide Web conference in Geneva, Switzerland in 1994.

Is a former chairman of the Department of Religious Education at Brigham Young University Hawaii and

Is a former chairman of the Department of Religious Education at Brigham Young University Hawaii and the author of Setting the Record Straight: Blacks and the Mormon Priesthood. Martins was the first black member to serve as a Latter-day Saint missionary after the revelation extending the priesthood of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) to all male members regardless of race or color. Martins is the son of Helvécio Martins, the first Latter-day Saint of African descent to serve as a general authority in the LDS Church.

Modern Egyptian painter

Modern Egyptian painter

She studied Engineering at the Technical University Berlin. Later, Osterloh worked for a company as

She studied Engineering at the Technical University Berlin. Later, Osterloh worked for a company as a management assistant. Since 1991 she is a professor of organisation at the University of Zurich.

A mountain town in West Macedonia, is an experimental physicist at Caltech and CERN, the European hi

A mountain town in West Macedonia, is an experimental physicist at Caltech and CERN, the European high-energy physics laboratory outside Geneva, and is working on experiments for the Large Hadron Collider. These experiments are designed to test some of the most imaginative and far reaching ideas ever proposed in physics. She describes her work as part of the search to discover the origins of the universe.

Is a German hornplayer and a professor of French horn. She completed her French horn studies with Er

Is a German hornplayer and a professor of French horn. She completed her French horn studies with Erich Penzel at the Hochschule für Musik Köln. In 1978 she started her career at the Opern- und Schauspielhaus Frankfurt as second hornplayer. In 1979 she was appointed principal hornplayer with the Bamberg Symphony, and from 1981 to 1989 she held the same position with the hr-Sinfonieorchester. She has appeared as a soloist with various orchestras worldwide, and is also active as a chamber music player.

Was a German computer scientist. From 1997 to 2003, Jeckle attended the University of Applied Scienc

Was a German computer scientist. From 1997 to 2003, Jeckle attended the University of Applied Science in Augsburg. In 1998, he received his computer science degree for his thesis (paper) "Prozeßkettenmodellierung am Beispiel der Gießwerkzeugentwicklung und prototypische Implementierung auf Basis des EDM/PDM - Systems Metaphase" (An example of process chain modelling in casting tool development and prototype implementation on basis of the EDM/PDM - Systems Metaphase). At Augsburg, he taught Java, Java Threads, XML and software engineering.

Australian historian and academic

Australian historian and academic

Is an Australian academic.

Is an Australian academic.

Is a Greek economist specialising in development economics, particularly in Latin America. he gradua

Is a Greek economist specialising in development economics, particularly in Latin America. he graduated from the Experimental High School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 1950, then attended the Law School of the University and received a B.A. in Law, with the distinction summa cum laude in 1955. He did graduate work at Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich from 1955 to 1957, and University of California, Berkeley from 1957 to 1962, where he received his M.A. (1959), and Ph.D. (1962) with a dissertation entitled Inflation and Growth: An Asset Preference Analysis. With a Case Study of the Chilean Inflation. He has taught or been a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley; University of Western Ontario; Universidad de Chile; Yale; University of Göttingen; Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; Inter-American Development Bank; and the University of Giessen.

Church historian, professor emeritus of the University of Münster, Westphalia, Germany.[1] Until hi

Church historian, professor emeritus of the University of Münster, Westphalia, Germany.[1] Until his retirement in 1997 at age 65, he served as head of the Department of Medieval and Modern Church History of the Evangelical Theological Faculty of the university. He is author of a three volume comprehensive biography of Martin Luther, published in German, 1981–1987 and of many publications on German pietism. M. Eugene Osterhaven of Western Theological Seminary in Holland, Michigan had this to say about Brecht's contribution to theological studies, "Martin Brecht has an established reputation, and his thorough work on Luther is definitive, even though it lacks the crisp literary style of the monographs on Luther of Roland Bainton or Heiko Oberman."[2]

Was a German church musician, cantor of the Dresdner Kreuzchor from 1971 to 1991. Martin Flämig stu

Was a German church musician, cantor of the Dresdner Kreuzchor from 1971 to 1991. Martin Flämig studied since 1934 in Dresden with Alfred Stier and in Leipzig at the Kirchenmusikalisches Institut des Leipziger Konservatoriums with Karl Straube, Günther Ramin, and Johann Nepomuk David. He was since 1948 cantor at the Versöhnungskirche in Dresden and premiered there Willy Burkhard's oratorio Das Gesicht des Jesaja (The Vision of Isaiah), Ernst Krenek's Lamentationes Jeremiae Prophetae and Johannes Drießler's Dein Reich komme.[1]

Is an Australian professor

Is an Australian professor

Was a German historian of religion, focusing on the "Second Temple Period" or "Hellenistic Period" o

Was a German historian of religion, focusing on the "Second Temple Period" or "Hellenistic Period" of early Judaism. This caused a ten year struggle for Hengel, who had to study when he could based around his working hours. The strain on his health led to a serious breakdown. He later referred to these ten years as "wasted years" and gave the impression of almost having an inferiority complex about the amount of study he had been forced to miss. However, he remained a director of the company until his death. In August 1957 he married Marianne Kistler.[1]

Is a German researcher working in the United States. His research focuses on consumer behavior, espe

Is a German researcher working in the United States. His research focuses on consumer behavior, especially neuroeconomics and neuromarketing, as well as marketing strategy. Martin Reimann graduated from the Universität Passau and HHL, where he studied business administration and management. Further, he holds a Ph.D. in marketing from Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg and completed postdoctoral training at the Psychology Department at Stanford University. He received his venia legendi (Habilitation) in business administration at Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg.

Is a Dutch logician and philosopher. Stokhof wrote a joint Ph.D. dissertation with Jeroen Groenendij

Is a Dutch logician and philosopher. Stokhof wrote a joint Ph.D. dissertation with Jeroen Groenendijk on the semantics of questions. He was also an important figure in the development of dynamic semantics (together with Groenendijk, Veltman and others). He is a former director of the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation at the University of Amsterdam. He is also known for his work on Ludwig Wittgenstein. Stokhof is a member of the group collectively publishing under the pseudonym L. T. F. Gamut.

Was a Dutch academic. From 1797 to 1847 he was the first professor of the Dutch language at the Univ

Was a Dutch academic. From 1797 to 1847 he was the first professor of the Dutch language at the University of Leiden. From 1803 he was the member, then secretary, of the head-office of that university's literary faculty. Initially he was a Mennonite voorganger in Dokkum.

Is an American Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley where she graduated with

Is an American Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley where she graduated with a BA in English in 1962. She is also a prolific academic and writer.

A contemporary Iranian theoretical physicist and philosopher. He received his B.Sc. in Physics from

A contemporary Iranian theoretical physicist and philosopher. He received his B.Sc. in Physics from Tehran University in 1959 and his Ph.D. in Physics with a specialization in particle physics in 1969 from the University of California, Berkeley. The title of his doctoral dissertation is "Electron impact excitation of heavily ionized atoms".

A professor of mechanical engineering at Sharif University of Technology. His research specialties i

A professor of mechanical engineering at Sharif University of Technology. His research specialties include solar energy applications and passive cooling of buildings.[2]Bahadori got his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Tehran in 1956; his Master of Science degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1959; and his PhD from the University of Illinois in 1964.

An Iranian university professor. He is one of the well known Iranian scholars, whose controversial t

An Iranian university professor. He is one of the well known Iranian scholars, whose controversial theories made him popular among the young generation of the Iranian elites and students.Sahraeean from early stage of his life on Leopoldino Francisca University, Austria has found a student movement for establish the democracy and freedom in Iran. Thus by his return to Iran (1970) He was imprisoned, which it became repeatedly his destiny while consecutive years of his academic career on the Iranian university.