Academic/intellectual Famous Names Starting with Letter N

Is known as the father of obstetrics and gynaecology in Egypt and was a pioneer in obstetric fistula

Is known as the father of obstetrics and gynaecology in Egypt and was a pioneer in obstetric fistula.Kasr El Aini hospital had no department of obstetrics and gynaecology, and the only case of labour that he attended "ended fatally for both mother and child". In June 1902, when Mahfouz was about to take his final year exams, there was an outbreak of cholera in Egypt and medical students were recruited to help combat the epidemic. The medical school was closed and exams postponed. Mahfouz was initially assigned to the Cairo railway station,

Was a noted American literary scholar, theologian, and editor.Glatzer was born in Lemberg, then with

Was a noted American literary scholar, theologian, and editor.Glatzer was born in Lemberg, then within the administrative boundaries of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Lviv in the western Ukraine). He received his Ph.D. in 1931 from the University of Frankfurt, where he was eventually nominated to succeed Martin Buber. In 1938 he emigrated to the United States, where in 1942 he adopted the American citizenship. He taught at Chicago and New York before finally settling at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, but towards the end of his professional career transferred, yet again, to Boston University in Boston, Massachusetts. He was the editor of Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought, and a consulting editor of Schocken Books, an American publishing house where he was responsible, in part, for the publication of Kafka’s writings in English translation. He also participated in editorial conferences in Germany on critical editions of Kafka's works.

Is Professor of Applied Mathematics and Astronomy at Cardiff University and Director of the Cardiff

Is Professor of Applied Mathematics and Astronomy at Cardiff University and Director of the Cardiff Centre for Astrobiology. He was born in Sri Lanka, and currently lives in Cardiff, Wales, UK.

Is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the NEC Professor of Software Sc

Is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the NEC Professor of Software Science and Engineering in the EECS department and heads the Theory of Distributed Systems research group at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligen

Is an Australian Professor

Is an Australian Professor

Was an American professor, media theorist, and cultural critic who is best known by the general publ

Was an American professor, media theorist, and cultural critic who is best known by the general public for his 1985 book about television, Amusing Ourselves to Death. For more than forty years, he was associated with New York University. Postman was a humanist, who believed that "there is a limit to the promise of new technology, and that it cannot be a substitute for human values."

Is a chemical and biomedical engineer whose leadership in biomaterials science and engineering, drug

Is a chemical and biomedical engineer whose leadership in biomaterials science and engineering, drug delivery, bionanotechnology, pharmaceutical sciences, chemical and polymer engineering has led to numerous biomedical products or devices. He was educated in chemical engineering at the National Technical University of Athens (D. Eng., 1971) and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sc.D., 1973) under the direction of bioengineering pioneer Edward W. Merrill[1]. Subsequently, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Arteriosclerosis Center of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under world biomedical leaders Clark K. Colton[2], Kenneth A. Smith[3] and Robert S. Lees[4].

Was a Greek American physicist.[1] After the World War II he returned to the faculty of the Universi

Was a Greek American physicist.[1] After the World War II he returned to the faculty of the University of Chicago as an Assistant Professor. He came back to Los Alamos in 1948 to lead the group in the Theoretical (T) Division that designed and built the MANIAC I computer in 1952 and MANIAC II in 1957

Is a Greek Engineering Seismologist. He was Professor and now Emeritus Professor of Engineering Seis

Is a Greek Engineering Seismologist. He was Professor and now Emeritus Professor of Engineering Seismology and Senior Research Fellow at Imperial College London. Professor Ambraseys studied Rural and Surveying Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens (Diploma in 1952) and then Civil Engineering at Imperial College specialising in Soil Mechanics and Engineering Seismology. He worked with Professors Alec Skempton and Alan W. Bishop and obtained his PhD degree in 1958; his thesis title was "The seismic stability of earth dams".

Was a Greek Byzantinist, and one of the leading experts in the field of Byzantine administration. Be

Was a Greek Byzantinist, and one of the leading experts in the field of Byzantine administration. Besides the Listes de préséance, his major works include seven volumes of the Archives de l' Athos, a multi-volume work of the documents of the monasteries of Mount Athos began by paul lemerle, as well as significant work on study and itemization of the extensive Dumbarton Oaks collection of Byzantine seals. His work there led to the creation of a new scientific journal, the Studies in Byzantine Sigillography, which he edited.

An Australian teacher, naturalist, paleontologist and botanist, notable as an expert on ferns

An Australian teacher, naturalist, paleontologist and botanist, notable as an expert on ferns

Is currently an associate professor at the University of New South Wales in mathematics

Is currently an associate professor at the University of New South Wales in mathematics

A renowned Iranian animator, concept artist, editor, graphic designer, illustrator, layout artist, p

A renowned Iranian animator, concept artist, editor, graphic designer, illustrator, layout artist, photographer, script writer and sculptor.[1]He studied pharmacy at Tehran University and holds a PharmD. Then he studied animation film in the Belgium Royal Academy Of Fine Arts (Raoul Servais) from 1969 till 1972.Zarrinkelk is currently a Professor at the faculty of fine art, Tehran University. Since 1971, he has been Jury member of various international animation festivals and illustration biennials.

A renowned Iranian librarian, educator and manager, born in Simla, India, in 1939.Her parents were d

A renowned Iranian librarian, educator and manager, born in Simla, India, in 1939.Her parents were diplomats; therefore she was exposed to many languages and cultures in Asia and Europe. In 1958-1960 she studied librarianship in Geneva, a discipline she continued at McGill University and at the University of Toronto. She worked as a librarian at the Delhi Public Library, and Tehran University Central library, and was Library Director at the Faculty of Literature and Humanities at Tehran University.