Academic/intellectual Famous Names Starting with Letter Z

An Iranian artist and political scientist who served as the chancellor of Alzahra University in Tehr

An Iranian artist and political scientist who served as the chancellor of Alzahra University in Tehran, Iran, from 1998 to 2006, and as a Political Adviser to the former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami.[1][2]Zahra Rahnavard earned her bachelor and master's degrees in art and architecture from University of Tehran. She has also got master's and PhD degrees from Islamic Azad University in Political science.

Was a Chinese scholar and historian of the Song Dynasty in China. He was one of the supporters of th

Was a Chinese scholar and historian of the Song Dynasty in China. He was one of the supporters of the New Classical Prose Movement (?????) and is regarded as founder of one of the Eight Great Schools of Thought of the Tang and Song dynasties (?????).

Is Professor and Director of the UNESCO International Centre for Engineering Education

Is Professor and Director of the UNESCO International Centre for Engineering Education

Was a Chinese philologist, textual critic and anti-Manchu revolutionary.

Was a Chinese philologist, textual critic and anti-Manchu revolutionary.

Is a professor in Department of Philosophy, Central South University, China. He promoted the abolish

Is a professor in Department of Philosophy, Central South University, China. He promoted the abolishment of traditional Chinese medicine.Zhang was born in Chenzhou, Hunan in 1956. He received his M.A degree from Zhejiang University in 1988. In 2006, Zhang initiated a movement to call for abolishment of the traditional Chinese medicine.

A professor and a tutor of a Ph.D. in the Department of Public Administration of Renmin University o

A professor and a tutor of a Ph.D. in the Department of Public Administration of Renmin University of China(RUC), an adjunct professor of the Center for Public Administration Research of Sun Yat-Sen University, a standing director of the fifth council of the Chinese Public Administration Society, and guest professor, chair professor, and adjunct professor of many other universities.He is considered one of the most originative scholars in China, and is specially influential in the fields of "the debate in paradigms of Public Management", "publicity" and "public interest".[1] He is the creator of the concept “?????” (Service-oriented government) in China,[2] which has an evident effect on Chinese government's "Building the Service-oriented government" movement. His "In Search of a Ethical Perspective of Public Administration" stirred the Chinese academia in Public Administration, and was considered "open up a new perspective for the research of Public Administration, is very important for the further development of Chinese Public Administration", and "is bound to be one of the classic works in Public Administration in the future."

Was a Chinese poet and translator.Luorui published since the early 1940s. She gained a PhD (for a di

Was a Chinese poet and translator.Luorui published since the early 1940s. She gained a PhD (for a dissertation on Henry James) from the University of Chicago in 1948 and returned to teach English and North American literature at Peking University, Beijing. She was married to Chen Mengjia, an archaeologist and expert on oracle bones. Chen committed suicide after denunciation and persecution during the Cultural Revolution. Zhao Luorui herself was also considered an enemy of the state by Chinese officials.

Is a Chinese pathophysiologist and the Professor of Medicine and Pathophysiology at the Shanghai Jia

Is a Chinese pathophysiologist and the Professor of Medicine and Pathophysiology at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SSMU) in Shanghai, China. A full professor at Shanghai Second Medical University before its amalgamation, from 1987 to 1996 he was Director of the Hematology Institute at Rai-Jin Hospital in Shanghai. His research has led to the improved survival of patients with acute promyelocytic leukemia (APML).

Is a professor of computer science at Stanford University. He is the author of The Mathematical Theo

Is a professor of computer science at Stanford University. He is the author of The Mathematical Theory of Computation (McGraw Hill, 1974; reprinted Dover, 2003), one of the first texts to provide extensive coverage of the mathematical concepts behind comp

Is a Chinese writer and scholar. Her father was Feng Youlan, a 20th century philosopher.

Is a Chinese writer and scholar. Her father was Feng Youlan, a 20th century philosopher.

Is a Hungarian organist, pianist, composer, and conductor. Szathmáry studied composition with Feren

Is a Hungarian organist, pianist, composer, and conductor. Szathmáry studied composition with Ferenc Szabó and organ with Ferenc Gergely at the Franz Liszt Music Academy in Budapest from 1958 to 1963. He pursued post-graduate instrumental education at first in Vienna with Alois Forer and—after he moved to Germany—from 1964 at the Frankfurt Musikhochschule with Helmut Walcha. Parallel to this he participated from 1964 to 1967 in the Cologne Courses for New Music, studying composition with Henri Pousseur and Karlheinz Stockhausen, and attended the Darmstädter Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in 1964 and 1965, studying with György Ligeti (Wienke 2001).

Was one of the foremost Galician talmudic scholars. He is best known for his work Mevo Hatalmud (Int

Was one of the foremost Galician talmudic scholars. He is best known for his work Mevo Hatalmud (Introduction to the Talmud), which serves both as commentary and introduction. Chajes is also known as "The Maharatz Chajes", the Hebrew acronym for "Our Teacher, the Rabbi, Zvi Chajes".