Famous People with Name Jesse

Jesse Kraai            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Jesse Kraai: is a chess Grandmaster living in Santa Fe, NM. Kraai reached GM status in 2007; he is the first American-born player to achieve the title since Tal Shaked in 1997. In 2007, he won the chess state championship of New Mexico for the fifth consecutive year.[1] He won the 1987 National Junior High School Championship, tied for first in the 1988 National High School Championship, and won the Denker Tournament of High School Champions in 1989 and 1990. Kraai was born in Santa Fe; he received his B.A. from Shimer College in 1994, his M.A. in philosophy from the University of Jena, Germany in 1996, and his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Heidelberg in 2001.

Jesse Leonard Greenstein            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Jesse Leonard Greenstein: was an American astronomer.He began his career at Yerkes Observatory under Otto Struve and later went to Caltech. With Louis G. Henyey he invented a new spectrograph and a wide-field camera. He directed the Caltech astronomy program until 1972 and later did classified work on military reconnaissance satellites.With Leverett Davis, Jr, he demonstrated in 1949 that the magnetic field in our galaxy is aligned with the spiral arms. His theoretical work, with Davis, was based the conclusion just reached by William A. Hiltner that the recently detected polarization of starlight was due to scattering off interstellar dust grains aligned by a magnetic field.

Jesse Ball            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Jesse Ball: is an American poet. He has published volumes of poetry, short prose, and drawings. His first novel was published in 2007.After attending public school, Jesse Ball attended Vassar College, where he studied literature, and poetry writing under both Eamon G

Jesse Hilton Stuart            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Jesse Hilton Stuart: was an American writer who achieved prominence in the short story, poetry, and novels. Born and raised in Greenup County, Kentucky, Stuart relied heavily on the rural locale of Northeastern Kentucky (and, perhaps to some degree, Southeastern Ohio, mainly

Jesse Douglas            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Jesse Douglas: was an American mathematician. He was born in New York and attended Columbia College from 1920–1924. Douglas was one of two winners of the first Fields Medals, awarded in 1936. He was honored for solving, in 1930, the problem of Plateau, which asks whethe