Professional/specialist Famous Names

Is a professor of geography and public policy at UCLA.Allen J. Scott holds the rank of distinguished

Is a professor of geography and public policy at UCLA.Allen J. Scott holds the rank of distinguished professor with joint appointments in the Department of Public Policy and the Department of Geography at the University of California – Los Angeles. He was

Was an American etymologist and lexicographer, best known for his studies into the words "okay" and

Was an American etymologist and lexicographer, best known for his studies into the words "okay" and "fuck."Read was born in Winnebago, Minnesota, earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Northern Iowa (then called Iowa State Teachers College) in 1925, a master's degree from the University of Iowa in 1926, and studied at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar from 1928-1931. He was a chaired professor at Columbia University in New York City from 1945 until 1975.[2] He is a past president of the Semiotic Society of America (1980).He was a repeated contributor to American Speech by 1931; his first extended work, Lexical Evidence from Folk Epigraphy in Western North America: A Glossarial Study of the Low Element in the English Vocabulary, was privately published in Paris in 1935 since its description of bathroom graffiti was considered too racy for American publishers.[citation needed] It was eventually published in the United States in 1977, under the title Classic American Graffiti, ISBN 0916500063.

Was a celebrated American economist. He was born into a middle-class family in Kenton, Ohio on Septe

Was a celebrated American economist. He was born into a middle-class family in Kenton, Ohio on September 19, 1876 and died aged 52 in London on March 7, 1929, his life cut short by pneumonia during an influenza epidemic. He was then at the height of his i

Was an American mathematician and logician who made major contributions to mathematical logic and th

Was an American mathematician and logician who made major contributions to mathematical logic and the foundations of theoretical computer science. He is best known for the lambda calculus, Church's thesis and the Church-Rosser theorem.

Was an American zoologist and palaeontologist.He fought in the US Civil War, reaching the rank of Ca

Was an American zoologist and palaeontologist.He fought in the US Civil War, reaching the rank of Captain. Studied under Louis Agassiz. A proponent of Neo-Lamarckism with Edward Drinker Cope. He edited American Naturalist between 1867 and 1870. Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1870-1888. He established a laboratory for the study of Marine Biology in Annisquam, Massachusetts. The River Road building gave him access to the Annisquam River, a salt water estuary. This enterprise was moved to Woods Hole and became the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory. Hyatt was the father of famed sculptor Anna Hyatt Huntington. His other children were his daughter Harriet Randolph Hyatt Mayor, who was also a sculptor though less well known, and his son Alpheus Hyatt III.

Was a French mathematician. In 1849 he made Polignac's conjecture:

Was a French mathematician. In 1849 he made Polignac's conjecture:

Was a French-Swiss botanist, the son of the Swiss botanist A. P. de Candolle.He first devoted himsel

Was a French-Swiss botanist, the son of the Swiss botanist A. P. de Candolle.He first devoted himself to the study of law, but gradually drifted to botany and finally succeeded to his father's chair at the University of Geneva. He published a number of bo

Was a French mammalologist , ornithologist and carcinologist. He was English in origin and the son o

Was a French mammalologist , ornithologist and carcinologist. He was English in origin and the son of Henri Milne-Edwards and grandson of William Edwards who was a Jamaican planter who settled at Bruges (then in France).Milne-Edwards obtained a medical degree in 1859 and became assistant to his father at the Jardin des Plantes. He became professor of ornithology at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in 1876, devoting himself especially to fossil birds and deep-sea exploration. In 1881, he undertook with Léopold de Folin a survey of the Gulf of Gascony and worked aboard the 'Travailleur' and the 'Talisman' to trips to the Canaries, the Cape Verde Islands and the Azores. For this he received a gold medal of the Royal Geographical Society. He became Director of the museum in 1891.

Was an American mathematician who specialized in mathematical biology and numerical analysis, invent

Was an American mathematician who specialized in mathematical biology and numerical analysis, inventor of the Householder transformation and of Householder's method. Married to Belle Householder (died 1975), children: John, Jackie and remarried 1984 to Heidi Householder, née Vogg.

The descendant of a Cape Cod whaling family of English ancestry,[1] was an American astronomer and t

The descendant of a Cape Cod whaling family of English ancestry,[1] was an American astronomer and telescope maker. He was a portrait painter and engraver, but at the age of 40 become involved in telescope making. Using glass blanks made by Chance Brothers of Birmingham and Feil-Mantois of Paris, his firm Alvan Clark & Sons ground lenses for refracting telescopes, including the largest in the world at the time: the 18.5-inch (470 mm) at Dearborn Observatory at the Old University of Chicago (the lens was originally intended for Ole Miss), the 26-inch (660 mm) at the United States Naval Observatory, the 30-inch (760 mm) at Pulkovo Observatory (destroyed in the Siege of Leningrad;

Is a noted professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and the author of numerous books on ch

Is a noted professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and the author of numerous books on child psychiatry, with a particular focus on the raising of African American children.

Was an American psychologist whose ideas set the agenda for fifty years of research in the psycholog

Was an American psychologist whose ideas set the agenda for fifty years of research in the psychology of speech perception and laid the groundwork for modern computer speech synthesis and the understanding of critical issues in cognitive science. He took a biological perspective on language and his 'nativist' approach was often controversial as well as being influential. He was a professor of psychology at the University of Connecticut and of linguistics at Yale University. He was also President of Haskins Laboratories from 1975 through 1986. His paper on the "Perception of the Speech Code" in 1967 remains one of the most cited papers in the psychological literature. He is also known for his pioneering work with Dr. Franklin S. Cooper on the development of the reading machine for the blind in the early 1950s and for the development of the "motor theory" of speech perception with Ignatius Mattingly in the 1960s and 1970s. Along with his wife, Isabelle Liberman

Is a Dutch linguist, Indo-Europeanist and Hittitologist.He received his Ph.D. in 2007 at the Univers

Is a Dutch linguist, Indo-Europeanist and Hittitologist.He received his Ph.D. in 2007 at the University of Leiden with the thesis on Hittite. In over 1200 pages his dissertation describes the history of Hittite in the light of its Indo-European origin. It consists of two parts. Part One, Towards a Hittite Historical Grammar, contains a description of the Hittite phoneme inventory and a discussion of the sound laws and morphological changes that have taken place between the Proto-Indo-European and the Hittite language stage.

Is the best-known collector of the Brazilian Cerrado plant species of the XX century. He lives in It

Is the best-known collector of the Brazilian Cerrado plant species of the XX century. He lives in Ituiutaba, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil. He started his collection in 1943 when he was a teacher of Natural Sciences in the Instituto Marden, Ituiutaba. He collected most of his plant material in the cerrado vegetation of the States of Minas Gerais, Goiás, Maranhão and Pará. He collected also in the regions of the villages of Natividade, Porto Nacional and Filadelfia, at the time part of the State of Goiás, although now part of the state of Tocantins. Plant specimens from his collection are in several herbaria in Brazil and outside. Between 1943 and 2007 he collected 6008 plant specimens, several of them are considered new species and some were dedicated to him by famous Botanists.

Indian economist, philosopher, and a winner of the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences (Nobel

Indian economist, philosopher, and a winner of the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences (Nobel Prize for Economics) in 1998, "for his contributions to welfare economics" for his work on famine, human development theory, welfare economics, the underlying mechanisms of poverty, and political liberalism.

Served as an Associate Justice of the Philippine Supreme Court from 1979 until 1992. She was the sec

Served as an Associate Justice of the Philippine Supreme Court from 1979 until 1992. She was the second woman appointed to the High Court, filling the vacancy left by the retirement of the first female Supreme Court Justice, Cecilia Muñoz-Palma

Was an Indian astronomer.During the International Geophysical Year, observatories in Madrid, India,

Was an Indian astronomer.During the International Geophysical Year, observatories in Madrid, India, and Manila were responsible for monitoring solar effects. The Kodaikanal solar observatory in southern India performed this monitoring using their recently purchased solar telescope. Dr. Das was the director of the Kodaikanal observatory at this time. In 1960 he was responsible for installing a tower/tunnel telescope at the facility that would be used to perform some of the first ever helioseismology investigations.

Was a cognitive and mathematical psychologist, and a pioneer of cognitive science, a longtime collab

Was a cognitive and mathematical psychologist, and a pioneer of cognitive science, a longtime collaborator of Daniel Kahneman, and a key figure in the discovery of systematic human cognitive bias and handling of risk. Much of his early work concerned the foundations of measurement. He was co-author of a three-volume treatise, Foundations of Measurement (recently reprinted). His early work with Kahneman focused on the psychology of prediction and probability judgment. Later, he and Kahneman originated prospect theory to explain irrational human economic choices

Was a Romanian biologist and physician. She is considered to be a founding figure of gerontology and

Was a Romanian biologist and physician. She is considered to be a founding figure of gerontology and geriatrics in Romania. In 1952, under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Ana Aslan, the Geriatric Institute in Bucharest was founded. This Institute was the first of its kind in Romania and was recognized by the World Health Organization.

Is the first native Indonesian racecar driver. He contested the Formula 3000 series from 1999 throug

Is the first native Indonesian racecar driver. He contested the Formula 3000 series from 1999 through 2001 & champions of Asian F3 in 2005 season. He was out of racing for a couple of seasons before driving for A1 Team Indonesia in A1GP. As of the April 2 race in Shanghai, he had scored a best finish of 5th. In the World Series Lights he raced for a team sponsored by AC Milan Football Club. Ananda is the brother of another Indonesian driver, Moreno Soeprapto

Was an Armenian scholar, mathematician, and geographer. His most famous works are Geography Guide (‘Ashharatsuyts’ in Armenian), and Cosmography. His greatest claim to fame was the fact that the Earth was round, and that there was more to the heavens and

A Costa Rican zoologist, geologist and explorer.

A Costa Rican zoologist, geologist and explorer.

Was a Russian-born American Jewish mathematical psychologist. He contributed to general systems theo

Was a Russian-born American Jewish mathematical psychologist. He contributed to general systems theory, mathematical biology and to the mathematical modeling of social interaction and stochastic models of contagion.

Is a Ukrainian mathematician, and an academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine sinc

Is a Ukrainian mathematician, and an academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine since 1985. In 1956–1964 he worked at Kiev State University. in 1964–2002, he was at the Institute of Mathematics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukrain

Was born in Misheronsky, near Moscow, and died in Novosibirsk, USSR. He was a mathematician noted fo

Was born in Misheronsky, near Moscow, and died in Novosibirsk, USSR. He was a mathematician noted for his work on the decidability of various algebraic groups. Malcev algebras (generalisations of Lie algebras) are named after him.