Professional/specialist Famous Names

Was an ethnic Italian geographer.Gavazzi was the first professor for Geography at the University of

Was an ethnic Italian geographer.Gavazzi was the first professor for Geography at the University of Ljubljana where Anton Melik succeeded him. Gavazzi went in 1928 to the University of Zagreb.

Is an Argentine philosopher.Roig returned to Argentina, and in 1955 he began teaching philosophy at

Is an Argentine philosopher.Roig returned to Argentina, and in 1955 he began teaching philosophy at the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, with a special interest in local philosophers. Soon after, this interest expanded to national and Latin American philosophers.

A microeconomist working at Concordia University in Montreal,Canada. His current research is in the

A microeconomist working at Concordia University in Montreal,Canada. His current research is in the fields of Game theory, Industrial organization and applied Econometrics. His list of contributions to these and other areas of economics includes the following:

Considered the most important American botanist of the 19th century.[1] He was instrumental in unify

Considered the most important American botanist of the 19th century.[1] He was instrumental in unifying the taxonomic knowledge of the plants of North America. Of Gray's many works on botany, the most popular was his Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States, from New England to Wisconsin and South to Ohio and Pennsylvania Inclusive. This book, known simply as Gray's Manual, has gone through a number of editions with botanical illustrations by Isaac Sprague, and remains a standard in the field.He was a pupil of John Torrey, with whom he worked closely; they published the Flora of North America together, the first of many of Gray's works.

Was an American astronomer who is most famous for having discovered the moons of Mars (namely Deimos

Was an American astronomer who is most famous for having discovered the moons of Mars (namely Deimos and Phobos) in 1877. He determined the orbits of satellites of other planets and of double stars, the rotation of Saturn, and the mass of Mars.In 1856, he took a job at the Harvard College Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and turned out to be an expert computer of orbits. Hall became assistant astronomer at the US Naval Observatory in Washington DC in 1862, and within a year of his arrival he was made professor.

Was a Norwegian physician and biochemist who first described the disease named after him -- Folling'

Was a Norwegian physician and biochemist who first described the disease named after him -- Folling's disease -- which is better known outside of Norway as phenylketonuria or, for short, PKU. He was born in Kvam, Steinkjer.In 1934 at Rikshospitalet Dr. Folling saw a young woman named Borgny Egeland. She had two children, Liv and Dag, who had been normal at birth but subsequently developed mental retardation. When Dag was about a year old, the mother noticed a strong smell to his urine. Dr. Folling obtained urine samples from the children and, after many tests, he found that the substance causing the odor in the urine was phenylpyruvic acid. The children, he concluded, had excess phenylpyruvic acid in the urine, a condition called phenylketonuria (PKU).

Was a French Protestant theologian, son of Athanase Laurent Charles Coquerel. He studied theology at

Was a French Protestant theologian, son of Athanase Laurent Charles Coquerel. He studied theology at Geneva and at Strasbourg, and at an early age succeeded his uncle, C. A. Coquerel, as editor of Le Lien, a post which he held till 1870. In 1852 he took part in establishing the Nouvelle Revue de théologie, the first periodical of scientific theology published in France,

Was a Christian apologist who lived during the second half of the 2nd century of whom little is know

Was a Christian apologist who lived during the second half of the 2nd century of whom little is known for certain, besides that he was Athenian (though possibly not originally from Athens), a philosopher, and a convert to Christianity. There is some evidence that he was a Platonist before his conversion, but this is not certain.

Was a Norwegian mathematician known for his work in analytic number theory, and in the theory of aut

Was a Norwegian mathematician known for his work in analytic number theory, and in the theory of automorphic forms, in particular bringing them into relation with spectral theory.

Is a French astronomer and aeronaut, specialist in studies of the solar system and discoverer of Jan

Is a French astronomer and aeronaut, specialist in studies of the solar system and discoverer of Janus, a moon of Saturn. He studied at the University of Paris, obtaining a doctorate in physical sciences in 1955. Beginning in 1946, Dollfus worked as an astronomer at the Meudon Observatory, following his advisor and mentor Bernard Lyot. In particular, he directed the Laboratory of Solar System Physics there. Today he is currently an honorary astronomer at the Paris Observatory. Most of his work was carried out based on observations from the Pic du Midi Observatory

A French astronomer who co-discovered (40314) 1999 KR16 in 1999 whilst at La Silla Observatory in Ch

A French astronomer who co-discovered (40314) 1999 KR16 in 1999 whilst at La Silla Observatory in Chile. The Minor Planet Center erroneously lists her as "A. Dalsanti". In 2004 she was awarded a NASA Postdoctoral Fellowship in astrobiology at the Institute for Astronomy of the University of Hawaii in Honolulu.

A Puerto Rican American meteorologist for WWOR-TV (MY 9) in New York City. She is the daughter of le

A Puerto Rican American meteorologist for WWOR-TV (MY 9) in New York City. She is the daughter of legendary Latin percussionist Tito Puente. She also periodically fills in for Dave Price on CBS's The Early Show when Price vacations. Puente replaced ten year WWOR meteorologist Storm Field in January 2007 as the newest full time weatherperson. She joined Vanessa Alfano and John Krasting in the weather center for My9 News.She previously provided weather forecasts for CBS' Channel 2 News This Morning and CBS 2 News at Noon. On January 1, 2007 CBS hired John Elliott to take her position. Before WCBS-TV she worked as the weekend morning meteorologist for WNBC (NBC 4) since 1999. In the mid 1990s, she was a meteorologist at WJCL and WTGS television in Savannah, Georgia.

Was a Saint Petersburg born zoologist of German origin. He was the son of Abraham Krohn, the founder

Was a Saint Petersburg born zoologist of German origin. He was the son of Abraham Krohn, the founder of Russia's first brewery, who had left the island of Rügen to serve in the court of Catherine the Great. He was the uncle of the fennoman folklorist Julius Krohn.

Was a German mathematician and theoretical astronomer. He was born in Schulpforta, Saxony-Anhalt, Ge

Was a German mathematician and theoretical astronomer. He was born in Schulpforta, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany and died in Leipzig.He is best known for his discovery of the Möbius strip, a non-orientable two-dimensional surface with only one side when embedded in three-dimensional Euclidean space. It was independently discovered by Johann Benedict Listing around the same time. The Möbius configuration, formed by two mutually inscribed tetrahedra, is also named after him. Möbius was the first to introduce homogeneous coordinates into projective geometry. Möbius transformations, important in projective geometry, are not to be confused with the Möbius transform of number theory, which also bears his name. His interest was also in number theory, and the important Möbius function µ(n) and the Möbius inversion formula are named after him.

Was a distinguished Czech astronomer, theoretical physicist, and professor at Charles University in

Was a distinguished Czech astronomer, theoretical physicist, and professor at Charles University in Prague. He was the founder of the Astronomical Institute of the Czech University (1886). He was born in Žamberk to a commissioner of customs Jan Nepomuk Seydler and his wife, Antonia Sukova. He was a revered pedagogue and contributed significantly to astronomical studies, specifically, he elaborated sophisticated methods for the determination of orbits of minor planets. Appropriately, a minor planet is named after him.

Was a German astronomer who discovered several comets and asteroids.He discovered some comets, inclu

Was a German astronomer who discovered several comets and asteroids.He discovered some comets, including periodic comet 22P/Kopff and the non-periodic C/1906 E1.He discovered a number of asteroids, including notably the Trojan asteroids 617 Patroclus and 624 Hektor.

Was a German linguist active in the field of comparative linguistics, particularly relating to the B

Was a German linguist active in the field of comparative linguistics, particularly relating to the Baltic and Slavic languages.Leskien was born in Kiel. He studied philology at the universities of Kiel and Leipzig, receiving his doctorate from the latter in 1864. He taught Latin and Ancient Greek at the Thomasschule zu Leipzig from 1864-1866. In 1866 he began studying comparative linguistics under August Schleicher at the University of Jena. He completed his habilitation in 1867 and went on to lecture at the University of Göttingen. He was appointed as the außerordentlicher professor of comparative linguistics and Sanskrit at Jena in 1868. Two years later he was named as the außerordentlicher professor of Slavic philology at the University of Leipzig.

Was a German geographer widely acknowledged as the founder of rural settlement geography. Meitzen wa

Was a German geographer widely acknowledged as the founder of rural settlement geography. Meitzen was the Prussian special commissioner for land consolidation, concerned with redrawing property lines so as to reduce farm fragmentation.In this capacity, he traveled over much of the German countryside, becoming familiar with the agarian landscape. Not content to study only the field and cadastral patterns, he also gave detailed consideration to village types and folk architecture.He attended the first annual national meeting of German geographers in 1881 and read a paper on rural house types. Not an academician, Meitzen was nevertheless named honorary professor at the University of Berlin for many years.

Was a German linguist born in Meiningen (Duchy Saxe-Meiningen, southwest of Weimar in the Thuringian

Was a German linguist born in Meiningen (Duchy Saxe-Meiningen, southwest of Weimar in the Thuringian Forest). His great work was A Compendium of the Comparative Grammar of the Indo-European Languages, in which he attempted to reconstruct the Proto-Indo-European language.August Schleicher began his career studying theology and Indo-European, especially Slavic languages. Influenced by Hegel, he formed the theory that a language is an organism, with periods of development, maturity, and decline. In 1850 Schleicher completed a monograph systematically describing the languages of Europe, Die Sprachen Europas in systematischer Übersicht (The languages of Europe in systematic perspective). He explicitly represented languages as perfectly natural organisms that could most conveniently be described using terms drawn from biology e.g., genus, species, and variety.

Was a German ornithologist.Blasius belonged to a family of scientists: his father was the ornitholog

Was a German ornithologist.Blasius belonged to a family of scientists: his father was the ornithologist Johann Heinrich Blasius and his brother was the ornithologist Rudolf Heinrich Paul Blasius (1842-1907).

Was the only legitimate child of Lord Byron. She is widely known in modern times simply as Ada Lovel

Was the only legitimate child of Lord Byron. She is widely known in modern times simply as Ada Lovelace.She is mainly known for having written a description of Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the analytical engine. She is today appreciated as the "first programmer" since she was writing programs — that is, manipulating symbols according to rules—for a machine that Babbage had not yet built.

Was a French philosopher, a founder of the discipline of sociology and of the doctrine of positivism

Was a French philosopher, a founder of the discipline of sociology and of the doctrine of positivism. He may be regarded as the first philosopher of science in the modern sense of the term.[1]

Was a French astronomer who discovered 99 asteroids while working in Nice.His first discovery was th

Was a French astronomer who discovered 99 asteroids while working in Nice.His first discovery was the asteroid 267 Tirza in 1887. He photographed 433 Eros on the very night of its discovery by Gustav Witt, but was not able to act quickly enough before Witt announced his find.Although he started searching for asteroids in the era of visual detection, by 1891 Max Wolf had pioneered the use of astrophotography to drastically speed up the rate of detection of asteroids, and both Wolf and Charlois separately discovered far more asteroids than would have been feasible by visual detection.

Was a French geologist and paleontologist.Pomel was born in Issoire. He worked as a mines engineer i

Was a French geologist and paleontologist.Pomel was born in Issoire. He worked as a mines engineer in Algeria and became a specialist in north African vertebrate fossils. His works included Sur les Alcyonaires fossiles Miocenes de l'Algerie (1868) and Des races indigènes de l'Algérie et du rôle que leur reservent leurs aptitudes (1871).

Was a French school administrator and (amateur) economist. He was the father of Léon Walras, who wa

Was a French school administrator and (amateur) economist. He was the father of Léon Walras, who was deeply influenced by his father's view on economics. Auguste Walras convinced his son to give up his original literary aspirations to pursue economic studies. It was his idea to take rareté (scarcity) and utility as the source of value. He also encouraged him to use mathematical tools, probably under the inspiration of his former classmate Augustin Cournot..