Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter B

A British astronomer, the longtime director of the Minor Planet Center (MPC) at the Harvard-Smithson

A British astronomer, the longtime director of the Minor Planet Center (MPC) at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.He specializes in celestial mechanics and astrometry, collecting data on the positions of asteroids and comets and computing their orbits, often from minimal observational information and providing their future positions on International Astronomical Union (IAU) circulars. In addition to serving as MPC director since 1978, he served as the director of the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams (CBAT) from 1968 to 1999.Marsden has helped recover once-lost comets and asteroids. Some asteroid and comet discoveries of previous decades were "lost" because not enough observational data had been obtained at the time to determine a reliable enough orbit to know where to look for re-observation at future dates. Occasionally, a newly discovered object turns out to be a rediscovery of a previously lost object,

Was an early naturalist and ethnologist working in British India where he was an English civil serva

Was an early naturalist and ethnologist working in British India where he was an English civil servant.He went to study at Haileybury and showed an aptitude for languages. At the end of his first term (May 1816) he obtained a prize for Bengali. He passed Haileybury with a gold medal.[3]At the age of seventeen he travelled to India as a writer in the British East India Company. He was sent to Kathmandu in Nepal as Assistant Commissioner in 1819, becoming British Resident in 1833. He travelled in the Kumaon region during 1819-20 He studied the Nepalese people, producing a number of papers on their languages, literature and religion.

An independent research biologist[2], author, and lecturer, who publishes on scientific issues for t

An independent research biologist[2], author, and lecturer, who publishes on scientific issues for the general public. He has also been a television personality for more than 40 years.Ford has campaigned on the mis-use of forensic data in courts [4] and the misuse of dangerous germs[vague], which have resulted in new laws being passed.[citation needed] Ford's current research interests include e-learning [5] [6], for which he is based at the University of Leicester.Ford's other publications range from microbial research [7] and elucidating newly threatening infections [8] to examining scientists' dissatisfaction with their lot [9] . Other areas of his interests are the invention of a space microscope commissioned by Brunel University,

Professor of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University, MacWhinney co-founded the CHILDES (Child Lang

Professor of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University, MacWhinney co-founded the CHILDES (Child Language Data Exchange System) Project in 1984 with Catherine Snow. He also directs the TalkBank System for the study of conversational interaction. From 1978 to present, MacWhinney has developed a stream of pioneering programs included the Child Language Data Exchange System (CHILDES), Talkbank, PsyScope - an experimental control system for the Macintosh and STEP - System for Teaching Experimental Psychology for improving psychological and linguistic research. He is also a designer of E-Prime.

A prominent American economist and economic forecaster.He holds an M.B.A. from Northwestern Universi

A prominent American economist and economic forecaster.He holds an M.B.A. from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management, and a B.A. in Economics from the University of Montana. He began his career in 1982 at the Harris Bank in Chicago. He served as Vice President and Economist for the Chicago Corporation and then as Senior Vice President and Chief Economist for Griffin, Kubik, Stephens, & Thompson, a Chicago Investment Bank. He is now the Chief Economist at First Trust Advisors L.P, a financial services firm headquartered in Lisle, Illinois.

Is a French mathematician and computer scientist. She entered the École Normale Supérieure de Jeun

Is a French mathematician and computer scientist. She entered the École Normale Supérieure de Jeunes Filles in 1970, and received her PhD in 1986 at the University of Caen (Lattice reduction algorithms in small dimensions). She is Directrice de Recherche at the French CNRS, at Université de Caen[1], since 2001 and specialized in computational number theory[2] and analysis of algorithms. Amongst the algorithms she had studied, are the celebrated LLL algorithm used for basis reductions in Euclidean lattice and the different Euclidean algorithms to determine GCD. The main tool used to achieve her results is the so called dynamical analysis. Loosely speaking, it is a mix between analysis of algorithms and dynamical systems. Brigitte Vallée greatly contributed to develop this method.

Was a Polish "Messianist" philosopher, pedagogist, journalist and Freemason, and the chief represent

Was a Polish "Messianist" philosopher, pedagogist, journalist and Freemason, and the chief representative of the Polish Messianist "national philosophy."[1]He published his first work in 1837 in German, but from 1842 he wrote only in Polish, beginning with Chowanna, czyli system pedagogiki narodowej jako umiejetnosci wychowania, nauki i oswiaty, slowem wyksztalcenia naszej mlodziezy (Chowanna, or the System of National Pedagogy as the Science of Education and Instruction, in a Word, of Educating Our Youth).[3]

A professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, and a s

A professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, and a senior scientist at Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute (CHORI). He is the inventor of the Ames test, a system for easily and cheaply testing the mutagenicity of compounds.His research focuses on cancer and aging and he has authored over 500 scientific publications. He is among the few hundred most-cited scientists in all fields.Ames' current research includes identifying agents that delay the mitochondrial decay of aging, understanding the role of mitochondrial decay in aging, particularly in the brain, optimizing micronutrient intakes in the population to prevent disease, malnutrition, and obesity. He is also interested in mutagens as they relate to cancer prevention and aging.

Was a Professor of Earth and Planetary Science at the University of California, Berkeley. Professor

Was a Professor of Earth and Planetary Science at the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Bolt was a seismologist known as pioneer of engineering seismology. He served for 15 years on the California Seismic Safety Committee leading public debate on earthquake safety in that state, and acted as a consultant on major projects throughout the world. As well, Bolt published a number of popular and technical books on seismology.He studied at the University of Sydney obtaining his Bachelors Degree in 1952, Masters Degree in 1955 and a Doctorate in Applied Mathematics in 1959. He also lectured at Sydney University in Mathematics but developed an interest in mathematical modelling of the earth's interior. He obtained a D. Sc from Sydney University in 1972 while working at Berkeley. After visiting the Lamont Geological Observatory in New York, he visited the Department of Geodesy and Geophysics at Cambridge University where he met Professors Perry Byerly and John Verhoogen of UC Berkeley who invited him there.

Was an American geologist. He is most famous as being the leader of a team from Columbia University

Was an American geologist. He is most famous as being the leader of a team from Columbia University which mapped the Mid-Atlantic Ridge during the 1950s.He was born in Vinton, Iowa, and in 1947 received his B.A. from the University of Iowa (although the Smithsonian and others often mistakenly refer to Iowa State University); in 1952 he received his M.A. from Columbia University, and in 1957 his Ph.D. Heezen died in 1977 during a research cruise to study the Mid-Atlantic Ridge near Iceland aboard the NR-1 submarine[1].

A geneticist at the University of Chicago. He is also the founder of the Center for Stem Cell Biolog

A geneticist at the University of Chicago. He is also the founder of the Center for Stem Cell Biology and Tissue Engineering at Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China. His previous research specialized in human genetics and evolutionary genetics, especially human sex chromosome evolution and the genetic basis that underlies the dramatic evolutionary changes of the human brain. Lahn's current research interests include stem cell biology and epigenetics. His research on the microcephalin gene led to a hypothesis that Neanderthals may have contributed to the recent development of the human brain.[1] His claim that variants of two brain size genes might have been favored by natural selection in the recent human history has provoked controversy.[2]

German theologian, philosopher and historian. Bauer investigated the sources of the New Testament an

German theologian, philosopher and historian. Bauer investigated the sources of the New Testament and controversially concluded that early Christianity owed more to Greek philosophy (Stoicism) than to Judaism.[citation needed] Starting in 1840, he began a series of controversial works arguing that Jesus was a myth, a second century fusion of Jewish, Greek, and Roman theology

Was a leading Italian-American experimental physicist. He made major contributions to cosmic ray and

Was a leading Italian-American experimental physicist. He made major contributions to cosmic ray and particle physics from 1930 through the 1950s, and pioneered X-ray astronomy and space plasma physics in the 1960s.After receiving the doctorate degree from the University of Bologna, he began his career in 1928 as assistant at the Physics Institute of the University of Florence where he made his first discoveries regarding the nature of cosmic rays. In 1932 he was called to the University of Padua as professor of experimental physics. There, in addition to teaching and research, Rossi planned the new Physics Institute of the University and oversaw its construction. In the fall of 1938 he was expelled from his position as a result of the racial decrees of the fascist state. Rossi was Jewish and so was his wife, Nora Lombroso (granddaughter of anthropologist, Cesare Lombroso), so they had to leave Italy and traveled to America with brief stays in Copenhagen

Was a German fishery scientist, credited with being the founder of fish pathology.and studied Natura

Was a German fishery scientist, credited with being the founder of fish pathology.and studied Natural Sciences in Königsberg followed by a habilitation thesis in Munich, for which he carried out limnologic studies on East Prussian lakes. He obtained a position at the Zoological Institute of Munich as a university lecturer and in 1891 acquired citizenship of the Kingdom of Bavaria. In 1894 he was appointed as a Curator of the Bavarian Museums comparative anatomy collection. In 1896 he became a lecturer for Ichthyology at the veterinary university of Munich. In 1898 he was awarded an extraordinary professorship for Zoology and Ichthyology and the chair of a full professor in 1908. During his career, he was also director of the "Royal Bavarian Research Station for Fisheries" and the "Royal Bavarian Research Station for Fish-Farming"

A Swiss economist and a professor at the University of Zurich. He is one of the world's leading welf

A Swiss economist and a professor at the University of Zurich. He is one of the world's leading welfare economists. He may be best known for his critique of Homo economicus or economic man, arguing that it places excessive emphasis on extrinsic motivation rather than intrinsic motivation.In 2004 he was invited as one of ten experts for the Copenhagen Consensus sponsored by The Economist and funded by the Danish government to establish priorities for advancing global development. Frey co-founded the Center for Research in Economics Management and the Arts (CREMA) in Switzerland and acts as its research director. He has been the managing editor of the journal Kyklos since 1969 and has served on the editorial board of many other economic publications. Frey has written, co-written or edited more than a dozen books and has written more than 350 journal articles, mostly in economics journals, but also in political science, sociology and psychology.

Was a German-born mathematician and physicist who made important contributions in space technology,

Was a German-born mathematician and physicist who made important contributions in space technology, ballistic missile research, satellites, antimatter, and many other areas. A voracious reader as a child, he often read half a dozen library books each week

A British geneticist. He is professor emeritus of genetics at the University of Nottingham Clarke is

A British geneticist. He is professor emeritus of genetics at the University of Nottingham Clarke is particularly noted for his work on apostatic selection and other forms of frequency-dependent selection, and work on polymorphism in snails, much of it done during the 1960s. Later, he studied molecular evolution. He made the case for natural selection as an important factor in the maintenance of molecular variation, and in driving evolutionary changes in molecules through time. In doing so, he questioned the over-riding importance of random genetic drift advocated by King, Jukes, and Kimura. With Dr. JJ Murray Jnr (University of Virginia), he carried out an extensive series of studies on speciation in land snails of the genus Partula inhabiting the volcanic islands of the Eastern Pacific. These studies illuminated the genetic changes that take place during the origin of species.

An associate professor of economics at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. He received his

An associate professor of economics at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. He received his B.S. in economics from University of California, Berkeley and his Ph.D. from Princeton University. His professional work has been devoted to the philosophies of libertarianism and free-market capitalism and anarchism (he is the author of the famous Anarchist Theory FAQ). He has published in American Economic Review, Public Choice, and the Journal of Law and Economics, among others. He is a blogger at EconLog along with Arnold Kling, and occasionally has been a guest blogger at Marginal Revolution with two of his colleagues at George Mason, Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok. He is an Adjunct Scholar of the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C.

Is an Australian astronomer and former Young Australian of the Year

Is an Australian astronomer and former Young Australian of the Year

Was a German jurist. He studied at Göttingen, Heidelberg and Berlin. He was appointed professor of

Was a German jurist. He studied at Göttingen, Heidelberg and Berlin. He was appointed professor of civil law at Basel in 1846, at Rostock in 1847, and from 1853 he filled that chair at the University of Jena. He was a pupil of Savigny. He combined the his

Was an American gastroenterologist and one of the first to describe the disease of which he is the n

Was an American gastroenterologist and one of the first to describe the disease of which he is the namesake, Crohn's disease.In 1932, Dr. Crohn and his two colleagues, Dr. Leon Ginzburg and Dr. Gordon D. Oppenheimer, published an important paper describin

Was a Bengali research worker on ethnic languages. He was also a renowned educationist and a poet. H

Was a Bengali research worker on ethnic languages. He was also a renowned educationist and a poet. His major contribution to linguistics was in finding out some basic relationship between Santali and the Bengali language. He showed how the Bengali language has got some unique characteristics, which are absent in other Indian languages, under the influence of Santali. His contribution was fundamental in nature in the origin and development of the Bengali language and provided scopes of research in newer horizons in liguistics.