Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter C

Roman Catholic bishop who received, together with José Ramos-Horta, the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize, for

Roman Catholic bishop who received, together with José Ramos-Horta, the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize, for their work "towards a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in East Timor."

An American scientist. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.Bustamante is professor of

An American scientist. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.Bustamante is professor of molecular and cell biology, physics, and chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, a position he has held since 1998. He received his B.S. degree from Cayetano Heredia University in Lima, his masters in biochemistry from San Marcos University, and his Ph.D. degree in biophysics from UC Berkeley, where he studied with Ignacio Tinoco, Jr. As a postdoctoral fellow at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Bustamante studied with Marc Maestre. Before moving to Berkeley, he was an HHMI investigator at the University of Oregon.

Was an Argentine astrophysicist.Varsavsky was born in Buenos Aires in 1933. After completing seconda

Was an Argentine astrophysicist.Varsavsky was born in Buenos Aires in 1933. After completing secondary studies in the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires, he settled in the United States. In the US, Varsavsky graduated in Physical Engineering in which he also obtained a Masters Degree from the University of Colorado. In 1959 he did his doctorate in Astronomy at the University of Harvard.In 1960, Carlos M. Varsavsky returned to Argentina where he joined the newly-created group of Astrophysics at the University of Buenos Aires and worked as Senior Lecturer in Physics until 1966. He was the founder and first director of the Argentine Institute of Radio Astronomy, founded in 1964, and President of the Association of Physics in Argentina. Furthermore, he participated in the construction of the largest radio telescope in the Southern Hemisphere, which is located in Villa Elisa, Buenos Aires.

An Argentine economist and was, from April 2008 to July 2009, the President's Minister of the Econom

An Argentine economist and was, from April 2008 to July 2009, the President's Minister of the Economy.Fernández was born in La Plata, Argentina, in 1954, and was raised in nearby City Bell. Enrolling at the prestigious University of La Plata, he received a degree in economics in 1979, specializing in public administration. Affiliated to the populist Justicialist Party, the new administration of Carlos Menem appointed him Director of National Budget Policy for Provincial Spending. Remaining in the post during the difficult transition of numerous important federal programs to provincial budgets, Fernández was appointed Undersecretary of Budgetary Policy for the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina's largest, in 1997 by Governor Eduardo Duhalde.[1]

Was an Argentine moral, legal and political philosopher.Nino began his academic activity in the earl

Was an Argentine moral, legal and political philosopher.Nino began his academic activity in the early 1970s, concentrating on some traditional issues in jurisprudence, such as the concept of a legal system, the interpretation of the law, the debate between legal positivism and natural law, and the concept of validity [1] After realizing the need to clarify the normative problems involved in some of those issues, he was led to embrace a model based on the explicit adoption of principles of justice and social morality, rejecting the predominant German-inspired "dogmatic" approach. [2] This signaled the beginning of his philosophical investigations, which were always oriented to practical issues, and marked by a distinctively analytical approach. His need to provide a liberal justification for criminal law practice thus lead him to moral philosophy, and to the development of an original "consensual" theory of punishment which combined the merits of the retributive and utilitarian (see deterrence) varieties while avoiding their respective difficulties [3] Similarly, the problems presented by the characterization of criminal conduct stimulated his work in the field of philosophy of action. [4]

Was an Argentine astronomer.He was an observer of variable stars, and organized amateur astronomers

Was an Argentine astronomer.He was an observer of variable stars, and organized amateur astronomers in South America. He founded the 'Asociación Argentina Amigos de la Astronomía'.

A Venezuelan scholar and expert on technology and socio-economic development most famous for her con

A Venezuelan scholar and expert on technology and socio-economic development most famous for her concept of Techno-Economic Paradigm Shifts and her theory of great surges, a further development of the Kondratieff waves.Perez is, since 2006, Professor of Technology and Socio-Economic Development at Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia. Since 2003, she is Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Financial Analysis and Policy (CFAP), Judge Institute of Management, University of Cambridge. She is also, permanently, Honorary Research Fellow at SPRU, University of Sussex, and Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the United Nation University's Institute of New Technologies, Maastricht, The Netherlands. She is particularly active as an international consultant and lecturer.

A molecular biologist at Johns Hopkins University, who discovered the enzyme telomerase in 1984 whil

A molecular biologist at Johns Hopkins University, who discovered the enzyme telomerase in 1984 while working with Elizabeth Blackburn. She pioneered research on the structure of telomeres, the ends of chromosomes.Greider grew up in Davis, California. She graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara, with a B.A. in biology in 1983. She completed her Ph.D. in molecular biology in 1987 at the University of California, Berkeley, under Elizabeth Blackburn. At Berkeley, Greider co-discovered telomerase, a key player in cancer, with Blackburn.

Was a Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist[2] who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of

Was a Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist[2] who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of Binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology (see History of ecology).The French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau sent him the message: "Tell him I know no greater man on earth."[3] The German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote: "With the exception of Shakespeare and Spinoza, I know no one among the no longer living who has influenced me more strongly."[3] Swedish author August Strindberg wrote: "Linnaeus was in reality a poet who happened to become a naturalist".[4]

Was a Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist[2] who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of

Was a Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist[2] who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of Binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology (see History of ecology).Linnaeus was born in the countryside of Småland, in southern Sweden. His father was the first in his ancestry to adopt a permanent last name; prior to that, ancestors had used the patronymic naming system of Scandinavian countries. His father adopted the Latin-form name Linnaeus after a giant linden tree on the family homestead. Linnaeus got most of his higher education at Uppsala University and began giving lectures of botany there in 1730. He lived abroad between 1735–1738 where he studied and also published a first edition of his Systema Naturae in the Netherlands.

Was an American statistician.Wright was born at Dunbarton, New Hampshire. He began to study law in 1

Was an American statistician.Wright was born at Dunbarton, New Hampshire. He began to study law in 1860, but in 1862 enlisted as a private in the 14th New Hampshire Volunteer Regiment to fight the American Civil War. He became colonel in 1864, and served

Was a Danish plant ecologist and plant physiologist, who pioneered the study of plant nutrition in s

Was a Danish plant ecologist and plant physiologist, who pioneered the study of plant nutrition in soils of different pH. He was born in Copenhagen and began studies of botany at the University of Copenhagen in 1910, at first with professor Eugenius Warming, then with professor Christen Raunkiær. His doctoral dissertation (1921) was on the influence of soil pH on the natural distribution of plants. He was then employed by the Carlsberg Laboratory as an assistant to the chemist S. P. L. Sørensen, later in his own lab. There, he worked on plant uptake of ions, especially iron, nitrogen fixation and calcicolous plants.

Was a Danish professor of classic philology and a Juris Doctor at the University of Copenhagen from

Was a Danish professor of classic philology and a Juris Doctor at the University of Copenhagen from 1926. He earned his Ph. D with an ethnographic study of the Sarakatsani Greeks. He later published studies on classical Greek and Latin literature and on Byzantine music. From 1935 he was the founding director of the edition series Monumenta Musicae Byzantinae. During the German occupation of Denmark from 1940 - 1945, he was the leader of a resistance group within the Danish Freedom Council whose task it was to assemble a list of Danish Nazis and Nazi collaborators to be prosecuted after the liberation.

Was a 19th and 20th century British philosopher and logician. He was professor of philosophy of mind

Was a 19th and 20th century British philosopher and logician. He was professor of philosophy of mind, and logic at the University College London.

Was a French amateur astronomer and selenographer. Gaudibert produced a map of the Moon in 1887. Und

Was a French amateur astronomer and selenographer. Gaudibert produced a map of the Moon in 1887. Under the direction of Camille Flammarion, Emile Bertaux subsequently produced a globe of the moon based on Gaudibert's lunar map.

Was a Danish anatomist who first described the "Bartholin's gland" in the 17th century. Born in Cope

Was a Danish anatomist who first described the "Bartholin's gland" in the 17th century. Born in Copenhagen.He came from an eminent family and started his medical studies in 1671 at the age of 16. In 1674, at the age of 19, the King appointed him as Professor of Philosophy. He described the glands that bear his name in 1677.

Was a Swiss botanist who wrote Pinax theatri botanici (1596), which described thousands of plants an

Was a Swiss botanist who wrote Pinax theatri botanici (1596), which described thousands of plants and classified them in a manner that draws comparisons to the later binomial nomenclature of Linnaeus. He also worked on human anatomical nomenclature.Jean and Gaspard were the sons of Jean Bauhin (1511-1582), a French physician who had to leave his native country on becoming a convert to Protestantism. Gaspard was born at Basel and studied medicine at Padua, Montpellier, and in Germany. Returning to Basel in 1580, he was admitted to the degree of doctor, and gave private lectures in botany and anatomy. In 1582 he was appointed to the Greek professorship in that university, and in 1588 to the chair of anatomy and botany. He was later made city physician, professor of the practice of medicine, rector of the university, and dean of his faculty.

Was a Danish-Norwegian mathematician.It was the mathematical aspect of surveying that led him to exp

Was a Danish-Norwegian mathematician.It was the mathematical aspect of surveying that led him to exploring the geometrical significance of complex numbers. His fundamental paper, Om directionens analytiske betegning, was published in 1799 by the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. Since it was in Danish, it passed almost unnoticed, and the same results were later independently found by Argand and Gauss.

Was an American physician and anatomist.He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, then on

Was an American physician and anatomist.He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, then on his return to the U.S. taught at the University of Pennsylvania, developing a set of anatomical models — human remains preserved by injecting them with wax — to assist with the teaching of anatomy. He was an early promoter of vaccination. During the yellow fever epidemic of 1793 he suffered an attack of the disease contracted while caring for his patients. He published A System of Anatomy in two volumes from 1811–1814.In 1787 he was elected to membership of the American Philosophical Society and from 1815 to 1818 he served as president.

Is an American feminist, scholar, lawyer, teacher, and activist.MacKinnon was the valedictorian of h

Is an American feminist, scholar, lawyer, teacher, and activist.MacKinnon was the valedictorian of her high school and thereafter became the third generation of her family to attend her mother's alma mater, Smith College

Is a prominent French philosopher, novelist, feminist, and literary critic. She received a degree in

Is a prominent French philosopher, novelist, feminist, and literary critic. She received a degree in philosophy from the prestigious Ecole Normale Supérieure, and studied under such luminaries as Claude Lévi-Strauss and Jacques Lacan, working in the fields of anthropology and psychoanalysis. A member of the school of French feminism, she has published books with Hélène Cixous and Julia Kristeva.

Is a French astronomer currently residing in Germany, known for her successful research activities i

Is a French astronomer currently residing in Germany, known for her successful research activities in several central areas of modern astrophysics. She was formerly president of the International Astronomical Union.[1] Educated at the University of Buenos Aires and at Harvard, she began her career at the California Institute of Technology and went on to work on cosmic rays, galactic gamma ray emission, and on work connected with the European Space Agency's Infrared Space Observatory.[2]

Is a French philosopher. She is currently professor in the Philosophy Department at the Université

Is a French philosopher. She is currently professor in the Philosophy Department at the Université Paris-X Nanterre and Visiting Professor in the Comparative Literature Department at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Was an English zoologist. He was an expert on the mammals and birds of Southeast Asia.In the early 1

Was an English zoologist. He was an expert on the mammals and birds of Southeast Asia.In the early 1900s Kloss accompanied the American naturalist William Louis Abbott in exploring the Andaman and Nicobar islands. From 1908 he worked under Herbert Christo

Was a British-born American geophysicist who trained at the University of British Columbia and the M

Was a British-born American geophysicist who trained at the University of British Columbia and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was a founder of Texas Instruments. With his wife Ida Green, he was a philanthropist who helped found the University of Texas at Dallas, Green College at the University of British Columbia, St. Mark's School of Texas, and Green College at the University of Oxford. They were also major contributors to the Cecil H. Green Library at Stanford University, and the Cecil & Ida Green Building for earth sciences at MIT (designed by I.M. Pei).