Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter C

Was a Filipino jurist and the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court of the Philippines. She was

Was a Filipino jurist and the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court of the Philippines. She was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Ferdinand Marcos on October 29, 1973, and served until she reached the then-mandatory retirement age of 65.

Was an English-American astronomer who in 1925 was first to show that the Sun is mainly composed of

Was an English-American astronomer who in 1925 was first to show that the Sun is mainly composed of hydrogen, contradicting accepted wisdom at the time.She completed her studies but was not awarded a degree as Cambridge did not grant degrees to women at that time. After meeting Harlow Shapley, the Director of the Harvard College Observatory, who had just begun began a graduate program in astronomy, she left England for the United States in 1923. This was made possible by a fellowship to encourage women to study at the Observatory. The first student was Adelaide Ames (1922); the second student was Payne.

A Brazilian jurist, full professor of Philosophy of Law at University of São Paulo, twice former fo

A Brazilian jurist, full professor of Philosophy of Law at University of São Paulo, twice former foreign minister and a former commerce minister.Lafer worked for the administrations of Fernando Collor de Mello as Foreign Minister and for Fernando Henrique Cardoso as Foreign Minister and Commerce Minister[2]. He is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters since 2006, occupying the chair that belonged to Miguel Reale, Professor of Phiosophy of Law at University of São Paulo and President of FAPESP (Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo), a Financial Aid Institute for Research of São Paulo state.

Was an important Brazilian economist and one of the most distinguished intellectuals of his country

Was an important Brazilian economist and one of the most distinguished intellectuals of his country during the 20th century. His work focuses on development and underdevelopment and on the persistence of poverty in peripheral countries throughout the world. He is viewed, along with Raúl Prebisch, as one of the main formulators of economic structuralism, an economics school that is largely identified with CEPAL, which achieved prominence in Latin America and other developing regions during the 1960s and 1970's and sought to stimulate economic development through governmental intervention,

Was a 2nd century Greek philosopher and opponent of Christianity. He is known to us mainly through t

Was a 2nd century Greek philosopher and opponent of Christianity. He is known to us mainly through the reputation of his literary work, The True Word (Account, Doctrine or Discourse) (????? 'A??T??), almost entirely reproduced in excerpts by Origen in his counter-polemic Contra Celsum of 248, 70 or 80 years after Celsus wrote.

Was an Italian philosopher and politician best known for his treatise On Crimes and Punishments (176

Was an Italian philosopher and politician best known for his treatise On Crimes and Punishments (1764), which condemned torture and the death penalty, and was a founding work in the field of penology.

Was an American herpetologist, historian, and publisher. He was the last living grandson of United S

Was an American herpetologist, historian, and publisher. He was the last living grandson of United States President Ulysses S. Grant. He was married and had two children, one of whom survived him.Chapman Grant was the son of Jesse Root Grant, the youngest son of the 18th President of the United States Ulysses S. Grant. In 1892 he moved to San Diego with his parents. As a child, he spent time at the California Academy of Sciences, where he developed his interest in science. He graduated from Williams College in 1910. He became the assistant curator of entomology at the Children's Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences in September 1913. In November 1913, left the museum for a military career beginning on the Mexican border. He was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the 14th U.S. Cavalry.

Was a geologist who made and lost a fortune after discovering a rich uranium deposit in Utah during

Was a geologist who made and lost a fortune after discovering a rich uranium deposit in Utah during the Uranium boom of the early 1950s.Down on his luck, Steen read in the December 1949 issue of The Engineering and Mining Journal that the United States federal government had issued incentives for domestic uranium prospectors. Under the Atomic Energy Act of 1946, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission had the authority to withdraw lands from the private sector in order to examine them as possible sites for uranium mining. During World War II, the Manhattan Project had received most of its uranium from foreign sources in Canada and the Belgian Congo. However, it had also received some from vanadium miners in the American Southwest, where uranium was often a by-product of mining (uranium was not, before the atomic bomb, a valuable metal). There was a concern that the United States would not have enough domestic supply of uranium for its nuclear weapons program.

Was a French naturalist, artist and explorer.In 1801 he traveled to Australia as artist on the exped

Was a French naturalist, artist and explorer.In 1801 he traveled to Australia as artist on the expedition of Nicolas Baudin. With François Péron he took over the duties as naturalist after the death of the expedition's zoologist René Maugé. Together they collected over 100,000 zoological specimens. Between 1815 and 1837 he lived in the United States In 1833, he visited Vincennes, Indiana where he sketched the first known drawing of Grouseland, the mansion of William Henry Harrison. The mansion is today a National Historic Landmark. In the years 1825–1837 Lesueur lived in Indiana.

Was a British paleontologist and geologist in India, the British West Indies and Wales.

Was a British paleontologist and geologist in India, the British West Indies and Wales.

Was a French civil servant and scientist.In 1793 he was appointed head of the military transports in

Was a French civil servant and scientist.In 1793 he was appointed head of the military transports in the Pyrenees, after which he pursued technical studies at the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées and the École polytechnique. He was elected member of the Institut de France in 1813, was maire in the 5th arrondissement in Paris and secretary-general of the prefect of the Seine 1816-1825. He was made a baron in 1823.In 1839 he was appointed conservator for the Department of Maps at the Royal Library in Paris and in 1840 secretary for life in the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres. He was one of the founders of the Société entomologique de France in 1832.

Was an American astronomer.He graduated from Dartmouth and later became a professor there in 1865, r

Was an American astronomer.He graduated from Dartmouth and later became a professor there in 1865, remaining until 1877 when he went to Princeton.He observed solar eclipses and worked on spectroscopy of the Sun.He was a successful educator. He wrote a popular and widely-used series of astronomy textbooks, including Manual of Astronomy. Many years later in 1927, when Henry Norris Russell, Raymond Smith Dugan and John Quincy Stewart wrote their own two-volume textbook, they entitled it Astronomy: A Revision of Young’s Manual of Astronomy.

Was an English mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer who originated the conce

Was an English mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer who originated the concept of a programmable computer. Parts of his uncompleted mechanisms are on display in the London Science Museum. In 1991 a perfectly functioning difference engine was constructed from Babbage's original plans.

Was a French linguist from the Geneva School. He lived from 1865 to 1947 and was, like Ferdinand de

Was a French linguist from the Geneva School. He lived from 1865 to 1947 and was, like Ferdinand de Saussure, from Switzerland. His parents were Jean Gabriel, a teacher, and Henriette, the owner of a cloth store. Bally was married three times: first with Valentine Leirens, followed by Irma Baptistine Doutre, who was sent into a mental institution in 1915, and finally with Alice Bellicot. In addition to his now controversial edition of de Saussure's lectures, Course in General Linguistics, Charles Bally also played an important role in linguistics.From 1883 to 1885 he studied classic language and literature in Geneva. He continued his studies from 1886 to 1889 in Berlin where he was awarded a Ph.D. After his studies he worked as a private teacher for the royal family of Greece from 1889 to 1893. Bally returned to Geneva and taught at a business school from 1893 on and moved to the Progymnasium, a grammar school, from 1913 to 1939. At the same time,

Was an American ornithologist and golfer.Cory briefly attended Harvard and the Boston University Sch

Was an American ornithologist and golfer.Cory briefly attended Harvard and the Boston University School of Law but soon left to continue his travelling. In 1883 he was one of the forty-eight ornithologists invited to become Founders of the American Ornithologists' Union. When Cory's collection of 19,000 bird specimens became too large to keep in his house he donated them to The Field Museum in Chicago, and he was given the position of Curator of Ornithology. Cory's collection of 600 ornithological volumes were purchased by Edward E. Ayer in 1894, and in turn donated to the museum.[1] Cory lost his entire fortune in 1906, and took a salaried position at the museum as Curator of Zoology, remaining there for the rest of his life.

Was a French philosopher and writer on aesthetics. The reputation thus gained, confirmed by his tran

Was a French philosopher and writer on aesthetics. The reputation thus gained, confirmed by his translation of Horace (1750), led to his becoming a member of the Académie des Inscriptions (1754) and of the Académie Française (1761). His Cours de belles lettres (1765) was afterwards included with some minor writings in the large treatise, Principes de la littérature (1774).

Was a prominent American biologist and eugenicist. He was born in Stamford, Connecticut and went to

Was a prominent American biologist and eugenicist. He was born in Stamford, Connecticut and went to Harvard, getting a PhD in biology in 1892. He married in 1894 and died of pneumonia in 1944.Davenport was an instructor of Zoology at Harvard University. He became one of the most prominent American biologists of his age, pioneering new quantitative standards of taxonomy. Davenport had a tremendous respect for the biometric approach to evolution pioneered by Francis Galton and Karl Pearson, and sat on the editorial committee of Pearson's journal, Biometrika. However after the "re-discovery" of Gregor Mendel's laws of heredity, he became a strict convert and major participant in the Mendelian school of genetics.

Was a French philosopher. Charles B. Renouvier was born in Montpellier and educated in Paris at the

Was a French philosopher. Charles B. Renouvier was born in Montpellier and educated in Paris at the École Polytechnique. He took an early interest in politics. Renouvier never held public office, spending his time writing away from public scrutiny.

Was a French economist and historian, founder of the Center for the Study of Modes of Industrializat

Was a French economist and historian, founder of the Center for the Study of Modes of Industrialization (CEMI : "Centre pour l'Étude des Modes d'Industrialisation") at the Sorbonne), economic advisor to the governments of several developing countries during the period of decolonization. He was very influential in France's New Left, and considered one of "the most visible Marxists in the capitalist world." (Le Monde, April 4, 1972), in France as well as in Spain, Italy, Latin America, and India.

Swiss naturalist and philosophical writer, was born at Geneva, of a French family driven into Switze

Swiss naturalist and philosophical writer, was born at Geneva, of a French family driven into Switzerland by the religious persecution in the 16th century.He made law his profession, but his favourite pursuit was the study of natural science. The account of the ant-lion in Noël-Antoine Pluche's Spectacle de la nature, which he read in his sixteenth year, turned his attention to insect life. He procured RAF de Réaumur's work on insects, and with the help of live specimens succeeded in adding many observations to those of Réaumur and Pluche. In 1740, Bonnet communicated to the Academy of Sciences a paper containing a series of experiments establishing what is now termed parthenogenesis in aphids or tree-lice, which obtained for him the honour of being admitted a corresponding member of the academy. In 1741, he began to study reproduction by fusion and the regeneration of lost parts in the freshwater hydra and other animals;

Was a French mathematician and confrère of the Encyclopaedists. He was born at Tartaras, Loire, and

Was a French mathematician and confrère of the Encyclopaedists. He was born at Tartaras, Loire, and died in Paris.

Was a lawyer and United States federal judge.Born in Fallon, Nevada, he worked his way through colle

Was a lawyer and United States federal judge.Born in Fallon, Nevada, he worked his way through college at the University of Florida and completed his law degree there in 1935. He immediately set up his private law practice in West Palm Beach, Florida, and was named Florida's assistant state attorney general in 1942. That same year, however, his career was interrupted when he left to serve as an aviator in the United States Navy during World War II.

Is a noted philosopher of the Straussian school and currently a professor of political philosophy at

Is a noted philosopher of the Straussian school and currently a professor of political philosophy at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Was a New Zealand zoologist, the first rector to be appointed in Australasia [1], and the first pers

Was a New Zealand zoologist, the first rector to be appointed in Australasia [1], and the first person to be awarded a D.Sc. degree in New Zealand [2].He entered Canterbury College in 1875 as an unmatriculated student, and matriculated three years later. In 1881, he gained an M.A., with first class honours, having been taught by Frederick Wollaston Hutton, who inspired him to take up biology, especially the study of crustaceans, which had been little studied in New Zealand up to that time [4]. Chilton's first scientific publication followed that same year, when he described three new species of crustacean (two crabs and one isopod) from Lyttelton Harbour and Lake Pupuke [6]. He surprised the scientific world later that year by describing four species of amphipod and isopod from groundwaters at the family farm in Eyreton [7][8]. He went on to discover the isopod Phreatoicus typicus in the same location [9], the first example ever described of the suborder Phreatoicidea [7], the "earliest derived isopod[s]"

Was a judge in Hong Kong.Born Charles Arthur Ching into an intellectual family in Hong Kong, Ching w

Was a judge in Hong Kong.Born Charles Arthur Ching into an intellectual family in Hong Kong, Ching was educated in Hong Kong and England. He was a scholar both at King's College, Taunton and at University College, Oxford, where he graduated with honors in jurisprudence.After passing his bar exam in 1959, Ching commenced his practice of law in Hong Kong, and was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1974. During this period, he was regarded by some as the most successful barrister in Hong Kong's history.Ching was later appointed to the Court of Appeal in 1995 and the Court of Final Appeal in 1997, where he served with distinction. He resigned in 2000 due to health reasons and died soon after. A scholarship named after him was set up by the Hong Kong Bar Association. Throughout his career both as advocate and as judge Mr. Justice Ching was an advocate for the merging of the legal professions in Hong Kong (barristers and solicitors).