Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter F

Was an American astronomer.He worked at Yerkes Observatory and pioneered the use of photographic met

Was an American astronomer.He worked at Yerkes Observatory and pioneered the use of photographic methods to determine stellar parallaxes. He was director of Allegheny Observatory from 1905 to 1920 and Yale University Observatory from 1920 to 1941.He made major contributions to astrometry. He compiled and published the Yale Bright Star Catalogue.Asked how to say his name, he told The Literary Digest "The name is so difficult for those who do not speak German that I am usually called sles'in-jer, to rime with messenger. It is, of course, of German origin and means 'a native of Schlesien' or Silesia. In that language the pronunciation is shlayzinger, to rime with singer." (Charles Earle Funk, What's the Name, Please?, Funk & Wagnalls, 1936.)

Was a physician and herpetologist who lived in Sri Lanka and India.Wall was born in Colombo, Ceylon

Was a physician and herpetologist who lived in Sri Lanka and India.Wall was born in Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). His father worked there and was responsible for initiating the study of natural history on the island. Wall studied medicine in London and joined the Indian Medical Service in 1893.

Was an American demographer who contributed significantly to the development of the science. He was

Was an American demographer who contributed significantly to the development of the science. He was the founding director of the Office of Population Research at Princeton University, and later president of the Population Council. He was also the first di

Australian judge, was a Justice of the High Court of Australia

Australian judge, was a Justice of the High Court of Australia

Was a U.S. astronomer. He was born at Salem, Massachusetts, and educated at Massachusetts Institute

Was a U.S. astronomer. He was born at Salem, Massachusetts, and educated at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1873).He worked at the Allegheny Observatory from 1878 until 1895. In 1890 he became a professor at Western University of Pennsylvania. He then was acting director of the Ladd Observatory at Brown University from 1896 to 1897.His most important work was in measuring the temperature of the surfaces of the Moon and other planets using a bolometer. Samuel Pierpont Langley published in 1890 a widely read paper on the Moon observations, but for unknown reasons omitted Very's name from the list of authors. In 1891, Very published his own paper about the "Distribution of the Moon's Heat," which also included measurements taken during a lunar eclipse.

Was one of the pioneers of 20th century statistics. He was born in Manchester.Yates was the eldest o

Was one of the pioneers of 20th century statistics. He was born in Manchester.Yates was the eldest of five children, and the only boy, born to Edith and Percy Yates. His father was a seed merchant. He attended Wadham House, a private school, before gainin

An American molecular biologist. With Matthew Meselson, Stahl conducted the famous Meselson-Stahl ex

An American molecular biologist. With Matthew Meselson, Stahl conducted the famous Meselson-Stahl experiment showing that DNA is replicated by a semiconservative mechanism, meaning that each strand of the DNA serves as a template for the "replicated" strand.He is Emeritus Professor of Biology[1] at the University of Oregon's Institute of Molecular Biology in Eugene, Oregon.

Is the rector magnificus (academic president) of the University of Groningen and a linguist and prof

Is the rector magnificus (academic president) of the University of Groningen and a linguist and professor in the Department of Dutch, Frisian, and Lower Saxon with a specialty in semantics. His first degree was in general linguistics at the University of Amsterdam, and his PhD was completed at the University of Groningen in 1986 with the dissertation Categoriale grammatica en algebraïsche semantiek; een onderzoek naar negatie en polariteit in het Nederlands (Categorial grammar and algebraic semantics: An investigation of negation and polarity in Dutch). He was appointed professor of Dutch linguistics in Groningen in 1987,

Was a German mathematician who was famous for his work on non-Euclidean geometry.

Was a German mathematician who was famous for his work on non-Euclidean geometry.

Was a German-American anthropologist and a pioneer of modern anthropology who has been called the "F

Was a German-American anthropologist and a pioneer of modern anthropology who has been called the "Father of American Anthropology".[3] Like many such pioneers, he trained in other disciplines; he received his doctorate in physics, and did post-doctoral work in geography. He is famed for applying the scientific method to the study of human cultures and societies, a field which was previously based on the formulation of grand theories around anecdotal knowledge.[4]

Was a German linguist known for extensive comparative work on Indo-European languages.He was born at

Was a German linguist known for extensive comparative work on Indo-European languages.He was born at Mainz, but owing to the political disarray of the time, his parents moved to Aschaffenburg in Bavaria. There, he received a liberal education at the Lyceum, and Karl J. Windischmann drew his attention to the languages and literature of the East (Windischmann, along with Georg Friedrich Creuzer, Johann Joseph von Görres, and the brothers Schlegel, expressed great enthusiasm for Indian wisdom and philosophy). Moreover, Friedrich Schlegel's book, Über die Sprache und Weisheit der Indier (On the Speech and Wisdom of the Indians, Heidelberg, 1808), which had just begun to exert a powerful influence on the minds of German philosophers and historians, could not fail to stimulate also Bopp's interest in the sacred language of the Hindus.

Was a German zoologist who was born in Spandau. He studied mathematics and natural history at the Un

Was a German zoologist who was born in Spandau. He studied mathematics and natural history at the University of Berlin, and beginning in 1840 was an assistant to Martin Lichtenstein (1780-1857) at the Humboldt Museum of Natural History in Berlin. In 1849 he became a professor of zoology and natural history at the University of Bonn.

A German-born American psychiatrist, was one of the pioneers in the study of the genetic basis of ps

A German-born American psychiatrist, was one of the pioneers in the study of the genetic basis of psychiatric disorders. He developed the use of twin studies in the assessment of the relative roles of heredity and the environment in the pathogenesis of psychiatric disease.As a Jew, he fled Germany in 1933 for the United States. Paradoxically, he had been a student of Dr. Ernst Rüdin, one of the architects of racial hygiene policies in Nazi Germany.In 1944 he described a congenital endocrine condition (hypogonadotrophic hypogonadism with anosmia) that has come to be known as Kallmann's syndrome.

Was a German astronomer.He worked at the Heidelberg-Königstuhl Observatory from 1911 to 1914 while

Was a German astronomer.He worked at the Heidelberg-Königstuhl Observatory from 1911 to 1914 while working on his Ph.D. there, which he obtained in 1915. During this time Heidelberg was a center of asteroid discovery, and Kaiser discovered a number of asteroids during his time there.

Was a Hungarian-born aristocrat, adventurer, scholar, and paleontologist. He is widely regarded as o

Was a Hungarian-born aristocrat, adventurer, scholar, and paleontologist. He is widely regarded as one of the founders of paleobiology and Albanian studies.

Jewish theologian and philosopher.

Jewish theologian and philosopher.

Was an Austrian zoologist.Being interested in natural history, Steindachner took up the study of fos

Was an Austrian zoologist.Being interested in natural history, Steindachner took up the study of fossil fishes on the recommendation of his friend Eduard Suess. In 1860 he was appointed to the position of director of the fish collection at the Naturhistorisches Museum, a position which had remained vacant since the death of Johann Jakob Heckel.

As an English astronomer primarily remembered today for his contribution to the theory of stellar nu

As an English astronomer primarily remembered today for his contribution to the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis and his often controversial stance on other cosmological and scientific matters, in particular his rejection of the Big Bang hypothesis.

Was an American astronomer.He is best known for writing an influential paper (published in Astrophys

Was an American astronomer.He is best known for writing an influential paper (published in Astrophysical Journal from 1950 to 1955) in which he proposed the "icy conglomerate" hypothesis of comet composition (later called the "dirty snowball" hypothesis). The basic features of this hypothesis were later confirmed, however the exact amount (and thus the importance) of ices in a comet is an active field of research, with most of the recently obtained data pointing to a low contribution of ices to a comet's mass (dubbed the "icy dirtball" hypothesis).

Was an American linguist who specialized in the study of the Korean language and was the first presi

Was an American linguist who specialized in the study of the Korean language and was the first president of the International Association for Korean Language Education (IAKLE).A student of Zellig Harris, with whom he wrote "The phonemes of Kingwana-Swahili" in 1942, Lukoff received his bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1947, his master's from the same institution in 1948, and his doctorate, also from Penn, in 1954. After receiving his Ph.D., he joined the MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics to work on machine translation under Victor Yngve, where, in 1956, he wrote a seminal paper on generative phonology, "On accent and juncture in English," with Noam Chomsky and Morris Halle. He subsequently taught at Yonsei University in Seoul for several years, and spent the rest of his career at the University of Washington in Seattle until his retirement in 1989.

Trained at University College London, qualifying Member of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1838. He

Trained at University College London, qualifying Member of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1838. He was a distinguished surgeon in the Indian Civil Medical Service who became Professor of Medicine in the Bengal Medical College. After 30 years in India, w

Is a British mathematician, computer scientist, inventor, and naval historian. In Austria and German

Is a British mathematician, computer scientist, inventor, and naval historian. In Austria and Germany he is known as Bernhard von Neumann.Educated at The Royal Hospital School, and Birmingham University. Author of several papers, reports and books. Formerly Professor of Mathematics at the City University, London, and Chief Mathematician in the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency of the UK Ministry of Defence.

Was an English lepidopterist, entomologist and ornithologist.Godman is best known for co-authoring B

Was an English lepidopterist, entomologist and ornithologist.Godman is best known for co-authoring Biologia Centrali-Americanum (1879-1915) with Osbert Salvin. This was a 52 volume encyclopedia on the natural history of Central America. His other works included The Natural History of the Azores (1870) and a Monograph of the Petrels (1907-10).Godman was the third son of Joseph Godman, of Park Hatch, Surrey, and was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge. At Cambridge he became acquainted with Alfred Newton and Salvin. The custom of these ornithological friends to meet and talk over their recent acquisitions led to the foundation of the British Ornithologists' Union (BOU) in November 1857. Godman was Secretary of the BOU from 1870 to 1882 and from 1889 and 1897, and President from 1896.

Was a British medical officer and geneticist. In 1928, in what is today known as Griffith's experime

Was a British medical officer and geneticist. In 1928, in what is today known as Griffith's experiment, he discovered what he called a transforming principle, which is today known to be DNA.[1][2] He was born in Hale, England and attended Liverpool University where he studied genetics. In his younger days he worked for the Liverpool Royal Infirmary, the Thompson Yates Laboratory, and the Royal Commission on Tuberculosis.In 1910 he was hired by the British government to work for the Ministry of Health under Arthur Eastwood. The government spent money sparingly in times of expected war, so the laboratories Griffith worked in were primitive. However, his creativity and inquisitive mind allowed him to excel in his scientific exploration. One of his friends claimed that "he could do more with a kerosene tin and a primus stove than most men could do with a palace."

Was an American astronomer. He worked at Mount Wilson Observatory and won the Bruce Medal in 1940.Se

Was an American astronomer. He worked at Mount Wilson Observatory and won the Bruce Medal in 1940.Seares was born in Michigan in 1873 and grew up in Iowa and southern California. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree at the University of California and later studied in Paris and Berlin. Later Seares taught and researched comets and variable stars for eight years at the University of Missouri–Columbia (where Harlow Shapley studied under him). In 1909, Seares joined the Mount Wilson Observatory, where he remained for 36 years, 15 of them as assistant director.Seares served as president of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific in 1929.