Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter G

Was a French philosopher and historian of science. Gaston Milhaud studied mathematics with Gaston Da

Was a French philosopher and historian of science. Gaston Milhaud studied mathematics with Gaston Darboux at the École Normale Supérieure. In 1881 he took a teaching post at the University of Le Havre. In 1891 he became professor of mathematics at Montpellier University, and in 1895 became professor of philosophy there.[1] In 1909 a chair in the history of philosophy in its relationship to the sciences was created for him at the Sorbonne. Milhaud's successor in the chair was Abel Rey.

Was a French astronomer. From 1899 until 1903 he observed Mars at the Meudon Observatory and reporte

Was a French astronomer. From 1899 until 1903 he observed Mars at the Meudon Observatory and reported some details visible on its surface. In contrast to other observers at that time he did not see any canal-like features.

Is a Brazilian engineer, mathematician and statistician who has made significant contributions to th

Is a Brazilian engineer, mathematician and statistician who has made significant contributions to the theory of statistical inference, mainly through applications of asymptotic theory. Currently he is Adjoint Professor at Federal Rural University of Perna

Was a Danish astronomer and doctor. Sasceride worked as an assistant to Tycho Brahe after studying u

Was a Danish astronomer and doctor. Sasceride worked as an assistant to Tycho Brahe after studying under him. It is believed[1] that the following words were written by Sasceride to Brahe: Quia adhuc aliquid superest spatii, quae sequuntur paucula, sic expetente typographo, subiungi permisi ex literis cuiusdam medicinae Doctoris, Patavii commorantis, ad quendam studiosum Danum.

Was an Italian astronomer, lens-maker, and proponent of the experimental approach to science.He is b

Was an Italian astronomer, lens-maker, and proponent of the experimental approach to science.He is best known for his observation, made around 1667, that the second brightest star (called Algol in Arabic) in the constellation of Perseus varied in brightness. It is likely that others had observed this effect before, but Montanari was the first named astronomer to record it. The star's names in Arabic, Hebrew and other languages, all of which have a meaning of "ghoul" or "demon", imply that its unusual behaviour had long been recognised. In the Western world, earlier observers may have been inhibited from publishing by the insistence of the Christian church that the universe was immutable.

Is an Australian philosopher and feminist

Is an Australian philosopher and feminist

Was a French Roman Catholic theologian, humanist and controversialist. After studying the humanities

Was a French Roman Catholic theologian, humanist and controversialist. After studying the humanities at Orléans, he went to Paris where he became tutor of Claude d'Aubespine, afterwards secretary of state. Here he became acquainted with Thomas Lupset, an Englishman, whom he later followed to England, where he was charged with the education of a brother of Cardinal Reginald Pole. He accompanied his scholar to Rome, where he remained some time in the house of Cardinal Pole, occupying himself chiefly with the Latin translation of various Greek Fathers.

Is the oldest of the three Bodine brothers (Brett Bodine and Todd Bodine) who are all NASCAR drivers

Is the oldest of the three Bodine brothers (Brett Bodine and Todd Bodine) who are all NASCAR drivers. Bodine currently lives in Cornelius, North Carolina.Bodine's racing career seemed to be on track right from the start as his father and grandfather, Eli Bodine Jr. and Sr. built Chemung Speedrome just a year after he was born.

Is a British born informatician most noted for his work on the mathematics and applications of neura

Is a British born informatician most noted for his work on the mathematics and applications of neural networks, and their relationship to information theory.Hinton graduated from Cambridge in 1970, with a Bachelor of Arts in Experimental Psychology, and from Edinburgh in 1978, with a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence.

A linguist specialising in the study of English. (The surname Pullum is pronounced /'p?l?m/.) He is

A linguist specialising in the study of English. (The surname Pullum is pronounced /'p?l?m/.) He is Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh.Geoffrey Pullum had, by his own admission, a very mediocre academic career before university, ending in his leaving secondary school early at age 16. After working in several jobs and performing on keyboards (under the name Jeff Wright) as part of the rock band Geno Washington and the Ram Jam Band, he enrolled in the University of York in 1968, graduating in 1972 with a Bachelor of Arts with first class honours. In 1976 he completed a PhD in linguistics at University College London.

An American linguist and a professor at the UC Berkeley School of Information. As a linguist, he is

An American linguist and a professor at the UC Berkeley School of Information. As a linguist, he is best known for his work on lexical semantics, in particular on the phenomena of polysemy, deferred reference and indexicality. He has also written extensively about the cultural and social implications of new technologies. Nunberg is currently popularly known for his work with the Becky Awards.Nunberg has been commenting on language, usage, and society for National Public Radio's Fresh Air program since 1988. His commentaries on language also appear frequently in The New York Times and other publications. He is chair of the American Heritage Dictionary usage panel. His books for general audiences included The Way We Talk Now: Commentaries on Language and Culture from NPR's Fresh Air, Going Nucular: Language,

Was a French Benedictine monk, writer and cardinal. During all his lifetime he showed a great attach

Was a French Benedictine monk, writer and cardinal. During all his lifetime he showed a great attachment to the Holy See. Thus, in 1094, he went to Rome in order to help Pope Urban II (1088-99) to take possession of the Lateran, still held by the faction of the antipope Clement III (1080-1100); the money which he offered to the custodian brought about the surrender.

An Australian born human rights lawyer, academic, author and broadcaster. He holds dual Australian a

An Australian born human rights lawyer, academic, author and broadcaster. He holds dual Australian and British citizenship.Geoffrey Robertson is joint head of Doughty Street Chambers. He serves as a Master of the Bench at the Middle Temple, a recorder and visiting professor at Queen Mary, University of London.Geoffrey Robertson was born in Australia and grew up in the Sydney suburb of Eastwood, attending Epping Boys' High School. He obtained his law degree from the Sydney University Law School before winning a Rhodes Scholarship to study at Oxford.

Professor of Natural Language Computing in the Department of Informatics, University of Sussex, Engl

Professor of Natural Language Computing in the Department of Informatics, University of Sussex, England.He was educated at Bristol Grammar School and graduated in Oriental studies from St John's College, Cambridge, followed by study at Yale University in the Linguistics and Engineering & Applied Science departments.[1]His academic career has included work in Oriental languages, linguistics and computing, with side interests in philosophy and political and economic thought. He lectured at the London School of Economics, the University of Lancaster and the University of Leeds before moving to Sussex in 1991. [1]

Was an Australian statistician.Watson was born in Bendigo, Victoria in 1921. He studied at the Unive

Was an Australian statistician.Watson was born in Bendigo, Victoria in 1921. He studied at the University of Melbourne, and received his PhD at the North Carolina State University in 1951. After taking positions at the University of Melbourne, the Austral

Famous for discovering more extrasolar planets than anyone else, 70 out of the first 100 to be disco

Famous for discovering more extrasolar planets than anyone else, 70 out of the first 100 to be discovered, along with R. Paul Butler and Debra Fischer. He also confirmed Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz's discovery of the first extrasolar planet 51 Pegasi b. Other achievements have included discovering the first multiple planet system around a star similar to our own (Upsilon Andromedae), the first transiting planet around another star (HD209458b), the first extrasolar planet orbiting beyond 5 AU (55 Cancri d), and the first Neptune-sized planets (Gliese 436b and 55 Cancri e).

Was a German palaeontologist and zoologist.Goldfuss was born at Thurnau near Bayreuth. He was educat

Was a German palaeontologist and zoologist.Goldfuss was born at Thurnau near Bayreuth. He was educated at Erlangen, where he graduated Ph.D. in 1804 and became professor of zoology in 1818. He was subsequently appointed professor of zoology and mineralogy at the University of Bonn.

Was a German botanist, traveller in East Central Africa and ethnologist.He was born at Riga, Latvia,

Was a German botanist, traveller in East Central Africa and ethnologist.He was born at Riga, Latvia, then part of the Russian Empire. He was educated at the universities of Heidelberg, Munich and Berlin (1856-1862), where he particularly devoted himself to botany and palaeontology. Commissioned to arrange the collections brought from the Sudan by Freiherr von Barnim and Dr Hartmann, his attention was directed to that region; and in 1863 he travelled round the shores of the Red Sea, repeatedly traversed the district between that sea and the Nile, passed on to Khartum,

A German mathematician. He is best known as the creator of set theory, which has become a fundamenta

A German mathematician. He is best known as the creator of set theory, which has become a fundamental theory in mathematics. Cantor established the importance of one-to-one correspondence between sets, defined infinite and well-ordered sets

Was a German mathematician, born in Russia. He is best known as the creator of set theory, which has

Was a German mathematician, born in Russia. He is best known as the creator of set theory, which has become a fundamental theory in mathematics. Cantor established the importance of one-to-one correspondence between sets, defined infinite and well-ordered

Was a German economist and founder of the chartalist school of monetary theory, which takes the stat

Was a German economist and founder of the chartalist school of monetary theory, which takes the statist stance on money, claiming that it must have no intrinsic value and strictly be used as governmentally-issued token i.e. fiat money.

Was a Finnish philosopher, who succeeded Ludwig Wittgenstein as professor at the University of Cambr

Was a Finnish philosopher, who succeeded Ludwig Wittgenstein as professor at the University of Cambridge. He published in English, Finnish, German, and in his mother tongue Swedish. He was a descendant of a noble Swedish-Finnish lineage of Scottish descen

An Austrian-born mathematical logician who has studied and worked in Great Britain and America. Krei

An Austrian-born mathematical logician who has studied and worked in Great Britain and America. Kreisel came from a Jewish background; his family sent him to England before the Anschluss, where he studied at the University of Cambridge and then, during World War II, worked on military subjects. After the war he returned to Cambridge and received his doctorate. He taught at the University of Reading until 1954 and then worked at the Institute for Advanced Study from 1955 to 1957. Subsequently he taught at Stanford University and the University of Paris. Kreisel was appointed a professor at Stanford University in 1962 and remained on the faculty there until he retired in 1985.[1][2]

Was a Norwegian marine biologist.Like his father, Michael, Georg Sars was a marine taxonomist, and i

Was a Norwegian marine biologist.Like his father, Michael, Georg Sars was a marine taxonomist, and is credited with the discovery of a number of new species, particularly mysids and ostracods.Michael Sars was commissioned by the Norwegian government to study the variability in catches of cod in the Norwegian Sea, but unfortunately died before this work could be completed, and Georg took over. Cod was the major Norwegian export in the mid 19th century, yet in some years catches were very poor, causing fishermen to default on bank loans, and damaging the Norwegian balance of trade. Consequently, Georg Sars is credited with making the first serious studies in fisheries science.

Was a Danish mathematician, statistician, and psychometrician, most famous for the development of a

Was a Danish mathematician, statistician, and psychometrician, most famous for the development of a class of measurement models known as Rasch models. He studied with R.A. Fisher and also briefly with Ragnar Frisch, and was elected a member of the Interna