Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter H

Was a German mathematician who was born in Halle, Germany and died in Schramberg (near Tübingen), G

Was a German mathematician who was born in Halle, Germany and died in Schramberg (near Tübingen), Germany. He studied and worked with, among others, Möbius, Riemann, Weierstrass and Kronecker. His 1867 exposition on complex numbers and quaternions is part

Was a Prussian economist who is often regarded as the first to elaborate a general theory of margina

Was a Prussian economist who is often regarded as the first to elaborate a general theory of marginal utility.Gossen's book Die Entwicklung der Gesetze des menschlichen Verkehrs und der daraus fließenden Regeln für menschliches Handeln (The Development of

Was a German legal scholar and philosopher of Jewish descent.[1] He was active in the non-Marxist wi

Was a German legal scholar and philosopher of Jewish descent.[1] He was active in the non-Marxist wing of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) during the Weimar Republic. He attempted to formulate the theoretical foundations of the social-democrat

Was a German historian and jurist. He was compelled to take up jurisprudence in consequence of a ser

Was a German historian and jurist. He was compelled to take up jurisprudence in consequence of a serious disease of the eye, but never lost his fondness for history. In the year 1853 he graduated in Breslau with the dissertation: Justinianische Quasi-Pupi

Nobel Prize-winning American geneticist and educator, best known for his work on the physiological a

Nobel Prize-winning American geneticist and educator, best known for his work on the physiological and genetic effects of radiation (X-ray mutagenesis) as well as his outspoken political beliefs.

Was a distinguished German jurist.He was a professor at Freiburg University (1923-1929), Visiting Pr

Was a distinguished German jurist.He was a professor at Freiburg University (1923-1929), Visiting Professor, Columbia University(1927), Kiel University (1929-1933), dismissed from Kiel on both political and semitic grounds, 1933, lecturer at the 'University in Exile' and at City College, New York, 1933-34, lecturer at London School of Economics, All Souls College Oxford and Cambridge University, 1934-37, Assistant Director of Research in Law, Cambridge, 1937-1940.For further biographical details see: 'Hermann Ulrich Kantorowicz, eine Biographie by Karlheinz Muscheler' Duncker & Humbolt, Berlin, 1984.(Note by his son Frank Kantorowicz Carter: Kantorowicz had only one first name, though from 1904 to 1922 he regularly added the initial 'U' to distinguish himself from another Hermann Kantorowicz.

Was a Lithuanian-born German mathematician, of Jewish descent, who created and developed the geometr

Was a Lithuanian-born German mathematician, of Jewish descent, who created and developed the geometry of numbers and who used geometrical methods to solve difficult problems in number theory, mathematical physics, and the theory of relativity.

Was a Danish linguist noted for his work in favor of a genetic relationship between the Indo-Europea

Was a Danish linguist noted for his work in favor of a genetic relationship between the Indo-European and Semitic language families.Möller grew up in North Frisia after its conquest by Germany in the German-Danish War of 1864 and attended German universities (Pulsiano and Treharne 2001:447). He began teaching Germanic philology at the University of Copenhagen in 1883 and continued to do so for over thirty-five years (ib.).

Was a Swiss botanist and oenologist from the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland. During his time worki

Was a Swiss botanist and oenologist from the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland. During his time working for the Geisenheim Grape Breeding Institute, he created the Müller-Thurgau in 1882, a variety of grape with high importance in winemaking and the most important breed of the last 125 years.

Was a German ornithologist.One year after his arrival, the director of this natural history museum,

Was a German ornithologist.One year after his arrival, the director of this natural history museum, Carl Franz Anton Ritter von Schreibers, recommended him to Coenraad Jacob Temminck, director of the natural history museum of Leiden, who was seeking an assistant. At first Schlegel worked mainly on the reptile collection, but soon his field of activity extended to other zoological groups. It had been intended that Schlegel be sent to Java to join the Natural History Commission, but the untimely death of Temminck's intended successor, Heinrich Boie, prevented the realization of this project.

Was a Danish-American systematic botanist. He studied botany at the University of Copenhagen under p

Was a Danish-American systematic botanist. He studied botany at the University of Copenhagen under professor Eugenius Warming and graduated 1880. He participated in the Danish Dijmphna expedition to the territory between Russia and the North Pole during the First International Polar Year 1882-1883. The ship was icebound in the Kara Sea[1]. He explored the flora of West Greenland as assistant to Warming on the Fylla expedition in 1884.

Was a German-Brazilian zoologist. He was born at Kiel, Germany, and died at Gießen, Germany. He was

Was a German-Brazilian zoologist. He was born at Kiel, Germany, and died at Gießen, Germany. He was the oldest son of Rudolf von Jhering.Ihering studied medicine at the Giessen, Leipzig, and Berlin, and Göttingen, working as an assistant at the zoological institute in Göttingen. He later worked as a Privatdozent for zoology at the Erlangen and Leipzig.Ihering travelled to Brazil in 1880 and got his first work at the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro, in Rio de Janeiro. He was the founder and first director of the Museu Paulista, in São Paulo in 1894. In 1920 Ihering returned to Germany, and in 1921 he settled with his second wife, Meta, in Büdingen. Meta died 1928.

A Peruvian economist known for his work on the informal economy and on the importance of property ri

A Peruvian economist known for his work on the informal economy and on the importance of property rights. He is the president of Peru's Institute for Liberty and Democracy (ILD), located in Lima[1].De Soto has served as an economist for the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), as president of the Executive Committee of the Intergovernmental Council of Copper Exporting Countries (CIPEC), as managing director or CEO of Universal Engineering Corporation (Continental Europe's largest consulting engineering firm), as a principal of the Swiss Bank Corporation Consultant Group, and as a governor of Peru's Central Reserve Bank.[3]

Is a Peruvian economist known for his work on the informal economy and on the importance of property

Is a Peruvian economist known for his work on the informal economy and on the importance of property rights. He is the president of Peru's Institute for Liberty and Democracy (ILD), located in Lima

Was a Japanese mathematician. His most notable work includes the final solution of Hilbert's fifth p

Was a Japanese mathematician. His most notable work includes the final solution of Hilbert's fifth problem.After graduating from the University of Tokyo in 1947, Yamabe became an assistant at Osaka University. From 1952 until 1954 he was an assistant at Princeton University, receiving his Ph.D. from Osaka University while at Princeton. He left Princeton in 1954 to become assistant professor at the University of Minnesota. Except for one year as a professor at Osaka University, he stayed in Minnesota until 1960. Yamabe died suddenly of a stroke in November 1960, just months after accepting a full professorship at Northwestern University.

Is an American philosopher who has been a central figure in analytic philosophy since the 1960s, esp

Is an American philosopher who has been a central figure in analytic philosophy since the 1960s, especially in philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and philosophy of science.[2] He is known for his willingness to apply an equal degree of scrutiny t

Was a French economist.[1] He was twice Minister of Finance in the government of Louis-Philippe of F

Was a French economist.[1] He was twice Minister of Finance in the government of Louis-Philippe of France.[2]

Was an American geneticist and noted columnist. Born in China to missionary parents, he attended col

Was an American geneticist and noted columnist. Born in China to missionary parents, he attended college at Baylor University in Texas. He then furthered his education at the University of Texas, where he received his Ph.D. under the mentorship of geneticist Hermann Joseph Muller. His first major academic appointment was at Johns Hopkins University, at which time he was also a regular columnist for the Baltimore Evening Sun newspaper.In 1965, Glass became the first Academic Vice-President and Professor of Biological Sciences at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

A Japanese economist, professor emeritus of Tokyo University, and a member of the Japan Academy.He m

A Japanese economist, professor emeritus of Tokyo University, and a member of the Japan Academy.He majored in mathematics at Tokyo University, and went on to its graduate school, obtaining a doctorate in Mathematics. He went to study Economics at Stanford University in 1956 with Fulbright fellowship, and became an assistant, then assistant professor, and then associate professor at Stanford. He afterwards was assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley and professor at the University of Chicago, and later assumed the position of professor of the Department of Economics at Tokyo University in 1969. He also taught at Niigata University, Chuo University, and United Nations University.

A Japanese astronomer.He is a prolific discoverer of asteroids.

A Japanese astronomer.He is a prolific discoverer of asteroids.

Was a Japanese mathematician. A world-renowned expert in functional equations, he is best known for

Was a Japanese mathematician. A world-renowned expert in functional equations, he is best known for discovering "Haruki's theorem" and "Haruki's Lemma" in plane geometry.Haruki earned his MSc and PhD from Osaka University and taught there. He was a professor at the University of Waterloo in Canada from 1966 till his retirement in 1986. He was a founding member of the university's computer science department (1967).

Was a Japanese mathematician. He was a professor at Kyoto University, and studied analysis.He discov

Was a Japanese mathematician. He was a professor at Kyoto University, and studied analysis.He discovered the necessary and sufficient conditions on initial value problems of ordinary differential equations for the solution to be unique. He also refined the second mean value theorem of integration.

A Japanese economist and professor of Tokyo University.He won the Nikkei Economic Book Award and the

A Japanese economist and professor of Tokyo University.He won the Nikkei Economic Book Award and the Suntory Award (1984), the Economist Award (1993) and the Yomiuri-Yoshino Sakuzo Award (2000).[1]

Is a Japanese statistician. In the early 1970s he formulated an information criterion for model iden

Is a Japanese statistician. In the early 1970s he formulated an information criterion for model identification which has become known as the Akaike information criterion.

Was a Japanese astronomer originally from Kanazawa, Ishikawa.[1] He devoted his career to the study

Was a Japanese astronomer originally from Kanazawa, Ishikawa.[1] He devoted his career to the study and measurement of variation in latitude, building upon the work of Seth Carlo Chandler, who discovered the Chandler wobble. He was director of the International Latitude Observatory at Mizusawa, Japan.