Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter J

Is a leading economist at the University of Chicago, Distinguished Chair of Microeconometric at Univ

Is a leading economist at the University of Chicago, Distinguished Chair of Microeconometric at University College, London, and University College, Dublin.

An American economist who writes frequently for mainstream and liberal publications on economic topi

An American economist who writes frequently for mainstream and liberal publications on economic topics.The son of renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith and of Catherine (Kitty) Atwater Galbraith, he earned his BA, magna cum laude, from Harvard in 1974 and Ph.D from Yale in 1981, both in economics. From 1974 to 1975, Galbraith studied as a Marshall Scholar at King's College, Cambridge.From 1981 to 1982, Galbraith served on the staff of the Congress of the United States, eventually as Executive Director of the Joint Economic Committee. In 1985, he was a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution. He is currently a professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and at the Department of Government, University of Texas at Austin.

Was an American ornithologist.Peters is best known for his multi-volume Check-list of Birds of the W

Was an American ornithologist.Peters is best known for his multi-volume Check-list of Birds of the World (1931-52), widely referred to simply as the Peters' check-list. Compared to earlier check-lists written by Richard Bowdler Sharpe, the list by Peters made several significant advances, among others using subspecies (trinomial nomenclature), which Bowdlers had not.

Was a judge of the United States Customs Court and of its successor, the United States Court of Inte

Was a judge of the United States Customs Court and of its successor, the United States Court of International Trade.Judge Watson was born in Harlem, New York to parents who had immigrated from Jamaica. During World War II he fought in Italy with the Army, and was awarded the Purple Heart. He received a B.A. from New York University in 1947 and an LL.B. from Brooklyn Law School in 1951.

A professor of Japanese at Ohio State University who specializes in historical linguistics and the w

A professor of Japanese at Ohio State University who specializes in historical linguistics and the writing systems of East Asia.

Is an American economist renowned for his work on public choice theory,

Is an American economist renowned for his work on public choice theory,

American economist renowned for his work on public choice theory, for which he won the 1986 Nobel Pr

American economist renowned for his work on public choice theory, for which he won the 1986 Nobel Prize in Economics. Buchanan's work opened the door for the examination of how politicians' self-interest and non-economic forces affect government economic policy.

Scottish economist and winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize for Economics. He was knighted in 1998.

Scottish economist and winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize for Economics. He was knighted in 1998.

Is a stage magician and scientific skeptic best known as a challenger of paranormal claims and pseud

Is a stage magician and scientific skeptic best known as a challenger of paranormal claims and pseudoscience. Born Randall James Hamilton Zwinge,[1] in Toronto, Ontario in Canada, Randi is the founder of the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF). Randi began his career as a magician, but when he retired at age 60, he switched to investigating paranormal, occult, and supernatural claims. Although often referred to as a "debunker," Randi rejects that title, describing himself as an "investigator."[2] He has written about the paranormal, skepticism, and the history of magic. He was a frequent guest on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, and is occasionally featured on the television program Penn & Teller: Bullshit!.

Was an English geographer, historian and a pioneer of oceanography.Rennell entered the navy as a mid

Was an English geographer, historian and a pioneer of oceanography.Rennell entered the navy as a midshipman in 1756 at the age of fourteen, and was present at the attack on Cherbourg (1758), and the disastrous action of St Cast in the same year. In 1760 he went out to the East Indian station, and served in the Grafton under Captain Hyde Parker (1714-1782) during the three following years, when he saw some active service, including a cutting-out expedition at Pondicherry. He soon mastered the theory and practice of marine surveying, and, on account of his proficiency in this regard, Parker lent his services to the East India Company. He served for a year on board one of the company's ships bound to the Philippines,

Was a British astronomer.He helped found the Astronomical Society of London, and it was under his na

Was a British astronomer.He helped found the Astronomical Society of London, and it was under his name that a petition was successfully submitted to obtain a royal charter in 1831, whereupon it became the Royal Astronomical Society.South and John Herschel jointly produced a catalogue of 380 double stars in 1824, reobserving many of the double stars that had been discovered by William Herschel. South then continued and observed another 458 double stars over the following year.He won the Copley Medal in 1826 and the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in that same year. He was knighted in 1831. Craters on Mars and the Moon are named in his honor.

Was a U.S. humorist and cartoonist. Thurber was best known for his contributions (both cartoons and

Was a U.S. humorist and cartoonist. Thurber was best known for his contributions (both cartoons and short stories) to The New Yorker magazine.

Was an American economist. Tobin advocated and developed the ideas of Keynesian economics. He believ

Was an American economist. Tobin advocated and developed the ideas of Keynesian economics. He believed that governments should intervene in the economy in order to stabilize output and avoid recessions. His academic work included pioneering contributions to the study of investment, monetary and fiscal policy and financial markets. Furthermore, he proposed an econometric model for censored endogenous variables, the well known "Tobit model".

An American astronomer.Ever since that time, he has worked on the Spacewatch project, which is one o

An American astronomer.Ever since that time, he has worked on the Spacewatch project, which is one of a number of projects that look for near-Earth asteroids (NEAs). He wrote the first automatic asteroid detection software for the project in 1984.He has discovered numerous asteroids, particularly near-Earth asteroids, including (35396) 1997 XF11, which briefly created a stir in the news media when a preliminary orbit calculation indicated the possibility of Earth impact in 2028; further observations led to a more accurate orbit which disproved the impact.He has also recovered more than 60 comets starting in 1985 (since comets are subject to non-gravitational forces due to outgassing and solar wind, it is often a challenge to predict their exact position and rediscover them each time they make a new perihelion approach). He confirmed the discovery of the well known Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, which impacted Jupiter in July 1994. He also discovered the periodic comets 202P/Scotti (Scotti 2), P/2000 Y3 Scotti (Scotti 1) and P/2003 L1 (Scotti 3), which are not yet numbered as they have only been seen at one perihelion.

An American astronomer.Working at the United States Naval Observatory, on June 22, 1978 he discovere

An American astronomer.Working at the United States Naval Observatory, on June 22, 1978 he discovered that Pluto had a moon, which he named Charon shortly afterwards. The name remained unofficial until its adoption by the IAU in 1986.[1]The discovery was made by carefully examining an enlargement of a photographic plate of Pluto and noticing it had a very slight bulge on one side. This plate and others had been marked "poor" because the elongated image of Pluto was thought to be a defect resulting from improper alignment. However, Christy alertly noticed that only Pluto was elongated—the background stars were not.

And is currently the resident astronomer of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Table Mountain Observato

And is currently the resident astronomer of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Table Mountain Observatory (TMO) near Wrightwood, California having been with them for 45 years. A very prolific asteroid observer of both physical properties and astrometric positions, he has discovered some 390 main belt asteroids in the last six years, as well as two NEOs, 2003 BV35 and 2003 RW11, two Trojan asteroids, 2002 VQ and 2003 FE42, three Mars crossers, 2005 SA, 2005 SB, and 2007 WX3, and one extra-galactic supernova, SN 2004eg.

Was a South African vertebrate palaeontologist and regarded as one of the world’s greatest fossil

Was a South African vertebrate palaeontologist and regarded as one of the world’s greatest fossil finders.[1]His work in the southern hemisphere, including Antarctica, led to the establishment of one of the world's finest fossil collections, housed at the Bernard Price Institute for Palaeontological Research (BPI) in Johannesburg.[2] He contributed greatly to the Karoo palaeontology of southern Africa, and Gondwana, and was an authority on the stratigraphic and distributional relationships of Permo-Triassic reptiles from South Africa. He published more than fifty papers and books on various facets of palaeontology. His contribution to Karoo palaeontology of southern Africa and Gondwana, earned him international recognition.

Was an American carpenter and sawmill operator, whose discovery of gold in the American River in Cal

Was an American carpenter and sawmill operator, whose discovery of gold in the American River in California on January 24, 1848 set the stage for the California Gold Rush. Marshall was forced from his own land by the resulting wave of gold seekers, and ne

Was a Scottish zoologist who worked in the Indian Museum at Calcutta from 1877 succeeding Prof. John

Was a Scottish zoologist who worked in the Indian Museum at Calcutta from 1877 succeeding Prof. John Anderson. He made many collections of marine animals and lepidoptera.

An eminent Post-Keynesian economist.Kregel currently serves, since 2006, as Professor of Finance and

An eminent Post-Keynesian economist.Kregel currently serves, since 2006, as Professor of Finance and Development at Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia. He is also a permanent advisor for the Trade and Development Report of UNCTAD, as well as an Adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins SAIS (SAIS), whose Bologna Center he co-directed in the late 1980s, as well as a Visiting Professor at the University of Missouri–Kansas City. Until 2007, he was Chief of the Policy Analysis and Development Branch of the Financing for Development Office of United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Previoiusly, until 2004, he was High Level Expert in International Finance and Macroeconomics in the New York Liaison Office of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), being in essence its chief economist. For many years,

Was a Dutch mathematician. He was an important contributor to the development of tensor calculus and

Was a Dutch mathematician. He was an important contributor to the development of tensor calculus and was one of the founders of the Mathematisch Centrum in Amsterdam.Schouten received his Ph.D. degree from Delft University of Technology in 1914. His dissertation, written under the direction of J. Cardinaal, applied his "direct analysis," modelled on the vector analysis of Josiah Willard Gibbs and Oliver Heaviside to higher order tensor-like entities he called "affinors." The symmetrical subset of affinors were tensors in the physicists sense of Woldemar Voigt. Entities such as axiators, perversors, and deviators appear in this analysis.

Was a Dutch philologist and critic. He was born in Leiden, and from 1817 to 1854 he was professor of

Was a Dutch philologist and critic. He was born in Leiden, and from 1817 to 1854 he was professor of Greek and Roman literature at the university.

Is Associate Professor of Finance and Mathematical Methods and Techniques at the Econometric Institu

Is Associate Professor of Finance and Mathematical Methods and Techniques at the Econometric Institute of Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam.He obtained his PhD in 1981 with the disseration "Embedding Problems and Galois Modules". In Applied Mathematics he is known by the book he wrote with Vladimir Tikhomirov: 'Optimization: Insights and Applications'. This self-contained textbook is an informal introduction to optimization through the use of numerous illustrations and applications, and said by experts to be well written and an extremely interesting introduction to the field of mathematical optimization.

Was a Polish linguist.

Was a Polish linguist.

Was a Czech anatomist, patriot, and physiologist.He is best known for his 1837 discovery of Purkinje

Was a Czech anatomist, patriot, and physiologist.He is best known for his 1837 discovery of Purkinje cells, large neurons with many branching dendrites found in the cerebellum. He is also known for his discovery, in 1839 of Purkinje fibres, the fibrous tissue that conducts electrical impulses from the atrioventricular node to all parts of the ventricles of the heart. Other discoveries include Purkinje images, reflections of objects from structures of the eye, and the Purkinje shift, the change in the brightness of red and blue colours as light intensity decreases gradually at dusk.