Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter K

A radical Finnish environmentalist, dissident and fisherman. He has written widely about his ideas a

A radical Finnish environmentalist, dissident and fisherman. He has written widely about his ideas and is well-known in Finland. He lives a materially very simple life. Nowadays he is on old-age pension, but he still fishes on lake Vanajavesi.Linkola is a misanthropist[citation needed] who blames humans for the destruction of the environment, and he has promoted ideas such as genocide for saving the environment and to keep the population in control.[citation needed] He strongly promotes deindustrialization.

A Danish botanist.Kai Larsen is Professor of botany (Emeritus from 1-12-1996) at Århus University,

A Danish botanist.Kai Larsen is Professor of botany (Emeritus from 1-12-1996) at Århus University, Denmark. He is Danish editor of Flora Nordica, Editor Flora of Thailand, Advisor to Flora of China and Executive member of Flora Malesiana.He is a Board (Leiden) Member of Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters and Norwegian Academy of Science, University of Aarhus, Denmark.

Was a Japanese Neo-Confucianist philosopher and botanist.Ekken was destined to introduce two great i

Was a Japanese Neo-Confucianist philosopher and botanist.Ekken was destined to introduce two great innovations towards the Tokugawa shogunate. One of such was the systematic study of nature based on Neo-Confucianism, which was the beginning of the empiric

Was a Polish mathematician and prominent professor at the University of Warsaw. Minister of religion

Was a Polish mathematician and prominent professor at the University of Warsaw. Minister of religion and education in the revolutionary Polish National Government during the November Uprising in 1831.

An Indian astronomer and mathematician, came from a family of astronomers. His father was Nrsimha wh

An Indian astronomer and mathematician, came from a family of astronomers. His father was Nrsimha who was born in 1586. Two of Kamalakara's three brothers were also astronomer and mathematicians: Divakara, who was the eldest of the brothers born in 1606, and Ranganatha who was younger.

A Turkish-American economist. He is currently the Charles P. Kindleberger Professor of Applied Econo

A Turkish-American economist. He is currently the Charles P. Kindleberger Professor of Applied Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and winner of the 2005 John Bates Clark Medal.[1] He is among the 20 best economists in the world according to IDEAS/RePEc.He graduated in 1986 from the Galatasaray High School in Istanbul. He got his B.A. at the University of York, UK and his master's degree in mathematical economics and econometrics and then his doctorate in 1992 at the London School of Economics. He was a lecturer in economics at the LSE from 1992-1993. Acemoglu became a member of the M.I.T. faculty in 1993. He was promoted to full professor in 2000, and was named the Charles P. Kindleberger Professor of Applied Economics in 2004. He is a member of the Economic Growth program of the Canadian Institute of Advanced Research. He is also affiliated with the National Bureau of Economic Research

Is a Czech amateur astronomer, and a member of the Czech Astronomical Society. He lives in Lelekovic

Is a Czech amateur astronomer, and a member of the Czech Astronomical Society. He lives in Lelekovice, a village in the South Moravian Region, the Czech Republic.

Is a statistician specializing in directional statistics, multivariate analysis, geostatistics, stat

Is a statistician specializing in directional statistics, multivariate analysis, geostatistics, statistical bioinformatics and statistical shape analysis[1]. He was born in Sirohi, Rajasthan, India and now resides and works in Leeds.

Was a Japanese University professor and influential quality management innovator best known in North

Was a Japanese University professor and influential quality management innovator best known in North America for the Ishikawa or cause and effect diagram (also known as Fishbone Diagram) that are used in the analysis of industrial process.

Was Czech archaeologist, geographer, paleontologist, and speleologist. He was born in Boskovice.His

Was Czech archaeologist, geographer, paleontologist, and speleologist. He was born in Boskovice.His most known work are paleoanthropologic discoveries at Dolní Vestonice which include a Venus figure. He worked on systemic mapping of Moravský kras, including the abyss Macocha and caves Pekárna, Punkevní and Katerinská. He also explored karstic caves in the Balkans, France, and England.

Was a Bohemian botanist.He lived all his life in Prague, and was a professor at the University of Pr

Was a Bohemian botanist.He lived all his life in Prague, and was a professor at the University of Prague. He made an expedition to Sicily in 1817, and published a Flora bohemica in 1820.His older brother Jan Svatopluk Presl was also a noted botanist; the journal Preslia of the Czech Botanical Society is named in their honor. The standard botanical author abbreviation C.Presl is applied to species he described.

Was a Dutch ornithologist and author.He was Secretary-General, (1966-1970) and Honorary President (1

Was a Dutch ornithologist and author.He was Secretary-General, (1966-1970) and Honorary President (1990-1994) of the International Ornithological Committee.

Was Czech botanist.Kavina was professor of botanics at the Technical University in Prague. He worked

Was Czech botanist.Kavina was professor of botanics at the Technical University in Prague. He worked on systemics, morfology, bryology and anatomy. He published several atlases and monographies and was editor-in-chief of two botanist journals.

Was one of the most renowned Czech mathematicians of the first half of the 20th century.

Was one of the most renowned Czech mathematicians of the first half of the 20th century.

Was a Czech mathematician who contributed significantly to the fields of algebra, number theory, mat

Was a Czech mathematician who contributed significantly to the fields of algebra, number theory, mathematical analysis, and the history of mathematics.

Was a renowned Czech mathematician at the University of Zagreb. In his 23 years of productive activi

Was a renowned Czech mathematician at the University of Zagreb. In his 23 years of productive activity in Zagreb he wrote several significant scholarly works, mainly concerned with algebraic curves.

Has been National Statistician, Registrar General and Director of the Office for National Statistics

Has been National Statistician, Registrar General and Director of the Office for National Statistics of the United Kingdom since 1 September 2005.Karen Dunnell studied sciences at school because she wanted to go into medicine. However, a growing interest

Is a Danish astronomer.Working at Brorfelde Observatory, he has discovered a number of asteroids.

Is a Danish astronomer.Working at Brorfelde Observatory, he has discovered a number of asteroids.

Was a German geographer.Andree was born in Brunswick. He was educated at Jena, Göttingen, and Berli

Was a German geographer.Andree was born in Brunswick. He was educated at Jena, Göttingen, and Berlin. After having been implicated in a students' political agitation he became a journalist, and in 1851 founded the newspaper Bremer Handelsblatt. From 1855, however, he devoted himself entirely to geography and ethnography, working successively at Leipzig and at Dresden. In 1862 he founded the important geographical periodical Globus. His works include Nordamerika in geographischen und geschichtlichen Umrissen (Brunswick, 1854), Geographische Wanderungen (Dresden, 1859), and Geographie des Welthandels (Stuttgart, 1867-1872). He died at Wildungen.

Was a Swedish-born naturalist, who is credited with being the "father of helminthology".Rudolphi was

Was a Swedish-born naturalist, who is credited with being the "father of helminthology".Rudolphi was born in Stockholm to German parents. He was awarded his doctorate in 1795, from the University of Greifswald, where he was appointed Professor of Anatomy. He worked widely across the fields of botany, zoology, anatomy and physiology. He investigated the anatomy of nerves, carried out studies of plant growth and was an early champion of the view that the cell is the basic structural unit of plants. In 1804, Karl Rudolphi, along with D.H.F. Link were awarded the prize for "solving the problem of the nature of cells" by the Königliche Societät der Wissenschaft (Royal Society of Science), Göttingen, for proving that cells had independent rather than common walls.

Was a German historian of mathematics. Bopp studied at the University of Strasbourg and the Universi

Was a German historian of mathematics. Bopp studied at the University of Strasbourg and the University of Heidelberg under Moritz Cantor. In 1906 he habilitated with a work about the Conic sections of Gregorius a Sancto Vincenti, and in 1915 he became pro

Was a German linguist. He is a towering figure in Indo-European linguistics.During most of his profe

Was a German linguist. He is a towering figure in Indo-European linguistics.During most of his professional life (1887-1919), Brugmann was professor of Sanskrit and comparative linguistics at the University of Leipzig.As a young man, Brugmann sided with the emerging Neogrammarian school, which asserted the inviolability of phonetic laws and adhered to a strict research methodology.Brugmann's fame rests on the two volumes on phonology, morphology, and word formation which he contributed to the five-volume Grundriss der vergleichenden Grammatik der indogermanischen Sprachen, published from 1886 to 1893. The other three volumes were written by Berthold Delbrück and provided a still-unsurpassed account of Proto-Indo-European syntax.

Was a German Protestant theologian.[1] Daub was one of the leaders of a school which sought to recon

Was a German Protestant theologian.[1] Daub was one of the leaders of a school which sought to reconcile theology and philosophy, and to bring about a speculative reconstruction of orthodox dogma. In the course of his intellectual development, he came suc

Was a Russian geologist and physician.Eichwald was a Baltic German born at Mitau in Courland. He bec

Was a Russian geologist and physician.Eichwald was a Baltic German born at Mitau in Courland. He became doctor of medicine and professor of zoology in Kazan in 1823; four years later professor of zoology and comparative anatomy at Vilnius; in 1838 professor of zoology, mineralogy and medicine at St. Petersburg; and finally professor of palaeontology in the institute of mines in that city.

Was a German geopolitician and general. Through his student Rudolf Hess, Haushofer's ideas may have

Was a German geopolitician and general. Through his student Rudolf Hess, Haushofer's ideas may have influenced the development of Adolf Hitler's expansionist strategies, although Haushofer denied direct influence on the Nazi regime.Haushofer belonged to a family of artists and scholars. He was born in Munich to Max Haushofer, a professor of economics, and Frau Adele Haushofer (née Fraas). On his graduation from the Munich Gymnasium (high school), Haushofer contemplated an academic career. However, service with the Bavarian army proved so interesting that he stayed to work, with great success, as an instructor in military academies and on the general staff.