Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter K

A mathematician who in 1976, with colleague Wolfgang Haken at the University of Illinois at Urbana-C

A mathematician who in 1976, with colleague Wolfgang Haken at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, solved one of the most famous problems in mathematics, the four-color theorem. They proved that any two-dimensional map, with certain limitations

Is a Paleontologist at the Denver Museum of Natural History and author or co-author of a number of b

Is a Paleontologist at the Denver Museum of Natural History and author or co-author of a number of books on dinosaurs and Mesozoic life. His main research interests are armored dinosaurs (Ankylosauria and Stegosauria), as well as the Early Cretaceous dino

Was an economist, educator, peace activist, poet, religious mystic, devoted Quaker, systems scientis

Was an economist, educator, peace activist, poet, religious mystic, devoted Quaker, systems scientist, and interdisciplinary philosopher. He was cofounder of General Systems Theory and founder of numerous ongoing intellectual projects in economics and social science. He was married to Elise M. Boulding.Boulding was president of numerous scholarly societies including the American Economic Association, the Society for General Systems Research, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was not only a prolific writer and a creative integrator of knowledge, but an academician of world stature -- indeed, a magisterial figure in the discipline of social science. For Boulding, economics and sociology were not social sciences -- rather, they were all aspects of a single social science devoted to the study of human persons and their relationships (organizations). Boulding spearheaded an evolutionary (instead of equilibrium) approach to economics. See Kenneth Boulding's Evolutionary Perspective.

Was an English linguist and a translator who specialised in the Celtic languages. He demonstrated ho

Was an English linguist and a translator who specialised in the Celtic languages. He demonstrated how the text of the Ulster Cycle of tales, written down around 1100, preserves an oral tradition of some six centuries earlier and reflects Celtic Irish society of the third and fourth century AD. His Celtic Miscellany is a popular standard.He married Janet Dall Galloway on 12 August 1936. Their two children Alaster and Stephenie were born in the USA but brought up in Scotland. In retirement, Jackson continued his work on place-names and Gaelic languages. However he suffered a stroke in 1984 that restricted his work.

A scientist and geologist. He was born in Nanjing, China in 1929.He studied at the National Central

A scientist and geologist. He was born in Nanjing, China in 1929.He studied at the National Central University, Ohio State University, and University of California, Los Angeles. He is a former Petroleum Geologist & Environmental Engineer at the Shell Development Corporation (Houston), and Professor Emeritus at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zürich) from 1963 to 1994.He studied at the National Central University, Ohio State University, and University of California, Los Angeles. He is a former Petroleum Geologist & Environmental Engineer at the Shell Development Corporation (Houston), and Professor Emeritus at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zürich) from 1963 to 1994.

Was a U.S. mathematician, philosopher and logician who proposed some fundamental revisions to the wa

Was a U.S. mathematician, philosopher and logician who proposed some fundamental revisions to the way that logic is understood and used.A pupil of Solomon Feferman at Stanford University, Barwise started his research in infinitary logic. After positions a

Is an American economist.Arrow grew up in a Jewish family and graduated from Townsend Harris High Sc

Is an American economist.Arrow grew up in a Jewish family and graduated from Townsend Harris High School and then earned a Bachelor's degree from the City College of New York in 1940. At Columbia University, he received a Master's degree in 1941. From 1946 to 1949 he spent his time partly as a graduate student at Columbia and partly as a research associate at the Cowles Commission for Research in Economics at the University of Chicago. During that time he also held the rank of Assistant Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago. In 1951 he earned his Ph.D. from Columbia. He is currently the Joan Kenney Professor of Economics and Professor of Operations Research, Emeritus at Stanford University. He was one of the recipients of the 2004 National Medal of Science, the nation's highest scientific honor, presented by President George W. Bush for his contributions to research on the problem of making decisions using imperfect information and his research on bearing risk.

An American economist and joint winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics with John Hicks in 1

An American economist and joint winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics with John Hicks in 1972. To date, he is the youngest person to receive this award, at 51.In economics, he is considered as one of the founders of modern (i.e. post-World War II) neo-classical economic theory. Many of his former graduate students have gone on to win the Nobel Memorial Prize themselves. Ken Arrow's impact on the economics profession has been tremendous. For more than fifty years he has been one of the most listened to of all practicing economists.

Also known during his life as Ken Pike, was an American linguist and anthropologist. He was the orig

Also known during his life as Ken Pike, was an American linguist and anthropologist. He was the originator of the theory of tagmemics and coiner of the terms "emic" and "etic".Pike is best known for his distinction between the emic and the etic. "Emic" (as in "phonemics") refers to the subjective understanding and account of meaning in the sounds of languages, while "etic" (as in phonetics") refers to the objective study of those sounds. Pike argued that only native speakers are competent judges of emic descriptions, and are thus crucial in providing data for linguistic research, while investigators from outside the linguistic group apply scientific methods in the analysis of language, producing etic descriptions which are verifiable and reproducible. Pike himself carried out studies of indigenous languages in Australia, Bolivia, Ecuador, Ghana, Java, Mexico, Nepal, New Guinea, Nigeria, the Philippines, and Peru.

Was a linguist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who studied the syntax, lexicon and phon

Was a linguist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who studied the syntax, lexicon and phonology of a huge variety of unstudied and often endangered languages -- especially indigenous languages of North America, Central America and Australia. Languages investigated by Hale include Navajo, Tohono O'odham, Warlpiri, and Ulwa, among many others.Hale was born in Evanston, Illinois. When he was six his family moved to a ranch near Canelo in southern Arizona. He was a student at the University of Arizona from 1952 and obtained his PhD from Indiana University Bloomington in 1959 (thesis A Papago grammar). He taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1961-63 and at the University of Arizona, Tucson in 1963-66. From 1967 he held a sequence of appointments at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology until his retirement in 1999.

Was a soldier and geographer notable as the first statutory professor of Geography at the University

Was a soldier and geographer notable as the first statutory professor of Geography at the University of Oxford. His work surveying the Himalayas was rewarded in 1927 with a Royal Geographic Society Founder's Medal, the citation reading for his connection between the of surveys of India and Russian Turkestan, and his leadership of the Shakshagam Expedition.Educated first at Cheltenham College and then the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, Mason was commissioned in the Royal Engineers, helping to pioneer stereoscopic photographic techniques that were to revolutionise cartography using aerial and land-based photography.

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

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

An American professor of meteorology currently working at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

An American professor of meteorology currently working at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston. His work in atmospheric dynamics is well regarded among the meteorological community. In particular he has specialized in atmospheric convection and the mechanisms acting to intensify hurricanes.In a March 2008 paper published in the 'Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society', he announced he is rethinking his previous assumption of global warming as an increasing threat for more hurricane activity than normal. Other research papers[who?] have also suggested that warming seas may not be the main cause of increased hurricane activity. Another research scientist, Gabriel Vecchi, of NOAA said of Mr. Emanuel's announcement,

Is an Australian judge

Is an Australian judge

Was a medical practitioner and politician in Punjab, India. He was the Speaker of the Punjab Legisla

Was a medical practitioner and politician in Punjab, India. He was the Speaker of the Punjab Legislative Assembly (Vidhan Sabha).He was first elected as an Indian National Congress member of the Punjab Legislative Assembly in 1969, becoming Speaker 1973-77 and again 2002 onwards. He served as Minister of Finance in the Punjab Government 1980-83.[1]In 2005, he led an Assembly delegation on a goodwill visit to the Punjab Assembly in Pakistan. [2]In January 2006 he announced his intention of standing down as an MLA, saying ‘‘I am 83 and have played my innings in politics. I do not want to continue till 90. Now the time has come for the younger generation to take the reins.” [3] He died on June 30, 2008, of a heart attack.[4]

Was a Japanese mathematician working in algebra and topology.He introduced the concepts now known as

Was a Japanese mathematician working in algebra and topology.He introduced the concepts now known as Morita equivalence and Morita duality which were given wide circulation in the 1960s by Hyman Bass in a series of lectures. The Morita conjectures on normal topological spaces are also named after him.

Was a Korean geographer and cartographer. He literally walked the entire length and breadth of the K

Was a Korean geographer and cartographer. He literally walked the entire length and breadth of the Korean peninsula, through mountain and valley, in order to research and compile his magnum opus, the Daedong Yeojido, (?????, ?????) a map of Korea that was published in 1861.The events surrounding Kim's death are obscure. What is clear is that after the publication of a later, improved version of the Daedong Yeojido in 1866 Kim is not heard from again. The most prominent story goes that the Korean regent Daewongun, upon viewing the later version of Kim's great map, became incensed by its inclusion of details of a sensitive nature critical to national defense.

Was an Australian Judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales Court of Appeal.

Was an Australian Judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales Court of Appeal.

A Japanese astronomer. He was born at Iwaizumi, Iwate. Now he lives in Bihoro, Hokkaido. His profess

A Japanese astronomer. He was born at Iwaizumi, Iwate. Now he lives in Bihoro, Hokkaido. His profession is a woodwork workman.He is a prolific discoverer of asteroids. He is also the co-discoverer of asteroid #7530, with Kazuo Watanabe.

An American theoretical physicist, known for his prolific contributions in gravitation physics and a

An American theoretical physicist, known for his prolific contributions in gravitation physics and astrophysics and for having trained a generation of scientists. A longtime friend and colleague of Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan, he is the current Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at Caltech and one of the world’s leading experts on the astrophysical implications of Einstein’s general theory of relativity.

Is Silver Professor of Philosophy at New York University. He previously taught for several years at

Is Silver Professor of Philosophy at New York University. He previously taught for several years at UCLA. The author of several books and dozens of articles in international academic journals, he has made notable contributions to the fields of philosophic

Was a Japanese mathematician whose work is now called Ito calculus. The basic concept of this calcul

Was a Japanese mathematician whose work is now called Ito calculus. The basic concept of this calculus is the Ito integral, and the most basic among important results is Ito's lemma. It facilitates mathematical understanding of random events. His theory is widely applied, for instance in financial mathematics.[2]Although the standard Hepburn romanization of his name is Ito, the spellings Itô (as in Kunrei-shiki romanization) or Ito are often seen in the West as well.

Was a Japanese mathematician, who did fundamental work in the theory of several complex variables. H

Was a Japanese mathematician, who did fundamental work in the theory of several complex variables. He was born in Osaka. He went to Kyoto Imperial University in 1919, turning to mathematics in 1923 and graduating in 1924.He was in Paris for three years from 1929, returning to Hiroshima University. He published solutions to the first and second Cousin problems, and work on domains of holomorphy, in the period 1936-1940. These were later taken up by Henri Cartan and his school, playing a basic role in the development of sheaf theory. He continued to work in the field.

Was a Japanese astronomer, best known for his discovery that many asteroid orbits were more similar

Was a Japanese astronomer, best known for his discovery that many asteroid orbits were more similar to one another than chance would allow, leading to the concept of asteroid families, now called Hirayama families in his honour.Hirayama crater on the Moon is jointly named after him and Shin Hirayama. The asteroid 1999 Hirayama is named in his honour.

Is a Dutch Assyriologist with Dutch origin connected with the University of Leiden. He has specializ

Is a Dutch Assyriologist with Dutch origin connected with the University of Leiden. He has specialized in the Old-Babylonian time and the Old-Assyrian trade colonies such as Kanesh.