Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter M

Professor of Geography and Development Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and in the

Professor of Geography and Development Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and in the eyes of some a leading critical intellectual figure of the academic left. An intensively productive scholar, he works on a variety of themes from African development to contemporary geopolitics, social movements and oil. As Perrault notes, his work charted a "rigorous and wide-ranging theoretical engagement with Marxian political economy" (Perrault, 2004:323,[1]), with contributions to the development of political ecology, struggles over resources, and - more recently - how the politics of identity play out in the contemporary world.

Was an award-winning Canadian geoscientist. From 1961 to 1977, he was a professor at Dalhousie Unive

Was an award-winning Canadian geoscientist. From 1961 to 1977, he was a professor at Dalhousie University in the Department of Geology. He chaired the department for several years. From 1977 to 1991, he was with the Geological Survey of Canada’s Atlantic Geoscience Centre in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.

An American linguist.He is cataloger of Middle Eastern languages at the Library of Congress. Formerl

An American linguist.He is cataloger of Middle Eastern languages at the Library of Congress. Formerly he was senior editor of the Kurdish Service of the Voice of America and professor of Kurdish at the University of Paris and at the Washington Kurdish Institute.He has written a Kurdish-English dictionary.

Distinguished Professor of Evolution, Population Genetics and Genomics at Indiana University. Beside

Distinguished Professor of Evolution, Population Genetics and Genomics at Indiana University. Besides many highly acclaimed papers, especially in population genetics, he has written a two volume textbook with Bruce Walsh, widely considered the "Bible" of quantitative genetics.

Is an American Catholic philosopher, journalist, novelist, and diplomat. The author of more than twe

Is an American Catholic philosopher, journalist, novelist, and diplomat. The author of more than twenty-five books on the philosophy and theology of culture, Novak is most widely known for his book The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism (1982).

Was an Irish botanist who specialized in seed plants and ferns, and spent most of his life, and all

Was an Irish botanist who specialized in seed plants and ferns, and spent most of his life, and all of his work, in India.Although he is known to have had an estate of 1,659 acres in County Longford, Ireland, at a young age he left for India in 1831 to jo

Is Professor of Computer Systems, and Head of the School of Informatics at the University of Edinbur

Is Professor of Computer Systems, and Head of the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, UK.He continued to work with Scott as an SRC postdoctoral Research Fellow and Junior Research Fellow of Wolfson College, in Oxford, until 1

Was a Hungarian–British polymath whose thought and work extended across physical chemistry, econom

Was a Hungarian–British polymath whose thought and work extended across physical chemistry, economics, and philosophy. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford.In 1920, he emigrated to Germany, eventually ending up as a research chemist at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Fiber Chemistry in Berlin. There, he married Magda Elizabeth in a Roman Catholic ceremony. In 1929, Magda gave birth to a son John, who went on to win a Nobel Prize in chemistry. With the coming to power in 1933 of the Nazi party, Polanyi accepted the offer of a chair in Physical Chemistry at the University of Manchester. Because his interests later shifted from chemistry to economics and philosophy, Manchester created a new chair in Social Science (1948-58) for him.

Is a German mathematician. He currently holds a chair for arithmetic algebraic geometry at the Unive

Is a German mathematician. He currently holds a chair for arithmetic algebraic geometry at the University of Bonn. In 1992 he was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize.

Is the current Chief Judge of the County Court of Victoria

Is the current Chief Judge of the County Court of Victoria

A professor of psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he heads the new SAG

A professor of psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he heads the new SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind.In 1961, Gazzaniga graduated from Dartmouth College. In 1964, he received a Ph.D. in psychobiology from the California Institute of Technology, where he worked under the guidance of Roger Sperry, with primary responsibility for initiating human split-brain research. In his subsequent work he has made important advances in our understanding of functional lateralization in the brain and how the cerebral hemispheres communicate with one another.

Was a Norwegian theologian and biologist.Sars was born in Bergen, Norway. He studied natural history

Was a Norwegian theologian and biologist.Sars was born in Bergen, Norway. He studied natural history and theology at Royal Frederick's University from 1823 and completed a degree in theology in 1828. For several years he taught at a number of different schools, firstly in Christiania and then in Bergen. In 1831 he was appointed vicar to Kinn on the Norwegian north west coast; eight years later he transferred to Manger, just north of Bergen. Finally, in 1854 he was named Professor of Zoology at the University where he remained for the rest of his life. He died in 1869. He was married to Maren Welhaven, sister of the epic poet, Johann Sebastian Welhaven, in 1831, and had 7 daughters and 7 sons.

Nobel Prize winning American geneticist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine wi

Nobel Prize winning American geneticist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Joseph L. Goldstein in 1985 for describing the regulation of cholesterol metabolism.

He studied philosophy in Ioannina under Eugenios Voulgaris. Later he visited Germany where he studie

He studied philosophy in Ioannina under Eugenios Voulgaris. Later he visited Germany where he studied philosophy and medicine. He taught in his birthplace Siatista, and also in Selitsa, Meleniko, Vienna and Budapest

Is a Polish economist and director for human development (education, health and social protection) i

Is a Polish economist and director for human development (education, health and social protection) in the South Asia region of the World Bank. He is the highest-ranked Polish official at the World Bank headquarters in Washington, DC, and also a former director of the Office for Social Security Reform in the Government of Poland (1996-97), as well as a co-author of the design of the new Polish pension system. A graduate of the Warsaw School of Economics (MSc 1982, PhD 1987), with post-graduate studies at the London School of Economics (1989-90) and Harvard Business School (1999). Before joining the World Bank in 1990 Rutkowski was an assistant professor at the Warsaw School of Economics and did research work in the area of labor economics, macroeconomics, education, business development and productivity in the Centre for Labour Economics and the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics

Was a Polish philosopher, psychologist, and literary historian.[1]Wiszniewski graduated from the cel

Was a Polish philosopher, psychologist, and literary historian.[1]Wiszniewski graduated from the celebrated Krzemieniec Lyceum (secondary school), where he subsequently taught for a time.[2]In 1831 he became a professor at Kraków's Jagiellonian University. He was a conservative activist during the Kraków Uprising of 1846. In 1848 he emigrated to Italy.[3]Wiszniewski was an epigone of the Polish Enlightenment, and at the same time a precursor of Positivism.[4]

Was a French naturalist of Scottish descent.After leaving the College Sainte Barbe he was employed i

Was a French naturalist of Scottish descent.After leaving the College Sainte Barbe he was employed in the cabinets of R. A. F. Reaumur and Bernard de Jussieu, as well as in the Jardin des Plantes. At the end of 1748 he left France on an exploring expedition to Senegal. He remained there for five years, collecting and describing numerous animals and plants. He also collected specimens of every object of commerce, delineated maps of the country, made systematic meteorological and astronomical observations, and prepared grammars and dictionaries of the languages spoken on the banks of the Senegal.After his return to Paris in 1754 he made use of a small portion of the materials he had collected in his Histoire naturelle du Senegal (1757). This work has a special interest from the essay on shells, printed at the end of it, where Adanson proposed his universal method, a system of classification distinct from those of Buffon and Linnaeus.

Is a French economist, currently Professor of Economics at the University of Paris X: Nanterre. Mich

Is a French economist, currently Professor of Economics at the University of Paris X: Nanterre. Michel Aglietta is a scientific counsellor at CEPII, a member of the University Institute of France, and a consultant to Groupama. An alumnus of the École Polytechnique, from 1998 to 2006, he was a member of the Circle of economists[1]. From 1997 to 2003, he was a member of the Council of economic analysis for the Prime Minister. His monograph A Theory of Capitalist Regulation: The US Experience (Verso, 1976) laid the foundation for the Regulation school of economics. He is a teacher at HEC Paris.

Is a French economist. He was born 25 February 1930 at Fontenay-le-Comte (Vendee) and is the Permane

Is a French economist. He was born 25 February 1930 at Fontenay-le-Comte (Vendee) and is the Permanent Secretary of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques since 1 January 2005[1]. Michel Albert graduated from the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris and is an alumnus of the École Nationale d'Administration. He became an inspector of finance in 1956.

Is a French researcher in philosophy of science, His research interests are mainly focused on the in

Is a French researcher in philosophy of science, His research interests are mainly focused on the influence of quantum physics on philosophy. He first worked on Erwin Schrödinger's metaphysics and philosophy of physics[1].

Is a French mathematician. He holds a chair at Paris Diderot University. Broué has made contributio

Is a French mathematician. He holds a chair at Paris Diderot University. Broué has made contributions to algebraic geometry and representation theory.

Better known as Coluche, was a French comedian and actor, famous for his irreverent sense of humour.

Better known as Coluche, was a French comedian and actor, famous for his irreverent sense of humour.

Was a French Jesuit and scholar whose work combined history, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and the soc

Was a French Jesuit and scholar whose work combined history, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and the social sciences.Michel de Certeau was born in 1925 in Chambéry, France. Certeau's education was eclectic. After obtaining degrees in classics and philosophy a

was one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance. Montaigne is known for populariz

was one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance. Montaigne is known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre. He became famous for his effortless ability to merge serious intellectual speculation with casual anecdotes[1] and autob

Was a French botanist. He was professor of botany in Montpellier, France. He held the chair of Medic

Was a French botanist. He was professor of botany in Montpellier, France. He held the chair of Medical Natural History from 1816 to 1819. The Solanaceous plant genus Dunalia is named after him.He is especially known for his work with the genus Solanum, and published an important work on the genus Solanorum generumque affinium Synopsis seu Solanorum Historiae, editionis secundae summarium ad characteres differentiales redactum, seriem naturalem, habitationes stationesque specierum breviter indicans. Montpellier, 1816.