Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter N

Is a mathematician and poet often considered to be the most influential poet Chile has produced sinc

Is a mathematician and poet often considered to be the most influential poet Chile has produced since Pablo Neruda. He describes himself as an "antipoet," due to his distaste for standard poetic pomp and function.

Was a Russian ethnologist, anthropologist and biologist of Ukrainian, German and Polish descent.He t

Was a Russian ethnologist, anthropologist and biologist of Ukrainian, German and Polish descent.He travelled and studied widely in Europe, and became a close friend of the biologist Anton Dohrn, with whom he helped conceive the idea of research stations while staying with him at Messina, Italy.Miklukho-Maklai left St Petersburg for Australia on the schooner Vityaz. He arrived in Sydney on 18 July, 1878. A few days after arriving, he approached the Linnean Society and offered to organise a zoological centre. In September 1878 his offer was approved. The centre, known as the Marine Biological Station, was constructed by prominent Sydney architect, John Kirkpatrick. This facility, located in Watsons Bay on the east side of the Greater Sydney, was the first marine biological research institute in Australia

Was an Irish zoologist and politician.Vigors was a co-founder of the Zoological Society of London in

Was an Irish zoologist and politician.Vigors was a co-founder of the Zoological Society of London in 1826, and its first secretary until 1833. In that year, he founded what became the Royal Entomological Society of London. He was a fellow of the Linnean Society and the Royal Society. He was the author of 40 papers, mostly on ornithology. He provided the text for John Gould's A Century of Birds from the Himalaya Mountains (1830–32).Vigors succeeded to his father's estate in 1828. He was MP for the borough of Carlow from 1832 until 1835. He briefly represented the constituency of County Carlow in 1835. Vigors had been elected in a by-election in June after the Conservative MPs originally returned at the United Kingdom general election, 1835 were unseated on petition and a new writ issued. On 19 August 1835 Vigors and his running mate, in the two member county constituency

Was an English botanist, herbalist, physician, and astrologer. His published books, The English Phys

Was an English botanist, herbalist, physician, and astrologer. His published books, The English Physitian (1652) and the Complete Herbal (1653), contain a rich store of pharmaceutical and herbal knowledge.Culpeper spent the greater part of his life in the English outdoors cataloguing hundreds of medicinal herbs. He criticized what he considered the unnatural methods of his contemporaries, writing: "This not being pleasing, and less profitable to me, I consulted with my two brothers, DR. REASON and DR. EXPERIENCE, and took a voyage to visit my mother NATURE, by whose advice, together with the help of Dr. DILIGENCE, I at last obtained my desire; and, being warned by MR. HONESTY, a stranger in our days, to publish it to the world, I have done it." (From the Introduction to the 1835 Edition of The Complete Herbal.)

Was an English plant taxonomist and authority on succulents. He was also an authority on several fam

Was an English plant taxonomist and authority on succulents. He was also an authority on several families of plants, including (but not limited to) Asclepiadaceae, Aizoaceae, Labiatae and Cape plants.

Was a Romanian mathematician, statistician and economist, best known for his 1971 magnum opus The En

Was a Romanian mathematician, statistician and economist, best known for his 1971 magnum opus The Entropy Law and the Economic Process, which situated the view that the second law of thermodynamics, i.e., that usable "free energy" tends to disperse or become lost in the form of "bound energy", governs economic processes.[1]He studied mathematics at the University of Bucharest, graduating in 1926. After winning a scholarship, he went on to study at the University of Paris, where his interests turned towards statistics and economics. He received a Ph.D. degree in 1930, for a thesis on latent cyclical components in time series. Another scholarship allowed him to pursue his studies for two years at the University College in London with Karl Pearson. In 1932, Georgescu-Roegen returned to Romania, and became Professor of Statistics at the University of Bucharest. He held this position until 1946.

Is a British economist and academic. He was the Chief Economist and Senior Vice-President of the Wor

Is a British economist and academic. He was the Chief Economist and Senior Vice-President of the World Bank from 2000 to 2003, and was recently a civil servant and government economic advisor in the United Kingdom. I

Was a Georgia-born historian and linguist who gained a solid reputation as a prolific scholar of the

Was a Georgia-born historian and linguist who gained a solid reputation as a prolific scholar of the Caucasus before embarking on his controversial monogenetic theory of language and the related speculative linguistic hypotheses which constituted the officially approved ideology of Soviet linguists until 1950, when Joseph Stalin personally discredited it as anti-scientific.Marr was born in Kutaisi, Georgia (then part of Imperial Russia), in the family of the Scot James Marr (aged more than 80) who founded the botanical garden of the city and a young Georgian woman. His parents spoke different languages, and neither of them understood Russian. Having graduated from the St Petersburg University, he taught there since 1891, becoming dean of the Oriental faculty in 1911 and member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1912. During those years, he excavated the ancient Armenian capital Ani, and brought to light numerous monuments of old Armenian and Georgian literature.

Was a French theologian, a pupil of Gilbert de la Porrée. He is known for a single major work, the

Was a French theologian, a pupil of Gilbert de la Porrée. He is known for a single major work, the De arte catholicae fidei; it is modelled after Euclid's Elements[1]. Some still attribute it to Alain of Lille, a question that has divided scholars since the nineteenth century[2].

Was a French medieval philosopher and theologian. Born in Autrecourt near Verdun, France, Autreourt

Was a French medieval philosopher and theologian. Born in Autrecourt near Verdun, France, Autreourt was known principally for developing skepticism to extreme logical conclusions. He is sometimes considered the sole genuinely skeptic philosopher of medieval times. Like David Hume centuries later, he founded his skeptical position on arguments that knowledge claims were not "reducible to the first principle", that is, that it was not contradictory to deny them.[1] Whether he was committed to these conclusions is unclear, but on May 19, 1346 they were condemned by Pope Clement VI as heretical and his books publicly burned.

Was a French humanist and theologian. He made his studies in the Collège de Navarre, University of

Was a French humanist and theologian. He made his studies in the Collège de Navarre, University of Paris, and in 1380 received the degree of Licentiate, and then later received a Master of Arts. He studied theology under Jean Gerson and Pierre d'Ailly, and received the degree of Bachelor of Theology in 1393.

German cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, a philosopher, jurist, mathematician, and an astronome

German cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, a philosopher, jurist, mathematician, and an astronomer. He is widely considered as one of the greatest geniuses and polymaths of the 15th century. He is also referred to as Nicolaus Cusanus and Nicholas of Kues.

Was born in Gorron, France. He was a prominent French Roman Catholic medieval preacher and scriptura

Was born in Gorron, France. He was a prominent French Roman Catholic medieval preacher and scriptural commentator. Gorran entered the Dominican Order in the convent of his native town and became one of its most illustrious alumni. His talents singled him out for special educational opportunities, and he was sent accordingly to the famous convent of St. James in Paris, where he subsequently served several terms as prior.

Was a cardinal of the Catholic Church from Germany (Holy Roman Empire), a philosopher, theologian, j

Was a cardinal of the Catholic Church from Germany (Holy Roman Empire), a philosopher, theologian, jurist, mathematician, and an astronomer. He is widely considered one of the great geniuses and polymaths of the 15th century. He is today recognized for si

Is a philosopher at Monash University in Australia

Is a philosopher at Monash University in Australia

Is a Dutch economist who, in collaboration with Frans van der Hoff and ecumenical development agency

Is a Dutch economist who, in collaboration with Frans van der Hoff and ecumenical development agency Solidaridad, launched Max Havelaar, the first Fairtrade certification initiative in 1988. Roozen played a key role in convincing several major Dutch retailers to offer Fairtrade goods, which later led to the commercial success of Fairtrade certification. On October 25, 2007, Nico Roozen received a Royal Honour (Officer in the Order of Orange Nassau) for his dedication for years to Fairtrade.

Was an Italian existential philosopher. Nicola Abbagnano was born in Salerno on July 15th 1901. He w

Was an Italian existential philosopher. Nicola Abbagnano was born in Salerno on July 15th 1901. He was the first born son of a middle-class professional family, whose father was a lawyer. He studied in Naples and in November 1922 took a degree in philosop

Was a Dutch jurist and the father of Johannes Secundus, an acclaimed poet. He is not to be confused

Was a Dutch jurist and the father of Johannes Secundus, an acclaimed poet. He is not to be confused with Nicolaus Everardi (1495–1570) and his son Nicolaus Everardi (1537–86), both professors in Ingolstadt.His only work published during his lifetime, Topicorum seu de locis legalibus liber (1516) as well as the posthumously published Responsa sive consilium (1554) came to be of great practical importance to the jurists of the time.

Is a Dutch mathematician, affiliated as professor emeritus with the Eindhoven University of Technolo

Is a Dutch mathematician, affiliated as professor emeritus with the Eindhoven University of Technology. He received his Ph.D. in 1943 from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Was a Dutch mathematician and physicist who invented the screw-barrel simple microscope[1] circa 169

Was a Dutch mathematician and physicist who invented the screw-barrel simple microscope[1] circa 1694.Nicolaas was the son of Christiaan Hartsoeker (1626-1683), a Remonstrant minister in Moordrecht near Gouda. His father would take the family to Alkmaar in 1661 and finally to Rotterdam in 1669. Nicolaas started to make a living as a lensmaker in Rotterdam, and was instructed in optics by Antoni van Leeuwenhoek. In 1674, he and a fellow student, assisted by Van Leeuwenhoek, were the first to observe semen, a situation that would later lead to a priority dispute between Hartsoeker and Leeuwenhoek over the discovery of spermatozoids.

Was a Dutch botanist.He was the son of Johannes Burman (1707-1780). He succeeded his father to the c

Was a Dutch botanist.He was the son of Johannes Burman (1707-1780). He succeeded his father to the chair of botany at the University of Amsterdam., and at the Hortus Botanicus. He continued the correspondence with Carolus Linnaeus, joining him at the Univ

Was a Romanian biologist of world renown. He was the elder brother of the naturalist Grigore Antipa.

Was a Romanian biologist of world renown. He was the elder brother of the naturalist Grigore Antipa.

Is a Romanian mathematician, best known for his contributions to algebra.During his career he has pu

Is a Romanian mathematician, best known for his contributions to algebra.During his career he has published 98 papers and 6 books. He is married, has three children. He earned his MS in Mathematics in 1964, and his Ph.D. in the same subject in 1967, both at the University of Bucharest. He lectured at the University of Bucharest from 1968 to 1972. Since 1964, he has held a research professorship position at the Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy.

Was a Russian logician, philosopher, psychologist, poet, the forerunner of paraconsistent and multi-

Was a Russian logician, philosopher, psychologist, poet, the forerunner of paraconsistent and multi-valued logics.Willing to be a psychologist, Vasiliev studied at the medical faculty and the historico-philological faculty of Kazan University (1906), wher

Was a German philosopher. Hartmann was born, of German descent, in Riga, now Latvia and then capital

Was a German philosopher. Hartmann was born, of German descent, in Riga, now Latvia and then capital of the Russian province of Livonia. He studied Medicine at the University of Tartu (then Jurjev), then Philosophy in St. Petersburg and, most importantly, at the University of Marburg in Germany, where he took his Ph.D. and Habilitation. He was professor of philosophy in Marburg (1922–25), Cologne (1925–31), Berlin (1931–45) and Göttingen (1945–50), where he died.