Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter P

Was an English-American linguist and phonetician who traveled the world to document the distinct sou

Was an English-American linguist and phonetician who traveled the world to document the distinct sounds of endangered languages and pioneered ways to collect and study data. He was active at the universities of Edinburgh, Scotland and Ibadan, Nigeria 1953–61. At Edinburgh he studied phonetics with David Abercrombie, who himself had studied with Daniel Jones and was thus connected to Henry Sweet.At the time of his death, he was Professor of Phonetics Emeritus at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he taught from 1962 to 1991. His book A Course in Phonetics is a common introductory text in phonetics, and The Sounds of the World's Languages (co-authored with Ian Maddieson) is widely regarded as a standard phonetics reference. Ladefoged also wrote several books on the phonetics of African languages.

Is the professor of Regional Economics and Economic Geography at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam,

Is the professor of Regional Economics and Economic Geography at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, a fellow of the Tinbergen Institute and President of the Governing Board of the Netherlands Research Council (NWO). He holds an MSc (1970) in Econometrics and Regional Economics and a PhD (1972) in Regional Economics, both from the Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Was a Swedish astronomer and novelist. Active at Uppsala University, he compiled a catalogue of gala

Was a Swedish astronomer and novelist. Active at Uppsala University, he compiled a catalogue of galaxies. He was appreciated for a number of essay books (primarily about science) and for a number of science fiction novels like Rymdväktaren, or "The Space Guardian" and Nyaga.He was born in a Smålandian village and under the early teens a farmer, but science, with its celebrities such as Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein made such an impression on him, as to motivate him to accomplish college studies by letter correspondence. In the early 1960:ies he began his studies in Uppsala University, initially in mathematics, and thereafter theoretical physics, aesthetics, history of ideas and astronomy.

Was a French theologian and archbishop. He entered the Dominican Order at Lyon, completed his theolo

Was a French theologian and archbishop. He entered the Dominican Order at Lyon, completed his theological studies at the University of Paris, and was made a Doctor and Master of Theology in 1314. Wishing to devote his life to teaching and writing, he avoided all offices of honour in the order, except those pertaining to the direction of studies.

Was a Danish botanist. He was born in 1766 in Rønne, Denmark, and died in 1832 in Tangier, Morocco,

Was a Danish botanist. He was born in 1766 in Rønne, Denmark, and died in 1832 in Tangier, Morocco, having served as Danish consul general in Tangier from 1800 onwards. He conducted a botanical expedition in Spain and Morocco during the years 1791-93. Among the plants that he was the first to describe was the popular garden flower Salvia interrupta; the bushwillow genus Schousboea (now considered a synonym of Combretum) was named in his honour.

Is a Dutch linguist, who is a professor of Celtic languages (Welsh, Cornish, and Breton) at Utrecht

Is a Dutch linguist, who is a professor of Celtic languages (Welsh, Cornish, and Breton) at Utrecht University, and researcher of ancient Indo-European linguistics. He worked previously at Leiden University and the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. (Schrijver 2007:29)He has published three books and a large number of articles on the history and linguistics of Indo-European languages, particularly the description, reconstruction and syntax of the Celtic languages, and lately researching language change and language contact in ancient Europe. (Schrijver 2007:29)

Was a German zoologist and botanist who worked in Russia. Pallas was born in Berlin, the son of Prof

Was a German zoologist and botanist who worked in Russia. Pallas was born in Berlin, the son of Professor of Surgery Simon Pallas.

Is a French philosopher and musicologist. His Écoute, une histoire de nos oreilles (2001), with a p

Is a French philosopher and musicologist. His Écoute, une histoire de nos oreilles (2001), with a preface by Jean-Luc Nancy, has been translated into Spanish and English (Listen, A History of Our Ears[1]). Criticizing Romantic and Modernist conceptions of listening, he suggests an alternative model based on deconstruction: listening, he argues (quoting C. P. E. Bach), is a "tolerated theft", and our ears are always already haunted by the ear of the other.

Currently living in New Jersey) is a scholar of writing systems, specializing in typology. He was co

Currently living in New Jersey) is a scholar of writing systems, specializing in typology. He was co-editor (with William Bright) of the book The World's Writing Systems (1996), and he introduced the terms abjad (an "alphabet" with no vowel letters) and abugida (a system partly alphabetic, partly syllabic) as modern linguistic terms for categories of scripts. (These terms had been used previously in a more restricted sense by specialists in the fields of the Arabic alphabet and Ge'ez script, from which languages they were borrowed respectively.)

Is a British philosopher. His areas of interest are the history of philosophy, philosophical logic,

Is a British philosopher. His areas of interest are the history of philosophy, philosophical logic, and the theory of identity.His Catholic perspective is integral to his philosophy. He is perhaps the founder of Analytical Thomism (though the current of t

Was a Danish physician and botanist.He was sent to Ghana by the Danish government to supervise the p

Was a Danish physician and botanist.He was sent to Ghana by the Danish government to supervise the plantations of that colony, and he lived there from 1799 to 1803. His herbarium was destroyed during the shelling of Copenhagen by the British in 1807. Only the duplicates and manuscripts in the possession of Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher (1757–1830) survived. Today, around 1,050 samples are preserved at the University of Copenhagen Botanical Garden.

Is a specialist in population dynamics and mathematical modeling of historical dynamics ("cliodynami

Is a specialist in population dynamics and mathematical modeling of historical dynamics ("cliodynamics").

Is credited as the founder of the Waldensians, a Christian spiritual movement of the Middle Ages, de

Is credited as the founder of the Waldensians, a Christian spiritual movement of the Middle Ages, descendants of which still exist in various regions of southern Europe. Due to lack of reliable documentation there is a great degree of debate over Waldo's role in the Waldensian sect which may have existed before his leadership, while the French historian Thuanus dated his death to the year 1179.[1]

A Canadian lawyer, author and legal scholar. He is best known as a leading authority on Canadian con

A Canadian lawyer, author and legal scholar. He is best known as a leading authority on Canadian constitutional law.Born in Lower Hutt, New Zealand, Hogg earned his LL.B from the University of New Zealand in 1962, his LL.M from Harvard University in 1963, and his Ph.D from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia in 1970. In 1970, he was appointed Professor of Law at Osgoode Hall Law School of York University in Toronto and was appointed Dean in 1998. In 2003 he accepted a position as scholar in residence at the law firm of Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP.

Is a mathematician and statistician, working in the fields of stochastic nets, optimal control, time

Is a mathematician and statistician, working in the fields of stochastic nets, optimal control, time series analysis, stochastic optimization and stochastic dynamics. From 1967 to 1994, he was the Churchill Professor of Mathematics for Operational Researc

Was a Danish zoologist and paleontologist who spent most of his life working and living in Brazil.In

Was a Danish zoologist and paleontologist who spent most of his life working and living in Brazil.In 1825 he made his first trip to Brazil, where he spent three years mainly collecting plants near Rio de Janeiro. Back to Europe in 1829, he achieved a doctoral degree at the University of Kiel, traveled to Italy and later established in Paris, where he came under the influence of Georges Cuvier, professor of comparative anatomy at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle and the most influential naturalist and zoologist of the time.In his Discours sur les revolutions de la surface du globe (1825), Cuvier theorized that the extinction of species was caused by natural catastrophes on certain regions of the world. When that happens, the fauna from other regions migrate top populate the now uninhabited area. This became known as the catastrophic theory, and would become the motto of Lund's scientific career.

Is a mathematician. His main achievements concern approximation theory – in particular the theory

Is a mathematician. His main achievements concern approximation theory – in particular the theory of Padé approximants – and its application in numerical methods for improving the rate of convergence of sequences of real numbers.

A Czech politician, lawyer and political scientist.He served as Prime Minister of the Czech Republic

A Czech politician, lawyer and political scientist.He served as Prime Minister of the Czech Republic (then part of Czechoslovakia) from February 6, 1990 to July 2, 1992. He has sat in Senate of the Czech Republic since its inception in autumn 1996, serving as its chairman from December 18, 1996 to December 16, 1998 and from December 19, 2000 to December 15, 2004.Pithart was member of Communist Party of Czechoslovakia since 1960, was active in the Prague Spring and left the party after the Soviet invasion; later he was one of the most prominent dissidents against the communist regime. He was imprisoned for this activity including being one of the first signatories of Charter 77. In 1989 he was one of the prominent leaders of the Civic Forum founded at the start of the overthrow of the regime.

A Czech linguist. He specializes in Dependency grammar, Topic-focus articulation and Common Czech.Pe

A Czech linguist. He specializes in Dependency grammar, Topic-focus articulation and Common Czech.Petr Sgall was born 27 May, 1926 in Ceské Budejovice. His father was an attorney and translator from Litomyšl of a Jewish descent. Sgall was studying at Ceské Trebové high school, however he was expelled in the 1942/43 academic year because of his Jewish father. Most of Sgall's closest relatives were killed in the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Is a Czech mathematician. In the early seventies, he established the Alternative Set Theory (i.e. al

Is a Czech mathematician. In the early seventies, he established the Alternative Set Theory (i.e. alternative to the classical Cantor theory), which he subsequently developed in a series of articles and monographs. In the sphere of world mathematics literature, Vopenka’s name is associated with many first-class mathematical achievements. [1] [2] Since the mid-eighties he has concerned himself with philosophical questions of mathematics (particularly vis-à-vis Husserlian phenomenology).

A former Minister of Education, Youth and Sports in the Czech cabinet. She belongs to the Czech Soci

A former Minister of Education, Youth and Sports in the Czech cabinet. She belongs to the Czech Social Democratic Party.

Was a Romanian philosopher, journalist and economist.Legendary Romanian philosopher Petre Tutea was

Was a Romanian philosopher, journalist and economist.Legendary Romanian philosopher Petre Tutea was born in the village of Boteni, Muscel region. His father was a Romanian Orthodox priest and his mother, Ana Tutea, was of peasant stock. Tutea graduated from the University in Cluj where he also obtained a PhD in Administrative Law. He moved to Bucharest and founded a leftist newspaper, "Stanga" ("The Left"), that was quickly and forcefully closed by the government.

Was a Jewish Spanish writer and astronomer, and polemicist, who converted to Christianity. He was ph

Was a Jewish Spanish writer and astronomer, and polemicist, who converted to Christianity. He was physician to King Alfonso VI of Castile.He embraced Christianity and was baptized at Huesca on St. Peter's Day, June 29, 1106, in his forty-fifth year. In honor of the saint and of his royal patron and godfather he took the name of Petrus Alfonsi (Alfonso's Peter).advantageous knowledge of Christianity, Judaism and Islam that would later prove useful in his polemics. John Tolan mentioned in his book Petrus Alfonsi and His Medieval Readers that “Alfonsi’s texts were received enthusiastically—he became an auctor, an authority to be quoted. His success was due in large part to his ability to bridge several cultures: a Jew from the [Muslim] world of al-Andalus.” His knowledge of these different religions is what makes Alfonsi unique and why he is essential to be studied when looking at anti-Judaic polemics.

German humanist, famous for his works in mathematics, astronomy and cartography.

German humanist, famous for his works in mathematics, astronomy and cartography.

Was a Swedish naturalist and is known as the "father of Ichthyology."Intending to become a clergyman

Was a Swedish naturalist and is known as the "father of Ichthyology."Intending to become a clergyman, he went, in 1724, to study theology at Uppsala University, but he turned his attention to medicine and natural history, especially fishes. In 1728 his countryman Carolus Linnaeus arrived in Uppsala, and a lasting friendship was formed between the two. In 1732 both left Uppsala, Artedi for England, and Linnaeus for Lappland; before parting they reciprocally bequeathed to each other their manuscripts and books in the event of death.