Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter R

An American evolutionary biologist. He is notable for his research on evolutionary psychology and Da

An American evolutionary biologist. He is notable for his research on evolutionary psychology and Darwinian medicine, as well as the evolutionary origins of emotions and how natural selection shapes the capacity for mood.Nesse is a professor of psychology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a professor of psychiatry at the University of Michigan Medical School. He is also the Director of the Evolution & Human Adaptation Program at University of Michigan.

Was a mathematician known for numerous basic contributions to geometry in its broad sense.He later w

Was a mathematician known for numerous basic contributions to geometry in its broad sense.He later went to college at McGill University in Montreal, and then earned a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh in 1949. His thesis, titled Electric

Is a French engineer and a mathematician. He is best known for his work in work in geometry, especia

Is a French engineer and a mathematician. He is best known for his work in work in geometry, especially descriptive geometry and scissors congruence, and kinematics, especially mechanical linkages. Bricard taught geometry at Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures. In 1908 he became a professor of applied geometry at the National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts in Paris.[1] In 1932 he received Poncelet Prize in mathematics from the Paris Academy of Sciences for his work in geometry.[2]

Was a Swedish humanitarian who worked in Budapest, Hungary during World War II to rescue Jews from t

Was a Swedish humanitarian who worked in Budapest, Hungary during World War II to rescue Jews from the Holocaust. Between July and December of 1944, he issued protective passports and housed Jews, saving tens of thousands of Jewish lives.

Is a professor of French philosophy. Son of the publisher Jean-Paul Enthoven, he is the former husba

Is a professor of French philosophy. Son of the publisher Jean-Paul Enthoven, he is the former husband of Justine Lévy (the daughter of Bernard-Henri Lévy) and former companion of Carla Bruni (currently the first lady of France), with whom he had a son (Aurélien Enthoven) born July 21, 2001.

Was an American mathematician.Robinson worked on mathematical logic, set theory, geometry, number th

Was an American mathematician.Robinson worked on mathematical logic, set theory, geometry, number theory, and combinatorics. Robinson (1937) set out a simpler and more conventional version of John Von Neumann's 1923 axiomatic set theory. Soon after Alfred

Was an American geologist and explorer.Invited by the respective governments, he surveyed parts of J

Was an American geologist and explorer.Invited by the respective governments, he surveyed parts of Japan and China. He made the first extensive survey of the Gobi Desert, and explored Mongolia and Siberia.Later he was Professor of Mining Science at Harvard University. Among his scientific accomplishments was a theory of secular rock disintegration. He was influenced by Louis Agassiz.The mineral Pumpellyite, a variety of "greenstone" found only in Keweenaw County in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, was named in his honor.

Danish scholar and philologist, was born at Brændekilde on the Danish island of Funen.Rask studied

Danish scholar and philologist, was born at Brændekilde on the Danish island of Funen.Rask studied at the University of Copenhagen and at once showed remarkable talent for the acquisition of languages. In 1808 he was appointed assistant keeper of the university library, and some years afterwards professor of literary history. In 1811 he published, in Danish, his Introduction to the Grammar of the Icelandic and other Ancient Northern Languages, from printed and manuscript materials accumulated by his predecessors in the same field of research.

Was a Danish philologist and professor of Romance languages and literature at Copenhagen University.

Was a Danish philologist and professor of Romance languages and literature at Copenhagen University.

A U.S. economist and professor at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. He is best known f

A U.S. economist and professor at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. He is best known for his best selling books The Great Depression of 1990 and Surviving the Great Depression of 1990. In the former book he predicted a sharp rise in the US stock market in the 1980s, followed by a cataclysmic drop and a depression in or around 1990.Batra obtained his B.A. degree from Punjab University in 1963 and M.A. degree from Delhi School of Economics in 1965. In 1969 he received his Ph.D. in Economics from Southern Illinois University. He surprised his professors by becoming published in distinguished refereed journals while a student. He became Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Western Ontario in 1969. He moved to Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas in 1970 to become Assistant Professor of Economics.

Is an Indian born statistician and professor of statistics at Oakland University. Dr. Khattree is an

Is an Indian born statistician and professor of statistics at Oakland University. Dr. Khattree is an author of many articles in statistics. The Fountain-Khattree-Peddada Theorem [1] in Pitman measure of closeness is one of the important results of his wor

An American linguist and a member of the Arts and Science faculty at New York University. He receive

An American linguist and a member of the Arts and Science faculty at New York University. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in engineering from Dartmouth College in the early 1960s and his Ph. D in linguistics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1968. At MIT, Dougherty was one of the first students of Noam Chomsky, working in the field of transformational grammar. During the Linguistics Wars of the 1970s, Dougherty was a critic of the generative semantics movement. Specializing in computational linguistics, Dougherty has published several books and articles on the subject. He is especially known for his work in Prolog programming.

An American linguist. He is professor of philosophy, Seth Merrin Chair in the Humanities and, with D

An American linguist. He is professor of philosophy, Seth Merrin Chair in the Humanities and, with Daniel Dennett, Co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. He has always straddled the boundary between generative linguistics and cognitive linguistics, committed as he is both to the existence of an innate Universal Grammar (an important thesis of generative linguistics) and to giving an account of language that meshes well with the current understanding of the human mind and cognition (the main purpose of cognitive linguistics).

An award winning Canadian geologist. He has used his research on the structure and tectonics of Nort

An award winning Canadian geologist. He has used his research on the structure and tectonics of North America’s lithosphere to produce extensive geological maps. He has also provided guidance for nuclear fuel waste disposal and reports on the human contribution to Global warming.He obtained his BSc in Geology from the University of Manitoba in 1955. He completed two more degrees in geology at Princeton University; an A.M. in 1957 and a PhD in 1958.

Is a French chef, born in Besançon, France.Blanc is the owner and chef at Le Manoir aux Quat' Saiso

Is a French chef, born in Besançon, France.Blanc is the owner and chef at Le Manoir aux Quat' Saisons, a hotel-restaurant in Great Milton, Oxfordshire, England. The restaurant has two Michelin stars and scores 8/10 in the Good Food Guide.

Was a French humorist, stand-up comedian and clown. He is best known for his sophisticated puns and

Was a French humorist, stand-up comedian and clown. He is best known for his sophisticated puns and surreal humour.Devos' career took off in the 1950s when he began writing his own one man shows and was the opening act for Maurice Chevalier. Although his act still involved elements of his early years as a clown (such as juggling) he was mostly recognized because of his mastery of the French language. His unique brand of surreal humour and sophisticated puns garnered him much respect throughout the Francophone world. Devos is a leading character in Alejandro Jodorowsky's surrealist 1957 debut short film Les têtes interverties (a mime adaptation of Thomas Mann's 1940 play The Transposed Heads). He performed for the last time in 1999 in Paris' Olympia Theater.

Was an English mathematician specialising in quantum mechanics.The Ehrenberg-Siday effect, later kno

Was an English mathematician specialising in quantum mechanics.The Ehrenberg-Siday effect, later known as the Aharonov-Bohm effect, is a quantum mechanical phenomenon by which a charged particle is affected by electromagnetic fields in regions from which

Was an American speech scientist at Oberlin College. In 1928 he published an influential book called

Was an American speech scientist at Oberlin College. In 1928 he published an influential book called Motor Phonetics: A Study of Speech Movements in Action.

Is an American mathematician, concert pianist, logician, philosopher, and magician.Born in Far Rocka

Is an American mathematician, concert pianist, logician, philosopher, and magician.Born in Far Rockaway, New York, his first career (like Persi Diaconis a generation later) was stage magic. He then earned a BSc from the University of Chicago in 1955 and h

Was an American biologist, regarded as one of the founders of biogerontology. He spent most of his c

Was an American biologist, regarded as one of the founders of biogerontology. He spent most of his career at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.His scientific interests (including his love of statistics) suggest that had he lived, he would have been at the forefront of population genetics which was emerging at the time, with the work of J. B. S. Haldane, Sewall Wright and Ronald FisherPearl is regarded as one of founders of biogerontology. In 1908 Max Rubner observed that mammals of different size and longevity had equal mass specific metabolic output[1]. Partly based on the observation that the longevity of fruit flies varies inversely with ambient temperature[2], Pearl (like Rubner) also asserted that maximum life span is inversely proportional to basal metabolic rate

Was a botanist and artist [2] born in London and at the age of six moved to Belfast. For a time he w

Was a botanist and artist [2] born in London and at the age of six moved to Belfast. For a time he was a teacher at the Royal School Dungannon. His main income was as a portrait painter and he included among his subjects certain Lord Mayors of London and Belfast. His interest in orchids (Orchidaceae) developed and his exhibits were displayed in the British Museum and the Ulster Museum. He also illustrated in number of books. In 1974 he was awarded the John Lindley Medal of the Royal Horticultural Society.

Was a French philosopher.

Was a French philosopher.

Was an American connoisseur of art and antiques, world traveler, socialite, philanthropist and the c

Was an American connoisseur of art and antiques, world traveler, socialite, philanthropist and the chairman of the Philadelphia Art Museum.

Was a French philosopher in the late 20th century. Author of many important works, he covered severa

Was a French philosopher in the late 20th century. Author of many important works, he covered several topics such as the philosophy of biology, the philosophy of informatics, the philosophy of value and others. His most popular book is The Gnosis of Princeton in which he presents his own philosophic views under the pretence that he was representing the views of an imaginary group of American scientists. He developed a theory of consciousness of all living matter, named panpsychism, which was a major influence on philosophers such as Simondon, Deleuze and Guattari.

Was an American astronomer and a graduate of Amherst College in Massachusetts (1899).He did his Mast

Was an American astronomer and a graduate of Amherst College in Massachusetts (1899).He did his Masters Degree at Amherst College in 1902, and then did his Ph.D. dissertation in 1905 at the Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl (Königstuhl Observatory, near Heidelberg) at the University of Heidelberg.At the time, the observatory at Heidelberg was a center of asteroid discovery under Max Wolf. During Dugan's time there, he discovered 16 asteroids, including notably 511 Davida.He was at Princeton University as an instructor (1905–1908), assistant professor (1908–1920), and professor (1920—). He married Annette Rumford in 1909.