Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter R

A linguist notable for his advocacy of Korean and Japanese as members of the Altaic group of languag

A linguist notable for his advocacy of Korean and Japanese as members of the Altaic group of languages.He was Professor of Linguistics at the International Christian University in Tokyo from 1955 to 1963. Subsequently he taught at Yale University; between 1964 and 1970, he was chairman of the department of East and South Asian Languages and Literatures. From 1970 until 1989 he held a similar post at the University of Washington in Seattle. Since then, he has taught in Europe, mainly in Germany and Scandinavia.Prof. Miller has written extensively on the Japanese language, from A Japanese Reader (1963) and The Japanese Language (1967) to Japanese and the Other Altaic Languages (1971) and Nihongo: In Defense of Japanese (1986). He later broadened his scope by linking Korean both to Japanese and Altaic, most notably in Languages and History: Japanese, Korean, and Altaic (1996).

An American molecular biologist known for his discovery of repeated DNA sequences in genomes of high

An American molecular biologist known for his discovery of repeated DNA sequences in genomes of higher organisms.Britten attended the phage course at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and started working on DNA hybridization. Through this work, he showed that eukaryotic genomes have many repetitive, non-coding DNA sequences -- junk DNA.Britten has been at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) for many years. He was a Visiting Associate at from 1971-73, a Senior Research Associate at Caltech from 1973-81 and Distinguished Carnegie Senior Research Associate from 1981-99. In 1999 he became Distinguished Carnegie Senior Research Associate in Biology, Emeritus at caltech.

Douglas Preston of the American Museum of Natural History wrote:Andrews is allegedly the real person

Douglas Preston of the American Museum of Natural History wrote:Andrews is allegedly the real person that the movie character of Indiana Jones was patterned after. Andrews was an accomplished stage master. He created an image and lived it out impeccably—there was no chink in his armor. Roy Chapman Andrews: famous explorer, dinosaur hunter, exemplar of Anglo-Saxon virtues, crack shot, fighter of Mongolian brigands, the man who created the metaphor of 'Outer Mongolia' as denoting any exceedingly remote place.[1]

Emeritus Professor of General Linguistics in the University of Oxford and Honorary Fellow of St Edmu

Emeritus Professor of General Linguistics in the University of Oxford and Honorary Fellow of St Edmund Hall. He has also held university teaching posts in Hong Kong, Boston and Paris and visiting fellowships at universities in South Africa and Australia, and at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study.His books on integrationism, theory of communication, semiology and the history of linguistic thought include 'The Language Myth', 'Rethinking Writing', 'Saussure and his Interpreters' and 'The Necessity of Artspeak'.

Was a Canadian-born plant geneticist and plant breeder at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Brink

Was a Canadian-born plant geneticist and plant breeder at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Brink was instrumental to the beginning of the Wisconsin maize breeding program during the 1920s. He also served as chair of the Department of Genetics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1939 through 1951.His scientific achievements include the discovery of paramutation in maize and the study of transposons. Brink was also very interested in agriculture, creating new varieties of clover and alfalfa during his career.Brink was awarded many honors during his lifetime. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1947. He was also an editor of the Genetics Society of America's journal, Genetics, from 1952 through 1957 and served as president of the society in 1957.

Was an American statistician, born at Quaker Lake, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania. He graduated fr

Was an American statistician, born at Quaker Lake, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Iowa State College in 1898, then studied at Columbia (Ph.D., 1906) and in Europe at the University of Leipzig (1903-04). From 1906 to 1913, he was profe

A professor of linguistics and English at Brigham Young University, is mainly known as the editor of

A professor of linguistics and English at Brigham Young University, is mainly known as the editor of the Book of Mormon Critical Text Project and as the founder of the Analogical Modeling approach to language modeling.Royal Skousen was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He received a B.A. degree from Brigham Young University, with a major in English and a minor in mathematics. Skousen went on to study linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, there earning his Ph.D. degree in 1972. He has also held the position of assistant professor at the University of Texas. He is the older brother of libertarian author Mark Skousen and survivalist/economist author Joel Skousen. He is the nephew of conservative author Cleon Skousen.

He is one of the founders of liberation theology.[1][2].Besides his activities as university profess

He is one of the founders of liberation theology.[1][2].Besides his activities as university professor and researcher, Dr. Alves is a prolific writer of books and articles in journals and newspapers on education, psychology and life in general. Since 1986 he is a regular columnist at the Correio Popular, the main newspaper in his hometown, Campinas, in the state of São Paulo. He has published more than 40 books so far, and several of them have been translated into German, French, English, Italian, Spanish and Romanian. He is also a very popular lecturer and is much appreciated by educators in general for his humanistic views on education.

Was an Australian pioneer in radiophysics and radio astronomy and is believed to have been the first

Was an Australian pioneer in radiophysics and radio astronomy and is believed to have been the first female radio astronomer.One of the best physicists that Australia has ever produced and one of the first people in the world to consider the possibility of radio astronomy, and thereby responsible for what is now a fundamental part of the modern lexicon of science, this brilliant woman was often the only female in her classes at the University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.Her career arguably reached its zenith while working for the Australian government's Commonwealth Scientific Industrial Research Organisation (then called CSIR now known as CSIRO) at Lucas Heights, Sydney. Some of her fundamental contributions to solar radio astronomy came at the end of this period and during her early "home duties" career.

Has been Professor (emeritus) of Informatics at the Technical University of Munich since 1972. He is

Has been Professor (emeritus) of Informatics at the Technical University of Munich since 1972. He is famous for inventing two data sorting structures: the B-tree with Edward M. McCreight, and later the UB-tree with Volker Markl.

He was a leading member of the Vienna Circle and a prominent advocate of logical positivism.

He was a leading member of the Vienna Circle and a prominent advocate of logical positivism.

Was a German philosopher and logician. He also had a medical degree and was unusually well versed in

Was a German philosopher and logician. He also had a medical degree and was unusually well versed in biology. He argued that if the physical world is governed by mechanical laws, relations and developments in the universe could be explained as the functio

A German pioneer of transgenic science, in which an animal’s genetic makeup is altered. Jaenisch h

A German pioneer of transgenic science, in which an animal’s genetic makeup is altered. Jaenisch has focused on creating transgenic mice to study cancer and neurological diseases.Jaenisch’s first breakthrough occurred in 1974 when he showed that foreign DNA could be integrated into the DNA of early mouse embryos.[1] Jaenisch injected retrovirus into early mouse embryos and showed that leukemia DNA sequences had integrated the mouse genome and also to its offspring. Jaenisch’s mice were the first transgenic animals in history.

Was a German botanist and physician.Camerarius was born at Tübingen, and became professor of medici

Was a German botanist and physician.Camerarius was born at Tübingen, and became professor of medicine and director of the botanical gardens at Tübingen in 1687. He is chiefly known for his investigations on the reproductive organs of plants (De sexu plantarum epistola (1694)).While other botanists, such as John Ray and Nehemiah Grew, had observed that plants seemed to have sex in some form, and guessed that pollen was the male fertilizing agent, it was Camerarius who did experimental work. In studying the mulberry, he determined that female plants not near to male (staminate) plants produced fruit but with no seeds. Mercurialis and spinach plants fared likewise. With the castor oil plant (Ricinus) and with maize he cut off the staminate flowers (the "tassels" of maize),

Was a Poland-born Austrian psychologist, philosopher.

Was a Poland-born Austrian psychologist, philosopher.

Was a Dutch professor in the English language and Old English literature at the Utrecht University.V

Was a Dutch professor in the English language and Old English literature at the Utrecht University.Vleeskruijer lived a part of his youth (1924 to 1929) in England. From August 1945 to May 1946 he was an interpreter for the Allied Forces as a conscript NCO in the Dutch Army.He studied English at the University of Amsterdam and received his bachelor degree on July 17, 1941. After obtaining his master's degree on June 29, 1948, he took up a study in 1949 at the University of Oxford (St. Catherine College)[1]. To Vleeskruijer was granted the title B.lett.Oxon (Bachelor of Letters Oxoniensis) at this university by J. R. R. Tolkien in 1951.

Was a German jurist. He is known for his 1872 book Der Kampf ums Recht, as a legal scholar, and as t

Was a German jurist. He is known for his 1872 book Der Kampf ums Recht, as a legal scholar, and as the founder of a modern sociological and historical school of law.After graduating doctor juris, Jhering established himself in 1844 at Berlin as privatdocent for Roman law, and delivered public lectures on the Geist des römischen Rechts, the theme which may be said to have constituted his life's work. In 1845 he became an ordinary professor at Basel, in 1846 at Rostock, in 1849 at Kiel, and in 1851 at Giessen. Upon all these seats of learning he left his mark; beyond any other of his contemporaries he animated the dry bones of Roman law.

Is a German Mathematician and was Professor of General Algebra from 1970 to 2003 at Technische Unive

Is a German Mathematician and was Professor of General Algebra from 1970 to 2003 at Technische Universität Darmstadt (TU Darmstadt). His most celebrated work is the invention of Formal concept analysis, a supervised machine learning technique that applies

Was a Dutch linguist and mathematician who held appointments at the University of Marburg and the Un

Was a Dutch linguist and mathematician who held appointments at the University of Marburg and the University of Leiden.In 1578, he returned to Oudewater soon after its devastation in a Spanish siege during the Dutch Revolt. It was not long before he was offered, and accepted, a position as professor of Hebrew and mathematics at the University of Leiden. That summer he married Machteld Cornelisdochter, who had survived the Oudewater massacre. She accompanied him to Leiden, where he taught until his death in 1613.[2] Snellius was buried in the Grote kerk in his hometown Oudewater.

A British former biochemist turned parapsychology researcher, and the author of a number of controve

A British former biochemist turned parapsychology researcher, and the author of a number of controversial books on topics such as animal and plant development and behaviour, memory, telepathy and perception.Sheldrake's ideas have often met with a hostile reception from scientists, including accusations that he is engaged in pseudoscience, though according to some reporters his ideas have been better received by elements of the general public.[1][2][

An American macroeconomist who is the Fred Hofheinz Professor of Economics at the University of Texa

An American macroeconomist who is the Fred Hofheinz Professor of Economics at the University of Texas, Austin. He has previously held academic positions at Yale University, the University of Iowa, and Boston University. He is best known for his work on coordination games.[1] He is the author of the book Coordination Games,[2] and the co-author of Dynamic Economics with Jerome Adda.[3]

Is the American philosopher and logician after whom the Barcan formula is named. She is a pioneering

Is the American philosopher and logician after whom the Barcan formula is named. She is a pioneering figure in the quantification of modal logic and the theory of direct reference. She has written seminal papers on identity, essentialism, possibilia, beli

Is a botanist and limnologist specializing in diatoms and freshwater ecology, who developed ways to

Is a botanist and limnologist specializing in diatoms and freshwater ecology, who developed ways to measure the health of freshwater ecosystems and established a number of research facilities. She attended the Sunset Hill School in Kansas City, Missouri, graduating in 1925. She earned her PhD at the University of Virginia in 1934.

Was an eminent American geneticist. Sager enjoyed two scientic careers. Her first was in the 1950s a

Was an eminent American geneticist. Sager enjoyed two scientic careers. Her first was in the 1950s and 1960s when she pioneered the field of cytoplasmic genetics. Her second career began in the early 1970s and was in cancer genetics; she proposed and investigated the roles of tumor suppressor genes.Ruth Sager was born in Chicago, Illinois. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago in 1938, master's degree in plant physiology from Rutgers University in 1944 and doctorate in maize genetics under Marcus Rhoades from Columbia University in 1948.

Is a Polish lawyer and economist. Czerniawski was educated at the Warsaw School of Economics and the

Is a Polish lawyer and economist. Czerniawski was educated at the Warsaw School of Economics and the University of Warsaw. Between 1994 and 2006 he was a Vice President of the Warsaw Stock Exchange.