Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter S

Was a Polish Catholic priest, philosopher, historian of philosophy, professor and rector of Kraków'

Was a Polish Catholic priest, philosopher, historian of philosophy, professor and rector of Kraków's Jagiellonian University.[1]In 1858–62 he studied classical philology at Wroclaw University. At Wroclaw he was secretary and president of the Slavic-Literary Society. In 1862 he left Wroclaw without taking a degree. In 1862–64 he was tutor, at Rogalin, to Edward Aleksander Raczynski. From 1864 he studied in the Philosophy Department at Wroclaw University. At the same time, he attended lectures in psychology and logic. In 1865 he defended a doctoral thesis, De Schopenhaueri doctrina et philosophandi ratione—a then pioneering study of the thought of Arthur Schopenhauer.[1]

Was an Italian zoologist, botanist, anatomist and physician.

Was an Italian zoologist, botanist, anatomist and physician.

Was a mathematician, now best known for his collaboration with David Hilbert on the 1932 book Anscha

Was a mathematician, now best known for his collaboration with David Hilbert on the 1932 book Anschauliche Geometrie, translated into English as Geometry and the Imagination[1]. The Cohn-Vossen transformation is also named for him[2]. He was barred from l

Was an Austrian botanist, numismatist and Sinologist. He was a director of the Botanical Garden of V

Was an Austrian botanist, numismatist and Sinologist. He was a director of the Botanical Garden of Vienna. He was born in Pressburg (Bratislava) and died in Vienna.Endlicher studied theology and received minor orders. In 1828 he was appointed to the Austrian national library to reorganize its manuscript collection. Concurrently he studied Natural History, in particular botany, and East-Asian languages. He wrote the fundamentals of Chinese grammar.In 1840 Endlicher became professor at and director of the Botanical Garden of Vienna. He wrote a comprehensive description of the Plant Kingdom according to a natural system,

Was a French astronomer. Since 1888 he worked assisting Henri Perrotin at the Nice Observatory, and

Was a French astronomer. Since 1888 he worked assisting Henri Perrotin at the Nice Observatory, and observed 1431 objects published in the Index Catalogue[1].

Was a Hungarian-born Australian linguist.Both of his parents were multilingual and Wurm also showed

Was a Hungarian-born Australian linguist.Both of his parents were multilingual and Wurm also showed an interest in languages from an early age. Attending school in Vienna and travelling to all parts of Europe during his childhood, Wurm spoke nine languages by the time he reached adulthood.Wurm grew up stateless, unable to take the nationality of either parent or of his country of residence, Austria. This enabled him to avoid military service and attend university. He studied Turkic languages at the Oriental Institute in Vienna, receiving his doctorate in linguistics and social anthropology in 1944 for a dissertation on the Uzbek language.

Was an American mathematician who helped lay the foundations for theoretical computer science. One o

Was an American mathematician who helped lay the foundations for theoretical computer science. One of many distinguished students of Alonzo Church, Kleene, along with Alan Turing, Emil Post, and others, is best known as a founder of the branch of mathematical logic known as recursion theory. Kleene's work grounds the study of which functions are computable. A number of mathematical concepts are named after him: Kleene hierarchy, Kleene algebra, the Kleene star, Kleene's recursion theorem and the Kleene fixpoint theorem. He also invented regular expressions, and was a leading American advocate of mathematical intuitionism.

Is an American demographer, specializing in the relationship between world population growth and nat

Is an American demographer, specializing in the relationship between world population growth and national and global security.After graduating from University of Kentucky College of Agriculture, he was commissioned in the Army Medical Service Corps, leavi

Is the Maurice Falk Professor of Statistics and Social Science in the Department of Statistics, the

Is the Maurice Falk Professor of Statistics and Social Science in the Department of Statistics, the Machine Learning Department and Cylab at Carnegie Mellon University.He has been on the Carnegie Mellon University faculty since 1980 and became a U.S. citi

Was a prominent American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. He was al

Was a prominent American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. He was also one of the most influential and widely read writers of popular science of his generation. Gould spent most of his career teaching at Harvard University and working at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.Gould's greatest contribution to science was his theory of punctuated equilibrium which he developed with Niles Eldredge in 1972.[1] The theory proposes that most evolution is marked by long periods of evolutionary stability, which is later punctuated by rare instances of branching evolution. The theory was contrasted against phyletic gradualism, the popular idea that evolutionary change is marked by a pattern of smooth and continuous change in the fossil record.

Is a literary critic, theorist and scholar.Greenblatt has since taught at University of California,

Is a literary critic, theorist and scholar.Greenblatt has since taught at University of California, Berkeley and Harvard University. He was Class of 1932 Professor at Berkeley (he became a full professor in 1980) and taught there for 28 years before taking a position at Harvard University where in 1997 Greenblatt became the Harry Levin Professor of Literature;

A British economist and currently Warden of Nuffield College, Oxford.He was a postgraduate student a

A British economist and currently Warden of Nuffield College, Oxford.He was a postgraduate student at the London School of Economics, where he took the degree of Master of Science and was awarded the Ely Devons Prize. He worked at the London School of Economics from 1970 until 1984, and again from 1998 until 2006, initially as Lecturer (1970-77), Reader (1977-79), and Professor of Economics (1979-84).From 1984 until 1998 he was Professorial Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, Professor of Economics in the University of Oxford, and Director of the University of Oxford Institute of Economics and Statistics.

Professor emeritus at the University of Southern California, moving from the linguistics department

Professor emeritus at the University of Southern California, moving from the linguistics department to the faculty of the School of Education in 1994. He is a linguist, educational researcher, and activist. Dr. Krashen has published more than 350 papers and books, contributing to the fields of second language acquisition (SLA), bilingual education, and reading.[1] [2] He is credited with introducing various influential concepts and terms in the study of second language acquisition, including the Acquisition-learning hypothesis, the Input Hypothesis, Monitor Theory, the Affective Filter, and the Natural Order Hypothesis.[3]

Is a young American paleontologist.He is the author of the 2002 book Stately Fossils: A Comprehensiv

Is a young American paleontologist.He is the author of the 2002 book Stately Fossils: A Comprehensive Look at the State Fossils and Other Official Fossils and the 2008 book Dinosaurs. Brusatte has additionally authored several scientific papers as well as

Was a geochemist, petrologist and winner of the Murchison Medal of the Geological Society of London.

Was a geochemist, petrologist and winner of the Murchison Medal of the Geological Society of London.He was educated at Ascham St Vincent's School, Eastbourne and at Felsted School where his interest in rocks already manifested itself. He then went to Manchester University and then took a PhD at Trinity College, Cambridge. He became a Fellow of Trinity College, and lectured in petrology at Cambridge. In 1957 he became Reader in Geochemistry at Cambridge, and Emeritus Reader. In 1959 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society, and was also an Honorary Fellow of the Geological Society of India. In 1972 he retired from Cambridge and was awarded the Murchison Medal of the Geological Society. He published a leading work on petrology and a large number of papers in various journals as shown below.

A British theoretical physicist. Hawking is the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University

A British theoretical physicist. Hawking is the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge (due to retire from this post in 2009),[1] and a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He is known for his contributions to the fields of cosmology and quantum gravity, especially in the context of black holes, and his popular works in which he discusses his own theories and cosmology in general. These include the runaway popular science bestseller A Brief History of Time, which stayed on the British Sunday Times bestseller list for a record-breaking 237 weeks.[2]

Is a statistician from New Zealand and was Government Statistician of New Zealand from 1984 to 1992[

Is a statistician from New Zealand and was Government Statistician of New Zealand from 1984 to 1992[1].

A prominent Canadian-American experimental psychologist, cognitive scientist, and author of popular

A prominent Canadian-American experimental psychologist, cognitive scientist, and author of popular science. Pinker is known for his wide-ranging advocacy of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind.Pinker’s academic specializations are visual cognition and language development in children, and he is most famous for popularizing the idea that language is an "instinct" or biological adaptation shaped by natural selection. On this point, he opposes Noam Chomsky and others who regard the human capacity for language to be the by-product of other adaptations. He is the author of five books for a general audience, which include The Language Instinct (1994), How the Mind Works (1997), Words and Rules (2000), The Blank Slate (2002), and The Stuff of Thought (2007). Pinker's books have won numerous awards and been New York Times best-sellers.

Is an American economist known for his work in the field of crime, in particular on the link between

Is an American economist known for his work in the field of crime, in particular on the link between legalized abortion and crime rates. Winner of the 2003 John Bates Clark Medal, he is currently the William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor of Eco

An American professor of economics at the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York. From 1989

An American professor of economics at the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York. From 1989 to 1995, he taught at Colorado State University.Landsburg currently writes a column on "everyday economics" for Slate magazine. The subjects of the columns are diverse and often draw on current affairs. Landsburg has discussed the national debt, the obesity crisis, payments to Hurricane Katrina evacuees in New Orleans and salary caps in the NFL. Alternatively, Landsburg discusses recent research in micro-economics and its implications. In this vein, he has discussed the value of mobile phones and driving, the (career) cost of motherhood, and whether or not daughters (as opposed to sons) cause divorce.

A Hong Kong born economist, specializes in the fields of transaction costs and property rights. He i

A Hong Kong born economist, specializes in the fields of transaction costs and property rights. He is also the most expensive columnist in Hong Kong. Known for his work on private property rights and transaction costs, he achieved his fame with an economic analysis on China open-door policy after 1980s. In his studies of economics, he focuses on economic explanation that is based on real world observation (i.e. an observation first approach). He is also the first to introduce concepts from the Chicago School of Economics into China.He obtained his PhD in economics from UCLA, where his teacher was famous American economist Armen Alchian. He taught in the Department of Economics at the University of Hong Kong from the 1980s to 1990s. During this period, Cheung reformed the syllabus of Hong Kong's A-level Economics examination, adding the concepts of the postulate of constrained maximization, methodology, transaction cost and property right, most of which originate from the theories of the Chicago school. He is also good at photography and Chinese calligraphy.

Is a Dutch economist who currently serves as the Assistant Director of International Monetary Fund's

Is a Dutch economist who currently serves as the Assistant Director of International Monetary Fund's Research Department.[1] He worked for fourteen years at World Bank beginning in 1987 until 2001 where he assumed various positions including that of Lead Economist. Following his tenure at the World Bank he became Professor of International Finance Policy at the University of Amsterdam where he remained for three years and still is on the faculty.

Is an American biologist and ornithologist from the Smithsonian Institution. He is one of the world'

Is an American biologist and ornithologist from the Smithsonian Institution. He is one of the world's leading paleornithologists.An appointment with Alexander Wetmore in 1967 led him to his main research field of paleornithology and to his work on Ascension Island and Saint Helena where he made remarkable discoveries in the 1970s like the Giant Hoopoe and the Saint Helena Crake.

Was a Chinese mathematician and educator.

Was a Chinese mathematician and educator.

Was a renowned Chinese statesman, astronomer, cartographer, horologist, pharmacologist, mineralogist

Was a renowned Chinese statesman, astronomer, cartographer, horologist, pharmacologist, mineralogist, zoologist, botanist, mechanical and architectural engineer, poet, antiquarian, and ambassador of the Song Dynasty (960–1279).