Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter T

Was a French mathematician at Centre de Mathématiques de Jussieu who worked on Riemannian geometry

Was a French mathematician at Centre de Mathématiques de Jussieu who worked on Riemannian geometry and non-linear partial differential equations. He showed that Kaehler manifolds with negative first Chern classes have Kähler–Einstein metrics, a result closely related to the Calabi conjecture.

Was a French impersonator and humorist.

Was a French impersonator and humorist.

Was a German mathematician and writer. This highly patriotic tract thematises Frederick II's defeat

Was a German mathematician and writer. This highly patriotic tract thematises Frederick II's defeat at Kunersdorf. It also drew the attention of the editors of the famous Literaturbriefe (Literary Letters), started by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. He contribu

Is a former Irish Fine Gael politician and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. He was educated at Cl

Is a former Irish Fine Gael politician and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. He was educated at Clongowes Wood College, University College Dublin and King's Inns. He was called to the Bar in 1944 and to the Inner Bar in 1961.[1] He was elected to Dáil É

Was a British economist and strong campaigner for electoral reform.He was born in Halesowen, and att

Was a British economist and strong campaigner for electoral reform.He was born in Halesowen, and attended Halesowen Grammar School (now Earls High School) before being moved to Wolverhampton Grammar School. Following years of hardship for his home city, he founded the Birmingham Political Union in 1830. This was a political organization campaigning for cities, and large towns such as Birmingham, to be directly represented in Parliament. The Birmingham Political Union was foremost among groups lobbying the government for the passage of the Reform Bill to achieve this aim. After its success he became the first MP for Birmingham on 12 December 1832, a position he held until 1839.

Was an English entomologist. He was a naval paymaster until 1910 and was later appointed Imperial en

Was an English entomologist. He was a naval paymaster until 1910 and was later appointed Imperial entomologist in India, succeeding Harold Maxwell-Lefroy. He took great interest in various aspects of entomology in India, especially those of economic importance. He also worked extensively on the microlepidoptera. His major publications include Some South Indian Insects (1914), and A List of Generic Names used for Microlepidoptera (1929).

American herpetologist. From 1927 until 1946, he was director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology f

American herpetologist. From 1927 until 1946, he was director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology founded in 1859 by Louis Agassiz at Harvard University in Cambrdge, Massachusetts.

Was an American geologist, explorer, miner, businessman and former CEO of the Arabian American Oil C

Was an American geologist, explorer, miner, businessman and former CEO of the Arabian American Oil Company (formerly Aramco now Saudi Aramco)After college he worked as a surveyor and miner in Canada, an engineer, assayer and assistant manager of a silver and radium mine in the Northwest Territories and as an assistant professor of mining at the University of North Dakota.He accepted a position at the Anaconda Copper Mining Company but the Great Depression and falling copper prices resulted in his being forced to find work elsewhere.

Was a British mathematician and Presbyterian minister, known for having formulated a specific case o

Was a British mathematician and Presbyterian minister, known for having formulated a specific case of the theorem that bears his name: Bayes' theorem, which was published posthumously.

Was an English wood engraver and ornithologist.Bewick was a poor scholar, but showed, at a very earl

Was an English wood engraver and ornithologist.Bewick was a poor scholar, but showed, at a very early age, a talent for drawing. He had no lessons in art. At the age of 14 he was apprenticed to Ralph Beilby, an engraver in Newcastle. In Beilby's workshop Bewick engraved a series of diagrams on wood for Dr. Charles Hutton, illustrating a treatise on mensuration. He seems thereafter to have devoted himself entirely to engraving on wood, and in 1775 he received a premium from the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce for a wood engraving of the "Huntsman and the Old Hound". In 1776 he became a partner in Beilby's workshop.

Was an English naturalist whose fields were cattle, fishes and birds. He was a friend and correspond

Was an English naturalist whose fields were cattle, fishes and birds. He was a friend and correspondent of Charles Darwin though he opposed his theories.near Wellington, Shropshire. He studied at St John's College, Cambridge with his friend Charles Darwin. After succeeding to the estate in 1855 Eyton built a large natural history museum at Eyton Hall.Eyton published History of the Rarer British Birds (1836), A Monograph on the Anatidae, Or Duck Tribe (1838), A History of Oyster and Oyster Fisheries (1858) and Osteologia Avium (1871-78).

Was a British physician, zoologist and botanist. Jerdon was born in County Durham near Jedburgh and

Was a British physician, zoologist and botanist. Jerdon was born in County Durham near Jedburgh and studied at Edinburgh University. He became assistant-surgeon in the British East India Company, stationed in India and later Surgeon Major in the Madras Regiment.Jerdon started collecting birds shortly after his arrival in India on 21 February 1836.[2] He was in the 2nd Light Cavalry for the next four years posted in the Deccan and Eastern Ghats. After his marriage to Flora Macleod, niece of general L. W. Watson, in July 1841, he was posted to the Nilgiri Hills. Flora had an interest in botanical art and took an interest in orchids. Around 1845 the Jerdon's lived in their Ooty home Woodside, and their children were baptised at the local St. Stephens church.[3][4] This was followed by a posting to Nellore where he interacted with the tribes and obtained information on the natural history

Was a Danish mathematician and astronomer, best known for his 1854 discovery of a factor of the sixt

Was a Danish mathematician and astronomer, best known for his 1854 discovery of a factor of the sixth Fermat number.Clausen learned mathematics at home. In 1820, he became a trainee at Munich Optical Institute; and in 1824, at the Altona Observatory. He eventually returned to Munich, where he conceived and published his best known works on mathematics. In 1842 Clausen was hired by the staff of the Tartu Observatory, becoming its director in 1866-1872.

Is an American economist and professor of foreign affairs, national security, nuclear strategy, and

Is an American economist and professor of foreign affairs, national security, nuclear strategy, and arms control at the School of Public Policy at University of Maryland, College Park

An American economist and professor of foreign affairs, national security, nuclear strategy, and arm

An American economist and professor of foreign affairs, national security, nuclear strategy, and arms control at the School of Public Policy at University of Maryland, College Park. He was awarded the 2005 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (shared with Robert Aumann) for "having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis."He served with the Marshall Plan in Europe, the White House, and the Executive Office of the President from 1948 to 1953.[1] He wrote most of his dissertation on national income behavior working at night while in Europe. He left government to join the economics faculty at Yale University, and in 1958 he was appointed Professor of Economics at Harvard. In 1969 he joined the Kennedy School at Harvard University.[1]

Was an English astronomer, son of Leonard Digges, and great populariser of science. After the death

Was an English astronomer, son of Leonard Digges, and great populariser of science. After the death of his father, Thomas grew up under the guardianship of John Dee, a typical Renaissance natural philosopher.He attempted to determine the parallax of the 1572 supernova observed by Tycho Brahe, and concluded it had to be beyond the orbit of the Moon. This contradicted the accepted view of the universe, according to which no change could take place among the fixed stars.In 1576 he published a new edition of his father's perpetual almanac, A Prognostication everlasting. The text written by Leonard Digges for the third edition of 1556 was left unchanged, but Thomas added new material in several appendices. The most important of these was A Perfit Description of the Caelestiall Orbes according to the most aunciente doctrine of the Pythagoreans,

Was a Danish mathematician and physicist, and a professor at the University of Copenhagen for more t

Was a Danish mathematician and physicist, and a professor at the University of Copenhagen for more than 60 years.Fincke was born in Flensburg, Schleswig and died in Copenhagen. His lasting achievement is found in his book Geometria rotundi (1583), in which he introduced the trigonometric functions tangent and secant.

Was an English geologist.From 1856 to 1861 he was mathematical master at Westminster School, and he

Was an English geologist.From 1856 to 1861 he was mathematical master at Westminster School, and he pursued geology only as a recreational activity, mainly in Alpine regions. In 1868 he was appointed tutor at St John's College, Cambridge and lecturer in g

Was an English astronomer.Cowling was born in Hackney, London and studied mathematics at Brasenose C

Was an English astronomer.Cowling was born in Hackney, London and studied mathematics at Brasenose College, Oxford from 1924 to 1930. From 1928 to 1930 he worked under Edward Arthur Milne. In 1929, Milne had no problems left to ask his student to work on and appealed to Sydney Chapman, who proposed that they work on an article on which he was working that dealt with the Sun's magnetic field. Cowling found an error in the paper that invalidated Chapman's results. After obtaining his doctorate, Chapman proposed that they work together.In 1933 Cowling wrote an article, The magnetic field of sunspots. Joseph Larmor had worked in this area, arguing that sunspots regenerate themselves through a dynamo effect. Cowling showed that Larmor's explanation was incorrect. His article assured him of a good reputation in the field of astrophysics.

Was an Austrian born astrophysicist, a professor of astronomy at Cornell University, a member of the

Was an Austrian born astrophysicist, a professor of astronomy at Cornell University, a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and a Fellow of the Royal Society (London). Gold was one of three young Cambridge scientists who in the 1950s proposed the now mostly abandoned 'steady state' hypothesis of the universe. Gold's work crossed academic and scientific boundaries, into biophysics, astrophysics, space engineering, and geophysics.

Was an English soldier and naturalist who was resident in India from 1777 to 1823. After returning t

Was an English soldier and naturalist who was resident in India from 1777 to 1823. After returning to England he collaborated with John Edward Gray in the publication of Illustrations of Indian Zoology (1830-35).During his military career in India he travelled extensively over the subcontinent. He started collecting zoological specimens in these travels and amassed a large collection of paintings of animals which he got local artists to make. Most paintings were made from dead specimens, but many were also drawn from life. When he left India he had the largest collection of drawings of Indian animals ever formed by a single individual.

Was an English astronomer, mathematician, ethnographer, and translator. Some sources give his surnam

Was an English astronomer, mathematician, ethnographer, and translator. Some sources give his surname as Harriott or Hariot. He is sometimes credited with the introduction of the potato to Great Britain and Ireland[1] After graduating from the Oxford University, Harriot traveled to the Americas on expeditions funded by Raleigh, and on his return he worked for the 9th Earl of Northumberland. At the Earl's house, he became a prolific mathematician and astronomer to whom the theory of refraction is attributed.

Was an English fossil collector and dealer especially of Ichyosaurs and Plesiosaurs.He lived in Glas

Was an English fossil collector and dealer especially of Ichyosaurs and Plesiosaurs.He lived in Glastonbury.Hawkins paid for fossils exposed by erosion at Lyme Regis on the Dorset Coast, and quarrymen at inland quarries at Street and Edgarley in Somerset. He also collected geological specimens on the Isle of Wight. His early collection was sold to the Natural History Museum for £3,ooo. Hawkins published number of texts between the 1830s and 1850s. The two best known are Memoirs of Icthyosaurii and Plesiosaurii (1835) and The Book of the Great Sea Dragons - full title The book of the great sea-dragons, Ichthyosauri and Plesiosauri, [gedolim taninim] gedolim taninim, of Moses. Extinct monsters of the ancient earth. With thirty plates, copied from skeletons in the author's collection of fossil organic remains, (deposited in the British museum.) (London, W. Pickering, 1840)

Was a Canadian geologist who is considered to have been one of the nation's top scientists of the 20

Was a Canadian geologist who is considered to have been one of the nation's top scientists of the 20th century. He was a professor who authored over 100 scientific publications. After his death, a mineral was named in his honour.In 1924, Clark moved to Montreal to take an assistant professor position in the Geology Department at McGill University. He began by teaching geology, paleontology and stratigraphy. In 1926, Clark began a major project to map the geology of the Quebec Appalachian Mountains along the U.S. border in the Eastern Townships. He published a series of papers on the geology and paleontology of the Townships. These papers established him as a leading geologist in Canada.

Was an English biologist, known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of

Was an English biologist, known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. [1] Huxley's famous 1860 debate with Samuel Wilberforce was a key moment in the wider acceptance of evolution, and in his own career. Wilberforce was coached by Richard Owen, against whom Huxley also debated on whether man was closely related to apes. Huxley was slow to accept some of Darwin's ideas, such as gradualism, and was undecided about natural selection, but despite this he was wholehearted in his public support of Darwin. He was instrumental in developing scientific education in Britain, and fought against the more extreme versions of religious tradition.