Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter V

Was a French philosopher and musicologist. Association Vladimir Jankélévitch, 48 rue de Fresnes L'

Was a French philosopher and musicologist. Association Vladimir Jankélévitch, 48 rue de Fresnes L'Hay-les-Roses France.Jankélévitch was the son of Russian parents, who had emigrated to France. In 1922 he started studying philosophy at the École normale su

An economist, the President of the International Academy of Emerging Markets, and a Professor (since

An economist, the President of the International Academy of Emerging Markets, and a Professor (since 2005) at La Salle University's School of Business (Pennsylvania, USA). In parallel, since 2007, he has been the Chair of the Department of Financial Strategy at the Moscow School of Economices of the M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University. He is a Foreign Member (ad vitum) of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He was a full professor of International Business at the Kogod School of Business at American University in Washington D.C. (2004-2007). In addition to his professorship, he is currently and has been a consultant to governments of several countries. Dr. Kvint’s work has appeared in such well-known publications as the New York Times and The Harvard Business Review, among others. He is a regular contributor to Forbes magazine in which he published [1] his most profound forecast in February 1990

Is a famous Russian and Ukrainian mathematician. Petryshyn's main achievements are in functional ana

Is a famous Russian and Ukrainian mathematician. Petryshyn's main achievements are in functional analysis. His major results include the development of the theory of iterative and projective methods for the constructive solution of linear and nonlinear ab

Was a founding father of comparative Nostratic linguistics.Of Ukrainian descent, he was born in Kiev

Was a founding father of comparative Nostratic linguistics.Of Ukrainian descent, he was born in Kiev but later moved to work in Moscow. He resuscitated the long-forgotten Nostratic hypothesis, originally expounded by Holger Pedersen in 1903, and coined the modern term Nostratics. His untimely death prevented him from completing the Comparative Dictionary of Nostratic Languages, but the ambitious work was continued by his colleagues, including Sergei Starostin and Vladimir Dybo.

Was a Czech mathematician, who worked in functional analysis, theoretical numerical analysis, and li

Was a Czech mathematician, who worked in functional analysis, theoretical numerical analysis, and linear algebra. Notable early work include generalizations of the open mapping theorem.During 1945-49 Vlastimil Pták studied mathematics and physics at the Charles University in Prague. Later, he worked at the university and since 1952 in Mathematical Institute of Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. In 1965 he was named professor at the Charles University. He has published more than 160 mathematical research papers.

Was a Czech mathematician.His main area of work was in number theory and mathematical analysis; he p

Was a Czech mathematician.His main area of work was in number theory and mathematical analysis; he proved a number of results on lattice point problems. He also discovered the graph theory algorithm known as Prim's algorithm.

Is a German mathematician, a professor emeritus in the department of mathematics and statistics at t

Is a German mathematician, a professor emeritus in the department of mathematics and statistics at the University of Konstanz.[1] Strassen began his researches as a probabilist; his 1964 paper An Invariance Principle for the Law of the Iterated Logarithm

Was a Ukrainian geographer with a specialty in demography, a cartographer, an encyclopedist, politic

Was a Ukrainian geographer with a specialty in demography, a cartographer, an encyclopedist, politician, and statesman. Of mixed Ukrainian and Polish family background, he was an important intellectual supporting the Ukrainian national movement in inter-w

Was a Serbian linguist and major reformer of the Serbian language.Karadžic was born to parents Stef

Was a Serbian linguist and major reformer of the Serbian language.Karadžic was born to parents Stefan and Jegda (maiden Zrnic) in the village of Tršic, near Loznica in Serbia, which was then still a part of the Ottoman Empire. His family had a low infant survival rate and he was thus named Vuk ('wolf') so that witches and evil spirits would not hurt him. His family were members of the Drobnjaci tribe and came to Tršic from Petnjica, Montenegro.

A prominent Soviet/Russian philologist and Indo-Europeanist probably best known for his glottalic th

A prominent Soviet/Russian philologist and Indo-Europeanist probably best known for his glottalic theory of Indo-European consonantism and for placing the Indo-European urheimat in the area of the Armenian Highlands and Lake Urmia.During the early 1960s, Ivanov was one of the first Soviet scholars to take a keen interest in and develop semiotics. He worked with Vladimir Toporov on several linguistic monographs, including an outline of Sanskrit. In 1962 he joined Toporov and Juri Lotman in establishing the Tartu-Moscow Semiotic School.In the 1980s Ivanov worked with Tamaz Gamkrelidze on a new theory of Indo-European migrations, which was most recently advocated by them in Indo-European and Indo-Europeans (1995).

Was a Lithuanian management theorist, management consultant, and engineer. Born to Lithuanian immigr

Was a Lithuanian management theorist, management consultant, and engineer. Born to Lithuanian immigrants, he studied at the University of Chicago. During the World War I served in France. After coming back in 1919, he became interested in management and c

Is a Lithuanian astronomer. In 1963-1965 he and his collaborators created and developed the Vilnius

Is a Lithuanian astronomer. In 1963-1965 he and his collaborators created and developed the Vilnius photometric system - a seven color intermediate band system, optimized for photometric stellar classification. In 1996 he was elected as Corresponding memb