Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter W

Was an American archaeologist, biblical scholar, linguist and expert on ceramics. From the early twe

Was an American archaeologist, biblical scholar, linguist and expert on ceramics. From the early twentieth century until his death, he was the dean of biblical archaeologists and the universally acknowledged founder of the Biblical archaeology movement. His student George Ernest Wright followed in his footsteps as the leader of that movement, while others, notably Frank Moore Cross and David Noel Freedman, became international leaders in the study of the Bible and the ancient Near East, including Northwest Semitic epigraphy and paleography. Albright is assured of a place in the history of the development of Middle Eastern archaeology.

Was a British astronomer.Denning devoted a great deal of time to searching for comets, and discovere

Was a British astronomer.Denning devoted a great deal of time to searching for comets, and discovered several including the periodic comet 72P/Denning-Fujikawa and the lost comet D/1894 F1. The latter was the last comet discovered on British soil until the discoveries of George Alcock.Denning also studied meteors and novas, discovering Nova Cygni 1920 (V476 Cyg). He won the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1898.

A U.S. physician, geneticist and molecular biologist. He is considered a pioneer of gene therapy. He

A U.S. physician, geneticist and molecular biologist. He is considered a pioneer of gene therapy. He graduated from Harvard College in 1958 and from Harvard Medical School in 1963. In 1990, he claimed to be the first person ever to succeed in gene therapy of a 4-year-old girl suffering from SCID (a form of an immuno-deficiency disorder called "bubble boy disease"). His claims may have been exaggerated, albeit, he was not alone.[1][2] In 2006, he was convicted of sexual abuse of a minor, the daughter of an employee.

An author, scholar and associate professor of geography at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minneso

An author, scholar and associate professor of geography at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He is a development and human-environment geographer with particular expertise in political ecology, tropical agriculture, environment and development policy, livelihood security, and West Africa and Southern Africa. Before becoming an academic, he worked for ten years in the field of international development. Moseley’s books include: Hanging by a Thread: Cotton, Globalization and Poverty in Africa (Ohio University Press, 2008), with Leslie Gray; The Introductory Reader in Human Geography: Contemporary Debates and Classic Writings (Blackwell, 2007), with David Lanegran and Kavita Pandit; three editions of Taking Sides: Clashing Views on African Issues (McGraw-Hill, 2004, 2006 & 2008);

Was an American naturalist and collector.In 1838 he travelled with the naturalist Thomas Nuttall on

Was an American naturalist and collector.In 1838 he travelled with the naturalist Thomas Nuttall on a collecting trip to North Carolina. In March 1841 he set off alone to collect plants for Nuttall. He travelled west, taking a more southerly route to that taken previously by Nuttall and Townsend. From Independence he followed the Santa Fe Trail, and then along the Old Spanish Trail, arriving in California in early November. He spent 1842 collecting along the coast, and then joined the US navy as a secretary, which allowed him to visit all the California mission stations. The new birds he collected included Gambel's Quail (Callipepla gambelii), Mountain Chickadee (Parus gambeli) and Nuttall's Woodpecker (Picoides nuttallii).

Was a prominent statistician; he was born in Scotland but spent most of his life in the United State

Was a prominent statistician; he was born in Scotland but spent most of his life in the United States.Cochran studied mathematics at the University of Glasgow and the University of Cambridge. He worked at Rothamsted Experimental Station from 1934 to 1939

Was an English geographer and writer. He studied at Cambridge University.

Was an English geographer and writer. He studied at Cambridge University.

Was an American academic and professor at Yale College. For many years he had a reputation as one of

Was an American academic and professor at Yale College. For many years he had a reputation as one of the most influential teachers there. He was a polymath with numerous books and essays on American history, economic history, political theory, sociology, and anthropology.His popular essays gave him a wide audience for his laissez-faire: advocacy of free markets, anti-imperialism, and the gold standard. He was a president of American Sociological Association from 1908 to 1909.

Was a British doctor, naturalist, and botanist.Griffith's botanical publications are from India and

Was a British doctor, naturalist, and botanist.Griffith's botanical publications are from India and Burma. After a brief stay in Madras, he was assigned as a Civil Surgeon to Tenasserim, Burma, where he studied local plants and made collecting trips to th

A Justice of the High Court of Australia

A Justice of the High Court of Australia

Medical practitioner, naturalist and geologist, one of the pioneers of South African geology and a m

Medical practitioner, naturalist and geologist, one of the pioneers of South African geology and a member of the Cape Parliament.He arrived in South Africa with his parents as 1820 Settlers. His father, Dr John Atherstone, was appointed District Surgeon o

Is an American astronomer. He is a professor emeritus of astronomy at The University of Texas at Aus

Is an American astronomer. He is a professor emeritus of astronomy at The University of Texas at Austin, and an adjunct professor of statistics at the University of Vermont.

Was a great American naturalist and a prominent malacologist. He described many mollusks of the Paci

Was a great American naturalist and a prominent malacologist. He described many mollusks of the Pacific Northwest of America. He would become America's preeminent authority on living and fossil mollusks.But he also made substantial contributions to ornithology, vertebrate and invertebrate zoology, physical and cultural anthropology, oceanography and paleontology. He also performed meteorological observations in Alaska for the Smithsonian Institution.In 1863 he became a pupil of Louis Agassiz of Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology, in natural science. He encouraged Dall's interest in malacology, a field still in its infancy. He also studied anatomy and medicine under Jeffries Wyman and Dr. Daniel Brainerd.

Was a British economist and social reformer. He is perhaps best known for his 1942 report Social Ins

Was a British economist and social reformer. He is perhaps best known for his 1942 report Social Insurance and Allied Services (known as the Beveridge Report) which served as the basis for the post-World War II Labour government's Welfare State, especiall

Was an American botanist. He worked on the first California Geological Survey and was the first Chai

Was an American botanist. He worked on the first California Geological Survey and was the first Chair of Agriculture at Yale University's Sheffield Scientific School.In 1855 Brewer travelled to Europe where he studied natural science under Professor Rober

Was an American philologist.He was educated at Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Leipzig, and Freiburg univers

Was an American philologist.He was educated at Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Leipzig, and Freiburg universities. He became the provost of Columbia University and was chosen vice-president of the Germanistic Society of America. His publications include:

Was an Irish botanist who specialised in algae. He was one of the most distinguished students of mar

Was an Irish botanist who specialised in algae. He was one of the most distinguished students of marine algae of all time.Harvey was an authority on algae and bryophytes (mosses), and author of A Manual of the British Algae (1841), Phycologia Britannica (4 vols., 1846–51), Nereis Boreali-Americana. (3 parts 1852–85) and Phycologia Australica (5 vol., 1858–63).[1] He spent several years in South Africa, and was the author, with Otto Wilhelm Sonder, of the Flora Capensis (7 vol. in 11, 1859–1933). Harvey's main algal herbarium is in Trinity College, Dublin.

Was an author, naturalist and ornithologist.He spent his youth studying the local flora and fauna an

Was an author, naturalist and ornithologist.He spent his youth studying the local flora and fauna and observing both natural and human dramas on what was then a lawless frontier, publishing his ornithological work in Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society, initially in an English mingled with Spanish idioms.He settled in England during 1869. He produced a series of ornithological studies, including Argentine Ornithology (1888-1899) and British Birds (1895), and later achieved fame with his books on the English countryside, including Hampshire Days (1903), Afoot in England (1909) and A Shepherd's Life (1910) which helped foster the back-to-nature movement of the 1920s and 1930s.

Was an American mathematician and statistician. He is best known for having formulated the Kruskal-W

Was an American mathematician and statistician. He is best known for having formulated the Kruskal-Wallis one-way analysis of variance (together with W. Allen Wallis), a widely-used nonparametric statistical method. hibob Kruskal was born in New York City

Was an American astronomer, brother of Edward Charles Pickering.He discovered Saturn's ninth moon Ph

Was an American astronomer, brother of Edward Charles Pickering.He discovered Saturn's ninth moon Phoebe in 1899 from plates taken in 1898. He also believed he had discovered a tenth moon in 1905 from plates taken in 1904, which he called "Themis". Unfortunately "Themis" does not exist.Following George Darwin, he speculated in 1907 that the moon was once a part of the earth and that it broke away where now the Pacific Ocean lies. He also proposed some sort of continental drift (even before Alfred Wegener) and speculated that America, Asia, Africa, and Europe once formed a single continent, which broke up because of the separation of the moon. [1]

Was an English sailor and astronomer. He was the father of Charles Piazzi Smyth, Sir Warington Wilki

Was an English sailor and astronomer. He was the father of Charles Piazzi Smyth, Sir Warington Wilkinson Smyth and General Sir Henry Augustus Smyth. Of his daughters, Henrietta Grace Smyth married Professor Baden Powell and was mother of Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, while Georgiana Rosetta Smyth married Sir William Henry Flower.Smyth joined the Royal Navy and during the Napoleonic wars he served in the Mediterranean, eventually achieving the rank of Admiral. He married Eliza Anne "Annarella" Warington in 1815. During a hydrographic survey in 1817 he met the Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi in Palermo, Sicily, and visited his observatory; this sparked his interest in astronomy and in 1825 he retired from the Navy to establish a private observatory in Bedford, England, equipped with a 5.9-inch refractor telescope. He used this instrument to observe a variety of deep sky objects over the course of the 1830s, including double stars,

Was an Indian Army officer, politician and ornithologist.Sykes was born near Bradford in Yorkshire,

Was an Indian Army officer, politician and ornithologist.Sykes was born near Bradford in Yorkshire, and joined the Bombay Army, a part of the armed forces of the Honourable East India Company, in 1804, returning to Britain in 1837. He became Member of Parliament for Aberdeen in 1857, and was elected President of the Royal Asiatic Society in 1858.

Was an Indian Army officer, politician and ornithologist.During his time at the Bombay Army, he was

Was an Indian Army officer, politician and ornithologist.During his time at the Bombay Army, he was appointed a statistician's position ("Statistical Reporter", October 1824 to January 1831, although the office was abolished December 1829, but he continued to work gratuitously for a year or so to complete his census of Deccan) and later his statistical researches involved him in natural history.During his time in India Sykes made collections of native animals. He published his catalogues of birds and mammals of the Deccan in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society in 1832. This included fifty-six birds new to science, including the Indian Pond Heron. Sykes also studied the fish of the area, and wrote papers on the quails and hemipodes of India. His list of birds of the Deccan included 236 species.[1

Is a set theorist at University of California, Berkeley. He has made many notable contributions to t

Is a set theorist at University of California, Berkeley. He has made many notable contributions to the theory of inner models and determinacy. His recent work on O-logic suggests an argument that the continuum hypothesis is false.

Was an English botanist.His first botanical expedition was to Iceland, in the summer of 1809, was at

Was an English botanist.His first botanical expedition was to Iceland, in the summer of 1809, was at the suggestion of Sir Joseph Banks. The specimens he collected, along with his notes and drawings, were destroyed by fire on the homeward voyage; an incident in which he nearly lost his life. A good memory, however, aided him to publish an account of the island, and of its inhabitants and flora, his Tour in Iceland, 1809, was privately circulated in 1811 and reprinted in 1813.