Famous People with Name Carl

Carl Alvar Wirtanen            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Carl Alvar Wirtanen: was an American astronomer who worked at Lick Observatory.He discovered periodic comet 46P/Wirtanen, as well as eight asteroids, including notably the Apollo asteroid (29075) 1950 DA, which may have a non-negligible probability of impacting the earth in the year 2880. He also discovered two other Apollo asteroids: 1685 Toro and 1863 Antinous.

Carl Richard Woese            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Carl Richard Woese: an American microbiologist and Physicist who attended Deerfield Academy and Amherst College. He is famous for defining the Archaea (a new domain or kingdom of life) in 1977 by phylogenetic taxonomy of 16S ribosomal RNA, a technique pioneered by Woese and which is now standard practice.[1][2][3] He was also the originator of the RNA world hypothesis in 1967, although not by that name. He currently holds the Stanley O. Ikenberry Chair and is Professor of Microbiology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Carl Rogers            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Carl Rogers: was an influential American psychologist and among the founders of the Humanistic approach to psychology. Rogers is widely considered to be one of the founding fathers of psychotherapy research and was honored for his pioneering research with the Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions by the American Psychological Association in 1956.

Carl Ortwin Sauer            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Carl Ortwin Sauer: was an American geographer. He was born in Warrenton, Missouri and graduated from the University of Chicago with a Ph.D. in 1915. Sauer was a professor of geography at the University of California, Berkeley from 1923 until becoming professor emeritus in 1957 and was instrumental in the early development of the geography graduate school at Berkeley. One of his most well known works was Agricultural Origins and Dispersals (1952). In 1927, Carl Sauer wrote the article "Recent Developments in Cultural Geography," which considered how cultural landscapes are made up of "the forms superimposed on the physical landscape."

Carl Robert Holty            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Carl Robert Holty: was an abstract painter who was born in Freiburg, Germany and came to the United States as an infant. He grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Holty studied at the Art Institute of Chicago (1919), the National Academy of Design in New York (1920-21), and at the Hans Hofmann School in Munich (1926).The Addison Gallery of American Art (Andover, MA), the Allen R Hite Art Institute (University of Louisville, Louisville, KY), the Arkansas Arts Center (Little Rock, AR), the Brooklyn Museum (Brooklyn, New York), the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, PA), the Columbus Museum (Columbus, GA), the Columbus Museum of Art (Columbus, OH), the Cress Gallery of Art (University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, TN), the Elvehjem Museum of Art (Madison, WI),

Howard Hershey Carl            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Howard Hershey Carl: was an American basketball player.He played for the Packers (1961-62) in the NBA for 31 games.