Famous People with Name Seymour

Seymour Benzer            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Seymour Benzer: was an accomplished American physicist, molecular biologist and behavioral geneticist. With a career that started with the molecular biology revolution of the 1950s, Seymour Benzer was to the end very active as a researcher, where he led a productive lab as the James G. Boswell Professor of Neuroscience, Emeritus, at the California Institute of Technology.[1][2]As a boy, he had his first experiences in studying biology, catching frogs and dissecting them. For his 13th birthday he received a microscope, “and that opened up the whole world,” Benzer recalled in a 1990 interview for an oral history project at Caltech. In 1938 he enrolled at Brooklyn College where he majored in physics.[1]

Seymour S. Kety            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Seymour S. Kety: was an American neuroscientist who was credited with making modern psychiatry a rigorous and heuristic branch of medicine by applying basic science to the study of human behavior in health and disease.[1] After Kety died, his colleague Louis Sokoloff noted that: "He discovered a method for measuring blood flow in the brain, was the first scientific director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and produced the most-definitive evidence for the essential involvement of genetic factors in schizophrenia."[2]

Seymour Ginsburg            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Seymour Ginsburg: was a pioneer of automata theory, formal language theory, and database theory in particular; and computer science in general.

Seymour Geisser            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Seymour Geisser: was a statistician noted for emphasizing the role of prediction in statistical inference. In his book Predictive Inference: An Introduction (CRC Press, 1993), he held that conventional statistical inference about unobservable population parameters amounts

Seymour Roger Cray            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Seymour Roger Cray: was a U.S. electrical engineer and supercomputer architect who designed a series of computers that were the fastest in the world for decades, and founded the company Cray Research which would build many of these machines. Called "the father of supercomput

James A. Seymour            Origin/Culture/Country: American

James A. Seymour: is the Iowa State Senator from the 28th District. A Republican, he has served in the Iowa Senate since 2003.Seymour currently serves on several committees in the Iowa Senate - the Appropriations committee; and the Human Resources committee, the State Gove

John F. Seymour            Origin/Culture/Country: American

John F. Seymour: is an American real estate investor and politician. He served in the United States Marine Corps from 1955 to 1959 and graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1962. Seymour was the President of the California Association of Realtors fro

Edward Woodruff Seymour            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Edward Woodruff Seymour: was a U.S. Representative from Connecticut, son of Origen Storrs Seymour, great-nephew of Horatio Seymour. He was admitted to the bar in 1856 and practiced in Litchfield and Bridgeport, Connecticut. He served as member of the State house of representative

Origen Storrs Seymour            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Origen Storrs Seymour: was a U.S. Representative from Connecticut, father of Edward Woodruff Seymour and nephew of Horatio Seymour. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1826 and commenced practice in Litchfield, Connecticut. He served as county clerk 1836-1844. He serv

Thomas Henry Seymour            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Thomas Henry Seymour: was a Democratic politician and lawyer from Connecticut. He served as the 36th Governor of Connecticut from 1850 to 1853 and as Minister to Russia from 1853 to 1858. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1833, commencing practice in Hartford. He w