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Was an English geologist.He wrote (wholly or in part) memoirs on the Geology of Banbury (1864), of S

Was an English geologist.He wrote (wholly or in part) memoirs on the Geology of Banbury (1864), of Stockport (1866), of North Derbyshire (1869, 2nd ed. 1887), and of the Yorkshire Coal-field (1878). In 1874 he retired from the Geological Survey, having been appointed professor of geology in the Yorkshire College at Leeds; in 1885 he became also professor of mathematics, while for many years he held the lectureship on geology at the school of military engineering at Chatham.

Was an eminent arachnologist of his time. From 1910 to 1939 he described over 130 spider species.His

Was an eminent arachnologist of his time. From 1910 to 1939 he described over 130 spider species.His aristocratic father, Ivan Illitch Petrunkevitch, was a liberal member of the First Duma and founded the Constitutional Democratic Party. After finishing his studies in Moscow and in Freiburg under August Weismann, he settled in Yale in 1910, becoming a full professor in 1917.

Is a Canadian mathematician, computer scientist and philosopher who has written a number of books on

Is a Canadian mathematician, computer scientist and philosopher who has written a number of books on the future and implications of modern computing. He has also written one work of fiction, The Planiverse. Dewdney lives in London, Ontario, Canada where h

Was a Scottish geographer.His interest in geography had developed early, and his first important wor

Was a Scottish geographer.His interest in geography had developed early, and his first important work was the National Atlas of General Geography, which gained for him in 1843 the appointment of Geographer Royal for Scotland. Johnston was the first to bring the study of physical geography into competent notice in England. His attention had been called to the subject by Alexander von Humboldt; and after years of labour he published his magnificent Physical Atlas in 1848, followed by a second and enlarged edition in 1856. This, by means of maps with descriptive letterpress, illustrates the geology, hydrography, meteorology, botany, zoology, and ethnology of the globe.

Was an astronomer. Vyssotsky was born in Moscow, Russia.During his 35 years at the McCormick Observa

Was an astronomer. Vyssotsky was born in Moscow, Russia.During his 35 years at the McCormick Observatory of the University of Virginia he published many works. His best known is probably a catalog with five lists of stars entitled Dwarf M Stars Found Spectrophotometrically. This work was important because it was the first list of nearby stars identified not by their motions in the sky, but by their intrinsic, spectroscopic, characteristics. Until this time, most nearby stars had been identified by their large proper motions; however, not all stars close to the Sun have a large proper motion, and this selection criteria caused a bias in studies before the advent of Vyssotsky's catalogue. Vyssotsky's survey was carried out at McCormick Observatory using a 10-inch Cooke astrograph, donated by the Carnegie Institution of Washington and refigured by Fecker

Was a Russian astronomer who worked at Pulkovo Observatory and Simeiz Observatory, Crimea. He was bo

Was a Russian astronomer who worked at Pulkovo Observatory and Simeiz Observatory, Crimea. He was born in the night from December 31, 1899 to January 1, 1900 in Reni. He was active 1935–1985 as A. N. Deutsch (A. Deutsch published starting in 1926 and could be the same person). He discovered one asteroid (the Minor Planet Center lists him as A. Deutsch).

Was a Russian embryologist who studied medicine at the University of Heidelberg and became professor

Was a Russian embryologist who studied medicine at the University of Heidelberg and became professor at St Petersburg. He showed that all animals go through a period of gastrulation.

A biologist and biophysicist. He is the William Thompson Sedgwick Professor of Biophysics at MIT (si

A biologist and biophysicist. He is the William Thompson Sedgwick Professor of Biophysics at MIT (since 1958) and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Rich earned both an A.B. (magna cum laude) and an M.D. (cum laude) from Harvard University. He was a post-doc of Linus Pauling along with James Watson. He has over 600 publications to his name.Rich is the founder of Alkermes and has been its director since 1987. Dr. Rich is Co-Chairman of the Board of Directors of Repligen Corporation, a biopharmaceutical company. He is also a member of the Board of Directors for Profectus BioSciences, Inc. He also serves on the editorial board of Genomics and the Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics.

Is a prominent Russian-American poet and mathematician.Volpin-Esenin was free from conscription due

Is a prominent Russian-American poet and mathematician.Volpin-Esenin was free from conscription due to "psychiatric" reasons. His psychiatric imprisonments took place in 1949 for "anti-Soviet poetry", in 1959 for smuggling abroad samizdat, including his ?

A Canadian-American economist and co-author, with Tyler Cowen, of the popular economics blog Margina

A Canadian-American economist and co-author, with Tyler Cowen, of the popular economics blog Marginal Revolution.Both Cowen and Tabarrok are professors at Virginia's George Mason University and fellows with the school's Mercatus Center. In addition, Tabarrok is director of research for the Oakland, California based think tank the Independent Institute. He is the son of the late world-known Mechanical Engineering professor, Dr. Behrooz (Bez) Tabarrok.

Was a Russian zoologist and explorer of Baltic-German origin. Middendorff was born in Saint Petersbu

Was a Russian zoologist and explorer of Baltic-German origin. Middendorff was born in Saint Petersburg, where he received his early education.

The academic coordinator of the Research Centre for Linguistic Typology at La Trobe University, Melb

The academic coordinator of the Research Centre for Linguistic Typology at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. She is Natalia Shvedova's niece and Yuly Aikhenvald's great granddaughter.Aikhenvald is a specialist in Arawak language family (including Tariana), which is spoken in the Brazilian Amazon basin, and has published work on Berber languages, Modern and Classical Hebrew, Ndu languages (Eastern Sepik, Papua-New Guinea), alongside a number of articles and monographs on various aspects of linguistic typology.

Was a Russian-born French Hegelian philosopher and statesman whose philosophical seminars had an imm

Was a Russian-born French Hegelian philosopher and statesman whose philosophical seminars had an immense influence on twentieth-century French philosophy, and on his student the American philosopher Allan Bloom. As a statesman in the French government, he was instrumental in the creation of the European Union. Kojève was a close friend of, and was in life-long philosophical dialogue with, Leo Strauss.

Was a French philosopher of Russian origin who wrote on the history and philosophy of science. Koyré was born on 29 August 1892, in the city of Taganrog, Russia, into a Jewish family. In Russia he studied in Tiflis and Odessa, before pursuing studies abroad.

Was a French astronomer.He discovered the periodic comet 24P/Schaumasse. He also discovered two non-

Was a French astronomer.He discovered the periodic comet 24P/Schaumasse. He also discovered two non-periodic comets: C/1913 J1 (Schaumasse) or 1913 II; and C/1917 H1 (Schaumasse) or 1917 II.He also discovered two asteroids.He was severely wounded in 1914 while serving in the French army in World War I and spent at least a year in hospital.

Was a French musician and chemist who worked with Bezout and Lavoisier; his name is now principally

Was a French musician and chemist who worked with Bezout and Lavoisier; his name is now principally associated with determinant theory in mathematics. He was born in Paris, and died there.

Was a Romanian mathematician, founder of the Romanian school of functional analysis.

Was a Romanian mathematician, founder of the Romanian school of functional analysis.

An American astrophysicist and professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley. Fil

An American astrophysicist and professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley. Filippenko received a Bachelor of Arts in physics from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1979 and a Ph.D. in astronomy from the California Institute of Technology in 1984. His research focuses on supernovae and active galaxies at optical, ultraviolet, and near-infrared wavelengths.Filippenko was a member of the Supernova Cosmology Project and the High-z Supernova Search Team that used observations of extragalactic supernovae to discover the accelerating universe. This universal acceleration implies the existence of dark energy and was voted the top science breakthrough of 1998 by Science magazine.[

Is a Russian mathematician, and, with Vladimir Vapnik, was one of the main developers of the Vapnik-

Is a Russian mathematician, and, with Vladimir Vapnik, was one of the main developers of the Vapnik-Chervonenkis theory, also known as the "fundamental theory of learning" an important part of computational learning theory. As of September 2007, Dr. Cherv

Was a French astronomer. He is particularly noted for his careful observations of the irregularities

Was a French astronomer. He is particularly noted for his careful observations of the irregularities in the motion of Uranus and his hypothesis of the existence of an eighth planet in the solar system.Bouvard's achievements included the discovery of eight comets and the compilation of astronomical tables of Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. While the former two tables were eminently successful, the latter showed substantial discrepancies with subsequent observations. This led Bouvard to hypothesise the existence of an eighth planet responsible for the irregularities in Uranus' orbit.[1] The position of Neptune was subsequently calculated from Bouvard's observations, independently, by John Couch Adams and Urbain Le Verrier after his death.[1]

Was a French mathematician. He was a patron and teacher of Jean-Jacques de Marguerie. He first got a

Was a French mathematician. He was a patron and teacher of Jean-Jacques de Marguerie. He first got a taste for maths by reading the Géométrie de l'infini of Fontenelle and gave solutions to the problems of the tautochrone curve, the brachistochrone curve and orthogonal trajectories.

Was a French mathematician. He is known for his discovery of Bose–Chaudhuri–Hocquenghem codes, t

Was a French mathematician. He is known for his discovery of Bose–Chaudhuri–Hocquenghem codes, today better known under the acronym BCH codes. This class of error correcting codes was published by Hocquenghem in 1959. The code also bears the names of R. C. Bose and D. K. Ray-Chaudhuri, who independently discovered these codes and published that result shortly afterwards, in 1960.[2]

Is a Polish-born American linguist (PhD 1981, University of Chicago).He has published extensively on

Is a Polish-born American linguist (PhD 1981, University of Chicago).He has published extensively on syntactic typology (esp. in relation to Australian, Eskimo, and Austronesian languages); on phonological theory and its relation to phenomena such as versification and speech errors; on comparative linguistics and etymology (Indo-European, Uto-Aztecan, Yiddish), on glottochronology and genetic classification of languages (Nostratic, Altaic, Haida-Nadene, Pakawan/Coahuiltecan, Tonkawa-Nadene); on poetics (Vedic, Homeric, medieval Yiddish); and on the history of linguistics.

Was an Austrian philosopher, a realist known for his unique ontology.Meinong was born in Lemberg, Au

Was an Austrian philosopher, a realist known for his unique ontology.Meinong was born in Lemberg, Austria (now L'viv in Ukraine) and died in Graz, Austria. He studied at the Akademisches Gymnasium, Vienna and later the University of Vienna, where he read history and philosophy as a pupil of Franz Brentano. He was professor and Chair of Philosophy at the University of Graz, where he founded the Graz psychological institute (in 1894) and the Graz School of experimental psychology. Meinong supervised the promotion of Christian von Ehrenfels (founder of Gestalt psychology), as well as the habilitation of Alois Höfler and Anton Oelzelt-Newin.

Was a Danish-Canadian botanist. He was born in Copenhagen as a son of the botanist M.P. Porsild. He

Was a Danish-Canadian botanist. He was born in Copenhagen as a son of the botanist M.P. Porsild. He grew up on the Arctic Station in Qeqertarsuaq, West Greenland, where he acted as assistant to his father. Between 1936-1945, he was curator at the National Museum of Canada, Ottawa, and from 1945 to 1967 he was head of the department of botany there. The wrote a number of scientific treatises on the flora of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago and of the Rocky Mountains, as well as numerous popular papers and books.