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Was a French zoologist.Valenciennes was born in Paris, and studied under Georges Cuvier. Valencienne

Was a French zoologist.Valenciennes was born in Paris, and studied under Georges Cuvier. Valenciennes' study of parasitic worms in humans made an important contribution to the study of parasitology. Valenciennes also carried out diverse systematic classifications, linking fossil and current species. He worked with Cuvier on the 22-volume Histoire naturelle des poissons (Natural History of Fish) (1828-1848), carrying on alone after Cuvier died in 1832.

Was a Polish mathematician.He also studied mathematics, physics and theology. He went on to lecture

Was a Polish mathematician.He also studied mathematics, physics and theology. He went on to lecture on those subjects at several European universities: in Florence, Prague, Olomouc, Wroclaw, Mainz and Würzburg. In 1680 he accepted an offer from Jan III Sobieski, the king of Poland, returning to Poland and taking the position of the king's chaplain, mathematician, clock maker, librarian, and tutor of the king's son, Jakub.

Was a Swedish botanist. Afzelius was born at Larv in Västergötland in 1750. He was appointed teach

Was a Swedish botanist. Afzelius was born at Larv in Västergötland in 1750. He was appointed teacher of oriental languages at Uppsala University in 1777, and in 1785 demonstrator of botany. From 1792 he spent some years on the west coast of Africa, and in 1797-1798 acted as secretary of the Swedish embassy in London. Returning to Sweden, he again took up his position as botanices demonstrator at Uppsala, and was in 1802 elected president of the "Zoophytolithic Society" (later called the Linnaean Institute). In 1812, he became professor of materia medica at the university. He died in Uppsala in 1837. In addition to various botanical writings, he published the autobiography of Carolus Linnaeus in 1823.

Was a Polish philosopher of the Renaissance period.[1]Burski's person was associated with a new inst

Was a Polish philosopher of the Renaissance period.[1]Burski's person was associated with a new institution of higher learning that came into being in the late 16th century: the Zamojski Academy, founded in Zamosc by Jan Zamoyski (who had also founded that city). At Zamoyski's invitation, Burski, who had been rector of the Lwów Lyceum and a professor at Kraków University, in 1596 at Zamosc became a professor of moral philosophy, remaining in that post to the end of his life.[1]

Was a Polish statistician.

Was a Polish statistician.

Was a Scottish lexicographer.Jack Aitken was born in Edinburgh, grew up in Bonnyrigg, Midlothian, an

Was a Scottish lexicographer.Jack Aitken was born in Edinburgh, grew up in Bonnyrigg, Midlothian, and was educated at Lasswade High School. After serving in the Royal Artillery during World War ll, he returned to the University of Edinburgh to continue his teaching career and to research the origins of the Scots and Celtic languages.He assisted Sir William Craigie in the compilation of the Scottish National Dictionary and The Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue, now available online as the Dictionary of the Scots Language. After Craigie he took over the The Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue as editor and completed the first of those in 1976. Aitken also instigated a new reading program of ancient manuscripts and historic papers in order to increase the reach and accuracy of the dictionary. Upon completion in 2000 the dictionary was dedicated to him.

Was a German botanist, noted for his 1557 revised version of Eucharius Rösslin’s herbal. He becam

Was a German botanist, noted for his 1557 revised version of Eucharius Rösslin’s herbal. He became professor of Mathematics at the University of Marburg in 1553 and Doctor of Medicine in 1554, becoming the town physician in Frankfurt-am-Main. His true int

Was a Polish philosopher—the outstanding philosophical mind of Poland's Positivist period.[1]

Was a Polish philosopher—the outstanding philosophical mind of Poland's Positivist period.[1]

Was a Polish Marxist philosopher.After Stalin's 1953 death, Schaff became close to Leszek Kolakowski

Was a Polish Marxist philosopher.After Stalin's 1953 death, Schaff became close to Leszek Kolakowski's school, which had more of an existentialist and phenomenological slant. Through some of his latter works, Schaff attempted to reconcile Marxist historical determinism with Sartre's existential indeterminism, arguing that man could only become free and able to shape his own life and history as he became conscious of the determinisms to which he is subject.

Was one of the founders of modern geology. He proposed the Devonian period of the geological timesca

Was one of the founders of modern geology. He proposed the Devonian period of the geological timescale and later the Cambrian period. The latter proposal was based on work which he did on Welsh rock strata.He obtained his BA (5th Wrangler) from the University of Cambridge in 1808 and his MA in 1811. His academic mentors at Cambridge were Thomas Jones and John Dawson.Sedgwick studied the geology of the British Isles and Europe. He founded the system for the classification of Cambrian rocks and with Roderick Murchison worked out the order of the carboniferous and underlying Devonian strata. He investigated the phenomena of metamorphism and concretion, and was the first to distinguish clearly between stratification, jointing, and slaty cleavage. He was elected to Fellow of the Royal Society on 1 February 1821.

Was a humanist scholar credited with laying the foundations of Modern Greek literature and a major f

Was a humanist scholar credited with laying the foundations of Modern Greek literature and a major figure in the Greek Enlightenment. His activities paved the way for the Greek War of Independence and emergence of a purified form of the Greek language, known as Katharevousa.

Was a professor of medicine at the Kraków Academy, its rector in 1510–1511, a humanist, writer an

Was a professor of medicine at the Kraków Academy, its rector in 1510–1511, a humanist, writer and philosopher.[1]Adam studied in the Department of Liberal Arts at the Kraków Academy, earning a baccalaureate in 1488 and a master's degree in 1492. He then studied medicine in Italy. Returning to Poland, he served as court physician to Kings Jan I Olbracht, Alexander Jagiellon and Zygmunt I. In 1510 and 1511 he was twice elected rector of the Kraków Academy. He opposed the clergy's dominance over the secular estate. An unconventional thinker, he hypothesized the immortality of humankind.[1]

Was an American zoologist. He studied under Louis Agassiz at Harvard University and graduated in 186

Was an American zoologist. He studied under Louis Agassiz at Harvard University and graduated in 1862. He then accepted a position as Yale University's first Professor of Zoology, and taught there from 1864 until his retirement in 1907.

Was a German poet and botanist.His family were shortly afterwards permitted to return to France; he

Was a German poet and botanist.His family were shortly afterwards permitted to return to France; he remained in Germany and continued his military career. He had little education, but sought distraction from the dull routine of the Prussian military service in assiduous study. In collaboration with Varnhagen von Ense, he founded (1803) the Berliner Musenalmanach, in which his first verses appeared. The enterprise was a failure, and, interrupted by the war, it came to an end in 1806. It brought him, however, to the notice of many of the literary celebrities of the day and established his reputation as a rising poet.

A researcher in the field of linguistics. Since 2004, she has been a Professor in Linguistics, and a

A researcher in the field of linguistics. Since 2004, she has been a Professor in Linguistics, and an associated faculty in Psychology at Princeton University. From 1997-2004, she was an Associate Professor of Linguistics and the Beckman Institute at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). She was also, from 1997 to 1998, Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD).Goldberg's research focus is on the psychology of language, including theoretical and experimental aspects of grammar and its representation, acquisition of form-function correspondences, and syntactic priming. Her works aim to illuminate parallels between language and other cognitive processes. She is one of the leading researchers in the framework of Construction Grammar, an alternative to mainstream generative grammar, that takes form-function correspondences to be the basic units of language.

Was a Swedish linguist who served as a member of the Swedish Academy from 1919 until his death.Noree

Was a Swedish linguist who served as a member of the Swedish Academy from 1919 until his death.Noreen was born at Värmland. He became a student at Uppsala University in 1871 and went on to complete his doctorate there in 1877; he became a lecturer at the university in the same year. Noreen spent most of 1879 at the University of Leipzig, the home of the Neogrammarian school of linguistics - a school to which Noreen belonged for his entire literary life. Whilst in Leipzig, Noreen was taught Lithuanian by August Leskien, a pioneer of research into sound laws.

Was a Swiss zoologist and palaeontologist, famous for his work on Cephalopoda and Systematics.Adolf

Was a Swiss zoologist and palaeontologist, famous for his work on Cephalopoda and Systematics.Adolf Naef studied at the University of Zurich, under the guidance of Arnold Lang (1855—1914), a former Professor of Jena University and close friend of Ernst Haeckel. Naef visited and worked in Anton Dorn’s Zoological Station in Naples, Italy in 1908, studying the squid Loligo vulgaris, the subject of his dissertation

Was an Argentine economist, former President of the Central Bank of Argentina from 2 April 1976 unti

Was an Argentine economist, former President of the Central Bank of Argentina from 2 April 1976 until 27 March 1981.Mr. Diz holds a bachelor in Economics from the Universidad de Buenos Aires. He went to study at the University of Chicago where he earned his master in 1957 and a PhD in Economics in 1966, being a pupil of Milton Friedman. He was the precursor of the Chicago boys in Latin America where he inseminated via his relationship with other Chicago School graduates such as Ernesto Fontaine, Roque Fernandez, Carlos Rodriguez, Fernando de Santibañes and other very well known and recognised Economists under the tutelage of Arnold Harberger. Between 1967 and 1968 he was an Executive Director in the International Monetary Fund. He then was appointed as the Financial Representative for Argentina in Europe (Geneva) until 1973. In 1974 he was director of the Centre for Latin American Monetary Studies(CEMLA), an institution that promotes a better understanding of monetary and banking matters in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as the pertinent aspects of fiscal and exchange rate policie

Was a Brazilian physician, 1855-1940, father of tropical medicine and medical zoology in Brazil, and

Was a Brazilian physician, 1855-1940, father of tropical medicine and medical zoology in Brazil, and a pioneer epidemiologist and researcher in infectious diseases.He studied medicine in Switzerland, graduating in 1879 at the University of Bern. After graduation he went on to study experimental medicine techniques in several center in London, England (where he studied with Joseph Lister, 1827-1921), Leipzig, Germany, Vienna, Austria, Prague and Paris, France (where he studied with Louis Pasteur, 1822-1895).Upon his return to Brazil in 1881, Lutz initially worked as a general clinician in the small city of Limeira, state of São Paulo for 6 years. Wishing to pursue medical research, he returned to Hamburg, Germany once again, to work with Paul Gerson Unna (1850-1929), specializing in infectious diseases and tropical medicine. As a result of his increasing fame, he was invited to the post of director of Kalihi Hospital,

Is an incumbent Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. . He was appointed to the

Is an incumbent Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. . He was appointed to the Court by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on October 24, 2002.

Is a Spanish-born Mexican philosopher, writer and professor.After studying philosophy at the Univers

Is a Spanish-born Mexican philosopher, writer and professor.After studying philosophy at the University of Madrid he emigrated to Mexico in 1939 with thousands of other intellectuals, scientists and artist following the defeat of the Republic in the Spanish Civil War. He obtained a Doctorate degree in Philosophy from the National Autonomous University of Mexico where he is currently a professor.

Was a German-born, British engineer, businessman and amateur astronomer.Lindemann had raised capital

Was a German-born, British engineer, businessman and amateur astronomer.Lindemann had raised capital in the City of London and constructed waterworks in Speyer and Pirmasens. Lindemann was also involved in the Transatlantic telegraph cable project. He moved to England in the 1860s and became naturalised.[The couple were wealthy, having an annual income of around £20,000 by 1914 (£1.5 million at 2003 prices[3]). Olga had inherited a mansion near Sidmouth,[2] Devon and Lindemann took the opportunity to establish a laboratory and astronomical observatory there. On Olga's death, Lindemann donated the observatory to the University of Exeter.

Was a Polish-German philosopher and jurist.

Was a Polish-German philosopher and jurist.

Was a French ornithologist who collected extensively in Mexico and Central America. He concentrated

Was a French ornithologist who collected extensively in Mexico and Central America. He concentrated in collecting hummingbirds and sold many of these to the plume trade. He published the periodical The Hummingbird (1891-95). He spent his later years in En

Was a French geologist and paleontologist.His great work was Histoire des progrès de la géologie d

Was a French geologist and paleontologist.His great work was Histoire des progrès de la géologie de 1834 à 1859, published in eight volumes (1847-1860). In the same year, with Jules Haime (1824-1856), he published a monograph on the Nummulitic formation o