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A professor in the Department of German, Scandinavian and Dutch at the University of Minnesota, Minn

A professor in the Department of German, Scandinavian and Dutch at the University of Minnesota, Minnesota, U.S.A., where he teaches courses in linguistics, etymology, and folklore. Liberman is a native of St. Petersburg, Russia (previously Leningrad, U.S.S.R.). His main graduate works, written under the auspices of the renowned philologist M.I. Steblin-Kamensky, focused on Middle English and Icelandic phonetics. He emigrated to the U.S. in 1975.Liberman has written and edited several books and has produced hundreds of smaller works, most all of them aimed at a scholarly audience. He wrote Germanic Accentology in 1982, and translated and edited Writings on Literature by Nikolai Trubetzkoy),

Is a Ukrainian mathematician. He graduated from the University of Kiev in 1960, and then taught ther

Is a Ukrainian mathematician. He graduated from the University of Kiev in 1960, and then taught there from 1967-1988. His most original contribution was the numeric-analytic method for the study of periodic solutions of differential equations with periodi

Is a Russian mathematician, professor of Moscow State University, well-known as a topologist, and a

Is a Russian mathematician, professor of Moscow State University, well-known as a topologist, and a full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He was born in Donetsk, Ukraine. He is a supporter of revising chronological history.

Was a pre-Socratic philosopher who lived in Miletus, a city of Ionia. He belonged to the Milesian sc

Was a pre-Socratic philosopher who lived in Miletus, a city of Ionia. He belonged to the Milesian school and learned the teachings of his master Thales. He succeeded him and became the second master of that school where he counted Anaximenes and Pythagoras amongst his pupils.

Was a Greek philosopher from the latter half of the 6th century, probably a younger contemporary of

Was a Greek philosopher from the latter half of the 6th century, probably a younger contemporary of Anaximander, whose pupil or friend he is said to have been.

Was a Swedish astronomer. He was professor of astronomy at Uppsala University from 1730 to 1744, but

Was a Swedish astronomer. He was professor of astronomy at Uppsala University from 1730 to 1744, but traveled from 1732 to 1735 visiting notable observatories in Germany, Italy and France. He founded the Uppsala Astronomical Observatory in 1741, and in 1742 he proposed the Celsius temperature scale which takes his name. The scale was later reversed in 1745 by Carl Linnaeus, one year after his death.At Nuremberg in 1733 he published a collection of 316 observations of the aurora borealis made by himself and others over the period 1716–1732.[3] Celsius traveled for several years in the early 1730s, particularly during 1732 and he travelled to Germany, Italy and France in which he visited most of the major European observatories. In Paris he advocated the measurement of an arc of the meridian in Lapland, In 1736, he participated in the expedition organized for that purpose by the French Academy of Sciences, led by the French mathematician Pierre Louis Maupertuis (1698–1759) to measure a degree of latitude.

Was the leading classical liberal of Nordic history. Born in Sotkamo (modern day Finland) and having

Was the leading classical liberal of Nordic history. Born in Sotkamo (modern day Finland) and having studied under Pehr Kalm at the Royal Academy of Turku (Åbo), Finland (part of Sweden until 1809) Chydenius became a priest, Enlightenment philosopher and member of the Swedish Riksdag of the Estates.

Was a Swedish naturalist and an abolitionist.He sailed for the Cape of Good Hope in January 1772 to

Was a Swedish naturalist and an abolitionist.He sailed for the Cape of Good Hope in January 1772 to take up a post as a tutor. When James Cook arrived there later in the year at the start of his second voyage, Sparrman was taken on as assistant naturalist to Johann and Georg Forster. After the voyage he returned to Cape Town in July 1775 and practiced medicine, earning enough to finance a journey into the interior.In 1776 he returned to Sweden, where he had been awarded an honorary doctorate in his absence. He was also elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He was appointed keeper of the natural historical collections of the Academy of Sciences in 1780, Professor of natural history and pharmacology in 1781 and assessor of the Collegium Medicum in 1790.

Was a Danish statistician who made contributions to the history of statistics. He was a professor at

Was a Danish statistician who made contributions to the history of statistics. He was a professor at the University of Copenhagen from 1960 to 1982.

Was a physicist in Sweden, one of the founders of the science of spectroscopy.In 1858 he succeeded A

Was a physicist in Sweden, one of the founders of the science of spectroscopy.In 1858 he succeeded Adolph Ferdinand Svanberg in the chair of physics at Uppsala. His most important work was concerned with the conduction of heat and with spectroscopy. In his optical researches, Optiska Undersökningar, presented to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1853, he not only pointed out that the electric spark yields two superposed spectra, one from the metal of the electrode and the other from the gas in which it passes, but deduced from Leonhard Euler's theory of resonance that an incandescent gas emits luminous rays of the same refrangibility as those which it can absorb. This statement,

Was a Danish botanist, mycologist, zoologist and marine biologist. He was nephew of the brothers phy

Was a Danish botanist, mycologist, zoologist and marine biologist. He was nephew of the brothers physician H.C. Ørsted and politician Anders Sandøe Ørsted.[1]Between 1845 and 1848, he travelled extensively in Central America and the Caribbean and published numerous papers on the flora, concentrating on the plant families Acanthaceae and Fagaceae[5][6][7][8][9]. One of his better known publications is L'Amérique Centrale[10].

Was an Italian physician, philosopher and botanist.In his works he classified plants according to th

Was an Italian physician, philosopher and botanist.In his works he classified plants according to their fruits and seeds, rather than alphabetically or by medicinal properties. In 1555, he succeeded Luca Ghini as director of the botanic garden in Pisa. The botanist Pietro Castelli was one of his students. Cesalpino also did limited work in the field of physiology. He theorized a circulation of the blood. However, he envisioned a "chemical circulation" consisting of repeated evaporation and condensation of blood, rather than the concept of "physical circulation" popularized by the writings of William Harvey (1578–1657).

An astronomer and professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at UCLA.[2] She received a BS

An astronomer and professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at UCLA.[2] She received a BS in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1987 and her Ph.D. at the California Institute of Technology in 1991.[3] In 2004, Discover magazine listed Andrea as one of the top 20 scientists in the United States who have shown a high degree of understanding in their respective fields.[2]Her current research involves using high spatial resolution imaging techniques, such as the adaptive optics system at the Keck telescopes,[4] to study star-forming regions and the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy known as Sagittarius A.[5] She uses the kinematics of stars near the center of the galaxy as a probe to investigate this region.[

Was a Danish jurist.He was educated for the law at Christiania (now Oslo) and Copenhagen, and interr

Was a Danish jurist.He was educated for the law at Christiania (now Oslo) and Copenhagen, and interrupted his studies in 1848 to take part in the First Schleswig War, in which he served as the leader of a reserve battalion. In 1855 he became professor of jurisprudence at the University of Copenhagen. In 1870 he was appointed a member of the commission for drawing up a maritime and commercial code, and the navigation law of 1882 is mainly his work.

Was a Dutch-German cartographer, best known for his Harmonia Macrocosmica of 1660, a major star atla

Was a Dutch-German cartographer, best known for his Harmonia Macrocosmica of 1660, a major star atlas, published by Johannes Janssonius in Amsterdam.and was educated in Heidelberg. The Protestant Cellarius may have left Heidelberg at the onset of the Thirty Years' War in 1618 or in 1622 when the city came in Catholic hands. In 1625 he married Catharina Eltmans in Amsterdam, where he worked as school master of a Latin School. After a brief stay in The Hague, the family moved to Hoorn. From 1637 until his death he was rector of the Latin School in Hoorn. He also published on fortification and on Poland.

Was a German mathematician who made seminal contributions to the areas of geometry, topology, and ma

Was a German mathematician who made seminal contributions to the areas of geometry, topology, and mathematical physics, in particular the invention of Floer homology. He was an undergraduate student at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum and received the degree D

Was one of the leading jurists of the Holy Roman Empire. After studies in Cologne, Orléans, Leuven

Was one of the leading jurists of the Holy Roman Empire. After studies in Cologne, Orléans, Leuven and Bologna, Gaill worked as an advocate in his hometown Cologne. In 1558 he was appointed to the Imperial Chamber Court. From 1569 on, he served on the Aul

Is a German jurist. He currently holds the chair of general international law at the University of G

Is a German jurist. He currently holds the chair of general international law at the University of Göttingen. His research interests include international law, humanitarian law, and constitutional law. Paulus attended the University of Göttingen, Universi

Was a Dutch judge and the second President of the European Court of Justice, a position which he ser

Was a Dutch judge and the second President of the European Court of Justice, a position which he served between 1958 and 1964. Donner stems from a prominent Dutch Reformed family of jurists. His father Jan Donner and his son Piet Hein Donner were Dutch Minister of Justice, with his son also being the current Dutch Minister of Social Affairs and Employment. André Donner's brother Jan Hein Donner was a chess grandmaster.

Is a Romanian philosopher, essayist, journalist, literary and art critic, and politician.

Is a Romanian philosopher, essayist, journalist, literary and art critic, and politician.

A prominent Russian American economist.Andrei Shleifer is one of the most cited economists in the wo

A prominent Russian American economist.Andrei Shleifer is one of the most cited economists in the world, with more than four thousand citations. (Citation rate is one measure of a scientist's impact on thought and practice in a particular field of endeavor.) His work focuses mostly on financial economics, where he has contributed to the field of behavioral finance.In recent years, his research has focused on the legal origins theory (also sometimes known as law and finance theory), which claims that the legal tradition a country adheres to (such as common law or various types of civil law) is an important determining factor for a country's development, most of all financial development.

A Slovenian politician and economist. He served shortly as Prime Minister of Slovenia in the year 20

A Slovenian politician and economist. He served shortly as Prime Minister of Slovenia in the year 2000, and Minister of Economy in the centre right government of Janez Janša between 2004 and 2008. He was founder and first president of the Christian Democratic party New Slovenia.Bajuk was born in a Slovene intellectual family in Nazi-occupied Ljubljana. His father Marko Bajuk was a classical philologist, and his grandfather Božidar Bajuk was the principal of the Bežigrad Grammar School, one of the most prestigious high school in Ljubljana. The Bajuks were acquainted with the famous poet Edvard Kocbek who lived in the same building.

Was an English astronomer born in Newcastle Upon Tyne.Among other things, he observed the satellites

Was an English astronomer born in Newcastle Upon Tyne.Among other things, he observed the satellites of Mars and Saturn. He worked on astrophotography, making a celebrated early photograph of the Orion Nebula in 1883. He also worked on telescope making, building a 60-inch reflector.

Is an Australian philosopher and Professor of Critical Theory at Monash University

Is an Australian philosopher and Professor of Critical Theory at Monash University

An Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona. He is the author or coauthor of

An Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona. He is the author or coauthor of seven books, and has several papers published on formal syntactic theory and on the lingustic aspects of the Irish language. He was born in Calgary, Alberta. He is also a well-known teacher of Balkan and international folk dance.