Professional/specialist Famous Names

Was a French thinker and writer who founded and edited the Annales de philosophie chrétienne from 1

Was a French thinker and writer who founded and edited the Annales de philosophie chrétienne from 1830 until his death. In 1815, Bonnetty entered Digne seminary and studied for the priesthood. After completing his philosophical and theological studies, as he was too young to be ordained, he went to Marseilles as a private tutor. He soon felt that his mission was to use science and philosophy in the defense of the Church and to remain a layman.

Was a French mathematician who was an early pioneer of analysis. He started the project of formulati

Was a French mathematician who was an early pioneer of analysis. He started the project of formulating and proving the theorems of infinitesimal calculus in a rigorous manner. He also gave several important theorems in complex analysis and initiated the study of permutation groups in abstract algebra. A profound mathematician, Cauchy exercised a great influence over his contemporaries and successors. His writings cover the entire range of mathematics and mathematical physics.

Was an Irish plantsman and sinologist. He is best known for sending over 15,000 dry specimens and se

Was an Irish plantsman and sinologist. He is best known for sending over 15,000 dry specimens and seeds and 500 plant samples to Kew Gardens in the United Kingdom. By 1930, he was a recognised authority and was honoured with society membership in Belgium,

Was a British mathematician and logician. He formulated De Morgan's laws and introduced the term mat

Was a British mathematician and logician. He formulated De Morgan's laws and introduced the term mathematical induction, and made its idea rigorous.[1] The crater De Morgan on the Moon is named after him.

Was a Canadian zoologist.In 1929, while still a graduate student at Cornell University, he travelled

Was a Canadian zoologist.In 1929, while still a graduate student at Cornell University, he travelled on an expedition to Madagascar as collector of birds. Rand published the results as his thesis for his Ph.D.. It was on this expedition that he met Richard Archbold, zoologist and philanthropist, with whom he became a lifelong friend. Archbold subsequently financed and led a series of biological expeditions to New Guinea in the 1930s in which Rand participated and co-led. In 1941 he assisted Archbold in the establishment of the Archbold Biological Station at Lake Placid, Florida, a place he eventually retired to.

Was a South African zoologist. He is best known for his Birds of South Africa, first published in 19

Was a South African zoologist. He is best known for his Birds of South Africa, first published in 1940. He also studied the mammalian fauna of the region: his work The mammals of South Africa was published posthumously in 1951. The 7th edition of Roberts' Birds of Southern Africa which appeared in 2005, is the standard work on the region's birds.He gained much of his early knowledge of zoology from Thomas Ayres (1828–1913), one of South Africa's first amateur ornithologists. Roberts was employed by the Transvaal Museum from 1910 to 1946. From this base he studied the birds and mammals of South Africa. To further research he established a collection of ca 30,000 bird and 13,000 mammal specimens for the museum. He was author of several manuscripts and articles in scientific publications. In 1935 the University of Pretoria awarded him an honorary doctorate degree. Austin Roberts died on May 5th, 1948 in a motor car accident in the Transkei region.

Is an American linguist, philosopher, political activist, author and lecturer. He is an Institute Pr

Is an American linguist, philosopher, political activist, author and lecturer. He is an Institute Professor emeritus and professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[2] Chomsky is well-known in the academic and scientific community as the father of modern linguistics.[3][4] Since the 1960s, he has become known more widely as a political dissident, an anarchist,[5] and a libertarian socialist intellectual.

A German economist.He earned a master's degree from the University of Mannheim in 1999 and a Ph.D. i

A German economist.He earned a master's degree from the University of Mannheim in 1999 and a Ph.D. in 2003. He is among the 1000 top economists of the world according to the top list of IDEAS/RePEc.As assistant professor of economics at the universities of Mannheim, Exeter, Konstanz and ETH Zurich he has worked in fields including:

A French scientist and geneticist. He is the brother of the journalist Jean-François Kahn. He was a

A French scientist and geneticist. He is the brother of the journalist Jean-François Kahn. He was a member of the French National Consultative Ethics Committee from 1992 to 2004 and worked in gene therapy. He first entered the INSERM with a specialization in biochemistry. He was named in 2002 as a counsellor for biosciences and biotechnologies matters by the European Commission.Head of French laboratories specialized in biomedical sciences between years 1984 and 2007,he has been elected as the President of the University Paris Descartes in December 2007, while he was the sole candidate.

A German cancer researcher and has been the Director of Molecular biology at the Max Planck Institut

A German cancer researcher and has been the Director of Molecular biology at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried, Germany since 1988. His research has primarily focused on signal transduction.After taking a degree in biochemistry at the University of Tuebingen, Germany, he received a Ph.D. from the University of Heidelberg in Molecular Genetics in 1975. He then did his postdoctoral work at the University of California, San Francisco from 1975 to 1977 and then worked as a senior scientist at Genentech in San Francisco, California from 1978 to 1988. From 1988, he has been at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry.

Was a Danish astronomer at the Ole Rømer Observatory in Aarhus from 1927 until his death in 1970.In

Was a Danish astronomer at the Ole Rømer Observatory in Aarhus from 1927 until his death in 1970.In 1921, while still a student, Nielsen established his private observatory "Spica" in Glostrup. The observatory was located on the premises of a local enterprise, where Nielsen's father was employed as a manager. Axel V. Nielsen graduated in 1926 from the University of Copenhagen. In 1927 Nielsen was employed as an assistant with the Ole Rømer Observatory in Aarhus, later as head of section. The Ole Rømer Observatory had been established in 1911; in 1956 it was handed over to the University of Aarhus.

Was a British botanist, one of the first fellows of the Linnean Society.He is best known for his wor

Was a British botanist, one of the first fellows of the Linnean Society.He is best known for his work A description of the genus Pinus, issued in several parts 1803-1824, a sumptuously illustrated folio volume detailing all of the conifers then known. A second folio edition was produced between 1828-1837, and a third, smaller (octavo) edition in 1832. Individual books even of the same edition are often very different from one another, which causes problems when the illustrations have been used as types to fix the application of names. A full description of the publication history is given in: Renkema, H. W. & Ardagh, J. (1930). Aylmer Bourke Lambert and his 'Description of the Genus Pinus'. Journal of the Linnean Society of London - Botany 48: 439-466.

Was a Brazilian racing driver and triple Formula One world champion. He remains the last Grand Prix

Was a Brazilian racing driver and triple Formula One world champion. He remains the last Grand Prix driver killed while driving a Formula One car.

Was a prominent Coptologist who was a Coptic historian and scholar and an expert in Islamic and Crus

Was a prominent Coptologist who was a Coptic historian and scholar and an expert in Islamic and Crusades studies.His library, The Aziz Atiya Library for Middle East Studies at University of Utah, is considered the fifth largest such collection in North America and is recognized internationally as a major research library in this field.