Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter C

Was a French navy surgeon and entomologist.Coquerel collected insects in Madagascar and neighbouring

Was a French navy surgeon and entomologist.Coquerel collected insects in Madagascar and neighbouring islands. A number of these were described after his death by Léon Fairmaire in his Notes sur les Coléopteres recueillis par Charles Coquerel a Madagascar et sur les côtes d'Afrique (1869). During his lifetime Coquerel wrote a number of articles and books, including an appendix on insects in Auguste Vinson's Voyage à Madagascar au couronnement de Radama II (1865).A number of animals are named after him, including the Coquerel's Coua Coua coquereli (Grandidier, 1867), the Coquerel's Sifaka Propithecus coquereli (Milne-Edwards, 1867), and the Coquerel's Giant Mouse Lemur Mirza coquereli (Grandidier, 1867), each of these species endemic to Madagascar. Coquerel's insect collection is in the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris.

Was an English poet and writer, best-known for translating the work of Michel de Montaigne from the

Was an English poet and writer, best-known for translating the work of Michel de Montaigne from the French, for his contributions to The Compleat Angler, and for the highly influential The Compleat Gamester which has been attributed to him.His friendship with Izaak Walton began about 1655, and contradicts the assumptions about Cotton's character based on his coarse burlesques of Virgil and Lucian. Walton's initials made into a cipher with Cotton's own were placed over the door of Cotton's fishing cottage on the Dove at Hartington. Cotton contributed a second section, "Instructions how to angle for a trout or grayling in a clear stream", to Walton's The Compleat Angler;[2] the additions consisted of twelve chapters on fishing in clear water, which he understood largely but not exclusively to be fly fishing.

Was an English botanist who was sent by James Veitch & Sons to search for new plant species in Madag

Was an English botanist who was sent by James Veitch & Sons to search for new plant species in Madagascar, Borneo, Sumatra, Java and the Moluccas, before settling in Penang, where he became the first superintendent of the Penang Botanic Gardens.

Currently the Joy and Jack Fishman Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Chromatin Biology at The

Currently the Joy and Jack Fishman Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Chromatin Biology at The Rockefeller University in New York City, United States.In pursuit of understanding the DNA-histone protein complex and the intricate system which allows for gene activation, the Allis lab focuses on chromatin signaling via histone modifications - acetylation, methylation and phosphorylation.He was not the first one to recognize histone acetyltransferase activity (Cano, A. & Pestana, A. Purification and properties of a histone acetyltransferase from Artemia salina, highly efficient with H1 histone. Eur. J. Biochem. 97, 65–72 (1979)), but he sparked renewed interest in chromatin function. Histone acetylation as well as other modifications (methylation, phosphorilation,

Was a French mathematician, and canon of Noyon. His Géométrie en françoys (1511) was the first sc

Was a French mathematician, and canon of Noyon. His Géométrie en françoys (1511) was the first scientific work to be printed in French. Joseph Victor has written the best intellectual biography of Charles de Bovelles, but got the date of his death wrong.

Was a French writer of the 18th century. He was president of the parliament of his hometown, Dijon,

Was a French writer of the 18th century. He was president of the parliament of his hometown, Dijon, from 1741, member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres of Paris (from 1746), and of the Académie des Sciences, Arts et Belles-Lettres de Dijon (from 1761). He was a close friend of Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon, the naturalist who wrote the Histoire naturelle, and a personal enemy of Voltaire

Was a French geologist and paleontologist, a member of the French Academy of Science and dean of the

Was a French geologist and paleontologist, a member of the French Academy of Science and dean of the Science faculty of Lyon. He was an advocate of the controversial prehistoric artifacts findings of Glozel.

Was an Argentine astronomer.he worked at Lick Observatory from 1893 to 1909 and then was director of

Was an Argentine astronomer.he worked at Lick Observatory from 1893 to 1909 and then was director of the Argentine National Observatory (today, Observatorio Astronómico de Córdoba) [1] in Argentina from 1909 until 1936.In 1901, he and George Ritchey observed the apparent superluminal motion in the nebulosity surrounding Nova Persei 1901.He discovered two moons of Jupiter, today known as Himalia (in 1904) and Elara (in 1905). They were simply designated "Jupiter VI" and "Jupiter VII" and were not given their present names until 1975.He co-discovered the lost periodic comet 18D/Perrine-Mrkos and several other comets. Antonín Mrkos later named the asteroid 6779 Perrine after him.

Was an American invertebrate paleontologist. He became known for his discovery in 1909 of well-prese

Was an American invertebrate paleontologist. He became known for his discovery in 1909 of well-preserved fossils in the Burgess shale formation of British Columbia, Canada.Walcott began his professional paleontology career by discovering new localities, such as the Walcott-Rust Quarry in upstate New York and the Georgia Plane trilobite beds in Vermont and selling specimens to Yale University.In 1876, he became the assistant to James Hall, State Geologist of New York. He became a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Was a French Protestant divine. He was the author of a large number of works in devotional and polem

Was a French Protestant divine. He was the author of a large number of works in devotional and polemical theology, several of which had great influence. His Catechism (Catéchisme ou instruction familière, 1652) and his Christians Defense against the Fears of Death (Consolations de l'âme fidèle contre les frayeurs de la mort, 1651) became well known in England by means of translations

Is a former prospector who discovered the existence of diamonds around Lac de Gras in Canada's North

Is a former prospector who discovered the existence of diamonds around Lac de Gras in Canada's Northwest Territories. He is now a multimillionaire diamond magnate.

Was an English psychologist known for work in statistics, as a pioneer of factor analysis, and for S

Was an English psychologist known for work in statistics, as a pioneer of factor analysis, and for Spearman's rank correlation coefficient. He also did seminal work on models for human intelligence, including his theory that disparate cognitive test score

Was a French mathematician who worked on differential topology and category theory. He is known for

Was a French mathematician who worked on differential topology and category theory. He is known for work on the topology of Lie groups, the jet concept (see jet bundle), and his seminar on category theory.

Was a United States Army soldier and noted ornithologist. The Bendire's Thrasher is named for him.Bo

Was a United States Army soldier and noted ornithologist. The Bendire's Thrasher is named for him.Born Karl Emil Bender at König im Odenwald in the Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt, he was the eldest of six children. Bender was home schooled until the age o

A United States Army soldier and noted ornithologist. The Bendire's Thrasher is named for him.

A United States Army soldier and noted ornithologist. The Bendire's Thrasher is named for him.

A French zoologist and entomologist.Blanchard was born in Paris. His father was an artist and natura

A French zoologist and entomologist.Blanchard was born in Paris. His father was an artist and naturalist and Émile began natural history very early in life. When he was 14 years old, Jean Victoire Audouin (1797–1841), allowed him access to the laboratory of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. In 1838, he became a technician or préparateur in this then, as now, famous institution. In 1841, he became assistant-naturalist.

Was a French mathematician. He was elected the fifteenth member to occupy seat 1 of the Académie Fr

Was a French mathematician. He was elected the fifteenth member to occupy seat 1 of the Académie Française in 1924. Picard's mathematical papers, textbooks, and many popular writings exhibit an extraordinary range of interests, as well as an impressive mastery of the mathematics of his time. Modern students of complex variables are probably familiar with two of his named theorems.

Was a French astronomer and member of the French Academy of Sciences. He was director of the Observa

Was a French astronomer and member of the French Academy of Sciences. He was director of the Observatoire de Haute Provence (OHP) until 1983.

American ornithologist and naturalist. He was an early member and President of the American Ornithol

American ornithologist and naturalist. He was an early member and President of the American Ornithologists' Union, and of the Nuttall Ornithological Club. He also edited The Auk, and before it, the Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club.

Was an American linguist who developed many influential ideas in American structuralism. He represen

Was an American linguist who developed many influential ideas in American structuralism. He represents the post-Bloomfieldian phase of structuralism often referred to as distributionalism or taxonomic structuralism. In his "Note on Structure" he argues that linguistics can be seen as a game and as a science. A linguist as player has a freedom for experimentation on all the utterances of a language, but no criterion to compare his analysis with other linguists. Late in his career, he was known for his stinging criticism of Chomskyan linguistics which he called "a theory spawned by a generation of vipers".

Was a French biologist specializing on ichthyology and herpetology.he studied at the College of Neuc

Was a French biologist specializing on ichthyology and herpetology.he studied at the College of Neuchâtel, Switzerland as a student of Louis Agassiz. In 1847, he accompagnied Agassiz as his assistant to Harvard. Three years later, Spencer Fullerton Baird called him to the Smithsonian to work on its growing collection of North American reptiles, amphibians and fishes. He worked at the museum for the next ten years and published numerous papers, many in collaboration with Baird.In 1854, he was naturalized as a U.S. citizen. Besides his work at the Smithsonian, he managed to earn an M.D. from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. in 1856. In 1859 he returned to France and was awarded the Cuvier Prize by the Institute of France for his work on the North American reptiles and fishes two years later.

Was an American meteorologist, born at Putnam, Ohio. He graduated from Ohio State University in 1883

Was an American meteorologist, born at Putnam, Ohio. He graduated from Ohio State University in 1883, and was appointed to the United States Army Signal Corps of the United States Army. On July 1, 1891, an Act of Congress created the Weather Bureau from the signal service. All the men and duties relating to weather were transferred from the War Department. He became professor of meteorology in 1903 in the Weather Bureau, and chief there in 1913.Marvin conducted important experiments for determining the amount of moisture in the air, invented instruments for automatically measuring and recording rainfall, snowfall, etc., and produced other advancements during the time when man first began the employment of powered aircraft.

Usually known as Frederick Mosteller or Fred) was one of the most eminent statisticians of the 20th

Usually known as Frederick Mosteller or Fred) was one of the most eminent statisticians of the 20th century. He was the founding chairman of Harvard's statistics department, from 1957 to 1971, and served as the president of several professional bodies inc

Was a British botanist and ethnographic researcher.He received his MB from the University of Aberdee

Was a British botanist and ethnographic researcher.He received his MB from the University of Aberdeen in 1873 and his MD in 1878. He married Marian Arnold (1857-1891) in 1879.In 1884, he established a general practice in Hood River, Oregon. He moved in 1885 with his family to Victoria, British Columbia. His wife Marian died after the birth of their sixth child in 1891, leaving him with two daughters and four sons.With his eldest three children he returned to England and participated in geological and natural history studies at the British Museum and the University of London. In 1889, he moved back to Victoria and worked at the "Insane Asylum" in New Westminster. He ceased to practice medicine after 1894.

Was a French economist and politician. He was imprisoned during the Reign of Terror and was only rel

Was a French economist and politician. He was imprisoned during the Reign of Terror and was only released by the counter-revolution of the 9th Thermidor. During the first consulate he was called to the tribunate but was excluded in 1802. In 1815 he was elected deputy for Cantal and finally left the Chamber on its dissolution in 1823.