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German naturalist, zoologist, comparative anatomist, geologist, and microscopist, was one of the mos

German naturalist, zoologist, comparative anatomist, geologist, and microscopist, was one of the most famous and productive scientists of his time.In 1820–1825, on a scientific expedition to the Middle East with his friend Wilhelm Hemprich, he collected thousands of specimens of plants and animals. He investigated parts of Egypt, the Libyan desert, the Nile valley and the northern coasts of the Red Sea, where he made a special study of the corals. Subsequently parts of Syria, Arabia and Abyssinia were examined. Some results of these travels and of the important collections that had been made were reported on by Humboldt in 1826.

Was a mycologist who made additions to Linnaeus' mushroom taxonomy.The origin of Persoon's botanical

Was a mycologist who made additions to Linnaeus' mushroom taxonomy.The origin of Persoon's botanical interest is unknown. The earliest of his works was Abbildungen der Schwämme (Illustrations of the sponges), published in three parts, in 1790, 1791, and 1793. Between 1805 and 1807, he published two volumes of his Synopsis plantarum, a popular work describing 20,000 species of all types of plants. But his pioneering work was in the fungi, for which he published several works, beginning with the Synopsis methodica fungorum (1801); it is the starting point for nomenclature of the Uredinales, Ustilaginales, and the Gasteromycetes.

Was a French mathematician, who worked primarily with factorials. Christian Kramp's father was his t

Was a French mathematician, who worked primarily with factorials. Christian Kramp's father was his teacher at grammar school in Strasbourg. Kramp studied medicine and graduated, however, his interests certainly ranged outside medicine for, in addition to a number of medical publications, he published a work on crystallography in 1793. In 1795 France annexed the Rhineland area in which medical Kramp was carrying out his work and after this he became a teacher at Cologne (this city was French from 1794 to 1815), teaching mathematics, chemistry and physics.

Was a prominent German ornithologist.

Was a prominent German ornithologist.

Was a German pastor and ornithologist. He was the father of Alfred Brehm.Brehm was born near Gotha,

Was a German pastor and ornithologist. He was the father of Alfred Brehm.Brehm was born near Gotha, and studied at the University of Jena. In 1813 he became the minister at Renthendorf, a village sixty miles south of Leipzig, where he remained until his death. His extensive writings included Beitrage zur Vogelkunde (1820-22), which described 104 species of German birds in minute detail, and Handbuch der Naturgeschichte aller Vogel Deutschlands (1831).Brehm accumulated a collection of 15,000 bird skins. He offered these to the Berlin Zoological Museum, but the sale fell through. After his death they remained in the attic of his house, where Otto Kleinschmidt discovered them some years later. Kleinschmidt persuaded Lord Rothschild to buy them, and the collection arrived at his museum in Tring in 1900.

Studied under Carl Friedrich Gauss, obtaining his doctorate in 1812 for a thesis entitled: Methodi p

Studied under Carl Friedrich Gauss, obtaining his doctorate in 1812 for a thesis entitled: Methodi proiectionis orthographicae usum ad calculos parallacticos facilitandos explicavit simulque eclipsin solarem die, at the University of Göttingen. He is nota

Was a Danish astronomer of the eighteenth century. He was a son of Peder Horrebow, whom he succeeded

Was a Danish astronomer of the eighteenth century. He was a son of Peder Horrebow, whom he succeeded as director of the observatory associated with the University of Copenhagen.Neith, a supposed moon of Venus, was spotted by Christian Horrebow, while he was studying the passage of this planet from 1766 to 1768. He also discovered the periodicity of sunspots.

Was a Danish botanist and forester. He was a student of Japetus Steenstrup and a teacher of botany a

Was a Danish botanist and forester. He was a student of Japetus Steenstrup and a teacher of botany at the University of Copenhagen to the young Eugen Warming[1].Vaupell did macrofossil analysis of peat deposits and showed that in the Holocene development of temperate forest communities in Denmark, Betula was the chief early pioneer, followed by Pinus and Quercus and finally Fagus, which dominates today. These investigations pioneered the study of ecological succession[2].

Is a German biologist.N

Is a German biologist.N

German biologist who won the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1991 and the Nobel Pr

German biologist who won the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1991 and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1995, together with Eric Wieschaus and Edward B. Lewis, for their research on the genetic control of embryonic development.

Was a Dutch linguist and anthropologist with a wide variety of research interests. His published wor

Was a Dutch linguist and anthropologist with a wide variety of research interests. His published work included books and articles on Germanic and Balto-Slavic languages, Sanskrit, Basque, and the Blackfeet language of North American Indians. He served as a lecturer at Leiden University.

Was an American psychologist and logician.Christine Ladd-Franklin was born in Windsor, Connecticut t

Was an American psychologist and logician.Christine Ladd-Franklin was born in Windsor, Connecticut to Eliphalet Ladd and Augusta Niles. In 1869 she graduated from the newly opened Vassar College, where she studied linguistics and physics. After graduation

Was a German amateur astronomer.Arnold was a farmer by profession. Interested in astronomy, he spott

Was a German amateur astronomer.Arnold was a farmer by profession. Interested in astronomy, he spotted the great comet of 1683, eight days before Hevelius did. He also observed the great comet of 1686. In 1686, Kirch went to Leipzig. There, he observed the great comet of 1686, together with Gottfried Kirch. There, Kirch met his second wife, Maria Margarethe Winckelmann (1670-1720), who had actually learned astronomy from Arnold.Arnold observed the transit of Mercury in front of the sun on October 13, 1690. For this work, he received some money and a tax exemption from the town of Leipzig. He was the author of Göttliche Gnadenzeichen, in einem Sonnenwunder vor Augen gestellt (Leipzig, 1692) which contains an account of the transit of Mercury in 1690.

Was a Protestant pastor, writer, philosopher, distinguished linguist, and translator.Mrongovius, son

Was a Protestant pastor, writer, philosopher, distinguished linguist, and translator.Mrongovius, son of Bartholomeus, was born in Hohenstein (Olsztynek) in the Kingdom of Prussia (now in Poland). Mrongovius attended a school in Saalfeld (Zalewo), Kreis Mohrungen (Morag), and then studied at the cathedral school in Königsberg. He matriculated on 21 March 1782 at Königsberg University as Mrongovius Christoph. Coelestin,. Hohens. Boruss. (Christoph Coelestin Mongrovius from Hohenstein, Prussia). During his second semester, he attended Immanuel Kant's metaphysics lectures, followed by theology, logic, anthropology and moral philosophy, and physics.

Was an Austrian army officer and naturalist.Feldegg fought in the Napoleonic wars and in recognition

Was an Austrian army officer and naturalist.Feldegg fought in the Napoleonic wars and in recognition of his many gallant deeds was created a Baron in 1817. He served in Dalmatia, eventually becoming Colonel and Commanding Officer of the 6th Battalion of Chaseurs.Feldegg accumulated a large collection of natural history specimens, particularly birds. He was a correspondent of C. L. Brehm, John Gould and Hermann Schlegel, and served for a time with the ornithologist Dr Karl Michahelles. His collection was donated to the Natural History Museum in Prague.

A German zoologist.He was the director of the department of ichthyology and herpetology in the Museu

A German zoologist.He was the director of the department of ichthyology and herpetology in the Museum für Naturkunde.

Was a mathematics professor at the University of Caen. Gadbled was born in Saint-Martin-le-Bouillant

Was a mathematics professor at the University of Caen. Gadbled was born in Saint-Martin-le-Bouillant. He is known to have been the mentor of Pierre-Simon Laplace. He died in Caen.

A geographer.In Germany he is considered as one of the rare German experts[citation needed] for Medi

A geographer.In Germany he is considered as one of the rare German experts[citation needed] for Mediterranean ecosystems and fire ecology. Furthermore he is an expert[citation needed] of the geography of Francophone (African French geography) and Lusophone Africa and the Azores.

Was a German jurist and publicist whose writing is seen as important for the history of the causes o

Was a German jurist and publicist whose writing is seen as important for the history of the causes of the Thirty Years' War. He graduated as Doctor of Law in 1598; and in 1610 became professor of law at Tübingen. Among his pupils was Johannes Valentinus A

Was a prominent statistician who was a professor at Columbia University and The Australian National

Was a prominent statistician who was a professor at Columbia University and The Australian National University, Canberra.He was made a Member of the Order of Australia "for service to mathematics, particularly through research into statistics and probabil

A professor of African History at UCLA since 1968, is a major figure in African history and African

A professor of African History at UCLA since 1968, is a major figure in African history and African historical linguistics, particularly known for his efforts to correlate linguistic taxonomy and reconstruction with the archaeological record. His historical books include An African Classical Age, in which he argues for a conception of the period from 1000 BC to 400 AD in East Africa as a "classical age" during which a variety of major technologies and social structures took shape. His linguistic works include reconstructions of Afro-Asiatic, Nilo-Saharan, and on a smaller scale Southern Cushitic. These reconstructions are impeccably Neogrammarian in their insistence on regular sound changes, but have been criticized for frequently postulating surprising semantic shifts.

An astrophysicist.McKee obtained a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley (UCB) in 1970 u

An astrophysicist.McKee obtained a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley (UCB) in 1970 under advisor George Field. In 1974, he was appointed Professor of Physics and Astronomy, University of California at Berkeley. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and has been chair of the UCB Physics Department. He is a former member (1990) and chairman (2000) of the NASA Astronomy and Astrophysics Survey Committee (the "decade review") and former Director of the Space Sciences Laboratory (SSL) at UCB.McKee performed the first simulations of relativistic counter-streaming plasmas as part of his Ph.D. thesis at Berkeley (1970). He began his study of the interstellar medium by pointing out the existence of reverse shocks in young supernova remnants, and he then analyzed the interaction of a supernova blast wave with interstellar clouds. Since joining the Physics and Astronomy Departments in Berkeley in 1974, he has devoted much of his research to studying processes in the interstellar medium, including evaporation of clouds, the structure of shock waves in atomic and molecular gas,

A Justice of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka

A Justice of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka

A professor of Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.He received hi

A professor of Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.He received his Ph.D. degree from Indiana University in Uralic and Altaic Studies (1977).He specializes in Asian language studies and linguistics, and in the history of Central Eurasia. He teaches Tibetan and Central Eurasian languages and Central Eurasian history.

Professor of Modern Languages of South Asia in the University of London, Department of the Languages

Professor of Modern Languages of South Asia in the University of London, Department of the Languages and Cultures of South Asia, and also Professor, Department of Study of Religions at that university. He is furthermore the head of the Urdu department at the School of Oriental and African Studies of London, Project Leader at AHRB Centre for Asian and African Literatures, and a member of the Centre of South Asian Studies. He is also an expert of Siraiki language.Mehr_Abdul_Haq taught him Siraiki.He wrote several books on Siraiki language 'literature and Khwaja_Ghulam_Farid