Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter C

Was a Greek mathematician specializing in geometric topology. He worked in isolation from most of th

Was a Greek mathematician specializing in geometric topology. He worked in isolation from most of the mathematical community until 1948, when he was invited by Ralph Fox to come as his guest at the Princeton mathematics department. Fox had been impressed by a letter from Papakyriakoupolos which purported to prove Dehn's lemma. The proof, as it turned out was faulty, but Fox's sponsorship would continue for many years and enabled Papakyriakopoulos to work on his mathematics without concern of financial support.

Is an important Greek philosopher and writer of more than 40 books, translated in many languages.

Is an important Greek philosopher and writer of more than 40 books, translated in many languages.

Was an English classical scholar and archaeologist, born at Rothley Temple, in Leicestershire.He was

Was an English classical scholar and archaeologist, born at Rothley Temple, in Leicestershire.He was first educated by his father, Matthew Drake Babington, and then studied under Charles Wycliffe Goodwin, the orientalist and archaeologist, entering St John's College, Cambridge in 1839 and graduating in 1843, seventh in the first class of the classical tripos and a senior optime. In 1845 he obtained the Hulsean Prize for his essay The Influence of Christianity in promoting the Abolition of Slavery in Europe. In 1846 he was elected to a fellowship and took orders. He proceeded to the degree of M.A. in 1846 and D.D. in 1879. From 1848 to 1861 he was vicar of Horningsea, near Cambridge, and from 1866 to his death he was vicar of Cockfield in Suffolk. From 1865 to 1880 he held the Disney professorship of archaeology at Cambridge. In his lectures,

A Japanese astrophysicist. Hayashi tracks on the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram are named after him.He

A Japanese astrophysicist. Hayashi tracks on the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram are named after him.He earned his B.Sc in physics at the University of Tokyo in 1942. He then worked as a research associate under Yukawa at Osaka University. He made additions to the big bang nucleosynthesis model that built upon the work of the classic Alpher-Bethe-Gamow paper[1]. Probably his most famous work was the astrophysical calculations that lead to the Hayashi tracks of star formation[2], and the Hayashi limit that puts a limit on star radius. He was also involved in the early study of Brown dwarfs, some of the smallest stars formed[3]. He retired in 1984.

Was a geochemist born in Mitchellville, Iowa, United States. He graduated from Grinnell College in G

Was a geochemist born in Mitchellville, Iowa, United States. He graduated from Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa.Patterson developed the uranium-lead dating method into lead-lead dating, and by using lead isotopic data from the Canyon Diablo meteorite, he calculated an age for the Earth of 4.55 billion years; a figure far more accurate than those that existed at the time and one that has remained unchanged for over 50 years.Patterson had first encountered lead contamination in the late 1940s as a graduate student at the University of Chicago. His work on this led to a total re-evaluation of the growth in lead concentrations in the atmosphere and the human body from industrial causes and his subsequent campaigning was seminal in the banning of lead additives to gasoline and lead solder in food cans.

Is a French professor of mathematics and director of research at the Institut de mathématiques de J

Is a French professor of mathematics and director of research at the Institut de mathématiques de Jussieu at the University of Paris VI: Pierre et Marie Curie. She is noted for her work in algebraic geometry—particularly as it pertains to variational Hodge structures and mirror symmetry.

Was a French theologian. He is best known for his Tractatus super librum Boetii De Trinitate, a comm

Was a French theologian. He is best known for his Tractatus super librum Boetii De Trinitate, a commentary on the Opuscula Sacra of Boethius.[2] He belonged to the School of Chartres, of William of Conches and Bernard Silvestris. He was a follower of Thierry of Chartres and Hugh of St. Victor, and an opponent of Gilbert of Poitiers.

Was an American geologist and US Army officer. Dutton was born in Wallingford, Connecticut on May 15

Was an American geologist and US Army officer. Dutton was born in Wallingford, Connecticut on May 15, 1841. He graduated from Yale College in 1860 and took postgraduate courses there until 1862, when he enlisted in the 21st Connecticut Volunteers; he fought at Fredericksburg, Suffolk, Nashville and Petersburg.In 1875 he began work as a geologist for the U.S. Geological Survey. Working chiefly in the Colorado Plateau region, he wrote several classic papers, including geological studies of the high plateaus of Utah (1879-80), the Tertiary history of the Grand Canyon district (1882), and the Charleston, SC earthquake of 1886. As head of the division of volcanic geology at the USGS, he studied volcanism in Hawaii, California, and Oregon. He helped coordinate the scientific response to a large earthquake in the Mexican state of Sonora in 1887.

Usually cited as C. I. Lewis, was an American academic philosopher and the founder of conceptual pra

Usually cited as C. I. Lewis, was an American academic philosopher and the founder of conceptual pragmatism. First a noted logician, he later branched into epistemology, and during the last 20 years of his life, he wrote much on ethics.

Was an American geologist and mountaineer. First director of the United States Geological Survey, fr

Was an American geologist and mountaineer. First director of the United States Geological Survey, from 1879 to 1881, King was noted for his exploration of the Sierra Nevada. He was born in Newport, Rhode Island.In 1862, King graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale College with a Ph.B. in chemistry. While at Yale, he studied with James Dwight Dana. After graduation King traveled on horseback to California with his good friend and classmate, James Terry Gardiner. In California he joined the California Geological Survey without pay where he worked with William H. Brewer, Josiah D. Whitney and Richard D. Cotter. In October 1872, he uncovered a diamond and gemstone hoax perpetrated by Philip Arnold. In 1864, King and Richard Cotter reported the first ascent of Mount Tyndall, at the time labeling it mistakenly as the highest peak in the Sierra Nevada.

Known to his friends as "Pete", was an American geneticist. Born in Dexter, Missouri, he attended co

Known to his friends as "Pete", was an American geneticist. Born in Dexter, Missouri, he attended college at University of Texas receiving a BA in 1925. He continued his studies at University of Texas completing a PhD in the laboratory of Hermann Joseph Muller in 1931. From 1932 to 1946 he was a member of the faculty of University of Minnesota where future nobelist Edward B. Lewis worked in his lab as an undergraduate. From 1946 to his retirement in 1971, he was a faculty member at University of Texas, where he studied human genetics and pseudoallelism.

Was a British ornithologist.Ticehurst was educated first at Tonbridge School and subsequently attend

Was a British ornithologist.Ticehurst was educated first at Tonbridge School and subsequently attended St John's College, Cambridge. Initially trained as a medical physician, he soon turned to the collection of birds, and made trips to Europe with John Lewis James Bonhote and Hugh Whistler for this purpose.

Was a French mathematician, recognized as one of the modern founders of combinatorics and graph theo

Was a French mathematician, recognized as one of the modern founders of combinatorics and graph theory. He is particularly remembered for his famous conjectures on perfect graphs and for Berge's lemma, which states that a matching M in a graph G is maximum if and only if there is in G no augmenting path with respect to M. He wrote five books, on game theory (1957), graph theory and its applications (1958), topological spaces (1959), principles of combinatorics (1968) and hypergraphs (1970), each being translated in several languages and becoming a classic.

Was a French physiologist. He was called by I. Bernard Cohen of Harvard University, "one of the grea

Was a French physiologist. He was called by I. Bernard Cohen of Harvard University, "one of the greatest of all men of science" in his Foreword to the Dover edition (1957) of Bernard's classic on scientific method, An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine (originally published in 1865). He is considered as the "Father of Physiology".Claude Bernard's aim, as he stated in his own words, was to establish the use of the scientific method in medicine. He dismissed many previous misconceptions, took nothing for granted, and relied on experimentation. Unlike his contemporaries, he insisted that all living creatures were bound by the same laws as inanimate matter.

Was a French mathematician who made important contributions to number theory, algebraic geometry, cl

Was a French mathematician who made important contributions to number theory, algebraic geometry, class field theory, finite group theory, and the theory of algebraic groups. He was a founding member of the Bourbaki group.

Was a French Catholic controversialist. At the age of fifteen he joined the Canons Regular of Saint-

Was a French Catholic controversialist. At the age of fifteen he joined the Canons Regular of Saint-Cheron, and was sent to the College of Navarre in Paris, where he received the degree of Doctor of Theology (1555). On account of the erudition of his early works and the aptitude which he showed for controversy, he was called to the Conference of Poissy, held in 1561 between the Catholics and the Huguenots, at which Theodore of Beza and Diego Lainez, Superior General of the Society of Jesus, were present.

Was a French Franciscan Scotist theologian and philosopher. He entered the Franciscan Order at Peron

Was a French Franciscan Scotist theologian and philosopher. He entered the Franciscan Order at Peronne in his seventeenth year; and after the year of novitiate was sent to Paris, where he completed his studies and remained for thirty years as professor of philosophy and theology. In 1662 he was made doctor of the Sorbonne, and as definitor general, to which office he was elected in 1682, he took part in the general chapters of the order at Toledo and Rome.

Was a French classical liberal theorist, political economist, and member of the French assembly. He

Was a French classical liberal theorist, political economist, and member of the French assembly. He is buried at San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome.When Bastiat was twenty-five, his grandfather and benefactor died, leaving the young man the family estate and providing him with the means to further his own theoretical inquiries. His areas of intellectual interest were diverse, including "philosophy, history, politics, religion, travel, poetry, political economy, [and] biography."[1]His public career as an economist began only in 1844, and was cut short by his untimely death in 1850. Bastiat had contracted tuberculosis, probably during his tours throughout France to promote libertarian ideas, and that illness eventually prevented him from making further speeches (particularly at the legislative assembly to which he was elected in 1848 and 1849) and took his life. Bastiat died in Rome on December 24, 1850. He declared on his death bed that his friend Gustave de Molinari (publisher of Bastiat's masterpiece The Law in 1850) was his spiritual heir.

Was a French utopian socialist thinker.Saint-Simon was born in Paris. He belonged to a younger branc

Was a French utopian socialist thinker.Saint-Simon was born in Paris. He belonged to a younger branch of the family of the duc de Saint-Simon. He claimed his education was directed by Jean le Rond d'Alembert, though no proof of this exists; it is likely t

Was a French Economist who worked in spatial economics and in the application of fuzzy set theory to

Was a French Economist who worked in spatial economics and in the application of fuzzy set theory to economics. Bo Yuan and George Klir wrote in their book 'Fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic theory and applications' that "A pioneer who initiated the reformulation of economic theory by taking advantage of fuzzy set theory was undoubtedly the French economist Claude Ponsard."

Was a French philosopher, Hellenist and theologian. He taught medieval philosophy and philosophy of

Was a French philosopher, Hellenist and theologian. He taught medieval philosophy and philosophy of science at the Sorbonne. He was a member of the Academy of Moral and Political Science. He was given the Maxmilien-Kolbe Prize in 1973 and the Grand Prix of the Academy of Moral and Political Science for his complete works in 1987.

Was a French mathematician and astronomer who began his career as an engineer. He worked with the Bu

Was a French mathematician and astronomer who began his career as an engineer. He worked with the Bureau des Longitudes and tried to determine the distance of the stars.

Was the 16th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines.

Was the 16th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines.

Was a Brazilian philosopher and expert on the work of Gilles Deleuze. He taught at the Universidade

Was a Brazilian philosopher and expert on the work of Gilles Deleuze. He taught at the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro and Universidade Federal Fluminense.

Was a Danish geographer sometimes considered to be the first Nordic cartographer.In 1412-13 at the a

Was a Danish geographer sometimes considered to be the first Nordic cartographer.In 1412-13 at the age of 25 he started to travel around Europe and appeared eleven years later (1423-24) in Rome. It is believed he travelled as far north as the 70°10' N. lat. In Rome he became friends with the cardinal Giordano Orsini and the pope's secretary Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini, who were among those working to update the old Roman cartography. Claudius contributed to a more realistic description of Nordic countries, in particular Iceland and Greenland, and was probably the first cartographer to put Greenland on a map. He is also known for having named Greenlandic places by using lyrics from old folk songs.