Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter C

Was a German astronomer.He discovered two asteroids, most notably 433 Eros, the first known asteroid

Was a German astronomer.He discovered two asteroids, most notably 433 Eros, the first known asteroid with an unusual orbit occasionally approaching the Earth's (today it is classified as an Amor asteroid).

Was a German engineer, architect and archaeologist. He discovered the Pergamon Altar.Humann was born

Was a German engineer, architect and archaeologist. He discovered the Pergamon Altar.Humann was born in Steele, now part of the city Essen. An educated rail-engineer and aspiring architecture student, he worked initially on the construction of the Bergisch-Märkische Railway in North Rhine-Westphalia and later attended the Building-Academy in Berlin. After falling ill with tuberculosis, he looked for healthier climates and moved to the then Ottoman Empire and settled down in Istanbul. He participated in excavations on the island of Samos, built palaces and in 1864 travelled to Palestine, under order of the Turkish government, preparing accurate maps of the area. In later years he also travelled the west Balkans and recorded accurate maps. Humann died in Smyrna.

Was a Swedish zoologist.He was employed at the Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm from 183

Was a Swedish zoologist.He was employed at the Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm from 1833, and was professor and keeper of the vertebrate section from 1839 to 1871. He wrote Svenska Foglarna (1856-87) which described 238 species of birds observed in Sweden. He classified a number of birds collected in southern Africa by Johan August Wahlberg. In 1835, he developed a phylogeny for the birds based on the muscles of the hip and leg that contributed to later work by Thomas Huxley. He then went on to examine the arrangement of the deep plantar tendons in the bird's foot. This latter information is still used by avian taxonomists.

A Professor of Linguistics at the Ohio State University. He is the inventor of Higher-order grammar,

A Professor of Linguistics at the Ohio State University. He is the inventor of Higher-order grammar, as well as co-inventor of Head-driven phrase structure grammar (HPSG). He is currently also working on Convergent Grammar (CVG). He has written numerous books and articles on formal syntax and semantics. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford.He is a founding member of Hell's Tunas Motorcycle Club.[1]

Was a Russian botanist. Maximowicz spent most of his life studying the flora of the countries he had

Was a Russian botanist. Maximowicz spent most of his life studying the flora of the countries he had visited in the Far East, and naming many new species. He worked at the Saint Petersburg Botanical Gardens from 1852 as curator of the herbarium collection, becoming Director in 1869.From 1853-1857 he traveled around the world. He travelled with another Baltic-German Leopold von Schrenck to the Amur region in eastern Asia. From 1859 to 1864 he also he visited China, Korea and Japan. He arrived in Japan in late 1860, initially basing his operations in Hakodate. He traveled extensively in southern Japan and for much of 1862 including the region of Yokohama and Mount Fuji, he ended that year in Nagasaki. He also explored much of Kyushu.[1]

Was an American astronomer.He is best known for his 1943 research paper on high-excitation line emis

Was an American astronomer.He is best known for his 1943 research paper on high-excitation line emission from the centers of some spiral galaxies, which are named Seyfert galaxies after him. Seyfert's Sextet, a group of galaxies, is also named after him.In 1936 he joined the staff of the new McDonald Observatory in Texas, where he helped get the observatory started. He stayed until 1940, working with Daniel M. Popper on the properties of faint B stars and continuing his work on colors in spiral galaxies.In 1940 he went to Mt. Wilson Observatory as a fellow with the National Research Council. He stayed until 1942, studying a class of active galaxies now called Seyfert galaxies. In 1942 he returned to Cleveland, at the Case Institute, where he taught navigation to military personnel and participated in secret military research. He also carried out some astronomical research at the Warner and Swasey Observatory of the Case Institute.

Was an American ichthyologist.He was born in Williams, Arizona. He was the son of Charles Leavitt an

Was an American ichthyologist.He was born in Williams, Arizona. He was the son of Charles Leavitt and Elizabeth (née Goss) Hubbs. His father had a wide variety of jobs (farmer, iron mine owner, newspaper owner). The family moved several times before settling in San Diego where he got his first taste of natural history[1].

Was a Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of b

Was a Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology.

Also known as Karl Ivanovich Gablits, was a Russian botanist.He was born in Königsberg. He was the

Also known as Karl Ivanovich Gablits, was a Russian botanist.He was born in Königsberg. He was the author of Physical description of Taurichesky area, its position and three empires of nature (1785)

Also known as Karl Ivanovich Gablits, was a Russian botanist.He was born in Königsberg. He was the

Also known as Karl Ivanovich Gablits, was a Russian botanist.He was born in Königsberg. He was the author of Physical description of Taurichesky area, its position and three empires of nature (1785).

Was a German botanist, pharmacist, and plant taxonomist. He is considered one of the founders of phy

Was a German botanist, pharmacist, and plant taxonomist. He is considered one of the founders of phytogeography, the study of the geographic distribution of plants. Willdenow was also a mentor of Alexander von Humboldt one of the earliest and best known phytogeographers.Willdenow was born in Berlin and studied medicine and botany at the University of Halle. He was a director of the Botanical garden of Berlin from 1801 until his death. There he studied many South American plants, brought back by the explorer Alexander von Humboldt. He was interested in the adaptation of plants to climate, showing that the same climate had plants having common characteristics. His herbarium, containing more than 20,000 species, is still preserved in Berlin.

Was the founder of the Austrian School of economics, famous for contributing to the development of t

Was the founder of the Austrian School of economics, famous for contributing to the development of the theory of marginal utility that refuted the cost-of-production theories of value developed by the classical economists such as Adam Smith and David Ricardo.Menger was born in Nowy Sacz, Poland (at that time Neu Sandec, Austrian Galicia). He was the son of a wealthy family of minor nobility; his father, Anton, was a lawyer. His mother, Caroline, was the daughter of a wealthy Bohemian merchant. He had two brothers, Anton and Max, both prominent as lawyers. After attending Gymnasium he studied law at the Universities of Prague and Vienna and later received a doctorate in jurisprudence from the Jagiellonian University in Kraków.

Was an American geographer. He was born in Warrenton, Missouri and graduated from the University of

Was an American geographer. He was born in Warrenton, Missouri and graduated from the University of Chicago with a Ph.D. in 1915. Sauer was a professor of geography at the University of California, Berkeley from 1923 until becoming professor emeritus in 1957 and was instrumental in the early development of the geography graduate school at Berkeley. One of his most well known works was Agricultural Origins and Dispersals (1952). In 1927, Carl Sauer wrote the article "Recent Developments in Cultural Geography," which considered how cultural landscapes are made up of "the forms superimposed on the physical landscape."

Is a German lawyer, member of the German Bundestag. Carl Otto Lenz is the son of the lawyer Dr. Otto

Is a German lawyer, member of the German Bundestag. Carl Otto Lenz is the son of the lawyer Dr. Otto Lenz (Secretary of the Federal Chancellery 1951-1953, member of the German Bundestag 1953-1957) and Mrs. Marie Liese Pohl. In 1948 he graduated from high

Was a Swedish naturalist. He has been called "the father of South African botany" and the "Japanese

Was a Swedish naturalist. He has been called "the father of South African botany" and the "Japanese Linnaeus".In 1771, during a stay in Amsterdam and Leiden, he studied their botanical gardens and musea. He was invited to visit the Dutch colonies and Japan to collect specimens for Dutch botanical gardens. He left in December 1771, as the ship's surgeon in the Dutch East India Company. After his arrival at Cape Town, Cape Colony, he stayed there for three years in order to learn the Dutch language and to be able to pass himself off as a Dutchman, as Japan at that time was only open to Protestant Dutch merchants. He also became a doctor of medicine. During his three expeditions in the interior, he collected a significant number of specimens of both flora and fauna.

An American microbiologist and Physicist who attended Deerfield Academy and Amherst College. He is f

An American microbiologist and Physicist who attended Deerfield Academy and Amherst College. He is famous for defining the Archaea (a new domain or kingdom of life) in 1977 by phylogenetic taxonomy of 16S ribosomal RNA, a technique pioneered by Woese and which is now standard practice.[1][2][3] He was also the originator of the RNA world hypothesis in 1967, although not by that name. He currently holds the Stanley O. Ikenberry Chair and is Professor of Microbiology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Was a German geographer. Along with Alexander von Humboldt, he is considered one of the founders of

Was a German geographer. Along with Alexander von Humboldt, he is considered one of the founders of modern geography. From 1825 until his death, he occupied the first chair in geography at the University of Berlin.Ritter's father died when he was two. At the age of five, he was enrolled in the Schnepfenthal Salzmann School, a school focused on the study of nature (apparently influenced by Jean-Jacques Rousseau's writings on children's education). This experience would influence Ritter throughout his life, as he retained an interest in new educational modes, including those of Johann Pestalozzi. Indeed, much of Ritter's writing was based on Pestalozzi's three stages in teaching: the acquisition of the material, the general comparison of material, and the establishment of a general system.

German jurist, political theorist, and professor of law.

German jurist, political theorist, and professor of law.

Was an American economist and statistician.Although he attended the University of Iowa and studied i

Was an American economist and statistician.Although he attended the University of Iowa and studied in Paris, he was chiefly self-taught. He began as a journalist; at the age of 20, he was editor of the Council Bluffs Nonparell, later writing editorials fo

Was a German geographer, brother of botanist Wilhelm Troll.From 1919 until 1922 Troll studied amongs

Was a German geographer, brother of botanist Wilhelm Troll.From 1919 until 1922 Troll studied amongst other biology, chemistry, geology, geography and physics at the Universität in München. In 1921 he obtained his doctorate in botany and in 1925 his habil

Was a German physician, anatomist, psychiatrist and neuropathologist. He earned his medical degree a

Was a German physician, anatomist, psychiatrist and neuropathologist. He earned his medical degree at the University of Breslau (1870). He died in Germany due to injuries suffered during a bicycle accident [1].Shortly after Paul Broca published his findings on language deficits caused by damage to what is now referred to as Broca's area, Wernicke began pursuing his own research into the effects of brain disease on speech and language. Wernicke noticed that not all language deficits were the result of damage to Broca's area. Rather he found that damage to the left posterior, superior temporal gyrus resulted in deficits in language comprehension. This region is now referred to as Wernicke's area, and the associated syndrome is known as Wernicke's aphasia, for his discovery.

Was a Swedish paleontologist and the first professor of paleontology at Uppsala University.[1] He pu

Was a Swedish paleontologist and the first professor of paleontology at Uppsala University.[1] He published on a variety of topics, including extinct penguins,[2] and dinosaur fossils sent to Sweden from China and the San Juan Basin of New Mexico (U.S.A.). He is responsible for naming the genera Helopus (renamed Euhelopus because Helopus was already in use) and Tanius,[3] and the species Pentaceratops fenestratus[4] and Parasaurolophus tubicen.

Was an Italian mathematician who worked on probability theory.Bonferroni is famous for the Bonferron

Was an Italian mathematician who worked on probability theory.Bonferroni is famous for the Bonferroni correction, which states that if an experimenter is testing n dependent or independent hypotheses on a set of data, then the statistical significance lev

He obtained his undergraduate degree in Economics from the University of Buenos Aires in 1969, and t

He obtained his undergraduate degree in Economics from the University of Buenos Aires in 1969, and the Ph.D. (Economics) from The University of Chicago in 1973. Between 1973 and 1978, he taught at Columbia University in New York. In 1979, he returned to Argentina and joined CEMA (Center of Argentine Macroeconomic Studies).He has been Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago, Princeton University and the University of Montevideo, as well as Consultant and Visiting Scholar at the World Bank, the Agency for International Development (AID), and the IMF. As an international consultant he has participated in missions in almost all countries in Latin America as well as Poland, Czechoslovakia, the ex-USSR and Romania. In 1987, he was designated member of the Argentine Academy of Economic Sciences. Between 1996 and 1998, he was Vice-Minister of Economics and Secretary for Economic Policy of Argentina. In 1994, he was the founding President of the Universidad del CEMA (Rector), a position he still holds today (2009). At UCEMA, he is also Director of the Ph.D. Program in Economics, and Professor of International Monetary Economics.

Is a Brazilian philosopher. He obtained his doctor-degree in 1958 at the Austria. Was a full profess

Is a Brazilian philosopher. He obtained his doctor-degree in 1958 at the Austria. Was a full professor at the universities UFRGS (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul), PUCRS (Pontífica Universidade do Rio Grande do Sul) in Porto Alegre, and UNISINOS in São Leopoldo, Rio Grande do Sul.