Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter D

Is a Swedish philosopher and logician. He is best known for his work on proof theory and the foundat

Is a Swedish philosopher and logician. He is best known for his work on proof theory and the foundations of natural deduction.

Was a Japanese mathematician who was awarded the Lester R. Ford Award in 1976 for his work in number

Was a Japanese mathematician who was awarded the Lester R. Ford Award in 1976 for his work in number theory, specifically on his work in the Diophantine representation of prime numbers. His doctoral supervisor at the University of California, Los Angeles was Ernst G. Straus. It is due to this extensive collaboration with Straus that Sato has an Erdos number as well as an Einstein number of 2.

Was an Indian astronomer, mathematician, and astrologer who lived in Ujjain. He is considered to be

Was an Indian astronomer, mathematician, and astrologer who lived in Ujjain. He is considered to be one of the nine jewels (Navaratnas) of the court of legendary king Vikramaditya (thought to be the Gupta emperor Chandragupta II Vikramaditya). Though little is known about his life, he supposedly hailed from South Bengal, where in the ruins of Chandraketugarh there is a mound called the mound of Khana and Mihir. Khana was the daughter-in-law of Varaha and a famous astrologer herself. Modern Shakadvipi brahmins, esp astrologers, regard Varah Mihir as their ancestor, although there is no ancient documentary proof in favour of this belief.

An American economist. He received his B.A. in economics from Willamette University and his Ph.D. in

An American economist. He received his B.A. in economics from Willamette University and his Ph.D. in Economics from Carnegie Mellon University. He has been on the faculty of Northwestern University since 1965.His research focuses on labor economics, macroeconomics and economic theory. Mortensen is especially known for his pioneering work on the search and matching theory of frictional unemployment. He has extended the insights from this work to study labor turnover and reallocation, research and development, and personal relationships.

Is a British human geneticist . She is Dr Lee's Professor of Anatomy in the University of Oxford and

Is a British human geneticist . She is Dr Lee's Professor of Anatomy in the University of Oxford and a fellow of Hertford College. She is director of the MRC functional genetics unit, a governor of the Wellcome Trust and, with Frances Ashcroft and Peter D

Was an important Portuguese humanist philosopher. He was a friend and student of Erasmus. He was app

Was an important Portuguese humanist philosopher. He was a friend and student of Erasmus. He was appointed secretary to a Portuguese trading post in Antwerp in 1523 by King John III of Portugal. He compiled one of the first accounts on Ethiopian Christian

Is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. He has worked in single ope

Is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. He has worked in single operator theory, operator K-theory and von Neumann algebras. More recently, he developed free probability theory.

Was a philosopher and a leader of the Trotskyist movement in France. He became a leading figure in t

Was a philosopher and a leader of the Trotskyist movement in France. He became a leading figure in the student revolt of 1968, while studying at the University of Paris X: Nanterre.

Was a Swiss mathematician who spent much of his life in Basel where he died. A member of a talented

Was a Swiss mathematician who spent much of his life in Basel where he died. A member of a talented family of mathematicians, physicists and philosophers

Is a French chef and restaurateur with restaurants in New York City, Las Vegas, Palm Beach, and Miam

Is a French chef and restaurateur with restaurants in New York City, Las Vegas, Palm Beach, and Miami. He is best known for his eponymous restaurant, Daniel, in New York City.

Was a Swedish botanist.He enrolled at Uppsala University in July 1750 and studied languages and the

Was a Swedish botanist.He enrolled at Uppsala University in July 1750 and studied languages and the humanities. The professor of botany was the celebrated Carolus Linnaeus who was soon impressed by young Solander's ability and accordingly persuaded his father to let him study natural history. He traveled to England in 1760 to promote Linnaeus' new system of classification. He was an assistant librarian at the British Museum from 1763 onwards, and elected as Fellow of the Royal Society in the following year. Afterwards he held the position of Keeper of Printed Books at the British Museum.

Is a French economist and a professor at the École d'économie de Paris.

Is a French economist and a professor at the École d'économie de Paris.

Was an American zoologist.Elliot was one of the founders of the American Museum of Natural History i

Was an American zoologist.Elliot was one of the founders of the American Museum of Natural History in New York and the American Ornithologists' Union. He was also curator of zoology at the Field Museum in Chicago.Elliot used his wealth to publish a series of sumptuous color-plate books on birds and animals. Elliot wrote the text himself and commissioned artists such as Joseph Wolf and Joseph Smit, both of whom had worked for John Gould, to provide the illustrations. The books included A Monograph of the Phasianidae (Family of the Pheasants) (1870-72), A Monograph of the Paradiseidae or Birds of Paradise (1873), A Monograph of the Felidae or Family of Cats (1878) and Review of the Primates (1913).

An evolutionary ecologist, naturalist, and conservationist. He divides his time between his professo

An evolutionary ecologist, naturalist, and conservationist. He divides his time between his professorship in biology at the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, USA), where he has been since 1976, and his research and field work in Costa Rica, where he is an ad honorem (without remuneration) technical advisor for two long-term and long-range projects, which he conceived and initiated in the early 1970s: Area de Conservación Guanacaste, probably the oldest, largest and most successful habitat restoration project in the world, 1.430 km², located just south of the Costa Rica-Nicaragua border,

Was an American astronomer.he graduated in mathematics from the York County Academy in York, Pennsyl

Was an American astronomer.he graduated in mathematics from the York County Academy in York, Pennsylvania in 1838. After teaching there for five years, he became Principal of the Lancaster High School in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and after another five years he moved on to become Principal of the Pottsville Academy in Pottsville, Pennsylvania. In 1851 he became Professor of Mathematics at Delaware College and in 1856 Professor of Mathematics at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, where he stayed until his retirement in 1886, with the exception of two years, 1865-1867, at Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania.

A linguistics professor best known for his study of the Amazon Basin's Pirahã people and their lang

A linguistics professor best known for his study of the Amazon Basin's Pirahã people and their language.He currently serves as Chair of the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois. He previously taught at the University of Manchester and is former Chair of the Linguistics Department of the University of Pittsburgh.Everett eventually concluded that Chomsky's ideas about universal grammar, and the universality of recursion in particular, do not obtain in Pirahã. His 2005 article in Current Anthropology, titled "Cultural Constraints on Grammar and Cognition in Pirahã,"[3] has caused a controversy in the field of linguistics.[2]

Is an econometrician.McFadden was born in Raleigh, North Carolina. He attended the University of Min

Is an econometrician.McFadden was born in Raleigh, North Carolina. He attended the University of Minnesota, where he received a B.S. in Physics at age 19, and a Ph.D. in Behavioral Science (Economics) five years later (1962).

Econometrician who won (jointly with James Heckman) the 2000 Nobel Prize in Economics; McFadden's sh

Econometrician who won (jointly with James Heckman) the 2000 Nobel Prize in Economics; McFadden's share of the prize was "for his development of theory and methods for analyzing discrete choice,"[1]. He is currently the E. Morris Cox Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley.

Was the first important political economist to appear in the United States. He authored Thoughts on

Was the first important political economist to appear in the United States. He authored Thoughts on Political Economy (1820) and The Elements of Political Economy (1823).He theorized that "labor creates wealth," which may have been an improvement based on the thinking of Adam Smith of Europe. Daniel Raymond thought that the economy of England was actually the economy of the higher-ranking members of that society, and not the economy of the entire nation. He held that wealth is not an aggregation of exchange values, as Adam Smith had conceived it. Daniel Raymond held that wealth is the capacity or opportunity to acquire the necessaries and conveniences of life by labor.

Was a French Protestant theologian. Initially a Calvinist, he became a prominent and influential Arm

Was a French Protestant theologian. Initially a Calvinist, he became a prominent and influential Arminian[1], teaching at the Academy of Sedan. He was an open critic of the Synod of Dort of 1618-9. A long and divisive controversy with Pierre Du Moulin broke out in 1612.[2] They had earlier, in 1601, been allies on the Huguenot side of a public disputation against the Catholic Jacques-Davy Duperron and others.

Was a French Reformed theologian. He now sought refuge in Sancerre, and after a year returned to Mon

Was a French Reformed theologian. He now sought refuge in Sancerre, and after a year returned to Montbéliard. Here he was charged with teaching Calvinistic and Zwinglian heresies; his reply was an affirmation of his Lutheran belief. In 1571 he was recalled to Orléans, and held servicee in the castle Isle, a few miles away. At the news of the massacre on St. Bartholomew's Day, he left just in time to escape the massacre and pillage at Isle the next day; and he was concealed by a Roman Catholic nobleman at Montargis and later by the duchess in a tower of her castle. In November 1572, he was able to return to his father at Montbéliard, but Lutheran intolerance again drove him out, and he accepted a call to the French refugees at Basel.

Was an American librarian and scholar, born on November 11, 1831, at Ellisburg, New York.Fiske studi

Was an American librarian and scholar, born on November 11, 1831, at Ellisburg, New York.Fiske studied at Cazenovia Seminary and started his collegiate studies at Hamilton College in 1847. He joined the Psi Upsilon but was suspended for a student prank at the end of his sophomore year. He was educated at Copenhagen and at Uppsala University. Upon his return to the United States, he acted as a General Secretary to the American Geographical Society and edited the Syracuse Daily Journal.

Is Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science and is currently t

Is Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science and is currently the Head of Department of Economics at the same school. His work includes important contributions to the fields of Economic Growth, Development Economics, M

Is a former racing driver from the United States. He is best known for winning the 1985 Indianapolis

Is a former racing driver from the United States. He is best known for winning the 1985 Indianapolis 500. Sullivan was born to a building contractor father in Louisville Kentucky. He attended the Kentucky Military Institute and then the Jim Russell Racing School. He had several odd jobs before his racing career, including lumberjack, and most famously, New York City cab driver.

Is a Polish economist, academic, and policy maker. She served as European Commissioner for Regional

Is a Polish economist, academic, and policy maker. She served as European Commissioner for Regional Policy from 22 November 2004 until 4 July 2009, when she resigned to become a Member of European Parliament for the Civic Platform.[1]Between 1971 and 1987 Hübner was a member of communist Polish United Workers' Party.