Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter D

Was a Dutch humanist and theologian.

Was a Dutch humanist and theologian.

Is most famous for his work as a zoologist and ethologist, but is also known as a surrealist artist

Is most famous for his work as a zoologist and ethologist, but is also known as a surrealist artist and author.He was educated at Dauntsey's School, an independent school in West Lavington, Wiltshire. After military service, he attended the University of Birmingham where he graduated in 1951 with a First Class Honours Degree in Zoology. In 1954, he was awarded a D.Phil. from Oxford University for his doctoral thesis on the Reproductive Behaviour of the Ten-spined Stickleback, supervised by Niko Tinbergen. He then was employed by the Zoological Society of London as Curator of Mammals at the London Zoo, which he left in 1966 in frustration about stagnation at the zoo.

Was a British racing driver from Northern Ireland. He participated in one Formula One World Champion

Was a British racing driver from Northern Ireland. He participated in one Formula One World Championship Grand Prix, on July 14, 1956. He scored no championship points. He also competed in several non-Championship Grand Prix.

Was a French Enlightenment aristocrat and philosopher who coined the term "ideology". The son of a d

Was a French Enlightenment aristocrat and philosopher who coined the term "ideology". The son of a distinguished soldier, he was born in the Bourbonnais. His family was of Scottish descent, tracing its origin to Walter Stutt, who in 1420 had accompanied the Earls of Buchan and Douglas to the court of France, and whose family afterwards rose to be counts of Tracy

Widely acknowledged as one of the most important Indian scientists of the 20th century, best known f

Widely acknowledged as one of the most important Indian scientists of the 20th century, best known for his work that led to his creation of the Ramachandran plot for understanding peptide structure. He also made other major contributions in biology and physics.He joined Indian Institute of Science [1], Bangalore in 1942 in the Electrical Engineering Department. Quickly realizing his interest in physics, he switched to Department of Physics [2] to complete his master's and doctoral thesis under the supervision of Nobel laureate Sir C. V. Raman [3]. In 1942 he received a master's degree in physics from Madras University and received D.Sc. in 1947 [4]. Here he mostly studied crystal physics and crystal optics. During his studies he created an X-ray focusing mirror for the X-ray Microscope. The resulting field of crystal topography is used extensively in studies involving crystal growth and solid-state reactivity.

Was an American zoologist who completed an extended study of eight gorilla groups. She observed them

Was an American zoologist who completed an extended study of eight gorilla groups. She observed them daily for years in the mountain forests of Rwanda, initially encouraged to work there by famous paleontologist Louis Leakey.

Appointed Chief Justice of the Family Court of Australia

Appointed Chief Justice of the Family Court of Australia

Is a Dutch logician and mathematician. He received his PhD degree in 1968 from the University of Wis

Is a Dutch logician and mathematician. He received his PhD degree in 1968 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison under supervision of Stephen Kleene with a dissertation entitled Investigations on the Intuitionistic Propositional Calculus. De Jongh is mo

Is a French mathematician. Since 1999, he is a co-editor-in-chief of the journal Fuzzy Sets and Syst

Is a French mathematician. Since 1999, he is a co-editor-in-chief of the journal Fuzzy Sets and Systems. In 1993–1997 he was vice-president and president of the International Fuzzy Systems Association. His research interests include fuzzy set theory, possibility theory, and knowledge representation. Most of his works are co-authored by Henri Prade.

Was a Danish botanist and physicist. He participated as botanist in the first Galathea Expedition 18

Was a Danish botanist and physicist. He participated as botanist in the first Galathea Expedition 1845–1847. In 1875, he succeeded A.S. Ørsted as professor of botany at the University of Copenhagen and director of the Botanic Garden, whereby the already then much better known Eugen Warming was passed over. After Didrichsen's retirement in 1885, Warming succeeded him in both positions.

Was a Dutch mathematician. He is now remembered as the joint discoverer of the Korteweg–de Vries e

Was a Dutch mathematician. He is now remembered as the joint discoverer of the Korteweg–de Vries equation.[2]Diederik Korteweg's father was a judge in 's-Hertogenbosch (also known as Den Bosch) in southern Netherlands. Korteweg received his schooling there, studying at a special academy which prepared students for a military career. However, he decided against a military career and, making the first of his changes of direction, he began his studies at the Polytechnical School of Delft.

Was a German missionary, Africanist, and linguist. He substantially extended and revised the work of

Was a German missionary, Africanist, and linguist. He substantially extended and revised the work of Carl Meinhof, his teacher, although he rejected some of Meinhof's theories only implicitly. Westermann is seen as one of the founders of modern African linguistics.He carried out extensive linguistic and anthropological research in the area ranging from Senegal eastwards to the Upper Nile. His linguistic publications cover a wide range of African languages, including the Gbe languages, Nuer, Kpelle, Shilluk, Hausa, and Guang.

Is a German philosopher. A contemporary thinker in the tradition of German Idealism, Henrich is part

Is a German philosopher. A contemporary thinker in the tradition of German Idealism, Henrich is particularly known for the influence of Kant, Hegel and Fichte in his work. Henrich studied philosophy between 1946 and 1950 at Marburg, Frankfurt and Heidelbe

Mathematician, statistician; student of Mathematics at Technical University Dresden; applied researc

Mathematician, statistician; student of Mathematics at Technical University Dresden; applied research at Deutsches Brennstoffinstitut Freiberg, 1967 PhD, 1975 Habilitation. Since 1976 at TU Bergakademie Freiberg, President of that university in 1991—1997;

Is a mathematician, a citizen of Russia, permanent resident of France. His research interests includ

Is a mathematician, a citizen of Russia, permanent resident of France. His research interests include algebraic geometry, symbolic computation and computational complexity theory in computer algebra, with over 120 published articles.[3][4]

Is Director of the Research Unit on Industry and Innovation (Lab. RII), University of Littoral Côte

Is Director of the Research Unit on Industry and Innovation (Lab. RII), University of Littoral Côte d'Opale, France and Technical University of Crete, Greece.[1 After having worked in various international and Hellenic institutions (Ministry of Industry and the Economy), Dimitri Uzunidis was named as an associate professor in 1992 at the new University of Littoral Côte d’Opale (Dunkirk, France). He participated in the establishment of this university, where he founded and managed the Research Unit on Industry and Innovation (Lab.RII). A specialist in the international political economics of innovation, he currently teaches in some French and Greek universities and he is also associate professor at Seattle University (United States).

Was a famous Romanian botanist. He founded the Botanical Garden of Bucharest which is now named in h

Was a famous Romanian botanist. He founded the Botanical Garden of Bucharest which is now named in his honor.

He was also a prolific man of letters – philosopher, historian, composer, musicologist, lingu

He was also a prolific man of letters – philosopher, historian, composer, musicologist, linguist, ethnographer, and geographer.

Was a well-known Romanian mathematician.After studying in Dorohoi and Bucharest, he went to France,

Was a well-known Romanian mathematician.After studying in Dorohoi and Bucharest, he went to France, where he studied mathematics at the University of Paris (the Sorbonne). He obtained a Ph.D. degree in mathematics in 1905 with a thesis, On the continuity of complex variable functions, written under the direction of Henri Poincaré. After returning to Romania, he was named Professor of Mechanics at the University of Iasi. In 1912, he assumed a chair at the University of Bucharest. In 1934, he was elected member of the Romanian Academy.

Is an author and public speaker who once served as the Robert and Karen Rishwain Fellow at the Hoove

Is an author and public speaker who once served as the Robert and Karen Rishwain Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. D'Souza is the author of numerous New York Times best selling books and a conservative writer and speaker. D'Souza is well known for being a devout Roman Catholic

Diogenes of Sinope is said to have been a disciple of Antisthenes, who (according to Plato's Phaedo)

Diogenes of Sinope is said to have been a disciple of Antisthenes, who (according to Plato's Phaedo) was present at the death of Socrates.[3] Diogenes, a beggar who made his home in the streets of Athens, made a virtue of extreme poverty. He taught contempt for human achievements; his was a relentless campaign to debunk social values and institutions.

Was a Dutch-American astronomer.He received his Ph.D. in 1927 at Leiden University in the Netherland

Was a Dutch-American astronomer.He received his Ph.D. in 1927 at Leiden University in the Netherlands and then went to Yale University. From 1941 until 1966 he was editor of the Astronomical Journal.He specialized in celestial mechanics and wrote the textbook Methods of Celestial Mechanics.

Holds the chair of theoretical linguistics at the University of Leuven, Belgium. He is the head of t

Holds the chair of theoretical linguistics at the University of Leuven, Belgium. He is the head of the research unit Quantitative Lexicology and Variational Linguistics (QLVL).His main research interests involve the overlapping fields of lexical semantics, lexicology, and lexicography, with a theoretical focus on cognitive semantics. His publications, of which Diachronic Prototype Semantics is the internationally most well-known, include the following monographs:

Was a Dutch American physicist and astronomer. He was the cousin of astronomer Peter van de Kamp.In

Was a Dutch American physicist and astronomer. He was the cousin of astronomer Peter van de Kamp.In 1943 he claimed to have discovered (with Erik Holberg) a planetary companion of the star system 70 Ophiuchi and other stars. He caimed that this planetary object had 10 times the mass of the planet Jupiter and a 17 year orbital period.[3] This caused quite a sensation at the time. A critical analysis by Wulff Heintz later discredited these claims.[4]

Is a Dutch mathematician and historian of science.Van Dalen studied mathematics and physics and astr

Is a Dutch mathematician and historian of science.Van Dalen studied mathematics and physics and astronomy at the University of Amsterdam. Inspired by the work of LEJ Brouwer and Arend Heyting, he received his Ph.D. in 1963 from the University of Amsterdam for the thesis Extension problems in intuitionistic plane Projective geometry. From 1964 to 1966 Van Dalen taught logic and mathematics at MIT, and later Oxford. From 1967 he was professor at the University of Utrecht. In 2003 Dirk van Dalen was awarded the Academy Medal 2003 of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences for bringing the works of Brouwer to international attention.