Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter E

Was the 14th Chief Justice of the United States and the only person ever elected three times as Gove

Was the 14th Chief Justice of the United States and the only person ever elected three times as Governor of California. Prior to holding these positions, Warren served as a California district attorney for Alameda County and Attorney General of California.His tenure in his two highest offices were marked by extreme contrast. As governor of California, Warren's conduct of office made him very popular across party lines, so much so that in the 1946 election he won the nominations of both the Democratic and Republican parties. But his tenure as Chief Justice was as divisive as his governorship was unifying. Liberals generally hailed the landmark rulings issued by the Warren Court, rulings effecting, among other things, the legal status of racial segregation, civil rights,

Is a German mathematician who provided the first proof of Sylvester's line problem in 1940.[1] He al

Is a German mathematician who provided the first proof of Sylvester's line problem in 1940.[1] He also discovered the related inequality now named after him. He studied at the University of Göttingen and at the Dresden Technical University (TH Dresden). H

Is a German-born Esperantist who studied medicine in Bonn but now works as a researcher in computati

Is a German-born Esperantist who studied medicine in Bonn but now works as a researcher in computational linguistics. He was active in an Esperanto youth group in Bonn and in the Germana Esperanto-Junularo, a nationwide Esperanto youth federation. Since his marriage to a Danish woman he and his family live in Denmark.

Was a German theologian, philosopher and mystic, born near Gotha, in Thuringia. Meister is German fo

Was a German theologian, philosopher and mystic, born near Gotha, in Thuringia. Meister is German for "Master", referring to the academic title Magister in theologia he obtained in Paris. Coming into prominence during the decadent Avignon Papacy and a tim

British electrophysiologist and recipient of the 1932 Nobel Prize for Physiology, won jointly with S

British electrophysiologist and recipient of the 1932 Nobel Prize for Physiology, won jointly with Sir Charles Sherrington for work on the function of neurons.

Was British zoologist.Smith was born in London. He was employed at the British Museum from 1867. He

Was British zoologist.Smith was born in London. He was employed at the British Museum from 1867. He was the author of A Guide to the Shell and Starfish Galleries (London, 1901), with Francis Jeffrey Bell (1855-1924) and Randolph Kirkpatrick, foreword by Sir Edwin Ray Lankester.

Was an American botanist. His 1949 book Introgressive Hybridization was an original and important co

Was an American botanist. His 1949 book Introgressive Hybridization was an original and important contribution to botanical genetics.He accepted a position as a geneticist at the Missouri Botanical Garden and was appointed assistant professor of botany at Washington University in St. Louis. His research was focused on developing techniques to quantify geographic variation in Iris versicolor. In 1929 he received a fellowship to undertake studies at the John Innes Horticultural Institute in Britain, where he worked with cytogeneticist C. D. Darlington, statistician R. A. Fisher, and geneticist J. B. S. Haldane.

Was a German political philosopher and a member of the Young Hegelians. He was the younger brother o

Was a German political philosopher and a member of the Young Hegelians. He was the younger brother of Bruno Bauer. According to Lawrence S. Stepelevich, Edgar Bauer was the most anarchistic of the Young Hegelians, and "...it is possible to discern, in the

Is a French philosopher and sociologist under the original name Edgar Nahoum. He is of Judeo-Spanish

Is a French philosopher and sociologist under the original name Edgar Nahoum. He is of Judeo-Spanish (Sefardi) origin. He is known for the transdisciplinarity of his works, in that he covers a wide range of interests and dismisses the conventional boundar

Was an American economist, social worker, educator, and author. Abbott was born in Grand Island, Neb

Was an American economist, social worker, educator, and author. Abbott was born in Grand Island, Nebraska. Her younger sister was Grace Abbott.In 1893, Abbott graduated from Brownell Hall, a girls' boarding school in Omaha. However, her family could not afford to send her to college, so she began teaching high school in Grand Island. She took correspondence courses and attended summer sessions until she earned a degree from the University of Nebraska in 1901. After two more years as a teacher, Abbott attended the University of Chicago and received a Ph.D. in economics in 1905.

Was an English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist.On leaving Oxfo

Was an English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist.On leaving Oxford, in 1676, Halley visited the south Atlantic island of St. Helena with the intention of studying stars from the Southern Hemisphere. He returned to England in November 1678. In the following year he went to Danzig (Gdansk) on behalf of the Royal Society to help resolve a dispute. Because astronomer Johannes Hevelius did not use a telescope, his observations had been questioned by Robert Hooke. Halley stayed with Hevelius and he observed and verified the quality of Hevelius' observations. The same year, Halley published Catalogus Stellarum Australium which included details of 341 southern stars. These additions to present-day star maps earned him comparison with Tycho Brahe

He was the first president of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences.Trained at the Ecole Polytec

He was the first president of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences.Trained at the Ecole Polytechnique and at the Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration Economique (ENSAE) in Paris, the eclectic Malinvaud was, together with Debreu, a student of France's greatest Walrasian economist, Maurice Allais. He became director of the ENSAE (1962-1966), director of the forecast department of French Treasury (1972-1974), director of the INSEE (1974-1987) and Professor at the College de France (1988-1993). In 1950, Malinvaud left Allais to join the Cowles Commission in the United States.

Was a French doctor and an amateur astronomer, best remembered for his 1859 observation of Vulcan. H

Was a French doctor and an amateur astronomer, best remembered for his 1859 observation of Vulcan. He graduated and obtained his diploma in 1848. He then started to work as a doctor in Orgères-en-Beauce and worked there until 1872 (the street where he worked is now named after him). Keen astronomer,

Was a French mathematician, a member of the Académie française (1885). His main works were in the

Was a French mathematician, a member of the Académie française (1885). His main works were in the areas of geometry and complex analysis. He also investigated orthogonal polynomials (see Laguerre polynomials). Laguerre's method is a root-finding algorithm tailored to polynomials, named after him.

Was a university professor noted for his controversial advocacy of Cartesianism (and the Cartesian t

Was a university professor noted for his controversial advocacy of Cartesianism (and the Cartesian theory of mechanics) in place of Aristotelianism.[1] The change within the University of Paris from Aristotelianism to Cartesianism during the 1690s was important in the history of the development of natural philosophy in France.[2]

Was a French theologian known for several works advocating the Gallican theory that the Pope's power

Was a French theologian known for several works advocating the Gallican theory that the Pope's power was limited by authority of bishops, and by temporal governments. In his Historia Conciliorum Generalium as with other works, Richer elaborated upon and defended Gallicanism, an early theory that described the limits of papal power, and provided one of the early constructs of what later evolved to be the modern concept of "separation of church and state", an important theme in the political history of the United States. Richer's explanation and defense of the theory and practice of Gallicanism was an expression of French resistance to the power and reach of the Pope during that period.[1]

Was a pioneering American zoologist and geneticist.He was a lecturer at Williams College in 1883-84

Was a pioneering American zoologist and geneticist.He was a lecturer at Williams College in 1883-84 and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1884-85. He served as professor of biology at Bryn Mawr College from 1885 to 1891.He spent the balance of his career at Columbia University where he was successively adjunct professor of biology (1891-94), professor of invertebrate zoology (1894 - 1897), and professor of zoology (from 1897).Wilson is credited as America's first cell biologist. In 1898 he used the similarity in embryos to describe phylogenetic relationships. By observing spiral cleavage in molluscs, flatworms and annelids he concluded that the same organs came from the same group of cells and concluded that all these organisms must have a common ancestor.

American economist and the winner of the 2006 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

American economist and the winner of the 2006 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

Was a German horticulturalist and botanist. He ended his career serving as the Director of the Russi

Was a German horticulturalist and botanist. He ended his career serving as the Director of the Russian Imperial Botanical Garden St. Petersburg.[1] He described and named many previously unknown species from around frontiers around the world as naturalists and explorers sent back biological collections. His official botanical author abbreviation is REGEL.

Was a German legal scholar. He is best known for his editions of, and commentaries on, the legal wor

Was a German legal scholar. He is best known for his editions of, and commentaries on, the legal works of classical antiquity. He then studied at the universities of Heidelberg, Bonn, Berlin, and Göttingen, and graduated in 1826 with the thesis De mancipi

Was a Czech mathematician born in Stracov, Bohemia (then Austria-Hungary now Czech Republic). His re

Was a Czech mathematician born in Stracov, Bohemia (then Austria-Hungary now Czech Republic). His research interests included projective differential geometry and topology. In 1921–1922 he collaborated with Guido Fubini in Turin.

Was a German botanist, zoologist and explorer who was born in Plauen. He is largely remembered for h

Was a German botanist, zoologist and explorer who was born in Plauen. He is largely remembered for his scientific exploration throughout South America.Between 1826 and 1832 Poeppig performed geographical, botanical and zoological studies in Chile, Peru and Brazil. During his time in these countries he described over 4,000 types of plants.

Was a Dutch jurist who was the founding father of the current Dutch civil code, the Nieuwe Burgerlij

Was a Dutch jurist who was the founding father of the current Dutch civil code, the Nieuwe Burgerlijk Wetboek.In 1897 Meijers entered the University of Amsterdam to study law. He finished his doctorate under Johannes Houwing in April 1903. His dissertation had an emphasis on philosophy, defending utilitarianism against Kant's rationalism and posing that in general well-being should be the final goal of every law institution.

Was a philologist of the classical and Germanic languages. Sievers was one of the Junggrammatiker of

Was a philologist of the classical and Germanic languages. Sievers was one of the Junggrammatiker of the so-called Leipzig School. He was one of the most influential historical linguists of the late nineteenth century, and is best known for his recovery of the poetic traditions of Germanic languages such as Anglo-Saxon and Old Saxon.

Was a geologist who was an expert on the geography of the Alps. He is responsible for hypothesising

Was a geologist who was an expert on the geography of the Alps. He is responsible for hypothesising two major former geographical features, the supercontinent Gondwana (proposed 1861) and the Tethys Ocean.By 1857 he was a professor of geology at the University of Vienna, and from there he gradually developed views on the connection between Africa and Europe; eventually he came to the conclusion that the Alps to the north were once at the bottom of an ocean, of which the Mediterranean was a remnant. While not quite correct (mostly because plate tectonics had not yet been discovered — he used the earlier geosyn