Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter E

Was an American woman who was the victim of a gruesome and much-publicized murder. Nicknamed the Bla

Was an American woman who was the victim of a gruesome and much-publicized murder. Nicknamed the Black Dahlia, Short was found severely mutilated, with her body severed, on January 15, 1947 in Leimert Park, Los Angeles, California. The murder, which remains unsolved, has been the source of widespread speculation as well as several books and film adaptations.

Canada's first paleontologist. Billings was born on a farm by the Rideau River outside Bytown(Ottawa

Canada's first paleontologist. Billings was born on a farm by the Rideau River outside Bytown(Ottawa). He was originally educated in law and in 1845, he was called to the Canadian bar. In 1852, he founded the journal the Canadian Naturalist (and Geologist). He continued to practice law until 1856, when he was hired to be the first paleontologist for Geological Survey of Canada(GSC). In his lifetime, he identified 1065 new species and 61 new genera, including Aspidella, the first documented fossil of the Ediacaran biota. [1]

Was an American geographer. Ellen was the youngest of five children by Alexander Bonner Semple and E

Was an American geographer. Ellen was the youngest of five children by Alexander Bonner Semple and Emerine Price. She is most closely associated with work in anthropogeography and environmentalism. In a series of books and papers she communicated certain aspects of the work of German geographer Friedrich Ratzel to the Anglophone community. Standard disciplinary accounts often attribute to Semple a prevailing interest in environmental determinism, a theory that the physical environment determines culture. However, this attribution is questionable at best: much of Semple's research was in fact focused on a much milder form of geographical influences, or ways in which various geographies can potentially affect human society. This being said, t

Was an American senior research astronomer at Yale University.Hoffleit was born in Florence, Alabama

Was an American senior research astronomer at Yale University.Hoffleit was born in Florence, Alabama and earned her Ph.D. in astronomy from Radcliffe College in 1938. Starting as a research assistant at the Harvard College Observatory in 1929, she was hired as an astronomer at Harvard in 1948. She remained there until moving to Yale in 1956, staying until her 1975 retirement.

Was an Irish botanist.Hutchins was from Ardnagashel, Ballylickey, where her family has a small estat

Was an Irish botanist.Hutchins was from Ardnagashel, Ballylickey, where her family has a small estate on the shores of Bantry Bay, County Cork. Her father was a magistrate and died when she was two, leaving a wife and six children. She moved to Dublin and was looked after by Dr. Whitley Stokes, a medical doctor and naturalist.

Was an American army surgeon, historian, ornithologist and author.He graduated at Columbian Universi

Was an American army surgeon, historian, ornithologist and author.He graduated at Columbian University, (now, George Washington University) Washington, D.C., in 1861, and at the Medical school of that institution in 1863. He served as a medical cadet in Washington in 1862-1863, an in 1864 was appointed assistant-surgeon in the regular army. In 1872 he published his Key to North American Birds, which, revised and rewritten in 1884 and 1901, did much to promote the systematic study of ornithology in America. His work was instrumental in establishing the currently accepted standards of trinomial nomenclature - the taxonomic classification of subspecies - in ornithology, and ultimately the whole of zoology. In 1873-1876 Coues was attached as surgeon and naturalist to the United States Northern Boundary Commission, and in 1876-1880 was secretary and naturalist to the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, the publications of which he edited.

Was a professor of geography at Yale University during the early 20th century, known for his studies

Was a professor of geography at Yale University during the early 20th century, known for his studies on climatic determinism, economic growth and economic geography. He served as Presidents of the Ecological Society of America in 1917, the Association of American Geographers in 1923 and the President of the Board of Directors of the American Eugenics Society from 1934 to 1938.

Was a French philosopher. a professor of philosophy, gave him an excellent education at the Stanisla

Was a French philosopher. a professor of philosophy, gave him an excellent education at the Stanislas College and the École Normale, where he graduated in 1848. After being professor of philosophy at several provincial universities, he received the degree of doctor, and came to Paris in 1858 as master of conferences at the École Normale.

Was professor of zoology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an internationally reco

Was professor of zoology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an internationally recognized protozoologist and parasitologist.to American Methodist missionary parents, William Arthur Noble and Mattie Wilcox Noble. He lived with his family in Korea until 1927, when he and his identical twin brother, Glenn Arthur Noble, moved to the United States to attend the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned a B.A. in zoology, an M.A. in zoology, and a Ph.D. in protozoology and parasitology.

Distinguished teaching professor emeritus at State University of New York at Stony Brook, as well as

Distinguished teaching professor emeritus at State University of New York at Stony Brook, as well as a American geneticist and noted historian of Science. Dr. Carlson earned his B.A. 1953 from New York University, and his PhD 1958 in zoology from Indiana University[1] under the mentorship of Hermann Joseph Muller. Dr. Carlson is a past recipient of the E. Harris Harbison Award for excellence in teaching given by the Danforth Foundation[2].He has been a visiting professor at the University of Minnesota, San Diego State University, and Tougaloo College[1]. He was also a McMurrin visiting professorship at the University of Utah[3]

Was a Swedish botanist and writer.She was the daughter of statesman and nobleman, Fabian Wrede. In 1

Was a Swedish botanist and writer.She was the daughter of statesman and nobleman, Fabian Wrede. In 1761, she married the statesman Count Sven Bunge. She was an enthusiastic amateur botanist and had large greenhouses set up at her manor Beateberga; the nam

Was an American biomedical scientist who is considered one of the founding fathers of modern quantit

Was an American biomedical scientist who is considered one of the founding fathers of modern quantitative immunochemistry together with his mentor Michael Heidelberger. In 1977, Kabat and Heidelberger were awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University.Elvin Kabat was engaged in the discovery of the structural and genetic basis for the remarkable specificity of antibodies. Kabat first demonstrated that antibodies are gamma globulins. He characterized the size and stunning heterogeneity of antibody-combining sites. Kabat and his coworkers determined the structures of the major blood group antigens, the embryonic-stage-specific carbohydrate antigens and the carbohydrate markers of leukocyte (white blood cell).

E. Morton Jellinek, or most often, E. M. Jellinek, was a biostatistician, physiologist, and an alcoh

E. Morton Jellinek, or most often, E. M. Jellinek, was a biostatistician, physiologist, and an alcoholism researcher. He was fluent in nine languages and could communicate in four others. Addiction researcher Griffith Edwards holds that, in his opinion, J

Was an American racecar driver.Baker entered his first race in 1939 in Greenville, South Carolina, b

Was an American racecar driver.Baker entered his first race in 1939 in Greenville, South Carolina, but didn't finish it because one of his tires blew off. Despite his inauspicious start, Baker went on to become one of the greatest drivers in NASCAR's history. He was the first back-to-back winner of the Grand National (now Sprint Cup) Championship in 1956 and 1957. He was second twice (1955 and 1958) and finished in the top five on four other occasions.

Was a Wallachian and Romanian mathematician, physicist and chemist.

Was a Wallachian and Romanian mathematician, physicist and chemist.

Was an Austrian paleontologist.In 1871, he described a skull fragment found in an Austrian coal mine

Was an Austrian paleontologist.In 1871, he described a skull fragment found in an Austrian coal mine years before by colleagues Ferdinand Stoliczka and Eduard Suess as the type specimen for the dinosaur genus Struthiosaurus, the first discovered in the re

Was an English botanist, naturalist, philosopher, and collector of valuable notes and of manuscripts

Was an English botanist, naturalist, philosopher, and collector of valuable notes and of manuscripts, and of anecdotes of the literati.He was one of the first Jewish Fellows of the Royal Society of London, and became its librarian. He was also a fellow of the Royal Antiquarian Society of London; a member of the Botanic Society in Florence, the Aurelian Society, and the Gentleman's Society at Spalding.

Is an American statistician. He has worked and published on signal detection theory and time series

Is an American statistician. He has worked and published on signal detection theory and time series analysis, where he pioneered the use of kernel density estimation (also known as the Parzen window in his honor).

Was an original Czech biologist, historian of science, philosopher and a critical supporter of Masar

Was an original Czech biologist, historian of science, philosopher and a critical supporter of Masaryk´s pre-war democratic Czechoslovakia. He earned international renown by his works on the evolution of neural system and as historian of evolution theories.

Was an arachnologist who classified many insect and spider species, including the greenbottle blue t

Was an arachnologist who classified many insect and spider species, including the greenbottle blue tarantula.He studied at the University of Kristiania (now University of Oslo). Around 1900 he focused on collecting insect specimens from Norway. These are now deposited at the university's museum, where he worked as a curator from 1901 to 1903.

Was an Austrian mathematician. His father, also Emil Artin, was an Armenian art-dealer, and his moth

Was an Austrian mathematician. His father, also Emil Artin, was an Armenian art-dealer, and his mother was the opera singer Emma Laura-Artin. He grew up in Reichenberg (today Liberec) in Bohemia, where German was the primary language. He left school in 1916, and one year later went to the University of Vienna.Artin spent his career in Germany (mainly in Hamburg) until the Nazi threat when he emigrated to the USA in 1937. He was at Indiana University from 1938 to 1946, and at Princeton University from 1946 to 1958.

Was a Romanian philosopher and essayist.

Was a Romanian philosopher and essayist.

Was a Czech lawyer, the third President of Czechoslovakia from 1938 to 1945. From March 1939, he pre

Was a Czech lawyer, the third President of Czechoslovakia from 1938 to 1945. From March 1939, he presided under the German Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.Emil Hácha was born on 12 July 1872 in a town of Trhové Sviny. He graduated from a secondary school in Ceské Budejovice and then applied for the law faculty at the University of Prague. After finishing his studies in 1896 (JUDr.) he worked for the Country Committee of the Kingdom of Bohemia in Prague (a self-government body, quite limited power). Shortly after the outbreak of the World War I, he became a judge at the Supreme Administrative Court in Vienna (the court was responsible for Cisleithania). He met Ferdinand Pantucek there.

Was a German mathematician and political writer. Shortly before the outbreak of the First World War

Was a German mathematician and political writer. Shortly before the outbreak of the First World War he graduated at the University of Munich. Professor of Mathematical Statistics at the University of Heidelberg. Following the murder of a friend he investi

Was a mathematician and logician.Post was born into a Polish-Jewish family that immigrated to Americ

Was a mathematician and logician.Post was born into a Polish-Jewish family that immigrated to America when he was a child. After completing his Ph.D. in mathematics at Columbia University, he did a post doctorate at Princeton University. While at Princeton, he came very close to discovering the incompleteness of Principia Mathematica, which Kurt Gödel proved in 1931.