Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter E

An American astronomer. Bowell was educated at Emanuel School London, University College, London, an

An American astronomer. Bowell was educated at Emanuel School London, University College, London, and the Universite de Paris.He is principal investigator of the Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search (LONEOS).He has discovered a large number of asteroids, both as part of LONEOS and in his own right before LONEOS began. Among the latter are the Trojan asteroids 2357 Phereclos, 2759 Idomeneus, 2797 Teucer, 2920 Automedon, 3564 Talthybius, 4057 Demophon, and (4489) 1988 AK.

Was a notable Australian economist, radio host and anti-war activist who taught at the University of

Was a notable Australian economist, radio host and anti-war activist who taught at the University of Sydney from 1952 until 1986.[1][2] He has written on Australian economic history, often from an institutionalist or Marxian perspective, and his published

American geneticist. He shared half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1958 with George

American geneticist. He shared half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1958 with George Wells Beadle for showing that genes control individual steps in metabolism. The other half of that year's award went to Joshua Lederberg.

Is a professor in the Mathematics Department at Princeton University. He is known for his work on ma

Is a professor in the Mathematics Department at Princeton University. He is known for his work on mathematical physics and mathematical logic. In mathematical logic, he is noted especially for his internal set theory.Nelson has made contributions to the t

An American military strategist and historian who has published works on military strategy, history

An American military strategist and historian who has published works on military strategy, history and international relations.He has served as a consultant to the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the National Security Council, the US Department of State, the US Navy, US Army, US Air Force, and several NATO defense ministries. He was a member of the National Security Study Group of the US Department of Defense, and an associate of the Japan Finance Ministry's Institute of Fiscal and Monetary Policy. With three other partners, he established and operated a self-sufficient forest-conservation ranch in the southern Amazon basin.

Was an American mathematician and meteorologist, and a pioneer of chaos theory. He discovered the st

Was an American mathematician and meteorologist, and a pioneer of chaos theory. He discovered the strange attractor notion and coined the term butterfly effect.Lorenz was born in West Hartford, Connecticut.[1] He studied mathematics at both Dartmouth College in New Hampshire and Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. During World War II, he served as a weather forecaster for the United States Army Air Corps. After his return from the war, he decided to study meteorology. Lorenz earned two degrees in the area from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he later was a professor for many years. He was a Professor Emeritus at MIT from 1981 until his death.

Was an Australian zoologist who specialised in ornithology.Although he never had had any formal scie

Was an Australian zoologist who specialised in ornithology.Although he never had had any formal scientific training in zoology, Ramsay had a keen interest in natural history and published many papers. In 1863 he was treasurer of the Entomological Society of New South Wales, he contributed a paper on the "Oology of Australia" to the Philosophical Society in July 1865, and when this society was merged into the Royal Society of New South Wales, he was made a life member in recognition of the work he had done for the Philosophical Society.

Is an American statistician and Professor Emeritus of statistics, information design, interface desi

Is an American statistician and Professor Emeritus of statistics, information design, interface design and political economy at Yale University.[1] He has been described by The New York Times as "the da Vinci of Data".

Was a Jewish-German-American anthropologist-linguist, a leader in American structural linguistics, a

Was a Jewish-German-American anthropologist-linguist, a leader in American structural linguistics, and one of the creators of what is now called the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. He is arguably the most influential figure in American linguistics, influencing several generations of linguists across several schools of linguistics.He received both a B.A. (1904) and an M.A. (1905) in Germanic philology from Columbia, but his linguistic interests proved to be much broader.In the next two years he took up studies of the Wishram and Takelma languages of Southwestern Oregon, and received his Ph.D. in anthropology in 1909.

Was a Polish poet, philosopher and prose writer.Stachura was one of the most interesting writers of

Was a Polish poet, philosopher and prose writer.Stachura was one of the most interesting writers of the Polish postwar generation. He had a heightened sensitivity to experience, and lived a life that was short and at times unbearably intense. Stachura lived his art as much as he wrote it.He spent his life searching for that which lies beyond facts, beyond acts of sensual experience, beyond the signs of printed words. He wrote his life as long as he lived it, but was never satisfied with the way words conveyed reality. His last major work, Fabula rasa, is an attempt to bridge the gap he saw between literature and life. He committed suicide in 1979.[1]

Was a British instrument maker born in Corney, Cumberland who was notable for making telescopes and

Was a British instrument maker born in Corney, Cumberland who was notable for making telescopes and other astronomical instruments.In 1779 he became a partner with his brother John, and soon established himself as the top maker of navigational, surveying and astronomical instruments in Britain. He created the Groombridge Transit Circle in 1806, which Stephen Groombridge used to compile his star catalogue. He did not merely build instruments, but designed and invented new ones.

Was a botanist and professor from Boston, Massachusetts who made significant contributions to the st

Was a botanist and professor from Boston, Massachusetts who made significant contributions to the study of lichens and other alpine plants. The majority of his collecting was done on the slopes of Mount Washington in the White Mountains. Tuckerman Ravine was named in his honor.

Was an English zoologist and writer. He was the elder brother of the botanist John Joseph Bennett.Be

Was an English zoologist and writer. He was the elder brother of the botanist John Joseph Bennett.Bennett was born at Hackney and practiced as a surgeon, but his chief pursuit was always zoology. In 1822 he attempted to establish an entomological society, which later became a zoological society in connection with the Linnean Society. This in turn became the starting point of the Zoological Society of London, of which Bennett was Secretary from 1831 to 1836.His works included The Tower Menagerie (1829) and The Gardens and Menagerie of the Zoological Society (1831). He also wrote, in conjunction with G. T. Lay, the section on Fishes in the Zoology of Beechey's Voyage (1839).

A British academic, and an authority on Semitic languages and Ethiopia. He is now Professor Emeritus

A British academic, and an authority on Semitic languages and Ethiopia. He is now Professor Emeritus at SOAS, where he was Professor of Ethiopian Studies and then of Semitic Languages,.He was previously Reader in Semitic Languages at the University of St. Andrews, Professor of Semitic Languages at the University of Manchester, and Professor of Ethiopic at the University of Oxford.

Was an American geographer. He proposed that trade was an interaction based on.three phenomena: comp

Was an American geographer. He proposed that trade was an interaction based on.three phenomena: complementarity, intervening opportunities, and transferrability of commodities.

Was an American linguist and expert in the Seri language and culture working with the Summer institu

Was an American linguist and expert in the Seri language and culture working with the Summer institute of Linguistics.He was born in 1924 in Joliet, Illinois. Son of a Baptist minister, he lived in various communities in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa and New York State. During World War II he served as an ensign in the U.S. Navy in the Pacific theater. In 1946 he married Mary Beck (better known later as Becky) and in 1948 completed his B.A. degree in history at Wheaton College (Illinois). Becky and Edward studied descriptive linguistics at the Summer Institute of Linguistics program at the University of Oklahoma. In 1951 they went to live in the Mexican state of Sonora to live with the Seri people and learn the Seri language under the auspices of the Summer Institute of Linguistics.

Was an English astronomer best remembered for his study of sunspots and the solar magnetic cycle tha

Was an English astronomer best remembered for his study of sunspots and the solar magnetic cycle that led to his identification of the period from 1645 to 1715 that is now known as the Maunder Minimum.He observed Mars and was a sceptic of the notion of Martian canals. He conducted visual experiments using marked circular disks which led him to conclude, correctly, that the viewing of canals arose as an optical illusion. Also he was convinced that there cannot be life "as in our world" on Mars, as there are no temperature-equating winds and too low mean temperatures. Craters on Mars and Moon were named in his and his wife Annie's honours.

Was an American paleontologist and botanist, the principal focus of his research was paleobotany. Be

Was an American paleontologist and botanist, the principal focus of his research was paleobotany. Berry studied North and South American flora and published taxonomic studies with theoretical reconstructions of paleoecology and phytogeography. He started

Was an English geographer, librarian, and science author.Brayley abandoned an early inclination to f

Was an English geographer, librarian, and science author.Brayley abandoned an early inclination to follow his father's interests[2] for science. He published on diverse topics in several scientific journals including the Philosophical Magazine, for which he became an editorial assistant between 1823 and 1844. In 1829 and 1830, Brayley was employed by Rowland Hill to lecture on the physical sciences at his schools as Hazelwood, Edgbaston, Birmingham and Bruce Castle, Tottenham, London.[1]

A postmodern political geographer and urban planner on the faculty at UCLA, where he is Distinguishe

A postmodern political geographer and urban planner on the faculty at UCLA, where he is Distinguished Professor of Urban Planning, and the London School of Economics. He has a Ph.D. from Syracuse University.

Was an American mathematician and polymath. He was the sole protegé of Yale's physicist Josiah Will

Was an American mathematician and polymath. He was the sole protegé of Yale's physicist Josiah Willard Gibbs and was mentor to Harvard economist Paul Samuelson.[1] He received his AB from Harvard College in 1899 and his PhD from Yale University in 1901, w

Was an American astronomer.Frost graduated from Dartmouth in 1886.[1] He continued his education as

Was an American astronomer.Frost graduated from Dartmouth in 1886.[1] He continued his education as a post-graduate student in chemistry and in 1887 became an instructor in physics while only 21 years old.[1] In 1890 Frost went abroad to Europe and ended up researching stellar spectroscopy under Hermann Vogel in Potsdam. He returned to Dartmouth in 1892 as an assistant professor of astronomy.Frost joined the staff of Yerkes Observatory in 1898 and became its director in 1905 when George Hale resigned. Frost kept the position until his retirement in 1932.[1] He was the editor of the Astrophysical Journal from 1902 to 1932, known for his careful attention to details.[3] In 1915 he lost the use of his right eye and in 1921, his left.[1] Despite his blindness he continued working for eleven more years until his retirement in 1932.

An Austrian-Australian-American astrophysicist. He emigrated from Austria to Australia while in his

An Austrian-Australian-American astrophysicist. He emigrated from Austria to Australia while in his teens. He received his PhD from Birmingham University in 1948, under supervision of Sir Rudolf Peierls, since when he has been at Cornell University. He is currently the James Gilbert White Distinguished Professor of the Physical Sciences, Emeritus.In 1951 Salpeter suggested that stars could burn helium into carbon with the Triple-alpha process. He later derived the initial mass function for the formation rates of stars of different mass in the Galaxy.Salpeter wrote with Hans Bethe two articles in 1951 which introduced the equation bearing their names, the Bethe-Salpeter equation which describes the interactions between a pair of fundamental particles under a quantum field theory.

Was an American astronomer.He co-discovered the comet C/1898 L1 (Coddington-Pauly), also known by th

Was an American astronomer.He co-discovered the comet C/1898 L1 (Coddington-Pauly), also known by the older designation Comet 1898 VII. He also discovered a few asteroids, and the galaxy IC 2574 in Ursa Major, which later became known as the "Coddington Nebula".

Was an American astronomer.He was born in Boston, Massachusetts and received his A.B. and A.M. from

Was an American astronomer.He was born in Boston, Massachusetts and received his A.B. and A.M. from Harvard University. In 1925 he was awarded a Ph.D. from University of California at Berkeley. He became an instructor at the University of Arizona, and by 1936 he was heading up the Astronomy Department. In 1938 he became directory of Steward Observatory, remaining in that post until 1963. He also served as Vice-president and chairman for the Astronomical Divisions of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.Among the subjects of his research were white dwarf stars, supernovae and galactic astronomy. He discovered a relationship between the density of galaxies in a cluster and the size of the cluster: larger clusters have a lower density of galaxies.