Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter F

Is a French mathematician. He holds a chair at Paris VI University. Bethuel earned his doctorate at

Is a French mathematician. He holds a chair at Paris VI University. Bethuel earned his doctorate at Paris-Sud 11 University in 1989, under supervision of Jean-Michel Coron. He won the 1999 Fermat Prize, jointly with Frédéric Hélein, for several important contributions to the theory of variational calculus. He also won the 2003 Prix Mergier-Bourdeix for his fundamental discoveries at the interface between analysis, topology, geometry, and physics.[1]

Is a French writer and philosopher, born in 1971 in Nanterre to Jewish parents of Tunisian heritage.

Is a French writer and philosopher, born in 1971 in Nanterre to Jewish parents of Tunisian heritage. In his teens he was an atheist and anarchist, and he maintained a nihilistic attitude for most of his twenties until, in 1998, he converted to Catholicism. His book Réussir sa mort: Anti-méthode pour vivre, won the Grand Prix catholique de littérature in 2006. Currently Hadjadj teaches philosophy and literature in Toulon. He is married to the actress Siffreine Michel and is the father of four daughters.

Known professionally as Fan Chung, is a mathematician who works mainly in the areas of spectral grap

Known professionally as Fan Chung, is a mathematician who works mainly in the areas of spectral graph theory, extremal graph theory and complex networks (see graph theory for the general article). She received her doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania in 1974, under the direction of Herbert Wilf. She is currently the Akamai Professor in Internet Mathematics at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in the United States.

A heterodox economist specializing in development economics. Schooled in England at the University o

A heterodox economist specializing in development economics. Schooled in England at the University of Cambridge and later garnered honors as a law student at Columbia University in New York. Mr.Tupoumalohi currently is an executive member of the very reclusive Capital Group Companies board. He is also unofficially accredited as the author or co-author of several economic recovery programs and political plans implemented in various countries mainly in Asia, Pacific, Africa and the Middle-East.

Was an English astronomer.where he studied mathematics, coming third in his year when he graduated i

Was an English astronomer.where he studied mathematics, coming third in his year when he graduated in 1813. He obtained his Master of Arts in 1816 and went on to teach mathematics at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He also became a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge and an ordained priest in the Church of England. On 29 February 1820 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and on 8 June 1820 he was granted a fellowship of the Royal Society. One of his proposers for his fellowship to the Royal Society was John Herschel [1](son of William Herschel) whom he met at St John's College, Cambridge. Later in that year he was appointed by the Admiralty to be the astronomer at the Cape of Good Hope, which would involve overseeing the building of an observatory in what was then a British colony. Before travelling to South Africa,

Was a Polish mathematician and an active member of the so-called Lwow School of Mathematics. Born Ma

Was a Polish mathematician and an active member of the so-called Lwow School of Mathematics. Born May 1915 in Lwow, Austria-Hungary (modern Lviv, Ukraine), he joined the circle of young, talented mathematicians formed around Stefan Banach and Hugo Steinhaus. During the period of German occupation of his hometown he made his living as a lice feeder in the institute of Rudolf Weigl. Expelled from Lwow after the war, he settled in Cracow, where he joined the local Kraków University of Technology. He was also admitted into the Polish Mathematics Society.

Was a Polish Catholic priest and philosopher.[1]In 1809–18 Jaronski was a professor at Kraków Uni

Was a Polish Catholic priest and philosopher.[1]In 1809–18 Jaronski was a professor at Kraków University. A follower of Kantism, he postulated a renewal of philosophy through the rejection of empiricism and a return to metaphysics. He was the first to write a history of Polish logic.[2]

Was a Cuban zoologist.He became a lawyer in Spain but was forced to leave due to his liberal ideas,

Was a Cuban zoologist.He became a lawyer in Spain but was forced to leave due to his liberal ideas, returning to Cuba in 1823. He began to concentrate on the study of the natural science and travelled to France in 1825 with his wife. He began writing on the butterflies of Cuba and acquiring knowledge on fish, later supplying Georges Cuvier and Valenciennes with fish specimens from Cuba. He took part in the foundation, in 1832, of the Société Entomologique de France.Poey returned to Cuba in 1833 where he founded the Museum of Natural History in 1839. In 1842 he became the first professor of zoology and comparative anatomy at the University of Havana. He also took part in the creation of the Academy of Science (natural, physical and medical) of Havana and was a president of the anthropological Society.

an Argentine economist, and a former Minister of Economy and Production of Argentina. [1] [2] She w

an Argentine economist, and a former Minister of Economy and Production of Argentina. [1] [2] She was appointed by President Néstor Kirchner on November 28, 2005, in place of Roberto Lavagna, and was the first woman ever to lead that ministry. [3] She resigned to the position on July 16, 2007, as prosecutors stepped up an investigation into a bag of cash found in her ministry offices. [4] [5].Miceli was a student of Lavagna's at the University of Buenos Aires. She was a left-wing activist in the 1960s, and the Director-Secretary of the Bank of the Province of Buenos Aires between 1983 and 1987. She then worked in Lavagna's consultant firm, Ecolatina, in the beginning of the 1990s. In May 2002, during the presidency of Eduardo Duhalde and at the height of the Argentine economic crisis, she became part of Lavagna's team as a representative of the Ministry of Economy before the Central Bank. On May 30, 2003 she became the chairperson of the Banco Nación.

Was a prominent German Darwinist and the founder and first director of the Stazione Zoologica, Naple

Was a prominent German Darwinist and the founder and first director of the Stazione Zoologica, Naples, Italy.In Messina, Dohrn and Micloukho-Maklai conceived a plan to cover the globe with a network of zoological research stations, analogous to railway stations, where scientists could stop, collect material, make observations and conduct experiments, before moving on to the next station. Dohrn realised how useful it would be for scientists to arrive at a location and find a ready to use laboratory. Dohrn rented two rooms for the "Stazione Zoologica di Messina", but quickly realized the technical difficulties of studying marine life without a permanent structure and support facilities, such as trained personnel and a library.

Was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.Due to the anti-semitism of the the time

Was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.Due to the anti-semitism of the the time, Frankfurter initially found it difficult to find employment after graduation. He joined the New York law firm of Hornblower, Bryne, Miller and Porter in 1906, and then in the same year became the assistant of Henry Stimson, the US attorney for the Southern District of New York.[4] During this period, Frankfurter read Herbert Croly's book The Promise of American Life, and became a supporter of New Nationalism and Theodore Roosevelt. In 1911, President William Howard Taft appointed Stimson as his Secretary of War and Stimson appointed Frankfurter as law officer of the Bureau of Insular Affairs, though Frankfurter in fact worked as Stimson's assistant and confidant.

Was a French Jewish publisher and scholar; born at Metz, March 18, 1841; grandson of Gerson Lévy, a

Was a French Jewish publisher and scholar; born at Metz, March 18, 1841; grandson of Gerson Lévy, author of Orgue et Pioutim, and son of Moyse Alcan, a well-known publisher at Metz. Having finished his studies at the lyceum of his native city, he entered the École Normale Supérieure of Paris in 1862. When he left it in 1865 he became a lecturer on mathematics till 1869, when he undertook the management of his father's publishing business at Metz. In 1872 he went to Paris, where in the following year he entered the old publishing-house of Germer-Baillière, of which he became the head in 1883

Was an Austro-Hungarian naturalist, geographer, ethnographer, archaeologist and author of travel not

Was an Austro-Hungarian naturalist, geographer, ethnographer, archaeologist and author of travel notes.He travelled extensively after 1850, visiting Germany, France, Belgium and Italy. He settled in Vienna in 1856 and undertook a journey to Dalmatia in the Balkans in 1858, which marked the beginning of his thorough research of the South Slavs. Apart from Dalmatia, he also visited Herzegovina, Bosnia, Montenegro, Serbia, Bulgaria and Macedonia. He worked on the topic until 1889, the knowledge he gathered being characterized as particularly important for the period. A good painter and drawer, Kanitz was also the author of a number of black and white drawings related to the life in the Balkans. Born a Jew,

Was a German-speaking Jewish librarian, philosopher, author, editor, publisher and journalist. A clo

Was a German-speaking Jewish librarian, philosopher, author, editor, publisher and journalist. A close friend of Max Brod and Franz Kafka, he was one of the most important Zionists in Bohemia.Weltsch studied Law and Philosophy at the Charles University. He lived and worked in Prague until 15 March 1939, and left the city with Max Brod and his family on the last train out of Czechoslovakia. In Palestine, he worked as a librarian in Jerusalem until his death in 1964.

Was a Soviet/Russian astronomer and geodesist. He was born in Galich. In 1900 he graduated from the

Was a Soviet/Russian astronomer and geodesist. He was born in Galich. In 1900 he graduated from the Mezhevoy (land surveying) Institute in Moscow; in 1907 he began working as a lecturer there.

Was a Swiss linguist whose ideas laid a foundation for many significant developments in linguistics

Was a Swiss linguist whose ideas laid a foundation for many significant developments in linguistics in the 20th century. Saussure is widely considered the 'father' of 20th-century linguistics, and his ideas have had a monumental impact on literary and cultural theory and interpretation.Ferdinand Mongin de Saussure, born in Geneva in 1857, showed early signs of considerable talent and intellectual ability. After a year of studying Latin, Greek, Sanskrit, and a variety of courses at the University of Geneva, he commenced graduate work at the University of Leipzig in 1876. Two years later at 21 years Saussure studied for a year at Berlin, where he wrote his only full-length work, Mémoire sur le système primitif des voyelles dans les langues indo-européenes (Thesis on the Primitive Vowel System in Indo-European Languages).

Was a German mathematician. In the year of his graduation (Ph.D., Berlin, 1842) he was appointed tea

Was a German mathematician. In the year of his graduation (Ph.D., Berlin, 1842) he was appointed teacher at a Realschule in Berlin, and in 1846 was admitted to the philosophical faculty of the university as privatdozent. In 1856 he was appointed professor

Was a French astronomer. He worked as an observer at Camille Flammarion's private observatory at Juv

Was a French astronomer. He worked as an observer at Camille Flammarion's private observatory at Juvisy-sur-Orge, France from 1906 to 1951 (he had also previously worked there in 1892–1893). A predecessor in this post had been the celebrated Eugène Antoniadi, who had returned to his native country in 1902 to get married (Antoniadi later returned to France in 1908 at the Meudon Observatory).

Was a Moravian palaeontologist who worked in India on paleontology, geology and various aspects of z

Was a Moravian palaeontologist who worked in India on paleontology, geology and various aspects of zoology. He died of high altitude sickness during an expedition across the Himalayas.

German sociologist. He was a major contributor to sociological theory and field studies, as well as

German sociologist. He was a major contributor to sociological theory and field studies, as well as bringing Thomas Hobbes back on the agenda, by publishing his manuscripts.

Was a French astronomer. He worked with Count Aymar de la Baume Pluvinel observing Mars from the new

Was a French astronomer. He worked with Count Aymar de la Baume Pluvinel observing Mars from the newly built observatory on Pic du Midi in 1909. The resulting photographs were so sharp, that they were able to disprove Percival Lowell's claim of geometrical canals on the planet's surface.

Was a French restaurateur and is considered to be the father of modern French cuisine.From his resta

Was a French restaurateur and is considered to be the father of modern French cuisine.From his restaurant "La Pyramide" in Vienne, a town half an hour to the south of Lyon, he gained three Michelin stars and trained a generation of French master chefs: Pa

Was a poet and writer. The critic Harold Bloom referred to him in the book The Western Canon as the

Was a poet and writer. The critic Harold Bloom referred to him in the book The Western Canon as the most representative poet of the twentieth century, along with Pablo Neruda.At the age of seventeen, Pessoa returned to Lisbon, attending a "Curso Superior de Letras" in a Portuguese university. A student strike soon put an end to his studies, however, and Pessoa chose to study privately at home for a year. His term of study ended and Pessoa found a job working as an assistant for a businessman, where he was charged with writing correspondence and translating documents. In 1914, he and other artists and poets such as Almada Negreiros and Mário de Sá Carneiro, created the literary magazine Orpheu that would introduce modern literature in Portugal.

Is an Argentine poet and philosopher.He studied at Buenos Aires’ Colegio Champagnat, run by the He

Is an Argentine poet and philosopher.He studied at Buenos Aires’ Colegio Champagnat, run by the Hermanos Maristas Order, whose dedication and rectitude represent an unforgettable cornerstone in the poet’s life. He then graduated in Philosophy at the Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires under the guidance of such humanists as Guillermo Thiele y Carlos Astrada, who contributed towards a definite orientation of his intellectual vocation.

Was a French scholar who worked on physics, theology and philosophy, and served as librarian in Gene

Was a French scholar who worked on physics, theology and philosophy, and served as librarian in Geneva (Switzerland) during his final 40 years. Abauzit is also notable for proofreading or correcting the writings of Isaac Newton and other scholars.