Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter F

Was an American economist, best known as one of the authors of the famous Black-Scholes equation.

Was an American economist, best known as one of the authors of the famous Black-Scholes equation.

Was the first woman hired by the United States Geological Survey. She was of Huguenot and Basque anc

Was the first woman hired by the United States Geological Survey. She was of Huguenot and Basque ancestry.She received her position at the USGS in 1896 and continued there until 1936. She also had three students who would also become members of the USGS. Two of those students, Eleanora Bliss and Anna Jonas Stose, were also important in other respects to her story.A great deal of her work involved the crystalline rocks and geomorphology of the Piedmont. This led to an unusual, for the time, example of a scientific dispute solely among women. The two students of Florence Bascom's mentioned above came to a different conclusion than her regarding the age of Wissahickon schist/gneiss. She contradicted them in a dispassionate way and the dispute is recorded as civil on the part of the three. That said by the 1930s it had broadened to most of those studying Appalachian geology and at times these individuals became more vehement than the original disputants.

Was a French mathematician and royal servant. He was born probably at La Cropte, near Laval, France.

Was a French mathematician and royal servant. He was born probably at La Cropte, near Laval, France. He was a "Gentleman of the Bedchamber" to Henry IV, and a teacher of Louis XIII. He discovered that water, if confined in a bombshell and heated, would explode the shell. He published that fact in his treatise on artillery in 1605, where he wrote: "The water is converted into air, and its vaporization is followed by violent explosion." His discovery is seen as one of the steps leading to the invention of the steam engine. He died in Tours, France in January 1616.

Floro first applied for appointment to the bench in 1995. He failed the mandatory psychological exam

Floro first applied for appointment to the bench in 1995. He failed the mandatory psychological examination by the Supreme Court Clinic Services which found "evidence of ego disintegration" and "developing psychotic process

Was a French mathematician. He was a friend of René Descartes, and later wrote Notes brièves, the

Was a French mathematician. He was a friend of René Descartes, and later wrote Notes brièves, the first important introduction to Descartes' analytic geometry.

Is a Dutch mathematician known for contributions to the theory of chaotic dynamical systems.Together

Is a Dutch mathematician known for contributions to the theory of chaotic dynamical systems.Together with David Ruelle he predicted that fluid turbulence could develop through a strange attractor, a term they coined, as opposed to the then-prevailing theory of accretion of modes. The prediction was later confirmed by experiment. Takens also established the result now known as the Takens' theorem, which shows how to reconstruct a dynamical system from an observed time-series.

Was an American linguist, anthropologist and Mayanist scholar and epigrapher, best known for his wor

Was an American linguist, anthropologist and Mayanist scholar and epigrapher, best known for his work on linguistic and cultural systems of a variety of North and South American languages. Equally important were his contributions to understanding the hieroglyphs, culture and history of the Maya civilization of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica.

A biologist who is most noted for his work in fruit genetics. He also founded Zaiger's Genetics.Zaig

A biologist who is most noted for his work in fruit genetics. He also founded Zaiger's Genetics.Zaiger has spent his life in the pursuit of the perfect fruit, developing both cultivars of existing species and new hybrids such as the pluot and the aprium.

Was a French mathematician and computer scientist. He worked on the Atlas of Lie groups and represen

Was a French mathematician and computer scientist. He worked on the Atlas of Lie groups and representations until his death. Du Cloux was based at the Institut Girard Desargues, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, in France.[1] One of the founding members of the project, he was responsible for building the Atlas software which was instrumental in the mapping of the structure of the E8 Lie Group. Fokko du Cloux was diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in 2005, but he continued to actively participate in the project until his death from ALS. The Project successfully completed the task in 2007.[2] [3] [4] [5][6]

Is a prominent Greek biologist.

Is a prominent Greek biologist.

Was a Slovenian writer, political activist, playwright and critic. He was born in Spodnje Retje near

Was a Slovenian writer, political activist, playwright and critic. He was born in Spodnje Retje near Velike Lašce in Lower Carniola (then part of the Austrian Empire, today in Slovenia) in a peasant Slovenian family.Levstik was the first notable writer of Slovenian epic prose. Among his most known works are the short tale Martin Krpan, which became a classic work of Slovene literature, and the itinerary Popotovanje iz Litije do Cateža, whose main objective is actually that of a literary manifesto. In the critical essay Napake slovenskega pisanja, he exposed his views on the development of the Slovenian literary language.

Was a Slovene philologist.He graduated from the University of Graz as a doctor of philosophy, and wa

Was a Slovene philologist.He graduated from the University of Graz as a doctor of philosophy, and was for a time professor of philosophy there. In 1838 he went to the University of Vienna, where he received the degree of doctor of law. During his studies, he became influenced by the works of the Slovenian philologist and linguist Jernej Kopitar. He abandoned law, devoting most of his later life to the study of Slavic languages.In 1844, he obtained a post at the Imperial Library of Vienna, where he remained to 1862. In 1844, he published a review of Franz Bopp's book Comparative Grammar, which attracted attention from the Viennese academic circles. This publication then launched a long series of works, in which Miklošic showed an immense erudition. His works led to a revolutiony change in the study of Slavic languages.

Was a prospector and geologist most well known for a huge uranium discovery in northeastern Ontario,

Was a prospector and geologist most well known for a huge uranium discovery in northeastern Ontario, Canada in 1953.A graduate of the University of British Columbia, (Masters,Geology (1942)), Joubin worked independently as a consultant and prospector/geologist for various mining promoters and exploration companies.In 1953, as an employee and eventual partner of promoter Joseph Hirshhorn, he persuaded his partner to finance diamond drilling of a previously dismissed area of surface radioactivity near Blind River, Ontario. Joubin's insight, with help from Dr. Charles Davidson, a leading British geologist, was that the presence of iron sulphide had leached the uranium mineral to a location deeper in the ground. Drilling results confirmed this and implied uranium deposits along a huge ninety mile Z-shaped geological formation extending north of the area. Known as the "Big Z" deposit, it became the hub of a frenzy of uranium exploration and mining activity

Was an Italian philosopher and art critic. He also completed engravings.He was born in Venice to a r

Was an Italian philosopher and art critic. He also completed engravings.He was born in Venice to a rich merchant. He studied at Rome for a year, and then Bologna, he studied natural sciences and mathematics. At age of twenty, he went to Paris, where he be

Was an Italian Jesuit priest, zoologist and mathematician.Cetti was born in Mannheim in Germany, but

Was an Italian Jesuit priest, zoologist and mathematician.Cetti was born in Mannheim in Germany, but his parents were natives of Como. He was educated in Lombardy and at the Jesuit college at Monza. In 1765 he was sent to Sardinia to help improve the standard of education on the island. In 1766 he was appointed to the Chair of Mathematics at the University of Sassari, holding that position until his death.Cetti took long excursions in the vicinity of Sassari, collating his discoveries in the Storia Naturale di Sardegna (Natural History of Sardinia) (1774-7). This has four volumes, covering quadrupeds, birds, fish, and insects and fossils respectively.

Was an Italian physician.He is most well-known for his experiment in 1668 which is regarded as one o

Was an Italian physician.He is most well-known for his experiment in 1668 which is regarded as one of the first steps in refuting "spontaneous generation" - a theory also known as Aristotelian abiogenesis. At the time, prevailing wisdom was that maggots formed naturally from rotting meat. In the experiment, Redi took eight jars, which he divided in two groups of four: in the first jar of each group, he put an unknown object; in the second, a dead fish; in the last, raw chunk of veal. Redi took the first group of four jars, and covered the tops with fine gauze so that only air could get into it. He left the other group of jars open. After several days,

Was a United States economist and educator, as well as an officer in the Union Army during the Ameri

Was a United States economist and educator, as well as an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War.Walker's activities after the war included stints as editor of the Springfield (MA) Republican, chief of the government bureau of statistics,

Was an American polymath, academic, philologist, and lexicographer. He graduated from Amherst Colleg

Was an American polymath, academic, philologist, and lexicographer. He graduated from Amherst College in 1845. He is considered the principal founder of modern comparative linguistics in Anglo-Saxon. March applied the methods of studying the Latin and Greek classics towards the study of English literature, and led the way for the first scientific study of the English language.He also served as president of the American Philological Association (1873-1874; 1895-1896); the Spelling Reform Association (after 1876); and of the Modern Language Association (1891-1893).

Was an American Evangelical Christian theologian, philosopher, and Presbyterian pastor. He is most f

Was an American Evangelical Christian theologian, philosopher, and Presbyterian pastor. He is most famous for his writings and his establishment of the L'Abri community in Switzerland. Opposed to theological modernism, Schaeffer promoted a more traditional Protestant faith and a presuppositional approach to Christian apologetics, which he believed would answer the questions of the age. A number of scholars credit Schaeffer's ideas with helping spark the rise of the Christian Right in the United States. Schaeffer's wife, Edith (Seville) Schaeffer has become a prolific author in her own right. Schaeffer is also the father of author, filmmaker and painter Frank Schaeffer.

Was an English astronomer, most famous for his observations of 'Baily's beads' during an eclipse of

Was an English astronomer, most famous for his observations of 'Baily's beads' during an eclipse of the Sun.He had already, in 1820, taken a leading part in the foundation of the Royal Astronomical Society; and its Gold Medal was awarded him, in 1827, for his preparation of the Astronomical Society's Catalogue of 2881 stars (Memoirs R. Astr. Soc. ii.). Later in 1843 he would win the Gold Medal again.The reform of the Nautical Almanac in 1829 was set on foot by his protests; he recommended to the British Association in 1837, and in great part executed, the reduction of Joseph de Lalande's and Nicolas de Lacaille's catalogues containing about 57,000 stars; he superintended the compilation of the British Association's Catalogue of 8377 stars (published 1845); and revised the catalogues of Tobias Mayer, Ptolemy, Ulugh Beg, Tycho Brahe, Edmund Halley and Hevelius (Memoirs R. Astr. Soc. iv,, xiii.).

Was an English Victorian polymath, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, invent

Was an English Victorian polymath, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, psychometrician, and statistician. He was knighted in 1909.Galton had a prolific intellect, and produced over 340 papers and books throughout his lifetime. He also created the statistical concept of correlation and widely promoted regression toward the mean. He was the first to apply statistical methods to the study of human differences and inheritance of intelligence, and introduced the use of questionnaires and surveys for collecting data on human communities, which he needed for genealogical and biographical works and for his anthropometric studies.

Was a South African mathematician and botanist who first posed the Four Colour Problem in 1852. At t

Was a South African mathematician and botanist who first posed the Four Colour Problem in 1852. At the time, Guthrie was a student of Augustus De Morgan at University College London. He studied under John Lindley, Professor of Botany at the University of

Was an English statistician. Born in Hove, he was educated at Cambridge University. After wartime se

Was an English statistician. Born in Hove, he was educated at Cambridge University. After wartime service, he joined Rothamsted Experimental Station for two years before returning to Cambridge to lecture. He moved to Princeton University in 1956, and beca

Was a New Zealand geologist. He received his BSc and MSc from the Auckland University College. He wo

Was a New Zealand geologist. He received his BSc and MSc from the Auckland University College. He worked with the New Zealand Geological Survey and in 1926 he became a geology lecturer in the University of Otago.At Otago he became interested in metamorphism and studied the unexplored metamorphic rocks of South Island on which he earned his PhD in 1934 from the University of New Zealand. His application and expansion of Pentti Eskola's concept of metamorphic facies led to his publication of Mineralogical and Structural Evolution of Metamorphic Rocks, the book that established his position in the field of petrology and was a great influence on a generation of geologists.

Was a Protestant reformer, the son of a papal official at Avignon, where he was born between 1485 an

Was a Protestant reformer, the son of a papal official at Avignon, where he was born between 1485 and 1487. At the age of 15 he entered the Franciscan monastery at Avignon, and after 1517 he was an itinerant preacher, travelling through France, Italy and Switzerland. His study of the Scriptures shook his faith in Roman Catholic theology, and by 1522 he had abandoned his order, and became known to the leaders of the Reformation in Switzerland and Germany. He did not, however, identify himself either with Zwinglianism or Lutheranism; he disputed with Zwingli at Zürich in 1522, and then made his way to Eisenach and Wittenberg, where he married in 1523.