Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter H

Was a third generation Dutch linguist.He was the son of Jan Jacob Schultens, orientalist and profess

Was a third generation Dutch linguist.He was the son of Jan Jacob Schultens, orientalist and professor at Leiden University and Suzanna Amalia Schramm, and was the grandson of Albert Schultens. Schultens studied orientalism in Leiden. He traveled to England and studied at Oxford, where he became Magister Artium, honoris causa, in 1773. He became professor in Eastern languages, first in Amsterdam, and then in Leiden. He married Catharina Elisabeth de Sitter. Schultens did a translation (to Latin) and discussion of the adab work Nawabigh ul-kalim of Zamakhshari (1772 Leiden).

Was a Dutch jurist and city librarian of Amsterdam.He studied law in Leiden. For nearly fifty years,

Was a Dutch jurist and city librarian of Amsterdam.He studied law in Leiden. For nearly fifty years, beginning in 1771, he taught all fields of legal study at the Athenaeum Illustre in Amsterdam. His work mirrors the decline of the significance of Roman law in legal practice. Beginning his career as an adherent of Roman law, Cras became a fundamental supporter of natural law and legal codification towards the end of the 18th century. Noted for his focus on general principles of law, his lengthy publications on the principles of equality and liberty had nonetheless little lasting impact.

Was a Dutch mathematician,[1] known best for introducing Kloosterman sums.[2]After completing his ma

Was a Dutch mathematician,[1] known best for introducing Kloosterman sums.[2]After completing his master's degree in Leiden from 1918-1922 he studied in Copenhagen with Harald Bohr and in Oxford with G. H. Hardy. In 1924 he received his PhD in Leiden under supervision of J. C. Kluyver. From 1926 to 1928 he studied in Göttingen and Hamburg, and he was assistant in Münster from 1928-1930. Kloosterman was appointed lector (associate professorship) in Leiden in 1930 and full professor in 1947.[2] In 1950 he was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.[citation needed]

Is a Dutch logician, known for his work in lambda calculus and type theory.Barendregt studied mathem

Is a Dutch logician, known for his work in lambda calculus and type theory.Barendregt studied mathematical logic at Utrecht University, obtaining his Masters in 1968 and his Ph.D. in 1971, both cum laude, under Dirk van Dalen and Georg Kreisel. After a po

Was a Dutch astronomer.He moved to South Africa in 1928 in order to observe the southern sky at the

Was a Dutch astronomer.He moved to South Africa in 1928 in order to observe the southern sky at the Leiden Southern Station and the Union Observatory in Johannesburg. He studied variable stars, and also discovered a number of asteroids and comets. The Van Gent lunar crater on the far side of the Moon is named for him.

Was a Dutch mathematician. He was noted as one of the founders of the integral. From [1653 he studie

Was a Dutch mathematician. He was noted as one of the founders of the integral. From [1653 he studied at Leiden University where he interacted with Frans van Schooten, Johannes Hudde, and Christiaan Huygens. In 1658 he and Hudde left for Saumur in France. He returned to Leiden the next year as a physician. After this his trail is lost.

Is a Danish linguist, who is head of Center for Lexicography at Aarhus School of Business in Denmark

Is a Danish linguist, who is head of Center for Lexicography at Aarhus School of Business in Denmark. Professor Bergenholtz has contributed to lexicography as a science with publications on theoretical lexicography as well as several printed and electronic dictionaries.Bergenholtz went to study in Germany at age 16. He received his master's degree at the Universität Berlin in 1973, and his doctorate degrees at the University of Essen in 1975 and 1978. He was a lecturer at universities in Cologne, Bonn and Bochum and moved back to Denmark in 1987.[1]

Was a Danish mycologist, botanist and marine biologist. He made a major contribution to unveiling th

Was a Danish mycologist, botanist and marine biologist. He made a major contribution to unveiling the mysterious die-back of eel grass in Northern European waters in the early 20th Century as a pathogen outbreak.His main research was in what was then known as lower fungi - Chytridiomycota and Oomycetes, but he also studied the systematics of Red algae. Parallel to these lines of research, he investigated the intraspecific morphological variation in plant species - which would today be called quantitative genetics.

Was a French astronomer, director of the Meudon and Paris Observatories.Deslandres' undergraduate ye

Was a French astronomer, director of the Meudon and Paris Observatories.Deslandres' undergraduate years at the École Polytechnique were played out against the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War and the chaos of the Paris Commune so, on graduation in 1874, he responded to the continuing military tension with the emerging Germany by embarking on a military career. Rising to the rank of captain in the engineers, he became increasingly interested in physics and, in 1881, resigned his commission to join Alfred Cornu's laboratory at the École Polytechnique, working on spectroscopy. He continued his spectroscopic work at the Sorbonne, earning his doctorate in 1888 and finding numerical patterns in spectral lines that paralleled the work of Johann Balmer and were to catalyse the development of quantum mechanics in the 20th century.

Is a French Algerian biophysicist and philosopher. He then moved to the University of California, Be

Is a French Algerian biophysicist and philosopher. He then moved to the University of California, Berkeley working on aging and mutation. Influenced by Heinz von Foerster, he became interested in applying cybernetics and information theory to living organisms, and went to the Weizmann Institute in Jerusalem to work under the biophysicist Aharon Katchalsky.

Was a French philosopher and lycée teacher, known as the founder of the journal Revue de synthèse.

Was a French philosopher and lycée teacher, known as the founder of the journal Revue de synthèse. He is credited with moving the centre of gravity of the study of history in France, in accordance with his ideas on "synthesis"[1]. Despite the lack of recognition of his concepts by the academic establishment of the time, and its adverse effect on his own career, he had a large impact on the younger generation of French historians[2] He is considered to have anticipated significant aspects of the later Annales School[3]

Is a son of Élie Cartan, and is, as his father was, a distinguished and influential French mathemat

Is a son of Élie Cartan, and is, as his father was, a distinguished and influential French mathematician.Henri Cartan is known for work in algebraic topology, in particular on cohomology operations, killing homotopy groups and group cohomology. His seminar in Paris in the years after 1945 covered ground on several complex variables, sheaf theory, spectral sequences and homological algebra, in a way that deeply influenced Jean-Pierre Serre, Armand Borel, Alexander Grothendieck and Frank Adams, amongst others of the leading lights of the younger generation. The number of his official students was small, but includes Adrien Douady, Roger Godement, Max Karoubi, Jean-Pierre Serre and René Thom.

Is a number theorist, and a Professor at the University of Bordeaux. He is best known for leading th

Is a number theorist, and a Professor at the University of Bordeaux. He is best known for leading the team that created the PARI/GP computer algebra system. He has also written several widely-used textbooks in computational and algebraic number theory.

Was a Belgian astronomer.He worked at the Observatoire Royal de Belgique (Royal Observatory of Belgi

Was a Belgian astronomer.He worked at the Observatoire Royal de Belgique (Royal Observatory of Belgium) in Uccle, and specialized in astrometry of comets and asteroids.He has discovered over 700 asteroids, including the Trojan asteroids (6090) 1989 DJ and (65210) 2002 EG (the latter with Eric Walter Elst).

Was born in Fayence (France) in 1870. He graduated from Ecole Polytechnique (Paris, class of 1892) a

Was born in Fayence (France) in 1870. He graduated from Ecole Polytechnique (Paris, class of 1892) and obtained a Doctorate in Mathematics. He started to teach a class of mathematic analysis at University, in Grenoble (France), Algiers (today Algeria) and Poitiers (France). Holder of a pulpit in pure mathematics in the Sciences University of Lyon (France) in 1911, his teaching was suspended during the first world war (1914 – 1918) and he had to serve as officer in the French army. After the war, he became holder of a pulpit of differential and integral calculus and also taught in Ecole Centrale Lyon. He became examiner at Ecole Polytechnique (Paris) and President of the admission jury. Awarded Officer of Legion d'honneur, the French order established by Napoleon and associate member of the French Academy of Sciences, he published part of Euler's works and contributed to the research through many publications in France and abroad.

Was a French mathematician, who is now remembered mainly for his development of approximation techni

Was a French mathematician, who is now remembered mainly for his development of approximation techniques for functions using rational functions. He was educated at École Normale Supérieure in Paris. He then spent a year at Leipzig and Göttingen.

Was a French psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and philosopher. Ey developed an organodynamic psychology a

Was a French psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and philosopher. Ey developed an organodynamic psychology and a theory of the structure of states of consciousness, in which he developed ideas of Pierre Janet and John Hughlings Jackson.

French philosopher and educationalist, was born at Saint-Parize-en-Viry (Nièvre) on the 9th of Sept

French philosopher and educationalist, was born at Saint-Parize-en-Viry (Nièvre) on the 9th of September 1846. He studied at Nevers, and at the École Normale, where he graduated in 1868. After occupying several minor positions, he returned to Paris in 1875 as professor of the Lycée Henri IV, and in 1880 he became docteur-es-lettres. In the same year he was elected a member of the Council of Public Instruction, and devoted himself to improving the scheme of French education, especially in girls' schools. He was largely instrumental in the foundation of ecoles normales in provincial towns, and himself gave courses of lectures on psychology and practical ethics in their early days. He died in Paris on the 5th of April 1896.

Algerian-born French economist, historian, geographer.He was a professor of ancient and medieval his

Algerian-born French economist, historian, geographer.He was a professor of ancient and medieval history at the University of Clermont-Ferrand (since 1893), and modern history and geography at Dijon University (1903), history at Sorbonne University (1919-1936), economic history at the University of Paris (1921-).

Was a French astronomer and an inventor. He spent part of his early astronomical career at the Nice

Was a French astronomer and an inventor. He spent part of his early astronomical career at the Nice Observatory, which was close to his house, the Villa Paradou. In 1995 the abandoned villa was acquired by the artist Rainer Maria Latzke, who restored the villa and added new modern murals to the already existing frescoes.

Was a French physician, writer and philosopher.Vietnam and started his career as a neurosurgeon in t

Was a French physician, writer and philosopher.Vietnam and started his career as a neurosurgeon in the Marines and then moved on to fundamental research. He won the prestigious Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research in 1957. Laborit later became a research head at Boucicault Hospital in Paris.His interests included psychotropic drugs, eutonology, and memory. He pioneered the use of dopamine antagonists to reduce shock in injured soldiers. His observation that people treated with these drugs showed reduced interest in their surroundings led to their later use as antipsychotics[1]. He was also the first researcher to study GHB, in the early 1960s. He hoped that it would be an orally bioavailable precursor to the neurotransmitter GABA, but it proved to have other uses and was later discovered as an endogenous neurotransmitter.

Was a French sociologist, intellectual and philosopher who was generally considered a Neo-Marxist.By

Was a French sociologist, intellectual and philosopher who was generally considered a Neo-Marxist.By 1924 he was working with Paul Nizan, Norbert Guterman, Georges Friedmann, Georges Politzer and Pierre Morhange in the Philosophies group seeking a "philos

Was a French mathematician most famous for his theory of integration, which was a generalization of

Was a French mathematician most famous for his theory of integration, which was a generalization of the seventeenth century concept of integration—summing the area between an axis and the curve of a function defined for that axis. His theory was published originally in his dissertation Intégrale, longueur, aire ("Integral, length, area") at the University of Nancy during 1902.

A French philosopher, influential in the first half of the 20th century.

A French philosopher, influential in the first half of the 20th century.

Was an eminent French zoologist.Milne-Edwards, was the 27th child of an English father Wiliam Edward

Was an eminent French zoologist.Milne-Edwards, was the 27th child of an English father Wiliam Edwards and a French mother Elisabeth Vaux. He was born in Bruges, now in Belgium, but then part of the newborn French Republic. His father was jailed for several years (for helping some Englishmen in their escape to their country). Henri spent most of his life in France. He was brought up in Paris by his older brother William Edwards, a physiologist. His father was released after the fall of Napoleon. The whole family then moved to Paris.