Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter H

U.S. psychiatrist whose work in psychoanalysis was based on direct and verifiable observation (versu

U.S. psychiatrist whose work in psychoanalysis was based on direct and verifiable observation (versus the more abstract conceptions of the unconscious mind favored by Sigmund Freud and his disciples).

Was a British zoologist and ornithologist.Robinson was curator of the Federated Malay States Museum,

Was a British zoologist and ornithologist.Robinson was curator of the Federated Malay States Museum, at Selangor from 1903 to 1926. He wrote The Birds of Singapore and The Birds of the Malay Peninsula (1927).

An English physicist and natural philosopher, who served as president of the Royal Astronomical Soci

An English physicist and natural philosopher, who served as president of the Royal Astronomical Society from 1951 to 1953, is best known for his opposition to Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity and the protracted controversy that this provoked.Dingle was a member of the British government eclipse expeditions of 1927 (Colwyn Bay) and 1932 (Montreal), both of which failed to make any observations due to overcast skies. He spent most of 1932 at the California Institute of Technology as a Rockefeller Foundation Scholar. There he met the theoretical cosmologist R. C. Tolman, and studied relativistic cosmology.

Was a mathematician and statistician who did research in topology, measure theory, statistics, and a

Was a mathematician and statistician who did research in topology, measure theory, statistics, and a variety of other fields. He was the co-author, with Richard Courant, of What is Mathematics?, a popularization that is still (as of 2007[update]) in print

Was an Austrian philosopher and a member of the Vienna Circle.The son of a weaver, Feigl was born in

Was an Austrian philosopher and a member of the Vienna Circle.The son of a weaver, Feigl was born in Reichenberg (Liberec), Bohemia, and matriculated at the University of Vienna in 1922. He studied physics and philosophy under Moritz Schlick, the founder of the Vienna Circle, and received his doctorate in 1927 for the essay "Chance and Law: An Epistemological Analysis of the Roles of Probability and Induction in the Natural Sciences." He published his first book, Theory and Experience in Physics, in 1929. He became an active member in the Vienna Circle during this time: he was one of the few Circle members (along with Schlick and Friedrich Waismann) to have extensive conversations with Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Popper.

Was an American pioneer in the application of sounding rockets to solar physics, aeronomy, and astro

Was an American pioneer in the application of sounding rockets to solar physics, aeronomy, and astronomy. He was also a statesman and public advocate for science. During his lifetime, he was awarded the Eddington Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, the National Medal of Science, the Henry Norris Russell Lectureship of the American Astronomical Society, the William Bowie Medal of the American Geophysical Union, and the Wolf Foundation Prize in Physics, among others. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1960 and of the American Philosophical Society in 1964.

Was an American ornithologist. In 1929 he became a fellow of the American Ornithologists' Union and

Was an American ornithologist. In 1929 he became a fellow of the American Ornithologists' Union and served as the President of the A.O.U. from 1937 to 1939. He published 17 books and was noted for study of Avian brood parasites.

Was a British astronomer and seismologist.In seismology, he is credited with the discovery of deep f

Was a British astronomer and seismologist.In seismology, he is credited with the discovery of deep focus earthquakes.He is credited with coining the word parsec.

German philosopher and sociologist, and a member of the Frankfurt School. His best known works are E

German philosopher and sociologist, and a member of the Frankfurt School. His best known works are Eros and Civilization and One-Dimensional Man.

Was a U.S. anatomist and embryologist.His medical research at Berkeley addressed problems relating t

Was a U.S. anatomist and embryologist.His medical research at Berkeley addressed problems relating to human nutrition, endocrinology, embryology, and histology. In 1918, his research into the number of human chromosomes led him to believe the number to be 48, when most people assumed the number to be much higher. It was only later discovered that the correct figure was 46. Evans had much greater success however with hormones extracted from the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland. He isolated Human Growth Hormone, which was essential for human growth and development. In 1922 along with Katharine Scott Bishop, during feeding experiments on rats, he co-discovered Vitamin E which is needed for human reproduction.[

Sually publishing under the name Paul Grice, was a British-educated philosopher of language, who spe

Sually publishing under the name Paul Grice, was a British-educated philosopher of language, who spent the final two decades of his career in the United States.Born and raised in the United Kingdom, Grice was educated first at Clifton College[citation needed] and then at Oxford University.[1] After brief period teaching at Rossall[citation needed] he went back to Oxford where he taught until 1967. In that year, he moved to the United States to take up a professorship at the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught until his death in 1988. He returned to the UK in 1979 to give the John Locke lectures on Aspects of Reason. He reprinted many of his essays and papers in his valedictory book, Studies in the Way of Words (1989).[1]

A German linguist and celtologist. He was a professor of English language and literature at the Univ

A German linguist and celtologist. He was a professor of English language and literature at the University of Freiburg in the Breisgau. His contributions to linguistics included a theory of phonemes and studies of Basel German. His main work is the Manual of English Phonetics.

Was an Australian jurist, politician and writer. He was President of the United Nations General Asse

Was an Australian jurist, politician and writer. He was President of the United Nations General Assembly in 1948-49 and helped draft the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948).In 1930 the Scullin Labor government appointed Evatt as the youngest-ever justice of the High Court of Australia. Regarded by some as a brilliant and innovative judge, he delivered a number of minority judgements, several of which were decades later adopted by High Court majorities. Evatt could, however, be partial on the bench. Sir Owen Dixon noted in one instance how Evatt was "full of antagonism to the respondent ... Most unjudicial."[1] It is noticeable, upon examination of the Commonwealth Law Reports for the 1930s, that when Evatt was not particularly interested in a case he generally went along with Dixon's judgment.[2]

A recipient of the 1990 National Medal of Science, and co-recipient of the 1996 Lemelson-MIT Prize a

A recipient of the 1990 National Medal of Science, and co-recipient of the 1996 Lemelson-MIT Prize and a co-founder of Genentech.Boyer received his bachelor's degree in biology and chemistry from Saint Vincent College in the Pittsburgh suburb of Latrobe, Pennsylvania in 1958. He married his wife Grace the following year. He received his PhD at the University of Pittsburgh in 1963 and participated as an activist in the civil rights movement. He spent three years in post-graduate work at Yale University in the laboratories of Professors Edward Adelberg and Bruce Carlton, then became an assistant professor at the University of California, San Francisco, where he discovered that genes from bacteria could be combined with genes from higher organisms.

Was a Polish mathematician and member of the Lwów School of Mathematics.Auerbach was professor at L

Was a Polish mathematician and member of the Lwów School of Mathematics.Auerbach was professor at Lwów University. During the Second World War because of his Jewish descent he was imprisoned by the Germans in the Lwów ghetto. In 1942 he was murdered at Belzec extermination camp.

A Dutch botanist, humanist and physician of European fame. He is regarded as the founder of clinical

A Dutch botanist, humanist and physician of European fame. He is regarded as the founder of clinical teaching and of the modern academic hospital

Is an American applied mathematician, statistician and physicist formerly a professor at MIT and cur

Is an American applied mathematician, statistician and physicist formerly a professor at MIT and currently working at Harvard University.

An American ecological economist and professor at the School of Public Policy of University of Maryl

An American ecological economist and professor at the School of Public Policy of University of Maryland, College Park in the United States.He was Senior Economist in the Environment Department of the World Bank, where he helped to develop policy guidelines related to sustainable development. While there, he was engaged in environmental operations work in Latin America.Before joining the World Bank, Daly was Alumni Professor of Economics at Louisiana State University. He is a co-founder and associate editor of the journal, Ecological Economics.

Was a Finnish explorer, draughtsman, botanist and a naturalist.In 1768 Spöring (Jr.) was enlisted a

Was a Finnish explorer, draughtsman, botanist and a naturalist.In 1768 Spöring (Jr.) was enlisted as a clerk, assistant naturalist and personal secretary in the entourage of Joseph Banks, a wealthy young botanist who was preparing for an expedition sponsored by the Royal Society to the Pacific Ocean. This expedition had as one of its principal goals the observation of the transit of Venus; however it was also intended to make scientific studies of the flora and fauna of any new lands encountered. Indeed, the confidential purpose of the voyage (in particular, from the point of view of the British Admiralty) was to seek out the hypothetical "unknown southern continent", orTerra Australis (Incognita).

Was a Dutch astronomer.Zanstra was born near Heerenveen in Friesland. In 1917 he graduated with an E

Was a Dutch astronomer.Zanstra was born near Heerenveen in Friesland. In 1917 he graduated with an Engineer's degree in chemical engineering from the Delft Institute of Technology. While working in Delft for four years, the last two as a high school teacher, he wrote a highly theoretical and mathematical paper on relative motion which he sent to William Francis Gray Swann. Swann, then offered him to earn a Ph.D. degree in theoretical physics with him at the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis,

Was a German-born astronomer who spent the great portion of his career in the United Kingdom.Upon gr

Was a German-born astronomer who spent the great portion of his career in the United Kingdom.Upon graduation from Munich, Brück followed his friend Albrecht Unsöld to the Potsdam Astrophysical Observatory; Unsöld had earned his doctorate the year before, also under Sommerfeld. While there, he participated in the physics colloquium at the Humboldt University of Berlin with the physicists Max von Laue and Albert Einstein and the astronomer Walter Grotrian. With growing difficulties under National Socialism, Brück left Germany in 1936 to take a temporary research assistantship at the Vatican Observatory. In 1937 he moved to the University of Cambridge to join the circle of the modern astrophysicists around Arthur Eddington. In time, Brück became Assistant Director of the Observatories and John Couch Adams Astronomer, specializing in solar spectroscopy. Under his tenure, he taught a course in classical astronomy and started the student astronomical society, which fostered the careers of many astronomers.[4

Was a German entomologist who specialised in Neuroptera and Odonata. In 1845 he began to collaborate

Was a German entomologist who specialised in Neuroptera and Odonata. In 1845 he began to collaborate with Edmond de Sélys Longchamps.Hagen was the son of Carl Heinrich Hagen and Anna Hagen née Linck. He became a physician graduating from the University of Königsberg in 1840. He married Johanna Maria Gerhards in 1851. Hagen emigrated to the United States of America in 1867. He developed the department of entomology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology Harvard.He became, in 1870, the first professor of entomology in an American university He was a member of several scientific societies including the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society and theAmerican Entomological Society.

Was a German astronomer. He was born in Leipzig, Kingdom of Saxony.Vogel pioneered the use of the sp

Was a German astronomer. He was born in Leipzig, Kingdom of Saxony.Vogel pioneered the use of the spectroscope in astronomy. He applied this instrument to chemically analyze planetary atmospheres and to determine the Sun's rotational period using the Doppler effect.In 1882, Vogel became the Director at the Astrophysical Observatory Potsdam. and he is best known for a discovery he made there in 1890. Vogel found that the spectra of certain stars shifted slightly over time, moving toward the red and then later toward the blue. His interpretation of this result was that the star was moving toward and then away from the Earth, and that the accompanying spectral shifts were the result of the Doppler effect.

Was an eminent German historical linguist and Indo-Europeanist, who spent much of his career in the

Was an eminent German historical linguist and Indo-Europeanist, who spent much of his career in the United States. He received the doctorate in 1878 at the University of Göttingen with a dissertation on The Emergence of the Indo-Iranian Palatal Series (German: Die Entstehung der indoiranischen Palatalreihe), and his 1885 Habilitation degree at the University of Halle for The Inflection of Nouns with Threefold Gradation in Old Indic and in Greek: the Case of the Singular (German: Die Flexion der Nomina mit dreifacher Stammabstufung im Altindischen und im Griechischen – Die Casus des Singular).

Was a German intellectual. He made significant contributions to the study of medicine, politics and

Was a German intellectual. He made significant contributions to the study of medicine, politics and law. Descended from Lutheran clergy on both sides of his family, second-youngest of ten children, Conring showed early promise as a student. During his lif