Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter H

Was an American botanist, geneticist and educator.Creighton graduated from Wellesley College in 1929

Was an American botanist, geneticist and educator.Creighton graduated from Wellesley College in 1929, and went on to complete her Ph.D. at Cornell University in 1933. During her time at Cornell she worked in the field of maize cytogenetics with Barbara McClintock, the pair published a very influential paper in 1931 in which they described chromosomal crossover for the first time. This paper provided key evidence that chromosomes carried and exchanged genetic information and hence that 'genes' for physical traits are carried on chromosomes.

Was an English writer and philosopher, renowned in her day as a controversial journalist, political

Was an English writer and philosopher, renowned in her day as a controversial journalist, political economist, abolitionist and life-long feminist.As early as 1831, Martineau wrote on the subject "Political Economy" (as the field of economics was then known). Her goal was to popularize and illustrate the principles of laissez faire capitalism, though made no claim to original theorising.Martineau's reflections on Society in America published in 1837 are prime examples of her approach to the area later known as sociological methods. Her ideas in this field were set out in her 1838 book How to Observe Morals and Manners. Her belief was that the life of any society is influenced by some very general social laws, including the principle of progress

Was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1970 to 1994. He is best kno

Was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1970 to 1994. He is best known as the author of the majority opinion in the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, overturning laws restricting abortion in the United States and declaring abortion protected under a constitutional right to privacy.

Was an American stage magician, author, and television performer.In 1985, on the 100th anniversary o

Was an American stage magician, author, and television performer.In 1985, on the 100th anniversary of his father's birth, Harry Blackstone, Jr. donated to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. the original floating light bulb - Thomas Edison designed and built it - and the original Casadega Cabinet, used in the "Dancing Handkerchief" illusion. This was the first ever donation accepted by the Smithsonian in the field of magic.[1]

Was a South African botanist, botanical artist, businessman and philanthropist. He advanced botany i

Was a South African botanist, botanical artist, businessman and philanthropist. He advanced botany in South Africa by establishing bursaries, founding the Bolus Herbarium and bequeathing his library and a large part of his fortune to the South African Col

Was an American ornithologist.Oberholser worked for the United States Bureau of Biological Survey (l

Was an American ornithologist.Oberholser worked for the United States Bureau of Biological Survey (later the United States Fish and Wildlife Service) from 1895 to 1941, first as an ornithologist, later as a biologist, and finally as an editor. He was the author of a number of books and articles. The Empidinax oberholseri (Dusky Flycatcher) was named in honor of him.

Was an American mathematician and academic, primarily associated with the University of Michigan. He

Was an American mathematician and academic, primarily associated with the University of Michigan. He was a major influence in the development of mathematical statistics as an academic discipline.

Was a British paleontologist who determined that dinosaurs fell into two great groups, the Saurischi

Was a British paleontologist who determined that dinosaurs fell into two great groups, the Saurischians and the Ornithischians, based on the nature of their pelvic bones and joints. He published his results in 1888, from a lecture he had delivered the previous year.

A Canadian record producer, singer and guitarist best known for being the frontman to Canadian melod

A Canadian record producer, singer and guitarist best known for being the frontman to Canadian melodic rock bands Harem Scarem, and Blind Vengeance.

Was a linguist and anthropologist who worked on primarily Athabaskan languages and culture.He additi

Was a linguist and anthropologist who worked on primarily Athabaskan languages and culture.He additionally documented the Tonkawa language, which, unfortunately, is now extinct. Hoijer's few works, sadly, make up the bulk of material on this language.Hoijer contributed greatly to the documentation of the Southern and Pacific Coast Athabaskan languages and to the reconstruction of proto-Athabaskan.Harry Hoijer collected a large number of valuable fieldnotes on many Athabaskan languages, which are unpublished. Some of his notes on Lipan Apache and the Tonkawa language are lost.

Was Master of the Rolls from 1996 until 2000 and Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales from 2000 u

Was Master of the Rolls from 1996 until 2000 and Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales from 2000 until 2005. The Constitutional Reform Act 2005 made him the first Lord Chief Justice to be President of the Courts of England and Wales. He has been a non-p

Is an influential economist at the Rady School of Management at the University of California, San Di

Is an influential economist at the Rady School of Management at the University of California, San Diego. He is best known for his pioneering work in Modern Portfolio Theory, studying the effects of asset risk, correlation and diversification on expected investment portfolio returns.

Was a British barrister and politician and the lead British prosecutor at the Nuremberg War Crimes t

Was a British barrister and politician and the lead British prosecutor at the Nuremberg War Crimes tribunal.He joined Labour at a young age, and served as Member of Parliament for St Helens from 1945 to 1958, holding the position of Attorney-General from

An American biochemist best known for his work on the molecular basis of sickle cell anemia and othe

An American biochemist best known for his work on the molecular basis of sickle cell anemia and other diseases. In collaboration with Linus Pauling, Itano used electrophoresis to demonstrate the difference between normal hemoglobin and sickle cell hemoglobin; their 1949 paper "Sickle Cell Anemia, a Molecular Disease" (coauthored also with S. J. Singer and Ibert C. Wells)[1] was a landmark in both molecular medicine and protein electrophoresis.In 1979, Itano became the first Japanese American admitted to the United States National Academy of Sciences (in the Genetics section). Itano is currently an emeritus professor of pathology at the University of California, San Diego.[2]

Is a mathematical logician at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. He is noted especially for hi

Is a mathematical logician at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. He is noted especially for his work on reverse mathematics, a project intended to derive the axioms of mathematics from the theorems considered to be necessary. In recent years this ha

Is a British statistician known for his contributions to multilevel modelling methodology and softwa

Is a British statistician known for his contributions to multilevel modelling methodology and software, and for applying this to educational assessment and league tables.

Was an American sociologist influenced by the ethnomethodology tradition. He pioneered extremely det

Was an American sociologist influenced by the ethnomethodology tradition. He pioneered extremely detailed studies of the way real people actually used language in the real world. Despite his early death in a car crash and the fact that he did not publish widely, he founded the discipline of conversation analysis. His work has had significant influence on fields such as linguistics, discourse analysis, and discursive psychology.Sacks received his doctoral degree in sociology at the University of California, Berkeley (1966), an LL.B. at Yale Law School (1959), and a B.A. at Columbia College (1955). He lectured at the University of California, Los Angeles and Irvine from 1964-1975.

Was an American mathematician and logician. Curry is best known for his work in combinatory logic; w

Was an American mathematician and logician. Curry is best known for his work in combinatory logic; while the initial concept of combinatory logic was based on a single paper by Moses Schönfinkel, much of the development was done by Curry. Curry is also kn

Is a Turkish politician associated with the Independent Turkey Party (Bagimsiz Türkiye Partisi), pa

Is a Turkish politician associated with the Independent Turkey Party (Bagimsiz Türkiye Partisi), party, which polled at 0.5% in both the 2002 and 2007 Turkish general elections.

A futurist and an evolutionary economist. She is the author of several books including Building A Wi

A futurist and an evolutionary economist. She is the author of several books including Building A Win-Win World, Beyond Globalization, Planetary Citizenship (with Daisaku Ikeda), and Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy.Henderson is now a television producer for the public television series Ethical Markets. She has been Regent's Lecturer at the University of California (Santa Barbara) and held the Horace Albright Chair in Conservation at the University of California (Berkeley). She has also been a traveling lecturer and panelist. Recently, she has served on the boards of such publications as Futures Research Quarterly,

Is a British astronomer who popularized astronomy in the 1980s and 1990s on British television in co

Is a British astronomer who popularized astronomy in the 1980s and 1990s on British television in conjunction with Patrick Moore, who's programme The Sky at Night she often appeared on. She is a former president of the British Astronomical Association (1984-86).

A senior economist with the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress. She was formerly a senior

A senior economist with the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress. She was formerly a senior economist with the Center for Economic and Policy Research. Her work focuses on the U.S. labor market, social policy, and work and family issues. Dr. Boushey’s work ranges from examinations of current trends in the U.S. labor market and how families balance work and child care needs to how young people have fared in today’s economy and health insurance coverage. She has testified before the U.S. Congress and authored numerous reports and commentaries on issues affecting working families, including the implications of the 1996 welfare reform. She is a co-author of The State of Working America 2002-3 and Hardships in America: The Real Story of Working Families.

Was an American astronomer.He served as director of the Allegheny Observatory. He is best known as o

Was an American astronomer.He served as director of the Allegheny Observatory. He is best known as one of the participants in the "Great Debate" of 1920 with Harlow Shapley on the nature of nebulas and galaxies and the size of the universe.

An Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona. She is the author or coauthor of

An Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona. She is the author or coauthor of three books, and has several papers published on formal syntactic theory, morphology, and lexical semantics. She was born in Oregon, but was raised in St. John's, Newfoundland. She is one of the main researchers working in the theory of Distributed morphology. She has published an over 30 important articles on morphological theory syntax and semantics, including articles in the journals Language, Linguistic Inquiry, Lingua, Morphology Yearbook, Studia Linguistica. She is the editor of three volumes of collected papers, the editor of two special issues of journals, and is the author of a major textbook on morphological theory. She has been an invited teacher at major summer schools in linguistics throughout the world including Ireland and Brazil.

A German zoologist, specialising in Crustacea, especially decapods. He was chief conservator at the

A German zoologist, specialising in Crustacea, especially decapods. He was chief conservator at the Zoologische Staatssammlung (State Zoology Collection) of the University of Munich, and wrote the sections on decapods and stomatopods in Heinrich Georg Bronn's seminal work "Klassen und Ordnungen des Tierreichs" ('Classes and Orders of the Animal Kingdom').