Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter J

An economist and president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. Dr. Yellen is Professor Eme

An economist and president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. Dr. Yellen is Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business, where she was the Eugene E. and Catherine M. Trefethen Professor of Business and Professor of Economics and has been a faculty member since 1980.Dr. Yellen graduated magna cum laude from Brown University with a degree in economics in 1967, and received her PhD in Economics from Yale University in 1971. She received the Wilbur Cross Medal from Yale in 1997, an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Brown in 1998, and an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Bard College in 2000.

A Slovene linguist.He was born on in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He finished his undergraduate studies in c

A Slovene linguist.He was born on in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He finished his undergraduate studies in comparative Indo-European linguistics at the University of Ljubljana in 1958, and completed his Ph.D. in Germanic Linguistics at the same institution in 1965. He continued with post-doctoral studies at the University of Copenhagen (1959-1961), University of Zagreb (1962-1963), University of Reykjavik (1965-1966) and Harvard University (1969-1970).Orešnik is an internationally recognized specialist in comparative linguistics. He served as chair of the Department of Comparative and General Linguistics at the University of Ljubljana from 1990 to 2004. He is a member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts and a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.

A meteorologist for WNBC in New York City.As she has sometimes noted on her newscast, though born in

A meteorologist for WNBC in New York City.As she has sometimes noted on her newscast, though born in New York City, at an early age she moved to her grandparents in Columbia, South Carolina, and graduated from Eau Claire High School with honors, where she was a member of the National Honor Society, Secretary of the Student Council, Varsity Cheerleader, and Miss Shamrock 1978.

Is a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. She p

Is a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. She previously was an Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court, holding that post from May 2, 1996 until her appointment to the D.C. Circuit.

Is a Polish economist and politician belonging to the Gdansk liberals group, and a member of the Eur

Is a Polish economist and politician belonging to the Gdansk liberals group, and a member of the European Parliament (elected on 13 June 2004), Chairman of the Committee on Budgets. On November 27, 2009 he obtained the post of Budget and Financial Programming Commissioner of the European Commission (pending approval by the European Parliament in January, 2010) and is affiliated to the European People's Party (EPP).[1][2]From 1980-1989 he was an economics adviser to the Solidarity anti-communist movement, and in 1988 he was one of the founders of the Liberal-Democratic Congress (Kongres Liberalno-Demokratyczny). He was the Minister of Privatization in the cabinets of Jan Krzysztof Bielecki (1990-1991) and Hanna Suchocka (1992-1993). His major successes were the foundation of the Warsaw Stock Exchange and the mass privatization programme (Program Powszechnej Prywatyzacji).

An American evolutionary biologist, physiologist, biogeographer, lecturer, and nonfiction author. Di

An American evolutionary biologist, physiologist, biogeographer, lecturer, and nonfiction author. Diamond works as a professor of geography and physiology at UCLA. He is best known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning book Guns, Germs, and Steel (1998), which also won the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science. He received the National Medal of Science in 1999.Diamond was born in Boston of Polish-Jewish heritage, to a physician father and a teacher/musician/linguist mother. After attending the Roxbury Latin School, he earned an A.B. degree from Harvard College in 1958 and his Ph.D. in physiology and membrane biophysics from Cambridge University in 1961. During 1962-1966, he returned to Harvard as a Junior Fellow. He became a professor of physiology at UCLA Medical School in 1966

Was a Finnish mathematician known for work on the central limit theorem.

Was a Finnish mathematician known for work on the central limit theorem.

Was a Czech mathematician, considered to be one of the most important figures in theoretical statist

Was a Czech mathematician, considered to be one of the most important figures in theoretical statistics.

Was a Czech humorist and satirist best known for his world-famous novel The Good Soldier Švejk, an

Was a Czech humorist and satirist best known for his world-famous novel The Good Soldier Švejk, an unfinished collection of farcical incidents about a soldier in World War I, which has been translated into sixty languages. He also wrote some 1,500 short stories. He was a journalist, bohemian, and practical joker. His short life had many odd parallels with another Prague contemporary, the Jewish writer Franz Kafka (1883–1924).

Is a Czech mathematician. He is a specialist in ordinary differential equations and defined the Perr

Is a Czech mathematician. He is a specialist in ordinary differential equations and defined the Perron integral in terms of Riemann sums.

Is a Polish conservative politician. He was elected to Senate on September 25, 2005, candidating fro

Is a Polish conservative politician. He was elected to Senate on September 25, 2005, candidating from Civic Platform. During the 2007 Polish parliamentary elections, he was Platform's leader in the Cracow constituency after Jan Rokita decided not to run. He was elected to the Sejm with 160,465 votes, which gave him second place, just short of Zbigniew Ziobro. Gowin has a PhD in philosophy and is the founder and dean of Cracow's Jozef Tischner Higher European School, which is named after his one-time professor and personal friend Józef Tischner. He is the former editor of the Znak monthly and is known to be an expert on the philosophy of John Paul II, having established the first graduate course in Poland dedicated to the field.

He is a prolific discoverer of asteroids, professor in the University of Barcelona and an active mem

He is a prolific discoverer of asteroids, professor in the University of Barcelona and an active member of GEA. Has discovered more than sixty asteroids and is the director of the Unicorn Project 3SSS, that places three automatic telescopes of 61 cm diameter in the Piera Observatory, l'Ametlla de Mar Observatory and Costitx Observatory to increase the capacity of detection and study of the asteroids.

Was a pioneering animal geneticist who made important contributions to livestock breeding. He is som

Was a pioneering animal geneticist who made important contributions to livestock breeding. He is sometimes known as the father of modern scientific animal breeding. Lush received National Medal of Science in 1968 and the Wolf Prize in 1979.Lush was introduced to mathematics and genetics during his B.Sc. studies of animal husbandry at the Kansas State Agricultural College (now Kansas State University [KSU]). He completed his M.Sc. in 1918 at KSU, and his Ph.D. in genetics at the University of Wisconsin (1922).Lush advocated breeding not based on subjective appearance of the animal, but on quantitative statistics and genetic information. Lush authored a classic book 'Animal Breeding Plans' in 1937 which greatly influenced animal breeding around the world.

Was an American hair stylist for celebrities. He is also known as one of the murder victims of the M

Was an American hair stylist for celebrities. He is also known as one of the murder victims of the Manson Family.After high school, Sebring joined the Navy for four years, and during this time served in the Korean War. He then moved to Los Angeles, where he changed his name to Jay Sebring: Jay, after the first initial of his middle name, and Sebring after the famous Florida car race.

An eminent Indian astrophysicist. Narlikar is considered a leading expert and defender of the steady

An eminent Indian astrophysicist. Narlikar is considered a leading expert and defender of the steady state cosmology. His work on conformal gravity theory with Sir Fred Hoyle, called Hoyle-Narlikar theory, demonstrated a synthesis can be achieved between Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity and Mach's principle. India’s second highest civilian honour, Padma Vibhushan, was awarded to him for his work. Prof. Narlikar is the founder director of the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) at Pune, India.

Is Professor of Economics and currently also Chairperson at the Centre for Economic Studies and Plan

Is Professor of Economics and currently also Chairperson at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, School of Social Sciences, at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, in New Delhi, India. Her specialities include globalization, international finance, em

Was a French Protestant scholar and theologian.

Was a French Protestant scholar and theologian.

Was a French artist and naturalist.He studied painting and drawing at Paris, and gained considerable

Was a French artist and naturalist.He studied painting and drawing at Paris, and gained considerable reputation as a miniature-painter. Employed in preparing plates for the Histoire des colportes of Guillaume-Antoine Olivier, he acquired a taste for natural history. In 1800 appeared his first original work, Histoire naturelle des singes, illustrated by sixty-two folio plates, drawn and engraved by himself. The coloring in these plates was unusually beautiful, and was applied by a method devised by himself.

Was a French Dominican theologian. He received his primary education in his native place, and there

Was a French Dominican theologian. He received his primary education in his native place, and there at the age of seventeen entered the Order of St. Dominic. After his religious profession he was sent to the University of Bordeaux, where with unusual ability he devoted himself to the study of philosophy and theology, winning all honours in the customary examinations before advancement. Having received the doctorate he was appointed to the chair of scholastic theology in the university, in which capacity he proved himself a brilliant theologian and an exceptionally gifted teacher.

Was a French cultural theorist, sociologist, philosopher, political commentator, and photographer. H

Was a French cultural theorist, sociologist, philosopher, political commentator, and photographer. His work is frequently associated with postmodernism and post-structuralism.

Was a French philosopher and Germanist tremendously influential in the reception of Martin Heidegger

Was a French philosopher and Germanist tremendously influential in the reception of Martin Heidegger's work in France. After graduating from the École Normale Supérieure and completing military service Beaufret passed his agrégation de philosophie in 1933 and undertook a career teaching as a lycée philosophy instructor. His early philosophical interests were in 19th century German philosophy, particularly GWF Hegel, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, and Karl Marx. In the period before the Second World War, he came to know Paul Éluard, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, André Breton, and Paul Valéry.

Was a twelfth-century French liturgist and theologian. He is thought to have been rector in a Paris

Was a twelfth-century French liturgist and theologian. He is thought to have been rector in a Paris theological college.[1]. That he was possibly of English origin was a hypothesis discussed by John Pits, and supported by Thomas Tanner; but is no longer taken seriously.[2]

Is a French philosopher and author. He is the recipient of the High Prize of the Society of French P

Is a French philosopher and author. He is the recipient of the High Prize of the Society of French Poets (1970), Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor (1997), and a prolific modern proponent of the Traditionalist School. His works deal with the union of Eastern and Western philosophy.

Was a French writer, known for his books on aspects of socialism. He was also a translator of Schope

Was a French writer, known for his books on aspects of socialism. He was also a translator of Schopenhauer, and an early adopter in France of some of the thought of Nietzsche. He wrote on a wide range of subjects, from Jansen to Maxim Gorky and the rising personality cult of Lenin. He contributed in particular to the Journal des Débats, on contemporary philosophy

Was a French Oratorian theologian. Returning to Aix, where he spent the rest of his life, he became

Was a French Oratorian theologian. Returning to Aix, where he spent the rest of his life, he became a distinguished writer on questions of ecclesiastical history, canon law, and moral theology.