Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter J

A German Christian mystic. He is also known as Jacob Behmen.

A German Christian mystic. He is also known as Jacob Behmen.

Was a German botanist, a pupil of Carolus Linnaeus at Uppsala University, and later Director of the

Was a German botanist, a pupil of Carolus Linnaeus at Uppsala University, and later Director of the Botanical Garden of Hannover, where he produced several major botanical works between 1780-1793. Ehrhart was the first author to use the rank of subspecies

Was a German jurist. Ludovici studied law in Stargard, Königsberg and Halle. Appointed a professor

Was a German jurist. Ludovici studied law in Stargard, Königsberg and Halle. Appointed a professor extraordinary in 1701, he became a full professor in 1711. In 1721 he was appointed privy councillor, vice chancellor and Professor Juris primarius at the U

Was a notable Estonian folklorist, theologian, and linguist. With respect to the latter, he is perha

Was a notable Estonian folklorist, theologian, and linguist. With respect to the latter, he is perhaps best known for his dissertation on "pure" -ne stem nouns ("Die estnischen Nomina auf -ne purum", 1886). He is also featured on the 10-krooni note.

A Swedish marine zoologist.Appellöf matriculated at Uppsala University in 1877, earned his Ph.D. in

A Swedish marine zoologist.Appellöf matriculated at Uppsala University in 1877, earned his Ph.D. in 1886 and became a docent of zoology in 1887. In 1889 he received the position of conservator at the Museum of Bergen (in Bergen, Norway). He was appointed professor of comparative anatomy in Uppsala in 1910. With a donation from the sawmill magnate Bünsow, Appellöf established the Klubban Biological Station of Uppsala University, a station for the study of marine biology located on the west coast of Sweden. In 1919 he was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and in 1920 of the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala.

Was a Swedish marine zoologist.Appellöf matriculated at Uppsala University in 1877, earned his Ph.D

Was a Swedish marine zoologist.Appellöf matriculated at Uppsala University in 1877, earned his Ph.D. in 1886 and became a docent of zoology in 1887. In 1889 he received the position of conservator at the Museum of Bergen (in Bergen, Norway). He was appoin

Was a Jewish philosopher, publicist, publisher.His birthplace Kartoz-Brioza was the place his father

Was a Jewish philosopher, publicist, publisher.His birthplace Kartoz-Brioza was the place his father was called rabbinate. He rejected the notion of chosenness for the Jewish people, either religious or secular. He argued that the only meaningful goal for Zionism was regaining the land of Israel and normalizing the conditions of Jewish existence also that assimilationist were "traitors to their Judaism".[1] He criticized Ahad Ha-Am for the notion that morality was the key to Israel's uniqueness. He believed that ethic is universal, not the possession of a particular people. He maintained that the spiritual definition of Judaism denied freedom of thought and led to national chauvinism.

Was a Danish mathematician known for his work on automorphisms of surfaces. He was born in the villa

Was a Danish mathematician known for his work on automorphisms of surfaces. He was born in the village Mjels on the island of Als in North Schleswig, in modern day Denmark. His mother died when he was 3, and in 1900 he went to live with his aunt and was enrolled in the Realgymnasium. In 1907 he was expelled for membership to an illicit student club. Nevertheless, he matriculated at the University of Kiel in 1908.

Was a German mathematician who worked on algebraic geometry and invariant theory. He was also a ches

Was a German mathematician who worked on algebraic geometry and invariant theory. He was also a chess master.Rosanes studied at University of Berlin and the University of Breslau. He obtained his doctorate from Breslau (Wroclaw) in 1865 and taught there for the rest of his working life. He became professor in 1876 and rector of the university during the years 1903–1904.

Was a Polish philosopher and theologian of the late 15th century, and Rector of the Kraków Academy

Was a Polish philosopher and theologian of the late 15th century, and Rector of the Kraków Academy in 1503–4.[1]was a commentary to "Liber de Causis" attributed to Greek philosopher Aristotle. He also wrote a commentary to Metaphysics by Aristotle entitled: "Expositiosuper I–XII libros „Metaphysicae” Aristotelis" as well as to his Physics.[4] He contributed to commentaries by Paul of Venice (Pawel z Wenecji) to On the Soul (or "De Anima") by Aristotle and the theological works of Jan Versor. Jakub of Gostynin is also the author of commentaries to Gospel of John ascribed to John the Evangelist. He donated his extensive library of manuscripts of philosophy, theology and language to the Jagiellonian University.

A high-school dropout, became an internationally famous paleontologist. His extensive collecting pro

A high-school dropout, became an internationally famous paleontologist. His extensive collecting program at BYU in the Utah-Colorado region which spanned 23 years was comparable in terms of the number of specimens collected to that of Barnum Brown during the early twentieth century. He was given the name "Dinosaur Jim" during the media coverage of his actities. Perhaps his most significant contribution to paleontology was to replace the 19th Century web of external metal struts, straps and posts that had been used to mount dinosaurs with a system of supports which were placed inside of bones, which produced free-standing skeletons with little or no obvious supports.

A professor emeritus of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley and noted authority on

A professor emeritus of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley and noted authority on Tibeto-Burman languages and other languages of mainland Southeast Asia.Matisoff was born July 14, 1937 in Boston, Massachusetts to a working-class family. He attended Harvard from 1954 to 1959 and received a degree in Romance Languages and Literatures (A.B.) in 1958 and a degree in French Literature (A.M.) in 1959. After studying Japanese at International Christian University for one year (1960-1961), he returned to Harvard to study linguistics. He was not satisfied with the linguistics program at Harvard and opted to transfer to the University of California, Berkeley, where he completed his PhD in Linguistics in 1967.

Was a leading American ornithologist whose name was appropriated by writer Ian Fleming for his ficti

Was a leading American ornithologist whose name was appropriated by writer Ian Fleming for his fictional spy James Bond.

A professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley and a former Deputy Assistant Sec

A professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley and a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the United States Department of the Treasury in the Clinton Administration. He is also a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and is a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.[1]DeLong is co-editor of The Economists' Voice,[2] and has in the past been co-editor of the widely read Journal of Economic Perspectives. He is also the author of a textbook, Macroeconomics, the second edition of which he coauthored with Martha Olney. He writes a monthly syndicated op-ed column for Project Syndicate.

Is a former Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland and British Lord of Appeal in Ordinary.On March 3

Is a former Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland and British Lord of Appeal in Ordinary.On March 30, 1994 as Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland, he dismissed Private Lee Clegg's appeal against his controversial murder conviction. On March 21, 2002,

Is an American football tight end for the Rice Owls. He is considered one of the best tight ends ava

Is an American football tight end for the Rice Owls. He is considered one of the best tight ends available for the 2009 NFL Draft.[1]

Was a British astronomer at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich. During the 1860s he performed the fi

Was a British astronomer at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich. During the 1860s he performed the first observations of stellar spectra at the observatory, under the direction of the Astronomer Royal George Airy. In 1861-62 he was one of three astronomers to successfully observe the dark underside of the rings of Saturn, the other two astronomers being William Wray and Otto Struve.In 1871, the engineer James Nasmyth partnered with James Carpenter to produce a book about the Moon titled, The Moon: Considered as a Planet, a World, and a Satellite. This work was illustrated by photographs of plaster models representing the lunar surface, with the illumination from various angles. The result was more realistic images of the lunar surface than could be achieved by telescope photography during that period. The authors were proponents for a volcanic origin of the craters, a theory that was later proved incorrect.

Was an English clergyman, physicist and astronomer. Plumian Professor and director of the Cambridge

Was an English clergyman, physicist and astronomer. Plumian Professor and director of the Cambridge Observatory, he investigated a wide range of physical phenomena though made few lasting contributions outside astronomy. He is best remembered for his missed opportunity to discover the planet Neptune in 1846.Challis succeeded George Biddell Airy at the observatory and gradually improved the instrumentation and accuracy of observations. He made some early observations of the fracture of comet 3D/Biela into two pieces on 15 January 1846 and reobserved both fragments in 1852. He published over 60 scientific papers recording other observations of comets and asteroids.

Was a Scottish mathematician and theoretical physicist. His most significant achievement was the dev

Was a Scottish mathematician and theoretical physicist. His most significant achievement was the development of the classical electromagnetic theory, synthesizing all previous unrelated observations, experiments and equations of electricity, magnetism and even optics into a consistent theory.[1] His set of equations—Maxwell's equations—demonstrated that electricity, magnetism and even light are all manifestations of the same phenomenon: the electromagnetic field. From that moment on, all other classical laws or equations of these disciplines became simplified cases of Maxwell's equations

Is an American mathematician. James William Cooley received a B.A. degree in 1949 from Manhattan Col

Is an American mathematician. James William Cooley received a B.A. degree in 1949 from Manhattan College, Bronx, NY, an M.A. degree in 1951 from Columbia University, New York, NY, and a Ph.D. degree in 1961 in applied mathematics from Columbia University. He was a programmer on John von Neumann's computer at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, from 1953 to 1956.

Was a Canadian-American astronomer born in the village of Fingal, Ontario Canada. His family relocat

Was a Canadian-American astronomer born in the village of Fingal, Ontario Canada. His family relocated to Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1850.At age 15 he was matriculated at the University of Michigan, where he studied the classical languages. He later was lectured in astronomy by professor Franz Brünnow.He was the second director of Detroit Observatory (from 1863 to 1879), succeeding Franz Brünnow. He wrote the textbook Theoretical Astronomy in 1868.He discovered 22 asteroids, beginning with 79 Eurynome in 1863. One of his asteroid discoveries, 139 Juewa was made in Beijing when Watson was there to observe the 1874 transit of Venus. The name Juewa was chosen by Chinese officials (??, or in modern pinyin, ruìhuá).

Was a 19th century Scottish scientist who developed a theory of climate change based on changes in t

Was a 19th century Scottish scientist who developed a theory of climate change based on changes in the earth's orbit.From 1864, Croll corresponded with Sir Charles Lyell[1], on links between ice ages and variations in the earth's orbit. This led to a position in the Edinburgh office of the Geological Survey of Scotland, as keeper of maps and correspondence, where the director, Sir Archibald Geikie, encouraged his research. He published a number of books and papers which "were at the forefront of contemporary science"[2], including Climate and Time, in Their Geological Relations in 1875. He corresponded with Charles Darwin on erosion by rivers.

Was an American astronomer. He specialized in photoelectric photometry and held the patent on the Cu

Was an American astronomer. He specialized in photoelectric photometry and held the patent on the Cuffey Iris Photometer,[1] an instrument used in stellar photographic photometry.Cuffey became a graduate student at Northwestern University in 1934, then went on to Harvard University as a doctoral student under Harlow Shapley. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1938, then took a position as a postdoctoral fellow at Indiana University. Serving in the United States Navy in World War II, Cuffey taught navigation at the U.S. Naval Academy. In 1946, he returned to Indiana University, where he became a researcher in the Indiana Asteroid Program, begun in 1949. In 1966, he joined Clyde Tombaugh in starting the astronomy program at New Mexico State University, where he remained until he retired in 1976.

Was born in Milton, Pennsylvania. He attended Princeton and Pennsylvania universities and became a d

Was born in Milton, Pennsylvania. He attended Princeton and Pennsylvania universities and became a doctor. He decided to go to Siam (later changing to China) as a medical missionary, but had to stay in Singapore for two years as the Opium War was under way and Chinese ports were closed to foreigners. After five years as a missionary, he returned to the United States (in 1845) and opened a medical practice in New York City.In 1859, he decided to go to Japan as a medical missionary, where he opened a clinic in Kanagawa and later a school (the Hepburn School, from which the present Meiji Gakuin University (??????) developed.) He also began compiling a Japanese-English dictionary, which was first published in 1867

Was an American linguist.He worked at the Department of Linguistics at the University of Chicago fro

Was an American linguist.He worked at the Department of Linguistics at the University of Chicago from 1964 until his sudden and unexpected death. His interests encompassed syntax, semantics and phonology. He is perhaps best known within linguistics for his work in generative semantics. Outside academia he is noted for The Eater's Guide to Chinese Characters, his guidebook to deciphering Chinese restaurant menus.Under the pseudonym "Quang Phúc Ðông" (alleged to be a linguist at the fictitious South Hanoi Institute of Technology), McCawley wrote a paper on "English sentences without overt grammatical subject," which the journal Language credits with being the first satirical linguistics paper.