Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter J

Was an American astronomer.He was one of the first to study Cepheid variables as tools for establish

Was an American astronomer.He was one of the first to study Cepheid variables as tools for establishing galactic distances. He was a longtime member of the AAVSO.He went through old archives of observations from centuries past to determine a highly precise value for the rotation period of Mars —to within a few thousandths of a second.He co-discovered the periodic comet 47P/Ashbrook-Jackson. Ashbrook crater on the Moon and the asteroid 2157 Ashbrook are named after him.

Was an American ornithologist.Steere was born in Rollin, Michigan. He received a B.A. from the Unive

Was an American ornithologist.Steere was born in Rollin, Michigan. He received a B.A. from the University of Michigan in 1868 and a B. of Law in 1870. From 1870-1873 he travelled in South America, China and Taiwan. He went on another scientific expedition to the Philippines and the Moluccas from 1874-1875. He returned to Michigan to teach Zoology and was a professor of Zoology there from 1876-1893.

Is an American mathematician, statistician, and psychometrician. He was a student at the University

Is an American mathematician, statistician, and psychometrician. He was a student at the University of Chicago and at Princeton University, where he completed his Ph.D. in 1954, nominally under Albert W. Tucker and Roger Lyndon, but de facto under Paul Er

Was a collector of plants and animals for Lord Derby.Burke left London on the vessel "Joanna" in Dec

Was a collector of plants and animals for Lord Derby.Burke left London on the vessel "Joanna" in December 1839 and arrived in Cape Town in March 1840. From here he went on to "Vygekraal" (about 3 km SE of Table Bay), the home of Rev. Fry and an agent of L

Was a Canadian geologist, cartographer, and mining consultant. He discovered dinosaur (Albertosaurus

Was a Canadian geologist, cartographer, and mining consultant. He discovered dinosaur (Albertosaurus) bones in Alberta's Badlands and coal around Drumheller in 1884.Tyrrell was the third child of William and Elizabeth Tyrrell. He was a student at Weston Grammar School before graduating from Upper Canada College in 1876 and receiving a law degree from the University of Toronto in 1880. However, after articling for a law firm in Toronto, his doctor advised him to work outdoors due to his health.

Was a French Sulpician moral theologian, and from 1850 the thirteenth superior of the Society of Sai

Was a French Sulpician moral theologian, and from 1850 the thirteenth superior of the Society of Saint-Sulpice. Carrière was the first writer of note to treat theology in its relations to the Napoleonic Code. He entered the seminary of Saint-Sulpice in 1812, and five years later, at the age of twenty-two, became a member of the society and was ordained priest. The following year, he was called to Saint-Sulpice to teach the postgraduate course of moral theology.

Is an economist, Swiss politician and a member of the Christian Democratic People's Party (CVP/PDC).

Is an economist, Swiss politician and a member of the Christian Democratic People's Party (CVP/PDC). From 1999 to 2006, he was a member of the Swiss Federal Council, heading first the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (1999

Was a French mathematician and logician.In 1791, Gergonne enlisted in the French army as a captain.

Was a French mathematician and logician.In 1791, Gergonne enlisted in the French army as a captain. That army was undergoing rapid expansion because the French government feared a foreign invasion intended to undo the French Revolution and restore Louis X

Is an American economist and a member of the Columbia University faculty.

Is an American economist and a member of the Columbia University faculty.

Was an Austrian scientist who studied medicine, chemistry and botany.Between 1788 and 1791 Jacquin w

Was an Austrian scientist who studied medicine, chemistry and botany.Between 1788 and 1791 Jacquin was sent on a scientific journey to Germany, France and England by Emperor Frances II.

Was a French Hungarian-born sociologist and philosopher. His work was always strongly influenced by

Was a French Hungarian-born sociologist and philosopher. His work was always strongly influenced by Marxism but he was against Stalinism and critical of the work Louis Althusser. In 1962, he published his most important work: False Consciousness: An Essay on Reification. From the standpoint of psychopathology, this study works to synthesize Marxist notions of "False Consciousness" and reification with the study of Schizophrenia[1]. In the following years, Gabel's works stressed the analysis of ideologies and marxist theory of alienation (The Sociology of Alienation, 1971; Idéologies 1974 - 1978; Alienation Today, 1974). Gabel also wrote the articles "Utopia" and "Ideology" in the Encyclopedia Universalis and he was one of the only French specialists on Karl Mannheim.

Was a German botanist.His major publication is De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum (1788-1792).

Was a German botanist.His major publication is De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum (1788-1792).

An American cell biologist and winner of the 2006 Albert Lasker Special Achievement Award[1]. He als

An American cell biologist and winner of the 2006 Albert Lasker Special Achievement Award[1]. He also won the 2007 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (shared with Elizabeth Blackburn and Carol W. Greider)

Was a prominent and controversial linguist and Africanist anthropologist, known for his work in both

Was a prominent and controversial linguist and Africanist anthropologist, known for his work in both typology and language classification.Greenberg's reputation rests in part on his contributions to synchronic linguistics and the quest to identify linguistic universals. In the late 1950s, Greenberg began to examine corpora of languages covering a wide geographic and genetic distribution. He located a number of interesting potential universals as well as many strong cross-linguistic tendencies.In particular, Greenberg invented the notion of "implicational universal", which takes the form, "if a language has structure X, then it must also have structure Y." For example, X might be "mid front rounded vowels" and Y "high front rounded vowels" (for terminology see phonetics)

Was an American ornithologist.Riley was employed at the Smithsonian Institution from 1896 until his

Was an American ornithologist.Riley was employed at the Smithsonian Institution from 1896 until his death, becoming Associate Curator of the Division of Birds in 1932.

Was a German astronomer.He did his Ph.D. dissertation in 1913 at the Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Kö

Was a German astronomer.He did his Ph.D. dissertation in 1913 at the Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl (Königstuhl Observatory, near Heidelberg) at the University of Heidelberg At the time, the observatory at Heidelberg was a center for asteroid discovery under the direction of Max Wolf, and during his time there Helffrich discovered a number of asteroids

Was a German-born writer and jurist. He wrote Eine Geschichte der Juden published by Rowohlt in Berl

Was a German-born writer and jurist. He wrote Eine Geschichte der Juden published by Rowohlt in Berlin in 1931 (translated into English, Hebrew and Dutch). According to Douglas Reed Josef Kastein was a "A most zealous Zionist historian... who holds that t

Was a Rwandan judge, and president of Rwanda's Constitutional Court. He was killed at the beginning

Was a Rwandan judge, and president of Rwanda's Constitutional Court. He was killed at the beginning of the Rwandan Genocide.A prominent moderate Hutu, Kavaruganda was known to be ill-regarded by some members of the MRND regime. On February 17, 1994, UNAMIR commander Roméo Dallaire received information of a plot to assassinate Kavaruganda and Lando Ndasingwa. In his book Shake Hands with the Devil, Dallaire claims that he informed them of this plot, and neither were surprised. UNAMIR dispatched five Ghanaian soldiers to protect Kavaruganda's house.

Was an American geologist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley.An excursion made

Was an American geologist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley.An excursion made with Professors J. Hall and Agassiz to the Helderberg mountains of New York developed a keen interest in geology. After graduating at Harvard, Le Conte in 1851 accompanied Agassiz on an expedition to study the Florida reefs.[2] On his return he became professor of natural science in Oglethorpe University which was located in Midway, Georgia at the time[3]; and from December 1852 until 1856 professor of natural history and geology at Franklin College.[2] From 1857 to 1869 he was a professor of chemistry and geology at South Carolina College, which is now the University of South Carolina.

Was an American paleontologist.Leidy was professor of anatomy at the University of Pennsylvania, and

Was an American paleontologist.Leidy was professor of anatomy at the University of Pennsylvania, and later was a professor of natural history at Swarthmore College. His book Extinct Fauna of Dakota and Nebraska (1869) contained many species not previously described and many previously unknown on the North American continent. At the time, scientific investigation was largely the province of wealthy amateurs.Leidy named the holotype specimen of Hadrosaurus foulkii, which was recovered from the marl pits of Haddonfield, New Jersey. It was notable for being the first nearly-complete fossilized skeleton of a dinosaur ever recovered. The specimen was originally discovered by William Parker Foulke. He was also credited with describing the holotype specimens of Arctodus (A. simus), the dire wolf (Canis dirus), and the American lion (Panthera leo atrox), among many others.

Was an American mathematician, specializing in analysis and probability theory.Doob was born in Cinc

Was an American mathematician, specializing in analysis and probability theory.Doob was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, February 27, 1910, the son of Leo Doob and Mollie Doerfler Doob. The family moved to New York City before he was three years old. The parents

Was a French mathematician. Liouville graduated from the École Polytechnique in 1827. After some ye

Was a French mathematician. Liouville graduated from the École Polytechnique in 1827. After some years as an assistant at various institutions including the Ecole Centrale Paris, he was appointed as professor at the École Polytechnique in 1838. He obtained a chair in mathematics at the Collège de France in 1850 and a chair in mechanics at the Faculté des Sciences in 1857.

Was a Controller-General of Finances during the reign of Louis XV of France. Terray, a priest, was a

Was a Controller-General of Finances during the reign of Louis XV of France. Terray, a priest, was appointed an ecclesiastical counsellor in the Parlement of Paris in 1736. where he specialized in financial matters. He attracted the attention of Louis XV's chancellor, René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou

Is a US statistician and philosopher, a two-time national champion track & field athlete[1], and Oly

Is a US statistician and philosopher, a two-time national champion track & field athlete[1], and Olympic Games official.

Was a 20th century management consultant who is principally remembered as an evangelist for quality

Was a 20th century management consultant who is principally remembered as an evangelist for quality and quality management, writing several influential books on those subjects. He was also the brother of Academy Award winner Nathan H. Juran.Juran was born to a Jewish family in 1904 in Braila, Romania, and later lived in Gura Humorului. In 1912, he immigrated to America with his family, settling in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Juran excelled in school, especially in mathematics. He was a chess champion at an early age, and dominated chess at Western Electric. Juran graduated from Minneapolis South High School in 1920.