Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter J

Was a Spanish naturalist.Lembeye was the author of Aves de la Isla de Cuba (1850), the only book of

Was a Spanish naturalist.Lembeye was the author of Aves de la Isla de Cuba (1850), the only book of bird illustrations to be published in Cuba. Born in Galicia, Lembeye lived in Cuba from the 1830s to the 1860s, and became interested in birds while he was there. The majority of the 38 drawings in Lembeye's book were copied from the royal octavo plates of John James Audubon; in some cases, he even copied the plants depicted in the background. Bee Hummingbird was described in his book first time, Mellisuga helenae Gundlach

Nicknamed "El Chueco" ("knock-kneed") or "El Maestro" ("The Master"), was a race car driver from Arg

Nicknamed "El Chueco" ("knock-kneed") or "El Maestro" ("The Master"), was a race car driver from Argentina, who dominated the first decade of Formula One racing. He won five Formula One World Driver's Championships — a record which stood for 46 years — with four different teams (Alfa Romeo, Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz and Maserati), a feat that has not been repeated since. Many still consider him to be the greatest driver of all time.

Was an American environmentalist and labor leader, a feminist, and the principal organizer of Earth

Was an American environmentalist and labor leader, a feminist, and the principal organizer of Earth First! campaigns against logging in the ancient redwood forests of Northern California in the 1980s and '90.

Butler received her Ph.D. in philosophy from Yale University in 1984, and her dissertation was subse

Butler received her Ph.D. in philosophy from Yale University in 1984, and her dissertation was subsequently published as Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Century France. In the late-1980s, between different teaching/research appointments (such as at the Humanities Center at Johns Hopkins University), she was involved in "post-structuralist" efforts within Western feminist theory to question the "presuppositional terms" of feminism

Is a pediatrician, clinical geneticist and dysmorphologist who is a dual citizen of the United State

Is a pediatrician, clinical geneticist and dysmorphologist who is a dual citizen of the United States and Canada. She goes formally as Judith G. Hall and informally as Judy Hall.

A pediatrician, clinical geneticist and dysmorphologist who is a dual citizen of the United States a

A pediatrician, clinical geneticist and dysmorphologist who is a dual citizen of the United States and Canada. She goes formally as Judith G. Hall and informally as Judy Hall.She went to medical school in Seattle at the University of Washington (UW) from which she received an MD degree in 1966. The same year she was also awarded an MS degree in Genetics from UW for coursework and research done with Dr. Arno Motulsky in medical genetics.Dr. Hall then went to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore where she did postdoctoral fellowships in Medical Genetics with Dr. Victor McKusick and in Pediatric Endocrinology with Dr. Robert Blizzard. She then trained in pediatrics at Johns Hopkins Hospital from 1969 to 1971.

Is a French philosopher, and the daughter of Jacques Lacan — radical psychoanalyst, and wife to pr

Is a French philosopher, and the daughter of Jacques Lacan — radical psychoanalyst, and wife to prominent Lacanian Jacques-Alain Miller. As a Maoist philosophy lecturer at Vincennes in Paris, her radicalism caused her philosophy department to be decertified. This occurred after she handed out course credit to someone she met on a bus, and subsequently publicly declared in a radio interview that the university is a capitalist institution, and that she would do everything she could to make it run as badly as possible. After this, she was demoted by the French education department to a lycée teacher.

Was an American meteorologist who played an important role in developing weather prediction. He deve

Was an American meteorologist who played an important role in developing weather prediction. He developed a set of equations (The Quasi-Geostrophic Vorticity Equation) for calculating the large-scale motions of planetary-scale waves. He gave the first convincing physical explanation for the development of mid-latitude cyclones known as the Baroclinic Instability theory.The American Meteorological Society presents an award named "The Jule G. Charney Award". The Award is granted to individuals "in recognition of highly significant research or development achievement in the atmospheric or hydrologic sciences".

Was a French linguist who studied Indian languages, and was also interested in languages in their cu

Was a French linguist who studied Indian languages, and was also interested in languages in their cultural and social contexts.

Was a French naturalist.Bourcier was an expert on hummingbirds, and named a number of new species, e

Was a French naturalist.Bourcier was an expert on hummingbirds, and named a number of new species, either alone or with other ornithologists such as Adolphe Delattre and Martial Etienne Mulsant.Bourcier was the French consul to Ecuador from 1849 to 1850 and died in Paris in 1873.

Was a French philosopher and essayist. He was a contributor to Mercure de France and one of the chie

Was a French philosopher and essayist. He was a contributor to Mercure de France and one of the chief advocates of "nietzscheism" in vogue in the literary circles of the day. He was known especially for his theory of "bovarysme" (the name taken from Flaubert's novel), by which he meant the continual need of humans to invent themselves, to lie to themselves. His books include De Kant à Nietzsche (1900) and Le Bovarysme, essai sur le pouvoir d'imaginer (1902).[1]

Was a French selenographer.

Was a French selenographer.

Was a French civil engineer and economist.He was born in Fossano, Italy then under the rule of Napol

Was a French civil engineer and economist.He was born in Fossano, Italy then under the rule of Napoleon Bonaparte. At the age of ten he emigrated to France with his family where he studied in Versailles — winning a Physics prize at graduation. He then studied in the Ecole_polytechnique as a civil engineer. He gradually took on more responsibility in various regional posts. He received a Légion d'honneur in 1843 for his work on the French road system, and shortly after moved to Paris. He also studied flood management in 1848 and supervised the construction of the Paris sewer system. He died in Paris.

Was a French malacologist who discovered several species found in the mollusc order.

Was a French malacologist who discovered several species found in the mollusc order.

Was a French philosopher from Brittany. He wrote in favour of dynamic divine omniscience, wherein Go

Was a French philosopher from Brittany. He wrote in favour of dynamic divine omniscience, wherein God's knowledge of the future is one of possibilities rather than actualities. Omniscience, under this view, is the knowledge of necessary facts as necessary, and contingent facts as contingent. Since the future does not yet exist as anything more than a realm of abstract possibilities

Was a popular French preacher. He was born in Marseille as the son of a barrister at Aix-en-Provence

Was a popular French preacher. He was born in Marseille as the son of a barrister at Aix-en-Provence. He entered the French Oratory early and became reputed as a preacher. Paris confirmed the judgment of the provinces; in 1666 he was asked to preach before the court and became a favourite of Louis XIV, who said that his eloquence was one of the few things that never grew old.

Was a French banker and naturalist. He was born at Lyon, the son of Étienne Delessert (1735-1816),

Was a French banker and naturalist. He was born at Lyon, the son of Étienne Delessert (1735-1816), the founder of the first fire insurance company and the first discount bank in France. Young Delessert was travelling in England when the French Revolution

Was a French botanist, ornithologist and professional collector of, and trader in, natural history s

Was a French botanist, ornithologist and professional collector of, and trader in, natural history specimens. He was the brother of Edouard Verreaux and nephew of Pierre Antoine Delalande.Verreaux worked for his family business, Maison Verreaux, established in 1800 by his father, Jacques Philippe Verreaux, at 6 Boulevard Montmartre in Paris.[1] Maison Verreaux was an emporium and dealership in natural history specimens which had, as a frequent client, the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle to add to its collections.Verreaux travelled to Australia in 1842 to collect plants. He returned to France in 1851 with a natural history collection reported to contain 15,000 items. In 1864 he took over from Florent Prévost as assistant naturalist at the Paris Museum.

Was a French mathematician. Richard taught at the lycées of Tours, Dijon and Châteauroux. He obtai

Was a French mathematician. Richard taught at the lycées of Tours, Dijon and Châteauroux. He obtained his doctorate, at age of 39, from the Faculté des Sciences in Paris. His thesis of 126 pages concerns Fresnel's wave-surface. Richard worked mainly on the foundations of mathematics and geometry, relating to works by Hilbert, von Staudt and Meray.

Was a French mathematician who notably studied under Charles Hermite and was the PhD advisor of Jacq

Was a French mathematician who notably studied under Charles Hermite and was the PhD advisor of Jacques Hadamard. Under Hermite, he received is doctorate in 1874 for his thesis Propriétés des Intégrales des Équations Différentielle Linéaires à Coefficients Variables.

Was a pioneering English human geneticist.[1] She graduated in mathematics at Trinity College, Dubli

Was a pioneering English human geneticist.[1] She graduated in mathematics at Trinity College, Dublin. After six years investigating solar parallax at Cambridge Observatory, she moved to University College London and obtained a position there as an assistant in statistics.Her mentor was Karl Pearson (1857-1936), one of the founders of modern statistics, who prompted her to change to medicine in 1914. She studied at the London School of Medicine for Women (Royal Free Hospital). She qualified in 1920 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1938.

Was a pioneering English human geneticist.[1] She graduated in mathematics at Trinity College, Dubli

Was a pioneering English human geneticist.[1] She graduated in mathematics at Trinity College, Dublin. After six years investigating solar parallax at Cambridge Observatory, she moved to University College London and obtained a position there as an assist

Is a Bulgarian-French philosopher, literary critic, psychoanalyst, sociologist, feminist, and, most

Is a Bulgarian-French philosopher, literary critic, psychoanalyst, sociologist, feminist, and, most recently, novelist, who has lived in France since the mid-1960s. She is now a Professor at the University Paris Diderot. Kristeva became influential in international critical analysis, cultural theory and feminism after publishing her first book Semeiotikè in 1969.

Was an American linguist, reputed for his expertise on modality in English, as well as for his pedag

Was an American linguist, reputed for his expertise on modality in English, as well as for his pedagogical excellence at the University of California, Berkeley, where he spent most of his academic career.Boyd was born in Orlando and raised in Bogalusa on the Louisiana Gulf Coast. Beginning his undergraduate education at Georgetown University, he transferred after two years to Williams College, where he graduated with a B.A. in English in 1952.

Was a Polish mathematician. Sochocki was born in Warsaw under the Russian domination to a Polish fam

Was a Polish mathematician. Sochocki was born in Warsaw under the Russian domination to a Polish family, where he attended state gymnasium.