Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter J

Was a French philosopher and novelist.Benda is now mostly remembered for his short 1927 book La Trah

Was a French philosopher and novelist.Benda is now mostly remembered for his short 1927 book La Trahison des Clercs, a work of some notoriety in its day. The title of the English translation was The Betrayal of the Intellectuals, although "The Treason of

Was a French electrical engineer and amateur astronomer. For his work he was made an Officer of the

Was a French electrical engineer and amateur astronomer. For his work he was made an Officer of the Legion of Honour. In 1933 he founded a private observatory at Le Houga (Gers), France. After his death, his library and instruments were acquired by the McDonald Observatory at the University of Texas for use in teaching astronomy.

Is a professor of Astronomy (Ph.D. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina) at the department of

Is a professor of Astronomy (Ph.D. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina) at the department of Physics and Astronomy in the University of Victoria. Dr. Navarro's research is mainly focused on the formation and evolution of galaxies and galaxy clusters and the structure and evolution of their dark matter component. He is famous for his theoretical studies of dark matter halos accompanied by massive N-body simulations. Julio F. Navarro along with Carlos Frenk and Simon White have formulated a density profile for dark matter halos named the NFW profile after them.

Was a Colombian astronomer.In his youth he studied at San Bartolomé high school, but in 1885 he had

Was a Colombian astronomer.In his youth he studied at San Bartolomé high school, but in 1885 he had to interrupt his studies temporarily because of the civil wars which were affecting his home country. During the Thousand Days War, Garavito was part of a secret scientific society called El Círculo de los Nueve Puntos (the nine-point circle), where the condition for admission was to solve a problem about Euler's theorem. This group was active until Garavito's death. As an astronomer of the observatory, he did many useful scientific investigations such as calculating the latitude of Bogotá, studies about the comets which passed by the Earth between 1901 and 1910 (such as Comet Halley), and the 1916 solar eclipse (seen in the majority of Colombia).

Was a German geophysicist and statistician.He was awarded his Ph.D. from Göttingen in 1923, then wo

Was a German geophysicist and statistician.He was awarded his Ph.D. from Göttingen in 1923, then worked at the Potsdam magnetic observatory as a post-doctorate. In 1928 he was named professor at Eberswalde, teaching meteorology. He became full professor a

Was a Danish botanist and phycologist.The standard author abbreviation J.Grøntved is used to indica

Was a Danish botanist and phycologist.The standard author abbreviation J.Grøntved is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.[1]

Was a Danish mathematician.Petersen's interests in mathematics were manifold (geometry, function the

Was a Danish mathematician.Petersen's interests in mathematics were manifold (geometry, function theory, number theory, mathematical physics, mathematical economics, cryptography and graph theory). His famous paper [1] originated the graph theory as we know it today. In 1898, he gives his famous counterexample to Tait's theorem about 1-factorability of 3-regular graphs, the "Petersen Graph".

Was a German botanist from Breslau, Prussian Silesia.At an early age he showed a taste for natural h

Was a German botanist from Breslau, Prussian Silesia.At an early age he showed a taste for natural history, becoming acquainted with the Breslau physiologist Jan Evangelista Purkyne. In 1851 he began studying at Charles University in Prague. In 1856 he graduated as doctor of philosophy, and then adopted a botanical career, establishing himself as Privatdozent for plant physiology in the University of Prague. In 1859 he was appointed physiological assistant to the Agricultural Academy of Tharandt (now part of the Technical University of Dresden); and in 1862 he was called to be director of the Polytechnic at Chemnitz,

Was a German mathematician. He made some important contributions to the differential geometry of sur

Was a German mathematician. He made some important contributions to the differential geometry of surfaces, such as the Weingarten equations.

Was an American pathologist and amateur astronomer. In 1976 Jay U. Gunter retired and the rest of hi

Was an American pathologist and amateur astronomer. In 1976 Jay U. Gunter retired and the rest of his life he devoted to amateur astronomy. His main field of study and observation were asteroids. He founded and for more than 15 years published the popular magazine Tonight's Asteroids. It was a bimonthly periodical, distributed free, containing finding charts and news from the world of asteroid studies. It was widely acknowledged for bringing attention of many amateur astronomers to asteroid observation. [1] In 1980 the main belt asteroid 2136 Jugta was named in his honour (the name being an acronym of the first letters of his and his magazine's names).

Was a Dutch mathematician who specialized in analytic number theory.[1]Koksma received his Ph.D. deg

Was a Dutch mathematician who specialized in analytic number theory.[1]Koksma received his Ph.D. degree (cum laude) in 1930 at the University of Groningen under supervision of Johannes van der Corput, with a thesis on Systems of Diophantine Inequalities.[2]. Around the same time, aged 26, he was invited to become full professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He accepted and in 1930 became the first professor in mathematics at this university. Koksma is also one of the founders of the Dutch Mathematisch Centrum (today Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica).

Is a bioethicist and moral philosopher

Is a bioethicist and moral philosopher

A Chinese economist and Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank.He is the founde

A Chinese economist and Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank.He is the founder and director of the China Center for Economic Research, former professor of economics at Peking University, and at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He received an MBA degree from National Chengchi University in 1978, a Master's degree in Marxist political economy from Peking University in 1982, and a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago in 1986.As an up and coming captain in the Republic of China Army (the army had already paid for his MBA) in Taiwan, he defected to Mainland China on May 17, 1979, reportedly by swimming from the island of Kinmen, in Fujian Province (Chinese: ???) under the control of the Republic of China (Taiwan),

Was a Tanzanian economist, mathematician,[citation needed] philosopher and writer.He studied at Ford

Was a Tanzanian economist, mathematician,[citation needed] philosopher and writer.He studied at Fordham University and obtained his PhD at Harvard University. A scholar and practitioner of development, he was Professor of economics at the University of Dar es Salaam (being the youngest African tenured professor), and then Dean of its Faculty of Social Sciences, Permanent Secretary of the Planning Ministry and Personal Assistant to President Julius Nyerere.Internationally recognized, Rweyemamu was a member of the UN Committee for Development Planning, worked for the Brandt Commission and for the UN Director General for Development and International Cooperation.

Was an outstanding German jurist, ecclesiastical jurist, Professor of the University of Halle and al

Was an outstanding German jurist, ecclesiastical jurist, Professor of the University of Halle and also Geheimer Rat, count palatine and chancellor of the Duchy of Magdeburg. After his time at school in Hanover Justus Henning Boehmer studied law at the Uni

Was an astronomer of the Kerala school founded by Madhava of Sangamagrama and a student of Damodara.

Was an astronomer of the Kerala school founded by Madhava of Sangamagrama and a student of Damodara. He is most known for authoring a commentary Yuktibhasa, the first calculus text of the world. This work was unique at the time for its exacting proofs of the theorems it presented. He also authored the Drk-karana on astronomical observations.