Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter L

Was a French theologian and Oratorian. At the age of thirteen he entered the Oratory and for some ye

Was a French theologian and Oratorian. At the age of thirteen he entered the Oratory and for some years was professor of literature in various colleges of the congregation, of theology at Saumur, and finally in the seminary of Saint Magloire, in Paris, where he remained until his death.

Was a French scientist and administrator. His brother Gastroass was bishop of Nancy. After studying

Was a French scientist and administrator. His brother Gastroass was bishop of Nancy. After studying maths, he taught at the military school at Thiron until 1793, then at the Ecole Polytechnique. A member of the Commission des Sciences et des Arts, he participated in the French invasion of Egypt, becoming secretary to the Institut d'Égypte and a member of the Privy Council of Egypt, as well as accompanying Bonaparte to Suez.

Was a French doctor who later in life became an economist who wrote about social issues. He wrote tw

Was a French doctor who later in life became an economist who wrote about social issues. He wrote two important memoirs on the mortality among prisoners and sexual promiscuity in gaols (1820, 1829) and established the Annales d'hygiène (1829). His works on vital statistics were regarded by some as a refutation of Thomas Doubleday's True Law of Population. His chief renown came from his Tableau de l'état physique et moral des ouvriers employés dans les manufactures de coton, de laine et de soie (Study of the Physical Condition of Cotton,

Is the former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, a former justice of the Supreme Court of Canada

Is the former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, a former justice of the Supreme Court of Canada and a former Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda.

The former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, a former justice of the Supreme Court of Canada an

The former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, a former justice of the Supreme Court of Canada and a former Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda.In 1967, she graduated from College Regina Assumpta, and proceeded to the Université de Montréal where she completed an LL.L. with distinction in 1970. She became the Law Clerk for Mr. Justice Louis-Philippe Pigeon of the Supreme Court of Canada in 1971-1972 while completing graduate studies at the Faculty of Law (Civil Section) of the University of Ottawa. She was called to the Bar of Quebec in 1971 and to the Law Society of Upper Canada in 1977. She was made a Companion to the Order of Canada in 2007 "for her contributions to the Canadian justice system and for her dedication to the advancement of human rights throughout the world".

A Canadian jurist. She was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada in October, 2004, and is the fir

A Canadian jurist. She was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada in October, 2004, and is the first native-born Franco-Ontarian Supreme Court judge. (This distinction has sometimes been attributed to Louise Arbour, but Arbour was born and raised Québécoise.)Charron received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Carleton University in 1972, her Bachelor of Law degree from the University of Ottawa in 1975, and was called to the Bar of Ontario in 1977. She practiced civil litigation before joining the Crown Attorney's office in 1980. She then became a law professor at the University of Ottawa.

Was an American astronomer.She was born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. In 1911 she graduated from Moun

Was an American astronomer.She was born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. In 1911 she graduated from Mount Holyoke College, then she received a Master's degree in astronomy in 1917 from the same institution. From 1913 to 1915 she worked at the Allegheny Observatory in Pittsburgh.About 1921 she moved to Japan, becoming a teacher at the Women's Christian College, a missionary school. She returned to the United States in 1925 after her father died. A year later she returned to teach at a school in Himeji. (Hinomoto Gakuen girl's high school.)

Was a Slovak astronomer.He discovered two comets: the periodic comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak and

Was a Slovak astronomer.He discovered two comets: the periodic comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak and the non-periodic C/1954 M2 (Kresak-Peltier). He also suggested in 1978 that the Tunguska event was a fragment of the periodic comet Encke.

Is a French mathematician. He is professor emeritus at the Paris-Sud 11 University. Illusie made not

Is a French mathematician. He is professor emeritus at the Paris-Sud 11 University. Illusie made notable contributions to algebraic geometry.

A French virologist and joint recipient with Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Harald zur Hausen of the

A French virologist and joint recipient with Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Harald zur Hausen of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.[1] He was born in Chabris.Montagnier's research was conducted at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. Whether his or Gallo's group was first to isolate HIV was for many years the subject of an acrimonious dispute. The controversy arose, in part, from the striking similarity between the first two human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) isolates, Lai/LAV (formerly LAV, isolated at the Pasteur Institute) and Lai/IIIB (formerly HTLV-IIIB, reported to be isolated from a pooled culture at the Laboratory of Tumor Cell Biology (LTCB) of the National Cancer Institute)

Was an Italian physician and botanist, notable as the creator of the first recorded herbarium, as we

Was an Italian physician and botanist, notable as the creator of the first recorded herbarium, as well as the first botanical garden in Europe.He moved to Pisa in 1544, while maintaining his home in Bologna. He created the first herbarium (hortus siccus) in that year, drying plants while pressing them between pieces of paper, then gluing them to cardboard. 1544 also saw the establishment of a garden for live plants, which became known as the Orto botanico di Pisa.Ghini published no significant botanical work of his own, but was noted as a teacher many of whose students went on to significant careers, including Cesalpino and Mattioli, the latter of which he helped by travelling around the Mediterranean and Near East looking for plants that matched the mystifying descriptions of Dioscorides. A Placiti describing Ghini's travels was published posthumously.

Was a French biologist. In the first half of the 20th century, Mendelism was not a popular subject a

Was a French biologist. In the first half of the 20th century, Mendelism was not a popular subject among French biologists. Cuénot defied popular opinion and shirked the “pseudo-sciences” as he called them. Upon the rediscovery of Mendel's work by Correns, Devries, and Tschermak, Cuénot proved that Mendelism applied to animals as well as plants.Cuénot L. La loi de Mendel et l'hérédité de la pigmentation chez les souris. Arch. Zool. Exp. Gen. Ser. 3, vol 10, pages xxvii-xxx. (1902).

Was a French philosopher and sociologist of Jewish-Romanian origin. As a professor at the EHESS in P

Was a French philosopher and sociologist of Jewish-Romanian origin. As a professor at the EHESS in Paris, he was an influential Marxist theorist. While many Parisian leftists staunchly upheld Marxism's "scientificity" in the 1950s and 1960s, Lucien Goldmann insisted that Marxism was by then in severe crisis and had to reinvent itself radically if it were to survive. He rejected the traditional Marxist view of the proletariat and contested the structuralist movement

Was a French scholar trained in philosophy, who made contributions to the budding fields of sociolog

Was a French scholar trained in philosophy, who made contributions to the budding fields of sociology and ethnology. His primary field of study involved primitive mentality.

Was a mathematician and statistician born in Croze, Creuse, France. He obtained a Ph.D. in 1952 at t

Was a mathematician and statistician born in Croze, Creuse, France. He obtained a Ph.D. in 1952 at the University of California, Berkeley, was appointed Assistant Professor in 1953 and continued working there beyond his retirement in 1991 until his death.

Was a French artist and astronomer, who created famous paintings of space themes in the 1920s and 19

Was a French artist and astronomer, who created famous paintings of space themes in the 1920s and 1930s.

Polish linguist, scientist a regional dialects of Silesia, traveller, professor of Jagiellonian Univ

Polish linguist, scientist a regional dialects of Silesia, traveller, professor of Jagiellonian University, from 1887 principal Seminar Slavic languages. He studied history of Polish language and etymology.

Was a Polish pedagogue and mathematician, a co-originator of national education concept. His area of

Was a Polish pedagogue and mathematician, a co-originator of national education concept. His area of study was general didactics and didactics of mathematics.Member of the Polska Macierz Szkolna, professor and director of Pedagogics Department of the Wolna Wszechnica Polska in Warsaw.

Was an American ornithologist known as a pioneer in field ornithology.Griscom was born in New York C

Was an American ornithologist known as a pioneer in field ornithology.Griscom was born in New York City, the son of Clement Acton Griscom and Genevieve Sprigg Ludlow. He was a protege of Frank Chapman, later working for Thomas Barbour at Harvard University's Museum of Comparative Zoology, eventually becoming curator. In the 1920s and 1930s, he went on several expeditions collected birds in Central and South America.

Was a Slovak astronomer.She specialized in solar astronomy, and also discovered a number of comets,

Was a Slovak astronomer.She specialized in solar astronomy, and also discovered a number of comets, including periodic comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusáková, and the non-periodic C/1946 K1 (Pajdušáková-Rotbart-Weber), C/1948 E1 (Pajdušáková-Mrkos), C/1951 C1 (Pajdušáková) and C/1953 X1 (Pajdušáková).She may have been married to Antonín Mrkos. In a 1951 "Comet Notes" article in Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific [PASP 63 (1951) 209], Leland E. Cunningham in discussing comet C/1951 C1 refers to her as "Miss Pajdušáková (Mrs. Mrkos)", and there was an astronomy book published in 1956 by Ludmila Mrkosová-Pajdušáková, as well as various scientific papers under this name from approximately 1952–1958. However, their respective biographies do not seem to mention any such marriage.

Was a German mathematician

Was a German mathematician

Was an ophthalmologist, philologist, and the inventor of Esperanto, a constructed language designed

Was an ophthalmologist, philologist, and the inventor of Esperanto, a constructed language designed for international communication.Zamenhof was born on December 15 (December 3 OS), 1859 in the town of Bialystok in the Russian Empire (now part of Poland). He considered his native language to be his father's Russian[1] (or perhaps Belarusian, which was not considered distinct from Russian at the time and which appears to have had a strong influence on Esperanto phonology), but also spoke his mother's Yiddish natively;[2] as he grew older, he spoke more Polish, and that became the native language of his children. His father was a teacher of German, and he also spoke that language fluently, though not as comfortably as Yiddish. Later he learned French, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and English, and had an interest in Italian, Spanish and Lithuanian.

Is a Russian theoretical physicist and mathematician. He is famous for the discovery of Faddeev-Popo

Is a Russian theoretical physicist and mathematician. He is famous for the discovery of Faddeev-Popov ghosts and Faddeev equations. His work led to the invention of quantum groups. Faddeev was born in Leningrad to a family of mathematicians. His father, D.K. Faddeev, was a well known algebraist, professor of Leningrad University and member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Faddeev went to Leningrad University where he was a student of Olga Ladyzhenskaya and Vladimir Fock.

German philosopher and anthropologist. He was the fourth son of the eminent jurist Paul Johann Ansel

German philosopher and anthropologist. He was the fourth son of the eminent jurist Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach.

Was a German economist and politician.After studying at Gießen, Heidelberg and Göttingen, he enter

Was a German economist and politician.After studying at Gießen, Heidelberg and Göttingen, he entered law. When the revolution of 1848 broke out he took an active part as one of the leaders of the republican party in his native city, both as popular orator and as editor of one of the local papers. In 1849 he took part in the republican rising in the Palatinate and Baden; on the restoration of order he was condemned to death, but he had escaped to Switzerland. The next years he spent in exile, at first in London, then in the Netherlands; in 1852 he went to Paris,