Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter L

Is an incumbent Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. He was appointed to the C

Is an incumbent Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. He was appointed to the Court by President Fidel Ramos in 1998 and currently ranks as the most senior Associate Justice in the Court.

Was an Italian explorer, zoologist, painter and naturalist.Fea was born in Turin, and became an assi

Was an Italian explorer, zoologist, painter and naturalist.Fea was born in Turin, and became an assistant at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova the Museum of Natural History in Genoa. He made several foreign trips to collect specimens, including visits to Burma (1885) and the Cape Verde Islands (1898), islands in the Gulf of Guinea (1899/1900) and Portuguese West Africa. He spent four years in Burma, accumulating large collections of insects and birds. He then planned an expedition to Malaysia, but his poor health made it necessary to choose somewhere with a drier climate, hence his visit to the Cape Verdes. He was disappointed by the amount of wildlife he found there,

He studied law and philosophy at the University of Christiania. He earned a Ph.D. and started a brie

He studied law and philosophy at the University of Christiania. He earned a Ph.D. and started a brief career as a lawyer. However, his naturalist interests proved stronger and in 1881 he moved to the United States and started working at the Smithsonian under Spencer Fullerton Baird.Stejneger's interests zoology developed early and when he was sixteen years old he had a printed catalogue of birds and he sketched birds in water color.[He participated in numerous expeditions to the north of the North American continent. From 1882 to 1883 he was sent on an exploration mission to Bering Island and Kamchatka. In 1895 he went to the Commander Islands, studying fur seals for the U.S. Fish Commission. He returned there a second time in 1922.

Was a pioneering Swiss mathematician and physicist who spent most of his life in Russia and Germany.

Was a pioneering Swiss mathematician and physicist who spent most of his life in Russia and Germany. Euler made important discoveries in fields as diverse as calculus and graph theory. He also introduced much of the modern mathematical terminology and notation, particularly for mathematical analysis, such as the notion of a mathematical function. He is also renowned for his work in mechanics, optics, and astronomy.

Was a German physician and one of the three founding fathers of botany, along with Otto Brunfels and

Was a German physician and one of the three founding fathers of botany, along with Otto Brunfels and Hieronymus Bock (also called Hieronymus Tragus.Like his medieval predecessors and his contemporaries, Fuchs was heavily influenced by the three Greek and Roman writers on medicine and materia medica, Dioscorides, Hippocrates, and Galen. He wanted to fight the Arab hegemony in medicine, as it had been transmitted by the medical school of Salerno, and to "return" to the Greek authors. But he saw the importance of practical experience as well and offered botanical field days for the students, where he demonstrated the medicinal plants in situ. He founded one of the first German botanical gardens.

He was the first economist that brought up the objective rules of the socialist economy by with his

He was the first economist that brought up the objective rules of the socialist economy by with his work: The Methodology of the Socialist Economy Theory, which was published in 1930.

Was a Armenian mathematician who taught Computer Science at Rutgers University. He was most famous f

Was a Armenian mathematician who taught Computer Science at Rutgers University. He was most famous for his Ellipsoid algorithm for linear programming, which was the first such algorithm known to have a polynomial running time. Even though this algorithm w

Is a philosopher of history and sociologist. Born in Kamyshin (the Volgograd Region), Grinin attende

Is a philosopher of history and sociologist. Born in Kamyshin (the Volgograd Region), Grinin attended Volgograd Pedagogical University, where he got an M.A. in 1980.

American economist and mathematician. He originated incentive compatibility and mechanism design, wh

American economist and mathematician. He originated incentive compatibility and mechanism design, which show how desired outcomes are achieved in economics, social science and political science.

He is famous for his theory and development of techniques for the optimal allocation of resources. H

He is famous for his theory and development of techniques for the optimal allocation of resources. He was the winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1975 and the only winner of this prize from the USSR.

Was a Soviet/Russian mathematician and economist. He is famous for his theory and development of tec

Was a Soviet/Russian mathematician and economist. He is famous for his theory and development of techniques for the optimal allocation of resources. He was the winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1975 and the only winner of this prize from the USSR.

Is a Russian mathematician, currently residing in the U.S., who specializes in dynamical systems and

Is a Russian mathematician, currently residing in the U.S., who specializes in dynamical systems and known for his discovery of focusing chaotic billiards (the "Bunimovich stadium") and (more recently) for the Bunimovich mushroom, a billiard with mixed re

Was a German biochemist and physician famous for his work with Maud Menten in enzyme kinetics and Mi

Was a German biochemist and physician famous for his work with Maud Menten in enzyme kinetics and Michaelis-Menten kinetics.he studied medicine in Freiburg, where he graduated in 1897. He then moved to Berlin, where he received his doctorate the same year. Michaelis worked as assistant to Paul Ehrlich (1898–1899), Moritz Litten (1899–1902) and Ernst Viktor von Leyden (1902–1906). In 1906 he started as director of the bacteriology lab in Berlins Charité hospital, becoming Professor extraordinary at Berlin University in 1908.In 1914 he published a paper suggesting that Emil Abderhalden's notorious pregnancy tests could not be reproduced, a paper which fatally compromised Michaelis' position as an academic in Germany (L. Michaelis, L von Lagermark, Deutsche Med. Wochenschr. 1914, 7, 316-319). In 1922 he moved to the Medical School of the University of Nagoya (Japan) as Professor of biochemistry

Was a Swiss astronomer.He was appointed chief observer at the observatory of Berlin Babelsberg from

Was a Swiss astronomer.He was appointed chief observer at the observatory of Berlin Babelsberg from 1905 to 1938.He attempted to detect the absolute motion of the solar system through the ether, concentrating mainly on measurements of incident and reflecting angles from stars.

Was a German mathematician, known for his work in mathematical logic. The Nazi regime forced him to

Was a German mathematician, known for his work in mathematical logic. The Nazi regime forced him to retire because under the Nuremberg Laws he was considered only three quarters Aryan. In 1943 much of his work was destroyed during a bombing raid on Berlin

Is a Georgian philosopher in mathematical logic, he has written a number of books which are well kno

Is a Georgian philosopher in mathematical logic, he has written a number of books which are well known throughout Georgia. He was born in Tbilisi, the capital of the then-Soviet Socialist Republic of Georgia. He studied in Lomonosov Moscow State Universit

An American biologist. He won the 2003 Lemelson-MIT Prize for inventing "four instruments that have

An American biologist. He won the 2003 Lemelson-MIT Prize for inventing "four instruments that have unlocked much of the mystery of human biology" by helping decode the genome.[1] Hood also won the 2002 Kyoto Prize for Advanced Technology, and the 1987 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research. His inventions include the automated DNA sequencer and an automated tool for synthesizing DNA. Hood co-founded the Institute for Systems Biology.

Was an American astronomer.An amateur astronomer, he was a prolific discoverer of comets and also a

Was an American astronomer.An amateur astronomer, he was a prolific discoverer of comets and also a persistent observer of variable stars and member of the AAVSO. Harlow Shapley once described him as "the world's greatest non-professional astronomer".He wrote the heart-warming autobiographical Starlight Nights (ISBN 0-933346-94-8), which evokes the magic of stargazing in simpler days, on a farm and without light pollution.Asteroid 3850 Peltier is named in his honor, as is the Leslie C. Peltier Award of the Astronomical League

Was an American statistician and survey methodologist of Hungarian descent. He fought in the Interna

Was an American statistician and survey methodologist of Hungarian descent. He fought in the International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War.His main work is the book Survey Sampling (1965), where he summarized and developed the current theory of sampling

A former dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management and author of numerous bestsellers on economic t

A former dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management and author of numerous bestsellers on economic topics.Thurow was born in Livingston, Montana. He received his B.A. in political economy from Williams College in 1960, where he was Phi Beta Kappa as a junior, and a Tyng Scholar. Thurow was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship, and went to Balliol College, Oxford to read Philosophy, Politics and Economics, graduating in 1962 with first class honors. He received a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University in 1964.Thurow is on the board of directors of Analog Devices, Grupo Casa Autrey, E-Trade, and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp.. Thurow was also one of the original founders of the Economic Policy Institute in 1986.

An American economist and Professor Emeritus in Economics at the College of the University of Chicag

An American economist and Professor Emeritus in Economics at the College of the University of Chicago.He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago where he is a member of the faculty since 1958.His works include research on the Theory of the core; Federal Reserve policy and integer programming.

Was a prominent American survey statistician. He studied under Harold Hotelling, receiving a master'

Was a prominent American survey statistician. He studied under Harold Hotelling, receiving a master's degree from Columbia University in 1936, and served as the 70th president of the American Statistical Association in 1975. He was also president of the M

Was a Soviet Russian mathematician. He was born in Moscow and lost his eyesight in a primus stove ex

Was a Soviet Russian mathematician. He was born in Moscow and lost his eyesight in a primus stove explosion when he was 14. Despite his blindness he was able to become a mathematician due to the help of his mother Tatyana Andreevna who read mathematical books to him. He made major discoveries in a number of fields of mathematics, including the geometric parts of topology.

Was a leading Soviet geographer and biologist who served as President of the Soviet Geographical Soc

Was a leading Soviet geographer and biologist who served as President of the Soviet Geographical Society between 1940 and 1950.

Better known by his Latinised name as Gersonides or the abbreviation of first letters as RaLBaG[1] (

Better known by his Latinised name as Gersonides or the abbreviation of first letters as RaLBaG[1] (1288–1344), philosopher, Talmudist, mathematician, astronomer/astrologer. He was born at Bagnols in Languedoc, France. According to Abraham Zacuto and others, he was the son of Gerson ben Solomon Catalan.