Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter L

Was an American astronomer.He discovered or co-discovered a number of comets, including periodic com

Was an American astronomer.He discovered or co-discovered a number of comets, including periodic comets 11P/Tempel-Swift-LINEAR, 64P/Swift-Gehrels, and 109P/Swift-Tuttle (parent body of the Perseids meteor shower). He also discovered comets C/1877 G2, C/1878 N1, C/1879 M1, C/1881 J1, C/1881 W1, C/1892 E1, D/1895 Q1 (a.k.a. D/Swift, whose debris stream Mariner 4 probably encountered on September 15, 1967[2]), C/1896 G1 and C/1899 E1, and co-discovered C/1883 D1 (Brooks-Swift). Note, however, comet 54P/de Vico-Swift-NEAT was discovered by his son Edward D. Swift rather than by him.

Was an American astronomer.Rhode Island and attended secondary school at the Lapham Institute in Nor

Was an American astronomer.Rhode Island and attended secondary school at the Lapham Institute in North Scituate and the New Hampton Institution in New Hampshire.[1] In 1870 he graduated from Dartmouth College, then went to work as a clerk for the U.S. Government. He served as an assistant astronomer for a government expedition to survey the U.S-Canadian border. In 1876 he became the directory of the Dudley Observatory in Schenectady, New York.He became editor of the Astronomical Journal in 1909, but responsibility passed to his son, Benjamin Boss, upon his death in 1912. Benjamin continued to edit the journal until 1941.

Welsh colonial surveyor and geographer.He travelled to the British colonies in North America and pro

Welsh colonial surveyor and geographer.He travelled to the British colonies in North America and produced the following maps:

Was a mathematician, physicist, meteorologist, psychologist and pacifist who pioneered modern mathem

Was a mathematician, physicist, meteorologist, psychologist and pacifist who pioneered modern mathematical techniques of weather forecasting, and the application of similar techniques to studying the causes of wars and how to prevent them. He is also noted for his pioneering work on fractals.At age 12 he was sent to a Quaker boarding school, Bootham in York, where he received an excellent education in science, which stimulated an active interest in natural history. In 1898 he went on to Durham College of Science (now Newcastle University) where he took courses in mathematical physics, chemistry, botany, and zoology. Two years later, he gained a scholarship to King's College, Cambridge, where he graduated with first-class honours in the natural sciences tripos in 1903.[2]

Was an American geneticist. His research focused on the mutagenic effects of different forms of radi

Was an American geneticist. His research focused on the mutagenic effects of different forms of radiation on economically important plants like maize and barley.While Stadler spent almost all his academic life at the University of Missouri he was also involved in activities with a wider scope. During the 1930s Stadler was involved in efforts to bring European scientists to the U.S. to escape Nazism. In 1948 Stadler was appointed a delegate to the Eighth International Congress of Genetics, meeting in Stockholm. The U.S. Department of Agriculture, however, rejected his passport application and conducted a loyalty investigation; Stadler at first thought it was a State Department action.

S a prominent Australian lawyer and a judge in the Supreme Court of Victoria

S a prominent Australian lawyer and a judge in the Supreme Court of Victoria

Was a Chinese American linguist.Li was one of the first Chinese to study linguistics outside of Chin

Was a Chinese American linguist.Li was one of the first Chinese to study linguistics outside of China. Originally a student of medicine, he switched to linguistics when he went to the United States in 1924. He gained a BA in linguistics at the University of Michigan two years later. Then he went on studying under Edward Sapir and Leonard Bloomfield at the University of Chicago. In the US, he conducted field studies of the languages of the American Indians. His first exposure to fieldwork was his study of the Mattole language in northern California. In 1928 he received his PhD at the University of Chicago, with his thesis Mattole: An Athabaskan Language published in 1930.

Was a Chinese mathematician of the Qing Dynasty.A native of Haining, Zhejiang, he was fascinated by

Was a Chinese mathematician of the Qing Dynasty.A native of Haining, Zhejiang, he was fascinated by mathematics since childhood, beginning with the Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art. He eked out a living by being a private tutor for some years before fleeing to Shanghai in 1852 to evade the Taiping Rebellion. There he collaborated with Alexander Wylie, Joseph Edkins and others to translate many Western mathematical works into Chinese, including Elements of Analytical Geometry and of the Differential and Integral Calculus by Elias Loomis,Augustus De Morgan's Elements of Algebra, and the last nine volumes of Euclid's Elements (from Isaac Barrow's edition), the first six volumes of which having been rendered into Chinese by Matteo Ricci and Xu Guangqi in 1607

Was a Chinese philosopher and editor of advanced philosophical journals of the May Fourth Movement M

Was a Chinese philosopher and editor of advanced philosophical journals of the May Fourth Movement Min Duo (??, The People's Tocsin) and Zhongguo Jiaoyu Zazhi (??????, "The Chinese Educational Review"). Li is best remembered as an exponent of the thought of Nietzsche, who was among the Western thinkers most influential in China in the early Republican era.

Was an American zoologist.she was the daughter of Joseph Hyman and Sabina Neumann. Hyman's father, a

Was an American zoologist.she was the daughter of Joseph Hyman and Sabina Neumann. Hyman's father, a Polish/Russian Jew, adopted the surname when he immigrated to the United States as a youth. He successively owned clothing stores in Des Moines, in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and in Fort Dodge, Iowa, but the family's resources were limited. Hyman attended public schools in Fort Dodge. At home she was required to do much of the housework. She enjoyed reading, especially books by Charles Dickens in her father's small den, and she took a strong interest in flowers, which she learned to classify with a copy of Asa Gray's Elements of Botany

Was an American horticulturist, botanist and cofounder of the American Society for Horticultural Sci

Was an American horticulturist, botanist and cofounder of the American Society for Horticultural Science. Born in South Haven, Michigan, he was educated and taught at the Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University) before moving to Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where he was director of the College of Agriculture. He edited The Cyclopedia of American Agriculture (1907-09), the Cyclopedia of American Horticulture (1900-02), and the Rural Science, Rural Textbook, Gardencraft, and Young Folks Library series of manuals. He wrote scores of books, including scientific works, efforts to explain botany to laypeople, a collection of poetry, and also coined the words cultivar,[1] cultigen,[

Was a Finnish astronomer, the first woman to get a Ph.D. degree in astronomy in Finland.She discover

Was a Finnish astronomer, the first woman to get a Ph.D. degree in astronomy in Finland.She discovered or co-discovered some comets, including periodic comets 38P/Stephan-Oterma and 39P/Oterma, and some other asteroids.The asteroid 1529 Oterma was named in her honour.

Was an American geneticist and the wife of Thomas Hunt Morgan. Ms. Morgan published 16 single author

Was an American geneticist and the wife of Thomas Hunt Morgan. Ms. Morgan published 16 single author papers in her lifetime. Her major discoveries include the attached X chromosome in fruit flies. She was one of the founders of the Children's School of Science in Woods Hole, MA.

A Finnish philosopher and Professor of History of Philosophy at Department of Philosophy at Uppsala

A Finnish philosopher and Professor of History of Philosophy at Department of Philosophy at Uppsala University, Sweden. She specialises in the history of philosophy - with particular interest in René Descartes and David Hume but she has also contributed to feminist philosophy.Her critically received book[1] on Descartes (2003) Alanen goes beyond mere history, drawing out the historical antecedents and the intellectual evolution of Descartes's thinking about the mind, and showing how his emphasis on the embodiment of the mind has implications far more complex and interesting than the usual dualist account associated with his thinking suggests.

Was a British economist and adherent to the Austrian School of Economics. He is known for his propos

Was a British economist and adherent to the Austrian School of Economics. He is known for his proposed definition of economics, and for his instrumental efforts in shifting Anglo-Saxon economics from its Marshallian direction. He was the head of the econo

Was an Australian politician and jurist who served as Attorney-General in the government of Gough Wh

Was an Australian politician and jurist who served as Attorney-General in the government of Gough Whitlam and as a Justice of the High Court of Australia from 1975 until his death.A member of the Australian Labor Party from an early age, he was elected to the Australian Senate in 1961, and, in 1967, he was elected Opposition Leader in the Senate. In 1969 Labor Leader Gough Whitlam appointed him Shadow Attorney-General, and when Labor won the 1972 election he became Attorney-General and Minister for Customs and Excise.One of Murphy's more dramatic actions as Attorney-General was his unannounced visit to the Melbourne headquarters of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) in March 1973. This came about because ASIO officers were unable to satisfy his requests for information concerning intelligence on Croatian terrorist groups operating in Australia.

Was a British psychiatrist, medical geneticist, mathematician and chess theorist, who carried out pi

Was a British psychiatrist, medical geneticist, mathematician and chess theorist, who carried out pioneering work on the genetics of mental retardation. He was educated at the Quaker Leighton Park School and Cambridge University.Penrose's "Colchester Survey" of 1938 was the earliest serious attempt to study the genetics of mental retardation. He found that the relatives of patients with severe mental retardation were usually unaffected but some of them were affected with similar severity to the original patient, whereas the relatives of patients with mild mental retardation tended mostly to have mild or borderline disability. Penrose went on to identify and study many of the genetic and chromosomal causes of mental retar

A scion of the Rothschild family, was a British banker, politician and zoologist.Walter Rothschild w

A scion of the Rothschild family, was a British banker, politician and zoologist.Walter Rothschild was the firstborn son and heir of Lord [Nathan] Rothschild, the first Jewish peer in England.[1] At the age of seven, he declared that he would run a zoological museum. As a child, he collected insects, butterflies and animals.[1] Among his pets at the family home in Tring Park were kangaroos and exotic birds

Is the Wilson Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Rochester. He was born in Montezu

Is the Wilson Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Rochester. He was born in Montezuma, Georgia. He completed undergraduate studies at Duke University in 1939 and subsequently moved to Oxford that year as a Rhodes Scholar. McKenzie worked

Is a Dutch carcinologist, considered one of the "undisputed greats" of carcinology.Holthuis was born

Is a Dutch carcinologist, considered one of the "undisputed greats" of carcinology.Holthuis was born in Probolingo, Java and obtained his doctorate from Leiden University in 1946. He was appointed the assistant curator of the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie (now Naturalis) in Leiden in 1941.

Was an American mathematician who worked on Riemann surfaces.Bers received his Ph.D. in 1938 from th

Was an American mathematician who worked on Riemann surfaces.Bers received his Ph.D. in 1938 from the University of Prague. His advisor was Charles Loewner. He worked at Syracuse University (1945-1951), New York University (1951-1964) and at Columbia Univ

Was a Chinese mathematician who lived in the Wei Kingdom. In 263 he edited and published a book with

Was a Chinese mathematician who lived in the Wei Kingdom. In 263 he edited and published a book with solutions to mathematical problems presented in the famous Chinese book of mathematics known as The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art.

A distinguished American mathematician and economist. He is a Professor Emeritus at University of Ca

A distinguished American mathematician and economist. He is a Professor Emeritus at University of California, Los Angeles, affiliated with departments of Mathematics and Economics. He has contributed to the fields of mathematical economics and especially game theory. Since the work of von Neumann and Morgenstern in 1940s, Lloyd Shapley has been regarded by many experts as the very personification of game theory.[1] [2] [3]He was a student at Harvard when he was drafted in 1943, and in the same year, as a sergeant in the Army Air Corps in Chengdu, China, he received the Bronze Star decoration for breaking the Soviet weather code. After the war, he returned to Harvard and graduated with an A.B. in mathematics in 1948

A paleoclimatologist and Distinguished University Professor in the School of Earth Sciences at The O

A paleoclimatologist and Distinguished University Professor in the School of Earth Sciences at The Ohio State University. He has achieved global recognition for drilling ice cores from mountain glaciers and ice caps in the tropical and sub-tropical regions of the world. He and his wife, Ellen Mosley-Thompson, run the ice core paleoclimatology research group at the Byrd Polar Research Center. [1]He went on to obtain his undergraduate degree from Marshall University, where he majored in geology. He subsequently attended The Ohio State University where he received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees.

Was a German naturalist.Oken was born Lorenz Okenfuss in Bohlsbach (now part of Offenbach) in Swabia

Was a German naturalist.Oken was born Lorenz Okenfuss in Bohlsbach (now part of Offenbach) in Swabia and studied natural history and medicine at the universities of Freiburg and Würzburg. He went on to the University of Göttingen, where he became a Privatdozent (unsalaried lecturer), and shortened his name to Oken. As Lorenz Oken, he published a small work entitled Grundriss der Naturphilosophie, der Theorie der Sinne, mit der darauf gegründeten Classification der Thiere (1802). This was the first of a series of works which established him as the leader of the movement of "Naturphilosophie" in Germany.