Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter M

Was an important Arab-Chinese Islamic astronomer and astrologist who worked as the chief official of

Was an important Arab-Chinese Islamic astronomer and astrologist who worked as the chief official of the astronomical observatory for the Song dynasty.In the early 10th Century, the Chinese emperor of the Song dynasty encouraged the advancement of the study of astronomy and its related disciplines. In 961, the Emperor Taizu (r. 960-976) appointed Ma Yize (910?-1005) as the chief official to take charge of the government observatory.Ma Yize's ancestor were Arabs coming from an area somewhere between Yemen and Oman in the Arabic Peninsula. Ma is a Sinicised form of the name Muhammad [1]. When Ma Yize was in China, he assisted Wang Chuna in compiling several important astrological works, including the Yingtianli (Calendar of Corresponding Heavens). His job was to provide observation, and computation of the regularities in celestial phenomena

Was a Dutch naturalist.Houttyn was born in Hoorn, studied medicine in Leiden and moved to Amsterdam

Was a Dutch naturalist.Houttyn was born in Hoorn, studied medicine in Leiden and moved to Amsterdam in 1753. He published many books on natural history. His areas of interest encompassed Pteridophytes, Bryophytes and Spermatophytes. In botanical nomenclature, the standard author abbreviation Houtt. is applied to plants described by him. He is commemorated by the monotypic genus Houttuynia, a member of the Saururaceae from China and Japan.

Is a Dutch astronomer who measured the distances of astronomical objects called quasars.

Is a Dutch astronomer who measured the distances of astronomical objects called quasars.

Was a Dutch chess Grandmaster, Mathematician, and author

Was a Dutch chess Grandmaster, Mathematician, and author

Was an American geneticist.Maclyn McCarty, who devoted his life as a physician-scientist to studying

Was an American geneticist.Maclyn McCarty, who devoted his life as a physician-scientist to studying infectious disease organisms, was best known for his part in the monumental discovery that DNA, rather than protein, constituted the chemical nature of a gene. Uncovering the molecular secret of the gene in question — that for the capsular polysaccharide of pneumococcal bacteria — led the way to studying heredity not only through genetics but also through chemistry, and initiated the dawn of the age of molecular biology. McCarty was the youngest and longest surviving member of the research team responsible for this feat (known as the Avery-MacLeod-McCarty experiment),

Ghanaian economist until his nomination as Vice Presidential candidate for New patriotic Party (NPP)

Ghanaian economist until his nomination as Vice Presidential candidate for New patriotic Party (NPP) was Deputy Governor of Bank of Ghana. Bawumia graduated from Tamale Secondary School in 1982. He got Chartered Institute of Bankers Diploma (A.C.I.B) –UK

Was an Indian geologist.Krishnan excelled in early student years and was given a fellowship to study

Was an Indian geologist.Krishnan excelled in early student years and was given a fellowship to study in England. He completed his Ph. D. at the age of 26 and joined the Geological Survey of India and worked alongside Lewis Fermor, C. S. Fox, J. A. Dunn, A. M. Heron, H. C. Jones, and J. B. Auden in pre-Independence times.He worked on stratigraphic mapping in Gangpur, Bonai, Bamra and Keonjar (parts of present Orissa State) and identified the 'Gangpur Series' published in GSI Memoir 71 (1937). He also worked on minerals of economic importance including iron, manganese ores, gypsum, mica, limestone and published his studies in the GSI Memoir 80 (1952). He also worked on the of the rocks of Girnar and Osham hills of Saurashtra (now in Gujarat), lateritization of the peculiar meta-sedimentary rocks called the khondalites, the mineral resources of former Central Provinces and Berar (now forming parts of Madhya Pradesh), the geology of the Vindhyan formations of northern India, the Deccan traps, the Tertiaries of Tanjore (Tamil Nadu), and made observations on mythical rivers such as the Indobrahm and Saraswathi.

Is a Moroccan futurist, economist and sociologist.Elmandjra has held many occupations throughout his

Is a Moroccan futurist, economist and sociologist.Elmandjra has held many occupations throughout his career. After finishing his studies, ElMandjra started his career as Director General of the Moroccan Broadcasting Service (RTM) and as a Counselor of the Moroccan Mission to the UN. He occupied various functions in the UN body from 1961 to 1981 including that of Assistant Director General of UNESCO for Social Sciences, Human Sciences and Culture as well as Coordinator of the Conference on Technical Cooperation between Developing countries at the UNDP.

An American biochemist who is best known for the discovery of amino-acid activating enzymes.[1]By th

An American biochemist who is best known for the discovery of amino-acid activating enzymes.[1]By the time Hoagland had joined Huntington Laboratories, his colleagues there were well-known for their work in protein synthesis. In the early 1950s Hoagland and his associates were able to show that polypeptide synthesis occurs on ribosomes. They did this by giving a rat injections of radioactive amino acids, waiting for a defined period of time, extracting the liver, and examining sub-cellular fractions for radioactivity. He found that after longer periods of times (hours, days) radioactively labeled proteins were present in all subcellular fractions. However, if they allowed less time to pass

Was an English epidemiologist and statistician.Major Greenwood junior was born in Shoreditch in Lond

Was an English epidemiologist and statistician.Major Greenwood junior was born in Shoreditch in London's East End, the only child of a doctor in general practice there. ("Major" was his forename, not a military rank.) He was educated on the classical side

Was a herpetologist and physician working in the Malay Peninsula.He went on to become the physician

Was a herpetologist and physician working in the Malay Peninsula.He went on to become the physician in the royal court of Siam and was a close confidante and a doctor to the royal family.[1]He published his observations on the reptiles and amphibians during his stint there and was in regular correspondence with Boulenger at the Natural History Museum, London. He left in 1925 to continue his studies at the museum in London.

An Australian geographer and university administrator

An Australian geographer and university administrator

Was a leading American economist and social scientist who, at the time of his death, worked at the U

Was a leading American economist and social scientist who, at the time of his death, worked at the University of Maryland, College Park. Among other areas, he made contributions to institutional economics on the role of private property, taxation, public goods, collective action and contract rights in economic development.Olson focused on the logical basis of interest group membership and participation. The reigning political theories of his day granted groups an almost primordial status. Some appealed to a natural human instinct for herding, others ascribed the formation of groups that are rooted in kinship to the process of modernization. Olson offered a radically different account of the logical basis of organized collective action.

A member of Rajya Sabha, a former governor of Jharkhand and a former Chief Justice of the Punjab and

A member of Rajya Sabha, a former governor of Jharkhand and a former Chief Justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court.He is a noted writer and historian having written several books on Service Law, Habeas Corpus Law, Constitutional Law, etc. His most known two-volume book "Legal and Constitutional History of India" is a textbook for Law Degree course. His another well known book is "Seeds of Modem Public Law in Ancient Indian Jurisprudence" .

Is the author of Wagner model and the molecular stress function theory for polymer rheology. He is a

Is the author of Wagner model and the molecular stress function theory for polymer rheology. He is a Professor for Polymer engineering and Polymer physics at the Technical University of Berlin. He obtained his PhD in Chemical engineering at the Institute

A Canadian geneticist and academic.In 1971, he joined the Hospital for Sick Children as a Staff Gene

A Canadian geneticist and academic.In 1971, he joined the Hospital for Sick Children as a Staff Geneticist. In 1970, he was appointed Scientist and in 1980 became a Senior Scientist. In 1996, he was appointed Senior Scientist and Director of the Hospital for Sick Children's Research Institute. He also holds the Lombard Insurance Chair in Pediatric Research. His research interests are human molecular genetics, Fanconi anemia, cystic fibrosis and gene cloning and function. From 1973 to 1977, he was an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto and was an Associate Professor from 1977 to 1986.

Was an Argentine mathematician, born in Buenos Aires to Jewish Russian immigrants fleeing the pogrom

Was an Argentine mathematician, born in Buenos Aires to Jewish Russian immigrants fleeing the pogroms. He is widely considered the father of computer science studies in Argentina.Sadosky graduated as a Doctor in Physics and Mathematics at the University of Buenos Aires in 1940. He then moved to the Henri Poincaré Institute in Paris to pursue postdoctoral studies on a scholarship granted by the French Government. After another year in Italy, he returned to Argentina, where he faced complicated employment options because of his opposition to the Peronist regime.

Was an American astronomer.Aaronson was educated at the California Institute of Technology, where he

Was an American astronomer.Aaronson was educated at the California Institute of Technology, where he received a BSc in 1972. He completed his Ph.D. in 1977 at Harvard University with a dissertation on the near-infrared aperture photometry of galaxies.[1] He joined Steward Observatory at the University of Arizona as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in 1977 and became an Associate Professor of Astronomy in 1983. Aaronson and Jeremy Mould won the George Van Biesbroeck Prize in 1981 and the Newton Lacy Pierce Prize in Astronomy in 1984 from the American Astronomical Society. The Marc Aaronson Memorial Lectureship, promoting and recognizing excellence in astronomical research, is held every 18 months by the University of Arizona and Steward Observatory as a tribute to his memory.

A French humanist who was among the revivers of a Ciceronian Latin style and is among the usual cand

A French humanist who was among the revivers of a Ciceronian Latin style and is among the usual candidates for the best Latin prose stylist of the Renaissance. He afterwards taught Latin at Villeneuve, and then at the College of Guienne, Bordeaux, where his Latin tragedy Julius Caesar was presented. Some time before 1552 he delivered a course of lectures in the college of Cardinal Lemoine at Paris

Is a French/American Philosopher,Classical musician and musicologist especially dedicated to Aesthet

Is a French/American Philosopher,Classical musician and musicologist especially dedicated to Aesthetic Theory, Philosophy of Music and Hermeneutics of Culture. His theoretical contributions (written in French, English and Spanish) to Philosophy of Music present the particularity to synthesize hermeneutical, analytical and cognitive methodologies. Marc Jean-Bernard internally associates theoretical investigation to artistic/educative praxis and concrete institutional action.

Is a Belgian economist and politician in the Christian People's Party (Belgium), now called Christia

Is a Belgian economist and politician in the Christian People's Party (Belgium), now called Christian Democratic and Flemish. He was born in Leuven, the son of viscount Gaston Eyskens, and lived for a time at the International House of New York. He was a minister several times and became prime minister on April 6, 1981. His government quickly collapsed on December 17, due to disagreements on the financing of the Walloon steel industry. He remained a member of parliament until 2003. Eyskens is a member of the Supervisory Board of the Global Panel Foundation, a member of the Advisory Board of the Itinera Institute think-tank and of B Plus.

Is a French mathematician well-known for his work on stochastic processes, especially properties of

Is a French mathematician well-known for his work on stochastic processes, especially properties of semimartingales, Brownian motion and other Levy processes, the Bessel processes, and their applications to mathematical finance.[1] Since 1981 he is a professor[2] at the Paris VI University in Paris, France.

Was born in Paris in 1957. Both a rabbi and a philosopher, he is the son of Rabbi Jacques Ouaknin (b

Was born in Paris in 1957. Both a rabbi and a philosopher, he is the son of Rabbi Jacques Ouaknin (b. 1932, Marrakesh, Morocco) and Eliane Erlich Ouaknin (b. 1932, Lille; d. 2007, Marseille.) His father is the Grand Rabbi of the French cities of Reims, Lille, Metz and Marseille.[1],[2] Ouaknin dedicated his best-known work, The Burnt Book, to "my father, my master, Grand Rabbi Jacques Ouaknin."

Was a French mathematician, most famous for what is now known as Parseval's theorem, which presaged

Was a French mathematician, most famous for what is now known as Parseval's theorem, which presaged the unitarity of the Fourier transform.

Is a French mathematician, doyen of French differential geometry, and a former director of the Insti

Is a French mathematician, doyen of French differential geometry, and a former director of the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHES), France. Currently residing in Le Castera in Lasseube, France, Berger was instrumental in Mikhail Gromov's accepting positions both at the University of Paris and at the IHES.[citation needed]