Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter M

Was a French philosopher and sociologist known for developing the concept of collective memory. Halb

Was a French philosopher and sociologist known for developing the concept of collective memory. Halbwachs attended the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. There he studied philosophy with Henri Bergson, who influenced him greatly. He aggregated in Philosophy in 1901. He taught at various lycées before traveling to Germany in 1904, where he studied at the University of Göttingen and worked on cataloging Leibniz's papers.

Was a British economist, and a lecturer 1924-1959 and Reader 1959-1976 at Cambridge University and a

Was a British economist, and a lecturer 1924-1959 and Reader 1959-1976 at Cambridge University and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge 1948-1976.Dobb was an economist who was primarily involved in the interpretation of neoclassical economic theory from a Marxist point of view. His involvement in the original economic calculation problem debate consisted of critiques of capitalist, centrally planned socialist, or market socialist models that were based upon the neoclassical framework of static equilibrium. Dobb charged the market socialist model of Oskar Lange and the contributions of "neo-classical" socialists of an illegitimate "narrowing of the focus of study to problems of exchange-relations." (Economists and the Economics of Socialism, 1939.)

Was a French pastor and ethnologist specialising in the Kanak people of New Caledonia.At the beginni

Was a French pastor and ethnologist specialising in the Kanak people of New Caledonia.At the beginning of the twentieth century, Protestant authorities concerned themselves with the evangelisation of the Kanaks, in competition with the Marist Brothers. Ma

Was a French phenomenological philosopher, strongly influenced by Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegge

Was a French phenomenological philosopher, strongly influenced by Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger in addition to being closely associated with Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. At the core of Merleau-Ponty's philosophy is a sustained argument f

Was a French philosopher. Although his thought was largely original, Pradines may be categorized amo

Was a French philosopher. Although his thought was largely original, Pradines may be categorized among the interwar period philosophers of the mind. Also a professor, he developed a philosophy of knowledge in light of problems of sensation.

Was a French mathematician and actuary who played a role in the birth of cubism. He was an associate

Was a French mathematician and actuary who played a role in the birth of cubism. He was an associate of Pablo Picasso, Guillaume Apollinaire, Max Jacob, Jean Metzinger, and Marcel Duchamp. He is known as "le mathématicien du cubisme" ("the mathematician of cubism").[2][3]

Was an English statistician who made particular contributions to the analysis of data with spatial a

Was an English statistician who made particular contributions to the analysis of data with spatial and temporal patterns. He is also known for his work in the theory of statistical inference and in multivariate analysis.

New Zealand-born British molecular biologist, and Nobel Laureate who contributed research in the fie

New Zealand-born British molecular biologist, and Nobel Laureate who contributed research in the fields of phosphorescence, radar, isotope separation, and X-ray diffraction.

Was a Polish-Jewish economist, journalist, politician and a leader of the Jewish Bund in interwar Po

Was a Polish-Jewish economist, journalist, politician and a leader of the Jewish Bund in interwar Poland. He was one of the commanders of the Bund during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.Orzech joined the Bund in 1907 and was in charge of the party's newspaper, Forverts. In the late 1920's he served as chairman of the Bund-founded Socialist Association of Artisans of the Republic of Poland ("Socialist Artisans").[2] Orzech was also member of the Bund affiliated Morgnshtern sports organization.[3] He owned a textile manufacturing factory, "Bazar Orzecha" which was very profitable.[4] Orzech used money from his business to finance the Yiddish newspaper Folkstsaytung, of which he was also an editor.[4]

Was an Austrian jurist, politician and social philosopher; his theories were of central importance t

Was an Austrian jurist, politician and social philosopher; his theories were of central importance to Austromarxism. He was a brother of Oskar Adler. Max Adler obtained his doctorate in law in 1896, and became a professional lawyer. He began to teach in t

Was a German-born American mathematician.He is famous for Zorn's lemma, a powerful tool in set theor

Was a German-born American mathematician.He is famous for Zorn's lemma, a powerful tool in set theory that is applicable to a wide range of mathematical constructs such as vector spaces, ordered sets, etc. Zorn's lemma was first discovered by K. Kuratowski in 1922, and then independently by Zorn in 1935.

Was a German-American mathematician and a student of David Hilbert. He is most famous for his work i

Was a German-American mathematician and a student of David Hilbert. He is most famous for his work in geometry, topology and geometric group theory. Dehn's students include Ott-Heinrich Keller, Ruth Moufang, Wilhelm Magnus and the artist Dorothea Rockburn

A German-American biophysicist and Nobel laureate.

A German-American biophysicist and Nobel laureate.

Was an Austrian-British molecular biologist,Perutz was affiliated with Peterhouse, Cambridge's oldes

Was an Austrian-British molecular biologist,Perutz was affiliated with Peterhouse, Cambridge's oldest college, from his 1936 matriculation until his death. He was elected an Honorary Fellow in 1962, and was seen at least weekly in the College's halls until just before his death. He took a keen interest in the Junior Members, and was a regular and popular speaker at the Kelvin Club, the College's scientific society. Perutz's contributions to molecular biology in Cambridge are documented in The History of the University of Cambridge: Volume 4 (1870 to 1990) published by the Cambridge University Press in 1992.

Was a German anatomist. He studied with Karl Gegenbaur and published his studies in comparative anat

Was a German anatomist. He studied with Karl Gegenbaur and published his studies in comparative anatomy in Untersuchungen zur Morphologie und Systematik der Vögel, 1888.

German philosopher and sociologist, a founder and guiding thinker of the Frankfurt School/critical t

German philosopher and sociologist, a founder and guiding thinker of the Frankfurt School/critical theory.

Was a Lithuanian-born American philologist. Son of Isaac Margolis; educated at the elementary school

Was a Lithuanian-born American philologist. Son of Isaac Margolis; educated at the elementary school of his native town, the Leibniz gymnasium, Berlin, and Columbia University, New York city (Ph.D. 1891). In 1891 he was appointed to a fellowship in Semitic languages at Columbia University, and from 1892 to 1897 he was instructor, and later assistant professor, of Hebrew language and Biblical exegesis at the Hebrew Union College of Cincinnati. In 1897 he became assistant professor of Semitic languages in the University of California; in 1898, associate professor; and from 1902 the head of the Semitic department. When Dropsie College was formed in 1909, Margolis was chosen as Professor of Biblical Philology, remaining at Dropsie College until his death in 1932.

Was a German-American biophysicist and Nobel laureate.Delbrück studied astrophysics, shifting towar

Was a German-American biophysicist and Nobel laureate.Delbrück studied astrophysics, shifting towards theoretical physics, at the University of Göttingen. After receiving his Ph.D. in 1930, he traveled through England, Denmark, and Switzerland. He met Wolfgang Pauli and Niels Bohr, who got him interested in biology.

Was an American economist who developed the Lorenz curve in 1905 to describe income inequalities. He

Was an American economist who developed the Lorenz curve in 1905 to describe income inequalities. He published this paper while a doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His doctorate (1906) was on 'The Economic Theory of Railroad Rates' and made no reference to perhaps his most famous paper.He was active in both publishing and teaching and was at various times employed by the U.S. Census Bureau, the U.S. Bureau of Railway Economics, the U.S. Bureau of Statistics and the U.S. Interstate Commerce Commission.

German philosopher known for his work in phenomenology, ethics, and philosophical anthropology.

German philosopher known for his work in phenomenology, ethics, and philosophical anthropology.

Was a linguist, specializing in Yiddish, and the father of the linguist Uriel Weinreich. Weinreich f

Was a linguist, specializing in Yiddish, and the father of the linguist Uriel Weinreich. Weinreich founded the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (originally called Yiddish Scientific Institute (YIVO)) in Vilnius (Vilna) in 1925, and was its director from

Is a French writer, poet, philosopher and musicologist born in 1976, prize-winner from the Académie

Is a French writer, poet, philosopher and musicologist born in 1976, prize-winner from the Académie française, agrégé in Philosophy (in 1999), docteur ès Lettres (at Sorbonne in 2003, thesis director : Rémi Brague). Director at the Publishing firm les Éditions du Cerf, he manages the collection Les Cahiers d'Histoire de la Philosophie ("The History Notebooks of Philosophy") that he has founded, and to which Jean-Luc Marion

Was the founder of the Berlitz Language Schools, the first of which he established in 1878 in Provid

Was the founder of the Berlitz Language Schools, the first of which he established in 1878 in Providence, Rhode Island.He and his sister were soon orphaned, and he grew up in a family of educators in the Black Forest. He later moved to France and then to the United States. His first employment was as a teacher of French and German at Warner Polytechnic College, which he took over when the owner of the school, Mr Warner, disappeared with all the prepaid tuition money. When Berlitz became ill, and was unable to teach a French class, he quickly hired Nicholas Joly to replace him and take over the class. Since he had always corresponded with Joly in French,

Was an astronomer and an ordained Jesuit priest from the Kingdom of Hungary.Hell became the director

Was an astronomer and an ordained Jesuit priest from the Kingdom of Hungary.Hell became the director of the Vienna Observatory in 1755. He published the astronomical tables Ephemerides astronomicae ad meridianum Vindobonemsem ("Ephemerides for the Meridian of Vienna"). He went to Vardø in the far north of Norway (then part of Denmark) to observe the 1769 transit of Venus.There was some controversy about Hell's observations of the transit of Venus because he stayed in Norway for eight months, collecting non-astronomical scientific data about the arctic regions for a planned encyclopedia (which never appeared, in part due to the suppression of the Jesuit order). The publication of his results was delayed, and some (notably Joseph Johann Littrow) accused Hell posthumously of falsifying his results. However, Simon Newcomb carefully studied Hell's notebooks and exonerated him a century after his death in Vienna.

Was an Indian astrophysicist best known for his development of the Saha equation, used to describe c

Was an Indian astrophysicist best known for his development of the Saha equation, used to describe chemical and physical conditions in stars.Saha was fortunate to have brilliant teachers and class fellows. In his student days, Jagadish Chandra Bose and Prafulla Chandra Roy were at the pinnacle of their fame. Amongst his class fellows were Satyendra Nath Bose, Jnan Ghosh and J. N. Mukherjee. In later life he was close to Amiya Charan Banerjee, a renowned mathematician at Allahabad University.Meghnad Saha's best-known work concerned the thermal ionisation of elements, and it led him to formulate what is known as the Saha equation. This equation is one of the basic tools for interpretation of the spectra of stars in astrophysics. By studying the spectra of various stars, one can find their temperature and from that, using Saha's equation, determine the ionisation state of the various elements making up the star.