Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter M

Was a Turkish economist, banker, politician and former Prime Minister of Turkey.Naim Talu was born i

Was a Turkish economist, banker, politician and former Prime Minister of Turkey.Naim Talu was born in Istanbul in 1919. He was educated in Kabatas Erkek Lisesi. After graduating in economics from Istanbul University in 1943, he worked a while in Sümerbank, a state owned textile complex. He transferred to the Central Bank of Turkey in 1946. He became the general director of the bank in 1967 after serving one year as deputy. Following the reorganization of the Central Bank in 1970, he was appointed Governor of this institution. He died in Istanbul in 1998.

Was a Dutch botanist who was born in Voorschoten. In 1873 he graduated from the University of Leiden

Was a Dutch botanist who was born in Voorschoten. In 1873 he graduated from the University of Leiden, and afterwards remained as a botany assistant at Leiden. From 1880 until 1909 he was a botanist in the Dutch East Indies.Treub is remembered for his botanical work with tropical flora on the island of Java. He is especially recognized for his organization of the Bogor Botanical Gardens at Buitenzorg as a world-renowned scientific institution of botany. He worked for nearly 30 years at the botanical gardens, returning to the Netherlands a year prior to his death in 1910.

Was a Ruthenian (Ukrainian, Belarusian) linguist from Galicia, author and religious activist. Son of

Was a Ruthenian (Ukrainian, Belarusian) linguist from Galicia, author and religious activist. Son of the famous Ukrainian religious and political activist Herasym Smotrytsky. Education in Ostroh (Ostrog) and Vilnius, as well as Leipzig, Wittenberg and Nuremberg, later rector of Kiev brotherhood's school.

Was an American ornithologist. He is the son of Chicago banker Melvin Alvah Traylor and Mrs. Dorothy

Was an American ornithologist. He is the son of Chicago banker Melvin Alvah Traylor and Mrs. Dorothy Y. Traylor. Traylor was Lieutenant with the marines and served on Guadalcanal during World War II in 1942 where he was awarded with the Silver Star medal. As a Marine Corp officer, Mel was severely injured during the Battle of Tarawa in the Pacific theatre, where he lost one eye and suffered arm and upper body wounds during the famous beach assault. After the war Traylor continued his work for the Field Museum which he had started in 1937.

Was a Georgian philosopher, Doctor of Sciences (1968), Professor (1972). He was born in Gori (Easter

Was a Georgian philosopher, Doctor of Sciences (1968), Professor (1972). He was born in Gori (Eastern Georgia). In 1955 he graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy of the Moscow State University. In 1968-1987 he was a Deputy Editor of the scientific journ

An American linguist known for his work on the classification of languages and what this reveals abo

An American linguist known for his work on the classification of languages and what this reveals about the origin and evolution of modern humans. In most regards, his work stands within the mainstream of standard comparative-historical linguistics. As the principal advocate and defender of Joseph Greenberg's ideas on language classification, Ruhlen has been the subject of numerous and withering attacks, which have not so far led to any change in his positions.Ruhlen studied at Rice University, the University of Paris, the University of Illinois and the University of Bucharest. He received his PhD from Stanford University in 1973 with a dissertation on the generative analysis of Romanian morphology. He subsequently worked for several years as a research assistant on the Stanford Universals Project directed by Joseph Greenberg and Charles Ferguson. Since 1994,

He was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He worked during World War II as an economist in the division

He was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He worked during World War II as an economist in the division of tax research of the Treasury Department, and received a Ph.D. in economics from Johns Hopkins University, 1952. His first academic appointment after receiving his doctorate was Visiting Assistant Lecturer at the London School of Economics.

Nobel Prize in Economics in 1990, along with Harry Markowitz and William Sharpe.

Nobel Prize in Economics in 1990, along with Harry Markowitz and William Sharpe.

He succeeded Sir Edward George on June 30, 2003.King studied at Wolverhampton Grammar School, King's

He succeeded Sir Edward George on June 30, 2003.King studied at Wolverhampton Grammar School, King's College, Cambridge (gaining a first class degree in economics in 1969) and St John's College, Cambridge. He also studied at Harvard as a Kennedy Scholar.He then taught at the University of Cambridge and the University of Birmingham. He has also been Visiting Professor to Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From October 1984 he was Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics.King joined the Bank in March 1991 as Chief Economist and Executive Director, having been a non-executive director from 1990 to 1991. He was appointed Deputy Governor in 1997

A sociolinguist, creolist and dialectologist whose work has focused on the creole languages of the C

A sociolinguist, creolist and dialectologist whose work has focused on the creole languages of the Caribbean.He attended Queen's Royal College in Port-of-Spain and later won a scholarship to the fledgling University College of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica which he entered in 1953. After graduating from Mona, Alleyne obtained a PhD from the University of Strasbourg, France. He returned to Mona as a lecturer in 1959, and was made Professor of Sociolinguistics in 1982. He is currently a Visiting Professor at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras.Upon retirement from The University of the West Indies, Mona, the title of Professor emeritus was conferred on him. He was president of the Society for Caribbean Linguistics (SCL) from 1990 to 1992 and was made an honorary member of the SCL in 1998

Is a leading British philosopher. He has both written on the history of analytic philosophy, and mad

Is a leading British philosopher. He has both written on the history of analytic philosophy, and made original contributions to the subject, particularly in the areas of philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of logic, philosophy of language and metaphysic

Professor of biology in the Department of Genetics at University of Cambridge and is the former join

Professor of biology in the Department of Genetics at University of Cambridge and is the former joint-head of the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL).Ashburner attended High Wycombe Royal Grammar School from 1953 to 1960. He received B.A. in Natural Sciences Tripos (Genetics) in 1964, his Ph.D. from the Department of Genetics in 1968, and was awarded a Sc.D. in 1978, all from Cambridge.

A Hungarian linguist, and Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at University College London.He was educ

A Hungarian linguist, and Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at University College London.He was educated at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest (1972-4), Université René Descartes (Sorbonne) (1974-5), University College London (1975-80) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1980-82). In addition to his position at UCL, he has also been a Senior Fellow at Collegium Budapest.In his 1995 monograph, he proposed a purely representational theory of syntax. He argued that a theory with both derivations and representations involves redundancy, and therefore one of them should be abandoned. He has also argued that natural language syntax constitutes a perfect system, "reducible to a simple set of primitives and axioms."

A judge in Painesville, Lake County, Ohio who dispenses a unique brand of what he calls creative jus

A judge in Painesville, Lake County, Ohio who dispenses a unique brand of what he calls creative justice. The judge often leaves the choice of penalty to the defendant, who is faced with spending time in jail or undergoing one of Cicconetti's unusual punishments. His punishments often involve placing the defendant in a similar position to that of the defendant's victim at the time of the crime. Famously he ordered a 26-year-old Ohio housewife Michelle Murray to spend a night in the woods for abandoning 35 kittens in a forest at wintertime[1]; he said: “You don’t do that. You don’t leave these poor little animals out and, yes, I wanted to set an example for her future conduct or anybody else who was contemplating doing such a thing”. On other occasions he ordered noisy neighbours to spend a day of silence in the forest or listen to classical music instead of rock. In all cases the judge attempts to place a link between the perpetrated offense and its punishment.

Is an Australian pure mathematician

Is an Australian pure mathematician

Is a former Justice of the High Court of Australia, serving from 1996 to 2009.Justice Kirby attended

Is a former Justice of the High Court of Australia, serving from 1996 to 2009.Justice Kirby attended Fort Street High School in Sydney. He received his Bachelor of Arts (1959), Bachelor of Laws (1962), Bachelor of Economics (1965) and Master of Laws (Firs

A linguist who has worked extensively on the Na-Dené language family, especially on proto-Athabaska

A linguist who has worked extensively on the Na-Dené language family, especially on proto-Athabaskan, pre-proto-Athabaskan, the Eyak language, which became extinct in January 2008, and also numerous other Athabaskan and Eskimo-Aleut languages.With his 1991 address to the Linguistic Society of America, Krauss was among the first to create an awareness of the global problem of endangered languages. He has since worked to encourage the documentation and re-vitalization of endangered languages across the world.

A linguist, script encoder, typesetter, and font designer. His central area of expertise is with wri

A linguist, script encoder, typesetter, and font designer. His central area of expertise is with writing systems of the world, specifically in the representation of these systems in formats for computer and digital media.He has been described as "probably the world's leading expert in the computer encoding of scripts"[1] for his work to add a wide variety of scripts and characters to the Universal Character Set. Since 1993, he has written over two hundred proposals[2] which have added thousands of characters to ISO/IEC 10646 and The Unicode Standard.

Is a semi-retired weather forecaster, most known for his BBC Weather television presentations, altho

Is a semi-retired weather forecaster, most known for his BBC Weather television presentations, although he was actually employed by the Met Office.Schooled at Eastbourne College and City University, London, Fish was the longest serving weather presenter on British television, taking up the role in 1974 after several years on BBC Radio.

A British-American geographer. He is currently a professor of geography at the University of Califor

A British-American geographer. He is currently a professor of geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara. After nineteen years at the University of Western Ontario, including three years as chair, he moved to Santa Barbara in 1988. Goodchild became a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2002, and received the Royal Geographical Society's Founder's Medal in 2003.

The chair of the linguistics department at the University of Arizona and holds the rank of full Prof

The chair of the linguistics department at the University of Arizona and holds the rank of full Professor. He is the author or editor of six books on a variety of topics from Syntactic Typology, The Phonology of English, to Computational llinguistics. He is particularly well-known for his research on meter and poetics. He has also published more than 40 articles and presented at over 60 conferences on these topics. He was the dissertation supervisor on 15 Ph.D.s and serves on the editorial board of several major journals.

A mathematician at Microsoft Station Q.[1] In 1986, he was awarded a Fields Medal for his work on th

A mathematician at Microsoft Station Q.[1] In 1986, he was awarded a Fields Medal for his work on the Poincaré conjecture. Freedman and Robion Kirby showed that an exotic R4 manifold exists.Freedman entered the University of California, Berkeley, in 1968,

Was an American immunologist who is regarded as the father of modern immunology. He and Oswald Avery

Was an American immunologist who is regarded as the father of modern immunology. He and Oswald Avery showed that the polysaccharides of pneumococcus are antigens, enabling him to show that antibodies are proteins. He spent almost his entire career at Columbia University, though in his later years he was also on the faculty of New York University. In 1934 and 1936 he received the Guggenheim Fellowship. In 1967 he received the National Medal of Science, and then he earned the Lasker Award for basic medical research in 1953 and again in 1978.

Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at University of Missouri, Kansas City (UMKC). He is a

Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at University of Missouri, Kansas City (UMKC). He is also a Wall Street analyst and consultant as well as president of The Institute for the Study of Long-term Economic Trends (ISLET) and a founding member of International Scholars Conference on Ancient Near Eastern Economies (ISCANEE).Hudson served as Chief Economic Advisor for Dennis Kucinich’s 2008 presidential campaign and holds the same position in Kucinich’s Congressional campaign. He has been economic advisor to the U.S., Canadian, Mexican and Latvian governments, to the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), and he is president of the Institute for the Study of Long-term Economic Trends (ISLET).

Is a former justice of the High Court of Australia

Is a former justice of the High Court of Australia