Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter M

Was a French mathematician. In 1837 he published his Historical view of the origin and development o

Was a French mathematician. In 1837 he published his Historical view of the origin and development of methods in geometry, a study of the method of reciprocal polars in projective geometry. The work gained him considerable fame and respect and he was appointed Professor at the École Polytechnique in 1841, then he was awarded a chair at the Sorbonne in 1846.

Was a French philosopher, historian, critic and sociologist. He held a chair at the Collège de Fr

Was a French philosopher, historian, critic and sociologist. He held a chair at the Collège de France, giving it the title "History of Systems of Thought," and taught at the University of California, Berkeley.Michel Foucault is best known for his critical studies of social institutions, most notably psychiatry, medicine, the human sciences, and the prison system, as well as for his work on the history of human sexuality. Foucault's work on power, and the relationships among power, knowledge, and discourse, has been widely discussed. In the 1960s Foucault was often associated with the structuralist movement. Foucault later distanced himself from structuralism. Sometimes described as postmodernist, Foucault always rejected the post-structuralist and postmodernist labels.

Was a French psychologist and statistician who attempted to develop a scientific basis for astrology

Was a French psychologist and statistician who attempted to develop a scientific basis for astrology. Along with his first wife Françoise Schneider-Gauquelin (born June 19, 1929), he conducted statistical research on astrology, from the beginning of the 1

Was a French astronomer.He discovered a number of comets, including 21P/Giacobini-Zinner (parent bod

Was a French astronomer.He discovered a number of comets, including 21P/Giacobini-Zinner (parent body of the Giacobinids meteor shower), 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak, and 205P/Giacobini. The latter he had discovered at Nice on September 4, 1896, but it was not seen on its return, a little less than 7 years later, and was considered lost and consequently designated D/1896 R2. On September 10, 2008, amateur supernova hunters Koichi Itagaki and Hiroshi Kaneda rediscovered it, on its seventeenth return.He worked at Nice Observatory until 1910, when he requested a transfer to the Paris Observatory. He volunteered for military service in World War I and suffered the effects of poison gas. He recovered and resumed his astronomical activities after the war.

Is a French chef, author, one of the founders of nouvelle cuisine, and the inventor of cuisine mince

Is a French chef, author, one of the founders of nouvelle cuisine, and the inventor of cuisine minceur.In 1965 Guérard opened a restaurant in Paris called Le Pot-au-Feu, which in 1967 earned Guérard his first star in the Michelin Guide. The restaurant gai

Naturalized in New York as John Hector St. John, was a French-American writer. He was born in Caen,

Naturalized in New York as John Hector St. John, was a French-American writer. He was born in Caen, Normandy, France, to the Comte and Comtesse de Crèvecœur (Count and Countess of Crèvecœur).

Is a mathematician and astronomer. He is currently at the Nice Observatory. In astronomy, Hénon is

Is a mathematician and astronomer. He is currently at the Nice Observatory. In astronomy, Hénon is well known for his contributions to stellar dynamics. In late 1960s and early 1970s he was involved in dynamical evolution of star clusters, in particular the globular clusters. He developed a numerical technique using Monte Carlo methods to follow the dynamical evolution of a spherical star cluster much faster than the so-called n-body methods.

Was a French philosopher and novelist. He wrote five novels and a great philosophical works. He also

Was a French philosopher and novelist. He wrote five novels and a great philosophical works. He also lectured at universities in France, Belgium, the United States of America, and Japan. Following the war, he passed the final part of the philosophy examination, and then devoted his time to the preparation of a thesis under the direction of Jean Hyppolite, Jean Wahl, Paul Ricoeur, Ferdinand Alquié and Henri Gouhier. His first book, which was on the philosophy and phenomenology of the body, was completed in 1950.

Was a French historian and theologian. He studied at Plessis College, Paris, and at twenty entered t

Was a French historian and theologian. He studied at Plessis College, Paris, and at twenty entered the Benedictine Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, where he made his profession in 1682. Excepting occasional short absences he never left Paris. At the time of his death he was librarian of the convent in Rue Saint-Honoré, a position which he had filled almost all his life, lending assistance to those who sought information on theology and ecclesiastical antiquity. Under the supervision of Père Marsollier he mastered the classical languages, Arabic, and Hebrew, to the detriment, it seems, of his mother-tongue.

Was a probabilist and a mathematical statistician. His name is known to probabilists and statisticia

Was a probabilist and a mathematical statistician. His name is known to probabilists and statisticians because of the Karhunen-Loève theorem and Karhunen-Loève transform.

Is a Dutch mathematician, known for several contributions to queueing theory and applied probability

Is a Dutch mathematician, known for several contributions to queueing theory and applied probability theory. His research interests include queueing models for telecommunications, traffic management and analysis, and network economics.

Is a Soviet and French mathematician, specializing in combinatorics, discrete geometry and graph the

Is a Soviet and French mathematician, specializing in combinatorics, discrete geometry and graph theory. He is a retired director of research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), the vice president of the European Academy of Sciences,[2] a research professor at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology,[3] and the founding editor-in-chief of the European Journal of Combinatorics.[1]

Is a contemporary French philosopher who adheres to hedonism, atheism[1] and anarchism[2]. He is a h

Is a contemporary French philosopher who adheres to hedonism, atheism[1] and anarchism[2]. He is a highly prolific author on philosophy with more than 50 written books[3][4]. He has gained notoriety for writing such works as Physiologie de Georges Palante, portrait d'un nietzchéen de gauche, Politique du rebelle : traité de résistance et d'insoumission, Traité d'athéologie : Physique de la métaphysique, and La puissance d'exister.

Is a French mathematician working in algebraic geometry. Since 1967 he has been a professor at Paris

Is a French mathematician working in algebraic geometry. Since 1967 he has been a professor at Paris-Sud 11 University. Together with Alexander Grothendieck and others he worked on several volumes of Séminaire de géométrie algébrique. In 1983 he published a proof of the Manin-Mumford conjecture.

Is a French-born restaurateur working in Britain.When Albert moved to London, Michel again followed

Is a French-born restaurateur working in Britain.When Albert moved to London, Michel again followed him, and in 1967 they opened their first restaurant, Le Gavroche, which became the first restaurant in Britain to gain one, two and then three Michelin sta

Is a French philosopher and author, celebrated for his unusual career.Born the son of a barge man, S

Is a French philosopher and author, celebrated for his unusual career.Born the son of a barge man, Serres entered the Ecole Navale in 1949 and the École Normale Supérieure in 1952. He aggregated in 1955, having studied philosophy. He spent the next few ye

Is a Dutch linguist and Indo-Europeanist, professor at the University of Leiden where he teaches com

Is a Dutch linguist and Indo-Europeanist, professor at the University of Leiden where he teaches comparative Indo-European linguistics, historical linguistics and dialectology.He has published extensively on Germanic, Albanian, and Indo-Iranian linguistics and philology. He published more than 35 papers, wrote 3 books and edited 1 monograph. He wrote the etymological dictionary of Latin and other Italic languages as a contributor to Leiden based Indo-European Etymological Dictionary project.

A Japanese mathematician, currently a professor at the University of Tokyo. He is a grandson of the

A Japanese mathematician, currently a professor at the University of Tokyo. He is a grandson of the linguist Kaku Jimbo.After graduating from the University of Tokyo in 1974, he studied under Mikio Sato at the Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Kyoto University. He has made important contributions to mathematical physics, including (independently with Vladimir Drinfel'd) the discovery of quantum groups. In 1993 he won the Japan Academy Prize for this work.

Was Japanese economist and emeritus professor of London School of Economics (LSE), Sir John Hicks Pr

Was Japanese economist and emeritus professor of London School of Economics (LSE), Sir John Hicks Professor of LSE. He was also emeritus professor of Osaka University and a member of the British Academy.He studied economics and sociology under Yasuma Takada.In 1946 he graduated Kyoto University and taught at Kyoto University and Osaka University. And he established Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER) of Osaka University with Yasuma Takada. In 1968, he went to Britain and taught at University of Essex, LSE.In 1965, he became the first Japanese president of the Econometric Society. It is said that the most enthusiastic supporter of Morishima was John Hicks.

Was a Japanese mathematician who studied group theory.He was a Professor at the University of Illino

Was a Japanese mathematician who studied group theory.He was a Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1953 to his death. He also had visiting positions at the University of Chicago (1960–61), the Institute for Advanced Study (1962–63, 1968–69, spring 1981), the University of Tokyo (spring 1971), and the University of Padua (1994). Suzuki received his Ph.D in 1952 from the University of Tokyo, despite having moved to the United States the previous year. He was the first to attack the Burnside conjecture, that every finite non-abelian simple group has even order.

Was a Polish politician and economist. During the times of the People's Republic of Poland he was th

Was a Polish politician and economist. During the times of the People's Republic of Poland he was the last leading politician from the former eastern regions of pre-Second World War Poland.Jagielski became a communist deputy to the legislative body of Poland, the Sejm, in 1957, and he would continue to serve in that capacity for seven consecutive terms until 1985. In 1959, he was posted to be a member of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers Party and appointed to be the Minister of Agriculture.

Was an American paleontologist who in 1911 recovered the only fossils of the dinosaur, Podokesaurus

Was an American paleontologist who in 1911 recovered the only fossils of the dinosaur, Podokesaurus holyokensis.Born in Iowa City, she was a professor of Geology and Geography at Mount Holyoke College from 1904-1935.

Is a Costa Rican economist, lawyer, businessman, and politician. He served as President of Costa Ric

Is a Costa Rican economist, lawyer, businessman, and politician. He served as President of Costa Rica from 1998 to 2002 and was briefly Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS) in 2004,

Is a highly acclaimed concert pianist. Born in Lisbon, he now lives in London, United Kingdom. Migue

Is a highly acclaimed concert pianist. Born in Lisbon, he now lives in London, United Kingdom. Miguel, a specialist in Heidegger and Aristotle, is preparing for the final stages of his PhD at Heythrop College, under the supervision of Professor Peter Gall

an Argentine economist, and former Minister of Economy and Production of Argentina. He was appointe

an Argentine economist, and former Minister of Economy and Production of Argentina. He was appointed by President Néstor Kirchner on July 16, 2007, in place of Felisa Miceli.[1]As an economist, Peirano has worked both in the public and the private sector. Between 1990 and 1992 he worked in the multinational Techint group. He was an adviser for the General Direction of Industry of the Government of the City of Buenos Aires, adviser for the Board of the Bank of the Province of Buenos Aires, and president of the Economics department of the Buenos Aires City Industrial Union. He also occupied various posts in the Argentine Industrial Union (UIA) from 1993 to 2004. Between 2003 and 2004 he was an adviser for the national Subsecretariat of the Small and Medium Enterprise and Regional Development, where he worked specially on the resolution of the economic asymmetries between Argentina and Brazil in the context of Mercosur. Before taking the post of Minister of Economy, he had been the senior vice president of the Bank of Investment and Foreign Trade (BICE), as well as the Secretary of Industry, Commerce and Small and Medium Enterprises.[