Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter M

Was a Brazilian jurist, philosopher, academic and politician.Miguel Reale taught philosophy of law a

Was a Brazilian jurist, philosopher, academic and politician.Miguel Reale taught philosophy of law at University of São Paulo, the institution from which he later received the title of Professor emeritus. As a scholar, he became well-known in Latin America and in Continental Europe for his works on law and philosophy. Miguel Reale is considered the chief architect of Brazil's current Civil Code.Miguel Reale served as Secretary of Justice for the state of São Paulo in 1947 and 1963 and twice as rector of the University of São Paulo in 1949 and 1969. He founded the Brazilian Institute of Philosophy in 1949 and the São Paulo-based Inter-American Society of Philosophy in 1954.

Was an Argentine-Brazilian physiologist, medical educator and writer.He studied at the Faculty of Me

Was an Argentine-Brazilian physiologist, medical educator and writer.He studied at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Buenos Aires, where, while a student, he worked also as a teaching assistant in the Chair of Physiology. He graduated in 1942 and soon thereafter started a full time career in research on Physiology, initially in collaboration with Bernardo Houssay, the great Argentine physiologist, who later was awarded with the 1947 Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology for his investigations on the interaction between the hypophysis and the pancreas in the control of glucose metabolism. From 1945 to 1948, Covian worked at the Institute of Experimental Biology and Medicine of Buenos Aires, a private research institution which Houssay and co-workers had founded in 1944, due to his dismissal from the University due to political persecution by the dictatorial regime of Juan Perón. There, he worked also with another eminent physiologist, Eduardo Braun-Menéndez, and presented his doctoral dissertation, in 1948.

Was an Argentine economist who made important contributions to the theory of economic growth by deve

Was an Argentine economist who made important contributions to the theory of economic growth by developing a dynamic model to describe the effects of money on long-run growth. He also published an article on exchange rate determination. Sidrauski taught economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Sidrauski was born and educated in Buenos Aires. He entered graduate studies at the University of Chicago in 1963 and completed his PhD in 1966 under the supervision of Hirofumi Uzawa and Milton Friedman. After completing his PhD, he was appointed as an assistant professor at MIT. He died of cancer at the age of 28, and was survived by his wife and two-month-old daughter.

A Portuguese palaeontologist. He is specialized, among other things, in dinosaur palaeontology.

A Portuguese palaeontologist. He is specialized, among other things, in dinosaur palaeontology.

Was a French philosopher and aesthetician. He is known as an author of existentialism, and is partic

Was a French philosopher and aesthetician. He is known as an author of existentialism, and is particularly noted for the work The Phenomenology of Aesthetic Experience (1953, in French as Phénoménologie de l'expérience esthétique).

Was an outstanding Soviet mathematician and hydrodynamicist. Lavrentiev was born in Kazan, where his

Was an outstanding Soviet mathematician and hydrodynamicist. Lavrentiev was born in Kazan, where his father was an instructor at a college (he later became a professor at Kazan University, then Moscow University).

Is a Franco-Soviet-Russian mathematician known for important contributions in many different areas o

Is a Franco-Soviet-Russian mathematician known for important contributions in many different areas of mathematics. He is considered a geometer in a very broad sense of the word.[citation needed]

Was a Russian philosopher, literary critic, semiotician[1] and scholar who wrote influential works o

Was a Russian philosopher, literary critic, semiotician[1] and scholar who wrote influential works of literary and rhetorical theory and criticism. His works, dealing with a variety of subjects, have inspired groups of thinkers such as neo-Marxists, struc

Was a Russian botanist who invented adsorption chromatography. In Russian, his last name can be tran

Was a Russian botanist who invented adsorption chromatography. In Russian, his last name can be translated as "color".

Is a noted Ukrainian economist and tutor of Nikolai Kondratiev, famous Soviet economist credited wit

Is a noted Ukrainian economist and tutor of Nikolai Kondratiev, famous Soviet economist credited with the presentation of the hypothesis of the Long waves in capitalist development. Mikhaylo Tugan-Baranovsky was one of the founders to National Academy of

Was a Russian mathematician, mechanician and physicist. Ostrogradsky is considered to be Leonhard Eu

Was a Russian mathematician, mechanician and physicist. Ostrogradsky is considered to be Leonhard Euler's disciple and the leading Russian mathematician of that day.

A Japanese mathematician, who started the field of algebraic analysis. He studied at the University

A Japanese mathematician, who started the field of algebraic analysis. He studied at the University of Tokyo, and then did graduate study in physics as a student of Shin'ichiro Tomonaga. From 1970 Sato has been professor at the Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, of Kyoto University.He is known for his innovative work in a number of fields, such as prehomogeneous vector spaces and Bernstein-Sato polynomials; and particularly for his hyperfunction theory. This initially appeared as an extension of the ideas of distribution theory; it was soon connected to the local cohomology theory of Grothendieck, for which it was an independent origin, and to expression in terms of sheaf theory. It led further to the theory of microfunctions, interest in microlocal aspects of linear partial differential equations and Fourier theory such as wave fronts, and ultimately to the current developments in D-module theory. Part of that is the modern theory of holonomic systems: PDEs over-determined to the point of having finite-dimensional spaces of solutions.

Is Professor of Comparative Literature and French at the University of Washington in Seattle.[1] Bor

Is Professor of Comparative Literature and French at the University of Washington in Seattle.[1] Born to Danish parents, he began his studies in France and emigrated to the United States in 1986. He is the author of many works on the history and philosophy of psychiatry, psychoanalysis and hypnosis. His constructivist analysis of the co-production of psychical "facts" emphasises the accuracy of historical accounts of mental disorders.

Was a Polish linguist, most significant as the co-inventor of the concept of phonemes, and relative

Was a Polish linguist, most significant as the co-inventor of the concept of phonemes, and relative of Anya Lucia Kruszewski. From 1883, he was a professor at Kazan University. His notable works include On Sound Alternation (1881) and Outline of Linguistic Science (1883). The former is actually the introduction to his master's thesis on morphophonemic alternation in Old Slavic (the section focusing on the theoretical background for the empirical work in the body of the thesis) and the latter is his doctoral thesis.

Was a Slovene Argentine Catholic philosopher and essayist.He was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia, then p

Was a Slovene Argentine Catholic philosopher and essayist.He was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia, then part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, to a Slovene family who had emigrated from the Italian-occupied Julian March. His father, Ludvik was a retired officer of the Austro-Hungarian Army. Milan spent his childhood in Ljubljana and Škofja Loka, and in 1939 he enrolled to the University of Ljubljana where he studied law. He specialized in Canonical law and continued his studies at the University of Turin, where he graduated in 1942. He first developed an interest in philosophy in Ljubljana, under the supervision of the Slovenian Neo-thomist thinker Aleš Ušenicnik and the Russian émigré Eugeni Spektorsky who thought philosophy of law at the University of Ljubljana.

Was an English cryptogamist and clergyman.He was especially famous as a systematist in mycology, som

Was an English cryptogamist and clergyman.He was especially famous as a systematist in mycology, some 6000 species of fungi being credited to him, but his Introduction to Cryptogamic Botany, published in 1857, and his papers on Vegetable Pathology in the

Was a Croatian—American geneticist, and the director of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) f

Was a Croatian—American geneticist, and the director of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) from 1941 to 1960, recruiting Barbara McClintock and Alfred Hershey.In 1919 he statred his PhD at Cornell University, his work was on maize genetics and was supervised by Rollins A. Emerson. He completed his PhD in 1923 and took up a research position at the Carnegie Institution of Washington's Department of Genetics Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. He completed work from his PhD, showing that ten different alleles could cause albinism in maize kernels, the at the advice of C. W. Metz he began work on the genetics of the plant Delphinium and the fruitfly Drosophila virilis studying mosaicism.

A legendary boxing referee, and also a former boxer, judge, and television personality. He is best k

A legendary boxing referee, and also a former boxer, judge, and television personality. He is best known for having officiated over several major heavyweight championship boxing matches in the 1980s and 1990s, and for starring in the television show Judge Mills Lane.Lane hails from a prominent Georgia family: his grandfather founded the largest bank in Georgia, and his uncle (and namesake) was the president of Citizens & Southern National Bank. Lane, however, had other aspirations, and joined the United States Marine Corps in 1956, after his graduation from Middlesex School. He became a boxer while with the Marines, becoming the All-Far East welterweight champ. After leaving the Marines, he enrolled at the University of Nevada, Reno and became the NCAA boxing champion. He turned pro while in college, eventually earning an 11-1 record as a pro. He was in the 1960 Summer Olympics boxing finals held in San Francisco, California. He was defeated by Phil Baldwin in the semifinals.

Was a prominent Czech physicist and mathematician.

Was a prominent Czech physicist and mathematician.

American Nobel Laureate economist and public intellectual. He made major contributions to the fields

American Nobel Laureate economist and public intellectual. He made major contributions to the fields of macroeconomics, microeconomics, economic history, and statistics

Was an American psychiatrist specializing in medical hypnosis and family therapy. He was founding pr

Was an American psychiatrist specializing in medical hypnosis and family therapy. He was founding president of the American Society for Clinical Hypnosis and a fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychological Association, and the American Psychopathological Association. He is noted for his approach to the unconscious mind as creative and solution-generating and for his influence on solution focused brief therapy, family systems therapy and Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP)

Was as American astronomer. He was born in Dodge Center, Minnesota.He dropped out of school and had

Was as American astronomer. He was born in Dodge Center, Minnesota.He dropped out of school and had no formal education past the age of 14. Because he loved the mountains, and Mount Wilson in particular, he became a "mule skinner" taking materials and equipment up the mountain while Mount Wilson Observatory was being built. In 1917, after a short stint on a ranch in La Verne, he became a janitor at the Mount Wilson Observatory. Out of sheer interest, he volunteered to be a night assistant at the observatory. His technical skill and quiet manner made him a favorite on the mountain. Recognizing his talent, in 1919, George Ellery Hale made him a Mt. Wilson staff member. This was unprecedented, as Humason did not have a Ph.D., or even a high school diploma. He soon proved Hale's judgment correct, as he made several key observational discoveries. He became known as a meticulous observer, obtaining photographs and difficult spectrograms of faint galaxies. His observations played a major role in the development of physical cosmology, including assisting Edwin Hubble in formulating Hubble's law. He retired in 1957.

Was a Brazilian geographer with a first degree in law.Santos' parents were teachers at elementary sc

Was a Brazilian geographer with a first degree in law.Santos' parents were teachers at elementary school and taught him at home how to read and write. When Milton turned eight years old, he had already completed the equivalent of an elementary school education. Milton's father was descended from slaves, and the boy was always motivated to study a lot. For instance, when he lived in Alcobaça -- from eight to ten years old -- he learned French and good manners. Always being taught at home, while awaiting the time to enter the "gymnasium".

Was a Serbian civil engineer and geophysicist, best known for his theory of ice ages, relating varia

Was a Serbian civil engineer and geophysicist, best known for his theory of ice ages, relating variations of the Earth's orbit and long-term climate change, now known as Milankovitch cycles.Milutin Milankovic attended the Technische Hochschule in Vienna (today Vienna University of Technology) where he graduated in Civil Engineering in 1902 and earned a doctorate in technical sciences in 1904. Later he worked in the then-famous firm of Adolf Baron Pittel Betonbau-Unternehmung in Vienna. He built dams, bridges, viaducts, aqueducts and other structures in reinforced concrete throughout the Austria-Hungary of the time. Milankovic continued to practice civil engineering in Vienna until the autumn of 1909, when he was offered the chair of applied mathematics (rational mechanics, celestial mechanics, theoretical physics) in Belgrade.

Was a Chinese American reproductive biologist. His specific area of study was the fertilisation proc

Was a Chinese American reproductive biologist. His specific area of study was the fertilisation process in mammalian reproduction. Though his career produced findings that are important and valuable to many areas in the field of fertilisation, including his work on in vitro fertilisation which led to the first "test tube baby", he was best known to the world for his contribution to the development of the combined oral contraceptive pill at the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology.