Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter M

Was a French philosopher and psychologist. Marcel Foucault was professor of philosophy at the Univer

Was a French philosopher and psychologist. Marcel Foucault was professor of philosophy at the University of Montpellier. In 1906 he founded a laboratory of experimental psychology at the university.[1]

Is a French historian, philosopher and sociologist. Gauchet is professor at the Centre de recherches

Is a French historian, philosopher and sociologist. Gauchet is professor at the Centre de recherches politiques Raymond Aron at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris and head of the periodical Le Débat (Histoire, politique, société).

Was a French Christian philosopher and mathematician.Marcel Légaut received his Ph.D. in Mathematic

Was a French Christian philosopher and mathematician.Marcel Légaut received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the École Normale Superieure of Paris in 1925. He taught in various faculties (among them Rennes and Lyon) until 1943. Under the impact of the Second

Is an American chef, and is perhaps best known as the runner-up of the second season of Top Chef, pl

Is an American chef, and is perhaps best known as the runner-up of the second season of Top Chef, placing behind Ilan Hall.Vigneron is originally from Bainbridge, Washington, and currently residing in Las Vegas, Nevada, where he is a Master Cook at Jodl Robuchon. He was educated at the Culinary Institute of America at the same time as Ilan Hall, and had a fellowship as a sous chef at the Institute's restaurant.

Was an Italian doctor, who gave his name to several physiological features.In 1656 Malpighi received

Was an Italian doctor, who gave his name to several physiological features.In 1656 Malpighi received a chair of medical practice in the university, three years after he had applied for it, and later the same year University of Pisa created a chair of theoretical medicine for him. He stayed in Pisa for three years and then returned to Bologna. In 1661 he was called to University of Messina where he stayed for four years.Most of Malpighi's research results were published as articles in the journal of the Royal Society of England. His first article appeared there in 1661 and was about anatomy of a lung of a frog during which he had discovered capillaries. In 1667 Henry Oldenburg invited Malpighi to correspond with the Royal Society regularly and he became a fellow the next year, the first such recognition given to an Italian.

Was a Croatian - Venetian [3] trader and explorer who gained fame for his worldwide travels, recorde

Was a Croatian - Venetian [3] trader and explorer who gained fame for his worldwide travels, recorded in the book Il Milione ("The Million" or The Travels of Marco Polo) also known as Oriente Poliano (the Orient of the Polos) and the Description of the World. [4] Polo, together with his father Niccolò and his uncle Maffeo, was one of the first Westerners to travel the Silk Road to China (which he called Cathay, after the Khitan) and visit Kublai Khan, a grandson of Genghis Khan and the founder of the Yuan Dynasty.

Was a Spanish zoologist, explorer and writer, born in Cartagena, Spain, although he spent most of hi

Was a Spanish zoologist, explorer and writer, born in Cartagena, Spain, although he spent most of his life in Madrid, where he died. He is known for participating in the Pacific Scientific Commission, with whom he traveled America from 1862 to 1865. He also published several works on geography and history of the American continent.

Was an American cytogeneticist. His research on maize led to important discoveries for basic genetic

Was an American cytogeneticist. His research on maize led to important discoveries for basic genetics and the applied science of plant breeding.He was one of the first cytogenecists to document the pre-meiotic pairing of homologous chromosomes in maize, otherwise referred as somatic pairing (Singh, 2003).

Is a Polish left-wing politician, the former leader of the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) and the fo

Is a Polish left-wing politician, the former leader of the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) and the former Speaker of the Sejm (the lower, but more powerful, house of Poland's parliament).Marek Borowski is an MP from Pila, but in the September 2005 parliamentary elections he contested a seat in Warsaw. Borowski was the Social Democratic presidential candidate in the 2005 Polish presidential elections. Just as his party received a massive defeat in the September 2005 Parliamentary elections, Borowski lost the presidential elections, receiving 10% of the vote and fourth place, despite Aleksander Kwasniewski's support following the withdrawal of Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz.

An English astrophysicist, noted for original research and holding many administrative posts, includ

An English astrophysicist, noted for original research and holding many administrative posts, including director of the Royal Greenwich Observatory.During her career she served at the University of London Observatory, Yerkes Observatory of the University of Chicago, Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, England, the California Institute of Technology, and from 1979 to 1988 was first director of the Center for Astronomy and Space Sciences at the University of California at San Diego (UCSD), where she worked from 1962 on.Burbidge started studying astronomy in 1936 at University College, London, graduated in 1939 and received her PhD at University College in 1943. She was turned down for a Carnegie Fellowship in 1945 because this fellowship would have meant that she would have had to observe at Mount Wilson observatory, which was reserved for men only at that time.

Was an American ornithologist who made an extensive study of the life history of the Song Sparrow an

Was an American ornithologist who made an extensive study of the life history of the Song Sparrow and was author of Studies in the Life History of the Song Sparrow (1937).From 1913 to 1927 she studied the birds of Oklahoma which were published as the "Birds of Oklahoma" in 1931. During the time in Oklahoma, she also became very interested in child psychology on which she published 18 articles. She studied her own children, their vocabulary, sentence length and speech development. In 1927 she moved to Columbus, Ohio, where Blaine had accepted a professorship at the Ohio State University. Here she carried out the study of sparrows that established her as one of the leading ornithologists in the world, recording the behavior of individual birds over a long period of time. She studied two banded pairs of birds initially and later 69 banded pairs. Beginning in 1929, she spent eight years studying these birds and focused on interactions

Was a French astronomer active at the Nice Observatory from the 1930s to the 1950s. Contemporary ast

Was a French astronomer active at the Nice Observatory from the 1930s to the 1950s. Contemporary astronomical articles refer to her as "Madame Laugier". She discovered a number of asteroids. The asteroid 1597 Laugier[1] is probably named for her.

Was a German-born Brazilian ornithologist who worked on the bird fauna of the Amazon. Snethlage coll

Was a German-born Brazilian ornithologist who worked on the bird fauna of the Amazon. Snethlage collected in Brazil from 1905 until her death.She became the director of the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, after the death of botanist Jacques Hüber, between 1

Commonly "Manuela Ferreira Leite", is a Portuguese economist and politician.Manuela Ferreira Leite h

Commonly "Manuela Ferreira Leite", is a Portuguese economist and politician.Manuela Ferreira Leite has in the past held several positions within the Portuguese government, including Minister of Education during Cavaco Silva's cabinet between 1993 and 1995

Was an American astronomer.Maria (pronounced Ma-RYE-ah) Mitchell was born on August 1, 1818, in Nant

Was an American astronomer.Maria (pronounced Ma-RYE-ah) Mitchell was born on August 1, 1818, in Nantucket, Massachusetts, and was a first cousin four times removed of Benjamin Franklin. She had nine brothers and sisters. Her parents, William Mitchell and Lydia Coleman Mitchell, were Quakers. Maria was born into a community unusual for its time in regard to equality for women. Her parents, like other Quakers, valued education and insisted on giving her the same quality of education that boys received. The Quaker religion taught, among other things, intellectual equality between the sexes. Additionally, Nantucket's importance as a whaling port meant the wives of sailors were left for months and sometimes years to manage affairs while their husbands were at sea

Was an African American public speaker, abolitionist, and feminist.

Was an African American public speaker, abolitionist, and feminist.

Was a Russian and Soviet marine geologist and one of the founders of Russian marine science.[1]Kleno

Was a Russian and Soviet marine geologist and one of the founders of Russian marine science.[1]Klenova began her marine geology career in 1925 as a researcher aboard the Soviet research vessel Persey, attached to the Floating Marine Research Institute in the Barents Sea and the archipelagos of Novaya Zemlya, Spitsbergen, and Franz Josef Land. In 1933 Klenova produced the first complete seabed map of the Barents Sea.In 1949 Klenova became a senior research associate at the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Her work included analyses of seabed geology in the Atlantic Ocean and the Antarctic, and in the Caspian, Barents and White Seas.

Is a Polish statesman and economist. He briefly served as Minister of Health in the government of Ma

Is a Polish statesman and economist. He briefly served as Minister of Health in the government of Marek Belka (2004).On June 11, 2004 he was nominated as the Minister of Health. He took over after Wojciech Rudnicki started this position just one-month previously

Is Associate Professor of Finance at Nowy Sacz School of Business - National-Louis University (Polan

Is Associate Professor of Finance at Nowy Sacz School of Business - National-Louis University (Poland). He studied at IESE Business School (2002 & 2007) and earned his PhD in Economics in 2004 from the Warsaw School of Economics (SGH). His dissertation on Public-Private Partnerships was highly evaluated and published as a book[1].

Was a Polish philosopher, Slavist, publicist and cultural historian. Critic of fascist and communist

Was a Polish philosopher, Slavist, publicist and cultural historian. Critic of fascist and communist totalitarianism. Representative of catastrophism and philosophical pessimism. He was a brother of Kazimierz Zdziechowski, writer.Since 1888 was a lecturer and since 1899 professor of Jagiellonian University. In 1919–1931 professor and 1925–1927 rector of Stefan Batory University. Since 1902 member of the Academy of Learning. Honoris causa in universities of Vilno, Tartu and Szeged.

A leading scholar of American Indian languages and language typology.Mithun began her career with ex

A leading scholar of American Indian languages and language typology.Mithun began her career with extensive fieldwork on Iroquoian languages, especially Mohawk, Cayuga, and Tuscarora, but has done considerable work on the languages of North America in general, culminating in her magisterial book The Languages of Native North America. She has also worked in California on Central Pomo and the Chumashan languages, on Central Alaskan Yupik, and on the Austronesian language Kapampangan. She is currently Professor of Linguistics at the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Known as "The King of Chefs, and the Chef of Kings" [2] was an early practitioner and exponent of th

Known as "The King of Chefs, and the Chef of Kings" [2] was an early practitioner and exponent of the elaborate style of cooking known as haute cuisine, the "high art" of French cooking: a grandiose style of cookery favored by both international royalty a

Was a Genevan Protestant reformer and theologian. She played an active role in Genevan religion and

Was a Genevan Protestant reformer and theologian. She played an active role in Genevan religion and politics, playing a large role in the closure of Geneva's convents, and preaching with such reformers as John Calvin and William Farel. In addition to her writings on the Reformation, Dentiere's writings seem to be a defense and propagation of the female perspective in the rapidly changing world. Her second husband, Antoine Froment, was also active in the reformation.

A French zoologist and artist.In zoology, Bocourt collaborated with Auguste Duméril. In 1861, he wa

A French zoologist and artist.In zoology, Bocourt collaborated with Auguste Duméril. In 1861, he was sent to Thailand (then called Siam), where he explored the fauna and brought back an important collection of specimens. In 1870 he published together with Duméril the Études sur les reptiles et les batraciens ("Studies on reptiles and amphibians"). In 1883, he published Études sur les poissons ("Studies on fishes") with Léon Vaillant.

Was a French astronomer and mathematician. Andoyer was elected member of the French Académie des sc

Was a French astronomer and mathematician. Andoyer was elected member of the French Académie des sciences on June 30, 1919 in the astronomy section. He was member of the Bureau des longitudes. The following short notice is excerpted from a set of biographical notices published in the document http://www.academie-sciences.fr/ama/appendice.pdf made by Jean-Claude Pecker for the Académie des sciences using various dictionaries: