Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter M

S an incumbent Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. She was appointed to the C

S an incumbent Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. She was appointed to the Court by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on February 10, 2004.

Was a Japanese astronomer.He discovered twelve comets between 1940 and 1968, including the periodic

Was a Japanese astronomer.He discovered twelve comets between 1940 and 1968, including the periodic comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova.He was the first to report the very bright V1500 Cygni (Nova Cygni 1975) at magnitude 3.0 on August 29, 1975; it peaked at 2.0, and many hundreds of independent discoveries were subsequently made by others.The asteroid 3904 Honda is named after him, 8485 Satoru is named after his wife,and 11442 Seijin-Sanso is named after his astronomical observatory.[

A Serbian researcher in genetics with the Institute of Human Genetics at Newcastle University. He ho

A Serbian researcher in genetics with the Institute of Human Genetics at Newcastle University. He holds a PhD from the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich. As of January 2006, he is serving as a Deputy Director and Head of Cellular Reprogramming Laboratory, Centro de Investigación Príncipe Felipe, Valencia, Spain.According to the TIME magazine, Stojkovic caused a controversy when he tried to create human embryos by injecting a patient's own DNA into an egg from which the genetic material has been removed. He then hopes to harvest stem cells—which can develop into almost any organ—and coax them to produce insulin in diabetics. The research could lead to cure of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and heart diseases.[1]

A Slovak linguist.In 1975-1980, she studied Slovak and Russian philology at the Faculty of Arts, Com

A Slovak linguist.In 1975-1980, she studied Slovak and Russian philology at the Faculty of Arts, Comenius University of Bratislava, Slovakia. Since 1980, she worked in the Ludovít Štúr Linguistics Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava. She defended her PhD dissertation Relational Adjectives in Slovak: Functional-Semantic Analysis of Desubstantive Derivates (in Slovak) in 1989 (published in Bratislava in 1993). In 1991, she co-founded, and until 2000, organised the yearly international Colloquium of Young Linguists (Kolokvium mladých jazykovedcov), a well-known and very popular event for Slovak, Czech and Polish university students of linguistics and young linguists. She edited a number of volumes of Varia, proceedings from the Colloquium.

Was a prominent Romanian philosopher, economist, ethics teacher and sociologist.He studied Philosoph

Was a prominent Romanian philosopher, economist, ethics teacher and sociologist.He studied Philosophy and Law at the University of Bucharest, graduating in 1925. He was then more attracted to sociology, due to his field experiences (monograph campaigns) under the coordination of professor Dimitrie Gusti. Gusti became one of his most admired mentors, alongside Nae Ionescu. He was also Gusti's assistant at the University of Sociology in Bucharest. He started working towards a Ph.D. degree in Law and Sociology at the University of Paris, but dropped out later, due to the coming of the communist regime and his imprisonment. In the winter of 1927 he started collaborating at Gândirea. King Carol the 2nd and, later, King Mihai the 1st offered him awards and distinctions for the services done to the Romanian nation and its culture.

Was a renowned Romanian mathematician.Born in Giurgiu, he attended the Matei Basarab high school in

Was a renowned Romanian mathematician.Born in Giurgiu, he attended the Matei Basarab high school in Bucharest. After completing his undergraduate studies at the Faculty of Mathematics of the University of Bucharest in 1924, he went to Paris, where he enrolled at the École Normale Supérieure and the Sorbonne. In 1928, he completed his doctoral dissertation, Fonctions complexes dans le plan et dans l'espace, under the direction of Paul Montel. Upon returning to Romania, he taught at the University of Cernauti until 1940, when he was named professor at the University of Bucharest

A British-Iranian economist.He received his BSc in Economics at the University of Salford (England)

A British-Iranian economist.He received his BSc in Economics at the University of Salford (England) and his PhD in Economics at Cambridge University. Currently, Dr Pesaran is Professor at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Cambridge and a Professorial Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.Previously, he was head of the Economic Research Department of the Central Bank of Iran and the Under-Secretary of the Ministry of Education, Iran. He has also been a Professor of Economics and the Director of the Applied Econometrics Program at UCLA, and Visiting Professor at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Vienna, at the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Southern California.

A full professor of political geography in Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran. He obtained his Ph.D

A full professor of political geography in Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran. He obtained his Ph.D in political geography from Tarbiat Modares University in 1990.He has published 13 books on the subject, as well as more than 110 papers in the journals and conference proceedings. His newest book entitled : "National Power and Interests" published in 2008. Hafeznia has a critical view and approach toward some basic and traditional concepts, such as: politics, process of democracy and legislation, nation, nation state, boundary and so on. [1]

Was a Polish Jewish mathematician, logician, and philosopher. He was a student of Alfred Tarski and

Was a Polish Jewish mathematician, logician, and philosopher. He was a student of Alfred Tarski and is known for, among other things, having invented Presburger arithmetic.

Was an American economist and statistician who, in 1963-65, developed the Orshansky Poverty Threshol

Was an American economist and statistician who, in 1963-65, developed the Orshansky Poverty Thresholds, which are used in the United States as a measure of the income that a household must not exceed to be counted as poor.

Was an American agrarian economist who worked for the United States government and the United Nation

Was an American agrarian economist who worked for the United States government and the United Nations for a number of years.He is credited with formulating the details of what was to become the Agriculture Adjustment Administration, and helped prepare a d

Is an Indonesian driver. He is the younger brother of another Indonesian driver Ananda Mikola. Moren

Is an Indonesian driver. He is the younger brother of another Indonesian driver Ananda Mikola. Moreno survived an enormous crash during race 14 of the 2006 Asian Formula 3 Championship at Sentul. On the opening lap of the race, Moreno was running in second place behind race leader James Winslow, when he ran into the rear of the English driver's Dallara F304 under braking for turn 3. The impact launched Moreno's car into a series of rolls and came to rest on its side beside the tyre barrier.

Was a German philosopher and historian. After studying at Gießen, Göttingen and Berlin, he spent a

Was a German philosopher and historian. After studying at Gießen, Göttingen and Berlin, he spent a few years in Italy studying the fine arts, and established himself in 1842 at Giessen as a teacher of philosophy. In 1853 he was appointed professor at the

Was a German botanist and explorer in South West Africa.Dinter started his collection in the country

Was a German botanist and explorer in South West Africa.Dinter started his collection in the countryside around Swakopmund, moved on to Walvis Bay and Luderitz where he was intrigued by the succulents growing between shoreline rocks. Since he was a collec

Was a German mathematician specializing in the foundations of geometry. He completed his Ph.D. at th

Was a German mathematician specializing in the foundations of geometry. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Breslau at only 22 years of age. He taught at the University of Giessen, where he is known to have supervised 30 doctorates. In 1882, Pasch

German philosopher and the founding father of logical positivism and the Vienna Circle.

German philosopher and the founding father of logical positivism and the Vienna Circle.

Was a German mathematician. He wrote his doctorate thesis in geometry (Über Krümmung und Windung g

Was a German mathematician. He wrote his doctorate thesis in geometry (Über Krümmung und Windung geschlossener Raumkurven) under Ludwig Bieberbach at the University of Berlin. He then taught at the University of Göttingen.

A Latvian-American Jewish linguist and an Institute Professor and professor emeritus of linguistics

A Latvian-American Jewish linguist and an Institute Professor and professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was born in Liepaja, Latvia, in 1923, and moved with his family to Riga in 1929. They arrived in the United States in 1940.From 1941 to 1943, Halle studied engineering at the City College of New York. He entered the United States Army in 1943 and was discharged in 1946, at which point he went to the University of Chicago, where he got his master's degree in linguistics in 1948. He then studied at Columbia University under Roman Jakobson, became a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1951, and earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1955. He retired from MIT in 1996, but he remains active in research and publication. He is fluent in German, Yiddish, Latvian, Russian, Hebrew and English.

Was an American statistician. Born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Professor DeGroot graduated from Roose

Was an American statistician. Born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Professor DeGroot graduated from Roosevelt University and earned master's and doctor's degrees from the University of Chicago. Professor DeGroot joined Carnegie Mellon in 1957 and became a Univ

Was an American linguist. He was born in Holyoke, Massachusetts to Russian Jewish parents from whom

Was an American linguist. He was born in Holyoke, Massachusetts to Russian Jewish parents from whom he learned Yiddish. He received his B.A. from the University of Chicago and his Ph.D. from Yale University, where he studied with Edward Sapir. During the Second World War he worked on military projects to compile reference materials for Burmese, Chinese, Russian, and Spanish. In May 1949 Swadesh was fired by the City College of New York as the result of accusations that he was a Communist, making him one of a number of anthropologists to fall victim to harassment by anti-communists during the McCarthy Era. He continued to work in the United States with limited funding from the American Philosophical Society until 1954 when he took a position as Professor at the National School of Anthropology and History (Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia) in Mexico City, where he remained until his death.

Was a Danish botanist who lived and worked most of his adult life in Greenland. He participated in e

Was a Danish botanist who lived and worked most of his adult life in Greenland. He participated in expeditions to Greenland in 1898 and 1902, together with the physiologist August Krogh. In 1906, he founded the Arctic Station in Qeqertarsuaq, West Greenland, since 1956 part of the University of Copenhagen. He got support from famous polar researchers like Knud Rasmussen, Mylius-Erichsen and Fridtjof Nansen. A private person donated the building and running cost were put directly on the Danish state budget. Morten Porsild managed the station for forty years. In 1946, he returned to Copenhagen,

Was a Danish zoologist and mineralogist.He studied oriental languages and theology, but soon became

Was a Danish zoologist and mineralogist.He studied oriental languages and theology, but soon became interested in natural history. He contributed his observations of insects to Erik Pontoppidan's Danske Atlas (1763-81). After being put in charge of the natural history collection of Judge Christian Fleischer he became interested in ornithology, and in 1764 he published Ornithologia Borealis, which included the details of many Scandinavian birds, some described for the first time.Brünnich corresponded with many foreign naturalists including Linnaeus, Peter Simon Pallas and Thomas Pennant. He published his Entomologia in 1764. He then embarked on a long tour of Europe, spending time studying the fish of the Mediterranean Sea and publishing his Ichthyologia Massiliensis on the subject in 1768.

Was a Danish botanist and explorer. He collected plants in Greenland and Kamchatka.In 1812-1813, Wor

Was a Danish botanist and explorer. He collected plants in Greenland and Kamchatka.In 1812-1813, Wormskjold made a botanical collection trip to Greenland via Leith near Edinburgh. The mineralogist Karl Ludwig Giesecke was meant to be his local contact. The vessel, “Freden”, was delayed for a month in Leith, which time Wormskjold used to follow lectures in geology by Robert Jameson and Daniel Rutherford. He also got acquainted with Ninian Imrie and Thomas Allan,

Was an American Aristotelian philosopher and author. He was born into a Jewish family in New York Ci

Was an American Aristotelian philosopher and author. He was born into a Jewish family in New York City, the son of an immigrant jewelry salesman. He dropped out of school at 14 years of age and went to work as a secretary and copy boy at the New York Sun, hoping to become a journalist. After a year, he took night classes at Columbia University to improve his writing. It was there that he became interested, after reading the autobiography of the great English philosopher John Stuart Mill, in the great philosophers and thinkers of Western civilization. Adler was driven to continue his reading after learning that Mill had read Plato when he was only five years old, while he had not read him at all. A book by Plato was lent to him by a neighbor and Adler became hooked. He then decided to study philosophy at Columbia, where he received a scholarship.

Was an important figure in twentieth-century economics and economic history, most renowned for his f

Was an important figure in twentieth-century economics and economic history, most renowned for his fundamental insights and pioneering technical contributions to the study of long-term economic growth and its drivers.