Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter M

Was a French Protestant theologian and metaphysician. He is perhaps most noted for his modifications

Was a French Protestant theologian and metaphysician. He is perhaps most noted for his modifications to Calvinist theology regarding the nature of Christ's atonement, which is referred to as Amyraldism or Amyraldianism.

Was a Russian logician and mathematician, known for the invention of combinatory logic.Schönfinkel

Was a Russian logician and mathematician, known for the invention of combinatory logic.Schönfinkel attended the Novorossiysk University of Odessa, studying mathematics under Samuil Osipovich Shatunovskii (1859–1929), who worked in geometry and the foundat

S Moshe ben Maimon (Hebrew: ??? ?? ??????), the Rambam and Musa ibn Maymun (Arabic: ???? ??? ??????)

S Moshe ben Maimon (Hebrew: ??? ?? ??????), the Rambam and Musa ibn Maymun (Arabic: ???? ??? ??????), was a rabbi, physician, and philosopher in Spain, Morocco and Egypt during the Middle Ages. He was the preeminent medieval Jewish philosopher whose ideas also influenced the non-Jewish world.

Was a professor of Japanese linguistics at University of Tokyo.He was a pupil of Hashimoto Shinkichi

Was a professor of Japanese linguistics at University of Tokyo.He was a pupil of Hashimoto Shinkichi. However, he criticized Hashimoto's Japanese grammar and created his own "Tokieda grammar" from his own "language process theory" (?????, gengo katei setsu).

Was a Japanese biologist best known for introducing the neutral theory of molecular evolution in 196

Was a Japanese biologist best known for introducing the neutral theory of molecular evolution in 1968 . He became one of the most influential theoretical population geneticists. He is remembered in genetics for his innovative use of diffusion equations to calculate the probability of fixation in time to fixation of beneficial, deleterious, or neutral alleles. Combining theoretical population genetics with molecular evolution data, he also developed the neutral theory of molecular evolution in which genetic drift is the main force changing allele frequencies. James F. Crow, himself a renowned population geneticist, considers Kimura to be one of the two greatest evolutionary geneticists, along with Gustave Malécot, after the great trio of the modern synthesis (Haldane, Wright, Fisher).

Was a Japanese statistician who championed the ideas of R.A. Fisher and went on to influence the fie

Was a Japanese statistician who championed the ideas of R.A. Fisher and went on to influence the fields of quality control and biometrics.

Was a Chinese New-Confucian philosopher. He was born in Shandong province and in 1933 graduated from

Was a Chinese New-Confucian philosopher. He was born in Shandong province and in 1933 graduated from Peking University. In 1949, he moved to Taiwan and remained outside of Mainland China for the rest of his life. His thought was heavily influenced by Immanuel Kant and he translated all 3 of Kant's Critiques into Chinese.

Was a philosopher who lived in China during the Hundred Schools of Thought period (early Warring Sta

Was a philosopher who lived in China during the Hundred Schools of Thought period (early Warring States Period). He founded the school of Mohism and argued strongly against Confucianism and Daoism. During the Warring States Period, Mohism was actively developed and practiced in many states, but fell out of favour when the legalist Qin Dynasty came to power. During that period many Mohist classics were ruined when Qin Shihuang carried out the burning of books and burying of scholars. The importance of Mohism further declined when Confucianism became the dominant school of thought during the Han Dynasty, disappearing by the middle of the Western Han Dynasty [1].

The Sherman Fairchild Professor of Neuroscience and Head of the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sc

The Sherman Fairchild Professor of Neuroscience and Head of the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).Using experimental and theoretical approaches, his laboratory studies developmental plasticity and the dynamic changes in mature cortical networks during information processing, learning and memory. His laboratory has discovered fundamental principles by which neurons of the cerebral cortex are wired during development and change dynamically in adulthood. In one series of experiments, he “rewired” the brain to explore how the environment influences the development of cortical circuits. The retina, which normally projects to the visual cortex, was induced to project to structures that normally process hearing. Visual input altered the development of neuronal connections in the auditory cortex, thus enabling animals to use their "hearing" cortex to "see."

A retired professor of Urdu and South Asian Studies who has written several fantasy novels under the

A retired professor of Urdu and South Asian Studies who has written several fantasy novels under the pen name M. A. R. Barker. He still frequently signs himself as "Phil" in correspondence.In 1951, on his first trip to India he converted to Islam "for purely theological reasons. It seemed like a more logical religion."[2]Barker has studied languages including Urdu and Balochi and written many publications related to those languages.Barker taught at McGill University, and from 1972 at the University of Minnesota, where he would eventually chair the Department of South Asian studies. He currently resides in Minneapolis, MN, USA.

Was an Egyptian Muslim jurist. Al Shaarawy had a very widespread popularity that he earned the title

Was an Egyptian Muslim jurist. Al Shaarawy had a very widespread popularity that he earned the title of "The preacher of the century." Al Shaarawy was so talented in explaining the meanings of the holy Quraan. His real talent was best shown when he explained in simple words the meaning behind the most difficult verses of the Qur'an. He was also famous for being the first and last non-Saudi to give the khutbah, or Islamic speech at Arafat, a mountain of monumental importance during the Hajj, or the Islamic pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia.

Was an emeritus professor of linguistics at the Department of Linguistics at the University of Calif

Was an emeritus professor of linguistics at the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, which he also founded. He was prominent in the field of sociolinguistics research in India, being the first to do fieldwork on non-literary Dravidian languages in India, and also initiated the field of areal linguistics. He was president of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) in 1949.

Formerly a judge of the County Court of Victoria in Australia

Formerly a judge of the County Court of Victoria in Australia

Was a Canadian physician and medical researcher who discovered with graduate student Ewart George Be

Was a Canadian physician and medical researcher who discovered with graduate student Ewart George Bertram, in 1948, an important cell structure, the "Barr body".[1]He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.In 1968, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 1959, he received the Royal Society of Canada's Flavelle Medal. In 1962, he won a Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation Award for his contributions to the understanding of the causes of mental retardation. In 1963, he received the Gairdner Foundation International Award. In 1998, he was inducted into Canadian Medical Hall of Fame.

Was a Ukrainian mathematician who, despite his early death, was the author of around 180 articles on

Was a Ukrainian mathematician who, despite his early death, was the author of around 180 articles on mathematics. He primarily wrote papers on differential equations and integral equations, studying both their theory and applications. His two-volume monog