Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter M

An English native. He is Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Nuffield

An English native. He is Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford.Browning received his undergraduate education at the London School of Economics. He was previously the Director of the Center for Applied Microeconometrics at the University of Copenhagen.His work encompasses some of the most difficult and at the same time prolific areas in microeconomic analysis, with emphasis in the empirical assessments of theoretical propositions. His scientific output is also considerable in the areas of intrahousehold decision making; demand analysis; consumption and saving, and its interaction with labor supply. An important part of his work concerns the empirical assessment of rationality through the concept of Revealed preference, and the modeling of individual heterogeneity in applied work.

Was an Austrian-born Jewish philosopher best known for his philosophy of dialogue, a religious exist

Was an Austrian-born Jewish philosopher best known for his philosophy of dialogue, a religious existentialism centered on the distinction between the I-Thou relationship and the I-It relationship.[1Martin (Hebrew name: ??????????, Mordechai) Buber was born in Vienna to an Orthodox Jewish family. His grandfather, Solomon Buber, in whose house in Lemberg (now Lviv, Ukraine) Buber spent much of his childhood, was a renowned scholar of Midrash and Rabbinic Literature. At home Buber spoke Yiddish and German. In 1892, Buber returned to his father's house in Lemberg. A personal religious crisis led him to break with Jewish religious customs: he started reading Immanuel Kant, Søren Kierkegaard, and Friedrich Nietzsche. The latter two, in particular, inspired him to pursue studies in philosophy. In 1896, Buber went to study in Vienna (philosophy, art history, German studies, philology). In 1898, he joined the Zionist movement, participating in congresses and organizational work. In 1899, while studying in Zürich, Buber met his future wife, Paula Winkler, a non-Jewish Zionist writer from Munich who later converted to Judaism.

Was an American mathematician and physicist. He made fundamental contributions in many areas of math

Was an American mathematician and physicist. He made fundamental contributions in many areas of mathematics and science, ranging from plasma physics to General Relativity and from nonlinear analysis to asymptotic analysis. His single most celebrated contr

Is a Jewish-American mathematician, known for his work on Hilbert's tenth problem (Jackson 2008, p.

Is a Jewish-American mathematician, known for his work on Hilbert's tenth problem (Jackson 2008, p. 560). He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1950, where his adviser was Alonzo Church (Jackson 2008, p. 560). He is Professor Emeritus at New

Was a French theologian of the Jansenist School. He was born at Bayonne, a nephew of Jean du Vergier

Was a French theologian of the Jansenist School. He was born at Bayonne, a nephew of Jean du Vergier de Hauranne, Abbot of Saint-Cyran, who sent him to Belgium to be taught by Cornelius Jansen. When he returned to France he served for a time as tutor to the son of Robert Arnauld d'Andilly and later, 1644, succeeded his uncle at the Benedictine abbey of Saint-Cyran in Berry. He did much to improve the abbey; new buildings were erected, and the library much enhanced. Unlike many commendators of his day who scarcely ever saw the abbeys over which they held authority, Barcos became an active member of Saint-Cyran, was ordained priest 1647, and gave himself up to the rigid asceticism preached by his sect.

Is a popular American mathematics and science writer specializing in recreational mathematics, but w

Is a popular American mathematics and science writer specializing in recreational mathematics, but with interests encompassing magic (conjuring), pseudoscience, literature (especially Lewis Carroll), philosophy, and religion. He wrote the "Mathematical Games" column in Scientific American from 1956 to 1981 and has published over 70 books.

German philosopher. His best known book, Being and Time, is generally considered to be one of the ke

German philosopher. His best known book, Being and Time, is generally considered to be one of the key philosophical works of the 20th century.

Was a German embryologist and anatomist.Rathke was a professor of zoology and anatomy at Königsberg

Was a German embryologist and anatomist.Rathke was a professor of zoology and anatomy at Königsberg from 1835 to 1860. He studied marine organisms and the embryonic development of sex organs

A German neurobiologist and geneticist. As of 2006[update], he is the chair for genetics and neurobi

A German neurobiologist and geneticist. As of 2006[update], he is the chair for genetics and neurobiology at the bio centre of the University of Würzburg.The son of Werner Heisenberg, Heisenberg studied chemistry and molecular biology in Munich, Tübingen and Pasadena. In 1975 he became Professor of genetics and neurobiology at the University of Würzburg. Heisenberg's work has focused on the neurogenetics of Drosophila (the fruit fly), with the aim of investigating the genetic foundations of the Drosophila brain by studying the effect of genetic mutations on brain function.

Was a Danish-Norwegian botanist and zoologist.He studied botany in Copenhagen and in Uppsala under C

Was a Danish-Norwegian botanist and zoologist.He studied botany in Copenhagen and in Uppsala under Carolus Linnaeus. He edited Flora Danica fasc. XVI-XXI (1787-1799), Symbolæ Botanicæ I-III (1790-1794), Eclogæ Americanæ I-IV (1796-1807) and Enumeratio Plantarum I-II (1804-1805). He lectured at the University of Copenhagen Botanical Garden from 1779 to 1782.

Was a Canadian-born researcher who made important contributions in the fields of infectious diseases

Was a Canadian-born researcher who made important contributions in the fields of infectious diseases.and educated at Dalhousie University and McGill University. His research included studies on the transmutation[citation needed] of strains of pneumococci and on the biological variants of the streptococcus and other microorganisms. Dawson's studies on the nature and treatment of arthritis made him a recognized authority in this disorder. He was a pioneer in penicillin therapy, and was the first in the world to prepare it and use it in human disease. This included the successful treatment of bacterial endocarditis with penicillin, and the use of gold salts in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis.

Was a German mathematician. He settled in the United Kingdom after the Second World War and speciali

Was a German mathematician. He settled in the United Kingdom after the Second World War and specialised in mathematical logic. He moved to the Netherlands in the 1970s, where he remained in retirement. He is perhaps best known for having formulated Löb's

He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge, 1655, graduated in 1658/9, and was elected a fellow

He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge, 1655, graduated in 1658/9, and was elected a fellow in 1660. He became F.R.S. in 1671. He practised medicine at York until 1683, when he removed to London. In 1684 he received the degree of M.D. at Oxford, and in 1687 became F.R.C.P.He contributed numerous articles on natural history, medicine and antiquities to the Philosophical Transactions. His principal works were Historiae animalium Angliae tres tractatus (1678); Historiae Conchyliorum (1685 1692), and Conchyliorum Bivalvium (1696). As a conchologist he was held in high esteem, but while he recognized the similarity of fossil

Was a German American astronomer. He was the son of famed astrophysicist Karl Schwarzschild and the

Was a German American astronomer. He was the son of famed astrophysicist Karl Schwarzschild and the nephew of the Swiss astrophysicist Robert Emden.His work led to greater understanding in the fields of stellar structure and stellar evolution. He also headed the Stratoscope projects, which used balloon-mounted instruments to study astronomical phenomena.

The Seymour H. Knox Professor Emeritus of Mathematical Institutional Economics at Yale University. H

The Seymour H. Knox Professor Emeritus of Mathematical Institutional Economics at Yale University. He was educated at the University of Toronto and Princeton University. On the Yale faculty since 1963, Prof. Shubik specializes in strategic analysis, the study of financial institutions, and the economics of corporate competition, and is a well-known figure in game theory. He has written a number of books and essays, including Political Economy, Oligopoly and Experimental Games (Edward Elgar, 1999) and The Theory of Money and Financial Institutions (MIT Press, 1999).

Was a Danish-Norwegian botanist and zoologist.He studied botany in Copenhagen and in Uppsala under C

Was a Danish-Norwegian botanist and zoologist.He studied botany in Copenhagen and in Uppsala under Carolus Linnaeus. He edited Flora Danica fasc. XVI-XXI (1787-1799), Symbolæ Botanicæ I-III (1790-1794), Eclogæ Americanæ I-IV (1796-1807) and Enumeratio Plantarum I-II (1804-1805). He lectured at the University of Copenhagen Botanical Garden from 1779 to 1782.Vahl made several research trips in Europe and North Africa between 1783 and 1788. He became professor at the Society for Natural History in Copenhagen in 1786 and was a full professor of botany at the University of Copenhagen from 1801 to his death.

Was a German mathematician. Kutta was born in Pitschen, Upper Silesia (today Byczyna, Poland). He at

Was a German mathematician. Kutta was born in Pitschen, Upper Silesia (today Byczyna, Poland). He attended the University of Breslau from 1885 to 1890, and continued his studies in Munich until 1894, where he became the assistant of Walther Franz Anton vo

Was a Polish Jesuit philosopher, known for his erudite scholastic Logica of 1618.The Logica was seve

Was a Polish Jesuit philosopher, known for his erudite scholastic Logica of 1618.The Logica was several times reprinted, in particular at Oxford where it was in use as a textbook.[5] It harked back to Gregory of Rimini, discussing mental propositions.[6] As a textbook author his reputation survived in the satirical poem The Logicians Refuted[7], attributed to both Jonathan Swift and Oliver Goldsmith. Samuel Johnson, writing in 1751 in The Rambler, claimed that as as student he "slept every night with Smiglecius on my pillow."[8]

Was a Dutch microbiologist and botanist. He was born in AmsterdamBeijerinck studied at Leiden Univer

Was a Dutch microbiologist and botanist. He was born in AmsterdamBeijerinck studied at Leiden University and became a teacher in microbiology at the Agricultural School in Wageningen (now Wageningen University and later at the Polytechnische Hogeschool Delft (Delft Polytechnic, currently Delft University of Technology) (from 1895). He established the Delft School of Microbiology. His studies of agricultural microbiology and industrial microbiology yielded fundamental discoveries in the field of biology. His achievements have been perhaps unfairly overshadowed by those of his contemporaries Robert Koch and Louis Pasteur, because unlike them, Beijerinck never studied human disease.

Was an early British fossil collector and paleontologist.Mary's father Richard was a cabinet maker w

Was an early British fossil collector and paleontologist.Mary's father Richard was a cabinet maker who supplemented his income by mining the coastal cliff-side fossil beds near Lyme Regis, then selling his finds to tourists. Richard Anning moved to Lyme from Colyton in Devon. Aged 27 he was in Blandford, where he married Mary Moore on 8 August 1793. Returning to Lyme, the couple lived in a house built on the town’s bridge, and attended the local Congregational Church, where their children were baptized. Soon after their marriage a daughter Mary was born, she was followed by a second daughter, Martha, who died almost at once, then by a son Joseph, in 1796.

An English geneticist, retired from active research in 1990. Her research focused on the effects of

An English geneticist, retired from active research in 1990. Her research focused on the effects of radiation and other agents on genetic mutation, as well as the process of mutation itself and its applications to medicine. In 1961 she described inactivation of the X chromosome, the Lyon hypothesis explaining how X chromosomes can sometimes be inactive in mammals.Lyon is a Fellow of the Royal Society, a Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences, and a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Australian lawyer and judge

Australian lawyer and judge

Is an American mathematician. She is the author of books and papers in the fields of mathematics, ma

Is an American mathematician. She is the author of books and papers in the fields of mathematics, mathematics education, computer science, applied statistics, economic equity, discrimination law, and academic freedom.

Was an American linguist who specialized in North American Indian languages, Thai, and historical li

Was an American linguist who specialized in North American Indian languages, Thai, and historical linguistics.Haas attended high school in Richmond, Indiana, and later Earlham College. At the University of Chicago she undertook graduate work on comparative philology. Her first published paper, A Visit to the Other World, a Nitinat Text, a collaboration with Morris Swadesh (to whom she would later be married for a time), was published in 1933.She went on to complete her Ph.D. in linguistics from Yale University in 1935 with a dissertation entitled A Grammar of the Tunica Language. (Tunica was a language once spoken in present-day Louisiana.) Haas worked with the last fluent speaker of Tunica, Sesostrie Youchigant, producing extensive texts and vocabularies.

Was a Scottish science writer and polymath, at a time when women's participation in science was disc

Was a Scottish science writer and polymath, at a time when women's participation in science was discouraged. She studied mathematics and astronomy, and was the second woman scientist to receive recognition in the United Kingdom after Caroline Herschel.She was the daughter of Admiral Sir William George Fairfax, and was born at the manse of Jedburgh, in the Borders, the house of her mother's sister, wife of Dr Thomas Somerville (1741–1830), author of My Own Life and Times. In 1804 she married her distant cousin, the Russian Consul in London, Captain Samuel Greig, son of Admiral Samuel Greig. They had two children before Greig died in 1807, one of whom, Woronzow Greig became a barrister and scientist.