Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter N

The Executive Director of the International Energy Agency. He was born on March 3, 1950 in Japan. He

The Executive Director of the International Energy Agency. He was born on March 3, 1950 in Japan. He is graduated from the University of Tokyo in the field of economics in 1972, and has an MBA from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (1979). In 1973 he began his career with the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan (METI). In 1989 he joined the OECD as the Deputy-Director for Science, Technology and Industry, and served in 1991-1995 as the Director for Science, Technology and Industry.

Was a Japanese mathematician and computer scientist. The Yoneda lemma in category theory is named af

Was a Japanese mathematician and computer scientist. The Yoneda lemma in category theory is named after him. In computer science, he is known for his work on ALGOL dialects.

Is the Samuel Z. Stone Professor of Latin American Economics in the Department of Economics at Tulan

Is the Samuel Z. Stone Professor of Latin American Economics in the Department of Economics at Tulane University and a non-resident Fellow at the Center for Global Development. [1] She has been in the vanguard of development economists who not only insist on the link between poverty reduction and macroeconomic policy but also advocate well-targeted social policies to help the poor break out of poverty for good[2].Her curiosity about the causes of inequality and poverty and her drive to find solutions have been at the core of her work, which she has undertaken in academia, think tanks, and as an advisor to policymakers[3]. Descended from a family of Austrian Jews who had fled anti-Semitism in pre–World War II Europe, Nora Lustig was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina and has spent most of her adult life in the United States and Mexico[4]. She received her doctorate in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley.

Was an American theoretical and applied mathematician.Wiener was a pioneer in the study of stochasti

Was an American theoretical and applied mathematician.Wiener was a pioneer in the study of stochastic and noise processes, contributing work relevant to electronic engineering, electronic communication, and control systems.Wiener also founded cybernetics,

An English economist, author and campaigner. She is a leading expert on economic globalisation.Hertz

An English economist, author and campaigner. She is a leading expert on economic globalisation.Hertz attended Westminster School, University College London (for bachelor's degree), UK and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (for MBA), U.S. before attaining her PhD in Economics from the University of Cambridge (King's).At the invitation of a professor at Wharton, she then went to Russia to work for the World Bank and play a part in setting up the Russian stock exchange and in advising the Russian government on its privatisation programmes.Her disenchanted and highly critical Cambridge doctoral thesis, "Russian Business Relationships in the Wake of Reform", dispelling the myth of Russia's successful transition to a market economy and questioning the bank's requirements, was published in 1996.

Was a Scottish zoologist.Kinnear was the son of an Edinburgh architect and came from the same family

Was a Scottish zoologist.Kinnear was the son of an Edinburgh architect and came from the same family as Sir William Jardine. While studying at Trinity College, Glenalmond, he worked as a voluntary assistant at the Royal Scottish Museum from 1905 to 1907. After a recommendation by William Eagle Clarke, he was Curator of the museum of the Bombay Natural History Society from November 1907 to 1919, as well as assistant editor of the Bombay Natural History Society Journal. In 1913 he married Gwendolen Beatrice Millard, whose family lived in India and was closely involved with the BNHS. (Walter Samuel Millard) In 1920 he became an assistant in the Department of Zoology at the Natural History Museum, becoming Keeper of Zoology in 1945, and Director of the Museum in August 1947. He retired on April 30, 1950 and was knighted in June of that year.

American agronomist, humanitarian, Nobel laureate, and has been called the father of the Green Revol

American agronomist, humanitarian, Nobel laureate, and has been called the father of the Green Revolution. Borlaug was one of five people in history to have won the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal.

Was a British racing driver and two-time Formula One World Champion. He was born in Hampstead, Londo

Was a British racing driver and two-time Formula One World Champion. He was born in Hampstead, London.Graham Hill is the only driver to win the so-called Triple Crown of Motorsport.

Was a Jewish American geneticist at Caltech who achieved national fame as the scientist who devised

Was a Jewish American geneticist at Caltech who achieved national fame as the scientist who devised experiments to determine whether life might exist on Mars. His experiments were carried out by the Viking Lander of 1976, the first U.S. mission to success

Bowen conducted experimental research at the Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washing

Bowen conducted experimental research at the Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington from 1912 to 1937. He published The Evolution of the Igneous Rocks in 1928. This book set the stage for a geochemical and geophysical foundation for the study of rocks and minerals. This book became the petrology handbook. He was awarded the Penrose Medal in 1941.Bowen married Mary Lamont in 1911, and they had a daughter Catherine.

Was an American mathematician. Some of his major contributions were in the study of Fourier transfor

Was an American mathematician. Some of his major contributions were in the study of Fourier transforms, complex analysis, non-linear differential equations, number theory, and signal processing. He worked closely with Norbert Wiener in his early career. He joined the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1937

Was a professor of statistics and author or editor of several standard reference works.Career On qua

Was a professor of statistics and author or editor of several standard reference works.Career On qualification in 1938, Johnson was appointed Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Statistics at UCL. During World War II, he served under his former Profes

Was an English astronomer.By the time he was 18 years old, he had computed the orbits of two comets.

Was an English astronomer.By the time he was 18 years old, he had computed the orbits of two comets. He became an assistant at Radcliffe Observatory in Oxford, England in 1851. In 1860 he travelled to Madras, India, becoming the government astronomer. At the Madras Observatory he produced the Madras Catalogue of 11,015 stars. He also discovered five asteroids and six variable stars.His most notable contribution was to note that in the stellar magnitude system introduced by the Greek astronomer Hipparchus, stars of the first magnitude were about a hundred times as bright as stars of the sixth magnitude.

An economist and author.He received a BA with honors from Columbia University and did his graduate w

An economist and author.He received a BA with honors from Columbia University and did his graduate work at Columbia University and Princeton University. He was a professor of economics and economic history at Amherst College, where he edited the Journal of Economic History.On July 19, 2001, he appeared on the PBS show, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, to discuss the troubles with voting systems in the 2000 Presidential Election.On February 3, 2007, he was a guest on the Bloomberg on the Economy Radio Report on National Public Radio, in "Norton Garfinkle, Author, Discusses Rise of U.S. Middle Class".

An American biologist famous for his discovery of genetic transduction. Zinder was born in New York

An American biologist famous for his discovery of genetic transduction. Zinder was born in New York City, received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and became a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1969. He currently heads a laboratory at Rockefeller University.Working as a graduate student with Joshua Lederberg, Zinder discovered that bacteriophage can carry genes from one bacterium to another. Initial experiments were carried out using Salmonella. Zinder and Lederberg named this process of genetic exchange transduction.

A professor of economics at New York University. He is also the chairman of RGE Monitor, an economic

A professor of economics at New York University. He is also the chairman of RGE Monitor, an economic and financial analysis firm.He served in various roles at the Treasury Department, including Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary for International Affairs and Director of the Office of Policy Development and Review (July 1999 - June 2000). Previously, he was a Senior Economist for International Affairs on the Staff of the President's Council of Economic Advisors (July 1998 – July 1999).Currently, Professor Roubini is a Professor at the Stern School of Business at New York University. He has also held teaching positions at Yale University, but failed to get tenure.