Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter P

Was a scholastic philosopher and theologian. We know little of his life before 1312. After this time

Was a scholastic philosopher and theologian. We know little of his life before 1312. After this time, he taught at the Franciscan convent in Bologna, then at the convent in Toulouse, around 1314. He went to Paris in 1316 in order to qualify for his doctorate, where he read the Sentences. In 1318 he was appointed master of theology at the University of Paris. In 1321, he was appointed by his mentor, Pope John XXII, to the position of Archbishop of Aix-en-Provence, but died not long after in 1322.

Was a Dutch ophthalmologist, geneticist, and pioneer in the application of genetics to ophthalmology

Was a Dutch ophthalmologist, geneticist, and pioneer in the application of genetics to ophthalmology. Waardenburg syndrome is named after him.[1]Waardenburg studied medicine at the Utrecht University from 1904–11, and then trained in ophthalmology before receiving an MD for a dissertation on the hereditary basis of the physiological and pathological characteristics of the eye in 1913.[2] In 1932 Waardenburg suggested that Down syndrome might be the consequence of a chromosomal aberration, a fact which was confirmed after 27 years, by Jérôme Lejeune and his colleagues.[3]

Was a Dutch expert in the Old Javanese language. He came from Utrecht and was associated with the So

Was a Dutch expert in the Old Javanese language. He came from Utrecht and was associated with the Society of Jesus by 1925. He worked at Leiden University in the 1930s. His first work appeared in 1930 and he continued to write into the 1990s. He lived in Yogyakarta and was interred in the Jesuit necropolis at Muntilan, Java.

Was a Dutch astronomer, cartographer and clergyman. He was born as Pieter Platevoet in Dranouter, no

Was a Dutch astronomer, cartographer and clergyman. He was born as Pieter Platevoet in Dranouter, now in Heuvelland, West Flanders. He studied theology in Germany and England. At the age of 24 he became a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church.Because of fear for religious prosecution by the Inquisition he fled from Brussels to Amsterdam after the city fell in Spanish hands in 1585. There he became interested in navigation and cartography and, being fortunate enough to have access to nautical charts recently brought from Portugal, he was soon recognized as an expert on the shipping routes to India. He strongly believed in the idea of a North East passage until the failure of Willem Barentsz's third voyage in 1597 seemed to preclude the possibility of such a route.

French humanist, logician, and educational reformer, was born at the village of Cuts, Oise in Picard

French humanist, logician, and educational reformer, was born at the village of Cuts, Oise in Picardy, a member of a noble but impoverished family: his father was a farmer and his grandfather's father[clarification needed] a charcoal-burner. He was killed during the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre.

Was a British astronomer whose parents immigrated from Belgium.In 1908 he discovered a moon of Jupit

Was a British astronomer whose parents immigrated from Belgium.In 1908 he discovered a moon of Jupiter, today known as Pasiphaë. It was simply designated "Jupiter VIII" and was not given its present name until 1975.The asteroid 676 Melitta, the only one he discovered, is named after him, in a way. Its name is in fact the Attic form of the Greek Melissa, the bee, but its resemblance with the discoverer's name is not fortuitous.The conspicuous star cluster in the Coma Berenices constellation is commonly designated Mel 111 since it appeared in Melotte's 1915 catalog of deep sky objects but not in Charles Messier's famous catalogue or in the New General Catalogue since it was not proved to be a true cluster until 1938.[1]

Was an English botanist.Webb who was born to a wealthy aristocratic family studied languages, botany

Was an English botanist.Webb who was born to a wealthy aristocratic family studied languages, botany, and geology at Harrow and Oxford. He collected plants in Italy, Spain and Portugal, and was the first person to collect in the Tetuan Mountains of Morocco. En route to Brazil he made what was intended to be a brief visit to the Canary Islands, but he ended up stopping for a considerable time, returning after his Brazil expedition. The results can be seen in the nine-volume L'Histoire Naturelle des Iles Canaries, which he coauthored with Sabin Berthelot.In company with Berthelot, who had lived on the islands for some time Webb collected specimens on the islands between 1828 and 1830

An American cognitive scientist who since 2003 has been the Chief Executive Officer and a Senior Sci

An American cognitive scientist who since 2003 has been the Chief Executive Officer and a Senior Scientist at Haskins Laboratories in New Haven, Connecticut. He is also a Professor Adjunct in the Department of Surgery, Otolaryngology at the Yale University School of Medicine and a Research Affiliate in the Department of Psychology at Yale University. He is also known as a civic scientist who has been involved with issues of science advocacy, education, funding, and policy.Philip Rubin's research spans a number of disciplines, combining computational, engineering, linguistic, physiological and psychological approaches to study embodied cognition, most particularly the biological bases of speech and language. He is best known for his work on articulatory synthesis (computational modeling of the physiology and acoustics of speech production), sinewave synthesis, signal processing,

Was a British logician and follower of Bertrand Russell.He was born in Ashbourne in Derbyshire[1] on

Was a British logician and follower of Bertrand Russell.He was born in Ashbourne in Derbyshire[1] one of a large family belonging to Emily Clay and his father Francis Jourdain (who was the vicar at Ashbourne).[2] He was partly disabled by Friedreich's ata

Was an American astronomer and an officer in the U.S. Army. He was the first director of the Adler P

Was an American astronomer and an officer in the U.S. Army. He was the first director of the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, the first planetarium in the western hemisphere.While recovering, Fox earned a master's degree at Kansas State and taught math at St. John’s Military School in Salina, Kansas. Invited to Dartmouth College in 1901 by his cousin Ernest Fox Nichols, Fox soon departed for that school, where he earned a second B.S., this time in physics. While at Dartmouth, Edwin Brant Frost persuaded Fox to pursue a career in astronomy, and in 1903 Fox became a Carnegie Research Assistant at Yerkes Observatory of the University of Chicago. His primary interest at the observatory was in solar research.

Was an English naturalist and popularizer of natural science, virtually the inventor of the seawater

Was an English naturalist and popularizer of natural science, virtually the inventor of the seawater aquarium, and a painstaking innovator in the study of marine biology. Gosse is perhaps best known today as the author of Omphalos, an attempt to reconcile the immense geological ages presupposed by Charles Lyell with the biblical account of creation. After his death, Gosse was also caricatured as a despotic and fanatically religious father in Father and Son (1907), the literary masterpiece of his son, poet and critic Edmund Gosse.[2]

He was also an English Unitarian theologian (son of a Unitarian clergyman), classicist, medievalist,

He was also an English Unitarian theologian (son of a Unitarian clergyman), classicist, medievalist, and literary critic.Wicksteed was educated at University College, London and Manchester New College. In 1867 he received his master's degree with a gold medal in classics. Following his father into the Unitarian ministry in 1867, Wicksteed embarked on an extraordinarily broad range of scholarly and theological explorations.

Was a British astronomer.He became second chief assistant at the Royal Greenwich Observatory in 1896

Was a British astronomer.He became second chief assistant at the Royal Greenwich Observatory in 1896 and later became the Superintendent of HM Nautical Almanac Office during 1910–1930. He worked on celestial mechanics, and orbits of comets and minor planets in particular. He also carefully studied the discrepancy that then existed between the theory and observation of the position of the Moon.

An American geneticist. He was born in Washington, D.C. and studied at Harvard University, graduatin

An American geneticist. He was born in Washington, D.C. and studied at Harvard University, graduating in 1956. In 1960, he graduated from Harvard Medical School.He is known for his early work with Marshall Nirenberg for working on the genetic code and the Nirenberg and Leder experiment. Since that landmark experiment, he has made many seminal contributions in the fields of molecular genetics, immunology and the genetic basis of cancer. He is a recipient of the Lasker Award and the National Medal of Science. He is currently Chairman of the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School.

Was an English lawyer and zoologist. Sclater was born at Tangier Park, Hampshire, where his father W

Was an English lawyer and zoologist. Sclater was born at Tangier Park, Hampshire, where his father William Lutley Sclater had a country house. He grew up at Haddington House and here he took an interest in birds. He was educated in school at Twyford and at thirteen went to Winchester College and later Christ Church, Oxford, where he studied scientific ornithology under Hugh Edwin Strickland.In 1851 he began to study law and was admitted a Fellow of Corpus Christi College. In 1856 he visited America and visited Lake Superior and the upper St. Croix and canoed down it to the Mississippi and wrote about it in "Illustrated Travels". In Philadelphia he met Baird, Cassin and Leidy at the Academy of Natural Sciences

Was a botanist of Scottish descent.[1] Miller was chief gardener at the Chelsea Physic Garden from 1

Was a botanist of Scottish descent.[1] Miller was chief gardener at the Chelsea Physic Garden from 1722[2] until he was pressured to retire shortly before his death. According to the botanist Peter Collinson, who visited the Physic Garden in July 1764 and recorded his observation in his commonplace books, Miller "has raised the reputation of the Chelsea Garden so much that it excels all the gardens of Europe for its amazing variety of plants of all orders and clasases and from all climates..."[3] He wrote The Gardener's and Florists Dictionary or a Complete System of Horticulture (1724) and The Gardener's Dictionary containing the Methods of Cultivating and Improving the Kitchen Fruit and Flower Garden, which first appeared in 1731 in an impressive folio and passed through eight expanding editions in his lifetime.[4]

Professor of International Macroeconomics and Director of the Institute for International Integratio

Professor of International Macroeconomics and Director of the Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS) at Trinity College, Dublin. He received a doctorate in Economics at Harvard University in 1995 and was an Assistant Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Columbia University during 1995-1997 before joining TCD in 1997. He is a research fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research and has been a visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and a consultant to the European Commission. He is among the Top 500 Economists in the World according to IDEAS/RePEc.

Was a French theologian and Latin lyric poet. He was the illegitimate son of Philippe, Archdeacon of

Was a French theologian and Latin lyric poet. He was the illegitimate son of Philippe, Archdeacon of Paris (born 1125), and was part of a family of powerful clerics. He was born and studied theology in Paris. He was chancellor of Notre Dame de Paris starting in 1211 until his death, and was also Archdeacon of Noyon. Philip is portrayed as an enemy to the Mendicant orders becoming prevalent at the time, but this has been greatly exaggerated. He may have even joined the Franciscan order soon before his death.[1]

Is the only American-born driver to win the Formula One driving championship.Raised in Santa Monica,

Is the only American-born driver to win the Formula One driving championship.Raised in Santa Monica, California, where he still lives, Phil Hill began racing cars at an early age, going to England as a Jaguar trainee in 1949 and signing with Enzo Ferrari’s team in 1956. He made his debut in the French Grand Prix at Reims France in 1958 driving a Maserati. That same year, he won the 24 Hours of Le Mans with Belgian team mate Olivier Gendebien, driving for most of the night in horrific rainy conditions. He and Gendebien would go on to win the famous endurance race two more times.

Is a philosopher who writes in both English and Chinese.Zhai is the author of Get Real: A Philosophi

Is a philosopher who writes in both English and Chinese.Zhai is the author of Get Real: A Philosophical Adventure in Virtual Reality (1998: Rowman & Littlefield), in which he argues that the logical extreme of virtual reality is ontologically equivalent to actual reality. Zhai also writes about cyberspace in light of its connection to virtual reality. The other book that he's written in English is The Radical Choice and Moral Theory (1994: Kluwer).

A German zoologist who was a native of Cologne.

A German zoologist who was a native of Cologne.

Was an Early Modern German geographer and historian.Clüver was an antiquary, who was given a specia

Was an Early Modern German geographer and historian.Clüver was an antiquary, who was given a special appointment at Leiden as geographer and put in charge of the university's library, but his life's project, it developed, was a general study of the geography of Antiquity, based not only on classical literary sources, but — and this was his contribution — supplemented by wide travels and local inspections. He became virtually the founder of historical geography.

Was a physicist, mathematician and also an influential philosopher during the first half of the 20th

Was a physicist, mathematician and also an influential philosopher during the first half of the 20th century. He was a logical-positivist, and a member of the Vienna Circle.He was born 20 March 1884 in Vienna, Austria, and died on 21 July 1966 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He studied physics at the University of Vienna and graduated in 1907 with a thesis in theoretical physics under the supervision of Ludwig Boltzmann. Albert Einstein recommended him as his successor for a professorship at the German Charles-Ferdinand University of Prague, a position which he held from 1912 until 1938. He then emigrated to the United States, where he became a lecturer of physics and mathematics at Harvard University.

Was a German number theorist. He wrote an 1896 doctoral dissertation at the University of Göttingen

Was a German number theorist. He wrote an 1896 doctoral dissertation at the University of Göttingen on cubic forms (Zur Theorie der in Linearfaktoren zerlegbaren ganzzahlingen ternären kubischen Formen), under Felix Klein. Most of his academic life, from

Was a German physician.Cretzschmar was born at Sulzbach and studied medicine at the University of Würzburg. He taught anatomy and zoology at the Senckenberg Medical Institute of Frankfurt.Cretzschmar was the founder and second director of the Senckenberg Natural History Society in 1817. One of the founding members of the society was Eduard Rüppell, and the two men collaborated in publishing the results of Rüppell's explorations in Africa. The "Atlas of Rüppell's Travels in Northern Africa" (1826–30) included an ornithological section by Cretzschmar describing around thirty new species, including Meyer's Parrot, Nubian Bustard, Goliath Heron, Streaked Scrub Warbler and Cretzschmar's Bunting.