Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter P

German professor and theologian, a key leader of the Lutheran Reformation, and a friend and associat

German professor and theologian, a key leader of the Lutheran Reformation, and a friend and associate of Martin Luther.

Is a French economist. He is Robert C. Waggoner Professor of Economics at Harvard University, having

Is a French economist. He is Robert C. Waggoner Professor of Economics at Harvard University, having previously been Professor at University College London, an Official Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, and an Assistant Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Was a French astronomer. He was the younger son of Louis Gustave le Doulcet, Comte de Pontécoulant

Was a French astronomer. He was the younger son of Louis Gustave le Doulcet, Comte de Pontécoulant and was the brother of Louis-Adolphe Pontécoulant. After 1811 he served in the army until 1849. Following his retirement he dedicated himself to the study of mathematics and astronomy.

Was a French philosopher. He was also a literary critic and translator.Lacoue-Labarthe was influence

Was a French philosopher. He was also a literary critic and translator.Lacoue-Labarthe was influenced by and wrote extensively on Martin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, German Romanticism, Paul Celan, and deconstruction. He also translated work

Is a French paleontologist.He is a member of the French Academy of Sciences since November 30, 2004.

Is a French paleontologist.He is a member of the French Academy of Sciences since November 30, 2004. He has studied and described a number of new dinosaur species from Africa, especially from the Aptian site of Gadoufaoua in Niger (such as Ouranosaurus).

Is a Belgian philosopher and political economist, mainly known as a proponent and main defender of t

Is a Belgian philosopher and political economist, mainly known as a proponent and main defender of the basic income concept.He is professor at the Faculty of economic, social and political sciences of the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), where he directs the Hoover Chair of economic and social ethics since its creation in 1991. He has also been a Visiting Professor at Harvard University's Department of Philosophy since 2004, and at the Higher Institute of Philosophy of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven since 2006.

American geneticist and molecular biologist who co-discovered gene splicing.

American geneticist and molecular biologist who co-discovered gene splicing.

An American scholar and author. He is Professor of Economics Emeritus at Columbia University.After g

An American scholar and author. He is Professor of Economics Emeritus at Columbia University.After graduate school, Cagan joined the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) in New York where he worked for two years. Then Cagan re-entered academia, teaching at the University of Chicago for three years, and at Brown University for seven years. In 1966 Cagan was hired by Columbia University, where he taught economics for nearly thirty years — save for fifteen months spent in Washington, D.C., when he was on the staff of the Council of Economic Advisors (CEA).

A South African palaeoanthropologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of the Witwatersrand,

A South African palaeoanthropologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He is best known for his pioneering work at South Africa's famous hominid fossil sites, and is one of the world's leading authorities on the evolution of humankind.a South African palaeoanthropologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He is best known for his pioneering work at South Africa's famous hominid fossil sites, and is one of the world's leading authorities on the evolution of humankind.a South African palaeoanthropologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He is best known for his pioneering work at South Africa's famous hominid fossil sites, and is one of the world's leading authorities on the evolution of humankind.

As a student of priesthood he distinguished himself in moral theology and canon law. After his ordin

As a student of priesthood he distinguished himself in moral theology and canon law. After his ordination as a secular priest of the Diocese of Tournai in Belgium, in 1838, he continued his study of canon law at Leuven university. In 1843 he was appointed a vicar of the cathedral of Tournai, but the following year he went to Rome, and there spent two years in the Belgian College, studying canon law and working for the congregations. He returned to Belgium in 1846 and the next year was appointed to the chair of canon law and ecclesiastical history at Leuven.

Was an American ornithologist and paleontologist.Interested in birds since childhood, he was taught

Was an American ornithologist and paleontologist.Interested in birds since childhood, he was taught to prepare birds at the age of 16. Later, he received the opportunity to work as a staff technician in the Ornithology Division of the Field Museum.

Is an Italian mathematician, logician and aficionado of the history of science, who is also extremel

Is an Italian mathematician, logician and aficionado of the history of science, who is also extremely active as a popular science writer and essayist, especially in a perspective of philosophical atheism.

Was an influential Italian economist whose book Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities is

Was an influential Italian economist whose book Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities is taken as founding the Neo-Ricardian school of Economics.From 1921 to 1922 he studied in London at the London School of Economics. In 1922 he was appointed as Director of the provincial labour department in Milan, then as Professor in Political economy first in Perugia, and later in Cagliari, Sardinia. In Turin he had met Antonio Gramsci (the most important leader of Italian Communist Party). They became close friends, partly due to their shared ideological views—Sraffa was at this time a radical Marxist. He also was already in contact with Filippo Turati, perhaps the most important leader of Italian Socialist Party, whom he allegedly met and frequently visited in Rapallo,

Was a French mathematician best known as the discoverer of the Laurent series, an expansion of a fun

Was a French mathematician best known as the discoverer of the Laurent series, an expansion of a function into an infinite power series, generalizing the Taylor series expansion. He was born in Paris, France. His result was contained in a memoir submitted for the Grand Prize of the Académie des Sciences in 1843, but his submission was after the due date, and the paper was not published and never considered for the prize. Laurent died at age 41 in Paris. His work was not published until after his death.

Was a French entomologist. His works describing insects assigned many of the insect taxa still in us

Was a French entomologist. His works describing insects assigned many of the insect taxa still in use today.Latreille was born into a humble family of Brive-la-Gaillarde, Corrèze, and in 1778 entered the College Lemoine in Paris. He was ordained a priest in 1786 and then went back to Brive, where he spent all of his free time studying insects. In 1788 he returned to Paris and became active in the scientific community there, his Mémoire sur les mutilles découvertes en France gaining him admission to the Society for Natural History.As a priest with conservative leanings, the French Revolution made his situation uncomfortable; he left Paris, and was later imprisoned at Bordeaux. In 1796 he published Précis des caractères génériques des insectes, disposés dans un ordre naturel at Brive. He was rearrested in 1797 but again released.[1]

Was a French naturalist and explorer.Delalande was employed by the Muséum National d'Histoire Natur

Was a French naturalist and explorer.Delalande was employed by the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle to collect natural history specimens. He travelled to Brazil in 1816 to collect specimens for the museum.[In 1818 he began an expedition to South Africa with his nephew Jules Verreaux, who was around 12 years old at the time, to collect specimens. Delalande and Verreaux travelled and collected in South Africa for three years. On their return in 1821, they took back an astounding 13,405 specimens,[2] mostly plant material. Their collection included 288 mammals, 2205 birds, 322 reptiles, 265 fish, 3875 shellfish, and various human skulls and skeletons from a Cape Town cemetery and from the 22 April 1819 Battle of Grahamstown between the British forces under Colonel Willshire and the Xhosa under Nxele.

Was a French philosopher and mathematician and doctor of letters. He was one of the first members of

Was a French philosopher and mathematician and doctor of letters. He was one of the first members of the Académie française and the first occupant of Seat 29.

Was a French philosopher and writer best known for his seminal work the Historical and Critical Dict

Was a French philosopher and writer best known for his seminal work the Historical and Critical Dictionary, published beginning in 1695. Bayle was a self-pronounced Protestant and as a fideist he advocated a separation between the spheres of faith and reason, on the grounds of God being incomprehensible to man. As a forerunner of the Encyclopedists and an advocate of the principle of the toleration of divergent beliefs, his works subsequently influenced the development of the Enlightenment.

Is a mathematician at the University of Rennes. He developed crystalline cohomology and rigid cohomo

Is a mathematician at the University of Rennes. He developed crystalline cohomology and rigid cohomology.

Was a French geologist and mining engineer.Pierre Berthier was born in Nemours. After studying at th

Was a French geologist and mining engineer.Pierre Berthier was born in Nemours. After studying at the École Polytechnique, he went to the École des Mines, where he became chief of the laboratory in 1816. In 1821, while working in the village of Les Baux de Provence, in southern France, he discovered the mineral bauxite, named for the place of its discovery. He also discovered the mineral Berthierite, which was named after him. In addition to numerous contributions in minerology and mining, Berthier is also noted for his research into blast furnaces and for the utilization of phosphates by plants.

Was a French Cardinal, theologian, and canonist.[1] His noble parentage is known to us through the m

Was a French Cardinal, theologian, and canonist.[1] His noble parentage is known to us through the manuscript memoir of Grasset, a Celestine monk of the seventeenth century (Discours généalogique de la noble maison de Bertrand et de leur alliance aven celle de Colombier). The legal profession seems to have been the first aim of his education He successively studied and taught law in the Universities of Avignon, Montpellier, Orléans, and Paris.

Was a French Reformed Theologian who played a critical role in the Reformation of the Electoral Pala

Was a French Reformed Theologian who played a critical role in the Reformation of the Electoral Palatinate. Towards the end of that year he returned to Bourges to lecture at the university under the protection of Queen Marguerite de Navarre. Bouquin also served as cathedral preacher in Bourges, but he lost this position in short order due to his Protestant convictions. Because of this he was brought up on charges before the Archbishop of Paris, which he wholly escaped by fleeing again to Strasbourg in 1555. He served there for two years from 1555 as preacher for the church of the French refugee community.

Was a French mathematician, geophysicist, geodesist, and astronomer. He is also known as "the father

Was a French mathematician, geophysicist, geodesist, and astronomer. He is also known as "the father of naval architecture". His father, Jean Bouguer, one of the best hydrographers of his time, was regius professor of hydrography at Croisic in lower Brittany, and author of a treatise on navigation. In 1713 Pierre was appointed to succeed his father as professor of hydrography. In 1727 he gained the prize given by the French Academy of Sciences for his paper On the masting of ships, beating Leonhard Euler; and two other prizes,

Was a French Catholic Cartesian philosopher and theologian. He wrote a course of philosophy, Univers

Was a French Catholic Cartesian philosopher and theologian. He wrote a course of philosophy, Universæ philosophiæ institutiones (Caen, 1695), in which the theories of Descartes are explained and defended. He worked for the conversion of Protestants, and gave conferences in which he endeavoured to solve their difficulties. For the same purpose, and in reply to the Jesuit Louis Le Valois,[3] he composed a book on the Eucharist, Durand commenté, ou accord de la philosophie avec la théologie touchant la transsubstantiation de l'eucharistie (Caen, 1700). In it he denies the existence of absolute accidents and, instead of transubstantiation, admits a transformation

Was a French refugee and religious figure. He was a Doctor of theology of the University of Paris, a

Was a French refugee and religious figure. He was a Doctor of theology of the University of Paris, and was receptive to the ideas of the Protestant Reformation. However, he entered into open confrontation with John Calvin, the central figure of French Protestantism. In a theological dispute, Caroli accused Calvin and Guillaume Farel of Arianism and Sabellianism.