Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter P

Is Professor of Phonetic Sciences at the University of Amsterdam. His research and teaching focus on

Is Professor of Phonetic Sciences at the University of Amsterdam. His research and teaching focus on the relationship between phonology and phonetics. Prof. dr. Boersma is mainly known for designing the worldwide used speech signal processing program Praat (together with David Weenink).

Is an American paleontologist who is the discoverer of several new dinosaur species on several conti

Is an American paleontologist who is the discoverer of several new dinosaur species on several continents. He has conducted excavations at sites as varied as Inner Mongolia, Argentina, Morocco and Niger.[1] He is a professor at the University of Chicago and a National Geographic "explorer-in-residence." The son of a mailman, Paul grew up in Naperville, Illinois and graduated from Naperville Central High School.

An economist and a nationally syndicated columnist for Creators Syndicate. He served as an Assistant

An economist and a nationally syndicated columnist for Creators Syndicate. He served as an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration earning fame as the "Father of Reaganomics". He is a former editor and columnist for the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and Scripps Howard News Service. He is a graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology and he holds a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. He was a post-graduate at the University of California, Berkeley, and Oxford University where he was a member of Merton College.

Is an Australian judge

Is an Australian judge

A Professor of Molecular Biology at Princeton University.Schedl's career as a molecular biologist ha

A Professor of Molecular Biology at Princeton University.Schedl's career as a molecular biologist has spanned the North American continent and across the Atlantic Ocean. Before being bitten by the molecular biology bug, he dabbled in the field of philosophy at the University of Chicago where he attended college. He obtained his PhD in 1975 at Stanford University, and was a Helen Hay Whitney postdoctoral fellow in Walter Gehring's lab at the University of Basel, Switzerland. Dr. Schedl has been a member of the faculty at Princeton University since 1978.

An American macroeconomist who has been one of the leading spokesmen of the American branch of the P

An American macroeconomist who has been one of the leading spokesmen of the American branch of the Post Keynesian school in economics. He is a prolific writer and has actively intervened in important debates on economic policy (natural resources, international monetary system, developing countries' debt) from a position that is very critical of mainstream economics.Davidson did not originally choose economics as a profession. His primary training was in chemistry, for which he got a BSc from the University of Pennsylvania. In 1951 he worked in that same university as an instructor in physiology and chemistry. He soon switched to economics, receiving his MBA from the City University of New York in 1955, and completing his PhD at the University of Pennsylvania in 1959.

Was a Danish Linguist who is known for his model of sentence structure in Danish which has been wide

Was a Danish Linguist who is known for his model of sentence structure in Danish which has been widely applied to describe the syntax of languages with fixed word order, such as the mainland Scandinavian languages. Diderichsen was professor of Danish at the University of Copenhagen from 1943 until his death. His sentence model makes use of so-called 'slots' into which different sentence constituents can be inserted.

Was a French psychologist of Austrian origin who developed the method of introspective analysis and

Was a French psychologist of Austrian origin who developed the method of introspective analysis and the psychology of motivation. He was orphaned at the age of 13 after spending 8 years in a religious orphanage, but was able to obtain his baccalauréat with the support of a benefactor. Diel did not pursue formal higher education, but instead became an actor, novelist, and poet before teaching himself philosophy.

Was a French mathematician. Dubreil was married to Marie-Louise Jacotin.

Was a French mathematician. Dubreil was married to Marie-Louise Jacotin.

Was a German scientist who won the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He is noted for his w

Was a German scientist who won the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He is noted for his work in hematology, immunology, and chemotherapy. Ehrlich predicted autoimmunity calling it "horror autotoxicus". He coined the term "chemotherapy" and popularized the concept of a "magic bullet". He is credited with the first empirical observation of the blood-brain barrier and the development of the first antibacterial drug in modern medicine.In his dissertation at the University of Leipzig, he picked up the topic again ("Contributions to the Theory and Practice of Histological Staining", Beiträge zur Theorie und Praxis der histologischen Färbung). He married Hedwig Pinkus (then aged 19) in 1883. The couple had two daughters named Stephanie and Marianne.

Was a German botanist. Isert was born in Angermünde/Brandenburg, but educated in Denmark. He was th

Was a German botanist. Isert was born in Angermünde/Brandenburg, but educated in Denmark. He was the first scientist to identify the Violet Turaco, Musophaga violacea. He is also known for his attempts to end the Danish-Norwegian slave trade.He was appointed Chief Surgeon to Christiansborg (Osu, Accra) in Danish Guinea, arriving there in 1783. He obtained this position even though he was very young, because it was a job no one wanted. At the time the average life expectancy of European expats to the area was only a few months.After a few years in Christiansborg, Isert signed on as a physician aboard a slave ship. En route from Danish Guinea, on the second day at sea, he witnessed a slave rebellion on the open sea, which almost cost him his life. The cargo of 452 blacks rose against the whites, with a resulting loss of 34 of their number and 2 of the crew wounded after a heated battle. In the West Indies, he visited Saint Croix, Saint. Thomas, Saint John, Guadeloupe and Martinique.

Was an immensely prolific (and famously eccentric) Hungarian mathematician. With hundreds of collabo

Was an immensely prolific (and famously eccentric) Hungarian mathematician. With hundreds of collaborators, he worked on problems in combinatorics, graph theory, number theory, classical analysis, approximation theory, set theory, and probability theory.

Was an industrialist with an interest in mathematics. He bequeathed 100,000 marks (equivalent to 1,0

Was an industrialist with an interest in mathematics. He bequeathed 100,000 marks (equivalent to 1,000,000 pounds in today’s money) to the first person to prove Fermat's Last Theorem. He was the younger of two sons of a rich Jewish banker, Joseph Carl The

Was a French palaeontologist and entomologist.Gervais was born at Paris, where he obtained the diplo

Was a French palaeontologist and entomologist.Gervais was born at Paris, where he obtained the diplomas of doctor of science and of medicine, and in 1835 he began palaeontological research as assistant in the laboratory of comparative anatomy at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle .

Were French opticians and astronomers.They made refracting telescopes and instruments for observator

Were French opticians and astronomers.They made refracting telescopes and instruments for observatories, and were involved in the origin of the Carte du Ciel project.Between the two of them, they discovered a total of 14 asteroids. The Minor Planet Center credits their discoveries under "P.P. Henry" and "P.M. Henry", respectively

Was an American politician and University of Chicago economist. He served as a Democratic U.S. Senat

Was an American politician and University of Chicago economist. He served as a Democratic U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1949 to 1967.From 1915 to 1920, the Douglases moved six times. Paul studied at Harvard University; taught at the University of Illinois and at Oregon's Reed College, served as a mediator of labor disputes for the Emergency Fleet Corporation of Pennsylvania and taught at University of Washington. When working for the Emergency Fleet Corporation he read John Woolman's journals. When teaching in Seattle, he joined the Quakers Religious Society of Friends.

Was a Swiss mathematician, who made significant contributions to mathematical logic, axiomatic set t

Was a Swiss mathematician, who made significant contributions to mathematical logic, axiomatic set theory, and the philosophy of mathematics. He was an assistant to, and close collaborator of, David Hilbert.

Was a French philosopher and writer. he became professor of moral philosophy at Bourges (1845-1848)

Was a French philosopher and writer. he became professor of moral philosophy at Bourges (1845-1848) and Strasbourg (1848-1857), and of logic at the lycée Louis-le-Grand, Paris (1857-1864). In 1864 he was appointed to the chair of philosophy at the Sorbonne, and elected a member of the academy of moral and political sciences.

Is a German economist. He studied economics in Wuppertal, and Duisburg in Germany, and in Paris, Fra

Is a German economist. He studied economics in Wuppertal, and Duisburg in Germany, and in Paris, France. He obtained his PhD in 1985 and his full professorship in 1989 after which he became professor at the Wilhelms University of Münster and the Universit

German-American theologian and Christian existentialist philosopher. Tillich was, along with his con

German-American theologian and Christian existentialist philosopher. Tillich was, along with his contemporaries Rudolf Bultmann (Germany),

Was an American mathematician best known for his proof of the independence of the continuum hypothes

Was an American mathematician best known for his proof of the independence of the continuum hypothesis and the axiom of choice from Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory, the most widely accepted axiomatization of set theory.

Was an Austrian-born philosopher of science best known for his work as a professor of philosophy at

Was an Austrian-born philosopher of science best known for his work as a professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, where he worked for three decades (1958–1989). His life was a peripatetic one, as he lived at various times in England, the United States, New Zealand, Italy, and finally Switzerland. His major works include Against Method (published in 1975), Science in a Free Society (published in 1978) and Farewell to Reason (a collection of papers published in 1987). Feyerabend became famous for his purportedly anarchistic view of science and his rejection of the existence of universal methodological rules. He is an influential figure in the philosophy of science, and also in the sociology of scientific knowledge.

An emeritus professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, United States. He jo

An emeritus professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, United States. He joined the University in 1966 as a member of the Department of Anthropology, transferring to the Department of Linguistics in 1982. He is best known for his work with anthropologist Brent Berlin on colour: Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution (1969) ISBN 1-57586-162-3. More recently, he has worked in the area of Construction Grammar with Charles J. Fillmore, authoring the textbook Construction Grammar (1996 manuscript). He is currently working on an extension of Construction Grammar called Sign-Based Construction Grammar, authoring a book on this topic with Charles Fillmore, Ivan Sag and Laura Michaelis.

Was a philosopher and mathematician.Lorenzen studied with David Hilbert as a school boy and he was o

Was a philosopher and mathematician.Lorenzen studied with David Hilbert as a school boy and he was one of Hasse's students at the University of Göttingen until his promotion in 1938. He became pupil of Krull in University of Bonn. His main work was on the

Was a French mathematician. He was Professor Emeritus at the Pierre and Marie Curie University. He e

Was a French mathematician. He was Professor Emeritus at the Pierre and Marie Curie University. He entered the Academy of Sciences in 1979.[1]