Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter P

Was a Russian Orthodox theologian, philosopher, mathematician, electrical engineer, inventor and Neo

Was a Russian Orthodox theologian, philosopher, mathematician, electrical engineer, inventor and Neomartyr[1] sometimes compared by his followers to Leonardo da Vinci.[2][3]

Was a Slovenian biologist and writer.

Was a Slovenian biologist and writer.

Was a Russian mathematician. He wrote about three hundred papers, making important contributions to

Was a Russian mathematician. He wrote about three hundred papers, making important contributions to set theory and topology. He was made a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1953.

Was a Czech logician, philosopher and mathematician. He worked in the field of intensional logic and

Was a Czech logician, philosopher and mathematician. He worked in the field of intensional logic and founded Transparent Intensional Logic, an original theory of the logical analysis of natural languages – the theory is devoted to the problem of saying ex

Was a leading South Slavic and general dialectologist and phonologist. Both his field work and his s

Was a leading South Slavic and general dialectologist and phonologist. Both his field work and his synthesizing studies were extensive and authoritative. A few of his best-known publications are:

Was a Danish astronomer. Born in Løgstør, Jutland to a poor family of fishermen, Horrebow entered

Was a Danish astronomer. Born in Løgstør, Jutland to a poor family of fishermen, Horrebow entered the University of Copenhagen in 1703. He worked his way through grammar school and university by virtue of his technical knowledge: he repaired mechanical and musical instruments and cut seals. He received his MA from the university in 1716, and his MD in 1725. From 1703 to 1707, he served as an assistant to Ole Rømer and lived in Rømer's home. He worked as a household tutor from 1707 to 1711 to a Danish baron, and entered the governmental bureaucracy as an excise writer in 1711.

Was a 17th century Danish botanist. He was born in Assens and began studies at the University of Cop

Was a 17th century Danish botanist. He was born in Assens and began studies at the University of Copenhagen in 1660. He graduated in theology in 1666 and was called as parish minister. However, for reasons now unknown, the call was withdrawn shortly afterward. Kylling then engaged in studies of botany.

Was a Spanish naturalist. He studied in USA, was very popular and wrote in magazines like Trends in

Was a Spanish naturalist. He studied in USA, was very popular and wrote in magazines like Trends in Ecology and Evolution.

Was an Argentine astronomer and mathematician who plotted the orbit of Saturn's most-distant moon, P

Was an Argentine astronomer and mathematician who plotted the orbit of Saturn's most-distant moon, Phoebe, as well as several comets including Halley's Comet, and various satellites including Explorer I.He lived and died in Argentina. He was once a senior astronomer and a mathematician at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.[1][2] 4617 Zadunaisky is an asteroid named in his honor.

Was a Portuguese mathematician, cosmographer, and professor, born from a New Christian (of Jewish or

Was a Portuguese mathematician, cosmographer, and professor, born from a New Christian (of Jewish origin) family.[1]Nunes, considered to be one of the greatest mathematicians of his time, is best known for his contributions in the technical field of navigation, which was crucial to the Portuguese period of discoveries. He was the first to propose the idea of a loxodrome and was also the inventor of several measuring devices, including the nonius, named after his Latin surname.

Is a Brazilian economist and former Minister of Finance for Brazil.While working as a research assoc

Is a Brazilian economist and former Minister of Finance for Brazil.While working as a research associate at Rio's Institute of Applied Economic Research he first met the U.S. economics teacher Albert Fishlow, who would in 1973 be his adviser for his doctorate in economics from the University of California at Berkeley. His thesis was Brazil's Place in the International Economy.

Was a Swedish-Finnish explorer, botanist, naturalist, and agricultural economist. He was one of Caro

Was a Swedish-Finnish explorer, botanist, naturalist, and agricultural economist. He was one of Carolus Linnaeus's most important students. Among his many accomplishments, Kalm can be credited for the first description of the Niagara Falls, written by someone trained as a scientist.Kalm was born in Ångermanland, Sweden, where his parents had taken refuge from Finland during the Great Northern War. His father died six weeks after his birth. When the hostilities were over, his widowed mother returned with him to Närpes in Ostrobothnia, Finland, where Kalm's father had been a Lutheran minister. Kalm studied at the Academy of Turku from 1735, and from 1740 at the University of Uppsala, where he met the renowned naturalist Carolus Linnaeus and became one of his first students. In Uppsala Kalm became the superintendent of an experimental plantation owned by his patron, Baron Sten Karl Bielke.

A Finnish philosopher.Pekka Himanen is a philosopher and a public intellectual. He studied philosoph

A Finnish philosopher.Pekka Himanen is a philosopher and a public intellectual. He studied philosophy (and computer science as a minor) at the University of Helsinki. In 1994, with his thesis on the philosophy of religion, The challenge of Bertrand Russell, he received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the same university, thus becoming the youngest Ph.D. in Finland.He has done research work in Finland (University of Helsinki), the United Kingdom, and the United States (Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley) and has done field work in India, China and Japan. At UC Berkeley, Himanen directed (Manuel Castells as chair) the Berkeley Center for the Information Society, a research group under Berkeley's International Computer Science Institute. The Center was active from 1997 until 2005[1].

Was a Soviet/Russian astronomer. In modern English transliteration, her surname would be given as Sh

Was a Soviet/Russian astronomer. In modern English transliteration, her surname would be given as Shayn, but her astronomical discoveries are credited under the name P. F. Shajn. Nonetheless, her last name is sometimes given as Schajn, and her first name sometimes as Pelageja.[1] She was the wife of Grigory Abramovich Shajn (???????? ????????? ????), who was also a Russian astronomer. Her maiden name was Sannikova (?????????).She co-discovered the periodic comet 61P/Shajn-Schaldach. However, the non-periodic comet C/1925 F1 (Shajn-Comas Solá), also known as Comet 1925 VI or Comet 1925a, was co-discovered by her husband rather than by her.

Is a Danish writer, poet, and linguist. He is Master of Arts in Romance Philology from the Universit

Is a Danish writer, poet, and linguist. He is Master of Arts in Romance Philology from the University of Copenhagen (1971) and hold a Doctorate of Semiotics from the Sorbonne University (1987).Per Aage Brandt has published a large number of books on the subjects of semiotics, linguistics, culture, and music as well as poetry. [1]

Is a Swedish logician, philosopher, and mathematician. He is best known for developing intuitionisti

Is a Swedish logician, philosopher, and mathematician. He is best known for developing intuitionistic type theory as a constructive foundation of mathematics. Per Martin-Löf holds a joint chair for Mathematics and Philosophy at Stockholm University. He is

Was a businessman, author, mathematician, and astronomer who fueled speculation that there were cana

Was a businessman, author, mathematician, and astronomer who fueled speculation that there were canals on Mars, founded the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, and formed the beginning of the effort that led to the discovery of Pluto 14 years after his death. The choice of the name Pluto and its symbol were partly influenced by his initials PL..Lowell became determined to study Mars and astronomy as a full-time career after reading Camille Flammarion's La planète Mars.[2] He was particularly interested in the canals of Mars, as drawn by Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli, who was director of the Milan Observatory.

Was an English surgeon and ornithologist.Lowe was born at Stamford, Lincolnshire and studied medicin

Was an English surgeon and ornithologist.Lowe was born at Stamford, Lincolnshire and studied medicine at Jesus College, Cambridge. He served as a civil surgeon in the Second Boer War, and it was whilst in South Africa that he became interested in ornithology. On his return he became private physician to Sir Frederic Johnstone, and during World War One was medical officer on an ambulance ship in the Mediterranean.In November 1919 he succeeded William Robert Ogilvie-Grant as Curator of Birds at the Natural History Museum, retiring on his sixty-fifth birthday in 1935. He was succeeded by Norman Boyd Kinnear.

A Dutch classical scholar, who was born at Appingedam in Groningen.He was the son of Anton Perizoniu

A Dutch classical scholar, who was born at Appingedam in Groningen.He was the son of Anton Perizonius (1626-1672), the author of a once well-known treatise, De ratione studii theologici. Having studied at the University of Utrecht, he was appointed in 1682 to the chair of eloquence and history at Franeker through the influence of J. G. Graevius and Nikolaes Heinsius. In 1693 he was promoted to the corresponding chair at Leiden, where he died on 6 April 1715.

An American mathematician and former professional magician. He is the Mary V. Sunseri Professor of S

An American mathematician and former professional magician. He is the Mary V. Sunseri Professor of Statistics and Mathematics at Stanford University. He is particularly known for tackling mathematical problems involving randomness and randomization, such

Was a medieval French scholastic philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician. The story of his a

Was a medieval French scholastic philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician. The story of his affair with and love for Héloïse has become legendary. The Chambers Biographical Dictionary describes him as "the keenest thinker and boldest theologian of

Was a Danish astronomer, was born at Tønder, Schleswig.he learned the trade of a watchmaker at Flen

Was a Danish astronomer, was born at Tønder, Schleswig.he learned the trade of a watchmaker at Flensburg, and exercised it at Berlin and Tønder, 1818–1820. He had, however, long been a student of science; and Dr Dircks, a physician practising at Tønder, prevailed with his father to send him in 1820 to Copenhagen, where he won the patronage of H.C. Schumacher and attracted the personal notice of King Frederick VI. The Danish survey was then in progress, and he acted as Schumacher's assistant in work connected with it, chiefly at the new observatory of Altona, 1821–1825.

Is a statistician specialising in medical statistics.Peter Armitage attended Huddersfield College an

Is a statistician specialising in medical statistics.Peter Armitage attended Huddersfield College and went on to read mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge. Armitage belonged to the generation of mathematicians who came to maturity in the Second World

An American economist known for his analysis of U.S. Social Security policy and his work as an advis

An American economist known for his analysis of U.S. Social Security policy and his work as an advisor to the Advisory Council on Social Security in the late 1980s and 1990s.Diamond earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Yale University in 1960 and defended a Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1963. He was an assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley from 1964-65 and an acting associate professor there before joining the MIT faculty as an associate professor in 1966. Diamond was promoted to full professor in 1970, served as head of the Department of Economics in 1985-86 and was named an Institute Professor in 1997.

A Senior Fellow in International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations and Walker Professor

A Senior Fellow in International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations and Walker Professor of Economics and International Finance at Princeton University. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1932, earned his B.A. from Columbia University and his Ph.D. from Harvard. He taught at Columbia from 1957 to 1971, where he served as Chairman of the Department of Economics and then Provost of the University. He was Director of the International Finance Section at Princeton from 1971 to 1999. He is best known for his work on the theory of optimum currency areas, in which he argued that groups of countries with diversified domestic production are more likely to constitute optimum currency areas than groups whose members are highly specialized.