Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter R

American economic historian and scientist, and winner (with Douglass North) of the 1993 Nobel Prize

American economic historian and scientist, and winner (with Douglass North) of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Economics. He is best known as a leading advocate of cliometrics, a name for the use of quantitative methods in history.

Was a Scottish statistician who worked at the Rothamsted Experimental Station. He was co-developer,

Was a Scottish statistician who worked at the Rothamsted Experimental Station. He was co-developer, with John Nelder, of the generalized linear model methodology,[1] and then expanded this subject to develop the idea of quasi-likelihood.[2]

Was born in Argentina in 1922. Roberto Alemann is an economist and lawyer. He was two times the secr

Was born in Argentina in 1922. Roberto Alemann is an economist and lawyer. He was two times the secretary of economy of Argentina. The first time was in 1961, during the government of Arturo Frondizi. The second time was in 1981 to 1982, by then Argentine General Leopoldo Galtieri. He was also ambassador and professor.

an Argentine economist and politician, and was the former Minister of Economy and Production of Arg

an Argentine economist and politician, and was the former Minister of Economy and Production of Argentina until 28 November 2005, when he was replaced with Felisa Miceli, president of Banco de la Nación Argentina. Lavagna took office during the interim rule of President Eduardo Duhalde, in 2002, and had to manage the Argentine economic crisis. He was confirmed in his post by President Néstor Kirchner upon his taking charge on 25 May 2003.

Was a British mathematician and logician.Educated at Abbotsholme, Robin Gandy took two years of the

Was a British mathematician and logician.Educated at Abbotsholme, Robin Gandy took two years of the Mathematical Tripos, at King's College, Cambridge, before enlisting for military service in 1940. During World War II he became involved in work with Alan

A professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley.Lakoff's writings have become t

A professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley.Lakoff's writings have become the basis for much research on the subject of women's language. In a 1975 article, she published ten basic assumptions about what she felt constituted a special women's language. Much of what Lakoff proposed agreed with theories originally proposed in the 1920s by Otto Jespersen in Growth and Structure of the English Language (1905, revised and republished several times).

Was an early biophysicist and virologist. He served as the first President of the Biophysical Societ

Was an early biophysicist and virologist. He served as the first President of the Biophysical Society.Williams attended Cornell University, completing a B.S. in 1931 and a Ph.D. in physics in 1935. He was also selected for membership in the Quill and Dagger society. Williams began his career as a researcher as an assistant professor of astronomy at the University of Michigan, and from 1945, associate professor of physics. A growing fascination with viruses lead him to leave Michigan in 1950, when he was invited to the University of California, Berkeley by Wendell Stanley, to serve as a professor at the newly created Department of Virology.[1

Professor of English at the University of New Hampshire. She is a linguist known for her work in mor

Professor of English at the University of New Hampshire. She is a linguist known for her work in morphology, the syntax-morphology interface, and morphology and lexical semantics.After receiving an A.B. in anthropology from Vassar (1976), Lieber studied linguistics at MIT, receiving her Ph.D. in 1980. Her dissertation, On the Organization of the Lexicon, was written under the direction of Morris Halle. It was in this work that she proposed "feature percolation," a mechanism by which the properties of lexical items are inherited by their larger constituent structures, and which she articulates more fully in Lieber 1992 (77ff). Syntacticians and morphologists have made use of the concept of feature percolation in many different ways since Lieber's first proposal.[1][2][3]

Is a linguist and grammarian specializing in the study and description of English.

Is a linguist and grammarian specializing in the study and description of English.

Was a German-Chilean paleontologist and zoologist.He left his native Germany as a young man because

Was a German-Chilean paleontologist and zoologist.He left his native Germany as a young man because he thought he was gravely ill and preferred to die in the mild climate of the Mediterranean region. He recovered and did considerable work there, including Abbildungen (illustrated monographs). The he was invited to Chile by his brother Bernhard Eunom Philippi who worked for the government there. He moved to Santiago, Chile in 1851. There he became a professor of botany and zoology and the director of the natural-history museum, and was a regular collaborator with Christian Ludwig Landbeck.

Was an italian philosopher who lived in Italy and Argentina.he studied at University of Florence and

Was an italian philosopher who lived in Italy and Argentina.he studied at University of Florence and in 1910 he started teaching at University of Turin. He worked there until 1914, when he left for University of Bologna.In 1938 he exiled in Argentina. There he worked as a professor at National University of Cordoba and National University of Tucumán. At the end of World War II he could have go back to Italy, but he preferred to stay in Argentina.

A Canadian-born economist, humanist and political figure. He teaches economics at the Université de

A Canadian-born economist, humanist and political figure. He teaches economics at the Université de Montréal. He specializes in macroeconomics, international trade and finance, and public finance. He is a prolific author of books in economics and politics.Born in Matane, Québec, Canada, he has a B.A. from the Université Laval (1961), a B.Sc. in Economics from the Université de Montréal (1963). Tremblay did his graduate work at Stanford University where he obtained a M.A. in Economics (1965) and a Ph.D. in Economics (1968).He has been a professor of economics at the Université de Montréal since 1967. He is professor emeritus since 2002.

Was an Argentine economist, journalist and politician.Rogelio Frigerio was born in Buenos Aires in 1

Was an Argentine economist, journalist and politician.Rogelio Frigerio was born in Buenos Aires in 1914 to Gerónimo Frigerio and Carmen Guanzaroli, first-generation Italian Argentines born in the Lombardy region. One of eight brothers, he grew up in the quiet residential neighborhood of Villa del Parque and enrolled at the prestigious University of Buenos Aires.Pursuing higher studies at the university's School of Economics, he helped found Insurrexis, a Marxist student association and, as one of its leaders, he edited the group's newsletter, Claridád. Graduating in 1935, he soon distanced himself from the Argentine left, however, believing them to harbor an elitist disposition.

Was a bee biologist who taught many beekeepers both the rudiments and the finer practices, through h

Was a bee biologist who taught many beekeepers both the rudiments and the finer practices, through his research and publications. During his long career, three new parasites of the honeybee, acarine mite, varroa mite and African small hive beetle were introduced to the USA. These, along with the Africanized honeybee and pesticide kills were all important beekeeping issues. Morse was extensively involved in research on each of these and provided guidance to the beekeeping industry.

Was a Greek-French mathematician most remembered for Apéry's theorem, that ?(3) is an irrational nu

Was a Greek-French mathematician most remembered for Apéry's theorem, that ?(3) is an irrational number where ? denotes the Riemann zeta function. In 1979 he published an unexpected proof of the irrationality of ?(3), which is the sum of the inverses of the cubes of the positive integers. An indication of the difficulty is that the corresponding problem for other odd powers remains unsolved. Nevertheless, many mathematicians have since worked on the so-called Apéry sequences to seek alternative proofs that might apply to other odd powers (F. Beukers, A. van der Poorten, M. Prevost, K. Ball, T. Rivoal, Wadim Zudilin and others).

An english geographer and the primary originator of modern computerized Geographic Information Syste

An english geographer and the primary originator of modern computerized Geographic Information Systems (GIS).Dr. Tomlinson is a native of Cambridge (England) and prior to attending university, he served in the Royal Air Force from 1951-54 as a pilot and flying officer.After his military service, Dr. Tomlinson attended the University of Nottingham and Acadia University for two separate undergraduate degrees in geography and geology respectively. He received a Masters degree in geography from McGill University where he specialized in the glacial geomorphology of Labrador. His Doctoral thesis at University College London was titled: The application of electronic computing methods and techniques to the storage, compilation, and assessment of mapped data.

Is a French mathematician, known for his work in functional analysis, and also his expository books.

Is a French mathematician, known for his work in functional analysis, and also his expository books. He started as a student at the École normale supérieure in 1940, where he became a student of Henri Cartan. He started research into harmonic analysis on locally compact abelian groups,

National Medal of Science in 1976, and Nobel prize for medicine in 1977 for his work on neurohormone

National Medal of Science in 1976, and Nobel prize for medicine in 1977 for his work on neurohormones.

Served as the 23rd Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California from 1964 to 1970, and as an Ass

Served as the 23rd Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California from 1964 to 1970, and as an Associate Justice from 1940 to 1964. A nationally-respected jurist, Traynor's thirty-year career as California's 77th Justice coincided with tremendous demographic, social, and governmental growth in California and in the United States of America, and was marked by a belief (in the words of one commentator) that "the increased presence of government in American life was a necessary and beneficial phenomenon."

Was a physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat, poet, and Jesuit from Ragusa (tod

Was a physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat, poet, and Jesuit from Ragusa (today Dubrovnik, in Croatia) who lived for a time in France, England and some Italian states [1].He is famous for his atomic theory, given as a clear, precisely-formulated system utilizing principles of Newtonian mechanics. This work inspired Michael Faraday to develop field theory for electromagnetic interaction, and was even a basis for Albert Einstein's attempts for a unified field theory, according to Einstein's coworker Lancelot Law Whyte[2]. Also according to John D. Barrow, Professor at Cambridge University and a Fellow of the Royal Society: Boscovich was the first to envisage, seek, and propose a mathematical theory of all the forces of Nature; the first scientific theory of everything.

Is a French academic and philosopher. Alumnus of the École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud, he h

Is a French academic and philosopher. Alumnus of the École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud, he has written popular books, most notably 101 Experiments in the Philosophy of Everyday Life, which has been translated into twenty-two languages. For 25 years, he has studied the way the East is seen in Western philosophy.

Is an astronomer and a professor of physics and astronomy at Arizona State University. He received h

Is an astronomer and a professor of physics and astronomy at Arizona State University. He received his Ph.D in astronomy in 1984 from the University of Leiden and did post doctorate work at Mt.Wilson and Las Campanas Observatories. He currently serves as associate chair at Arizona State and is among six Arizona state faculty who were awarded Regents Professor appointments in 2006; he presides over the School of Earth and Space Exploration at the university.[1]

A judge and former politician in Ontario, Canada and the current Chancellor of York University.In th

A judge and former politician in Ontario, Canada and the current Chancellor of York University.In the 1960s, he worked with Dalton Camp and Norman Atkins to remove John Diefenbaker as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.McMurtry suffered a back injury during the 1971 Ontario Progressive Conservative leadership convention, and was able to exempt himself from choosing between Davis and rival candidate Allan Lawrence, whose campaign was managed by Atkins. Davis defeated Lawrence by 44 votes on the final ballot. A few weeks later, McMurtry organized a meeting which brought together the Davis and Lawrence leadership teams. The resulting alliance, known as the Big Blue Machine, dominated the Progressive Conservative Party into the 1980s.

Was a French literary critic, literary and social theorist, philosopher, and semiotician. Barthes' w

Was a French literary critic, literary and social theorist, philosopher, and semiotician. Barthes' work extended over many fields and he influenced the development of schools of theory including structuralism, semiotics, existentialism, Marxism and post-structuralism.

Was a French mathematical logician. He received his doctoral degree from the University of Paris in

Was a French mathematical logician. He received his doctoral degree from the University of Paris in 1953. In his thesis[2][3], Fraïssé used the back-and-forth method to determine whether two model-theoretic structures were elementarily equivalent. This me