Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter R

A professor of economics at Harvard University. In addition to being affiliated with Harvard Univers

A professor of economics at Harvard University. In addition to being affiliated with Harvard University he maintains offices at the National Bureau of Economic Research and W.E.B DuBois Institute. In January 2008, at age 30, he became the youngest African-American to ever receive tenure at Harvard.Fryer is widely regarded to be one of black America and Harvard's rising stars, having published numerous economics-related papers in prominent academic journals over the past few years[1]. The New York Times ran an extensive profile of Fryer, entitled "Toward a Unified Theory of Black America," in March of 2005 that dealt extensively with Fryer's rough upbringing: Fryer's mother left when he was very young, and his father, who beat his son, was convicted of rape[2], effectively leaving Roland to fend for himself.

IsFrench-American mathematician. He obtained his PhD in 1970 from Jacques-Louis Lions and is known f

IsFrench-American mathematician. He obtained his PhD in 1970 from Jacques-Louis Lions and is known for his work in applied mathematics, in particular numerical solution and applications of partial differential equations and variational inequalities. He is member of the French Academy of Sciences and since 1985 has held an endowed chair at the University of Houston.

Is a German economist and professor of Business Administration at the Otto-von-Guericke-University i

Is a German economist and professor of Business Administration at the Otto-von-Guericke-University in Magdeburg, Germany. In 2002, Roland Kirstein visited the University of California, Berkeley (Law School, invited by Prof. Robert Cooter) and in Santa Bar

Philosopher and artist, was born in France of German parents. His parents, who had left Germany in 1

Philosopher and artist, was born in France of German parents. His parents, who had left Germany in 1931, would eventually settle in the United States, where Rolf would go on to study geology and psychology, with mathematics as a minor, at the University o

Was an American geneticist who rediscovered the laws of inheritance established by Gregor Mendel.He

Was an American geneticist who rediscovered the laws of inheritance established by Gregor Mendel.He graduated in 1897 and began work for the Department of Agriculture as an editor, and soon afterwards married Harriet Hardin, with whom he had four children. He accepted a position at the University of Nebraska, as an assistant lecturer. Emerson's interests while he was at Nebraska included a wide range of projects including culture methods for different fruit and vegetables and the possibility of domesticating wild plants. Using bean breeding techniques he set up an experiment to establish the same results as Mendel, of whom he had not heard at the time.

Was an American ornithologist, bird collector and explorer. Beck's Petrel is named after him.was a g

Was an American ornithologist, bird collector and explorer. Beck's Petrel is named after him.was a good friend of the ornithologist T. S. Palmer. Palmer also introduced Beck to Charles A. Keeler, who studied birdlife of the San Francisco Bay area, and Beck learned about upland birds hunting quail with Holmes. Beck’s interest and knowledge of birds grew, and he soon learned how to make ornithological specimens and mount birds for museum collections. He joined the American Ornithologists' Union in 1894, and was among the first members of the newly-formed Cooper Ornithological Society which formed in San Jose, California. He participated in early ornithological expeditions to the Sierra Nevada Mountains, Yosemite, and Lake Tahoe with Holmes and W. H. Osgood, and collected and helped describe the first eggs and nests of the Western Evening Grosbeak and Hermit Warbler.

Was a Polish historian, economist and politician. He was one of the best economists connected with t

Was a Polish historian, economist and politician. He was one of the best economists connected with the right-wing National Democracy political camp.[1]Rybarski was professor at the Jagiellonian University from 1917 until 1920, from 1921 until 1923 at the Warsaw University of Technology and from 1924 at the Warsaw University. From 1928 until 1935 he was member of the Sejm.

Was a Russian linguist and literary critic, associated with the Formalist school. He became one of t

Was a Russian linguist and literary critic, associated with the Formalist school. He became one of the most influential linguists of the 20th century by pioneering the development of structural analysis of language, poetry, and art.

Was a Russian linguist and literary critic, associated with the Formalist school. He became one of t

Was a Russian linguist and literary critic, associated with the Formalist school. He became one of the most influential linguists of the 20th century by pioneering the development of structural analysis of language, poetry, and art.Jakobson was born to a well-to-do family in Russia of Jewish descent, and he developed a fascination with language at a very young age. As a student he was a leading figure of the Moscow Linguistic Circle and took part in Moscow's active world of avant-garde art and poetry. The linguistics of the time was overwhelmingly neogrammarian and insisted that the only scientific study of language was to study the history and development of words across time (the diachronic approach, in Saussure's terms).

Was a Polish linguist, pedagogue and ethnographer. Founder and editor of Poradnik Jezykowy.His main

Was a Polish linguist, pedagogue and ethnographer. Founder and editor of Poradnik Jezykowy.His main fields of study was Lesser Polish dialect, didactics, Polish language grammar, ethnography, synonyms dictionary. Author of publications Brzeziniacy (1881), Dobór wyrazów. Slownik wyrazów bliskoznacznych i jednoznacznych... (1926).

Was a Dutch jurist and statesman. He was tried for treason, together with Johan van Oldenbarnevelt,

Was a Dutch jurist and statesman. He was tried for treason, together with Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Hugo Grotius, and Gilles van Ledenberg during the political crisis of 1617-1618 in the Dutch Republic, and sentenced to life-imprisonment. He shared Loevestein prison with Grotius.

Is an American mathematician active in Europe, primarily known for his work in mathematical logic an

Is an American mathematician active in Europe, primarily known for his work in mathematical logic and set theory.Jensen completed the BA in economics at American University in 1959, and a Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of Bonn in 1964. His supervi

A British economist and the Clifton R. Musser Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of C

A British economist and the Clifton R. Musser Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Chicago Law School

Is a mathematician credited by the American Mathematical Society with being "one of the principal ar

Is a mathematician credited by the American Mathematical Society with being "one of the principal architects of the rapid development worldwide of discrete mathematics in recent years"[1]. He has done important work in scheduling theory, computational geometry, Ramsey theory, and quasi-randomness.

Was the Lewis M. Terman Professor of Electrical Engineering, Emeritus of the Space, Telecommunicatio

Was the Lewis M. Terman Professor of Electrical Engineering, Emeritus of the Space, Telecommunications and Radioscience Laboratory at Stanford University until his death on August 12, 2007.From October 1949 to September 1954 Dr. Bracewell was a Senior Research Officer at the Radiophysics Laboratory of the CSIRO, Sydney, concerned with very long wave propagation and radio astronomy. He then lectured in radio astronomy at the Astronomy Department of the University of California, Berkeley from September 1954 to June 1955 at the invitation of Otto Struve, and at Stanford University during the summer of 1955, and joined the Electrical Engineering faculty at Stanford in December 1955.

An American linguist and professor emeritus at the University of California, San Diego. He is best k

An American linguist and professor emeritus at the University of California, San Diego. He is best known as one of the founders of the cognitive linguistics movement and the creator of Cognitive Grammar.Langacker received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1966. From 1966 until 2003, he was professor of linguistics at the University of California, San Diego. From 1997 until 1999 he also served as president of the International Cognitive Linguistics Association.

Was Chief Justice of Ireland from 2000 to 2004. [1] Keane was educated at Blackrock College, Dublin,

Was Chief Justice of Ireland from 2000 to 2004. [1] Keane was educated at Blackrock College, Dublin, and graduated from University College Dublin (UCD) in 1953 with a BA in Modern History. He was called to the Bar in 1954[1] and became a Senior Counsel in 1970.[1] He was appointed as a Judge of the High Court in July, 1979.[1] He was head of the Tribunal of Inquiry into the Stardust fire in 1981,[1] and chairman of the Law Reform Commission from 1987 to 1992.[1] He has published many legal texts and papers, and participated in Council of Europe programs developing legal systems in Post-Communist Europe.[1] He was elevated to the Supreme Court in 1996,[1] becoming Chief Justice in 2000. He received an Honorary Doctorate from UCD in 2001,[2] and has been an Adjunct Professor at Trinity College Dublin since his retirement.

An Argentine economist, former President of the Central Bank of Argentina from 5 February 1991 until

An Argentine economist, former President of the Central Bank of Argentina from 5 February 1991 until 4 August 1996 and Minister of Economy from 6 August 1996 until 10 December 1999, being the only member of the Chicago Boys ever to head the economy of Argentina.Fernández was born in Córdoba, Argentina and holds a CPA from the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba and a PhD in Economics from the same university. In 1973 he obtained a scholarship from the Ford Foundation and went on to earn a PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago in 1975.

Was the first notable female ichthyologist; first publishing in her own right, she later collaborate

Was the first notable female ichthyologist; first publishing in her own right, she later collaborated with her husband Carl H. Eigenmann, and some 150 species of fish are today credited "Eigenmann & Eigenmann" as a result.

A Canadian jurist. She was appointed in 2004 to the Supreme Court of Canada, becoming the first Jewi

A Canadian jurist. She was appointed in 2004 to the Supreme Court of Canada, becoming the first Jewish woman and the sixth woman to sit on the Canadian Supreme Court bench.Abella, who is considered one of Canada's foremost experts in human rights law, has also been a chair of the Ontario Labour Relations Board and the Ontario Law Reform Commission, and a board member of the Ontario Human Rights Commission. She was also a member of the judicial inquiry on the Donald Marshall case. She chaired the Ontario Study into Access to Legal Services by the Disabled.

Was an English biophysicist and X-ray crystallographer who made very important contributions to the

Was an English biophysicist and X-ray crystallographer who made very important contributions to the understanding of the fine structures of DNA, viruses, coal and graphite. Franklin is best known for her work on the X-ray diffraction images of DNA which were an important influence on Crick and Watson's 1953 hypothesis regarding the structure of DNA. When her work was published it also presented critical evidence in support of their hypothesis. Later she led pioneering work on the tobacco mosaic and polio viruses. She died in 1958 of complications arising from cancer of the ovary.

Was a French philosopher and theologian, often regarded as the founder of nominalism (cfr. Scholasti

Was a French philosopher and theologian, often regarded as the founder of nominalism (cfr. Scholasticism). He studied at Soissons and Reims, was afterwards attached to the cathedral of Chartres and became canon of Compiègne. As a monk of Compiègne, he was teaching as early as 1087. He had contact with Lanfranc, Anselm and St. Ivo of Chartres.

Served for 10 years as the 25th Chief Justice (and first female Justice & only female Chief Justice)

Served for 10 years as the 25th Chief Justice (and first female Justice & only female Chief Justice) of the California Supreme Court until removed from that office by the voters. Bird was targeted by well-funded conservative and pro death penalty groups whose withering attacks painted her as a soft-on-crime liberal. After being outspent two to one, she lost her reconfirmation bid and left office in 1987.

Was a Calvinist philosopher, historian, and theologian and is widely credited as the father of Chris

Was a Calvinist philosopher, historian, and theologian and is widely credited as the father of Christian Reconstructionism and an inspiration for the modern homeschool movement. His prolific writings have exerted considerable influence on the Christian right.Rushdoony attended public schools where he learned English. He continued his education at the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned a B.A. in English in 1938, a teaching credential in 1939 and a M.A. in Education in 1940. He also attended the Pacific School of Religion, a Congregational and Methodist seminary in Berkeley, California, from which he graduated in 1944, the same year he was ordained by the Presbyterian Church (USA). Rushdoony then served for eight and a half years as a missionary to the Shoshone and Paiute Indians on the Duck Valley Indian Reservation in a remote area of Nevada.[6] In 1953 Rushdoony became pastor of a church in Santa Cruz, California, a small retirement town on the coast.[6]

Was a British biologist who specialized in the taxonomy of beetles.He lectured at the Zoology Depart

Was a British biologist who specialized in the taxonomy of beetles.He lectured at the Zoology Department of the University of Glasgow from 1949. He collected beetles and their larvae from around the world and studied the relationships between them.