Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter R

Was a German mathematician.He stayed in Breslau and entered the university there. As he found the co

Was a German mathematician.He stayed in Breslau and entered the university there. As he found the courses not demanding enough, he continued his studies in Zürich and Göttingen. Courant eventually became David Hilbert's assistant in Göttingen and obtained

Was a leading German and American mathematician. He worked mainly in abstract algebra, but made impo

Was a leading German and American mathematician. He worked mainly in abstract algebra, but made important contributions to number theory. He was the founder of modular representation theory.Several theorems bear his name, including Brauer's induction theo

He studied mathematics at the University of Cambridge (1970-1973), and subsequently followed the Dip

He studied mathematics at the University of Cambridge (1970-1973), and subsequently followed the Diploma of Statistics course there (1973-1974)

Was born in the United Kingdom. He studied mathematics at the University of Cambridge (1970-1973), a

Was born in the United Kingdom. He studied mathematics at the University of Cambridge (1970-1973), and subsequently followed the Diploma of Statistics course there (1973-1974). Marrying a Dutch woman, he moved to the Netherlands where he worked from 1974

A British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and popular science author. He is a professorial fellow

A British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and popular science author. He is a professorial fellow of New College, Oxford.[1][2][3] Dawkins came to prominence with his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, which popularised the gene-centred view of evolution and introduced the term meme. In 1982, he made a widely cited contribution to evolutionary biology with the theory, presented in his book The Extended Phenotype, that the phenotypic effects of a gene are not necessarily limited to an organism's body, but can stretch far into the environment, including the bodies of other organisms.

An American evolutionary biologist.[1] He earned his BA from Oberlin College in 1976, and his PhD fr

An American evolutionary biologist.[1] He earned his BA from Oberlin College in 1976, and his PhD from the University of North Carolina in 1982.[2] He is a Fellow in the American Academy of Microbiology and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and holds the office Hannah Distinguished Professor of microbial ecology at Michigan State University. In 1996, Lenski won a MacArthur Fellowship, and in 2006 he was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences. Lenski is best known for his long-term E. coli evolution experiment and his work with digital organisms, using Avida. He is the son of sociologist Gerhard Lenski.

Australian politician, was a member of the first federal ministry.O'Connor was born in the Sydney su

Australian politician, was a member of the first federal ministry.O'Connor was born in the Sydney suburb of Glebe and was educated at Lyndhurst College, Sydney Grammar School, and at the St John's College, University of Sydney, graduating as a lawyer in 1

Australian politician, was a member of the first federal ministry.O'Connor was born in the Sydney su

Australian politician, was a member of the first federal ministry.O'Connor was born in the Sydney suburb of Glebe and was educated at Lyndhurst College, Sydney Grammar School, and at the St John's College, University of Sydney, graduating as a lawyer in 1871. He became a clerk to the legislative council, studied law, and was called to the bar in 1876. Almost from the beginning he was known as a sound lawyer and he subsequently built up a successful practice, he was also a well-known journalist writing for Irish-Australian and Catholic magazines.[1][2]A Protectionist, O'Connor was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council 1887–98. He was Minister for Justice 1891–93 and Solicitor-General 1893.[3] He was made a Q.C. in 1896, and in the same year was a member of the people's federal convention held at Bathurst. He was an earnest advocate for federation and was elected one of the New South Wales representatives for the convention of 1897–98. At this convention he was a member with Sir Edmund Barton and Sir John Downer of the drafting committee which prepared the federation bill. This, with some amendments, eventually became the federal constitution.[1]

Was an applied mathematician, celebrated for his invention of dynamic programming in 1953, and impor

Was an applied mathematician, celebrated for his invention of dynamic programming in 1953, and important contributions in other fields of mathematics.Bellman completed high school at the Abraham Lincoln High School (New York) in 1937[1], and studied mathe

Was a mathematician and engineer. He worked at the University of Manchester and in 1953, he got a jo

Was a mathematician and engineer. He worked at the University of Manchester and in 1953, he got a job as a senior lecturer in aeronautical engineering at the University of Sydney. He studied turbines, which led him to the research of supersonic aeronautic

Was an American economist and businessman who served under five U.S. presidents but is best remember

Was an American economist and businessman who served under five U.S. presidents but is best remembered as the Director of the Office of Management and Budget during the administration of George H. W. Bush (1989-1993).

Is a British economist. He was founder-director in 1990 of, and is a current programme director at,

Is a British economist. He was founder-director in 1990 of, and is a current programme director at, the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics.

An American economist perhaps best known as a theorist in behavioral finance and for his collaborati

An American economist perhaps best known as a theorist in behavioral finance and for his collaboration with Daniel Kahneman and others in further defining that field. He received his B.A. from Case Western Reserve University in 1967. At the University of Rochester, he received his M.S. in 1970 and his Ph.D. in Economics in 1974. He currently teaches at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, and is an associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He has previously taught at Cornell University and the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Was an American naturalist, zoologist, physicist and paleontologist.Harlan was the author of Fauna A

Was an American naturalist, zoologist, physicist and paleontologist.Harlan was the author of Fauna Americana (1825) and American Herpetology. He was born at Philadelphia and graduated in medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1821 he was elected professor of comparative anatomy in the Philadelphia museum.

Was a prominent American geographer. He completed his doctorate at the University of Chicago (1924),

Was a prominent American geographer. He completed his doctorate at the University of Chicago (1924), then taught at the University of Minnesota (1924–40) and the University of Wisconsin (1940–70), with war-time interruption. He is the author of The Nature of Geography (1939), Perspective on the Nature of Geography (1959), and, with Mark Hoyt Ingraham, The Academic Citizen (1970). Among his brothers was the prominent philosopher Charles Hartshorne.

Was a German zoologist.He actively studied tongue worms (Pentastomida) and his collection of these a

Was a German zoologist.He actively studied tongue worms (Pentastomida) and his collection of these animals is held in the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. He also coined the name Chelicerata for arachnids and their relatives.

The publisher of U.S. & World Early Warning Report for Investors. He has written several entry level

The publisher of U.S. & World Early Warning Report for Investors. He has written several entry level, common sense, books on United States economics, law, and history. He has written these things in epistolatory form, usually as an uncle writing to his nephew, answering questions. Maybury was a high school economics teacher. After failing to find a book which would give a clear explanation on his view of economics he wrote one himself. Some of his books include Uncle Eric Talks About Personal, Career & Financial Security; a book that is basically the foundation for his other books about the model perspective and Higher Law

Was a leading figure in the late 20th century for his work in quantitative geography, and played an

Was a leading figure in the late 20th century for his work in quantitative geography, and played an instrumental role in bringing in the use of systems theory to geography.In 1957, Chorley's academic career at Columbia, and subsequently Brown University, was interrupted by the need to return to Britain for family reasons. He was soon appointed a Demonstrator at Cambridge University and proceeded to move rapidly up the university hierarchy with a readership in 1970 and ad hominem chair in 1974. Cambridge provided the launching pad for Chorley's revolutionary ideas. He rejected the prevailing paradigm of the Davisian cycles of erosion and sought to replace these with a quantitative model-based paradigm with an emphasis on General Systems Theory and numerical modelling.

Was a German cartographer who was the son of famed geographer Heinrich Kiepert (1818-1899). Richard

Was a German cartographer who was the son of famed geographer Heinrich Kiepert (1818-1899). Richard Kiepert studied geography and history in Berlin and Heidelberg, and in 1874 received his Doctorate of Philosophy at the University of Jena.Kiepert prepared maps from data amassed by German explorers of Africa such as Friedrich Gerhard Rohlfs (1831-1896) and Heinrich Barth (1821-1865). From 1874 until 1878 he worked on the compilation of Ferdinand von Richthofen's atlas of China, and from 1875 to 1887 he was editor of the geographical periodical Globus. Two other important African geographic works of his were Deutscher Kolonialatlas and Spezialkarte von DeutschOstafrika. From 1902 until 1908 he worked on the Spezialkarte von Kleinasien,

Was an English naturalist, geologist and writer of numerous books on natural history.Lydekker was bo

Was an English naturalist, geologist and writer of numerous books on natural history.Lydekker was born in London. In 1874 he joined the Geological Survey of India and made studies of the vertebrate paleontology of northern India (especially Kashmir). He was responsible for the cataloguing of the fossil mammals, reptiles and birds in the Natural History Museum. His books included A Manual of Palaeontology (with Henry Alleyne Nicholson, 1889) and The Wild Animals of India, Burma, Malaya, and Tibet.Lydekker was also influential in the science of biogeography. In 1895 he delineated the biogeographical boundary through Indonesia, known as Lydekker's Line, that separates Wallacea on the west from Australia-New Guinea on the east.

A Danish astronomer working at the European Southern Observatory (ESO).He discovered numerous comets

A Danish astronomer working at the European Southern Observatory (ESO).He discovered numerous comets, including the spectacular "Comet West" (C/1975 V1) and the periodic comets 76P/West-Kohoutek-Ikemura and 123P/West-Hartley.He also discovered a number of asteroids, including the Trojan asteroids 2146 Stentor, 2148 Epeios and (20995) 1985 VY.

Was an American mathematician and philosopher.At the University of California, Berkeley, Montague ea

Was an American mathematician and philosopher.At the University of California, Berkeley, Montague earned an A.B. in Philosophy in 1950, an M.A. in Mathematics in 1953, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy 1957, the latter under the direction of the mathematician and logician Alfred Tarski. Montague, one of Tarski's most accomplished American students, spent his entire career teaching in UCLA's Philosophy Department, where he supervised the dissertations of Nino Cocchiarella and Hans Kamp.Montague wrote on the foundations of logic and set theory, as would befit a student of Tarski. His Ph.D. dissertation, titled Contributions to the Axiomatic Foundations of Set Theory, contained the first proof that all possible axiomatizations of the standard axiomatic set theory ZFC must contain infinitely many axioms. In other words, ZFC cannot be finitely axiomatized.

Was an American linguist who lived and worked in New York. Hall served as a U.S. Army medical clerk

Was an American linguist who lived and worked in New York. Hall served as a U.S. Army medical clerk in Germany near the end of World War II. He learned to speak German during his time served there, explaining that his "rich uncle [Sam] sent me on vacation to Stuttgart." Hall received his doctorate from Johns Hopkins University in 1953. He was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Bayreuth in Germany in 1976-77 and held teaching positions in Sudan and Venezuela.

Was an American logician and analytic philosopher. In his Ph.D. thesis written under Frederic Fitch,

Was an American logician and analytic philosopher. In his Ph.D. thesis written under Frederic Fitch, Martin discovered virtual sets a bit before Quine, and was possibly the first non-Pole other than Joseph Woodger to employ a mereological system. Building

Was an English biologist, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist.Owen is probably best remembered

Was an English biologist, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist.Owen is probably best remembered today for coining the word Dinosauria (meaning "Terrible Reptile" or "Fearfully Great Reptile") and for his outspoken opposition to Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. He was the driving force behind the establishment, in 1881, of the British Museum of Natural History in London. Bill Bryson argues that, "by making the Natural History Museum an institution for everyone, Owen transformed our expectations of what museums are for".[1]