Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter S

Was a Romanian mathematician, astronomer and politician of Armenian descent. He made a fundamental c

Was a Romanian mathematician, astronomer and politician of Armenian descent. He made a fundamental contribution to the n-body problem in celestial mechanics by proving that using a third degree approximation for the disturbing forces implies instability o

Was an Indian astronomer and mathematician, the author of Dhikotidakarana (written in 1039), a work

Was an Indian astronomer and mathematician, the author of Dhikotidakarana (written in 1039), a work of twenty verses on solar and lunar eclipses; Dhruvamanasa (written in 1056), a work of 105 verses on calculating planetary longitudes, eclipses and planetary transits; Siddhantasekhara a major work on astronomy in 19 chapters; and Ganitatilaka, an incomplete arithmetical treatise in 125 verses based on a work by Shridhara.Sripati's father was Nagadeva (sometimes written as Namadeva) and Nagadeva's father, Sripati's paternal grandfather, was Kesava. Sripati was a follower of the teaching of Lalla writing on astrology, astronomy and mathematics. His mathematical work was undertaken with applications to astronomy in mind, for example a study of spheres. His work on astronomy was undertaken to provide a basis for his astrology. Sripati was the most prominent Indian mathematicians of the 11th Century.

Was a Czech zoologist and parasitologist, who along with pathologist Henrique da Rocha Lima discover

Was a Czech zoologist and parasitologist, who along with pathologist Henrique da Rocha Lima discovered the pathogen of epidemic typhus.Prowazek had studied epidemic typhus in Serbia (1913) and Istanbul (1914). Later, while Prowazek and Rocha Lima were working in a German prison hospital, they both became infected with typhus. Prowazek died soon after on February 17, 1915. Rocha Lima named the infectious agent of epidemic typhus- Rickettsia prowazekii after his colleague.

Was a Soviet economist. He played a leading role in the analysis of the planned economy of the Sovie

Was a Soviet economist. He played a leading role in the analysis of the planned economy of the Soviet type, including modeling, development of the five year plans and calculation of national income. His particular contributions include the "Strumilin index", a measure of labor productivity, and the "norm" coefficient, relating to analysis of investment activity.He graduated from Petrograd Polytechnical Institute in 1914. Until 1917 he worked as a socialist activist. After the October Revolution he worked on setting up the Soviet planned economy while he was appointed to a professorship in economics at the Moscow State University. In 1931 he became a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. Strumilin's educational background was in statistics.

Was a Polish economist, Naczelnik of the Scouting resistance and Second Lieutenant of the Armia Kraj

Was a Polish economist, Naczelnik of the Scouting resistance and Second Lieutenant of the Armia Krajowa during the Second World War.

Was a Polish political writer and philosopher.

Was a Polish political writer and philosopher.

Was a Polish mathematician and statistician.He was a pupil of state high school in Rypin, Poland, an

Was a Polish mathematician and statistician.He was a pupil of state high school in Rypin, Poland, and he graduated from The First High School in Torun in 1950. He studied mathematics in Torun University and Wroclaw University. He defended his master thesi

Was a Polish mathematician from Kraków, working in particular on the field of affine geometry.In 19

Was a Polish mathematician from Kraków, working in particular on the field of affine geometry.In 1932, he proved that the perimeter of the unit disc can take any value in between 6 and 8, and that these extremal values are obtained if and only if the unit disc is an affine regular hexagon resp. a parallelogram (see unit disc).

Is a Polish economist, former advisor or Polish Ministry of Finance, reader in Economics at the Lond

Is a Polish economist, former advisor or Polish Ministry of Finance, reader in Economics at the London School of Economics.His research interests are in the fields of comparative economic systems; reforms and post-communist transition, especially Poland and the former USSR; endogenous economic growth; economics of technological change; trade and financial relations between East and West; privatisation and analysis of the behaviour of enterprises in Central Europe, the former USSR and China.

Was a Polish economist and politician, a National Democracy ideologue known for his support of Polon

Was a Polish economist and politician, a National Democracy ideologue known for his support of Polonization policies under the Second Polish Republic.A member of Liga Narodowa since 1905, a year later he become one of its leaders. From 1907 he was a member of Dmowski's party, the Stronnictwo Narodowo-Demokratyczne. During World War I he, like Dmowski, supported the idea that Poles should ally with Russia, and later he joined Dmowski's Polish National Committee (Komitet Narodowy Polski) in Paris.

Was a Polish Humanist mathematician.

Was a Polish Humanist mathematician.

Was a Polish economist, columnist and journalist on economics.Stanislaw Albinowski was also a govern

Was a Polish economist, columnist and journalist on economics.Stanislaw Albinowski was also a governmental experts groups working on reports on how to deal with economic crisis in Poland in the 1980s, participating in publications: The report on the economy (Raport o stanie gospodarki) and The programme to overcome the crisis, (Program przezwyciezenia kryzysu) in 1981.

Was a Polish economist, columnist and journalist on economics.

Was a Polish economist, columnist and journalist on economics.

Is a Polish economist who, from July 14 to September 22, 2006, was the Finance Minister in the cabin

Is a Polish economist who, from July 14 to September 22, 2006, was the Finance Minister in the cabinet of Jaroslaw Kaczynski. He is the successor of Pawel Wojciechowski, who lasted only two weeks in this position as a man personally unknown to the party leader. Kluza claimed to continue the financial politics of Zyta Gilowska and Wojciechowski.

Was a Polish economist, sociologist and political activists. One of the first Polish Marxists. With

Was a Polish economist, sociologist and political activists. One of the first Polish Marxists. With his colleagues (such as Ludwik Krzywicki), he translated Karl Marx's Capital into Polish.

Was a Polish-Russian financier.

Was a Polish-Russian financier.

Is a Polish-American mathematician and computer scientist.Radziszowski was born in Gdansk, Poland, a

Is a Polish-American mathematician and computer scientist.Radziszowski was born in Gdansk, Poland, and received his PhD from the Institute of Informatics of the University of Warsaw in 1980. His thesis topic was "Logic and Complexity of Synchronous Parallel Computations". From 1976 to 1980 he worked as a visiting professor in various universities in Mexico City. In 1984, he moved to the United States, where he took up a position in the Department of Computer Science at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Was a Polish economist and historian. A veteran of the Polish-Bolshevik War, during World War II he

Was a Polish economist and historian. A veteran of the Polish-Bolshevik War, during World War II he was one of the few survivors of the Katyn Massacre and an eye witness of the transport of Polish prisoners of war to the forests outside Smolensk by the NK

Is microbiologist and a professor of microbiology and immunology at Stanford University School of Me

Is microbiologist and a professor of microbiology and immunology at Stanford University School of Medicine.[1] He is sometimes referred to as the father of molecular microbial pathogenesis, which is the study of how infectious microbes and host cells inte

Was born in Southport, Lancashire and graduated in engineering at Cambridge in 1942.After a period i

Was born in Southport, Lancashire and graduated in engineering at Cambridge in 1942.After a period in radar research during the World War II, he joined the Physics Department at Manchester University where he did research on aspects of the Earth’s magnetic field. This led to his interest in palaeomagnetism, the study of the magnetism of rocks, which he pursued first at the Geophysics Department in Cambridge and later at Newcastle, where he was appointed to the chair of Physics in 1956. At Newcastle Runcorn developed a strong research group in geophysics, and made substantial contributions to various fields, including convection in the Earth and Moon, the shape and magnetic fields of the Moon and planets, magnetohydrodynamics of the Earth’s core, changes in the length of the day, polar wandering, continental drift and plate tectonics.

An economist and economic historian at the University of Rochester. He received his Ph.D. in economi

An economist and economic historian at the University of Rochester. He received his Ph.D. in economics in 1962 from Johns Hopkins University. Engerman is known for his quantitative historical work along with Nobel prize winning economist Robert Fogel. His first major book, co-authored with Robert Fogel in 1974, was Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery. This significant work, winner of the Bancroft Prize in American history, challenged readers to think critically about the economics of slavery. Dr. Engerman has also published over 100 articles and has authored, co-authored or edited 16 book-length studies.

Is a cell and molecular biologist and human geneticist. He was the first scientist to offer conclusi

Is a cell and molecular biologist and human geneticist. He was the first scientist to offer conclusive evidence for the clonality of human cancers. He and Walter Nelson-Rees identified that HeLa cells had contaminated many cell lines thought to be unique.

Was a Polish-born, Jewish mathematician whose primary work was in complex analysis. He is best known

Was a Polish-born, Jewish mathematician whose primary work was in complex analysis. He is best known for the kernel function he discovered while at Berlin University in 1922. This function is known today as the Bergman kernel. Bergman taught for many years at Stanford University, and served as an advisor to several students.[1]There is a Stefan Bergman Prize in mathematics. The prize was initiated by Bergman's wife in her will, in memory of her husband's work. The American Mathematical Society supports the prize and selects the committee of judges [3]. The prize is awarded for[3]:

Was a Polish psychologist and professor at Poznan University.In 1914-1919 Blachowski worked at Lwów

Was a Polish psychologist and professor at Poznan University.In 1914-1919 Blachowski worked at Lwów University, where he was an assistant lecturer (starszy asystent) and from 1917 an assistant professor (docent) of philosophy, and from 1918 librarian of the university library. He spent several years (1914–16) of his employment at Lwów University at World War I fronts, and in 1918-19 he participated as a volunteer in the defense of Lwów.In 1919 he transferred to Poznan University, where he was an associate professor (profesor nadzwyczajny), then a professor (profesor zwyczajny, 1921), director of the Chair of Psychology (1919–60), dean of Humanities (1934–37), pro-rector (1938–39 and 1945–46) and rector (1946–48). In 1945-47 he was a member of the National Council (Rada Narodowa) at the Ministry of Education (Ministerstwo Oswiaty). During World War II he conducted underground teaching in Warsaw.

Associate Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California,

Associate Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).Methodologically, Gries is a quantitative corpus linguist at the intersection of corpus linguistics and computational linguistics, who uses a variety of different statistical methods to investigate linguistic topics such as morphophonology (the formation of morphological blends), syntax (syntactic alternations), the syntax-lexis interface (collostructional analysis), and semantics (polysemy and near synonymy in English and Russian) and corpus-linguistic methodology (corpus homogeneity and comparisons, dispersion measures, and other quantitative methods); more recently,