Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter S

Is an American jurist. She served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

Is an American jurist. She served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1981 until her retirement from the bench in 2005. The first woman to serve on the Supreme Court, she was in some cases a crucial swing vote for many years due to her case-by-case approach to jurisprudence and her somewhat moderate political views. However, during her time on the Court, she voted with Justice Rehnquist more than with any other justice.

Is a French philosopher, working on the philosophy of language, philosophy of action, ethics and phi

Is a French philosopher, working on the philosophy of language, philosophy of action, ethics and philosophy of science. She is currently a professor at the University of Picardie Jules Verne in Amiens, France. She also introduced several aspects of American philosophy to French readers (Emerson, Thoreau, but above others Stanley Cavell).

A University Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz and

A University Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz and works at the Lick Observatory. In 1972 she received her Ph.D. in Astronomy from Harvard University, prior to that she obtained a B.A., with high honors, in physics from Swarthmore College, in 1966. She was elected to the American Philosophical Society on 29 April 2001.Faber was the head of a team (known as the Seven Samurai) that discovered a mass concentration called "The Great Attractor".

Was a Spanish histologist, physician, and Nobel laureate. His pioneering investigations of the micro

Was a Spanish histologist, physician, and Nobel laureate. His pioneering investigations of the microscopic structure of the brain were so original and influential that he is considered by many to be the greatest neuroscientist of all time.[1] His skills as an artist allowed him to make hundreds of drawings so beautiful and lucid that many of them are still used for educational purposes today.[2]Ramón y Cajal attended the medical school of Zaragoza, from which he graduated in 1873. After a competitive examination, he served as a medical officer in the Spanish Army. He took part in an expedition to Cuba in 1874-75, where he contracted malaria and tuberculosis. After returning to Spain he married Silveria Fañanás García in 1879,

A U.S. anthropologist and primatologist who has made several major contributions to evolutionary psy

A U.S. anthropologist and primatologist who has made several major contributions to evolutionary psychology and sociobiology.Sarah Hrdy first became interested in langurs during an undergraduate primate behavior class taught by anthropologist Irven DeVore in 1968. Here, a remark by DeVore regarding the relationship between crowding and the killing of infants would forever change her life. After graduation, she returned to Harvard for graduate studies, with the goal of decoding this phenomenon of infanticide in langur colonies. Working under the supervision of DeVore and the evolutionary biologist Robert L. Trivers provided Hrdy with an introduction to a newly emerging outlook on the social world - that of sociobiology - which crystallized at Harvard during the early 1970s and shaped Hrdy's perspective on primatology in an enduring manner.

Was a French philosopher. Kofman was the author of numerous books, including several on Friedrich Ni

Was a French philosopher. Kofman was the author of numerous books, including several on Friedrich Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud. Her book, L'énigme de la femme: La femme dans les textes de Freud (1980), is perhaps the most thorough consideration of Freud's ideas concerning female sexuality.

Was a French philosopher, essayist, and art critic. He served as the last secretary of surrealist An

Was a French philosopher, essayist, and art critic. He served as the last secretary of surrealist André Breton. Alexandrian was an advocate of the philosophy Nietzsche advanced in The Gay Science (Die fröhliche Wissenschaft). He headed the journal Supérieur Inconnu (a title provided by Breton), which exalts four values shared by the surrealists and Alexandrian: dreams, love, knowledge, and revolution. Catherine Millet is one notable contributor to the magazine.

Was an Indian philosopher and statesman.One of the popular scholars of comparative religion and phil

Was an Indian philosopher and statesman.One of the popular scholars of comparative religion and philosophy, he was among the scholars of 20th century that built a bridge between Eastern and Western thought showing each to be comprehensible within the term

An American sociologist and economist noted for her analyses of globalization and international huma

An American sociologist and economist noted for her analyses of globalization and international human migration. She is currently a professor of sociology at Columbia University and at the London School of Economics. Sassen coined the term global city. She is married to the sociologist Richard Sennett.After being a post-doctoral fellow at the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University, Sassen held various academic positions both in and outside the USA, such as the Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago. She is currently Professor of Sociology at Columbia University and Centennial Visiting Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Sociology at the London School of Economics.

Is an American philosopher and logician, now emeritus from Princeton. He teaches as distinguished pr

Is an American philosopher and logician, now emeritus from Princeton. He teaches as distinguished professor of philosophy at CUNY Graduate Center. Since the 1960s Kripke has been a central figure in a number of fields related to logic, philosophy of langu

An astronomer at The Citadel's Physics Department in Charleston, South Carolina. Adelman received hi

An astronomer at The Citadel's Physics Department in Charleston, South Carolina. Adelman received his bachelor's degree in physics from the University of Maryland in 1966 and his PhD in astronomy from the California Institute of Technology in 1972. He specializes in stellar astronomy. He is a co-author of Bound for the Stars: Travel in the Solar System and Beyond (1981, ISBN 0-13-080382-0).

Was an American mathematician who cofounded category theory with Samuel Eilenberg.Mac Lane was chris

Was an American mathematician who cofounded category theory with Samuel Eilenberg.Mac Lane was christened "Leslie Saunders MacLane", but "Leslie" fell into disuse because his parents, Donald MacLane and Winifred Saunders, came to dislike it. He began inse

In recent years, Adams has been hurt with a series of debilitating health problems. He has been dysl

In recent years, Adams has been hurt with a series of debilitating health problems. He has been dyslexic his entire life. Since late 2004, he has suffered from a reemergence of his focal dystonia which has affected his drawing. He can fool his brain by drawing using a graphics tablet. On December 12, 2005, Adams announced on his blog that he also suffers from spasmodic dysphonia, a condition that causes the vocal cords to behave in an abnormal manner. However

A Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He studies th

A Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He studies the evolution of cis-regulation in the context of biological development, using Drosophila as a model system. He is Professor of Molecular Biology, Genetics, and Medical Genetics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.Carroll is at the forefront of a field known as evolutionary developmental biology ("evo-devo"). He is also the author of Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom (ISBN 0-393-06016-0), one of the first popular summary narratives of the field. He is a professor of genetics, medical genetics, and molecular biology at the University of Wisconsin-Madsion, and an investigator for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He is a strong advocate of the primacy of cis-regulatory evolution in the context of morphological evolution.

Was an Alsatian humanist and satirist.[1] He is best known for his satire Das Narrenschiff (The Ship

Was an Alsatian humanist and satirist.[1] He is best known for his satire Das Narrenschiff (The Ship of Fools).[2] In 1485 he married Elisabeth Bürgis from Basel, the daughter of a cutler. Elisabeth bore him seven children. Keen for his eldest son Onophri

Was a French preacher and theologian; and one of the first Reformed Christian proponents of freedom

Was a French preacher and theologian; and one of the first Reformed Christian proponents of freedom of the conscience or freedom of thought.

Was a Canadian economist, academic, civil servant and Canada's second Dominion Statistician.In 1899

Was a Canadian economist, academic, civil servant and Canada's second Dominion Statistician.In 1899 he attended the University of Toronto under the Prince of Wales matriculation scholarship, taking Classics and English. He continued his studies at Wadham

Was a Japanese mathematician who created a new algebraic notation system and laid foundation for the

Was a Japanese mathematician who created a new algebraic notation system and laid foundation for the later development of wasan (Japanese traditional mathematics). He also, motivated by astronomical computations, had done some important works in calculus and integer indeterminate equations, which were to be developed by his successors. His successors later developed a school of mathematics (Seki's school) which was overwhelmingly dominant in Japanese mathematics until the end of Edo era.

Was an Egyptian Egyptologist. He has written the Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt in 16 volumes in Arab

Was an Egyptian Egyptologist. He has written the Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt in 16 volumes in Arabic.

Was a part of starting the mining industry in western Canada. He was president of Cominco, recipient

Was a part of starting the mining industry in western Canada. He was president of Cominco, recipient of several international awards for his work in metallurgy, and was the President of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum in 1934-35. For his work he was inducted into the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame.After grduating, he moved west and obtained work as a surveyor for the Canadian Smelting Works in Trail, British Columbia. Two years later, he became the company's chief chemist, but soon moved to Nelson, British Columbia to become general supintendent of the Hall Mines Smelter, then general superintendent of the St. Eugene mines. In 1908, Blaylock joined the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company (Cominco). In 1919, he became Cominco's general manager. In 1922 a director, vice-president in 1927, managing director in 1938 and president in 1939.

Was a Cherokee silversmith who invented the Cherokee syllabary. He was born in Tukasee,TN which is p

Was a Cherokee silversmith who invented the Cherokee syllabary. He was born in Tukasee,TN which is present day Vonore,TN, Cherokee Nation and would die in Mexico looking for a Cherokee group who removed in the late 1700s.As a silversmith, Sequoyah dealt regularly with whites who had settled in the area. Often, the Native Americans were impressed by their writing, referring to their correspondence as "talking leaves". Around 1809, Sequoyah began work to create a system of writing for the Cherokee language. From 1828 to 1834 the language was used in the Cherokee Phoenix which represented the Cherokee Nation.

Was a Russian ornithologist.A scion of one of the oldest families of Russian nobility, Buturlin spen

Was a Russian ornithologist.A scion of one of the oldest families of Russian nobility, Buturlin spent most his life in Russia. He went to school in Simbirsk (modern Ulyanovsk) and studied jurisprudence in St. Petersburg, but his interest in zoology was so

Was a Russian historical linguist and scholar, best known for his work with hypothetical proto-langu

Was a Russian historical linguist and scholar, best known for his work with hypothetical proto-languages, especially the controversial theory of Altaic languages and the formulation of the Dené-Caucasian hypothesis, which assumes that Northwest Caucasian, Northeast Caucasian, Yeniseian, Sino-Tibetan, and Na-Dené all have a genetic relationship.

Is a Russian mathematician. He is a professor at the Moscow State University. He is most famous for

Is a Russian mathematician. He is a professor at the Moscow State University. He is most famous for his work in group theory, especially on the Burnside problem.

Was a Soviet/Russian astronomer.In modern English transliteration, his surname would be Belyavskii o

Was a Soviet/Russian astronomer.In modern English transliteration, his surname would be Belyavskii or Belyavsky, but his last name is also sometimes rendered as Beljavskij or Beljawskij. The Minor Planet Center credits his discoveries under the name S. Beljavskij. His first name is sometimes given as "Sergius".Discovered the bright naked-eye comet C/1911 S3 (Beljawsky), also known according to the nomenclature of the time as Comet 1911 IV or Comet 1911g.He observed at Simeiz Observatory (??????) in Crimea. Between 1937 and 1944 Belyavsky was the seventh director of the Pulkovo Observatory, where he succeeded Boris Petrovich Gerasimovich