Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter S

Was a Japanese linguist born in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture.His major finding was the discovery of Jod

Was a Japanese linguist born in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture.His major finding was the discovery of Jodai Tokushu Kanazukai, which makes it clear that Old Japanese made more syllabic distinctions than later periods of the language. This discovery led him to hypothesize that Old Japanese had eight vowels, while modern Japanese has only five. His systematic description of the Japanese grammar also laid the foundations of language education for Japanese children.

Was a Japanese mathematician.Iyanaga returned to Tokyo in 1934 and was appointed Assistant Professor

Was a Japanese mathematician.Iyanaga returned to Tokyo in 1934 and was appointed Assistant Professor at the University of Tokyo. From 1935 to 1939, he didn't published any research papers. According to Iyanaga, it was because of the pressure of teaching and other business to which he was not accustomed. He managed to solve a question of Artin on generalizing the principal ideal theorem and this was published in 1939.

Was the penname of the popular humorist and Russian (geographically, Ukrainian) Jewish author of Yid

Was the penname of the popular humorist and Russian (geographically, Ukrainian) Jewish author of Yiddish literature, including novels, short stories, and plays. He did much to promote Yiddish writers, and was the first to pen children's literature in Yidd

A famous Japanese mathematician. His research area are Riemannian and complex manifolds, infinite Li

A famous Japanese mathematician. His research area are Riemannian and complex manifolds, infinite Lie groups.He graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1953. In 1956, he earned a Ph.D. from the University of Washington. His dissertation was Theory of Connections.

A Japanese economist from Tsuruoka, Yamagata and a graduate of Tokyo Keizai University. He is a prof

A Japanese economist from Tsuruoka, Yamagata and a graduate of Tokyo Keizai University. He is a professor and lecturer at both Chiba Keizai University and Tokyo Keizai University. His specialities are economic policy and the history of economic thought.

Was a linguist of Persian origin born ca. 760 in the town of Bayza (ancient Nesayak) in the Fars pro

Was a linguist of Persian origin born ca. 760 in the town of Bayza (ancient Nesayak) in the Fars province of Iran, died in Shiraz, also in the Fars, around 180 AH (796–797). His full name is: ?Amr ibn ?Uthman ibn Qanbar - al-mulaqqab bi-"Sibawayhi". That is: "?Amr ibn ?Uthman ibn Qanbar - a.k.a. Sibawayhi".[citation needed] He was one of the earliest and greatest grammarians of the Arabic language, and his phonetic description of Arabic is one of the most precise ever made, leading some to compare him with Panini. He greatly helped to spread the Arabic language in the Middle East.

Was a noted American ornithologist and leader in wildlife conservation. He served as Secretary of th

Was a noted American ornithologist and leader in wildlife conservation. He served as Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution from 1964 to 1984.Ripley was born in New York City and studied at St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire. In 1936 he graduated with a B.A. from Yale University. His great-grandfather, Sidney Dillon, was President of the Union Pacific Railroad. A visit to India at age 13, along with his sister, included a walking tour into Ladakh and western Tibet.

Was an American zoologist. Sidney Smith was the son of Elliot Smith and Lavinia Barton. His brother

Was an American zoologist. Sidney Smith was the son of Elliot Smith and Lavinia Barton. His brother in law was Addison Emery Verrill. In his youth, he became expert on the fauna around his home town, and an expert at making collections, particularly of insects. He studied at the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University, and received his Ph.D. in 1867.

Was a German mathematician who worked on invariant theory and introduced the symbolic method.

Was a German mathematician who worked on invariant theory and introduced the symbolic method.

Is a German mathematician, logician and historian of science. He is tenured professor of non-classic

Is a German mathematician, logician and historian of science. He is tenured professor of non-classical and mathematical logic at University of Leipzig where he taught from 1972 to his retirement in 2008. His main research areas are fuzzy sets and fuzzy me

Was a German merchant, theoretical economist, social activist, anarchist and founder of Freiwirtscha

Was a German merchant, theoretical economist, social activist, anarchist and founder of Freiwirtschaft.After visiting Bürgerschule (the poor man's high school, a school which low-income children could visit to receive a basic education) in Sankt Vith, he attended Gymnasium in Malmedy. Being forced to pay for his living expenses from a young age, he decided against attending a university and received work for the Reichspost, the postal system in the German Empire. He did not like this profession, so he decided to start an apprenticeship as merchant under his brother in Berlin.

The chief economist of the finance and private sector vice-presidency of the World Bank. In his thir

The chief economist of the finance and private sector vice-presidency of the World Bank. In his thirteen years at the World Bank, he has worked on regional trade agreements in North Africa, enterprise restructuring and privatization in transition economies, corporate governance in East Asia, and regulatory reforms around the world. Dr. Djankov was a principal author of the World Development Report 2002. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and has published over 70 articles in academic journals. He is ranked among the 200 Most Cited Economists in the world according to IDEAS/RePEc. Dr. Djankov is also an associate editor of the Journal of Comparative Economics since 2004.

Was a Romanian mathematician, creator of the Romanian school of complex analysis, and author of over

Was a Romanian mathematician, creator of the Romanian school of complex analysis, and author of over 100 publications.He was born in Bucharest, and grew up in Craiova. His father, Colonel Simion Stoilow, fought at Smârdan in the Romanian War of Independence. After studying at the Obedeanu elementary school and the Carol I High School, Stoilow went in 1907 to the University of Paris, where he earned a B.S. degree in 1910 and a Ph.D. in Mathematics in 1916. His doctoral dissertation was written under the direction of Émile Picard.

He was born in 1951 and brought up in London, England.[1] He made his reputation with a very detaile

He was born in 1951 and brought up in London, England.[1] He made his reputation with a very detailed and careful study of the Burgess Shale fossils, an exploit celebrated in Stephen Jay Gould's Wonderful Life, though Conway Morris' own book on the subject, The Crucible of Creation, is somewhat critical of Gould's presentation and interpretation. Conway Morris is a former student of Harry Blackmore Whittington. He is Professor of Evolutionary Palaeobiology in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge. He is renowned for his insights into early evolution, and his studies of paleobiology. He gave the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures in 1996. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society aged 39, was awarded the Walcott Medal of the National Academy of Sciences in 1987, and the Lyell Medal of the Geological Society of London in 1998.

Was a Dutch linguist, most famous for developing the theory of functional grammar. He occupied the c

Was a Dutch linguist, most famous for developing the theory of functional grammar. He occupied the chair of General Linguistics at University of Amsterdam between 1969 and 1994. During these 25 years he developed the theory of functional grammar, the foundations for which had been laid in his 1968 dissertation on coordination.

Was a French polemic[1] philosopher. His philosophical standpoint was one of Academic skepticism: he

Was a French polemic[1] philosopher. His philosophical standpoint was one of Academic skepticism: he did not agree with dogmatism, but didn't resort to Pyrrhonism, either. In his day Foucher enjoyed considerable reputation as a keen opponent of Malebranche and Leibniz. He revived the old arguments of the Academy, and advanced them with much ingenuity against Malebranche's doctrine. Otherwise his skepticism is subordinate to orthodox belief,

Was a German astronomer. He was born in Gunzenhausen near Nuremberg, but most of his lifetime he spe

Was a German astronomer. He was born in Gunzenhausen near Nuremberg, but most of his lifetime he spent in the city of Ansbach.In 1614 Marius published his work Mundus lovialis describing the planet Jupiter and its moons. Here he claimed to have discovered the planet's four major moons some days before Galileo. This led to a dispute with Galileo, who showed that Marius provided only one observation as early as Galileo's, and it matched Galileo's diagram for the same date, as published in 1610. It is considered possible that Marius discovered the moons independently, but at least some days later than Galileo.

Was a Canadian-American astronomer and mathematician. Though he had little conventional schooling, h

Was a Canadian-American astronomer and mathematician. Though he had little conventional schooling, he made important contributions to timekeeping as well as writing on economics, statistics and authoring a science fiction novel.His parents were Emily Prince, the daughter of a New Brunswick magistrate, and itinerant school teacher John Burton Newcomb. John moved around teaching in different parts of Canada, particularly in different villages in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. Newcomb seems to have had little conventional schooling other than from his father and from a short apprenticeship to Dr Foshay, a charlatan herbalist, in New Brunswick in 1851. Nevertheless, his father provided him with an excellent foundation for his future studies. Newcomb's apprenticeship with Dr. Forshay occurred when he was but 16 years old. They entered an agreement that Newcomb would serve a five year apprenticeship during which time Foshay would train him in using herbs to treat illnesses

American economist at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania who won the 1971 Nobel Pr

American economist at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Economics "for his empirically founded interpretation of economic growth which has led to new and deepened insight into the economic and social structure and process of development".

Was a Flemish mathematician and engineer. He was active in a great many areas of science and enginee

Was a Flemish mathematician and engineer. He was active in a great many areas of science and engineering, both theoretical and practical.

Was a French author and philosopher. She wrote novels, monographs on philosophy, politics, and socia

Was a French author and philosopher. She wrote novels, monographs on philosophy, politics, and social issues, essays, biographies, and an autobiography. She is now best known for her metaphysical novels, including She Came to Stay and The Mandarins, and for her 1949 treatise The Second Sex, a detailed analysis of women's oppression and a foundational tract of contemporary feminism.

Who occasionally used the anagrammatic pen name Emile Novis, was a French philosopher, Christian mys

Who occasionally used the anagrammatic pen name Emile Novis, was a French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist.Weil was born in Paris in 1909 in an agnostic household of Jewish ancestry. She grew up in comfortable circumstances, as her father was a doctor. Her only sibling was the famous mathematician André Weil. She suffered throughout her life from severe headaches, sinusitis, and poor physical coordination, and spared no scrutiny to these in her philosophical writings. Her brilliance, ascetic lifestyle, introversion, and eccentricity limited her ability to mix with others, but not to teach and participate in political movements of her time. She wrote extensively with both insight and breadth about political movements of which she was a part and later about spiritual mysticism. Weil biographer Gabriella Fiori writes Simone Weil was "a moral genius in the orbit of ethics, a genius of immense revolutionary range."

Was a Scottish biologist and pharmacologist. Fleming published many articles on bacteriology, immuno

Was a Scottish biologist and pharmacologist. Fleming published many articles on bacteriology, immunology, and chemotherapy. His best-known achievements are the discovery of the enzyme lysozyme in 1922 and the discovery of the antibiotic substance penicillin from the fungus Penicillium notatum in 1928, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Florey and Chain.[1]Fleming served throughout World War I as a captain in the Army Medical Corps, and was mentioned in dispatches. He and many of his colleagues worked in battlefield hospitals at the Western Front in France. In 1918 he returned to St. Mary's Hospital, which was a teaching hospital. He was elected Professor of Bacteriology in 1928.

Was a Danish plant scientist and conservationist. Time Magazine wrote in 1991 that Skovmand, "'while

Was a Danish plant scientist and conservationist. Time Magazine wrote in 1991 that Skovmand, "'while not exactly a household name,' had had 'more to do with the welfare of the world's five billion people than many heads of state.'"[1]After completing his doctorate, he joined the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center in El Batán, Mexico, where he studied older seed strains and genetic variation among widespread strains. He also worked with governments and farmers across the world to increase the use of the advanced crops being developed [3].

Was a German-born biophysicist, noted for his work on nerve biochemistry.

Was a German-born biophysicist, noted for his work on nerve biochemistry.