Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter T

Was a renowned Sanskrit grammarian, astrologer, astronomer and mathematician of his time. He was a s

Was a renowned Sanskrit grammarian, astrologer, astronomer and mathematician of his time. He was a student of Jyestadeva and a member of Madhava of Sangamagrama's Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics. He is remembered mainy for his part in the composition of his student Melpathur Narayana Bhattathiri's devotional poem, Narayaneeyam.He discovered the technique of 'the reduction of the ecliptic'. He authored Sphuta-nirnaya , Raasi-gola-sphuta-neeti (raasi meaning zodiac, gola meaning sphere and neeti roughly meaning rule), Karanottama (1593) and a four- chapter treatise Uparagakriyakrama on lunar and solar eclipses.

Was an American jurist and the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court of the United St

Was an American jurist and the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States. Before becoming a judge, he was a lawyer who was best remembered for his high success rate in arguing before the Supreme Court and for the victory in Brown v. Board of Education.Marshall was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on July 2, 1908, as the great-grandson of a slave. His original name was Thoroughgood but he shortened it to Thurgood in second grade, because he disliked spelling it. His father, William Marshall, who was a railroad porter, instilled in him an appreciation for the Constitution of the United States and the rule of law.[1] Additionally, as a child, he was punished for his school misbehavior by being forced to write copies of the Constitution, which he later said piqued his interest in the document.

Dutch philologist and critic, was born in Groningen.His father, a learned physician, gave him such a

Dutch philologist and critic, was born in Groningen.His father, a learned physician, gave him such a good early education that, when he entered the university of his native city in his fifteenth year, he speedily proved himself to be the best student of mathematics. After a year or two at Groningen he was attracted to the university of Leiden by the fame of Perizonius. While there he was entrusted with the duty of arranging the manuscripts in the library.

An Australian mammalogist, palaeontologist and global warming activist. Flannery was named Australia

An Australian mammalogist, palaeontologist and global warming activist. Flannery was named Australian of the Year in 2007 and is presently a professor at Macquarie University. His controversial views on shutting down conventional coal fired power stations for electricity generation in the medium term are frequently cited in the media. In late 2007, Flannery's suggestion that some Japanese whaling in the southern oceans was sustainable, caused concern to those opposed to whaling, including some scientists and environmental groups such as Greenpeace.[1][2]

An English economist and journalist, residing in London. He is the author of two economics books, pr

An English economist and journalist, residing in London. He is the author of two economics books, presenter of BBC television series Trust Me, I'm an Economist, and writer of a humorous weekly column called "Dear Economist" for The Financial Times, in which he uses economic theory to attempt to solve readers' personal problems. His other FT column, "The Undercover Economist", is syndicated in Slate magazine.Harford studied at the University of Oxford, gaining a BA and then an MPhil in Economics in 1998. He joined the Financial Times in 2003 on a fellowship in commemoration of the business columnist Peter Martin. He continued to write his column after joining the International Finance Corporation in 2004, and re-joined the Financial Times as economics leader writer in April 2006. He is also a member of the newspaper's editorial board.

Professor of Moral Philosophy, and head of department, at the Department of Social and Moral Philoso

Professor of Moral Philosophy, and head of department, at the Department of Social and Moral Philosophy at Helsinki University. By longstanding tradition in the University of Helsinki, the philosophy faculty is divided into two major areas, the practical and the theoretical. He specializes in ethics and social philosophy, ethics of technology, the history of philosophy, and education. He has written on a wide range of topics dealing with these issues, from the thinking of Hobbes to Marquis de Sade. Airaksinen also regularly contributes to public debate in Finland and has had a column in the newspaper Helsingin Sanomat.

Was an American geologist, malacologist and carcinologist.

Was an American geologist, malacologist and carcinologist.

Gunn was born and raised in Washington, D.C.. His father was an FBI agent under J. Edgar Hoover. Gun

Gunn was born and raised in Washington, D.C.. His father was an FBI agent under J. Edgar Hoover. Gunn was a championship swimmer throughout high school,

Was a noted American artist, naturalist, entomologist and photographer. He was the sixteenth and you

Was a noted American artist, naturalist, entomologist and photographer. He was the sixteenth and youngest son of noted American naturalist Charles Willson Peale.Peale was first exposed to the study of natural history while assisting his father on his many excursions in search of specimens for the Peale Museum. The family moved to Germantown, Pennsylvania, outside of Philadelphia, where he began collecting and drawing insects and butterflies. Like his older brothers, Peale helped his father in the preservation of the museum's specimens for display, which included contributions from George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

Joint winner, with Leonid Kantorovich, of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Economics.

Joint winner, with Leonid Kantorovich, of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Economics.

Was a German astronomer famous for his studies of the Moon.His first important astronomical work was

Was a German astronomer famous for his studies of the Moon.His first important astronomical work was a careful investigation of the libration of the moon (Kosmographische Nachrichten, Nuremberg, 1750), and his chart of the full moon (published in 1775) was unsurpassed for half a century. But his fame rests chiefly on his lunar tables, communicated in 1752, with new solar tables to the Königliche Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen (Royal Society of Sciences and Humanities at Gottingen), and published in their transactions. In 1755 he submitted to the British government an amended body of manuscript tables, which James Bradley compared with the Greenwich observations. He found these to be sufficiently accurate to determine the moon's position to 5", and consequently the longitude at sea to about half a degree.

A Japanese ichthyologist. He worked for the University Museum of the University of Tokyo. Abe became

A Japanese ichthyologist. He worked for the University Museum of the University of Tokyo. Abe became notable for his taxonomic studies on the pufferfish (Tetraodontidae, Teleostei) from East Asia, in particalur the genus Takifugu which he first described in 1949. He described further species like Sagamichthys abei, Centroscyllium kamoharai, and Fugu obscurus. Species like Tetraodon abei and Chaunax abei were named in

Was a pioneer of modern Japanese Economics. He introduced Economic Theory and Economic History for t

Was a pioneer of modern Japanese Economics. He introduced Economic Theory and Economic History for the Social Policy School and the Younger Historical school of economics.He graduated from the Tokyo Higher School of Commerce (today's Hitotsubashi University). After he was appointed lecturer of his Alma Mater, he studied in Germany, among others under Karl Bücher, and he earned his doctorate from Munich University. His thesis dealt with the social and economic development in Japan (original title: "Die gesellschaftliche und wirtschaftliche Entwicklung in Japan") and was supervised by Lujo Brentano.

Was an Irish Fine Gael politician, a barrister, and a judge.Tom O'Higgins was born in Cork in 1916.

Was an Irish Fine Gael politician, a barrister, and a judge.Tom O'Higgins was born in Cork in 1916. He was the son of Dr. Thomas F. O'Higgins and the nephew of Kevin O'Higgins. He was educated in Dublin, at University College Dublin where he became auditor of the UCD Law Society. He later attended the King's Inns. In 1938 he qualified as a barrister and was called to the Bar. In 1954 he was called to the Inner Bar.In 1948 O'Higgins was elected to Dáil Éireann as a Fine Gael TD for Laois-Offaly. On the same day his brother, Michael O'Higgins, was also elected. In the second Inter-Party government (1954-1957) O'Higgins was appointed Minister for Health. During his period as Minister for Health he introduced the Voluntary Health Insurance Board (VHI). During the 1960s O'Higgins worked closely with Garret FitzGerald and Declan Costello in re-shaping Fine Gael. O'Higgins was chosen as the Fine Gael candidate in the 1966 Presidential election. He faced the Fianna Fáil candidate, Eamon de Valera, who was seeking re-election. O'Higgins came within 1% of beating de Valera, which was much better than he had hoped.

An American astronomer, Professor Planetary Sciences, and Astronomer at the University of Arizona, T

An American astronomer, Professor Planetary Sciences, and Astronomer at the University of Arizona, Tucson.Gehrels pioneered the first photometric system of asteroids in the 50s, and wavelength dependence of polarization of stars and planets in the 60s, each resulting in an extended sequence of papers in the Astronomical Journal.He has discovered, jointly with the husband and wife team of Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld, over 4000 asteroids, including Apollo asteroids, Amor asteroids, as well as dozens of Trojan asteroids. That was done in a sky survey using the 48-inch Schmidt telescope at Palomar Observatory and shipping the plates to the two Dutch astronomers at Leiden Observatory, who analyzed them for new asteroids. The trio are jointly credited with several thousand discoveries. Gehrels also has discovered a number of comets.

Is a Dutch mathematician at the Korteweg-de Vries Institute of Mathematics who introduced Koornwinde

Is a Dutch mathematician at the Korteweg-de Vries Institute of Mathematics who introduced Koornwinder polynomials.

Was an English-born ornithologist and malacologist born at Stainburn, Workington, Cumberland, who ha

Was an English-born ornithologist and malacologist born at Stainburn, Workington, Cumberland, who had a long association with Australia where he lived for most of his life.He was apprenticed to a pharmacist from 1899 to 1901 and used to go bird watching and egg collecting in the Lake District with fellow chemist William Carruthers Lawrie.He went on a sea voyage for his health (possibly he had tuberculosis) and, according to a letter to Will Lawrie dated 25 January 1902, arrived in Wellington, New Zealand in December 1901, travelling at once on to Lyttelton and Christchurch. On his second day in Christchurch he discovered that in the Foreign Natural History Gallery of the Museum and Public Library, 2 of 16 English birds' eggs were wrongly identified - Red Grouse egg labelled as Sandpiper and Moorhen labelled Water Rail.

An American professor of molecular and cellular biology.Maniatis is a graduate of the University of

An American professor of molecular and cellular biology.Maniatis is a graduate of the University of Colorado and one of the founders of modern molecular cloning. At the age of 28 he received a PhD in Molecular Biology from Vanderbilt University, and he received Honorary PhDs from the University of Athens and the Watson School of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Maniatis carried out postdoctoral studies with Professor Mark Ptashne at Harvard University and with Dr. Fred Sanger at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge England. Maniatis has held faculty positions at Harvard University, The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and the California Institute of Technology.

Was an Irish Fine Gael politician, a barrister, and a judge.Tom O'Higgins was born in Cork in 1916.

Was an Irish Fine Gael politician, a barrister, and a judge.Tom O'Higgins was born in Cork in 1916. He was the son of Dr. Thomas F. O'Higgins and the nephew of Kevin O'Higgins. He was educated in Dublin, at University College Dublin where he became audito

Is a Slovenian mathematician working mainly in graph theory. In 1980 he calculated the genus of the

Is a Slovenian mathematician working mainly in graph theory. In 1980 he calculated the genus of the Cartesian product of any pair of connected, bipartite, d-valent graphs using a method that was later called the White-Pisanski method[1].

Is a Polish-American mathematician who works in set theory.Bartoszynski studied mathematics at the U

Is a Polish-American mathematician who works in set theory.Bartoszynski studied mathematics at the University of Warsaw from 1976 to 1981, and worked there from 1981 to 1987. In 1984 he defended his Ph.D. thesis Combinatorial aspects of measure and category; his advisor was Wojciech Guzicki.[1] In 2004 he received his habilitation from the Polish Academy of Sciences.From 1986 on he worked in the United States: he taught at University of California in Berkeley and Davis. From 1990 to 2006 he was professor (full professor from 1998 on) at Boise State University. In 1990/91 he visited the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as a fellow of the Lady Davis foundation, and in 1996/97 he visited the Free University of Berlin as a Humboldt fellow.

A Japanese mathematician, who studies number theory. His contributions include works on p-adic L fun

A Japanese mathematician, who studies number theory. His contributions include works on p-adic L functions and real-analytic automorphic forms.His work on p-adic L-functions, later recognised as an aspect of Iwasawa theory, was joint with Leopoldt.[1]He extended the concept of metaplectic group, in a way significant for arithmetic applications.[2] This opened a field for later research on associated Dirichlet series and automorphic forms, and was a major step in the solution of Kummer's conjecture.[3]

Was an Italian zoologist and ornithologist.He was assistant in the Museum of Zoology in 1863, becomi

Was an Italian zoologist and ornithologist.He was assistant in the Museum of Zoology in 1863, becoming Vice-Director of the Royal Museum of Natural History in Turin in 1879. He was a specialist in birds of Asia. In 1880, he was on leave to the British Museum of Natural History in London to work on their catalogues.

A Japanese scientist working on molecular evolution. In 1956, she graduated from the University of T

A Japanese scientist working on molecular evolution. In 1956, she graduated from the University of Tokyo. After working on the neutral theory of evolution with her mentor, Motoo Kimura, she became convinced of the importance of the mutations that were nearly neutral. She developed the slightly deleterious model (Ohta, 1973), then a more general form, the nearly neutral theory of evolution. She is currently at the Japanese National Institute of Genetics and, in 2002, she was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences as a foreign associate in evolutionary biology.

Is a mathematician at Utrecht university who works on linear algebraic groups, Hecke algebras, compl

Is a mathematician at Utrecht university who works on linear algebraic groups, Hecke algebras, complex reflection groups, and who discovered Springer representations.