Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter V

Was a French mathematical analyst and applied mathematician[1][2] who lectured in mathematical physi

Was a French mathematical analyst and applied mathematician[1][2] who lectured in mathematical physics at the Sorbonne in Paris and also worked in the area of thermodynamics.[3]. He is known especially for the Robin boundary condition.

Was head chef of San Francisco, California's St. Francis Hotel from its opening in 1904 until 1926.

Was head chef of San Francisco, California's St. Francis Hotel from its opening in 1904 until 1926. One of America's first celebrity chefs,[1] he publicized himself and his hotel by inventing dishes, writing cookbooks, and hosting extravagant meals.

Was a French botanist and geologist.Jacquemont traveled to India in 1828, and remained there for the

Was a French botanist and geologist.Jacquemont traveled to India in 1828, and remained there for the rest of his life. He visited Amber in Rajputana, met with the Sikh Emperor Ranjit Singh at his capital of Lahore, and visited the kingdom of Ladakh in the

Was a French mathematician best known for propounding three problems in geometry. Thébault's theore

Was a French mathematician best known for propounding three problems in geometry. Thébault's theorem is used in some references to refer to the first of these problems, in other references to the third.

Australian judge, soldier and educator, was a Justice of the High Court of Australia

Australian judge, soldier and educator, was a Justice of the High Court of Australia

Professor emeritus of linguistics at the University of Chicago. He was one of the earliest researche

Professor emeritus of linguistics at the University of Chicago. He was one of the earliest researchers in computational linguistics and natural language processing, the use of computers to analyze and process languages. He created the first program to produce random but well-formed output sentences, given a text (a children's book called Engineer Small and the Little Train). Most importantly, he showed in computer processing terms why the human brain can only process sentences of a certain kind of complexity, ones that do not exceed a "depth limit" (which has nothing to do with length) of the kind established independently by George Miller with his depth limit of "seven plus or minus two" sentence constituents in memory at any given time. Yngve was also the author of COMIT, the first string processing language (compare SNOBOL, TRAC, and Perl), which was developed on the IBM 700/7000 series computers by Yngve and collaborators at MIT from 1957-1965. Yngve created the language for supporting computerized research in the field of linguistics, and more specifically, the area of machine translation for natural language processing.

A famous American linguist who taught at UCLA. Dr. Fromkin studied slips of the tongue, mishearing,

A famous American linguist who taught at UCLA. Dr. Fromkin studied slips of the tongue, mishearing, and other speech errors and applied this to study how language is organized in the mind.Dr. Fromkin decided to head back to school to study linguistics while in her late 30’s. She enrolled at UCLA as a master’s student. She received her master’s in 1963 and then went on to earn her Ph.D in 1965.That same year, Dr. Fromkin joined the faculty of the linguistics department at UCLA. Dr. Fromkin earned many achievements in her lifetime. Her line of research mainly dealt with speech errors and slips of the tongue. She collected more than 12,000 examples of slips of the tongue.

Was a Russian astronomer of German ethnic origin.From 1873, he was observer at the Berlin Observator

Was a Russian astronomer of German ethnic origin.From 1873, he was observer at the Berlin Observatory. Knorre discovered four asteroids.[3] He did not teach students at the University of Berlin; instead he gave introductions into the use of the telescopes of the Observatory. In 1892 he was appointed Professor of Astronomy. Knorre took an interest in the improvement of astronomical equipment, and published papers on an improved equatorial telescope mount, referred to as the "Knorre & Heele" mount.[1]

Is a Soviet astronomer who was one of the first to put forward a consistent picture of how the plane

Is a Soviet astronomer who was one of the first to put forward a consistent picture of how the planets formed from a disk of gas and dust around the Sun.

Was a Danish linguist. In 1893, he deciphered the Turkic Orkhon inscriptions in advance of his rival

Was a Danish linguist. In 1893, he deciphered the Turkic Orkhon inscriptions in advance of his rival, Wilhelm Radloff. He also studied the origins of Russian and Finnish.He is honored on a stela set up in central Copenhagen along with three other Danish pioneers of modern linguistics, Rasmus Rask, N.L. Westergaard, and Karl Verner.

Was a Finnish meteorologist and physicist, and founder of Vaisala.After graduation in meteorology in

Was a Finnish meteorologist and physicist, and founder of Vaisala.After graduation in meteorology in 1912, Väisälä worked for the Finnish Meteorological Institute in aerological measurements, specializing in the research of the higher troposphere. At the time the measurements were conducted by attaching a thermograph to a kite.Väisälä participated in development of radiosonde, a device attached to a balloon and launched to measure air in the higher atmosphere. In 1936 he started his own company, manufacturing radiosondes and - later - other meteorological instruments.

Was a Bohemian anatomist. His first name has also been given as Vincenc and Vincenz.He obtained his

Was a Bohemian anatomist. His first name has also been given as Vincenc and Vincenz.He obtained his doctorate in 1833 in Prague, where he was later professor of anatomy for several decades. He retired in 1874, settling in Litomerice and later dying in Prague. His son, Victor Bochdalek (1835-1868), became a prominent physician in his own right.

Was a French Dominican theologian and preacher. His epitaph in the church of that place described hi

Was a French Dominican theologian and preacher. His epitaph in the church of that place described him as "in years a youth, mature in wisdom and in virtue venerable". Despite his short life, he gave proof in his writings of considerable learning and won remarkable popularity by his pulpit utterances.

Is a French philosopher. His major work has been in the philosophy of language and philosophy of min

Is a French philosopher. His major work has been in the philosophy of language and philosophy of mind. He is particularly noted for a lengthy critique in two volumes of the project he calls cognitivism, and which is, roughly, the view current in philosophy of mind that mental and psychological facts can ultimately be treated as, or reduced to, physical facts about the brain. Descombes has also written an introduction to modern French philosophy (Le même et l'autre) focused on the transition, after 1960, from a focus on the three H's, Hegel, Husserl and Heidegger to the "three masters of suspicion", Marx, Nietzsche and Freud.

Was an Italian astronomer who owned a private observatory in Teramo, where he was born.Cerulli compi

Was an Italian astronomer who owned a private observatory in Teramo, where he was born.Cerulli compiled a star catalog with Elia Millosevich. He also observed Mars and developed the theory that the Martian canals were not real but an optical illusion, a theory that was later confirmed.He discovered one asteroid, 704 Interamnia, which is named after the Latin name for Teramo, and is notable for its relatively large diameter of approximately 350 km, which makes it one of the largest bodies in the traditional asteroid belt.

Was a Romanian economist, sociologist, and left-wing politician, prominent member and main theorist

Was a Romanian economist, sociologist, and left-wing politician, prominent member and main theorist of the Peasants' Party and of its successor, the National Peasants' Party (PNT). He had an important activity as an essayist and journalist, being for long

Was a leading Argentine astronomer. She was only the secomd Argentine to be elected an Associate of

Was a leading Argentine astronomer. She was only the secomd Argentine to be elected an Associate of the Royal Astronomical Society.She became a pupil of Jorge Sahade, getting a PhD in 1974, and for her whole career collaborated with him. Her work has had a strong influence in the areas of massive stars and close binaries, especially Wolf-Rayet stars. She pioneered work on Wolf-Rayet stars in the Magellanic Clouds, massive stars in stellar associations and interstellar bubbles around massive stars. She also helped to develop astronomy in Argentina, inspiring many students.

Was a Russian geologist, geographer, explorer, academician of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (1929),

Was a Russian geologist, geographer, explorer, academician of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (1929), Hero of Socialist Labor (1945), and honorary president of the Soviet Geographical Society (since 1947). As one of the pioneers of Russian science fiction,

Was a Soviet/Russian astronomer. In modern English transliteration, his surname would be given as Al

Was a Soviet/Russian astronomer. In modern English transliteration, his surname would be given as Al'bitskii or Al'bitsky. In the literature, he is sometimes referred to as W. A. Albizkij, however his surname usually appears in the literature as "Albitzky". His asteroid discoveries are credited as "V. Albitskij".He came to the Simeiz Observatory (??????) in Crimea in 1922, working with G. A. Shajn and G. N. Neujmin.

Was a Soviet/Russian mathematician, mechanician and physicist. Steklov was born in Nizhny Novgorod,

Was a Soviet/Russian mathematician, mechanician and physicist. Steklov was born in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. In 1887, he graduated from Kharkov University, where he was a student of Aleksandr Lyapunov.

Is a Russian mathematician. While he is best known for the Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser theorem regarding

Is a Russian mathematician. While he is best known for the Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser theorem regarding the stability of integrable Hamiltonian systems, he has made important contributions in a number of areas including dynamical systems theory, catastrophe

Was a Russian neurophysiologist and psychiatrist who noted the role of the hippocampus in memory aro

Was a Russian neurophysiologist and psychiatrist who noted the role of the hippocampus in memory around 1900. He founded the field of psycho reflexology, transferring Ivan Pavlov's work on dogs to humans. From his writings we can tell that he and Pavlov a

Was a Russian and Ukrainian petroleum and coal geologist.Porfiryev was one of the major proponents o

Was a Russian and Ukrainian petroleum and coal geologist.Porfiryev was one of the major proponents of the theory of the origin of Abiogenic petroleum, that is, that petroleum was formed by primordial non-biological processes rather than from the decaying remains of plant and animal life.In 1945, Porfiriev began a new phase of his career, beginning with his relocation to Lviv in the Western Ukraine. There he organized the Lviv Branch of the Institute of Geological Sciences, the Lviv Seological Society, the Physical Geology Deptartment at Lviv State University and established the Oil and Gas Fields Geology and Exploration Department at Lviv Polytech Institute, the first Ukrainian college for petroleum engineers.

Was a Russian and Ukrainian petroleum and coal geologist.Porfiryev was one of the major proponents o

Was a Russian and Ukrainian petroleum and coal geologist.Porfiryev was one of the major proponents of the theory of the origin of Abiogenic petroleum, that is, that petroleum was formed by primordial non-biological processes rather than from the decaying

Was a prominent Russian philosopher, writer, music critic, philanthropist and pedagogue. He became k

Was a prominent Russian philosopher, writer, music critic, philanthropist and pedagogue. He became known as "Russian Hoffmann" on account of his keen interest in fantasmagoric tales and musical criticism.