Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter W

Was an American carcinologist known for work on crayfish. He was the son of Oliver Perry Hay.[1]

Was an American carcinologist known for work on crayfish. He was the son of Oliver Perry Hay.[1]

A Canadian politician, and a former Liberal Member of Canada's House of Commons. He was a Member of

A Canadian politician, and a former Liberal Member of Canada's House of Commons. He was a Member of Parliament from 1993 until 2005, representing the riding of Peterborough in eastern Ontario. Previously, Adams represented the provincial riding of Peterborough in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1987 to 1990, sitting as a member of the Ontario Liberal Party.Adams was educated at the University of Sheffield and McGill University. He has served as director of the subarctic research laboratory in Schefferville, Quebec, and before entering political life was a member of the Geography department and coordinator of Northern Studies at Trent University in Peterborough, where he is now an Emeritus Professor. Adams also served as Vice President - Academic while at Trent. Adams has authored many books and articles, and co-edited the regional history Peterborough and the Kawarthas. In 1981, he was named as Peterborough's Citizen of the Year.

An American politician who served as a Democratic Congressman (1978–1983), a Republican Congressma

An American politician who served as a Democratic Congressman (1978–1983), a Republican Congressman (1983–1985) and a Republican Senator from Texas (1985–2002). Most recently, until July 18, 2008, he was a senior economic adviser to John McCain's presidential campaign.Gramm received his doctorate in economics from the University of Georgia in 1967. His dissertation was "essentially a critical review of the literature."[3] He then taught economics at Texas A&M University from 1967 to 1978.[4] In addition to teaching, Gramm served as a partner in the economic consulting firm Gramm & Associates (1971–1978).

Was Chief Justice of New South Wales, Australia

Was Chief Justice of New South Wales, Australia

A professor emeritus of geoscience at the University of Arizona and a member of the U.S. National Ac

A professor emeritus of geoscience at the University of Arizona and a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. He is renowned for his work in plate tectonics, sedimentary geology and Pacific Oceana geology and is considered one of the foremost experts on the geology of the Colorado Plateau.Dickinson's research includes studying the potsherds (historic or prehistoric fragments of pottery) of Pacific Oceana. Over the years, he has visited hundreds of Pacific Islands collecting and dating sherds.As of 2007, he resides in Tucson, Arizona, where he continues to do research and teach at the University of Arizona.

Was an American astronomer.He specialized in the discovery of comets, including periodic comets 12P/

Was an American astronomer.He specialized in the discovery of comets, including periodic comets 12P/Pons-Brooks and 16P/Brooks. Discovered the bright naked-eye comet C/1911 O1 (Brooks).

Was a Scottish ornithologist.Ogilvie-Grant was educated at Cargilfield and Fettes College, Edinburgh

Was a Scottish ornithologist.Ogilvie-Grant was educated at Cargilfield and Fettes College, Edinburgh, where he studied zoology and anatomy. In 1882 he became an Assistant at the Natural History Museum. He studied ichthyology under Albert C. L. G. Günther, and in 1885 he was put in temporary charge of the Ornithological Section during Richard Bowdler Sharpe's visit to India. He remained in that department, eventually becoming Curator of Birds from 1909 to 1918.

Is a retired Canadian Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.In 1947, he was called to the Ba

Is a retired Canadian Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.In 1947, he was called to the Bars of Saskatchewan and British Columbia and practiced law in Victoria, British Columbia. In 1967, he was appointed to the Supreme Court of British Columbia and elevated to the British Columbia Court of Appeal in 1973. In 1979, he was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada and retired in 1989.

Was a Scottish surgeon[1] and botanist. He has been called the Father of Indian Botany.[2] At Madras

Was a Scottish surgeon[1] and botanist. He has been called the Father of Indian Botany.[2] At Madras he turned his attention to botany. The East India Company recognized his botanical knowledge and made him superintendent in the Samalkot garden in the Northern Circars in 1781. Here he conducted economic botany experiments. He employed native artists to illustrate plants. He had 700 illustration by 1790. He then succeeded Patrick Russell (1727-1805) as Naturalist to the Madras Government. He made rapid progress and acquired a good reputation and was in a short time invited by the government of Bengal, to take charge of the Calcutta Botanical gardens from Colonel Robert Kyd. In 1793 he succeeded Colonel Robert Kyd as Superintendent of the Company garden at Sibpur near Calcutta. A catalog of the garden was made in 1814 - Hortus Bengalensis

Was a Scottish military engineer, surveyor, and antiquarian. He was an innovator who applied new sci

Was a Scottish military engineer, surveyor, and antiquarian. He was an innovator who applied new scientific discoveries and newly emerging technologies to the accurate geodetic mapping of Great Britian.It was Roy's advocacy and leadership that led to the creation of the Ordnance Survey in 1791, the year after his death. His technical work in the establishment of a surveying baseline won him the Copley Medal in 1785. His maps and drawings of Roman archaeological sites in Scotland were the first accurate and systematic study of the subject, and have not been improved upon even today. Roy was a Fellow of the Royal Society and a member of the Society of Antiquaries of London.

Was an English astronomer.Dawes was a clergyman who made extensive measurements of double stars as w

Was an English astronomer.Dawes was a clergyman who made extensive measurements of double stars as well as observations of planets. He was a friend of William Lassell. He was nicknamed "eagle eye".He made extensive drawings of Mars during its 1864 opposition. In 1867, Richard Anthony Proctor made a map of Mars based on these drawings.

Was an English marine biologist.Born in Sidmouth, Devon, his childhood was marred by the death of hi

Was an English marine biologist.Born in Sidmouth, Devon, his childhood was marred by the death of his mother, the murder of his half-brother and conviction of his sister Constance to twenty years in prison. The detective responsible for the investigation of his half-brother's murder suspected that William was an accomplice, but he never pressed charges. Saville-Kent was educated at King's College London and then at the Royal School of Mines under T.H. Huxley.

Is famous as a statistician, best known by his pen name Student and for his work on Student's t-dist

Is famous as a statistician, best known by his pen name Student and for his work on Student's t-distribution.

A Canadian geologist and Professor Emeritus in the department of Earth Sciences at the University of

A Canadian geologist and Professor Emeritus in the department of Earth Sciences at the University of Western Ontario. He is widely considered the world’s most eminent geochemist.he received his B.Sc. degree in 1948, his M.Sc. degree in 1949, and his Ph.D. degree in 1952 all from the University of Otago, where he taught in the Geology department as a lecturer. He performed research at the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of California, Berkeley. He was a Professor at Berkeley, Imperial College London and the University of Manchester before arriving at the University of Western Ontario in 1972. From 1986 until 1990 he was Dean of Science at the University of Western Ontario.

Was an English geologist, credited with creating the first nationwide geological map. He is known as

Was an English geologist, credited with creating the first nationwide geological map. He is known as the "Father of English Geology", although recognition was very slow in coming. At the time his map was first published he was overlooked by the scientific community; his relatively humble education and family connections preventing him from mixing easily in learned society. Consequently his work was plagiarised, he was financially ruined, and he spent time in debtors' prison. It was only much later in his life that Smith received recognition for his accomplishments.

English economist and logician, was born in Liverpool. He expounded in his book The Theory of Politi

English economist and logician, was born in Liverpool. He expounded in his book The Theory of Political Economy (1871) the "final" (marginal) utility theory of value. Jevons' work, along with similar discoveries made by Carl Menger in Vienna (1871) and by Léon Walras in Switzerland (1874), marked the opening of a new period in the history of economic thought.Jevons broke off his studies of the natural sciences in London in 1854 to work as an assayer in Sydney, where he acquired an interest in political economy. Returning to England in 1859, he published General Mathematical Theory of Political Economy in 1862, outlining the marginal utility theory of value, and A Serious Fall in the Value of Gold in 1863. For Jevons, the utility or value to a consumer of an additional unit of a product is inversely related to the number of units of that product he already owns, at least beyond some critical quantity.

Was a malacologist and naturalist on the staff of the Geological Survey of India in Burma.[1] That o

Was a malacologist and naturalist on the staff of the Geological Survey of India in Burma.[1] That organization then covered Burma, as it was at the time still a part of British India.Theobald was referred to in official documents as "William Theobald, Ju

Was an English physicist and molecular biologist who made pioneering X-ray diffraction studies of bi

Was an English physicist and molecular biologist who made pioneering X-ray diffraction studies of biological molecules. His work on keratin provided the foundation for Linus Pauling's discovery of the alpha helix. He also studied the structure for DNA in 1937 and made the first step in the elucidation of its structure.In 1928, Astbury was given a lectureship at the University of Leeds where he studied the properties of fibrous substances such as keratin and collagen with funding from the textile industry. (Wool is made of keratin.) These substances did not produce sharp patterns of spots like crystals, but the patterns provided physical limits on any proposed structures.

Was an English geologist and naturalist.Blanford was born in London. He was educated in private scho

Was an English geologist and naturalist.Blanford was born in London. He was educated in private schools in Brighton and Paris, and with a view to the adoption of a mercantile career spent two years in a business house at Civita Vecchia. On returning to England in 1851 he was induced to enter the newly established Royal School of Mines (now part of Imperial College London), which his younger brother Henry F. Blanford (1834 – 1893), afterwards head of the Indian Meteorological Department, had already joined. He studied under De la Beche, Lyon Playfair, Edward Forbes, Ramsay, and Warington Smyth. He then spent a year in the mining school at Freiburg, and towards the close of 1854 both he and his brother obtained posts on the Geological Survey of India.

Was a Scottish zoologist, specialising in the Crustacea. He was born in Dundee, studying at the High

Was a Scottish zoologist, specialising in the Crustacea. He was born in Dundee, studying at the High School. In the scientific societies in the city, he met D'Arcy Thompson. He later became Thompson's lab boy, which allowed him to attend lectures at the U

Was an Irish naturalist celebrated for his founding studies of the Natural History of Ireland. He wa

Was an Irish naturalist celebrated for his founding studies of the Natural History of Ireland. He was especially interested in ornithology and marine biology.Thompson attended the newly formed Royal Belfast Academical Institution in the increasingly prosperous and vital maritime city of Belfast. Founded by, amongst others, John Templeton a close friend of fellow-botanist Sir Joseph Banks, the school had a strong natural history section and was to produce a cohort of prominent naturalists. Thompson's first scientific paper The Birds of the Copeland Islands (two islands just off the coast of Belfast Lough) was published in 1827 shortly after his joining the then prominent and influential Belfast Natural History Society.

Was a Croatian-American mathematician specializing in probability theory.Feller was born in Zagreb t

Was a Croatian-American mathematician specializing in probability theory.Feller was born in Zagreb to Ida Oemichen-Perc, a Croatian-Austrian Catholic, and Eugene Victor Feller, who was born to a Polish Jew named David Feller and an Austrian Catholic named Elsa Holzer. Eugen was a famous chemist and created Elsa fluid named after his mother. According to Gian-Carlo Rota, Feller's father's surname was a "Slavic tongue twister", which William changed at the age of twenty—but as can be seen, this claim was false. His christened name, Vilibald, was chosen by his Roman Catholic mother for the saint day of his birthday. In his school documentation, the small municipality of Donja Stubica in Zagorje is mentioned. This is the birthplace of his father, who was an apothecary and owner of a company producing hygienic utensils and cosmetics.

Was an American astronomer.He was director of Lick Observatory from 1900 to 1930. He specialized in

Was an American astronomer.He was director of Lick Observatory from 1900 to 1930. He specialized in spectroscopy.Campbell was a pioneer of astronomical spectroscopy, he catalogued the radial velocities of stars, and was a director of Lick Observatory from 1901 to 1930. He served as 10th President of the University of California from 1923 to 1930. He committed suicide on June 14th, 1938 at the age of 76.

Was a British psychiatrist who is now famous for his work with shell-shocked servicemen during World

Was a British psychiatrist who is now famous for his work with shell-shocked servicemen during World War Two, and later for his publication of a book entitled Battle for the Mind in which he discusses the nature of the process by which our minds are subject to influence by others. While this book is often referred to as a work on 'brainwashing', and indeed it is subtitled a Physiology of Conversion and Brainwashing, Sergant emphasises that his aim is to elucidate the processes involved rather than advocate uses. In the book he refers particularly to religious phenomena and in particular Christian methodism, emphasising the apparent need for those who would change people's minds to first excite them, as did the founder of methodism, John Wesley. However, there was another side to him that was heavily involved to the end of his career with the Intelligence Services, including the CIA Project MKULTRA.

An American geographer active mainly as a quantitative geographer and spatial theorist.He served in

An American geographer active mainly as a quantitative geographer and spatial theorist.He served in the American Fifth Army during the height of the Korean War, November 1950 to November 1952. Taught atomic war at the Chemical, Biological and Radiological Warfare School at Camp McCoy, Wisconsin.He studied under Richard Hartshorne, the first professional geographer he had ever met.