Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter W

Was a cell culture worker and cytogeneticist who helped expose the problem of cross-contamination of

Was a cell culture worker and cytogeneticist who helped expose the problem of cross-contamination of cell lines. Nelson-Rees used chromosome banding to show that many immortal cell lines, previously thought to be unique, were actually HeLa cell lines. The

Was an American zoologist and museum collector.Walter Koelz's parents were immigrants from the Black

Was an American zoologist and museum collector.Walter Koelz's parents were immigrants from the Black Forest region of Germany, and his father was a village blacksmith in Waterloo. Walter Koelz studied zoology and received the degree of Doctor of Philosoph

Was a Scholastic philosopher, and theologian. He was educated in the schools of Tournai. From 1136 t

Was a Scholastic philosopher, and theologian. He was educated in the schools of Tournai. From 1136 to 1144 he taught at the celebrated School of St Genevieve in Paris. From Paris he went to Laon and was made bishop of that see. His principal works are a treatise on the Holy Trinity and six "Opuscula". Of the "Opuscula" five are published in Lucas d'Achéry's "Spicilegium" (Paris, 1723) and the sixth in P.L. (CLXXXVI, 1052). A logical commentary which is contained in MS. 17813 of the Bibliothèque Nationale and which was published in part by Barthélemy Hauréau in 1892 is also ascribed to him. Finally, there is extant a letter written by him to Abelard in which he expounds the Platonic view that the body is an obstacle to the higher operations and aspirations of the soul.

Was a logician who worked in the field of cognitive psychology. He proposed landmark theoretical for

Was a logician who worked in the field of cognitive psychology. He proposed landmark theoretical formulations of neural activity and emergent processes that influenced diverse fields such as cognitive sciences and psychology, philosophy, neurosciences, co

Was an American astronomer.He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1898, then continued his education

Was an American astronomer.He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1898, then continued his education in Germany. After returning to the U.S., he began a career in Astronomy that culminated when he became director of the Mount Wilson Observatory.His primary interest was the study of stellar spectra. He worked on solar spectroscopy and co-discovered a relationship between the relative intensities of certain spectral lines and the absolute magnitude of a star. He was able to demonstrate that spectra could be used to determine whether a star was a giant or a dwarf. In 1915 he began a study of the companion of Sirius and found that despite a size only slightly larger than the Earth, the surface of the star was brighter per unit area than the Sun and it was about as massive. Such a star later came to be known as a white dwarf. Along with Theodore Dunham, he discovered the strong presence of carbon dioxide in the infrared spectrum of Venus.

Was an American vertebrate paleontologist who participated in important fossil explorations in the U

Was an American vertebrate paleontologist who participated in important fossil explorations in the United States, Egypt, China and Mongolia.Granger was the first of five children born to Charles H. Granger, an insurance agent and veteran of the American Civil War, and Ada Haynes Granger. Granger developed an early interest in taxidermy; and in 1890, at age 17, he obtained a job working as a taxidermist with a friend of his father's at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

The Elmer B. Millman Professor of Economics at the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York. H

The Elmer B. Millman Professor of Economics at the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a distinguished fellow of the Society of Labor Economists and recipient of the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service.In his contribution to the The Costs and Implications of an All-Volunteer Force (1967) (of which he was also editor) Oi outlined the different calculations required to differentiate between the budgetary cost of military personnel and the economic cost to the nation of conscription. He identified the hidden costs of drafted force as the impact on the mental well being of those drafted. Oi estimated the loss in monetary terms of this effect to be between $826 million and $1,134 billion.[1]

Was a German biologist and the founder of cytogenetics.Flemming trained in medicine at the Universit

Was a German biologist and the founder of cytogenetics.Flemming trained in medicine at the University of Rostock, graduating in 1868. Afterwards. he served in 1870-1871 as a military physician in the Franco-Prussian War. From 1873 to 1876 he worked as a teacher at the University of Prague. In 1876 he accepted a post as a professor of anatomy at the University of Kiel. He became the director of the Anatomical Institute and stayed there until his death.Making use of aniline dyes he was able to find a structure which strongly absorbed basophilic dyes, which he named chromatin. He identified that chromatin was correlated to threadlike structures in the cell nucleus— the chromosomes (meaning coloured body), which were thus named later on by German anatomist Wilhelm von Waldeyer-Hartz (1836-1921).

Was an Austrian geographer, born in Vienna as son of geographer Albrecht Penck.Walther Penck worked

Was an Austrian geographer, born in Vienna as son of geographer Albrecht Penck.Walther Penck worked 1912-1914 in Argentina as a geographer, and is best known for his contributions to the field of geomorphology. In particular he opposed key elements of the Davisian cycle of erosion, concluding that the process of uplift and denudation occur simultaneously, at a gradual and continuous rate.[1] His book, Morphological Analysis of Landforms, was published posthumously in 1924 by his father.

Was a German astronomer.Waltraut Carola Seitter was born in Zwickau in 1930, where her father worked

Was a German astronomer.Waltraut Carola Seitter was born in Zwickau in 1930, where her father worked as an engineer with the Horch automobile company. She went to school in Cologne, where she finished high school in 1949 (after jobs as tramway ticket collector, refugee aide, and draftswoman), and entered the university to study physics, mathematics, chemistry and astronomy. She continued her studies at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts with a grant from the Fulbright Program, obtained her Master of Arts in physics in 1955, and became astronomy instructor. From 1958 to 1962 she worked at Hoher List Observatory of Bonn University, obtained her Ph.D., and held the positions of assistant, observer, and extranumeral professor at Bonn University. In 1967,

Admiringly referred to as Dada ('Elder Brother') Metre in the Indian oil industry circles, was the d

Admiringly referred to as Dada ('Elder Brother') Metre in the Indian oil industry circles, was the doyen of Indian petroleum geologists. For his life-time pioneering contribution to petroleum exploration and development in India and for his 'significant contribution to the growth of the oil industry in the country', he was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1968, the highest of the civilian awards conferred to date by the President of India on any professional in the fields of mining, petroleum exploration or production.

Was a Chinese economist, statesman, chancellor and poet of the Song Dynasty who attempted some contr

Was a Chinese economist, statesman, chancellor and poet of the Song Dynasty who attempted some controversial, major socioeconomic reforms. These reforms constituted the core concepts and motives of the Reformists, while their nemesis, Chancellor Sima Guang, led the Conservative faction against them.

Was a Chinese philosopher.His most important works are commentaries on Laozi's Dao De Jing and the I

Was a Chinese philosopher.His most important works are commentaries on Laozi's Dao De Jing and the I Ching. The text of the Dao De Jing that appeared with his commentary was widely considered as the best copy of this work until the discovery of the Mawangdui texts in 1973.

Was a Chinese philosopher during the Han Dynasty who developed a rational, secular, naturalistic, an

Was a Chinese philosopher during the Han Dynasty who developed a rational, secular, naturalistic, and mechanistic account of the world and of human beings. His main work was the Lùn Héng (??, "Critical Essays"). This book contained many theories involving early sciences of astronomy and meteorology, and Wang Chong was even the first in Chinese history to mention the use of the square-pallet chain pump, which became common in irrigation and public works in China thereafter.[2] Wang also accurately described the process of the water cycle.

Was a Chinese American logician, philosopher and mathematician

Was a Chinese American logician, philosopher and mathematician

Was a Chinese linguist.he was largely self-taught before entering the Tsinghua University in 1927. T

Was a Chinese linguist.he was largely self-taught before entering the Tsinghua University in 1927. There he was taught by Yuen Ren Chao and Liang Qichao, among others. Encouraged by Chao, he went to Paris to study linguistics in 1927. There he devoted himself to the study of phonology, and attended the class of Theoretical linguistics by Joseph Vendryes. He got his PhD from the University of Paris with his experiments done on the tones of the Bobai dialect, following the line of Liu Bannong.To eke out a living, he translated works of French literature into Chinese during his stint in Paris. He would translate more after his return to China, including the plays of Molière, and a version of Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal in classical Chinese verse.

Was a Chinese journalist and philosopher, major exponent of Marxist humanism in China and of Chinese

Was a Chinese journalist and philosopher, major exponent of Marxist humanism in China and of Chinese liberalism.

Was a Ming Chinese idealist Neo-Confucian philosopher, official, educationist, calligraphist and gen

Was a Ming Chinese idealist Neo-Confucian philosopher, official, educationist, calligraphist and general. After Zhu Xi, he is commonly regarded as the most important Neo-Confucian thinker, with interpretations of Confucianism that denied the rationalist dualism of the orthodox philosophy of Zhu Xi. He was known as Yangming Xiansheng or Yangming Zi (both mean "Brilliant Master Yangming") in literary circles.

Was an American zoologist and ecologist who taught animal ecology. He is best known for his research

Was an American zoologist and ecologist who taught animal ecology. He is best known for his research on animal behavior, protocooperation, and for identifying the Allee effect.He received the S.B. degree from Earlham College in 1908, and the S.M. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago in 1910 and 1912. Allee worked as an Assistant in Zoology from 1910 to 1912. Between 1912 and 1921 he taught at the University of Illinois, Williams College, University of Oklahoma, Lake Forest College, and the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Massachusetts. He returned to the University of Chicago in 1921 as Associate Professor of Zoology, became an Assistant Professor in 1923, and Professor in 1928. In addition,

Was a professor of linguistics at Yale University and the Encyclopædia Britannica’s authority[1]

Was a professor of linguistics at Yale University and the Encyclopædia Britannica’s authority[1] on Indo-European linguistics. He was unusual among Indo-European linguists in believing that Indo-European should be classified as a branch of Indo-Hittite, with Hittite as a sister language of the Indo-European languages, rather than a daughter language.Dr. Cowgill was born near Grangeville, Idaho. He graduated from Stanford University in 1952 and received a Ph.D. from Yale in 1957. He was a member of the Yale faculty in the Department of Linguistics until his death in 1985.[2][3]

Was Chief Justice of the United States from 1969 to 1986. Although Burger was a conservative and con

Was Chief Justice of the United States from 1969 to 1986. Although Burger was a conservative and considered a strict constructionist, under his tenure, the United States Supreme Court delivered a variety of transformative decisions on abortion, capital punishment, religious establishment, and school desegregation.Warren Burger grew up on the family farm near the edge of Saint Paul. He attended John A. Johnson High School, where he was president of the student council. He competed in hockey, football, track, and swimming. While in high school, he wrote articles on high school sports for local newspapers. He graduated in 1925.

Was a geologist, archaeologist, and librarian who is best known for his studies of glacial Lake Agas

Was a geologist, archaeologist, and librarian who is best known for his studies of glacial Lake Agassiz. Upham worked as a geologist in New Hampshire before moving in 1879 to Minnesota to study the resources and glacial geology of that state. Upham's first major report on Lake Agassiz was published in 1890 by the Geological Survey of Canada, but the main product of his many years of study ("The Glacial Lake Agassiz") was published in 1895 as Monograph 25 of the U.S. Geological Survey's monograph series.

A Brazilian agricultural engineer, geneticist, entomologist, professor and scientific leader, notabl

A Brazilian agricultural engineer, geneticist, entomologist, professor and scientific leader, notable for his discoveries in the genetics and sex determination of bees. He is also partially responsible for the accidental release of experimental, Africanized bee queens in 1957, also called killer bees. Africanized bees are hybrids of European and African honey bees. These queens were eventually responsible for the spread of the Africanized bee to continental areas that were previously dominated by the more docile European bee.From March 1975 to April 1979 Kerr moved to Manaus, Amazonas, as director of the National Institute of Amazonia Research (INPA), a research institute of the National Council of Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). He officially retired from the University of São Paulo in January 1981, but not from scientific life. Exactly eleven days later he accepted a position as Full Professor at the Universidade Estadual do Maranhão in São Luís

Was an American statistician, and one of the founding fathers of the nonparametric statistics.

Was an American statistician, and one of the founding fathers of the nonparametric statistics.

Economist notable for his research on how changes in one economic sector may have an effect on other

Economist notable for his research on how changes in one economic sector may have an effect on other sectors. Leontief won a Nobel Prize in Economics in 1973.