Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter W

Was an economist notable for his research on how changes in one economic sector may have an effect o

Was an economist notable for his research on how changes in one economic sector may have an effect on other sectors.

Was a Polish mathematician, professor of Lviv University and Lviv Polytechnic, honoris causa of Lviv

Was a Polish mathematician, professor of Lviv University and Lviv Polytechnic, honoris causa of Lviv University, member of Polish Academy of Learning. He was father of a painter, Franciszek Zmurko.

S the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Western Australia, which is the highest ranking court in

S the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Western Australia, which is the highest ranking court in the Australian

Was a notable naturalist and botanist.He was born to Simon Bojer and Barbara Staub. As young man he

Was a notable naturalist and botanist.He was born to Simon Bojer and Barbara Staub. As young man he was sent on expeditions to Africa and Mauritus by Franz Sieber. In 1821 he arrived at Mauritius. In 1822 the Mauritian governor Robert Townsend Farquhar se

Swiss microbiologist and geneticist. Along with American researchers Hamilton Smith and Daniel Natha

Swiss microbiologist and geneticist. Along with American researchers Hamilton Smith and Daniel Nathans, Werner Arber shared the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of restriction endonucleases.

Was a German psychiatrist. He was one of the main organizers of Nazi Germany's T-4 Euthanasia Progra

Was a German psychiatrist. He was one of the main organizers of Nazi Germany's T-4 Euthanasia Program.Heyde completed his Abitur in 1920. From 1922 to 1925 he studied medicine in Berlin, Freiburg, Marburg and Würzburg and after short placements at the General Hospital in Cottbus and the sanatorium Berlin-Wittenau became assistant doctor at the Universitätsnervenklinik (university psychiatric hospital) in Würzburg. He obtained his licence to practice medicine in 1926, having completed all courses throughout his studies with top ranks.

Was a German economist and sociologist, the head of the “Youngest Historical School” and one of

Was a German economist and sociologist, the head of the “Youngest Historical School” and one of the leading Continental European social scientists during the first quarter of the 20th century.As an economist and especially social activist, Sombart was then seen as radically left-wing, and so only received — after some practical work as head lawyer of the Bremen Chamber of Commerce — a junior professorship at the out-of-the-way University of Breslau. Although faculties at such eminent universities as Heidelberg and Freiburg called him on chairs, the respective governments always vetoed this. Sombart, at that time, was an important Marxian, someone who used and interpreted Karl Marx — to the point that Friedrich Engels called him the only German professor who understood Das Kapital. Sombart called himself a "convinced Marxist".[1

Was an American economist known for his empirical work on business cycles and for guiding the Nation

Was an American economist known for his empirical work on business cycles and for guiding the National Bureau of Economic Research in its first decades.

Was one of the most noted historians and poets of Polish Baroque, the most typical representative of

Was one of the most noted historians and poets of Polish Baroque, the most typical representative of the philosophy and literature of Sarmatism.Kochowski was associated with Malopolska during all his life. His parents were Jan (John), a middle-class nobleman (szlachcic), and Zofia (Sophie), née Janowski. He studied at the Nowodworski College, in Kraków. Next, during ten years, he fought with Cossacks, Muscovy and Swedish (he took part, among others, in the battle of Beresteczko). In 1660 he came back to paternal Gaj, but he had to move to Goleniowy near Szczekociny in Kraków Land.

Was a distinguished German pediatrician, medical geneticist and dysmorphologist who was among the fi

Was a distinguished German pediatrician, medical geneticist and dysmorphologist who was among the first to recognize the thalidomide syndrome in 1961 and alert the world to the dangers of limb and other malformations due to the mother's exposure to this drug during pregnancy.In the ensuing years, Lenz did much important work on the thalidomide syndrome[1]. He also did work of value in clinical genetics and cytogenetics. He described a number of malformation syndromes, several of which bear his name today.[2] He was an editor of the journal Human Genetics and published a textbook of medical genetics.

Is recognized as one of America's most prominent cultural geographers.Zelinsky has made numerous imp

Is recognized as one of America's most prominent cultural geographers.Zelinsky has made numerous important geographical studies of American popular culture, ranging from the diffusion of classical place-names to spatial patterns of personal given names an

Was an English ornithologist and entomologist. He was the brother of Horace Alexander.He was Assista

Was an English ornithologist and entomologist. He was the brother of Horace Alexander.He was Assistant Superintendent at Cambridge Museum of Zoology from 1910 to 1911. In 1912 he went to Australia and worked at the Western Australian Museum in Perth until 1920, when he moved to the Commonwealth Prickly Pear Board in Brisbane. The search for a biological control for the prickly pear involved a number of voyages to South America, and Alexander used his time aboard to observe the seabirds. This resulted in his book Birds of the Ocean, a forerunner of later field guides. In 1926 he went to work at the American Museum of Natural History. In 1939 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union.

Was an American zoologist.Osgood was working as a biologist in the United States Department of Agric

Was an American zoologist.Osgood was working as a biologist in the United States Department of Agriculture from 1897 to 1909. Then he moved to the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, where he was assistant curator of mammalogy and ornithology from 1909 to 1921, and curator of zoology from 1921 to 1940.

Was a German plant collector who was sent by James Veitch & Sons of Chelsea, London to collect new p

Was a German plant collector who was sent by James Veitch & Sons of Chelsea, London to collect new plants in West Africa and South America.

A German ornithologist.Blasius belonged to a family of scientists: his father was the ornithologist

A German ornithologist.Blasius belonged to a family of scientists: his father was the ornithologist Johann Heinrich Blasius and his brother was the ornithologist Rudolf Heinrich Paul Blasius (1842-1907).

Was a German mathematician best known for the Ackermann function, an important example in the theory

Was a German mathematician best known for the Ackermann function, an important example in the theory of computation.Ackermann was awarded the Ph.D. by the University of Goettingen in 1925 for his thesis Begründung des "tertium non datur" mittels der Hilbe

Was a German naturalist and explorer.and studied medicine at Breslau and Berlin. It was in Berlin th

Was a German naturalist and explorer.and studied medicine at Breslau and Berlin. It was in Berlin that he became friends with Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, the two men sharing an interest in natural history. Hemprich lectured at Berlin University on comparative physiology, and wrote Grundiss der Naturgeschichte (The Rudiments of Natural History) (1820). In his spare time he studied reptiles and amphibians at the zoological museum under Hinrich Lichtenstein.In 1820 Hemprich and Ehrenberg were invited to serve as naturalists on a primarily archeological expedition to Egypt, led by Prussian General von Minutoli. The two naturalists were sponsored by the Berlin Academy. In March 1821 they separated from the main party and travelled up the river Nile to Dongola, the capital of Nubia. They spent the next two years studying the natural history of that part of Egypt.

Was a German naturalist, collector and apothecary. He arrived in the Cape Colony in 1838 and registe

Was a German naturalist, collector and apothecary. He arrived in the Cape Colony in 1838 and registered as an apothecary. From 1839 to 1840 he collected in the Cape Colony, in particular in the Stellenbosch district and lived in the house of the lay magis

Was an Austrian Jewish philosopher and pedagogue.He studied classical philosophy at the University o

Was an Austrian Jewish philosopher and pedagogue.He studied classical philosophy at the University of Prague and did a doctorate about the theme "The Inscription of Sestos and Polybios". Till 1887 he was a teacher at grammar schools in Prague and Nikolsburg. In 1888 he became a member of the staff of teachers at the grammar school "k.k. Staatsgymnasium im VIII.Bezirk" in Vienna. 1891 he an outside lecturer at the University of Vienna. One of his interest was education and he demanded a change of the educational system in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. Another field of his interest was the education of minorities. He wrote a monography about the education of deafblind

Was a Danish botanist, plant physiologist and geneticist. He was born in Copenhagen. While very youn

Was a Danish botanist, plant physiologist and geneticist. He was born in Copenhagen. While very young, he was apprenticed to a pharmacist and worked in Denmark and Germany beginning in 1872 until passing his pharmacist's exam in 1879. In 1881, he became assistant in the chemistry department at the Carlsberg Laboratory under the chemist Johan Kjeldahl. Johannsen studied the metabolism of dormancy and germination in seeds, tubers and buds. He showed that dormancy could be broken by various anesthetic compounds, such as diethyl ether and chloroform. In 1892, he was appointed lecturer at Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University and later became professor of botany and plant physiology.

Was a German geodesist who did surveys in Germany and Africa and founded the German geodesy journal.

Was a German geodesist who did surveys in Germany and Africa and founded the German geodesy journal. a small town in southern Germany. He studied at the polytechnic institute in Stuttgart and after working for two years as an engineering assistant on the

Was a German astronomer, father of the pacifist and ethicist Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster. His name ca

Was a German astronomer, father of the pacifist and ethicist Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster. His name can also be written Förster, but is usually written "Foerster" even in most German sources where 'ö' is otherwise used in the text.A native of Grünberg, Silesia, he worked as Johann Franz Encke's assistant. After Encke's death in 1865, he became director of the Berlin Observatory until 1903.He co-discovered asteroid 62 Erato with Oskar Lesser, the first co-discovery on record. The asteroid 6771 Foerster is named after him, and so is the Wilhelm Foerster Sternwarte (William Foerster Observatory; IAU code 544).

Was an ethnic German Austrian-Romanian gardener and botanist.Born in the Czech lands, around Nový B

Was an ethnic German Austrian-Romanian gardener and botanist.Born in the Czech lands, around Nový Bor, Knechtel worked in Prague, then entered into the service of Archduke Maximilian in 1860 at Miramare Castle in Trieste, Italy. When the Archduke was crowned emperor of Mexico, Wilhelm accompanied him and designed various gardens in Mexico City, including the roof garden in Chapultepec Castle.

Was a German official at the Economics Ministry at the beginning of the 1930s. He is known primarily

Was a German official at the Economics Ministry at the beginning of the 1930s. He is known primarily for the so-called Lautenbach Plan[1] which was a proposal for Germany to default on foreign debts and implement a plan of domestic non debt-financed publi

Was an eminent German statistician, economist, and social scientist and a founder of the interdiscip

Was an eminent German statistician, economist, and social scientist and a founder of the interdisciplinary study of insurance.He then worked as a Gymnasium teacher, librarian, and journalist, until in 1872 he became, until 1874, extraordinary professor at