Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter Y

A Leading Professor of Economics at State University of New York, Stony Brook and the Director of th

A Leading Professor of Economics at State University of New York, Stony Brook and the Director of the Center for Game Theory in Economics at Stony Brook. He studied in Hebrew University of Jerusalem where he obtained his Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Mathematics, both under the supervision of Robert Aumann, and his B.Sc. in Mathematics and Statistics. His areas of research interests are game theory and industrial organization. He has published, among others, in Econometrica, Games and Economic Behavior, Journal of Economic Theory, Quarterly Journal of Economics and RAND Journal of Economics.

Was a U.S. (Russian-born) Romance etymologist and philologist. His specialty was the development of

Was a U.S. (Russian-born) Romance etymologist and philologist. His specialty was the development of Latin words, roots, prefixes, and suffixes in modern Romance languages, particularly Spanish. He was the founder of the journal Romance Philology.Malkiel was born in Kiev to a Russian-Jewish family, and was brought up and educated in Berlin, after the Russian Civil War. Despite an early interest in literature, he ended up studying linguistics at the Humboldt University of Berlin, then known as the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität. Being a Jew a 1930s Germany was an obstacle to his education but one he was able to overcome; his family finally emigrated to the United States in 1940.[1]

Was a Japanese linguist. He founded the influential "Yamada grammar", and was the first to use the w

Was a Japanese linguist. He founded the influential "Yamada grammar", and was the first to use the word "chinjutsu" as a linguistic term.

Was a Chinese mathematician from Qiantang (modern Hangzhou), Zhejiang province during the late Song

Was a Chinese mathematician from Qiantang (modern Hangzhou), Zhejiang province during the late Song Dynasty (960-1279 AD). Yang worked on magic squares, magic circles and binomial theorem, and is best known for his contribution of presenting 'Yang Hui's Triangle'. This triangle was the same as Pascal's Triangle, discovered by Yang's predecessor Jia Xian (??). Yang was also a contemporary to the other famous mathematician Qin Jiushao.

Was a Chinese academic and philosopher who was involved in the Criticize Lin, Criticize Confucius ca

Was a Chinese academic and philosopher who was involved in the Criticize Lin, Criticize Confucius campaign of the Cultural Revolution.

Is an economist and the governor of the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. She is the first femal

Is an economist and the governor of the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. She is the first female governor of the state. She graduated in Economics at the University of São Paulo and at the Vanderbilt University. She has been living in Porto Alegre since 1970, when she married Carlos Augusto Crusius. In 1990, she joined PSDB. She was considered a possible candidate for President of Brazil in 2010 but a lot of corruption scandals in her government dipped her in one of the most unpopular governors of Rio Grande do Sul.

Was a philosopher, mathematician, and linguist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, best known for

Was a philosopher, mathematician, and linguist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, best known for his pioneering work in machine translation and formal linguistics.During World War II, he served in the Jewish Brigade of the British Army. He fought with the Haganah during the Israeli War of Independence, losing an eye.Bar-Hillel received his PhD in Philosophy from the Hebrew University where he also studied mathematics under Abraham Fraenkel, with whom he eventually coauthored Foundations of Set Theory (1958, 1973).

Served as the Chief Justice of India from February 22, 1978 to the day he retired on July 11, 1985.

Served as the Chief Justice of India from February 22, 1978 to the day he retired on July 11, 1985. Born in Poona in the state of Maharashtra, he was first appointed Judge to the Supreme Court of India on August 28, 1972 and is the longest serving Chief Justice in India's history at 7 years and 4 months.In one of the most notable cases in Indian constitutional history, during the Indian Emergency (1975-1977) of Indira Gandhi, a bench constituted of the five most senior judges of the Supreme court of India heard the famous Habeas Corpus case, where detenues under the restrictive Maintenance of Internal Security Act had argued that the right to habeas corpus (article 21 in the Indian constitution) could not be suspended even during periods of national emergency.

Was a Soviet Russian astronomer and geologist. Krinov was a renowned meteorite researcher, the miner

Was a Soviet Russian astronomer and geologist. Krinov was a renowned meteorite researcher, the mineral Krinovite, discovered in 1966 was named after him. 1926 through 1930 Yevgeny Krinov has been working in a meteor division of the Minerology Museum of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. In this period of time he has been conducting research of the Tunguska event under the supervision of Leonid Kulik. Krinov took part in the longest expedition to the Tunguska site in the years 1929-1930 as an astronomer.

Is an economist at Monash University

Is an economist at Monash University

Was a Chinese astronomer, mathematician, mechanical engineer, and Buddhist monk of the Tang Dynasty

Was a Chinese astronomer, mathematician, mechanical engineer, and Buddhist monk of the Tang Dynasty (618–907). His astronomical celestial globe was the first to feature a clockwork escapement mechanism, the first in a long tradition of Chinese astronomical clockworks.

Is a set theorist, descriptive set theorist, and recursion (computability) theorist, at UCLA. For ma

Is a set theorist, descriptive set theorist, and recursion (computability) theorist, at UCLA. For many years he has split his time between UCLA and University of Athens . His book Descriptive Set Theory (North-Holland) is the indispensable reference text

Was the 36th Chief Justice of India.He was sworn in as the Chief Justice by the President of India,

Was the 36th Chief Justice of India.He was sworn in as the Chief Justice by the President of India, A P J Abdul Kalam on November 1, 2005 for a period of about 14 months ending on January 14, 2007.

A Japanese astronomer.He is a prolific discoverer of asteroids.He co-discovered periodic comet 147P/

A Japanese astronomer.He is a prolific discoverer of asteroids.He co-discovered periodic comet 147P/Kushida-Muramatsu.

Was a Japanese mathematician and wasan historian. He was born February 16, 1875 in Takana, Hiroshima

Was a Japanese mathematician and wasan historian. He was born February 16, 1875 in Takana, Hiroshima prefecture. He attended the High School of Tohoku University, and in 1911 was admitted to Imperial University of Tokyo. He studied history of Japanese and Chinese mathematics. In 1913, he published "The Development of Mathematics in China and Japan" in Leipzig.[1] This book consisted of two parts with 47 chapters. Part one has 21 chapters that describe in depth several important Chinese mathematicians and mathematical classics including Liu Hui, Shen Kuo, Qin Jiushao, Sun Tzu, The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art, Mathematical Treatise in Nine Sections, Li Ye, Zhu Shijie and study on p. Part II deals with important wasan mathematicians and their works, including Kambei Mori, Yoshida Koyu, Kowa Seki, Imamura Chisho, Takahara Kisshu, Kurushima, Ajima Chokuyen, Aida Ammei, Shiraishi Chochu, Skabe Kohan, and Hagiwara Teisuke.

Was a Chinese American linguist and amateur composer. He made important contributions to the modern

Was a Chinese American linguist and amateur composer. He made important contributions to the modern study of Chinese phonology and grammar.Besides helping to shape the Gwoyeu Romatzyh, a Chinese romanization scheme, Chao is also credited with inventing a notation for transcribing tonal pitch variation in spoken languages.Already in college, his interests had turned to music and languages. He spoke German and French fluently and some Japanese, and he had a reading knowledge of ancient Greek and Latin. He served as Bertrand Russell's interpreter when the renowned British philosopher visited China in 1920. In his My Linguistic Autobiography, he wrote of his ability to pick up a Chinese dialect quickly, without much effort.

Was a Japanese amateur astronomer who discovered Comet Hyakutake on January 30, 1996 while using 25×150 binoculars.His only other discovery was comet C/1995 Y1. The media has stated that Hyakutake became interested in astronomy after seeing Comet Ikeya-Seki (C/1965 S1).

Was a Russian oceanographer, cartographer, and geographer.A grandson of Anna Kern, Pushkin's celebra

Was a Russian oceanographer, cartographer, and geographer.A grandson of Anna Kern, Pushkin's celebrated mistress, Shokalsky graduated from the Naval Academy in 1880 and made a career in the Imperial Russian Navy, helping establish the Sevastopol Marine Observatory and rising to the rank of Lieutenant-General in 1912. At the same time, he developed interest in limnology and meteorology and became the most prolific Russian author on the subjects. In the Marine Miscellanies alone, he published some 300 articles.

Mathematician, known for work in algebraic geometry and diophantine geometry, and many expository wo

Mathematician, known for work in algebraic geometry and diophantine geometry, and many expository works ranging from mathematical logic to theoretical physics.

A prominent Russian formalist critic, semiotician, culturologist. Member of the Estonian Academy of

A prominent Russian formalist critic, semiotician, culturologist. Member of the Estonian Academy of Sciences. He was the founder of structural semiotics in culturology and is considered as the first Soviet structuralist by writing his book On the Delimita

Was a Russian linguist, epigrapher and ethnographer, who is particularly renowned for the pivotal ro

Was a Russian linguist, epigrapher and ethnographer, who is particularly renowned for the pivotal role his research played in the decipherment of the Maya script, the writing system used by the pre-Columbian Maya civilization of Mesoamerica. Knorozov was born in a village near Kharkov in present-day Ukraine, at that time the capital of the newly formed Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. His parents were Russian intellectuals, and his paternal grandmother had been a stage actress of national repute in Armenia.

Was a Russian mathematician active in number theory, probability theory and mathematical statistics.

Was a Russian mathematician active in number theory, probability theory and mathematical statistics. Linnik was born in Bila Tserkva, Ukraine. He went to St Petersburg University and later worked at the university and Steklov Institute. He was a member of

Is a Russian mathematician and computer scientist. He is best known for his negative solution of Hil

Is a Russian mathematician and computer scientist. He is best known for his negative solution of Hilbert's tenth problem, presented in his doctoral thesis, at LOMI (the Leningrad Department of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics).

Was a Japanese astronomer noted for his contributions to celestial mechanics.He graduated from Tokyo

Was a Japanese astronomer noted for his contributions to celestial mechanics.He graduated from Tokyo Imperial University with a degree in astronomy in 1921 and became an assistant professor of astronomy there two years later. At that time the Japanese government sent him abroad as a traveling scholar. Hagihara went to Cambridge Univesrity in England to study under the mathematician H.F. Baker and also visited the University of Gottingen and the Sorbonne. He returned to Japan in 1925 but left for the United States three years later to study dynamical systems theory at Harvard University under G. D. Birkhoff. Hagihara finished his studies at Harvard in 1929 and returned again to the University of Tokyo where, in 1930, he completed a D.Sc. dissertation on the stability of satellite systems. He was promoted to full professor at the University of Tokyo five years later.

Is a French economist currently working at The University of York. He is a Fellow of the Econometric

Is a French economist currently working at The University of York. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society since 1980. He has mostly worked on general equilibrium models studying the continuity and stability properties of the equilibrium sets. As Kenneth Arrow and Gerard Debreu, he may be defined as a Neo-Walrasian economist.