Begas began studying sculpture with the leading figures of the Berlin school of sculptors, notably Gottfried Schadow and Christian Daniel Rauch.
He received his doctorate from the University of California at Los Angeles, where he studied under Prof. Hans Reichenbach, another leading figure in the history of the philosophy of science.
At the time that Oliver's key paper was published, in 1966, leading figures in the study of photosynthesis were paying no attention to this issue.
Several leading figures in AI, including LeCun, have studied or taught at Canadian universities.
Under their auspices a new think-tank, the Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation, has gathered leading figures from media, business and technology and produced evidence of what went wrong.
Students study melody, harmony, voice leading, figured bass and dissonance treatment, and will also undertake short composition projects.
Many other leading figures have been arrested.
The Independent asked leading figures within the Muslim community what can be done to prevent young Britons falling under the spell of Isis and joining its ranks.
The professor of the history of the far east (1954-83) at London University's School of Oriental and African Studies (Soas), he was a leading figure in the development of Japanese studies in Britain.
He was Spain's finance minister in the conservative government of Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar and later a leading figure under Mr Aznar's successor Mariano Rajoy.
He became a leading figure in studies of Guillain-Barre syndrome, a disease in which the immune system attacks nerves, leading to rapidly evolving paralysis of the legs, arms, face and muscles used in breathing.
