He has measured the skinfolds ( the fleshy areas under the shoulder blades ) of Neapolitan firemen, studied the metabolism of Finnish woodcutters, analyzed the `` mealie-meal '' eaten by Capetown coloreds, and experimented on Minneapolis businessmen.

As a young man, Nobel studied with chemist Nikolai Zinin ; then, in 1850, went to Paris to further the work ; and, at 18, he went to the United States for four years to study chemistry, collaborating for a short period under inventor John Ericsson, who designed the American Civil War ironclad USS Monitor.

Schweitzer also studied piano under Isidor Philipp, head of the piano department at the Paris Conservatory.

He likely would have studied under masters such as Peter Abelard, Gilbert of Poitiers and Thierry of Chartres.

Arthur Aikin studied chemistry under Joseph Priestley in the New College at Hackney, and gave attention to the practical applications of the science.

When they reached adulthood, Aedesia accompanied her sons to Athens where they studied under Proclus.

The most famous pupil of Ammonius Saccas was Plotinus who studied under Ammonius for eleven years.

Anaxarchus is said to have studied under Diogenes of Smyrna, who in turn studied under Metrodorus of Chios, who used to declare that he knew nothing, not even the fact that he knew nothing.

From 1763 to 1767, he studied geology under Jean-Étienne Guettard.

After several applications, his enrollment in the École des Beaux-Arts was accepted in 1885, and he studied there under Jean-Léon Gérôme and Alexandre Cabanel.

Adalbert was a well-educated man, having studied for about ten years ( 970-80 ) in Magdeburg under Saint Adalbert of Magdeburg.

There he studied under some of the finest Jewish educators of the time: Chanoch Albeck, Ismar Elbogen, Julius Guttmann, and Leo Baeck.

He studied under Baccio Bandinelli and Jacopo Sansovino ( assisting on the Library of St. Mark's, the Biblioteca Marciana, Venice ) and closely imitated the style of Michelangelo.

He studied under a number of teachers, developing his insight into the problem of suffering.

From 1899 to 1903, Bartók studied piano under István Thomán, a former student of Franz Liszt, and composition under János Koessler at the Royal Academy of Music in Budapest.

Hummel studied under Haydn as well ; he was a friend to Beethoven and Schubert.

Several phenomena studied in the context of nanotechnology come under the purview of condensed matter physics.

John Dewey studied under Peirce at Johns Hopkins and, from 1916 onwards, Dewey's writings repeatedly mention Peirce with deference.

An Augustinian, he had studied theology in Paris under St. Thomas of Aquinas to become one of the most authoritative thinkers of his time, and tutor to French king Philip IV the Fair, ( 1268-29 November 1314 ).

Twelve students who studied under St. Finnian became known as the Twelve Apostles of Ireland ; Columba was one of them.

She then studied for two years with the painter Francis Adolf Van der Wielen, who offered lessons in perspective and drawing from casts during the time that the new Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts was under construction.

At age 14, Goya studied under the painter José Luzán.

He moved to Madrid where he studied with Anton Raphael Mengs, a painter who was popular with Spanish royalty.

Avercamp was born in Amsterdam, where he studied with the Danish-born portrait painter Pieter Isaacks ( 1569 – 1625 ), and perhaps also with David Vinckboons.

Appleton previously studied with Millet's friend, the Barbizon painter Constant Troyon.

Huston was known to direct with the vision of an artist, having studied and worked as a fine art painter in Paris in his early years.

After the war, he studied to be a painter at Kraków's Academy of Fine Arts before entering the Łódź Film School.

The Haarlem portrait painter, Johannes Verspronck, one of about 10 competing portraitists in Haarlem at the time, possibly studied for some time with Hals.

There he studied under the sculptor Jean-Pierre Vigan, the landscape painter Jean Briant, and — most importantly — the painter Joseph Roques, who imparted to the young artist his veneration of Raphael.

Born in Padua, the son of Silvestro Boito, an Italian painter of miniatures and his wife, a Polish countess, Józefina Radolińska, Boito studied music at the Milan Conservatory with Alberto Mazzucato until 1861.

Eakins then studied art in Europe from 1866 to 1870, notably in Paris with Jean-Léon Gérôme, being only the second American pupil of the French realist painter famous as a master of Orientalism.

In 1839 he studied for several months with an itinerant painter, John Jesse Barker.

During this time he attracted the attention of French landscape painter Régis François Gignoux, with whom he subsequently studied.

After having studied Zen for five or six years, Gere traveled to Nepal in 1978 with the Brazilian painter, Sylvia Martins where he met many Tibetan monks and lamas.

He studied first under the marine painter R. Hardorff in Hamburg, then under C. Schweitzer in Düsseldorf and Carl Oesterley in Hamburg, and finally at the Berlin School of Art.

As a teenager Wolf-Ferrari wanted to be a painter like his father ; he studied intensively in Venice and Rome and traveled abroad to study in Munich.

He only served his time of apprenticeship ( as did his brother František ), but he also studied painting from the imperial and royal painter Kristián Schröder.

For a short period between 1821 – 1822, Corot studied with Achille-Etna Michallon, a landscape painter of Corot's age who was a protégé of the painter David and who was already a well-respected teacher.

Svetoslav Nikolaevich Roerich () ( October 23, 1904, Saint Petersburg – January 30, 1993, Bangalore ), Russian painter, son of Nicholas Roerich, studied from a young age under his father's tutelage.

From the age of twenty he studied in London under the Swedish painter Hans Hysing, and at the St. Martin's Lane Academy ; leaving in 1736 for Rome and Naples, where he worked for three years under Francesco Solimena and Imperiali ( Francesco Fernandi ).

He studied at Foulis's Academy, Glasgow, and from 1750 to 1762 he was apprenticed to the landscape painter Robert Norie, later becoming a partner in the Norie family firm.

In the 1740s he worked as a portrait painter in the North of England and from about 1745 to 1751 he studied human anatomy at York County Hospital.