on international relations and the establishment of peace." Fran Novljan, contributed to the promotion of Esperanto in Yugoslavia. Wilhelm Ostwald, German Nobel laureate for his seminal work in chemical catalysis Mark Pallen, British microbiologist Claude Piron, Esperantist, psychologist, and linguist, translator for the United Nations Reinhard Selten, German economist and winner of the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics because of his work on game theory. He has authored two books in Esperanto on that subject. Leonardo Torres y Quevedo, Spanish civil engineer and mathematician. Yrjö Väisälä, Finnish astronomer, discovered asteroids 1421 Esperanto and 1462 Zamenhof John C. Wells, British phonetician and Esperanto teacher Vladimir Köppen, Russian geographer of German descent Marcel Minnaert, Belgian astronomer who worked in Utrecht Seok Joo-myung, Korean ecologist who studied and identified native butterflies of Korea Claude Roux, French lichenologist and mycologist Others Baháʼí Faith adherents, many of whom have been involved with Esperanto (see Baháʼí Faith and auxiliary language). Lidia Zamenhof was a Baháʼí. Several leading Baháʼís have spoken Esperanto, most notably the Son of Bahá'u'lláh, `Abdu'l-Bahá (see John Esslemont). Rudolf Carnap, German-born philosopher. Onisaburo Deguchi, one of the chief figures of the Oomoto religious movement in Japan and president of the Universala Homama Asocio ("Universal Human-love Association") Alfred Fried, recipient of a Nobel Peace Prize and author of a textbook on Esperanto Ebenezer Howard, known for his Garden Cities of To-morrow (1898), the description of a utopian city in which people live harmoniously together with nature. Pope John Paul II, gave several speeches using Esperanto during his career Franko Luin, Swedish type designer of Slovene nationality John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor, English classical scholar, gave a historic speech against Esperanto reformists at the World Congress of Esperanto held at Cambridge Alexander Nedoshivin, Russian tax specialist, one of the founders of the Esperanto Society at Kaunas, Lithuania William Main Page, Secretary of Edinburgh Esperanto Society, editor and author László Polgár, Hungarian chess teacher Susan Polgar, Hungarian-American chess grandmaster, taught Esperanto by her father László George Soros, Hungarian-American billionaire and son of Esperantist parents. ("Soros", a name selected by his father to avoid persecution, means "will soar" in Esperanto.) Daniel Tammet, British autistic savant. He has stated Esperanto is one of the ten languages he speaks. Marcelle Tiard, French Esperantist who co-founded the Union of Esperantist Women. Antoon Jozef Witteryck, Belgian publisher and instructor See also Esperanto culture Interhelpo Sources This page has been translated from