Life of Outstanding Scientists, page #2

James Cook. October 27, 1728 – February 14, 1779. English explorer and cartographer, fellow of the Royal Society.

William Thomson, Lord Kelvin. June 26, 1824 – December 17, 1907. British mathematician, physicist, and engineer.

Karl Ritter von Frisch. November 20, 1886 – June 12, 1982. Austrian ethologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci. 15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519. Italian artist and scientist, inventor, writer, musician, one of the greatest representatives of the High Renaissance art.

Alexander Leonidovich Chizhevsky. January 26 (February 7), 1897 – December 20, 1964.

Soviet scientist, biophysicist, one of the founders of heliobiology, aeroionification and electrohemodynamics, inventor, philosopher, poet, artist.

Diogenes of Sinope. Circa 412 BC – June 10, 323 BC Ancient Greek philosopher, a disciple of Antisthenes, the founder of the Cynic school.

Georges Leopold Cuvier. August 23, 1769 – May 13, 1832. French natural scientist.

Nikolay Vasilyevich Sklifosovsky. March 25 (April 6), 1836 – November 30 (December 13), 1904. Russian scientist and physician.

Lev Vladimirovich Shcherba. February 20 (March 3), 1880 – December 26, 1944. Russian and Soviet linguist, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Specialist in general language studies, Russian, Slavic languages, and French.

Otto Yulievich Schmidt. September 18 (30), 1891 – September 7, 1956. A Soviet mathematician, geographer, geophysicist, astronomer, explorer of the Arctic. Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Hero of the Soviet Union.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. July 1, 1646 – November 14, 1716. A German philosopher, mathematician, mechanic, physicist, lawyer, historian and linguist. The founder and first president of the Berlin Academy of Sciences.

Luigi Galvani. September 9, 1737 – December 4, 1798. An Italian physician, anatomist, physiologist and physicist, one of the founders of electrophysiology and the doctrine of electricity, the founder of experimental electrophysiology.

Vladimir Klavdiyevich Arseniev. August 29 (September 10) 1872 – September 4, 1930. A Russian and Soviet geographer, ethnographer, writer, explorer of the Far East.

Pavel Nikolaevich Yablochkov. September 14 (26), 1847 – March 19 (31), 1894. A Russian electrical engineer, military engineer and inventor. He developed an arc lamp, which went down in the history of technology as the Yablochkov candle.

Louis Braille. January 4, 1809 – January 6, 1852. A French visual impairment specialist. The inventor of a system of reading and writing for use by the blind.

Heinrich Rudolf Hertz. February 22, 1857 – January 1, 1894. A German physicist. The unit of frequency, which is part the International System of Units (SI), was named the “Hertz» in his honor.

The Scientific Russia portal introduces the biography of Oliver Sacks, a famous American neurologist and writer.

Abram Fedorovich Ioffe. October 17 (29), 1880 – October 14, 1960. A Russian and Soviet physicist, science organizer, academician and vice president of the USSR Academy of Sciences, founder of a scientific school. Hero of Socialist Labor.

Sir Ernest Rutherford. August 30, 1871 – October 19, 1937. A British physicist of New Zealand origin. The 1908 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. A member of the Royal Society of London.

May 20 marked the 55^th anniversary of the famous Pill, a contraceptive that profoundly changed the Western society. Scientific Russia tells the story of its creator.