Life of Outstanding Scientists, page #4

Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin. American entrepreneur and scientist in the field of computing, information technology and economics, developer and founder (together with Larry Page) of the Google search engine

Sergey Petrovich Botkin. Russian general practitioner and medical scientist. Privy councillor. Court physician

Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin. Russian chemist and composer.

Robert Boyle. January 25, 1627 – December 30, 1691. British physicist, chemist, and theologian. Co-founder of the Royal Society of London. Author of one of the main gas laws. A colleague of Marriott’s.

Andre-Marie Ampere. January 20, 1775 – June 10, 1836. Great French physicist, mathematician and naturalist, member of the Paris Academy of Sciences. “The man and the current force”

Georgius Agricola. March 24, 1494 – November 21, 1555. German scientist, one of the fathers of mineralogy.

Henry Cavendish. British physicist and chemist, fellow of the Royal Society of London.

George Gallup. Statistician, sociologist, teacher, author of scientific methods for studying public opinion. A generic name for sociological surveys.

Ferdinand Petrovich Wrangel. Russian military commander and statesman, navigator and polar explorer, admiral, honorary member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences.

Lev Andreevich Artsimovich. Soviet physicist, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Hero of Socialist Labor, winner of the Lenin, Stalin, and State Prizes.

Isaac Newton. December 25, 1642 –March 20, 1727 (according to the Julian calendar used in England until 1752), or January 4, 1643 – March 31, 1727 (Gregorian calendar).

Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris). October 6, 1887 – August 27, 1965.

Nikolay Ilyich Kamov. September 1 (14), 1902 – November 24, 1973.

Alois Alzheimer. June 14, 1864 – December 19, 1915. German psychiatrist and neurologist. A generic name for senile dementia.

Mikhail Mikhailovich Gerasimov – Soviet anthropologist, archaeologist, and sculptor, doctor of historical sciences.

Niccolo Machiavelli – Italian thinker, philosopher, writer, politician, political scientist.

Jean-Francois de Galaup, comte de Laperouse – Great French explorer, geographer.

Ivan Vladimirovich Tsvetaev – Russian history scholar, archaeologist, philologist and art critic, corresponding member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences.

Peter Simon Pallas – German and Russian scientist, encyclopedist, naturalist, and traveler of the 18^th – 19^th centuries.

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac – French chemist and physicist, member of the French Academy of Sciences.