Life of Outstanding Scientists, page #5

Paracelsus (real name Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim). Famous alchemist and physician of Swiss-German descent, one of the founders of iatrochemistry

Gennady Ivanovich Nevelskoy. Explorer of the Far East. Full member of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society. “Turned” Sakhalin into an island

Samuel Finley Breese Morse. American inventor and painter. The most famous inventions are the electromagnetic writing telegraph or the “Morse apparatus” and Morse code

David Livingstone. Outstanding explorer of Africa

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. Dutch naturalist, microscope designer. Father of microbiology

Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet Lamarck. French natural scientist

Søren Aabye Kierkegaard Danish religious philosopher and writer, the father of existentialism

Confucius (real name Kongqiu) Chinese thinker, philosopher and teacher

Nikolai Ivanovich Kibalchich. Russian revolutionary, narodovolets, inventor, participant of the Alexander II assassination

Mstislav Vsevolodovich Keldysh. Soviet scientist in the field of applied mathematics and mechanics, a major organizer of Soviet science, one of the Soviet space program ideologists

Vladimir Kosmich Zworykin. Russian and American engineer. One of the inventors of modern television

Girolamo Cardano. Italian mathematician, engineer, philosopher, physician, and astrologer. Inventor of the gimbal transmission

Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac. English theoretical physicist, one of the founders of quantum mechanics. Winner of the 1933 Nobel Prize in physics

Denis Diderot. French writer, philosopher, and educator. Foreign honorary member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences

Steven Paul (Steve) Jobs. Pioneer of the IT technologies era. I-man

Thomas Jefferson. Outstanding political figure, diplomat, lawyer and philosopher of the Enlightenment, one of the founding fathers of the United States. The third president of the United States. Author of the most famous text on human rights

Pyotr Nikolayevich Gorlov. Russian geology engineer, public figure. The city of Horlivka is named after him

Frederick William Herschel. English astronomer. Discoverer of Uranus and its moons. Author of 24 symphonies

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. German philosopher, one of the founders of German classical philosophy and the philosophy of Romanticism

Galileo Galilei. Italian physicist, mechanic, astronomer, philosopher and mathematician, founder of experimental physics. He never said, “And yet it moves.”