Life of Outstanding Scientists, page #6

Andrey Nikolaevich Tupolev. Russian and Soviet aircraft engineer, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Hero of Labor, triple Hero of Socialist Labor, Laureate of the Lenin Prize, four Stalin Prizes and the State Prize.

Mikhail Kuzmich Yangel. Soviet constructor of rocket and space complexes. Doctor of engineering, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Twice Hero of Socialist Labor.

Yakov Isidorovich Perelman. Scientist and popularizer of science. The author of many books on “amusing” science

Eduard Ivanovich Totleben. Military engineer, builder

Friedrich Arturovich Zander. Soviet scientist, one of the pioneers of rocket engineering

Yulii Borisovich Khariton. Soviet and Russian theoretical physicist and chemical physicist. One of the executives of the Soviet atomic bomb project.

Michel de Montaigne. French writer and philosopher of the Renaissance. Famous for his wise thoughts

Alexander Fedorovich Mozhaysky. Inventor, aviation pioneer, built the first airplane

Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov. Russian biologist, microbiologist, cytologist, embryologist, immunologist, and physiologist. Honorary member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Advocate of prostokvasha [sour milk].

Remarkable physicist Isaak Markovich Kharitonov is celebrating his 100^th anniversary.

Gerardus Mercator. Flemish cartographer and geographer. Advocate of a projection named after him. Author of the first atlas

Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev. Russian chemist, metrologist, technologist, economist, polymath. Author of the periodic classification of the elements. Professor. Corresponding member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences

August Ferdinand Möbius. German mathematician, mechanic, and theoretical astronomer. The author of the most famous strip

Vladimir Grigorievich Shukhov. Russian engineer, architect, inventor, scientist. Corresponding Member (1928) and Honorary Member (1929) of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Hero of Labor (1932)

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. Roman emperor of the Antonine dynasty, philosopher, representative of late Stoicism. Philosopher king

Blaise Pascal. French mathematician, mechanic, physicist and philosopher. One of the founders of calculus, the theory of probability and projective geometry.

Anton Semyonovich Makarenko. Soviet teacher and writer. Pedagogical poet

Cyril Northcote Parkinson. British historian, political theorist and writer, author of satirical works on business, administration and political science issues. Became world famous as the author of Parkinson's law.

Leonty Filippovich Magnitsky. Russian mathematician and teacher. Teacher of mathematics at the School of Mathematical and Navigation Sciences in Moscow, author of the first Russian textbook on mathematics

Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky. Russian mathematician, creator of non-Euclidean geometry