Life of Outstanding Scientists, page #7

Russian teacher, writer, founder of scientific pedagogy in Russia

Russian and Soviet geologist, geographer, writer, and science popularizer. Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Hero of Socialist Labor, laureate of two 1^st Degree Stalin Prizes. Told the audience about Sannikov Land

Italian radio engineer, Nobel Prize laureate in Physics. Popov’s competitor

Russian zoologist, naturalist, science popularizer. Fisherman, hunter. Dog specialist. Stallmeister of the Imperial Court.

Russian photographer, chemist, inventor, publisher, teacher and public figure, member of the Imperial Russian Geographical, Imperial Russian Technical and Russian Photographic Societies. A high color man

Scottish scientist, engineer, mechanical inventor. Member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Royal Society of London, Paris Academy of Sciences. Unit of power

Russian scientist and traveler. Honorary Member of Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences. Famous for a horse named after him.

Central Asian ruler, Timurid sultan. He is known as an outstanding mathematician, astronomer, enlightener and poet.

German theoretical physicist, founder of quantum physics. Laureate of the Nobel Prize in Physics.

Russian mathematician and mechanical engineer, founder of the Saint Petersburg mathematical school, academician of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences.

French philosopher, writer and thinker.

 American inventor and businessman who received over one thousand patents in the USA and about three thousand patents in other countries. In 1930, he became the honorary member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.

Lev Sergeevich Termen. Russian and Soviet inventor, creator of the family of musical instruments, the most famous of which is the termenvox. Laureate of the Stalin Prize, 1^st degree.

Plutarch. Ancient Greek philosopher and historian

Louis Pasteur. French microbiologist and chemist, member of the French Academy. One of the founders of microbiology and immunology. Invented pasteurization, was treating beer and wine. Saved humans from rabies.

Sigmund Freud. Austrian psychoanalyst, psychiatrist and neurologist, the founder of psychoanalysis

Adam Smith. Scottish economist, philosopher, one of the founders of the modern economic theory. Member of the Royal Society of London.

Leonardo Pisano. First major mathematician of medieval Europe. Best known under the nickname Fibonacci.

George Stephenson. English inventor, mechanical engineer. He is considered to be one of the “fathers” of railway communication.

Socrates. Ancient Greek philosopher 

Alexander Mikhailovich Prokhorov. Russian physicist, one of the founders of quantum electronics, twice Hero of Socialist Labor, laureate of the Lenin Prize and the State Prize of the USSR, and the State Prize of the Russian Federation.

Nikola Tesla. Physicist and engineer, inventor in the field of electrical and radio engineering

Richard Phillips Feynman. Outstanding American scientist. One of the creators of quantum electrodynamics, one of atomic bomb developers. Reformer of teaching methods used at teaching physics at universities. Laureate of the Nobel Prize in Physics.

Arthur Schopenhauer. German philosopher. Frequently called “the philosopher of pessimism”.

Ivan Ivanovich Polzunov. Russian inventor, creator of Russia's first steam engine and the world's first two-cylinder steam engine.

Geaorgy Nikolaevich Flyorov. Soviet nuclear physicist, one of the founders of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna. An academician of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR