Patrick Blackett
December 30th, 2008
Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Baron Blackett, OM, CH ( 18 Nov, 1897 in London, England; July 13, 1974 in London) was an English physicist and Nobel laureate.
Jean-Paul Sartre
December 5th, 2008 
Jean-Paul Sartre (Jean-Paul Sartre Charles Aymard) (Paris, 21 June 1905 - Paris, 15 April 1980), is a French philosopher and writer (playwright, novelist, and novelist) and critical of the twentieth century, including the work was a time - the middle of this century - and whose life was committed to intellectual aroused resistance and controversy. Uncompromising and true to himself and his ideas, he has always rejected the honors, including 1964 Nobel Prize in literature, which was awarded by the Swedish Academy. Prolific and hyperactive character, it is as much known for his work, including its philosophical paradigms that are aggregated under the name of existentialism, as his political commitment, radical left. Sartre is also known as the companion Simone de Beauvoir.
Karl Marx
December 5th, 2008
Karl Heinrich Marx, born on 5 May 1818 in Trier in the Rhineland and died on 14 March 1883 in London, was a political activist, German philosopher and theorist, famous for his criticism of capitalism and its vision of history as a result of the fight classes at the origin of Marxism.
Clinton Davisson
December 5th, 2008
Clinton Joseph Davisson (22 Oct, 1881 in Bloomington, Illinois; February 1st, 1958 in Charlottesville, Virginia) was an American physicist and Nobel laureate.
Louis Pasteur
December 5th, 2008
Louis Pasteur, born in Dole (Jura) on 27 December 1822 and died in Marne-la-Coquette (Seine-et-Oise) on 28 September 1895, is a French scientist, chemist and physicist by training, and a pioneer in microbiology .
Galileo Galilei
November 16th, 2008 
Galileo or Galileo Galilei (born in Pisa on 15 February 1564 and died in Arcetri near Florence on 8 January 1642) is an Italian physicist and astronomer of the seventeenth century, famous for having laid the foundations of Mechanical Sciences and for his stubborn defense the design of the Copernican universe.
His accomplishments include the development of astronomical telescope whose invention come from Italy and a significant improvement in astronomical observations as the possibility, for example, to confirm the phases of Venus. In mathematics and physics, he has helped to advance knowledge about the kinematics and dynamics.
An ardent defender of the Nicolas Copernicus (heliocentrism), it has faced strong criticism from supporters of the geocentric and those of the Roman Catholic Church. It is considered the father of observational astronomy and modern physics.
Leonardo Da Vinci
November 12th, 2008 
Leonardo da Vinci (Vinci, 15 April 1452 - Amboise, 2 May 1519) was an Italian artist and scientist. Man of universal talent and ingenuity of the Italian Renaissance, fully embodied the spirit universality of his time, bringing to more forms of expression in the various fields of art and knowledge. He was a painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, mathematician, anatomist, writer, musician and inventor, and is considered one of the greatest geniuses of humanity.
Willard Frank Libby
November 12th, 2008 
Willard Frank Libby (Grand Valley (Colorado), 17 December 1908 - Los Angeles, 8 September 1980) is a physicist and chemist
American, famous for his role in developing the dating method by carbon 14, who revolutionized archeology.
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Marie Curie
November 11th, 2008 
Marie Curie (born Maria Sklodowska in Poland on November 7 1867 and died in France on July 4 in 1934) was a Polish physicist naturalized French.
In 1903 she won the Nobel Prize for Physics with her husband Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel, for his work on radioactivity. She received
her second Nobel Prize, this time in chemistry in 1911 for his work on polonium and radium. It is the only woman to have received two
Nobel Prize. It is also the first female winner in 1903 with her husband, the Davy Medal for his work on radium.
Benjamin Franklin
November 11th, 2008
Benjamin Franklin (17 January 1706 in Boston - April 17, 1790 in Philadelphia) is, among other things, a writer, physicist and U.S. diplomat.
It is one of the most famous in American history. Benjamin Franklin is a philosopher “classical”. It is the first
U.S. Ambassador to the court of the king of France. Complete intellectual and Freemason of the British tradition, it is printer and
precursor “encyclopedia” before the letter, printing and distributing almanacs in the most humble homes of settlements
British America. Each almanac is a compendium of stories, philosophical reflections, rudiments of science and technology revenue. It
is one of the fathers of the Independence of the United States of America for 1776.
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