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Widely regarded as the founder of evolutionary genetics, Theodosius Dobzhansky was an eminent Ukrainian-American geneticist and evolutionist. He played a vital role in the development of evolutionary theory and genetics. Born in Nemirov, Russian Empire in 1900, Theodosius Dobzhansky was the son of a high school mathematics teacher. He belonged to a family of Russian

Theodor Schwann was a German physiologist who is widely credited as the founder of modern histology. He played a vital role in the development of cell theory and defined the cell as the fundamental unit of animal structure. Theodor Schwann was born in Neuss, Germany, in 1810. His father was a goldsmith. Schwann loved tinkering

Al-Sabi Thabit ibn Qurra al-Harrani (836 -901) was an astronomer and mathematician born in present day Turkey, best known for translating classic Greek works on astronomy, and discovered an equation for determining the amicable numbers. He was a Mandean physician, who was known as Thebit in Latin. Thabit was a member of the Sabian religious

Svante Arrhenius was a Swedish physicist and physical chemist who formulated the theory of electrolytic dissociation. One of the founding fathers of physical chemistry, Arrhenius also presented a revolutionary model of the greenhouse effect. He won the 1903 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his brilliant contributions. Born on February 19, 1859 near Uppsala, Sweden, Svante

Stephen Hawking is an English theoretical physicist and cosmologist who is widely considered to be one of the greatest scientists alive today. He is currently the director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology, University of Cambridge. Born on 8 January 1942 to a biologist father, Hawking had two younger sisters. He was an

Srinivasa Ramanujan Aiyangar was an Indian Mathematician who was born in Erode, India, in 1887 on December 22. He was born into a family that was not very well-to-do. He went to school at the nearby place, Kumbakonam. Ramanujan is very well known for his efforts on continued fractions and series of hypergeometry. When Ramanujan

Sigmund Freud (6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939), physiologist, medical doctor, psychologist, was an influential thinker of the twentieth century. Freud’s innovative treatment of human actions, dreams, and indeed of cultural objects as invariably possessing implicit symbolic significance has proven to be extraordinarily productive, and has had immense implications for a wide variety of

The American physicist, Sheldon Lee Glashow received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1979, with Steven Weinberg and Abdus Salam for their complementary efforts in originating the electroweak theory. This theory is an important contribution to the unification of elementary particles and forces. He is also known for his work which led to the prediction

Salim Ali, one of the greatest ornithologists and naturalists of all times, is also known as the “birdman of India”. He was one of the very first scientists to carry out systematic birds’ surveys in India and abroad. His research work is considered highly influential in the development of ornithology. As a 10-year-old, Salim once

Rudolf Virchow was an eminent German pathologist and politician, who is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential physicians in history. One of the founding fathers of “social medicine”, Virchow developed the concept of pathological processes, and by drawing influence from the cell theory, analyzed the effects of disease in various organs

There is probably no other woman scientist with so much controversy surrounding her life and work as Rosalind Franklin. As a scientist, Miss Franklin was distinguished by extreme clarity and perfection in everything she undertook. Rosalind Franklin was born in London, England, on 25th July 1920. Franklin did extremely well at science and then studied

Robert Koch was a German physician who is widely credited as one of the founders of bacteriology and microbiology. He investigated the anthrax disease cycle in 1876, and studied the bacteria that cause tuberculosis in 1882, and cholera in 1883. He also formulated Koch’s postulates. Koch won the 1905 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

The British natural philosopher, architect and polymath, Robert Hooke is perhaps the most neglected natural philosophers of all times despite the significant role he played in the scientific revolution. His prominent contributions include: the iris diaphragm in a camera, the universal joint used in a motor vehicle, the balance wheel in a watch, the origination

Robert Goddard (In full: Robert Hutchings Goddard) was an eminent American physicist and inventor. Widely regarded as the founder of modern rocketry, Goddard created the first liquid-fuelled rocket. He published “A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes” in 1919, a classic treatise that remains the most influential work in 20th century rocket science. Born in Worcester,