Aug 8, 2019 | Famous scientists
John Carew Eccles was born in Melbourne, Australia, on January 27, 1903. He was a prominent researcher in the field of neurophysiology. He won a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1963 for his research on synapse. His research work contributed to understanding...
Oct 8, 2018 | Famous scientists
Kurt Friedrich Gödel is one of the most outstanding mathematical logicians of the twentieth century, best known for his Incompleteness Theorem. Kurt Gödel’s seminal works include the completeness of first-order logic, the consistency of the axiom of choice and of the...
May 25, 2018 | Famous scientists
Srinivasa Ramanujan was one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century. He was the second Indian to become a Fellow of the Royal Society. Ramanujan was an untutored genius who produced mathematics of extraordinary quality. He made substantial contributions to...
Jan 15, 2018 | Famous philosophers and spiritualists, Famous scientists
Rudolf Joseph Steiner (1861–1925), one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th century, was an Austrian philosopher, natural scientist, educationist, and social reformer. He founded anthroposophy, which he also called ‘spiritual science’. He is also well known as the...
Jul 29, 2017 | Famous scientists
Max Planck, one of the most important physicists of the 20th century, is widely known as the originator of the quantum theory. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918 for the quantum theory of radiation, which revolutionized the understanding of the subatomic...