Jun 12, 2017 | Famous scientists
Louis Pasteur, one of the giants of modern science, was a French chemist and microbiologist. Along with Ferdinand Cohn and Robert Koch, he is the main founder of bacteriology and is also known as “the father of microbiology”. His legacy is felt every day in the...
Apr 19, 2017 | Famous scientists
He sees in Nature’s laws a code divine, A living Presence he must first adore, Ere he the sacred mysteries explore, Where Cosmos is his temple, Earth his shrine. Among great scientists with profound religious convictions, Michael Faraday – the famous British...
Feb 19, 2017 | Famous scientists
Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor (1845-1918), the German mathematician is best known as the founder of set theory. His marvelous work on transfinite numbers sparked a profound revolution in mathematical and philosophical thought. Georg Cantor was born on March 3,...
Mar 24, 2016 | Famous scientists
Robert Boyle (1626–1691), the ‘father of modern chemistry’, was a prominent scientist of the 17th century, from Ireland. He devoted his life to exploring the mysteries of nature and its lawmaker. In the words of Gilbert Burnet, “Boyle, like several other scientists of...
Feb 23, 2016 | Famous scientists
Erwin Schrödinger, one of the fathers of quantum mechanics, is widely known for the wave equation and the Schrödinger’s cat paradox. His contribution in various fields of physics include: statistical mechanics and thermodynamics, physics of dielectrics, color...
