World Scientists

Galileo was one of the first people to study the sky with a telescope. He was the first person to discover moons orbiting another planet Read More

Michael Faraday is presumably the best test physicist ever. By changing an attractive field he created electric flow in a wire, thus found electromagnetic acceptance Read More

Charles Robert Darwin, (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist and geologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution. Read More

Ernest Rutherford is the dad of atomic science and atomic material science. He found and named the nuclear core, the proton, the alpha molecule, the beta molecule, and he anticipated the presence of the neutron. Read More

Werner Heisenberg played a crucial role in the creation of quantum mechanics, developing the matrix mechanics formulation, establishing that the behavior of atomic sized particles is very different from larger objects Read More

Aristotle (Aristotle; 384–322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and scientist born in the city of Stagira, Chalkidice, on the northern periphery of Classical Greece. His father, Nicomachus, died when Aristotle was a child, whereafter Proxenus of Atarneus became his guardian. Read More

Anaximander c.610 – c.546 BC), was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher who lived in Miletus, a city of Ionia (in modern-day Turkey). He belonged to the Milesian school and learned the teachings of his master Thales.