Buddha – The Founder of Buddhism
Buddha
Siddhartha Gautama Buddha, The Buddha (Enlightened one), Tathagata (He who has come thus)
(563 BC, Lumbini near Kapilavastu (now Nepal), India - 483 BC, Kushinagar,...
Moses – Prophet, founder and Lawgiver of Israel
Moses
Moshe (Hebrew name means "The one who draws out" or “child”),
Moshe Rabbeinu ("Moses our Teacher"), Mūsa (Arabic)
( c. 1392 BC, Goshen, Egypt -...
Gustav Fechner – Founder of psychophysics
Gustav Fechner
Gustav Theodor Fechner
(April 19, 1801, Groß Särchen, near Muskau, Lower Lusatia, (now Żarki Wielkie in commune Trzebiel, Poland) - November 28, 1887, Leipzig,...
Ernst Weber – One of the Founders of Psychophysics
Ernst Weber
Ernst Heinrich Weber
(June 24 1795, Wittenberg, Germany -January 26 1878, Leipzig, Germany)
Nationality: Germany
Category: Scientists
Occupation: Physiologists, Psychologists
Specification: Empirical Psychology, Psychophysics
Unique distinction: One of the founders of...
Wilhelm von Humboldt – One of the Founders of Linguistics
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Karl Ferdinand Freiherr von Humboldt
(22 January 1767, Potsdam, Prussia, Germany - 8 April 1835, Tegel, near Berlin, Germany)
Nationality: Germany
Category:...
John Maynard Keynes – The Father of modern macroeconomics
John Maynard Keynes
1st Baron Keynes of Tilton
(5 June 1883, Cambridge, England - 21 April 1946, Tilton, East Sussex, England) (aged 62)
Nationality: United Kingdom
Category:...
Francis Crick, Co-discoverer of the Structure of DNA
Francis Crick
Francis Harry Compton Crick
(8 June 1916, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England - 28 July 2004, San Diego, California, USA) (aged 88)
Nationality: United Kingdom
Category: Scientists
...
Rudolf Lotze – German philosopher, psychologist and physiolog
Rudolf Lotze
Rudolf Hermann Lotze
(21 May 1817, Bautzen, Germany -1 July 1881, Berlin)
Nationality: Germany
Category: Scientists
Occupation: Psychologists, Physiologists, Philosophers, Physicians
Specification: Empirical philosophy, Idealistic Monism.
Unique distinction: Founder of the metaphysical...
Hermann von Helmholtz – One of the greatest scientists of the XIX century
Hermann von Helmholtz
Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz
(August 31, 1821, Potsdam, Kingdom of Prussia - September 8, 1894, Charlottenburg, Germany)
Nationality: Germany
Category: Scientists
Occupation: Physiologists, Psychologists,...
Alex Rodriguez – One of the best Baseball Players of all time
Alex Rodriguez
Alexander Emmanuel Rodriguez
(July 27, 1975, New York City, New York, USA)
Nationality: United States of America
Category: Athletes
Occupation: Baseball Players
Specification: Positions - Shortstop, Third baseman,...
Philippe Pinel – The Father of Modern Psychiatry
Philippe Pinel
(20 April 1745, Saint-André, Tarn; France - 25 October 1826, Paris, France) (aged 81)
Nationality: France
Category: Scientists
Occupation: Psychiatrists, Physicians
Unique distinction: The father of...
Michael Jordan – The greatest basketball player of all time
Michael Jordan
Michael Jeffrey Jordan
(February 17, 1963, Brooklyn, New York, USA)
Nationality: United States of America
Category: Athletes
Occupation: Basketball Players
Unique distinction: The greatest basketball player of...