Ellis Paul Torrance – Father of Modern Creativity
Ellis Paul Torrance
(October 8, 1915, Milledgeville, Georgia - July 12, 2003, Athens, GA) (Aged 87)
Nationality: United States of America
Category: Scientists
Occupation: Psychologists
Specification: Psychology of Creativity
Unique distinction:...
Mikhail Lomonosov – Founder of Russian science
Mikhail Lomonosov
Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov
(19 November 1711, Denisovka, Arkhangelsk Governorate , Russia - 15 April 1765, St. Petersburg, Russia) (aged 53)
Nationality: Russia
Category: Scientists
Occupation: Chemists,...
Galileo – The father of Modern Science
Galileo
Galileo Galilei
Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei
(15 February 1564, Pisa, Duchy of Florence, Italy - 8 January 1642, Arcetri, Grand Duchy of Tuscany,...
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,...
Hippocrates of Cos – The father of Western medicine
Hippocrates
Hippocrates of Cos
(ca. 460/ 450 BC , Island of Cos, Ancient Greece - 377/370 BC, Larissa, Thessaly, Greece)
Nationality: Greece
Category: Scientists
Occupation: Physicians, Philosophers
Unique distinction:...
Herbert Spencer – Founder of Social Darwinism and Synthetic Philosophy
Herbert Spencer
(27 April 1820, Derby, Derbyshire, England - 8 December 1903, Brighton, Sussex, England) (aged 83)
Nationality: United Kingdom
Category: Scientists
Occupation: Sociologists, Philosophers, Psychologists
Specification: Associative psychology
Unique...
Claude Bernard – Founder of Endocrinology
Claude Bernard
(July 12, 1813, Saint-Julien - February 10, 1878, Paris, France) (Aged 64)
Nationality: France
Category: Scientists
Occupation: Physiologists, Physicians
Unique distinction: The founder of experimental medicine, the...
Thomas Edison – The Most Prolific Inventor of all Time
Thomas Edison
Thomas Alva Edison
(February 11 1847, Milan, Ohio - October 18 1931, West Orange, New Jersey) (aged 84)
Nationality: United States of America
Category: Scientists
Occupation:...
Sigmund Freud – Founder of Psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud
Sigismund Shlomo Freud
(May 6, 1856, Freiberg, Austro-Hungary (now Příbor, Czech Republic) - September 23, 1939, London, England) (aged 83)
Nationality: Austria
Category: Scientists
Occupation: Psychiatrists,...
Margaret Mead – American anthropologist and psychologist
Margaret Mead
(December 16 1901, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - November 15 1978, New York City, USA ) (aged 76)
Nationality: United States of America
Category: Scientists
Occupation: Psychologists, Culturologists
Unique...
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...