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...
Ibn Khaldun – The Father of Cultural History and Historiography
Ibn Khaldun
Abu-Zaid Abd-al-Rahman ibn Muhammad ibn-Khaldun
(27 May 1332, Tunis -17 March 1406, Cairo, Egypt)
Nationality: Tunisia
Category: Scientists
Occupation: Historian, Sociologists, Politicians
Unique distinction: The father of...
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
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Rudolf Hermann Lotze – German philosopher, psychologist and physiologist
Hermann 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,...
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...
Oswald Kulpe – Founder of the Würzburg school
Oswald Kulpe
(August 3, 1862, Kandau, Courland, Germany, now Kandava, Latvia) - December 30, 1915, Munich, Germany) (aged 53 )
Nationality: Germany
Category: Scientists
Occupation: Psychologists
Specification: Wurzburg school,...
Wilhelm Wundt – Founder of experimental and cultural psychology
Wilhelm Wundt
Wilhelm Maximilian (Max) Wundt
(August 16, 1832, Nekarau, near Mannheim, Baden -31 August 1920, Großbothen near Leipzig, Germany)
Nationality: Germany
Category: Scientists
Occupation: Physiologists, Psychologists
Specification: Experimental psychology
Unique...