Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize is a world-class honor awarded each year to living personalities who have distinguished themselves in the various fields of human knowledge, bringing "the greatest benefits to humanity" for their research, discoveries and inventions,...
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Twentieth-Century Geniuses: Thomas Alva Edison
Thomas Alva Edison (born February 11, 1847 in Milan - Ohio, died October 18, 1931 in West Orange - New Jersey) - American inventor, entrepreneur. The achievements of the laboratories he established and administered include over 1,000 patents, 1093 o...
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PI Greek
π (pi), sometimes called Archimedes' constant, is a number represented by the lowercase Greek letter of the same name (π). It is the constant ratio between the circumference of a circle and its diameter in a Euclidean plane. It can also be defined...
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Twentieth-Century Geniuses: Marie Curie
Marie Skłodowska-Curie, or simply Marie Curie, born Maria Salomea Skłodowska on 7 November 1867 in Warsaw (Kingdom of Poland, under Russian domination) and died on 4 July 1934 in Passy, in the Sancellemoz sanatorium (Haute Savoie), is a Poli...
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Twentieth-Century Geniuses: Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla (July 10, 1856, Smilyan, Gospic, Austrian Empire - January 7, 1943, New York, New York, USA), inventor in the field of electrical and radio engineering of Serbian origin, scientist, engineer, physicist Born in the Austrian Empire, raised...
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Twentieth-Century Geniuses: Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein, born March 14, 1879 in Ulm, Württemberg (German Empire), and died April 18, 1955 in Princeton, New Jersey (United States), was a theoretical physicist. He was successively German, stateless (between 1896 and 1901), Swiss (1901) and...
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