George Washington, the first president of the United States. He is the founder of the United States as a single country. Today, the capital of the United States and many settlements, lakes, colleges, universities, streets ... the portrait of George...

Johannes Kepler, the man who measured the sky.Kepler made discoveries in physics, mathematics, astronomy, mechanics, optics, introduced the concept of inertia into physics. He was the first 100 years before Newton to prove that the cause of the...

He formulated the first and second laws of thermodynamics, investigated that there is a lower limit of temperature “absolute zero”. William Thomson - author and inventor of nearly 70 patents...

James Watt, father of the industrial revolution Watt is a Scottish inventor, mechanic, creator of the universal double-acting steam engine. His name is called the unit of power - watts. The work of James Watt was the beginning of the industrial...

Felix Mendelssohn, musical genius The German composer, author of the famous Mendelssohn’s march, pianist, conductor, teacher is one of the most famous representatives of romanticism in music....

Clive Lewis, storyteller of the XX century. Lewis once said: “God speaks to a man in a whisper of love; if he does not hear, then in a voice of conscience; and if he does not hear again, then through the mouthpiece of suffering. " The whole life of...

Elizabeth II, a living symbol of Britain She is the oldest of the current monarchs in the world. The Queen’s full title is Her Majesty Elizabeth II, by the grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and other kingdoms...

Karl Linney, Prince of Nerds. He created a unified system for classifying the flora and fauna, founded modern taxonomy, defined the concept of a biological species, and helped biology become a full-fledged science....

Max Planck, founder of quantum physics He formed one of the most complex physical theories of the 20th century - quantum theory. Max Planck is a Nobel laureate in physics (1918). He derived the law of radiation, named after him, introduced a quantum...

Adam Smith, founder of modern economic theory. Smith created the theory of labor value, substantiated the need to free the market economy from the state, and considered the economy a system in which laws operate. In the XVII – XVIII centuries, there...