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On the Lighter Side => Famous Scientists, Doctors and Inventors => Topic started by: Flaubert on 18/07/2011 16:49:40

Title: What famous Russian scientists do you know?
Post by: Flaubert on 18/07/2011 16:49:40

Hi, do you know some names of great Russian scientists (scientists from Russia)? What are the names of the Russian physics and mathematics? Thank you.

Title: Re: What famous Russian scientists do you know?
Post by: CliffordK on 19/07/2011 00:30:40

The only Russian I can think of is Gary Kasparov, who is a Chess Player.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garry_Kasparov

I had thought that Garry Kasparov had played Bobby Fischer, but apparently it was Boris Spassky, eventually leading to Bobby Fischer's exile.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Spassky

As far as scientists, Wikipedia seems to have many lists of Russian Scientists.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Russian_scientists
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Russian_scientists
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Russian_physicists
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Russian_mathematicians

Title: Re: What famous Russian scientists do you know?
Post by: yor_on on 19/07/2011 19:22:29

I think of Grigori Perelman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Perelman). Russia have a tradition of brilliant mathematicians as I see it.

Title: Re: What famous Russian scientists do you know?
Post by: damocles on 02/08/2011 16:06:49

Let us not forget about --

Dmitri Mendeleev 19th century chemist who shaped the whole subject of Inorganic chemistry for the next 150 years
Lev Landau brilliant theoretical physicist of the middle of the 20th century.
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, who was the grandfather of the successful Soviet space program.
Alexandr Borodin who not only did some important organic chemistry, but also wrote some pretty good music.

There are/were, of course, many others.

Title: What famous Russian scientists do you know?
Post by: Albion890 on 15/09/2011 12:38:29

There are best scientist Mikhail Lomonosov ,Sofia Kovalevskaya, Nikolai Basov,Ivan Pavlov.

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Title: Re: What famous Russian scientists do you know?
Post by: diogenesNY on 01/03/2012 22:47:29

I know that this is an old thread, but I could not let it pass without mentioning Alexander Friedmann. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Friedman

This is the cosmologist who did much of the early work developing the model of the Universe that seems to now be the dominant model.  (the less than descriptively named FLRW metric:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedmann%E2%80%93Lema%C3%AEtre%E2%80%93Robertson%E2%80%93Walker_metric
)

An interesting and important guy.

--diogenesNY

Title: Re: What famous Russian scientists do you know?
Post by: Mika on 24/05/2012 20:08:52

I'll add Elie Metchnikoff to the list.  Great?  Perhaps not.  A personal favourite?  Yes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Mechnikov

Title: Re: What famous Russian scientists do you know?
Post by: yellowcat on 29/10/2012 18:12:10

Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky

Title: Re: What famous Russian scientists do you know?
Post by: Pmb on 18/09/2013 21:46:19

Quote from: Flaubert on 18/07/2011 16:49:40

Hi, do you know some names of great Russian scientists (scientists from Russia)? What are the names of the Russian physics and mathematics? Thank you.

I know a well known Russian physicist named Lev B. Okun
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_Okun

Title: Re: What famous Russian scientists do you know?
Post by: alancalverd on 20/09/2013 19:00:37

Pyotr Kapitza.