Category: Scientists & Researchers

Biography of Saint Thomas of Aquino:- Son of one of the most influential aristocratic families of southern Italy, he studied in Montecassino, in whose Benedictine monastery his parents wanted him to follow the ecclesiastical career. Later he moved to Naples, where he studied arts and theology and came into contact with the Order of Brother Preachers. Biography of Saint Thomas of Aquino Born:- 1225, Roccasecca, Italy Died:- 7 March 1274, Fossanova Abbey, Italy Feast:-  28

Biography of Victor Hugo:- French poet, playwright and novelist considered the greatest exponent of Romanticism in his country. Victor Hugo’s childhood was spent in Besançon, except for two years (1811-1812) in which he lived with his family in Madrid, where his father had been appointed general commander. Of early literary vocation, already in 1816 wrote in a school notebook: “I want to be Chateaubriand or nothing”. Biography of Victor Hugo

Biography of Martin Luther: – Whether or not his doctrine is shared, Luther is an apostle or at least a prophet to some, and to others a renegade heretic. Destroyer of countless things, this man of intense and energetic convictions represents, with his conception of man as an individual isolated from God, history and the world, one of the pillars on which the Modern Age is based. Initiator of the

Writer, social reformer, designer and English artist who through his literary, theoretical and artistic work tried the renewal of the culture recovering the spirit of medieval arts and crafts. As a designer and craftsman, his work would have great influence on book design, the art of printing, the visual arts, and industrial design of the nineteenth century. His social ideology, of utopian sign, was collected in theoretical writings and in

Biography of Naoya Shiga: – He grew up in the bosom of a well-to-do family that presumed to descend from the military aristocracy of the Tokugawa era (1600-1867). His youth was bitter because of clashes with his father, who did not approve of his decision to devote himself to literature, something that was still frowned upon by well-meaning society, or his idealistic humanism, inspired by the ideas of Uchimura Kanzo,

Biography of Antonio Trueba: – His works in prose always reflect the rural environment of the Basque Country or Castile, aspect that announces the generation of 98. Son of a family of farmers worked in Madrid like dependent of a hardware store. Later he would be archivist and chronicler of the Senorio de Vizcaya and staunch defender of the fueros of this region. Kind and simple man and self-taught writer,

Biography of Frederick Augustus Abel: – An English chemist, working as a chemist in the ministry of the English War, he studied and improved the procedure for the manufacture of powdered cotton, initiated by the Austrian chemist V. Lenk. Biography of Frederick Augustus Abel Born:- 17 July 1827, Woolwich, London, United Kingdom Died:-  6 September 1902, London, United Kingdom Known For:-  Cordite Coronation Date:- 1893 Education:-  Royal College of Chemistry, University of Westminster Its main improvement consisted in

Biography of Jose Luis Abellan: – Spanish thinker and philosopher, He studied high school at the Ramiro Institute of Maeztu and a degree in Philosophy and Literature at the University of Madrid, where he graduated in 1957. Three years later he obtained a doctorate in philosophy from the same university. He taught in Puerto Rico, Northern Ireland and later as a professor at the Universidad Completeness de Madrid. Biography of

Biography of Ernst Abbe: – German physicist to whom fundamental advances are made in the design of microscopes and in the theoretical lens. He was professor of theoretical physics at the University of Jena between 1870 and 1891 and director of his astronomical and meteorological observatory from 1878. Biography of Ernst Abbe Born:- 23 January 1840, Eisenach, Germany Died:- 14 January 1905, Jena, Germany Residence:- Germany Education:-  University of Jena, University of Göttingen Parents:-  Elisabeth Christina Barchfeldt, Georg Adam Abbe

Biography of Niels Henrik Abel: – Norwegian mathematician. Son of a Protestant pastor, he grew up in a family environment of great tension, because of the alcoholic tendencies of his parents. Sent with his brother to a school in the capital, his early mathematics skills were highly appreciated by one of his professors, Holmboe, who, after his father’s death, financed his early years in college. Biography of Niels Henrik Abel