Monthly Archives: May 2019
Alexey Nikolaevich Beketov
Alexey Nikolaevich Beketov in Scientists Kharkov is rightfully proud of its historical and cultural attractions. No less pride is experienced by the inhabitants of the city for famous and famous people who were born, lived, worked, invested heart and soul in this beautiful city. Among them are world-famous actors, scientists, musicians, athletes, politicians. We name only some of them. V.N. Karazin – a scientist, educator, founder of the first university in eastern Ukraine. Ukrainian writer and playwright G.F. Kvitka-Osnovyanenko. Founder of the school of planetology, astronomer, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR N.P. Barabashov. Continue reading
Home »Scientists» Pavel Petrovich Anosov Pavel Petrovich Anosov
An outstanding mining engineer, the brilliant metallurgical scientist P.P. Anosov. Born one of the founders of the new science – metallography 29.06.1796, in Tver. In addition to Paul, three more children grew up in a family of collegiate assessor P. Anosov. After the early death of the parents of the children, LF Sabakin, the grandfather of the mother, took care of him. It was he who played the most important role in the further fate of the adolescent, identifying Paul and his brother to the St. Petersburg Mining Cadet Corps in 1810. Continue reading
Gabriel Fahrenheit
The temperature scale of Celsius has long been recognized worldwide. However, even today in the USA and England they often use the temperature scale created at the beginning of the 18th century by the German physicist and glass blower Fahrenheit and named after him. The scientist forever entered the history of world science as the inventor of the world’s first glass mercury thermometer. Continue reading