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Frederik Grisogono (1472-1538), a mathematician, physicist, astronomer and physician, was educated in Padova, where later he became a university professor. His most important contribution was the theory of tides, based on the attraction of the Moon.
Russian Philosophy. This article provides a historical survey of Russian philosophers and thinkers. It emphasizes Russian epistemological concerns rather than ontological and ethical concerns, hopefully without neglecting or disparaging them.
In a move that stirs up some controversy, the United States ships 88 German scientists to America to assist the nation in its production of rocket technology.
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Africana Studies: An Undergraduate major in Africana Studies provides students with an understanding of the experiences of peoples of African descent on the continent of Africa and in the Diaspora (especially the United States and the Caribbean) and their contributions to human civilization.
This list of Russian saints includes the saints canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church and the Russian saints canonized by other Orthodox Churches.. Saints are sorted by their first names.
Chairman Mao has been on display in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square since 1977. Due to the Sino-Soviet split the Chinese struggled to find scientists able to create an air-tight coffin for Mao and various makers competed to build a crystal coffin that could adequately house the former leader of the Chinese Socialist Party.
James Dewey Watson (born April 6, 1928) is an American molecular biologist, geneticist and logist, best known as one of the co-discoverers of the structure of DNA in 1953 with Francis Crick and Rosalind Franklin.
A group of leading Russian scientists – neuroscientists, physiologists, geneticists, philosophers – will meet with Buddhist fellow monks led by the Dalai Lama XIV at his residence in the Indian city of Dharamsala on May 3-4 to discuss the fundamental issues of worldview, consciousness, brain, evolution, cosmology and human values.
