Learned Russian - Part 2

Biography by Jean-Martin Charcot

Jean-Martin Charcot (1825 – 1893) – the famous French physician and neurologist.

Medical education in Paris. From 1860 Professor Agrégation Paris Faculty of Medicine, 1862, the chief doctor at Women's Hospital Salpetriere, in 1866 read here attracted a huge group of listeners lectures in 1872 took the chair of pathological anatomy at the Paris Faculty of Medicine, in 1882, . for it was established a special department of nervous diseases. Read more

Biography Snegiryov Ivan Mikhailovich

Snegirev Ivan Mikhailovich (10/23/1792 – 09/12/1868) – Professor of Moscow University, a famous anthropologist and archaeologist, was born at Moscow, and was a son of a professor in the university's Michael Matveyevich S. (d. 1820). After home schooling he entered the academic school of the University (1802) in 1807 was promoted to the students, and in 1810 – as a candidate. However, he twice received a silver medal for his work on the offices of the ethical-political and verbal. Read more

Biography of Alexander Alexandrovich Friedman

Friedman, Alexander (17 (29) .06.1888 – 09.16.1925), a Soviet scientist, one of the founders of modern dynamic meteorology. He graduated from St. Petersburg University (1910). In 1913 began working in Pavlov azrologicheskoy Observatory. In 1914 – 1917 is organizing aeronautical and upper-air stations in the Russian army. In 1918 – 1920 Professor of the University of Perm. Read more

Biography Ovsyanniko-Kulikovsky Nasonov

Ovsyanniko-Kulikovskii Dmitry (1853) – cultural historian and critic. Born into the landed family Tauride, studied at the Simferopol gymnasium and Novorossiysk univ. After spending 5 years abroad, he defended in Moscow univ. pro venia legendi study: "Analysis of the Vedic myth of the falcon, which brought a flower Soma" (p. 1882) and became a lecturer in Novorossiysk univ. Read more

Biography Guiton de Morva Louis Bernard

Guiton de Morva Louis Bernard (04/01/1737 – 02/01/1816), French chemist and politician. On the formation of a lawyer. During the French Revolution was a deputy of the Legislative Assembly (1791-92) and the National Convention (1792-95). From 1794 Professor of the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, since 1795 Member of the Institute of France, since 1800 manager of the mint business and after restoration of the Bourbons in 1814, was dismissed from service, as voted for the execution of Louis XVI. Guiton de Morva worked on Applied Chemistry: introduced in France, output of pig iron in coke (1771), organized the production of nitrate in Dijon (1778-80), proposed a new method of disinfection – fumigation with chlorine (1773). First Guiton de Morva was a staunch supporter of the phlogiston theory, in 1786 joined the antiflogisticheskim views Lavoisier. Read more

Biography Nasonova Lyudmila Ivanovna

Nasonova Lyudmila (19/10/1947) – a specialist in epistemology and philosophy of Cultural, Ph.D., professor. Born in with. Red Hill Ryazan region. Read more

Biography of Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790), American educator, statesman, scientist, an author of the Declaration of Independence United States (1776) and the Constitution of 1787. Born to a craftsman, he worked in the printing. Founded in Philadelphia in the first North American colonies, the public library (1731), University of Pennsylvania (1740), American Philosophical Society (1743). Called for the abolition of Negro slavery. Read more

Biography of Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (05/06/1856 – 23/09/1939), Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist and psychologist, founder of psychoanalysis.

He graduated from the Medical University of Vienna fakultett. Read more

Biography Volkov Alexander Fedorovich

Volkov Aleksandr Fedorovich (08/10/1931 – 08/22/1981) – a specialist in social philosophy, philosophy and methodology of management; Ph.D., Professor. Born in Moscow. Read more

Biography Khariton Julia Borisovich

Chariton Julius B. (14 (27) .02.1904), Soviet physicist, academician of the USSR (1953, corresponding member of the 1946). Three times Hero of Socialist Labor. A member of the CPSU since 1956. Read more