Who do you consider the most worthy example and inspiration for yourself personally? Martin Luther King Jr., Yuri Gagarin or maybe your grandfather? Our world took several millennia to form, and many historical figures took part in this difficult process, who made their invaluable contribution to science, culture and many other spheres of life, both in their countries and in all of humanity. It is very difficult and almost impossible to select those whose influence was most significant. However, the authors of this list still decided to try and collect in one publication the most inspiring personalities in the history of world civilizations. Some of them are known to everyone, others are not known to everyone, but they all have one thing in common - these people changed our world for the better. From the Dalai Lama to Charles Darwin, here are 25 of the most outstanding figures in history!

25. Charles Darwin

A famous British traveler, naturalist, geologist and biologist, Charles Darwin is most famous for his theory, which changed the understanding of human nature and the development of the world in all its diversity. Darwin's theory of evolution and natural selection suggests that all species, including humans, are descended from common ancestors, a concept that shocked the scientific community at the time. Darwin published The Theory of Evolution with some examples and evidence in his revolutionary book On the Origin of Species in 1859, and since then our world and the way we understand it have changed greatly.

24. Tim Berners-Lee

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Tim Berners-Lee is a British engineer, inventor and computer scientist best known as the creator of the World Wide Web. Sometimes called the "Father of the Internet", Berners-Lee developed the first hypertext web browser, web server and web editor. The technologies of this outstanding scientist spread worldwide and forever changed the way information is generated and processed.

23. Nicholas Winton

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Nicholas Winton was a British philanthropist, and since the late 1980s he has become best known for smuggling 669 Jewish children out of Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia just before World War II. Winton transported all these children to British orphanages, and some of them even managed to be placed in families, which definitely saved them all from inevitable death in concentration camps or during the bombings. The philanthropist organized as many as 8 trains from Prague and also took children out of Vienna, but using other modes of transport. The Englishman never sought fame, and for 49 years he kept his heroic deed a secret. In 1988, Winton’s wife discovered a notebook with notes from 1939 and the addresses of the families who took in young Salvationists. Since then, recognition, orders and awards have fallen upon him. Nicholas Winton died at the age of 106 in 2015.

22. Buddha Shakyamuni (Gautama Buddha)

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Also known as Siddhartha Gautama (from birth), Tathagata (the comer) or Bhagavan (the blessed one), Shakyamuni Buddha (the awakened sage of the Shakya lineage) was the spiritual leader and founder of Buddhism, one of the world's three leading religions. Buddha was born in the 6th century BC in royal family and lived in absolute isolation and luxury. As the prince grew older, he left his family and all his property to plunge into self-discovery and seek to rid humanity of suffering. After several years of meditation and contemplation, Gautama achieved enlightenment and became the Buddha. Through his teachings, Shakyamuni Buddha influenced the lives of millions of people around the world.

21. Rosa Parks

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Also known as the "First Lady" civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement," Rosa Parks was a true pioneer and founder of the black civil rights movement in 1950s Alabama, which was still heavily segregated by race. In 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, a courageous African-American woman and passionate civil rights activist, Rosa Parks, refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger, disobeying the driver's orders. Her rebellious act provoked other blacks into what was later called the legendary "Montgomery Bus Boycott." This boycott lasted 381 days and became one of the key events in the history of the black civil rights movement in the United States.

20. Henry Dunant

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A successful Swiss entrepreneur and active public figure, Henri Dunant became the first person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 1901. During a business trip in 1859, Dunant encountered the terrible consequences of the Battle of Solferino (Italy), where the troops of Napoleon, the Kingdom of Sardinia and the Austrian Empire under the leadership of Franz Joseph I clashed, and the troops were left to die on the battlefield. almost 9 thousand wounded. In 1863, in response to the horrors of war and the brutality of the battle he saw, the entrepreneur founded the well-known International Committee of the Red Cross. The Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded, adopted in 1864, was also based on ideas expressed by Henri Dunant.

19. Simon Bolivar

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Also known as the Libertador, Simon Bolivar was a prominent Venezuelan military and political leader who played a key role in the liberation of six countries in South and Central America - Venezuela, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Panama - from Spanish rule. Bolivar was born into a wealthy aristocratic family, but he devoted most of his life to military campaigns and the fight for the independence of the Spanish colonies in America. The country of Bolivia, by the way, was named in honor of this hero and liberator.

18. Albert Einstein

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Albert Einstein is one of the most respected and influential scientists of all time. This outstanding theoretical physicist, Nobel laureate and a public figure and humanist gave the world over 300 scientific works on physics and about 150 books and articles on history, philosophy and other humanitarian areas. His whole life was full of interesting research, revolutionary ideas and theories, which later became fundamental for modern science. Einstein was most famous for his Theory of Relativity, and thanks to this work he became one of the greatest personalities in human history. Even after almost a century, this Theory continues to influence the thinking of the modern scientific community working to create a Theory of Everything (or Unified Field Theory).

17. Leonardo da Vinci

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It is difficult to describe and list all the areas in which Leonardo da Vinci, a man who changed the whole world with his mere existence, succeeded. Over the course of his entire life, this Italian genius of the Renaissance managed to achieve unprecedented heights in painting, architecture, music, mathematics, anatomy, engineering, and many other areas. Da Vinci is recognized as one of the most versatile and talented people to ever live on our planet, and he is the author of such revolutionary inventions as the parachute, helicopter, tank and scissors.

16. Christopher Columbus

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The famous Italian explorer, traveler and colonizer, Christopher Columbus was not the first European to sail to America (after all, the Vikings had been here before him). However, his voyages gave rise to an entire era of the most outstanding discoveries, conquests and colonizations, which continued for several centuries after his death. Columbus's travels to the New World greatly influenced the development of geography of those times, because at the beginning of the 15th century people still believed that the Earth was flat and that there were no more lands beyond the Atlantic.

15. Martin Luther King Jr.

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This is one of the most influential personalities of the 20th century. Martin Luther King Jr. is best known for his peaceful movement against discrimination, racial segregation and for the civil rights of black Americans, for which he even received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. Martin Luther King was a Baptist preacher and powerful speaker who inspired millions of people around the world to fight for democratic freedoms and their rights. He played a key role in promoting civil rights through peaceful protests based on Christian faith and the philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi.

14. Bill Gates

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The founder of the legendary multinational company Microsoft, Bill Gates was considered the richest person in the world for almost 20 years. Recently, however, Gates has become known primarily as a generous philanthropist rather than for his success in business and the market. information technologies. At one time, Bill Gates stimulated the development of the personal computer market, making computers accessible to the simplest users, which is exactly what he wanted. Now he is passionate about the idea of providing Internet access to the whole world. Gates is also working on projects dedicated to combating global warming and combating gender discrimination.

William Shakespeare is considered one of the greatest writers and playwrights in the English language, and he has had a profound influence on a galaxy of literary figures, as well as millions of readers around the world. In addition, Shakespeare introduced about 2,000 new words, most of which are still in use in modern English. With his works, the national poet of England has inspired a great many composers, artists and film directors from all over the world.

12. Sigmund Freud

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Austrian neurologist and founder of the science of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud is famous precisely for his unique research mysterious world human subconscious. With them, he forever changed the way we evaluate ourselves and the people around us. Freud's work influenced 20th-century psychology, sociology, medicine, art, and anthropology, and his therapeutic techniques and theories in psychoanalysis are still studied and practiced today.

11. Oskar Schindler

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Oskar Schindler was a German entrepreneur, Nazi Party member, spy, womanizer and drinker. None of this sounds very appealing and certainly doesn't sound like the characteristics of a real hero. However, despite all of the above, Schindler deservedly made it onto this list, because during the Holocaust and World War II, this man saved about 1,200 Jews, rescuing them from death camps to work in his factories. The heroic story of Oskar Schindler has been told in many books and films, but the most famous adaptation was Steven Spielberg's 1993 film Schindler's List.

10. Mother Teresa

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A Catholic nun and missionary, Mother Teresa devoted almost her entire life to serving the poor, sick, disabled and orphans. She founded the charitable movement and women's monastic congregation “Missionary Sisters of Love” (Congregatio Sororum Missionarium Caritatis), which exists in almost all countries of the world (in 133 countries as of 2012). In 1979, Mother Teresa became a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, and 19 years after her death (in 2016) she was canonized by Pope Francis himself.

9. Abraham Lincoln

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Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States and one of the most influential figures in American history. Coming from a poor farming family, Lincoln fought to reunify the country during the Civil War between North and South, strengthened the federal government, modernized the American economy, but had a reputation for outstanding historical figure he deserved it primarily for his contribution to the development of a democratic society and the fight against slavery and oppression of the black population in the United States. Abraham Lincoln's legacy continues to shape the American people today.

8. Stephen Hawking

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Stephen Hawking is one of the most famous and respected scientists in the world, and he has made invaluable contributions to the development of science (especially cosmology and theoretical physics). The work of this British researcher and ardent popularizer of science is also impressive because Hawking made almost all of his discoveries in spite of a rare and slowly progressing degenerative disease. The first signs of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis appeared in his student years, and now the great scientist is completely paralyzed. However, severe illness and paralysis did not prevent Hawking from marrying twice, becoming the father of two sons, flying in zero gravity, writing many books, becoming one of the founders of quantum cosmology and the winner of a whole collection of prestigious awards, medals and orders.

7. Unknown rebel

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This is the conventional name given to an unknown man who independently held back a column of tanks for half an hour during the protests in Tiananmen Square (Tiananmen, China) in 1989. In those days, hundreds of protesters, most of whom were ordinary students, died in clashes with the military. The identity and fate of the unknown rebel remains unknown, but the photograph has become an international symbol of courage and peaceful resistance.

6. Muhammad

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Muhammad was born in 570 AD in the city of Mecca (Mecca, modern Saudi Arabia). He is considered a Muslim prophet and the founder of the Islamic religion. Being not only a preacher, but also a politician, Muhammad united all the Arab peoples of those times into a single Muslim empire, which conquered most of the Arabian Peninsula. The author of the Qur'an started out with a few followers, but eventually his teachings and practices formed the basis of the Islamic religion, which is now the second most popular religion in the world, with some 1.8 billion believers.

5. The 14th Dalai Lama

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The 14th Dalai Lama, or by birth Lhamo Thondup, is a 1989 Nobel Peace Prize laureate and a renowned preacher of Buddhist philosophy of peace, professing respect for all life on Earth and calling for the harmonious coexistence of man and nature. The former spiritual and political leader of Tibet in exile, the 14th Dalai Lama always tried to find a compromise and sought reconciliation with the Chinese authorities who invaded Tibet with territorial claims. In addition, Lhamo Dhondrub is a passionate supporter of the women's rights movement, interfaith dialogues and advocates for solving global environmental problems.

4. Princess Diana

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Also known as “Lady Di” and “the people’s princess,” Princess Diana captured the hearts of millions around the world with her philanthropy, hard work and sincerity. She devoted most of her short life to helping those in need in third world countries. The Queen of Human Hearts, as she was also called, founded the movement to end the production and use of anti-personnel mines, and was also actively involved in several dozen humanitarian campaigns and non-profit organizations, including the Red Cross, London's Great Ormond Street Hospital and AIDS research. Lady Di died at the age of 36 from injuries received in a car accident.

3. Nelson Mandela

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Nelson Mandela was a South African politician, philanthropist, revolutionary, reformer, passionate advocate for human rights during apartheid (policy of racial segregation) and President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He had a profound influence on the history of South Africa and the world. Mandela spent almost 27 years in prison for his beliefs, but he did not lose faith in the liberation of his people from the oppression of the authorities, and after leaving prison he achieved democratic elections, as a result of which he became the first black president of South Africa. His tireless work to peacefully end the apartheid regime and establish democracy inspired millions of people around the world. In 1993, Nelson Mandela won the Nobel Peace Prize.

2. Jeanne d'Arc

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Also known as the Maid of Orleans, Joan of Arc is the greatest heroine in French history and one of the most famous women in world history. She was born into a poor farming family in 1412 and believed that she was chosen by God to lead France to victory in the Hundred Years' War with England. The girl died before the end of the war, but her courage, passion and devotion to her goal (especially during the siege of Orleans) caused a long-awaited moral upsurge and inspired the whole French army for the final victory in the protracted and seemingly hopeless confrontation with the British. Unfortunately, in battle, the Maid of Orleans was captured by her enemies, condemned by the Inquisition and burned at the stake at the age of 19.

1. Jesus Christ

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Jesus Christ is the central figure of the Christian religion, and He has had such a profound impact on our world that He is often called the most influential and inspiring person in human history. Compassion, love for others, sacrifice, humility, repentance and forgiveness, which Jesus called for in His sermons and personal example, were concepts completely opposite to the values of ancient civilizations during His life on Earth. Yet today there are approximately 2.4 billion followers of His teachings and Christian faith in the world.

William James Sidis was born on April 1, 1898 in New York. He was the son of Jewish emigrants from the territory of Ukraine. His parents were outstanding specialists in their fields: Boris Sidis taught psychology at Harvard University and was one of the most significant US psychiatrists and psychologists of his time; Sarah graduated from Boston Medical University in 1897, but gave up her career to raise William.

His parents wanted to make W. J. Sidis a genius using their own educational methods, for which they were criticized. At the age of 18 months, he was reading the New York Times. At the age of 6, William consciously became an atheist. Before his eighth birthday, he wrote four books. His IQ was estimated to be between 250 and 300 (the highest recorded IQ in history).

At the age of 11, W. J. Sidis entered Harvard. Fields of study on which Sidis's work remains include American history, cosmology, and psychology. Sidis was a collector of railway tickets and was immersed in the study of transport systems. Under the pseudonym "Frank Falupa", he wrote a treatise on rail tickets, in which he identified ways to increase the capacity of the transport network that are only now beginning to find acceptance. In 1930, he received a patent for a permanent perpetual calendar that took leap years into account.

Sidis knew about 40 languages (according to other sources - 200) and translated fluently from one to another. Sidis also created an artificial language, which he named Vendergood in his second book, entitled "Book of Vendergood", which he wrote at the age of eight. The language is mostly based on Latin and Greek, but it was also based on German, French and other Romance languages.

Sidis was socially passive. At a young age, he decided to give up sex and devote his life to intellectual development. His interests manifested themselves in rather exotic forms. He wrote a study on alternative history USA. He spent his adult life working as a simple accountant, wearing traditional rural clothing, and quitting his job as soon as his genius was discovered. Trying to live unnoticed, he hid from journalists.

Sidis died of an intracerebral hemorrhage in 1944, at the age of 46, in Boston.

W. J. Sidis is rated by some biographers as the most gifted man on Earth. Here are the biographical moments that gave rise to this opinion:

William learned to write by the end of his first year.
In his fourth year of life, he read Homer in the original.
At the age of six he studied Aristotelian logic.
Between the ages of 4 and 8 he wrote 4 books, including one monograph on anatomy.
At the age of seven he passed the Harvard Medical School exam in anatomy.
By the age of 8, William knew 8 languages - English, Latin, Greek, Russian, Hebrew, French, German and one more, which he invented himself.
In his adult life, William was fluent in 40 languages, and, according to some authors, this number reached 200.
At the age of 11, Sidis entered Harvard University and soon lectured at the Harvard Mathematical Club.
He graduated from Harvard with honors at age 16.

Names and surnames of brilliant people of all times

Genius(lat. genius) – the highest degree of giftedness and versatility.

There is an opinion that a genius accounts for 1% of inspiration, and the remaining 99% is hard work until he sweats. And indeed it is. Hard, persistent work is an integral part of great scientific discoveries, brilliant works of art, creations of music, painting and architecture.

Brilliant people and their creations remain for centuries.

Traits of a genius person– a clear mind, excellent memory, extensive knowledge, creative activity, poetic imagination, literary gift, thirst for knowledge, courage of thought, heroic enthusiasm, understanding of the world and man.

The labyrinths of the movement of brilliant thought have not yet been solved by anyone. Geniuses are very amazing high level creativity, exceptional, superhuman abilities– in memorizing data, in solving mathematical problems, in instantly capturing connections between phenomena invisible to others.

Developed through persistent and prolonged effort, the abilities of a genius show the limitless possibilities of the human mind.

There is a famous saying that genius burns on the fire of sex hormones. The constant high creative tension in which a genius lives inevitably subjugates his lifestyle, behavior and daily routine. A genius lives in the world of ideas, not in the material world.

The thoughts and ideas of brilliant people were always ahead of their time; extraordinary courage was needed in overthrowing dogmas and authorities that had existed for centuries. Many brilliant people paid with their lives for their innovative ideas. And only after some time it became clear that the genius was right. He saw what others did not see.

Genius comes in many forms and different levels . Below we provide list of brilliant people. Of course, it is not complete and can be continued.

Names and surnames of brilliant people of all times (list)

Agrippa (Henry Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim)– occultist

Anaxagoras- ancient Greek philosopher, mathematician, astronomer, founder of the Athenian school of philosophy

Aristotle– philosopher

Aristophanes– playwright

Archimedes– mechanic, physicist, mathematician, engineer

Honore de Balzac- writer

Bacon Francis– philosopher, historian, politician

Bacon, Roger- philosopher and naturalist

Bach Johann Sebastian– composer

Beethoven Ludwig vann– composer

Berdyaev Nikolay Alexandrovich– philosopher

Bor Nils– physicist

Bruno Giordano- scientist, monk

Voltaire- poet, prose writer, satirist, tragedian, historian, publicist

Galileo Galilei– astronomer, mechanic, thinker

Hegel Georg Wilhelm Friedrich– philosopher

Goethe Johann- poet, statesman, naturalist, thinker

Herodotus– Greek traveler, geographer, father of history

Gogol Nikolay Vasilievich- writer

Hoffmann Ernst Theodor Amadeus– writer, composer, artist

Gumilev Lev Nikolaevich– historian-ethnologist, archaeologist, orientalist, writer

Dante Alighieri- poet, theologian, politician

Rene Descartes– philosopher, mathematician, mechanic, physicist, physiologist

Democritus– philosopher

Euclid– mathematician, physicist

Zhirinovsky Vladimir Volfovich- statesman

Kant Immanuel– philosopher

Copernicus Nicholas– astronomer, mathematician, mechanic, economist

Cuvier Georges Leopold- naturalist, naturalist

Leonardo da Vinci– painter, sculptor, architect, scientist (naturalist), inventor, writer

Leibniz Gottfried Wilhelm– philosopher, logician, mathematician, mechanic, physicist, lawyer, historian, diplomat, inventor, linguist

Lermontov Mikhail Yurievich- poet, prose writer, playwright

Lobachevsky Nikolai Ivanovich– mathematician

Lomonosov, Mikhail Vasilievich– natural scientist, encyclopedist, chemist, physicist, astronomer, instrument maker, geographer, metallurgist, geologist, poet, artist, historian

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier– chemist, naturalist

Alexander Macedonian- conqueror-commander

Mendeleev Dmitry Ivanovich– encyclopedist scientist, chemist, physicist, metrologist, economist, technologist, geologist, meteorologist, oil worker, teacher, aeronaut, instrument maker

Michelangelo– sculptor, painter, architect

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart– composer, virtuoso performer

Marcus Aurelius- statesman, philosopher

Napoleon I Bonaparte- commander and statesman

Nietzsche Friedrich– thinker, philosopher, philologist, composer, poet

Nostradamus Michel de– astrologer, doctor, pharmacist, alchemist, fortune teller

Newton Isaac– physicist, mathematician, mechanic, astronomer

Pascal Blaise– mathematician, mechanic, physicist, writer, philosopher

Pericles- statesman, speaker, commander

Pythagoras– philosopher, mathematician, mystic, creator of the religious and philosophical school of the Pythagoreans

Claudius Ptolemy– Greek geographer, cartographer, mathematician, astronomer

Pushkin, Alexander Sergeyevich- poet, playwright, prose writer

Rafael Santi– painter, graphic artist, architect

Socrates- thinker, philosopher

Stolypin, Pyotr Arkadyevich (1862 – 1911)– Russian statesman, prime minister

Suvorov Alexander Vasilievich- great Russian commander, military theorist, national hero Russia

Tesla Nikola– inventor in the field of electrical and radio engineering, engineer, physicist

Titian- painter

Freud Sigmund– psychologist, psychiatrist, neurologist

Gaius Julius Caesar– commander, statesman, writer

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich– composer, conductor, teacher, musical and public figure

Shakespeare William- poet and playwright

Einstein, Albert– theoretical physicist, one of the founders of modern theoretical physics

Aesop- Ancient Greek poet and fabulist

Aeschylus- Ancient Greek playwright, father of European tragedy

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What is genius? Many equate it with talent and confuse it with giftedness. Who can you become, and who was born with innate qualities and abilities?

Brilliant and talented people

Genius is the highest degree of intellectual or creative development of a person, relative to the accepted norms of society, manifested in science, technology, inventions, art, culture and in the social sphere, where a new milestone has been achieved.
Brilliant people give a completely new trend, create unique technologies, which did not exist before, and scientific discoveries change thinking in any field.

A talented person can be equated to a genius. How correct is this?

What is talent?

Talent is a person’s ability that develops over time, accompanies the accumulation of experience and knowledge, and contributes to superiority in some area or field over others.

Differences between genius and talent.

A person can have talent in many areas, but with definitely developed experience in one area. A person of genius can express himself to the highest degree developed abilities in different areas and in different directions.

For example, Leonardo Da Vinci is a brilliant person, because with the highest degree of intellectual and creative abilities, relative to the general mass of people, he invented unique objects, wrote paintings, music, and also proved himself as a scientist, architect, sculptor. Talent can be developed and improved based on knowledge and experience, while genius manifests itself at an early age with highest quality result.

For example, a person has a passion for the art of drawing and after years of training he will receive an excellent result, and after decades he can achieve outstanding results, thanks to which discussions will begin in society and he will be recognized as a talented person. A brilliant person, as a rule, will immediately produce a result that will excite the public.

We can say that genius is talent, only with the highest degree of development in various fields and areas of activity with maximum quality of execution, which can go against accepted public norms and brings a new trend.

Brilliant people make new discoveries, creating a new era in human activity, talented people successfully refine them and introduce changes, creating unique creations.

A brilliant person in the modern world.

In our modern society, it is customary to consider a person a genius if he creates the highest quality, new creation, thanks to his innate highly developed abilities, and is superior to others in one area or field of activity and is universal in it.

How to become a genius?

Genius and talent are innate qualities of a person. Genius and talent can manifest themselves both in childhood and in adulthood on the basis of an innate (biological factor) that matures in the process of human development.

If you engage in one activity for a large amount of time, be a more qualified specialist, understand, know, study or put into practice something better than others, then you can be equated to a talented person, but by definition this will be giftedness.

For example, anyone can master the skill of drawing, only gifted people draw well, talented people even better, and brilliant people draw in such a way that a new creation, a new genre, a new idea or vision arises.

What is giftedness?

Giftedness is the ability to successfully carry out human activities, with the accumulation of knowledge, experience and skills. A gifted person makes attempts to achieve success based on the experience gained, the period of training completed, through the accumulated knowledge and ability to do.

Signs of genius.

The strangeness of a man of genius

Appears at an early age. If a person is a genius, then he will express himself and show his abilities from childhood.
Creative, out-of-the-box thinking. Most people will look at a thing in a monotonous way, meaning something understandable that is inclined to a rational conclusion, but a brilliant person will offer an innovative, non-standard approach.
High performance indicator. Able to quickly and effectively perform creative or mental work.
Highest score.
Self-development. Brilliant people receive, process and assimilate information faster than others, easily applying it in practice.
. Society would not recognize brilliant people if they did not complete their work. Perseverance allows you to achieve a small goal in a short period of time, just as perseverance requires years of painstaking work.
Tendency to diseases. Schizophrenia, or emotional personality disorder, is common to great people.
On your own mind. Such people know what they want to receive, achieve, accomplish and, first of all, will listen to their subconscious rather than the opinions of other people.
Individuality. In the field of activity, skills, culture, development, creativity, they are able to perform work in an original way, and also in everyday life they may have oddities, expressed in everyday life, in the process of work. There may be an inherent illness that causes nervousness, which will add individuality to the image of a person, but not to the essence.

Genius test.

Brilliant people have no doubt about who they are, because they know what to achieve, what to create, bring or how to change the world through their activities.
How old are you? Genius is inherent from childhood.
Taking an IQ test is an indicator of a person's intelligence level. More than 90% of the mass of people have a value of no more than 110 in relation to their age. Scientists have developed tests that show more reliable results based on the relationship between age and task difficulty. Thus, a child's IQ may be equal to that of an adult, but it will not mean that the child is smarter or developmentally equal to the adult. Choose a test that suits your age.
Can you demonstrate your abilities as well in other areas of activity?
Try to observe yourself as you study information and pay attention to the time it takes to assimilate it. For example, learning foreign languages should not cause difficulties; as a rule, they are easily acquired by a brilliant person.
Can you write text with both hands at the same time?
Pay attention to your existence, achievements, abilities, innovations in culture, inventions, technologies, creativity, art, music, discoveries in science. A brilliant person brings innovations into the world with the highest results.
Pay attention to your recognition or popularity.
Individuality. Brilliant people are individual personalities who are envied, worshiped, praised, spoken, written, imitated, tried to repeat their achievements, copied creations, and improved and refined what was produced.
Do you have any ailments? mental illness eg: emotional personality disorder?

A person of genius is a rarity; as a rule, the public learns about him, because the desire for self-realization in activity, thanks to the abilities developed to the highest degree, is higher than worldly goods. New discoveries or creations surprise the public, change consciousness, directions of development, a vector of movement are created, as a result, people begin to discuss and say that the person is a genius.

Low emotional intelligence.

Emotional intelligence is the ability to understand the feelings and emotions of another person. This concept appeared during the study of human success.

Great, brilliant people may not understand your desire, intentions, motivation, and they may also not recognize the emotion and show theirs. For example, a successful salesperson needs to understand the desires and needs of his client and, thanks to his communication skills, make a sale.

Our emotional emotions are varied: we can be offended, angry, happy, sad, etc. A brilliant person may not show his emotions and may not intuitively recognize them.

Schizophrenia.

Schizophrenia is a mental disorder associated with a person’s thinking and emotions, leading to auditory hallucinations, impairment, insanity, and delusions.

Patients with schizophrenia experience illnesses such as: depression, nervousness, trembling, muscle tension, sweating, palpitations, dizziness, discomfort, depression, mental disorder, diabetes, heart and lung diseases, infectious diseases, osteoporosis, hyperlipidemia and hypogonadism.

John Forbes Nash Jr. is a talented mathematician who created the basis of the scientific method of game theory, namely the study of strategies in games from a scientific point of view. Received highest award“Abel Prize” for work done in the theory of nonlinear differential equations. At the age of 30, schizophrenia appeared.

Statistics for schizophrenics:

5 people per 1000 are sick (from 0.4 to 0.6% of the number of people.)
40% susceptible to alcohol and drugs
Life expectancy is, on average, 10 years less than that of a healthy person.
Susceptibility to suicide.
Social problems such as: unemployment, poverty, homelessness.
Illness is equivalent to disability.

Bipolar affective disorder (BAD, MDP).

Bipolar affective disorder is a mental disorder, a set of syndromes accompanied by depression. For example, people who suffer from bipolar disorder are prone to experience anxiety and sadness, joy and fear, elation and anxiety, etc.

Examples of brilliant people.

Vincent Van Gogh is a Dutch artist who painted more than 2,100 works, 860 of which were painted in oils. Van Gogh created a new pictorial language and discovered art as modernism. He suffered from bipolar disorder and committed suicide.
Archimedes is an ancient Greek mathematician, physicist and engineer who discovered to the world the method of calculating areas and volumes, which formed the basis of integral calculus, created the definition of the volume of a surface and a sphere, gave his definition of the number Pi “\pi”, created a screw that facilitates the lifting of loads, built a planetarium , where the movements of 5 planets are visible. Archimedes' discoveries and innovations are extensive, in astronomy and physics, he proved many theorems, and according to ancient Greek philosopher and the writer of “Plutarch” - Archimedes suffered from an obsession with mathematics, lived without paying attention to his appearance and did not really take care of himself.
Newton Isaac - English mathematician, physicist, inventor. Created the law of universal gravitation and the three laws of mechanics. He developed differential and integral calculus and many other discoveries and theories. He was good at drawing. Newton was always sad and never laughed, no one noticed that he was irritated or nervous. He was indifferent to entertainment and was in a concentrated state all the time.
Galileo Galilei - Italian physicist, writer, mathematician, astronomer, mechanic, inventor. He made a significant contribution to science; he was the first to use a telescope to observe and study celestial bodies, which led to discoveries in astronomy. Galileo is a pioneer in experimental physics. IN early years, as a student, he argued with teachers, believing that his opinion should be taken into account.

The smartest people in history. Their works have shaped our vision of the world. The results of their intellectual work are impressive and motivate them to engage in science.

Lao Tzu. China (6th century BC)

“He who knows does not speak, he who speaks does not know.”
Semi-legendary Chinese thinker, founder of Taoism.
Lao Tzu translates to "old child". According to legend, his mother carried Lao Tzu in her womb for 81 years, and he was born from her thigh.
La Tzu is considered the author of the key treatise of Taoism, the Tao Te Ching. “Tao” is the path, one of the main categories of Chinese philosophy. “Tao” is wordless, nameless, formless and motionless. No one, not even Lao Tzu, can define “Tao.” In China, the cult of Lao Tzu was formed, who began to be revered as one of the “three pure ones” - the highest deities of the Taoist pantheon.

Pythagoras. Ancient Greece(570-490 BC)

"Numbers rule the world."
Philosopher, mathematician and mystic, creator of the Pythagorean school. According to legend, he had a golden thigh. Herodotus called him "the greatest Hellenic sage." Pythagoras lived in Egypt for 22 years and in Babylon for 12 years. He was admitted there to participate in the sacraments.
According to Pythagoras, the basis of things is number; to know the world means to know the numbers that control it. The mathematician probably brought the famous Pythagorean theorem about the square of the hypotenuse from the Babylonians, where it was known 1000 years before him.

Heraclitus. Ancient Greece (544-483 BC)

"Nature loves to hide."
Founder of dialectics. The only work that has survived in fragments is “On Nature”. Heraclitus is credited with the authorship of the catchphrase “Everything flows, everything changes.”
The philosopher considered fire to be the origin of all things. Everything came from it and is constantly in a state of change. He led a solitary life. Diogenes Laertius wrote that Heraclitus, “hating people, withdrew and began to live in the mountains, feeding on pasture and herbs.”

Confucius. China (551 BC - 479 BC)

“If you hate, it means you have been defeated.”
Ancient Chinese philosopher, whose ideas became the basis for the development of Confucianism - a philosophical system, worldview, social ethics, and scientific tradition of China.
The philosophy of Confucius became popular outside the Middle Kingdom, even in Western Europe. In particular, Nicolas Malebranche and Gottfried Leibniz wrote about Confucianism. A particularly revered book of this teaching is Lun Yu (Conversations and Judgments), compiled by Confucius's students based on the teacher's statements.

Parmenides. Ancient Greece (515 BC - c. 470 BC)

“Thinking and being are one and the same thing.”
One of the founders of metaphysics and the founder of the Eleatic school, mentor of Zeno.
Socrates, in Plato's dialogue Theaetetus, said of Parmenides that he was “a thinker of truly extraordinary depth.” Hegel wrote that with Parmenides “philosophy in the proper sense of the word began.” Parmenides believed that the basis of everything lies in Being, apart from which there is nothing. There is no non-existence, and it is even impossible to think and talk about it, since everything that can be thought about already exists, but one cannot think about what does not exist. Being is one and has the shape of a ball.

Democritus Ancient Greece (c. 460 BC - c. 370 BC)

“To live badly, unreasonably, intemperately does not mean to live badly, but to die slowly.”
Democritus was called the "laughing philosopher." He squandered his inheritance on traveling around the world, for which he was even brought to trial. However, he was acquitted when he read an excerpt from his work “The Great World-Building”. Democritus loved to go away from people to cemeteries and think there. They even sent Hippocrates to check his sanity. He not only recognized Democritus as sane, but also called him one of the smartest people.
Seneca called Democritus “the most subtle of all thinkers.”

Plato. Ancient Greece (428 or 427 BC - 348 or 347 BC)

“Man is a wingless creature, bipedal, with flat nails, susceptible to knowledge based on reasoning.”
Plato - from the word plato “breadth”. This is what Plato was called by his teacher Socrates. The real name of the philosopher is Aristocles. He was in Persia, Assyria, Phenicia, Babylon, Egypt, and possibly in India. In Athens, Plato founded a philosophical school - the Academy, which existed for almost a thousand years. Twice won the pankration competition.
Plato is considered the founder of idealistic philosophy; he developed the doctrine of the soul, political and legal doctrine, and dialectics. He believed in immortality and the transmigration of souls. Plato's most popular works are still his dialogues. In almost all of them, the main character is Socrates.

Aristotle. Ancient Greece (384 BC. Stagira, Thrace—322 BC)

“For two years a person learns to speak, and then for the rest of his life he learns to remain silent.”
Disciple of Plato and tutor of Alexander the Great, founder of the Peripatetic school of philosophy, anatomist. Aristotle's works covered virtually all branches of knowledge.
According to Greek biographers, Aristotle suffered from speech impediments, was “short-legged, had small eyes, wore smart clothes and a trimmed beard.”
Plato and Aristotle, in fact, laid the foundations of all world philosophy. All formal logic is still based on the teachings of Aristotle.

Ptolemy. Alexandria (ca. 100 - ca. 170)

“Resist your whims in youth, for in old age you will not be able to correct yourself in order to wean yourself from them.”
Late Hellenistic astronomer, astrologer, mathematician, mechanic, optician, music theorist and geographer. He had no equal in astronomy for 1000 years. His classic monograph “Almagest” contains almost all the knowledge about the astronomical science of his time. Ptolemy is the author of the eight-volume work “Guide to Geography”, treatises on mechanics, music, optics and astrology, and invented the astrolabe and quadrant.

Plotinus. Roman Empire (204/205 - 270)

“Throw it all away.”
Not to be confused with Plato. Idealist philosopher, founder of Neoplatonism. He brought Plato's teaching about the ideal to its logical conclusion. The main thing in Neoplatonism is the doctrine of the otherworldliness and super-intelligence of the principles of the universe. According to Plotinus, the beginning and basis of the universe is a certain One - infinite and immaterial. The main life task of a person is “reunion with the One,” which he can accomplish thanks to the presence of his own soul. Plotinus had a significant influence on medieval philosophy, and especially on Renaissance thinkers.

Prokl. Ancient Greece (412 - 485)

“Every God is the measure of existence.”
Neoplatonist philosopher, head of the Platonic Academy. Under Proclus, Neoplatonism reached its final flowering. Alexey Losev put Proclus even higher than the founder of the school of Neoplatonists, Plotinus, and called him a “genius of reason”; with rationality brought “to music, to pathos, to ecstasy.” The works of Proclus, which touched on all aspects of Greek philosophy and science, are characterized by analyticity and systematicity.

Al Biruni (973-1048)

“If people knew how many favorable opportunities are scattered around and how many wonderful gifts are hidden within themselves, they would forever abandon despondency and laziness.”
Al Biruni was one of the most encyclopedically educated scientists. He mastered almost all the sciences of his time. The list of works compiled by his students alone is 60 pages long in small print.
Al Biruni is the author of numerous major works on history, geography, philology, astronomy, mathematics, mechanics, geodesy, mineralogy, pharmacology, geology and other sciences. In addition to his native Khorezmian language, Biruni spoke Arabic, Persian, Greek, Latin, Turkic, Syriac, as well as Hebrew, Sanskrit and Hindi.

Ibn Sina. Samanid State, Abbasid Caliphate (980-1037)

“The less often a hand raises the table cup of wine, the stronger it is in battle and the braver and more skillful it is in business.”
Avicenna is the most famous and influential philosopher of the medieval Muslim world, a Persian scientist and doctor, a representative of Eastern Aristotelianism. In total, he wrote more than 450 works in 29 fields of science, of which only 274 have reached us.
Avicenna mainly became famous in the field of medicine, writing many treatises on this topic, but also made contributions to other sciences. So, he discovered the distillation process essential oils, wrote works on astronomy, music theory, mechanics, psychology and philosophy. He also became famous as a poet. He also wrote some scientific works in the form of poems.

Maimonides (1138-1204)

“Learn to say, ‘I don’t know,’ and that will be progress.”
An outstanding Jewish philosopher and theologian - Talmudist, rabbi, doctor and versatile scientist of his era, codifier of the laws of the Torah. Maimonides is recognized as the spiritual leader of religious Jewry both of his generation and of subsequent centuries. He left serious contributions to astronomy, mathematics, physics, and medicine. Maimonides' meaning is best expressed by the popular phrase: "from Moses to Moses there was no such Moses."

William of Occam. England (1285-1357)

“We must not multiply existing things unnecessarily.”
An English philosopher and Franciscan monk, Ockham is considered one of the fathers of modern epistemology and modern philosophy in general, as well as one of the greatest logicians of all time. Ockham's philosophy, especially his discussions about universals, seriously influenced the development of philosophical thought, and the methodological principle, the so-called “Occam's razor,” became one of the most popular philosophical maxims.

Nikolai Kuzansky. Holy Roman Empire (1401-1464)

“Every person who wants to rise to the knowledge of something must necessarily believe in that without which he cannot rise.”
Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, the greatest German thinker of the 15th century, philosopher, theologian, encyclopedist, mathematician, church political figure. As a philosopher he stood on the position of Neoplatonism.
The basis of philosophy was the idea of the unity of opposites in the One, where all contradictions are leveled. He stood up for religious tolerance, which at that time was not the most popular position, and even recognized Islam as having some truthfulness and right to exist. Cusansky invented a diverging lens for glasses, wrote treatises on astronomy, mathematics, philosophy and theology.

Marsilio Ficino. Italy (1433-1499)

“Every thing in nature is either a cause directed towards us or an effect coming from us.”
Philosopher, humanist, astrologer, founder and head of the Florentine Platonov Academy. One of the leading thinkers of the early Renaissance, the most significant representative of Florentine Platonism.
Ficino translated all of Plato's works into Latin. Ficino's main work is the treatise “Plato's Theology on the Immortality of the Soul.” He also studied astrology (the treatise “On Life”), which is why he had problems with the clergy. Ficino's works contributed to the revival of Platonism and the fight against scholastic Aristotelianism.

Leonardo da Vinci. Florentine Republic (1452-1519)

“When I thought I was learning to live, I was learning to die.”
"Universal man" of the Western Renaissance, genius. Despite the fact that da Vinci gained his greatest fame as an artist, he considered painting more of a hobby, just like music and the art of table setting. Da Vinci considered engineering to be his main vocation. In it, he truly achieved great heights, anticipating the development of technology for centuries to come.
Today in popular culture Leonardo is recognized as the inventor of almost everything that exists. Seriously studying anatomy, da Vinci made thousands of drawings on the structure of the body, ahead of his time by 300 years. In many ways, Leonardo's Anatomy was superior to the famous Gray's Anatomy.

Paracelsus. Swiss Confederation (1493-1541)

“Everything is poison, and nothing is without poison; Just one dose makes the poison invisible.”
Famous alchemist, astrologer and physician of Swiss-German origin, one of the founders of iatrochemistry, medical alchemy. Gave the name to the metal zinc.
Paracelsus considered man to be a microcosm in which all the elements of the macrocosm are reflected. In one of his books, “Oracles,” containing 300 pages and many prophecies for the whole world until the end of the 3rd millennium, he made several sensational predictions.

Nicolaus Copernicus. Poland (1473 -1543)

“I prefer to be content with what I can vouch for.”
Polish and Prussian astronomer, mathematician, economist, canon. He initiated the first scientific revolution by developing the hypothesis of a heliocentric system of the world. In addition, Copernicus was one of the first to express the idea of universal gravitation.
Copernicus's main work is “On the Rotation of the Celestial Spheres.” Copernicus combined his studies in mathematics and astronomy with work in the field economic theory and medical practice, which he engaged in on a voluntary basis.

Isaac Luria. Ottoman Empire (1534-1572)

“...And the light shrank and went away,
Leaving free, unfilled space.
And the compression of light around the central point was uniform,
So that the empty space took on the shape of a circle,
Since this was the reduction of light...
And so, stretched out from the endless light straight beam,
I went down from top to bottom, into the empty space.
Stretched out, descending along the beam, the endless light down,
And in empty space that volume created all the completely worlds..."
Jewish theologian, rabbi, creator of the so-called Lurianic Kabbalah. In Hebrew, Luria is usually abbreviated as Ari ("blessed is his memory").
Lurianic Kabbalah, created by the Ari, is the basis of both Sephardic Kabbalah from the 16th century and Hasidic Kabbalah, which emerged in the 18th century. Almost all modern Kabbalistic schools study Lurianic Kabbalah. In addition to studying Kabbalah, Luria also studied poetry and science. Some believe that in the above poem Luria described the process of the emergence of the Universe from the Big Bang.

Giordano Bruno. Neopolitan Kingdom (1548-1600)

“The fear of death is worse than death itself.”
Italian Dominican monk, pantheist, poet and philosopher. Bruno tried to interpret the ideas of Copernicus, while taking the position of Neoplatonism in the spirit of Renaissance naturalism. Bruno expressed scientific theories that were ahead of their time. About the fact that there are many stars similar to the Sun in the Universe, about planets unknown in his time solar system.
Giordano Bruno had an excellent memory and developed mnemonics, memorizing thousands of books, ranging from the Holy Scriptures to Arabic alchemical treatises. He taught the art of mnemonics to Henry III and Elizabeth I.

John Dee. England (1527-1609)

“By the will of God, I am the Circle, in whose hands are the twelve Kingdoms. Six Thrones of the Breath of Life. The rest are sharp sickles or horns of Death."
Mathematician, geographer, astronomer, alchemist, hermeticist and astrologer. John Dee was one of the most educated people of his time, he had the largest library in England. In 1561, he supplemented and expanded Robert Record's famous book on mathematics, The Fundamentals of the Arts.
In 1564 he confirmed his status as a "great magician" by publishing his most famous and ambitious book on the Kabbalah and geometric magic, entitled Monas hieroglyphica. Based on the diaries of John Dee, Gustav Meyrink wrote the novel “The Angel of the Western Window.” Some authors credit John Dee with the authorship of the hoax known as the Voynich manuscript.

Francis Bacon. England (1561-1626)

"Knowledge is power".
Bacon is one of the most prominent universal scientists. Philosopher, politician, historian, founder of English materialism and empiricism. Bacon was the first thinker whose philosophy was based on experimental knowledge. He compiled a code of English laws; he worked on the history of the country during the Tudor dynasty, on the third edition of “Experiments and Instructions.”
In his utopian novel “New Atlantis,” Bacon anticipated many discoveries of the future, for example, the creation of submarines, improvement of animal breeds, transmission of light and sound over a distance.

Johannes Kepler. Holy Roman Empire (1571-1630)

“I prefer the harsh criticism of one intelligent person to the thoughtless approval of the masses.”
German mathematician, astronomer, mechanic, optician, discoverer of the laws of motion of the planets of the solar system. Albert Einstein called Kepler "an incomparable man." Indeed, Kepler, almost alone, without any support or understanding, made a lot of discoveries both in astronomy and in mathematics, physics, mechanics and optics, and seriously studied astrology, believing, however, that it was “the stupid daughter of astronomy.”

Mikhail Sendivogiy. Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1566-1646)

“If you ask who I am: I am a Cosmopolitan, a citizen of the world. If you know me and want to remain kind and noble people, keep my name a secret.”
The greatest Polish alchemist of the “Roesnkreuzer era”, who owned the secret of transmutation, the author of many alchemical works. In addition to alchemy, he also practiced medicine and even treated King Sigismund III, for whom he was also a diplomatic adviser. He was a court alchemist for Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III. In the book “New Chemical Light...” Sendivogius first described oxygen.
Sendivogius's fame also gave rise to folk legends - to this day, in his hometown, his ghost is said to appear in the market square on every New Year's Eve.

Rene Descartes. France (1569-1650)

“I think, therefore I am.”
Descartes is a philosopher, mathematician, mechanic, physicist and physiologist, creator of analytical geometry and modern algebraic symbolism, author of the method of radical doubt in philosophy, mechanism in physics, forerunner of reflexology and the theory of affect. The great Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov erected a monument-bust to Descartes near his laboratory, considering him his predecessor.

Pierre Fermat. France (1601-1665)

“Nature always takes the shortest routes.”
One of the creators of analytical geometry, mathematical analysis, probability theory and number theory. Pierre Fermat was a lawyer by profession and was a councilor to the parliament in Toulouse. The oldest and most prestigious lyceum in this city is named after the scientist.
Fermat was brilliantly educated and knew many languages. Including the ancient ones, on which he even wrote poetry. He is best known for his formulation of Fermat's Last Theorem. It was finally proven only in 1995 by Andrew Wales. The text of the proof contains 129 pages.

Gottfried Leibniz. Holy Roman Empire (1646-1716)

“The present time is fraught with the future.”
Creator of combinatorics and founder of mathematical logic, philosopher, logician, mathematician, mechanic, physicist, lawyer, historian, diplomat, inventor and linguist. Leibniz founded the Berlin Academy of Science and was its first president. Independently of Newton, he created mathematical analysis, described the binary number system, formulated the law of conservation of energy and introduced the concept of “living force” (kinetic energy) into mechanics.
Leibniz also invented the adding machine, introduced the concept of “small perceptions” into psychology, and developed the doctrine of unconscious mental life. He also inspired Peter the Great to develop the concept of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The Russian Tsar even awarded Leibniz a prize of 2,000 guilders.

Isaac Newton. England (1642-1727)

“Genius is the patience of thought concentrated in a certain direction.”
Isaac Newton is one of the greatest scientists in history. Physicist, mathematician, mechanic and astronomer, one of the founders of classical physics. The main work is “ Mathematical principles natural philosophy." In it, he outlined the law of universal gravitation and the three laws of mechanics, which became the basis of classical mechanics. He developed differential and integral calculus, color theory, laid the foundations of modern physical optics, and created many other mathematical and physical theories.
Newton was a member of the House of Lords and regularly attended its meetings for many years, but remained silent. One day he finally asked to speak. Everyone expected to hear a grandiose speech, but Newton proclaimed in deathly silence: “Gentlemen, I ask you to close the window, otherwise I might catch a cold!”

Mikhail Lomonosov. Russia (1711-1765)

“If you do something good with difficulty, the labor will pass, but the good will remain, and if you do something bad with pleasure, the pleasure will pass, but the bad will remain.”
The first Russian natural scientist of world significance, encyclopedist, chemist, physicist, astronomer, instrument maker, geographer, metallurgist, geologist, poet, artist, historian. Lomonosov's contribution to various sciences cannot be overestimated. He discovered the presence of an atmosphere on Venus, laid the foundations of the science of glass, developed the molecular-kinetic theory of heat, corpuscular theory, studied electricity, and determined the course of development of the Russian language.

Immanuel Kant. Prussia (1724-1804)

“A wise man can change his mind; fool - never."
The founder of German classical philosophy, one of greatest thinkers XVIII century, which had a huge influence on the development of philosophy.
Even among punctual Germans, Kant's penchant for discipline and a strict daily routine became the talk of the town. They were synchronizing their watches with Kant walking around Königsberg.
In addition to philosophy, Kant was also involved in the natural sciences. He developed a cosmogonic hypothesis of the origin of the solar system from a giant primordial gas nebula, outlined the idea of a genealogical classification of the animal world, put forward the idea of the natural origin of human races, and studied the role of ebbs and flows.

Johann Goethe. Holy Roman Empire (1749-1832)

“All fathers want their children to achieve what they themselves failed to achieve.”
Goethe today is known mainly as a brilliant writer and poet, but he was also a prominent scientist. He stood at the origins of physiognomy, seriously studied chromatics (the science of paints and colors), chemistry, botany and biology. Goethe wrote many works on philosophy, geology, astronomy, literature and art. 14 of the 133 volumes of Goethe's complete works are devoted to scientific topics.

James Maxwell. Scotland (1831-1879)

“...For the development of science, it is required in any given era not only that people think in general, but that they concentrate their thoughts on that part of the vast field of science that at a given time requires development.”
Maxwell is a theoretical physicist and mathematician who laid the foundations of electrodynamics and created the theory of electromagnetic waves and photoelasticity. He invented the method of color photo printing and was one of the founders molecular physics. In addition to physics and mathematics, he also made great contributions to astronomy and chemistry.

Dmitriy Mendeleev. Russia (1834-1907)

“Burning oil is like heating a stove with banknotes.”
Russian Da Vinci, genius father periodic table elements, Mendeleev was a versatile scientist and public figure. Thus, he made a significant and invaluable contribution to oil activity. Thanks to Mendeleev, Russia was able not only to abandon the export of kerosene from America, but also to export petroleum products to Europe. Mendeleev was nominated for the Nobel Prize three times, but he never received it.

Nikola Tesla. Austrian Empire (1856-1943)

“Are you familiar with the expression “You can’t jump above your head”? It's a delusion. A person can do anything."
Tesla has been called “the man who invented the 20th century.” Already his early works paved the way for modern electrical engineering; his discoveries were of innovative significance. In the United States, Tesla's fame rivaled that of any inventor or scientist in history or popular culture. Tesla's genius was of a special nature. The inventor always wanted good, but created devices that could destroy humanity. Thus, while studying the resonant vibrations of the Earth, the inventor created a device that actually provokes earthquakes.

Albert Einstein. Germany (1879-1955)

“What a sad era when it is easier to break an atom than to abandon prejudices.”
Einstein is one of the most famous and popular scientists in the public consciousness, a theoretical physicist, one of the founders of modern theoretical physics, winner of the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Einstein is the author of more than 300 scientific works on physics, as well as about 150 books and articles in the field of history and philosophy of science, the author of general and special theories of relativity, laid the foundations of quantum theory and stood at the origins new theory gravity instead of Newtonian.

Carl Gustav Jung. Switzerland (1875-1961)

“Everything that does not suit us in others allows us to understand ourselves.”
Jung - a student of Sigmund Freud, who in many ways surpassed his teacher, the founder analytical psychology. It was Jung who introduced the concepts of introversion and extraversion into psychology to determine the type of personality orientation, developed associative method psychotherapy, the doctrine of the collective unconscious, the theory of archetypes, made a big breakthrough in the theory of dream interpretation.

Niels Bohr, Denmark (1885-1962)

"If you the quantum physics didn’t scare me, which means you didn’t understand anything about her.”
A Nobel Prize winner in physics, Niels has been a member of the Royal Danish Society and its president since 1939. He was an honorary member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.
Bohr is the creator of the first quantum theory of the atom and an active participant in the development of the foundations of quantum mechanics. He also made a significant contribution to the development of the theory of the atomic nucleus and nuclear reactions, processes of interaction of elementary particles with the environment.

Werner Heisenberg. Germany (1901-1976)

“The first sip from the glass of natural science is taken by an atheist, but God awaits at the bottom of the glass.”
Heisenberg is a great theoretical physicist, one of the creators of quantum mechanics. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics 1932. Heisenberg laid the foundations of matrix mechanics, formulated the uncertainty relation, and applied the formalism of quantum mechanics to the problems of ferromagnetism and the anomalous Zeeman effect. A number of his works are also devoted to the physics of cosmic rays, the theory of turbulence, and philosophical problems of natural science.
During World War II, Heisenberg was the leading theoretician of the German nuclear project.