Biographies

Karl Marx is one of the most influential thinkers in world history. He is considered the founder of historical materialism, scientific socialism and Marxism, doctrines and movements that he promoted together with his collaborator Friedrich Engels. Marx's ideas were key in the development of areas of knowledge such as economics, […]

Werner Heisenberg is one of the unavoidable names when reviewing the emergence of quantum mechanics and remembering the mathematical formulation that this theoretical physicist of German origin made about it. That revolutionary contribution of his that led him to obtain the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1932 was known as matrix mechanics. This reached […]

Aristotle is one of the greatest exponents of philosophy. With his ideas, the scientist and polymath of Greek origin considerably influenced Western culture. For this man who was interested in an enormous variety of disciplines, knowledge (which he segments into three levels or areas) is built through experience. TO […]

Socrates is one of the most cited and recognized philosophers of all time. Whoever was the teacher of another influential philosopher, as Plato is considered (in whose academy Aristotle studied), had Phaedo, Antisthenes, Aeschines and Aristippus as disciples. Thanks to the dialogues of both Xenophon and Plato and works […]

Carl Sagan has been a great scientific communicator. This American who specialized in astrophysics, astronomy, cosmology and exobiology added experience as a teacher and writer. In a publication focused on planetary science titled Icarus, he also served as editor. Having chaired areas of entities such as the American Geophysical Union and the American Astronomical Society, […]

Niels Bohr is one of the scientists who has played a fundamental role in the process of knowledge and understanding of both quantum mechanics and the atom. This Dane, who stood out in the areas of atomic physics and nuclear physics, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922 as […]

Isaac Newton is one of the most influential and esteemed scientists of all time. His arrival into the world occurred, according to the Gregorian calendar, in 1643 (specifically on January 4) in a town belonging to the English county of Lincolnshire. His death, meanwhile, took place at the end of March 1727 […]

Stephen Hawking is, was and will be one of the most outstanding scientists in history. There are many tributes and awards that have exalted the figure of this Briton who, for example, carried out research on the so-called Hawking radiation. There are several valuable and interesting contributions that he made […]

Galileo Galilei is the identity of a multifaceted man born in Italy who, for his valuable discoveries and achievements, is recognized universally as "the father" or main exponent of modern science. His arrival into the world, according to records, occurred on February 15, 1564 in Pisa, while […]

Albert Einstein is, was and will be one of the most recognized and outstanding scientists in History. Pauline Koch and Hermann Einstein were the parents of this important physicist who was born on March 14, 1879 and died on April 18, 1955. His influential contributions to science are several. He is remembered […]