Biography

Saturday, 23 May 2026

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Gaius Julius Caesar
He was the initiator of the creation of the Julian calendar.
The author of the calendar was the Greek astronomer Sosygenes and it was introduced in 45 BC. The ca ...
Robert Oppenheimer
He took a course in thermodynamics taught by Professor Percy Bridgman.
He then became interested in experimental physics. Since there were no world-class experimental phys ...
Amadeus Mozart
Just before his death, Mozart began work on the Requiem funeral mass.
He did not manage to complete this work. In the manuscript, the last notes put by his hand fall on t ...
Napoleon Bonaparte
He was born as Napoleone di Buonaparte in Ajaccio, Corsica, on August 15, 1769.
He was the son of an indigent nobleman of Italian descent, Carlo Maria Buonaparte, and his wife, Let ...
Michelangelo
His education was handled by two thinkers and philosophers, Marsilio Ficino, the Athenian school founder in Florence and one of the most famous figures of the early Renaissance, and Count Giovanni della Mirandola.
Michelangelo, then seventeen years old, created the bas-reliefs Madonna at the Stairs and Battle of the Centaurs. These two reliefs are now in the Casa Buonarroti in Florence.
Robert Oppenheimer
When Ernest Rutherford introduced him to the Danish Nobel laureate Niels Bohr at a university conference, he was delighted and the conversation with him restored his confidence in his own abilities and skills. He decided to pursue theoretical physics.
He chose to go to the world center of theoretical physics - the University of Göttingen, where he co ...
Tadeusz Kosciuszko
In the spring of 1777, Kosciuszko was sent north to the Canadian border, where he fortified various Continental Army military camps for months under General Horatio Gates.
He became famous after the Battle of Saratoga, where he performed his fortification work. His engine ...
Salvador Dali
He had sadistic tendencies in his childhood.
In his memoirs he wrote that at the age of five, he dropped a child out of a bridge for no reason. T ...
Peter the Great
Meanwhile, Peter married Eudoxia Lopukhina, who came from a wealthy boyar family.
She married Peter shortly before an attempt on his life, prepared by the Tsar's half-sister Sophia R ...
Sting
In 1987, he and his future wife, Trudie Styler, founded the Rainforest Foundation, a charitable foundation dedicated to bringing attention to the rainforests and defending the rights of the indigenous people.
One of the frogs discovered in Colombia was named Dendropsophus stingi in recognition of Sting's contributions.