- Wang Yongzhi
Wang Yongzhi, born in Changtu County, Liaoning, China, is an aerospace scientist and academician at the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He is notable for being the general architect and designer of China's first manned spacecraft Shenzhou 5 and Shenzhou 6. He was awarded the nation's highest scientific and technological prize, State Preeminent Science and Technology Award, by President Hu Jintao in 2003. Wang Yongzhi graduated from Moscow Aviation Institute in 1961. - Mstislav Keldysh
Mstislav Vsevolodovich Keldysh FRSE (Riga - 24 June 1978, Moscow) was a Soviet scientist in the field of mathematics and mechanics, academician of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (1946), President of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (1961 - 1978), three times Hero of Socialist Labor (1956, 1961, 1971). - Ye Duzheng
Ye Duzheng (born February 21 1916 in Anqing, Anhui, China) is a meteorologist and academician at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is considered the founder of Chinese atmospheric physics, and was awarded the State Preeminent Science and Technology Award in 2005 by President Hu Jintao, which is the nation's highest scientific prize. - Ivane Javakhishvili
Ivane Javakhishvili (April 11, 1876 - November 18, 1940) was a Georgian historian whose voluminous works heavily infuenced the modern scholarship of the history and culture of Georgia. He was also one of the founding fathers of the Tbilisi State University (1918) and its rector from 1919 to 1926. - Wu Wenjun
Wu Wenjun (Wu Wen-Tsün born in Shanghai, China is a Chinese mathematician and academician at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He graduated from Chiao Tung University (currently Xi'an Jiaotong University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University) in 1940. In 1947, he went to France for further study at the University of Strasbourg. In 1949, he received his PhD, for his thesis "Sur les classes caractéristiques des structures fibrées sphériques", … - Berthe Morisot
Berthe Morisot was a painter and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists. In 1864, she exhibited for the first time in the highly esteemed Salon de Paris. Sponsored by the government, and judged by academicians, the Salon was the official, annual exhibition of the Académie des beaux-arts in Paris. Her work was selected for exhibition in six subsequent Salons until, in 1874, … - Otto Schmidt
Otto Yulievich Schmidt ((September 7, 1956) was a Soviet scientist, mathematician, astronomer, geophysicist, statesman, academician (Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, 1935 and Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, 1934), Hero of the USSR (6.27.1937), member of the Communist Party since 1918. He was born in Mogilyov, Imperial Russia (now in Belarus). In 1913, Schmidt graduated from the University of Kiev, where he worked as a privat-docent starting from 1916. - Jean-Baptiste Regnault
Jean-Baptiste Regnault was a French painter. Regnault was born in Paris, and began life at sea in a merchant vessel. At the age of fifteen his talent attracted attention, and he was sent to Italy by M. de Monval under the care of Bardin. After his return to Paris, Regnault, in 1776, obtained the Grand Prix, and in 1783 he was elected Academician. His diploma picture, the "Education of Achilles by Chiron", is now in the Louvre, as also the "Christ taken down from the Cross", … - Boris Piotrovsky
Boris Borisovich Piotrovsky (February 1 (14), 1908, St. Petersburg-October 15, 1990, Leningrad) was a Soviet/Russian academician, historian-orientalist and archaeologist who studied Urartu, Scythia, and Nubia. Piotrovsky specialized in the history and archaeology of the Caucasus region. He is best-known as a key figure in the study of the Urartu civilization of the southern Caucasus. His 1938 excavations uncovered the Urartian fortress of Teishebaini. - Chi-Huey Wong
Chi-Huey Wong is a Taiwan-born biochemist and Ernest W Hahn Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology in The Scripps Research Institute at La Jolla, California. His expertise is synthetic chemistry and organic chemistry, especially in carbohydrate biochemistry and chemical proteomics. He was elected as a member of the United States National Academy of Science in 2002 and an academician of Taiwan's Academia Sinica in 1994, respectively. - Konstantine Gamsakhurdia
Prince Konstantine Gamsakhurdia (May 3, 1893 - July 17, 1975) was a Georgian classical writer of the 20th century and a famous public benefactor, Academician of the Georgian Academy of Sciences (GAS), Ph.D. of the Berlin University, and Laureate of the Shota Rustaveli State Prize of Georgia. - Ziya Bunyadov
Ziya Musa oglu Bunyadov was an Azerbaijani historian, academician, and Vice-President of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan. As a historian, he also headed the Institute of History of the Azerbaijani Academy of Sciences for many years. Bunyadov was a World War II veteran and Hero of the Soviet Union. - Levan Chilashvili
Levan Chilashvili (August 17, 1930 - April 26, 2004) was a famous Georgian archaeologist and historian, an academician of the Georgian Academy of Sciences (GAS), Meritorious Scholar of Georgia, Doctor of Historical Sciences, and Professor. In 1954, he graduated from the Faculty of History of Tbilisi State University (TSU), where he was also a professor from 1967 until his death in 2004. In 1958, Chilashvili received his PhD in History, and in 1967, … - Shalva Nutsubidze
Shalva Nutsubidze (December 14, 1888 - January 6, 1969) was a Georgian philosopher, translator and public benefactor, one of founders of the Tbilisi State University (TSU), founder of Alethology, one of founders of the scientific school in the field of history of Georgian philosophy, Academician of the Georgian Academy of Sciences (GAS), Meritorious Scientific Worker of Georgia, Doctor of Philosophical Sciences, Professor. - Necmettin Erbakan
Necmettin Erbakan (born October 29 1926) is a Turkish engineer, academician, politician, political party leader and prime minister of Turkey between 1996 and 1997. - Huang Kun
Huang Kun (September 2 1919 - July 6 2005), born in Beijing, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, is a well-known physicist in the People's Republic of China. He was awarded the State Preeminent Science and Technology Award (The highest science award in China) by the President of the People's Republic of China Jiang Zemin in 2001. Born in Beijing, China, in 1919, Huang graduated from the Beijing-based Yenching University as a promising physicist. - Oleg Antonov
Oleg Konstantinovich Antonov (February 7, 1906 (Troitsy, Moscow province, Russian Empire) - April 4,1984,(Kiev, Ukrainian SSR)) was a Soviet aircraft designer and painter, the founder of Antonov ASTC, a world-famous aircraft company in Ukraine, later named after him. In 1930, Antonov graduated from the Kalinin Polytechnical Institute in Leningrad. In 1946, he was appointed head of the aircraft design bureau, that was later moved to Kiev. - Lev Artsimovich
Lev Andreevich Artsimovich - March 1 1973) was a Soviet physicist, academician of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (1953), member of the Presidium of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (since 1957), and Hero of Socialist Labor (1969). Artsimovich worked on the field of nuclear fusion and plasma physics. He was known as "the father of the Tokamak", a special concept for a fusion reactor. Once Arzimowitsch was asked when the first thermonuclear reactor would start its work. - Simon Janashia
Simon Janashia (July 13, 1900 - November 5, 1947) was an outstanding Georgian historian and public benefactor, one of the founders and Academician of the Georgian Academy of Sciences (GAS), Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor. He was born in 1900, in the village Makvaneti (Guria region of Western Georgia). His father was a famous Georgian teacher, ethnographist and public benefactor Nikoloz Janashia (1872-1918). - Apollinary Vasnetsov
Apollinary Mikhailovich Vasnetsov (July 25 (N.S. August 6), 1856, the village of Riabovo, Vyatka province - January 23, 1933, Moscow) was a Russian painter and graphic artist whose elder brother was the more famous Viktor Vasnetsov. He specialized in scenes from the medieval history of Moscow. Vasnetsov was a painter and a graphic artist. He did not receive a formal artistic education. He studied under his older brother Viktor Vasnetsov, the famous Russian painter. - Argunov
Argunov - family of artists and architects, serfs of counts Sheremetev. They worked in Moscow and in Sheremetev’s mansions (Kuskovo, Ostankino, etc.), and also in St.Petersburg. Fedor Leontyevich Argunov (1716-1754) - the painter. Fedor Semenovich Argunov (about 1732 - 1768) - the cousin of painter I.P. Argunov. He probably studied at S.I. Chevakinski in St.Petersburg. - Fyodor Rokotov
Fyodor Stepanovich Rokotov (Fedor Rokotov) (1736-1809) was a distinguished Russian painter who specialized in portraits. Fyodor Rokotov was born into a family of peasant serfs, belonging to the Repnins. Much in his biography is obscure. He studied art in Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts. After buying back his freedom in the end of 1750s he became established as a fashionable painter. - Arnold Chikobava
Arnold Chikobava (March 14, 1898-November 5, 1985) was a Georgian linguist and philologist best known as one of the most active critics of Nicholas Marr's controversial monogenetic "Japhetic" theory of language. Chikobava was born in the small village Sachikobavo in Mingrelia, western Georgia (then part of Imperial Russia). He graduated from the recently established Tbilisi State University (TSU) in 1922 and earned a degree there, … - Olli Lounasmaa
Olli Lounasmaa (August 20, 1930, Turku - December 27, 2002, Goa, India) was a Finnish academician and physicist at the Helsinki University of Technology. He was known for his research in low temperature physics, especially for experimental proof of the superfluidity of helium-3 and also for his work in the field of magnetoencephalography. - Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin
Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin, a Russian practitioner selectionist, Honorable Member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (1935), academician of the Lenin All-Union Academy of Agriculture (1935). In 1875, Michurin leased a strip of land of about 500 square metres not far from Tambov, began collecting plants, and started his research in pomology and selection. In 1899, he acquired a much bigger strip of land of about 130,000 square metres and moved all of his plants there. - Bobojon Ghafurov
Bobojon Ghafurovich Ghafurov (Tajiki/Persian: Бобоҷон Ғафуров/باباجان غفورف) was a Tajik historian, academician, and the author of several books, including "History of Tajikistan". He was born in Isfisar, near Khujand in Tajikistan. He received his PhD from Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union in Moscow in 1941 with a dissertation on "History of the Isma’ili Sect". - Giorgi Tsereteli
Giorgi Tsereteli was a distinguished Georgian scientist and public benefactor, founder of the well-known Georgian scientific school of Oriental Studies and Arabist of world renown, founder of the Faculty of Oriental Studies of the Tbilisi State University (TSU), founder and first Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Georgian Academy of Sciences (GAS), Academician of GAS, Meritorious Scientific Worker of Georgia, Doctor of Philological Sciences, Professor. - Andrey Zaliznyak
Andrey Anatolyevich Zaliznyak is a Russian linguist who specializes in the research of linguistic monuments of Old Novgorod. Zaliznyak was born in Moscow and studied in the Moscow University before moving to the Sorbonne to further his studies with André Martinet. He was admitted into the Soviet Academy of Sciences as a Corresponding Member in 1987. Ten years later, he was elected a full academician. - Thomas V. Gamkrelidze
Thomas V. Gamkrelidze is a distinguished Georgian linguist, orientalist and public benefactor, Academician (since 1974) and President (since February, 2005) of the Georgian Academy of Sciences (GAS), Dr.Sci. (1963), Professor (1964). Gamkrelidze was born in Kutaisi. His brother Revaz Gamkrelidze is also an Academician, a famous mathematician. Thomas Gamkrelidze graduated from the Faculty of Oriental Studies of the Tbilisi State University (TSU) in 1952. - Dimitri Uznadze
Dimitri Uznadze was a famous Georgian psychologist, philosopher and public benefactor, founder of the Georgian scientific school of Psychology, co-founder of the Tbilisi State University (TSU), Academician and co-founder of the Georgian Academy of Sciences (GAS), Meritorious Science Worker of Georgia, Dr.Sci., Professor. - Vladimir Obruchev
Vladimir Afanasyevich Obruchev (village of Klepenino, now in Rzhevsky District, Tver Oblast - June 19, 1956, Moscow) was a Russian geologist, geographer, explorer, academician of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (1929), Hero of Socialist Labor (1945), and honorary president of the Soviet Geographical Society (since 1947). As one of the pioneers of Russian science fiction, … - Nikoloz Muskhelishvili
Nikoloz (Niko) Muskhelishvili was a notable Georgian and Soviet mathematician, one of the founders and first President (1941-1972) of the Georgian SSR Academy of Sciences (now Georgian Academy of Sciences) (then), Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (1934), Professor (1922). He is often referred by the Russian version of his name, Nikolai Ivanovich Muskhelisvili ("Николай Иванович Мусхелишвили"). - Anton Çetta
Anton Çetta was born in 1920 in Đakovica, Yugoslavia - died in 1995 in Priština, Yugoslavia) was a folklorist, academician and university professor. He completed elementary school in his hometown in Kosovo, whereas secondary school in Tirana and Korça (Albania). He graduated in Roman languages and culture at the University of Belgrade. For a period of time he worked as assistant professor at the department of Albanian Studies in Belgrade. - Pierre Schoendoerffer
Pierre Schoendoerffer is a French film director, a screenwriter, a writer, a war reporter, a war cameraman, a notorious First Indochina War veteran, a cinema academician and since 2001 the President of the Académie des Beaux-Arts. - Gang Tian
Gang Tian (1958 -) is a Chinese mathematician and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is known for his contributions to geometric analysis and quantum cohomology, among other fields. He was born in Nanjing, China, but now divides his time between Princeton University and Peking University. - Rudolf Kingslake
Rudolf Kingslake (1903-2003) was an eminent academician, lens designer, and engineer. Rudolf Kingslake was born in London, England in 1903. He studied optical design at the Imperial College of Science and Technology, under eminent optical designer and theoretician Alexander Eugene Conrady, and earned a Masters degree in Optical Design. Kingslake later married Professor Conrady's daughter, Hilda. - Gersh Budker
Gersh Itskovich Budker was a Soviet nuclear physicist. He was appointed "Corresponding Member" of the Siberian branch of the Soviet Academy of Sciences in March 28 1958, and was made an "Academician" of the division of nuclear physics in June 26 1964. Academician Budker was the founder (in 1959) and first Director of the Institute of Nuclear Physics in Akademgorodok, Russia. His portrait decorates the famous Round Table room in the Institute. - Alexander Fersman
Alexander Yevgenyevich Fersman (October 27 (N.S. November 8), 1883, Petersburg - May 20, 1945, Sochi) was a prominent Soviet geochemist and mineralogist, academician of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (1919). Alexander Fersman was awarded the Lenin Prize (1929), USSR State Prize (1942), Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society of London (1943), and Order of the Red Banner of Labor. - Alexander Vinogradov
Alexander Pavlovich Vinogradov (August 21, 1895, Petersburg - 1975, Moscow) was a Soviet geochemist, academician (1953), and Hero of Socialist Labor (1949, 1975). - Gaja Alaga
Gaja Alaga was a Croatian theoretical physicist who specialised in nuclear physics. He was an academician of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts and a professor at the University of Zagreb. He worked in the Institute "Ruđer Bošković" in Zagreb (the capital city of Croatia), the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, the University of California, Berkeley, and Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich. In 1955, cooperating with Kurt Alder and Ben Roy Mottelson, …
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