Scientiests
A scientist, in the broadest sense, refers to any person that engages in a systematic activity to acquire knowledge or an individual that engages in such practices and traditions that are linked to schools of thought or philosophy. In a more restricted sense, scientist refers to individuals who use the scientific method.[1] The person may be an expert in one or more areas of science.[2] This article focuses on the more restricted use of the word.
Etymology
Historically, scientists were termed "natural philosophers" or "men of science"[3][4][5][6]; they were men of knowledge. Science and philosophy were roughly synonymous. William Whewell coined the term scientist in 1833 to describe an expert in the study of nature, but this term did not gain wide acceptance until the turn of the 19th century.[7][8] By the twentieth century, the modern notion of science as a special brand of information about the world, practiced by a distinct group and pursued through a unique method, was essentially in place.
William Harvey (April 1, 1578 – June 3, 1657) was an English physician who is credited with being the first in the Western world to describe correctly and in exact detail the systemic circulation and properties of blood being pumped around the body by the heart.
Steklov Vladimir Andreyevich
A prominent mathematician and mechanical engineer. The founder of the Mathematical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (at present V. A. Steklov Mathematical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences).
Shchukarev Alexander Nikolayevich
The outstanding specialist in physical mechanics, talanted experimenter, professor of chemical science. Head of scientific school on thermal chemistry in Kharkov. The inventor of a computer prototype.
Walter Anton Karlovich
Outstanding physicist, specialist in the field of dielectrics and semiconductors, nuclear physics
Tyutyunnikov Boris Nicanorovich
Chemist, USSR Lenin Prize laureate for radical improvment on the way of vegetable oils hydrogenization
Sinelnikov Cyril Dmiriyevich
Nuclear physicist, one of the most outstanding organizers of science in the USSR
Proskura Georgy Fedorovich
Prominent specialist on aero and hydrodynamics and hydro-technical engineering. The founder of Ukrainian aviation.
Pilchikov Nikolay Dmitriyevich
Outstanding physicist, pioneer of distant radio control, investigator of the Kursk magnetic anomaly, inventor of many amazing ingenious devices and appliances
Outstanding theoretical physicist
Prominent physicist, organizer and the first director of Ukrainian Technical Physics Institute (this is the National Scientific Center "Kharkov Technical Physics Institute" now).
