Karl Kruszelnicki

Karl Kruszelnicki

Karl Sven Woytek Sas Konkovitch Matthew Kruszelnicki AM (born 1948), often referred to as Dr Karl,[2] is an Australian science communicator and populariser,[2] who is known as an author and a science commentator on Australian radio, television, and podcasts. Kruszelnicki is the Julius Sumner Miller Fellow in the Science Foundation for Physics at the School of Physics, University of Sydney. Kruszelnicki was awarded a Master of Biomedical Read more [...]
Heinrich Hoffmann

Heinrich Hoffmann

Heinrich Hoffmann (June 13, 1809 in Frankfurt am Main; September 20, 1894 in Frankfurt am Main) was a German psychiatrist, poet, and children's book author. He is the author of Struwwelpeter (The Struwwel Peter). He also used the pseudonyms Heulalius von Heulenburg, Reimerich Kinderlieb, Peter Struwwel, and Polycarpus Gastfenger. Politics In 1848, he was a member of the Frankfurt Preliminary Parliament. He hosted the revolutionary Friedrich Hecker in his household. Hoffmann himself advocated Read more [...]
Werner Schunk

Werner Schunk

Prof. Dr. Werner Schunk has traveled to more than 100 countries in his lifetime. His curiosity about people in other cultures, their way of life, and their art has repeatedly led him to board trains, cars, buses, airplanes, rickety helicopters, and the suspiciously light boats of the locals. He wanted to see with his own eyes how the indigenous people of Papua New Guinea, the Amazon, or Madagascar live, and always stayed for a while. Rich in impressions, insights, and the gratitude of the people, Read more [...]
William R. Bertelsen

William R. Bertelsen

William R. Bertelsen (May 20, 1920 – July 16, 2009) was an American inventor and pioneer in the field of hovercrafts. Bertelsen is best known as the inventor of the Aeromobil, the first hovercraft to transport a person over land and water.[1] In 2002, Bertelsen was named the "Father of the Hovercraft" by the World Hovercraft Federation.[1] William R. Bertelsen married Alberta Menzel on September 21, 1946, in Homewood, Illinois. He graduated from Rock Island High School in 1938 and studied Read more [...]
<strong>Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof</strong>

Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof

L. L. Zamenhof[a] (15 December 1859 – 14 April 1917)[b] was an ophthalmologist who lived for most of his life in Warsaw. He is best known as the creator of Esperanto, the most widely used constructed international auxiliary language.[1][2] Zamenhof first developed the Esperanto language in 1873 while still in school. He grew up fascinated by the idea of a world without war and believed that this could happen with the help of a new international Read more [...]
Anna Maria Habermann

Anna Maria Habermann

(EN:) Anna Maria Habermann, daughter of an italian mother and a hungarian father has studied different subjects:She got her piano diploma in 1964 at the "conservatorio di musica Benedetto Marcello di Venezia" and plays as soloist and with her chamber music trio. She got her medical degree with "summa cum laude" at the Siena university in 1969 and has worked as assistant doctor in anesthesia and surgery. Further on she specialized in orthopedics and traumatologics, practising these specialities Read more [...]
Wolfgang Ellenberger

Wolfgang Ellenberger

piano = Handgepäck | hand luggage Wolfgang Ellenberger, the author of this web site has studied also piano diploma and concert exam besides music therapy.1987-1989 he worked at the ballet of the Scala of Milano as pianist.1994 debut as conductor with the Sibirian State orchestra Kemerovo. In the nineties he conducted three choirs and in the opera project Magic Flute.He has lived three years of his life in a camper on camping sites.He invented several things: piano-lift-hydraulics, piano fingering Read more [...]
Imhotep

Imhotep

Imhotep (/ɪmˈhoʊtɛp/;[1] Ancient Egyptian: ỉỉ-m-ḥtp "the one who comes in peace";[2] fl. late 27th century BCE) was an Egyptian chancellor to the Pharaoh Djoser, possible architect of Djoser's step pyramid, and high priest of the sun god Ra at Heliopolis. Very little is known of Imhotep as a historical figure, but in the 3,000 years following his death, he was gradually glorified and deified. Traditions Read more [...]