Month: November 2019
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Galileo Ferraris
Galileo Ferraris was an Italian physicist and electrical engineer, one of the pioneers of AC power system and an inventor of the three-phase induction motor. Many newspapers touted that his work on the induction motor and power transmission systems were…
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Gaudenzio Ferrari was a Northern Italian painter and sculptor of the Renaissance.
Gaudenzio Ferrari | Christ rising from the Tomb | NG1465 … https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk › paintings › gaudenzio-ferrari-christ-ri… View: Gaudenzio Ferrari, Christ rising from the Tomb. Read about this painting, learn the key facts and zoom in to discover more. Location in Gallery:…
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Enrico Fermi – It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
Enrico Fermi was an Italian–American physicist and the creator of the world’s first nuclear reactor, the Chicago Pile-1. He has been called the “architect of the nuclear age” and the “architect of the atomic bomb”. He was one of very…
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Monument to León Felipe in Tábara, his hometown.
León Felipe Camino Galicia (11 April 1884 – 17 September 1968) was an Spanish poet. Selected Poetry Monument to León Felipe in Tábara, his hometown. Versos y oraciones de caminante (I, 1920; II, 1929) Drop a star (1933) Goodbye, Panamá (1936) La insignia…
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Lyonel Feininger – fascinated attention – artist bio
Lyonel Charles Feininger (July 17, 1871 – January 13, 1956) was a German-American painter, and a leading exponent of Expressionism. The most beautiful landscape cannot hold my fascinated attention as much as nature by the seaside and all that is…
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Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro
Friar Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro was a Spanish monk and scholar who led the Age of Enlightenment in Spain. He was an energetic popularizer noted for encouraging scientific and empirical thought in an effort to debunk myths and superstitions.…
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Evgraf Stepanovich Fedorov
Evgraf Stepanovich Fedorov was a Russian mathematician, crystallographer and mineralogist. Fedorov was born in the Russian city of Orenburg. His father was a topographical engineer. The family later moved to Saint Petersburg. Crystallography Resource | Learn About, Share and Discuss…
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