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Geniuses....

Does genius simply mean you perform well on a visual-spatial intelligence test, or does it mean you
introduce a hitherto unknown way of approaching a particular problem?

Born a commoner, the Egyptian polymath

Imhotep (2667 - 2648 B.C.) was one of the
most influential geniuses of the ancient world.
Before he was the inspiration for mummy
movies, Imhotep was the lead architect for the
pharaoh Djoser, and a personal advisor of the
king. He was also known to some as the
inventor of medicine. Imhotep's legacy was so
great that many years after his death, he was
made into an Egyptian god. Next, you'll see
another great mind of antiquity.

Circa 220 B.C., this illustration shows the

Greek mathematician and inventor
Archimedes (c. 287- 212 B.C.), surrounded by
armored soldiers who direct mirrors at
invading Roman warships. An invention of
Archimedes, the mirrors focused the sun's rays
to burn the enemy vessels. In addition to this
borderline-sci-fi weapon, Archimedes
discovered many important principles of math
and geometry, such as an accurate calculation.
of pi.
 Aristotle (384-322 B.C.), shown here with his teacher,
Plato (left), includes figures who were great intellectual
innovators in various fields throughout history.
Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and scientist whose
writings covered a myriad of subjects, from physics to
ethics. He was one of the founding figures of Western
philosophy and personally tutored Alexander the Great.

Thought by some to be one of the greatest painters of all

time, Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was an Italian
artist, engineer and scientist. In addition to creating
famous works of art like The Last Supper and Mona
Lisa, he also contributed to the fields of anatomy, optics
and civil engineering.

Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) was an Italian physicist,

mathematician and astronomer. Sometimes called the
father of modern science, Galileo was best known for
his contributions to astronomy. In 1632, he was
placed on house arrest for the rest of his life, in part
for refusing to abandon his support of heliocentrism,
the theory stating that the sun is the center of the
universe.
Another famed philosopher, physicist and contributor to
the Scientific Revolution, Frenchman Rene Descartes
(1596-1650) is known as the founder of modern
philosophy. He has also been called the father of modern
mathematics, and he invented the Cartesian coordinate
system, which helped form the basis of modern geometry.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) was a

German philosopher, scientist, mathematician and
logician. Leibniz invented the binary number system,
which is used today as the foundation of basically all
digital computers. He was also known for developing
infinitesimal calculus and a widely used mathematical
notation system.

Charles Darwin (1809-1882) was an English

naturalist famous for his theories explaining the
diversity of organic life on earth. His interests in
science and biology developed at a very early age,
and he is perhaps best known for his book On the
Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection,
which was published in 1859.
 American inventor Thomas Edison (1847-
1931) is probably best remembered for his
invention of the light bulb, but he also
developed the phonograph, the motion picture
camera and more than 1,000 other patented
inventions. Sometimes known as "The Wizard
of Menlo Park," Edison was one of the first to
use mass productions to develop his creations.

Albert Einstein (1879-1955), shown with his

wife Elsa in 1931, is known as one of the
greatest intellects of all time. The creator of
several theories of relativity, Einstein was a
physicist and philosopher whose discoveries
led to his receiving the Nobel Prize in Physics
in 1921.

Great minds innovate alike. Marie (1867-1934) and

Pierre Curie (1859-1906) met at the Sorbonne in
Paris, and they achieved fame in the science world
for their studies of radioactivity, which later earned
them a Nobel Prize. Marie Curie went on to earn a
second Nobel Prize for her discovery of the elements
radium and polonium
The Spanish painter Pablo Picasso (1881–
1973) is arguably the most important visual
artist of the 20th century. Famous for
paintings like Guernica and The Old Guitarist,
there's almost no overstating the scope of
Picasso's innovation, his extent of his talent,
and his level of impact on the world of fine
art.

The Danish thinker Niels Bohr (1885-1962)

was one of the most important theoretical
physicists of the 20th century. He received a
Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922 "for his
services in the investigation of the structure of
atoms and of the radiation emanating from
them." Bohr's model of the atom, with some
adjustments based on subsequent discoveries,
is still considered relevant.

Aryabhata (476–550 CE) was the first in the line of

great mathematician-astronomers from the classical
age of Indian mathematics and Indian astronomy. His
major work, Aryabhatiya, a compendium of
mathematics and astronomy, was extensively referred
to in the Indian mathematical literature and has
survived to modern times. The mathematical part of
the Aryabhatiya covers arithmetic, algebra, plane
trigonometry, and spherical trigonometry. It also
contains continued fractions, quadratic equations,
sums-of-power series, and a table of sines.
 Srinivasa Ramanujam (1887 –1920) was an
Indian mathematician and autodidact. who, with
almost no formal training in pure mathematics,
made extraordinary contributions to mathematical
analysis, number theory, infinite series,
and continued fractions., Ramanujan developed his
own mathematical research in isolation. As a result,
he sometimes rediscovered known theorems in
addition to producing new work. Ramanujan was
said to be a natural genius by the English
mathematician G. H. Hardy, in the same league as
mathematicians such as Euler and Gauss.

Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, (1888 –

1970) was an Indian physicist whose work was
influential in the growth of science in India. He
was the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics in
1930 for the discovery that when light traverses a
transparent material, some of the light that is
deflected changes in wavelength. This
phenomenon is now called Raman scattering and
is the result of the Raman Effect.

Finally...one living genius...Dr.A.P.J. Abdul kalam

born 15 October 1931.

- SIDDHARTH.A.S
Source - Wiki/Discovery
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