Prominent personalities

January 22, 2011, 450 years passed since the birth of Francis Bacon (1561-1626) - the famous English politician and philosopher - the founder of English materialism and experimental science.

November 19 - the birthday of M.V.Lomonosov - a man who is rightly called the founder of the science and higher education in Russia, one of the founders of modern Russian language and poetry.

Social and political activity of M.P. Drahomanov was in progress in the years 1960-1990. In the history of Russia, Ukraine and the Western Europe, it was an extremely difficult period of time which had a determinative tendency of amplification of the working liberation movement. M.P.

By the will of the circumstances, he was a member of many historic meetings and negotiations at the highest level when determining the fate of Europe and the world, participated in the preparation and signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact (also known as the Molotov - Ribbentrop Pact - an intergo

Michael Yangel was born October 25, 1911 in the village Zyryanova Nyzhnoilimskyy district of Irkutsk region in a large family. His parents - Kuzma Lavrentiyovych and Anna Pavlovna - had 12 children. Michael was the sixth child.

Propeller shaft, drive coupling, gimbals - these things are now well known, especially to auto mechanics and inertial navigation specialists.

500 years ago in the small Tuscan town of Arezzo it was born Giorgio Vasari - author of the famous "Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects." This book is destined to live long, and perhaps eternal life, because until mankind will live, it will remain one of the main sources of information on prominent figures of the Renaissance. It should be noted that it was Vasari who coined the term "Renaissance" ("Rinascita").

Pavlo P. Chubynsky (born 15 [27] .01.1839, countryside near Boryspil – died 17 (29) .01.1884, Kiev) - famous ethnographer, poet and journalist, a lawyer, an active leader of the Ukrainian national movement in Right-Bank Ukraine. Pavlo Chubinsky came from Ukrainian gentry.

An unforgettable encounter with the living legend of the Soviet space program was held at the NTUU"KPI" on May 13. The cosmonaut Georgy Grechko visited Kiev Polytechnic Institute. He participated in the launch of the first artificial Earth satellite, three times  flew into space.

I will not hide that I was honored to have the opportunity to attend and speak at this important event, although held it was held in our own KPI, but without exaggeration, it is necessary to talk about an event of national importance. I am referring to the opening of 24 February 2011, I repeat, in Ukraine, this Foucault pendulum.