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Hello everybody...Dear EC members!. Here it’s me Nina as you might know..I came up with a delicious blog post today!EC has many many members from all over the world ,

so why can’t we create Something altogether?:))

Each of us is a representative of a country, culture and even a through idea, so let’s share them and present them. It’s going to be a process…In each step we have one blog post with a certain topic…then it’s your turn to show yourself to us…remember you are a representative of your people and culture!…as some topics require technical vocabularies, try to search them and use them in your comments (bold them please)…I will add your comments to the blog to have a whole unique result…

As it sounded that some of My brothers and sisters felt a bit uncomfortable with the previous step -that i respectfully apologize-i decided to go to the second step more quickly this time!,here is the second step:

a Great national scientist of your country 

• Dear EC members! It would be better to add picture!
• Try to write some introductory lines and then introduce their books or results if possible!
• If you have any suggestion for the topic of the next step, I’d be happy if you send it in a message for me.
• The new step will be shown up after five days-following the previous-.
• Invite your friends to join us.
• Don’t hesitate, start writing!!

1. A Great scientist from Iran:

Professor Mahmoud Hessaby

he was born in 1903(-1992). Dr. Hessaby studied in many many different fields such as languages,literature,biology,psychics ,civil engineering and etc throughout his life .when he was a small boy ,his family left Iran to Lebanon where he started his education.then,he continued his studies in universities of Beirut and Sorbonne in France. After Great educational achievements he returned home-to Iran- and made great progressions and accomplishments.He is called the father of new physic in Iran.He also tried different sports.He knew all Quran  by heart and also Divan-e-Hafez(the series of spiritual poems of the well known poet:Hafiz),he had a great knowledge in many other literary works.he was known by great scientists and professors like Einstein and cooperated with them.Dr.Hessaby has many surveys, articles and books.i just add some of his books here:"Electrodynamics"/"Electric Eye"/"Magnetic Eye"/"Quantum View"/"Solid State Physics".

some of his accomplishments:

• construction of the first radio-set in Iran

• construction of the first weather station in Iran

• calculation and setting of the Iranian time

• Installation and operation of the first radiology center in Iran

• Writing the University care-chair and founding Tehran university

• Establishment of Iran's space research committee and member of the international space committee

• Founding the Geophysical Institute of Tehran university

• Writing the standards charter for the standards Institute of Iran

A Short Quote of Him(translated by ME):

The capability and power of human multiply his pretense always result in a steady amount. As his capability and powers decrease, his pretense gets increased and as his capability and power increase his pretense decreases.

2. A Great Man From Pakistan: introduced by: Mishaikh 

DR. ALLAMA MUHAMMAD IQBAL

THINKER, PHILOSOPHER, POET ONE OF THE CREATERS OF PAKISTAN

Sir Muhammad Iqbal (Urdu: محمد اقبال‎) (November 9, 1877 – April 21, 1938), widely known as Allama Iqbal was a philosopher,poet and politician in British India who is widely regarded as having inspired the Pakistan Movement. He is considered one of the most important figures in Urdu literature, with literary work in both the Urdu and Persian languages.
Iqbal is admired as a prominent classical poet by Pakistani, Indian, Iranian, and other international scholars of literature. Though Iqbal is best known as an eminent poet, he is also a highly acclaimed "Muslim philosophical thinker of modern times". His first poetry book, Asrar-e-Khudi, appeared in the Persian language in 1915, and other books of poetry include Rumuz-i-Bekhudi, Payam-i-Mashriq and Zabur-i-Ajam. Amongst these his best known Urdu works are Bang-i-Dara, Bal-i-Jibril, Zarb-i Kalim and a part of Armughan-e-Hijaz.[5] In Iran and Afghanistan, he is famous as Iqbāl-e Lāhorī (اقبال لاهوری‎) (Iqbal of Lahore), and he is most appreciated for his Persian work. Along with his Urdu and Persian poetry, his various Urdu and English lectures and letters have been very influential in cultural, social, religious and political disputes over the years.
In 1922, he was knighted by King George V, giving him the title "Sir". While studying law and philosophy in England, Iqbal became a member of the London branch of the All India Muslim League. Later, in one of his most famous speeches, Iqbal pushed for the creation of a Muslim state in Northwest India. This took place in his presidential speech in the League's December 1930 session.
In much of Southern Asia and Urdu speaking world, Iqbal is regarded as the Shair-e-Mashriq , "Poet of the East"). He is also called Muffakir-e-Pakistan , "The Thinker of Pakistan") and Hakeem-ul-Ummat , "The Sage of the Ummah"). The Pakistan government officially named him a "national poet". His birthday Yōm-e Welādat-e Muḥammad Iqbāl or (Iqbal Day) is a public holiday in Pakistan. In India he is also remembered as the author of the popular song Saare Jahaan Se Achcha Hisdostaan Hamara.

3. A Great Man From India: Introduced by : VISHNU SAJEEVAN

Srinivasa Ramanujan FRS

Srinivasa Ramanujan FRS (22 December 1887 – 26 April 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. Living in India with no access to the larger mathematical community, which was centered in Europe at the time, Ramanujan developed his own mathematical research in isolation. As a result, he 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.

4.A Great Scientist From America: introduced by: Mr.Bob

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Neil deGrasse Tyson ; born October 5, 1958) is an American astrophysicist, author, and science communicator. He is currently the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space and a research associate in the department of astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History. From 2006 to 2011, he hosted the educational science television show NOVA Science Now on PBS and has been a frequent guest on The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, and Real Time with Bill Maher. Since 2009, he has hosted the weekly radio show StarTalk. In 2014, Tyson began hosting Cosmos: A Space time Odyssey, an update to Carl Sagan's Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1980) television series.to know more about him

Mr.Bob says: ...My favorite scientist is: The Amazing Neil deGrasse Tyson. If you haven't watched his latest science series on the internet you are missing out. The program is COSMOS, but is not the show by the same name from the 1970's.

5.A Great Scientist From Russia: Introduced by: Prostomolotova Galina

Dmitri Mendeleev

Dmitri Mendeleev (1834-1907) is a famous Russian chemist who arranged the 63 known elements into a Periodic table based on atomic mass, which he published in Principles of Chemistry in 1869.

According to Mendeleev it took him 20 years to invent this system. During the time when the system was being invented atomic weights of many elements had been defined wrongly, many elements had not been studied yet.

The wonderful legend says that Mendeleev invented the periodical system in his dream and this story is based on a real fact. Mendeleev told his friend that he was thinking about the system and he almost got it in his mind but couldn't express in a table. He was working at his favourite table in his office without having a rest for three nights trying to compile a table. Nothing helped so at the end he was very exhausted and fell asleep. In his dream he saw the table of elements very clear and when he woke up he wrote down everything he had seen.

From his remarkable table Mendeleev predicted the properties of elements then unknown; three of these (gallium, scandium, and germanium) were later discovered. He studied also the nature of solutions and the expansion of liquids. An outstanding teacher, he was professor at the Univ. of St. Petersburg (1868–90). He served as government adviser on the development of the petroleum industry.

His Principles of Chemistry (2 vol., 1868–71; tr. 1905) was long a standard text.

Interesting fact: He was born in Siberia as the youngest of 14 children.

"We could live at the present day without a Plato, but a double number of Newtons is required to discover the secrets of nature, and to bring life into harmony with the laws of nature."

― Dmitri Mendeleev

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