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Edited by: Crow  Nov 3, 11, 17:55    #1
There are many choices in front of me but, i would start with Polish Ernest Adam Malinowski

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Ernest Adam Malinowski (b. January 5, 1818 in Seweryny (Podole) - March 2, 1899 in Lima) was a Polish engineer.

Malinowski constructed at that time the world's highest railway Ferrocarril Central Andino in the Peruvian Andes in 1871-1876.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Malinowski

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 Nov 3, 11, 20:08    #2
Aleksander Wolszczan - Polish astronomer, co-discoverer of extrasolar planets

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksander_Wolszczan



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 Nov 3, 11, 22:40    #3
Tesla was pretty much Serbian.

Greatest Polish scientist? Almost impossible to answer given the range of talent they have had. Check out Filip Wolski. This kid is going places in his life. It depends on the value you place on any one discipline but he achieved the highest accolades so young and may well go down in history for sth spectacular! He's a real prospect!
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Edited by: Natasa  Nov 3, 11, 23:13    #4
Seanus:
Tesla was pretty much Serbian.


Tesla was totally Serbian. Born in Lika, both parents were Serbs. One of his family lines is also one of mine, which didn't result with anything, apart from common obsessive pathology (he wore gloves fearing bacteria, new tie daily, maintained the same weight all his life exactly 64.5 kg, sort of avant-garde to modern day anorexia) and periodic cigarettes and coffee addictions :))))

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Milutin Milankoviĉ was a Serbian geophysicist and civil engineer, best known for his theory of ice ages, suggesting a relationship between Earth's long-term climate changes and periodic changes in its orbit, now known as Milankovitch cycles. Milankoviĉ gave two fundamental contributions to global science. The first contribution is the "Canon of the Earth’s Insolation”, which characterizes the climates of all the planets of the Solar system. The second contribution is the explanation of climate change on the Earth caused by changes in the position of the Earth in comparison to the Sun. This explained the ice ages occurring in the geological past of the Earth, as well as the climate changes on the Earth which can be expected in the future.

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 Nov 3, 11, 23:17    #5
Ignacy Domejko: geographer, geologist, minerologist, meteorologist, ethnologist, Lithuanian Pole and, as UNESCO stated in the commemorations they held for the bicentennial of his birth, "citizen of the world".

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 Nov 3, 11, 23:27    #6
A small part of him was Croatian, Natasa. Very small but there we go...
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Edited by: Natasa  Nov 3, 11, 23:30    #7
This guy I remember from gymnasium, I like those who challenge axioms and for the bolded text ;)

Nikolai Lobachevsky, Russian mathematician
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Lobachevsky's main achievement is the development (independently from János Bolyai) of a non-Euclidean geometry, also referred to as Lobachevskian geometry. Before him, mathematicians were trying to deduce Euclid's fifth postulate from other axioms. Euclid's fifth is a rule in Euclidean geometry which states (in John Playfair's reformulation) that for any given line and point not on the line, there is one parallel line through the point not intersecting the line. Lobachevsky would instead develop a geometry in which the fifth postulate was not true.
The non-Euclidean geometry that Lobachevsky developed is referred to as hyperbolic geometry. Lobachevsky replaced Euclid's parallel postulate with the one stating that there is more than one line that can be extended through any given point parallel to another line of which that point is not part; a famous consequence is that the sum of angles in a triangle must be less than 180 degrees. Non-Euclidean geometry is now in common use in many areas of mathematics and physics, such as general relativity; and hyperbolic geometry is now often referred to as "Lobachevskian geometry" or "Bolyai-Lobachevskian geometry".


Seanus:
A small part of him was Croatian, Natasa. Very small but there we go...



Sorry Seanus which small part would that be? I am quite convinced knowing his fathers and mothers family background.

I don't have anything against him being partially Croat, but the only Croatian thing about him was his place of birth. And even that was serbian populated area, not anymore.

But please, if you know something say, I would like to correct my wrong belief.

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Edited by: peterweg  Nov 4, 11, 08:44    #8
Whats the matter with Croats? they are Slavs too, Serbs share blood with them and they are just as Polish as Serbs. Lets have a few Croatian and Kosovo scientists, in the mix.

Alternatively can you stick to Polish scientists?

Sorry Seanus which small part would that be? I am quite convinced knowing his fathers and mothers family background.

He was born in Croatia and he worked in America, so he's American.
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 Nov 23, 11, 17:34    #9
Some people on this forum will argue that even Einstein was Serb (but then again, maybe not really :) )
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 Nov 24, 11, 00:12    #10
Seanus:
Check out Filip Wolski. This kid is going places in his life


I heard about this kid. He's supposed to be the world's greatest computer scientist.
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Edited by: Natasa  Nov 24, 11, 00:15    #11
peterweg:
He was born in Croatia and he worked in America, so he's American.


Nikola Tesla was an ethnic Serb (100%) :)) from Lika, with American citizenship, correct. His father was Orthodox (Serbian) priest, his uncles from mom's side Serbian soldiers.

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 Nov 24, 11, 00:15    #12
The very one. He was under the tutelage of one of the best and learned his trade from him. He just needs to prioritise his development and he'll be a major name in the future.
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 Nov 24, 11, 00:19    #13
M.Mariĉ- Einstein was physicist not physician, hard working day, english deteriorates, my apologies....

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Edited by: Natasa  Nov 24, 11, 01:18    #14
sobieski:
Some people on this forum will argue that even Einstein was Serb (but then again, maybe not really :) )


No, but he was married to Serbian woman, Mileva Maric, mathematician and physicist from Novi Sad, and had two kids with her during the period his theory saw the light.:)))))

There is still a controversy about his work being solely his. They worked together according to some. But, I don't believe in super women, who are pregnant while thinking about theory of relativity. And he was a Jew, she was only a Serb.

She and Einstein met during studies and became close friends quite soon.
In October Mariĉ went to Heidelberg to study at Heidelberg University for the winter semester 1897/98, attending physics and mathematics lectures as an auditor.[8] She rejoined the Zurich Polytechnic in April 1898,[8] where her studies included the following courses: differential and integral calculus, descriptive and projective geometry, mechanics, theoretical physics, applied physics, experimental physics, and astronomy.



The case which has been presented for Mariĉ as a co-author of some of Einstein's early work, putatively culminating in the 1905 papers, mostly depends on the following evidence:
The testimony of the well known Russian physicist Abram Joffe, who gave the name of the author of the three Annus Mirabilis Papers as Einstein-Marity, erroneously attributing the addition of the name Marity, Mariĉ's official name, to a non-existing Swiss custom.[30] However, in the paragraph in question, in which Joffe stated that Einstein's entrance into the arena of science in 1905 was "unforgettable", he described the author (singular) of the 1905 papers as "a bureaucrat at the Patent Office in Bern", i.e., Albert Einstein.[31]
An alleged comment from Mileva to a Serbian friend, which, referring to 1905, said "we finished some important work that will make my husband world famous",[32] although this has been described as " unreliable third-hand gossip."[33]
Letters in which Einstein referred to "our" theory and "our" work.

Serbian women are modest ;)

wiki/ Mileva Mariĉ

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Edited by: Natasa  Nov 24, 11, 08:13    #15
Nikola Tesla (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Тесла; 10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was a Serbian-American inventor, mechanical engineer, and electrical engineer. He was an important contributor to the birth of commercial electricity, and is best known for his many revolutionary developments in the field of electromagnetism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries building on the theories of electromagnetic technology discovered by Michael Faraday and used in direct current (DC) applications. Tesla's patents and theoretical work formed the basis of modern alternating current (AC) electric power systems, including the polyphase system of electrical distribution and the AC motor.
Born an ethnic Serb in the village of Smiljan (now part of Gospiĉ), in the Croatian Military Frontier[1] of the Austrian Empire (modern-day Croatia),


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Do less gifted here need some sort of his CONFESSION and remorse for being a Serb? Or birth certificate, DNA?

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