★★ ★Slavic People on top of the World★★ ★

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Nikola Tesla
inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist, and futurist best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current(AC) electricity supply system.


Marie Skłodowska-Curie
physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. First woman to win a Nobel Prize and the only person honored with Nobel Prizes in two different sciences.



Nicolaus Copernicus
mathematician and astronomer who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe.



Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
polymath and philosopher, and to this day he occupies a prominent place in the history of mathematics and the history of philosophy.



Roger Joseph Boscovich
physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat, poet, theologian, Jesuit priest, and a polymath.



Ivan Petrovich Pavlov
physiologist known primarily for his work in classical conditioning.



Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin
physicist and physical chemist. Pupin is best known for his numerous patents, including a means of greatly extending the range of long-distance telephone communication by placing loading coils (of wire) at predetermined intervals along the transmitting wire (known as "pupinization"). Pupin was a founding member of National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) on March 3, 1915, which later became NASA




Leo Tolstoy
was a Russian novelist regarded as one of the greatest of all time. He is best known for War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877).



Fyodor Dostoyevsky
novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher. Dostoyevsky's literary works explore human psychology in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmosphere of 19th-century Russia. Many of his works contain a strong emphasis on Christianity, and its message of absolute love, forgiveness and charity, explored within the realm of the individual, confronted with all of life's hardships and beauty.



Milutin Milankovic
mathematician, astronomer, climatologist, geophysicist, civil engineer, doctor of technology, popularizer of science. Milanković 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 Earth's long-term climate changes caused by changes in the position of the Earth in comparison to the Sun, now known as Milankovitch cycles.


Jan Evangelista Purkyně
anatomist and physiologist. He was one of the best known scientists of his time. In 1839, he coined the term 'protoplasm' for the fluid substance of a cell. His son was the painter Karel Purkyně. Such was his fame that when people from outside Europe wrote letters to him, all that they needed to put as the address was "Purkyně, Europe"



Zhores Alferov

physicist and academic who contributed significantly to the creation of modern heterostructure physics and electronics. He is the inventor of the heterotransistor and the winner of 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics.





Stamen Grigorov
was a prominent physician and microbiologist, who was the creator of anti-tuberculosis vaccine. He discovered the Lactobacillus bulgaricus bacillus, which is the true cause for the existence of natural yogurt. Grigorov Glacier on Brabant Island in Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica is named after Stamen Grigorov.

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Ivan Mestrovic
sculptor and architect. He is renowned as one of the greatest sculptors of the 20th century. He was the first living person to have a one-man show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City



Rihard Jakopič
Impressionist painter, patron of arts and theoretician.


Hugo Wolf
composer , particularly noted for his art songs, or Lieder. He brought to this form a concentrated expressive intensity which was unique in late Romantic music, somewhat related to that of the Second Viennese School in concision but diverging greatly in technique.

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Slavoj Žižek
Marxist philosopher and cultural critic. He is currently a senior researcher at the Institute for Sociology and Philosophy, University of Ljubljana in Slovenia, Global Distinguished Professor of German at New York University, and international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities. He writes widely on a diverse range of topics, including political theory, film theory, cultural studies, theology, and psychoanalysis




Konstantin Novoselov
physicist, and Langworthy Professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester. His work on graphene with Andre Geim, earned them the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2010.

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Antonín Dvořák
composer. Following the nationalist example of Bedřich Smetana, Dvořák frequently employed aspects, specifically rhythms, of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia (then parts of the Austrian Empire and now constituting the Czech Republic). Dvořák's own style has been described as 'the fullest recreation of a national idiom with that of the symphonic tradition, absorbing folk influences and finding effective ways of using them'


Bedřich Smetana
Composer who pioneered the development of a musical style which became closely identified with his country's aspirations to independent statehood. He is thus widely regarded in his homeland as the father of Czech music. Internationally he is best known for his opera The Bartered Bride; for the symphonic cycle Má vlast ("My Homeland"), which portrays the history, legends and landscape of the composer's native land; and for his First String Quartet, From My Life.

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Simon Kuznets
economist, statistician, demographer, and economic historian who won the 1971 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences "for his empirically founded interpretation of economic growth which has led to new and deepened insight into the economic and social structure and process of development

Vladimir Prelog
organic chemist and winner of the 1975 Nobel Prize for chemistry.


Leopold Ružička
scientist and winner of the 1939 Nobel Prize in Chemistry who worked most of his life in Switzerland. He received eight honoris causa doctorates in science, medicine, and law; seven prizes and medals; and twenty-four honorary memberships in chemical, biochemical, and other scientific societies.

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Jaroslav Heyrovský4
chemist and inventor. Heyrovský was the inventor of the polarographic method, father of the electroanalytical method, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in 1959. His main field of work was polarography.


Bertha von Suttner
pacifist and novelist. In 1905 she was the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, thus being the second female Nobel laureate after Marie Curie's 1903 award, and the first Austrian laureate.

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Wisława Szymborska
poet, essayist, translator and recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature. She is described as a "Mozart of Poetry".


Ivan "Ivo" Andrić
novelist, short story writer, and the 1961 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1961).

[Prism]

I don't get it

Slavs are a meta-ethnicity not an ethnicity, you can't claim all of these people as Serbs if that what you're trying to do. I'm just asking, hope it's no problem

It's like if you're swedish and you claim the things that Dutch people have accomplished as your own.

[Lawalye]

Serbians, you live by proxy or what ?

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Czesław Miłosz
poet, prose writer, translator and diplomat. From 1961 to 1998 he was a professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1978 he was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, and in 1980 the Nobel Prize in Literature. In 1999 he was named a Puterbaugh Fellow.


Andrew Schally
endocrinologist and Nobel Prize laureate (1977) in medicine.



Pyotr Kapitsa
physicist and Nobel laureate