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

[micika]

Andrei Sakharov
nuclear physicist, Soviet dissident and human rights activist. He became renowned as the designer of the Soviet Union's Third Idea, a codename for Soviet development of thermonuclear weapons.



Nikolay Basov
physicist and educator. For his fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics that led to the development of laser and maser, Basov shared the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics with Alexander Prokhorov and Charles Hard Townes.


Alexander Prokhorov
physicist known for his pioneering research on lasers and masers for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1964.

[Max07]

Hey, guys, I might have missed that moment when she considered all those achievements as success of Serbian people.

[micika]

I don't get it
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

OMG, I read this 3 times and still can't belive what I read

[micika]

Hey, guys, I might be missed that moment when she considered all those achievements as success of Serbian people.

me to Didn't know that some people equalization term Slavic with term Serb

[micika]

Pavel Cherenkov
physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in physics in 1958 with Ilya Frank and Igor Tamm for the discovery of Cherenkov radiation, made in 1934.

[micika]

Dmitri Mendeleev
chemist and inventor. He formulated the Periodic Law, created his own version of the periodic table of elements, and used it to correct the properties of some already discovered elements and also to predict the properties of eight elements yet to be discovered.



Fritz Pregl
chemist and physician from a mixed Slovene-German-speaking background. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1923 for making important contributions to quantitative organic microanalysis, one of which was the improvement of the combustion train technique for elemental analysis.

[micika]

Lesya Ukrainka

poet writer, political, civil, and feminist activist.

Taras Shevchenko
poet, writer, artist, public and political figure, as well as folklorist and ethnographer. Shevchenko is also known for many masterpieces as a painter and an illustrator.

[micika]

Dmitry Bortniansky
composer and conductor.




Ivan Kotliarevsky
writer, poet and playwright, social activist


Nikolai Amosov
doctor, heart surgeon, inventor, best-selling author, and exercise enthusiast, known for his inventions of several surgical procedures for treating heart defects.

[micika]

Stephen Timoshenko
engineer of Ukrainian origins. He is believed to be the father of modern engineering mechanics. Timoshenko wrote seminal works in the areas of engineering mechanics, elasticity and strength of materials, many of which are still widely used today.



Pope John Paul II
served as Pope from 1978 to 2005.


Adam Mickiewicz
poet, dramatist, essayist, publicist, translator, professor of Slavic literature, and political activist. A principal figure in Polish Romanticism, he is counted one of Poland's "Three Bards" ("Trzej Wieszcze")[3] and is widely regarded as Poland's greatest poet. He is also considered one of the greatest Slavic and European poets and has been dubbed a "Slavic bard". A leading Romantic dramatist, he has been compared in Poland and Europe to Byron and Goethe.

[Prism]

Welcome to TA where famous people's accomplishments of different ethnicities count as Serbian.

Because we all know that all Slavs are infact Serbian.

I never knew Copernicus and Leo Tolstoy were Serbs.

Seriously this is offensive claiming other people as your own.

I'm out.