Month: June 2022

Maimonides

Maimonides

Moses ben Maimon[a] (1138–1204), commonly known as Maimonides (/maɪˈmɒnɪdiːz/)[b] and also referred to by the acronym Rambam (Hebrew: רמב״ם),[c] was a medieval Sephardic Jewish philosopher who became one of the most prolific and influential Torah scholars of the Middle Ages. In his time, he was also a preeminent astronomer and physician, serving as the personal physician of Saladin. Born in Córdoba, Almoravid Read more [...]
Samuel Heinrich Schwabe

Samuel Heinrich Schwabe

Samuel Heinrich Schwabe (25 October 1789 – 11 April 1875) a German astronomer remembered for his work on sunspots. He also was Botaniker. His official botanic short code is „Schwabe“. He studied pharmacy, chemistry, botanics and physics in Berlin. Coming back to Dessau in 1811 he ran the pharmacy of his grandfather. After selling the pharmacy in 1829 he dedicated himself to science and lived in the Schwabehaus. Schwabe was born at Dessau. Read more [...]
Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers

Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers

Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers (/ˈɔːlbərz/; German: [ˈɔlbɐs]; 11 October 1758 – 2 March 1840) was a German physician and astronomer. On 28 March 1802, Olbers discovered and named the asteroidPallas. Five years later, on 29 March 1807, he discovered the asteroid Vesta, which he allowed Carl Friedrich Gauss to name. As the word "asteroid" was not yet coined, the literature of the time referred to these minor planets as planets in their own right. He proposed that the asteroid Read more [...]
Chiaki Mukai

Chiaki Mukai

Chiaki Mukai (向井 千秋, Mukai Chiaki, born May 6, 1952) is a Japanese physician and JAXA astronaut.[2] She was the first Japanese woman in space, the first Japanese citizen to have two spaceflights, and the first Asian woman in space.[1] Both were Space Shuttle missions; her first was STS-65 aboard Space Shuttle Columbia in July 1994, which was a Spacelab mission. Her second spaceflight was STS-95 aboard Read more [...]
Michael Reed Barratt

Michael Reed Barratt

Michael Reed Barratt (born April 16, 1959) is an American physician and a NASAastronaut. Specializing in aerospace medicine, he served as a flight surgeon for NASA before his selection as an astronaut, and has played a role in developing NASA's space medicine programs for both the Shuttle-Mir Program and International Space Station. His first spaceflight was a long-duration mission to the International Space Station, as a Flight Engineer in the Expedition 19 and 20 crew. In March Read more [...]
David Saint-Jacques

David Saint-Jacques

David Saint-Jacques OQ FRCGS (in Quebec: [davɪd sẽɪ̯̃nʒã(ŋ)k̚], French pronunciation: ​[david sɛ̃ʒak]; born January 6, 1970)[2] is a Canadian astronaut with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA). He is also an astrophysicist, engineer, and a physician. In December 2018, he launched to the International Space Station, as Flight Engineer on Expeditions 57, 58 and 59; he returned to Earth on June 25, 2019. Saint-Jacques Read more [...]
Robert L. Satcher jr.

Robert L. Satcher jr.

Robert Lee "Bobby" Satcher Jr. (born September 22, 1965) is an American physician, chemical engineer, and former NASA astronaut.[1] He participated in 2 spacewalks during STS-129, accumulating 12hrs 19min of EVA time. Satcher holds two doctorates (Ph.D., M.D.) and has received numerous awards and honors as a surgeon and engineer. download his NASA presentation wikipedia DE wikipedia EN Read more [...]
Michelle Haintz

Michelle Haintz

A Scanner-personality, as many here! Michelle has studied Philosophy, Psychology and Theater sciences.At the Vienna Art School she studied painting, sculpturing and ceramics (2nd prize for ceramics at the 10-year-jubilee-festival of the school) Further she went to the actors school of Prof. Krauss studying acting and direction.Last not least she did medicine at Vienna University  with doctorate degree in 1984. Now she is working as coach and Read more [...]
Christof J. Daetwyler

Christof J. Daetwyler

Epitaph Prof. Dr. med. Christof Jürg Daetwyler: *8.8.1964 – †11.12.2020 https://youtu.be/MQyRcoCf0nc?t=291 clip beginning at 4:51 with Christof J. Daetwyler Multitalent with several art projects, plant research and photography, specialised in computer sciences... Das Zimmer web Präsentation "Das Zimmer" | "The Room" youtube Read more [...]