Ignat Domeyko - Belarusian origin (he was born July 31, 1802 in Novogrudok), who became a national hero in Chile. A person with an active civil position and consummate scholar. One of the best graduates of Vilnius University. A member of a secret society Philomath ( "lovers of science"). After the suppression of the Polish uprising of 1830 - 1831 he emigrated to France. There he graduated from the School of Mines, and received a degree in mining engineering. Then he went to work at the invitation of Chile, where he revealed his potential scholar-researcher: geology, mineralogy, geography, ethnology. During his lifetime he became a scientist of world renown, he has participated in many scientific societies of Europe. For years, Ignat Domeyko was rector of the University of Chile. Organized Meteorological Service in Santiago de Chile. He died in Santiago de Chile, January 23, 1889 and was buried at the expense of the Chilean government; funeral day was declared a day of national mourning.
Nikolai Sudzilovsky is an ethnographer, a geographer, a chemist, a biologist, a genetic doctor and the first president of the Hawaii State Senate. He was born to an impoverished noble family in 1850 in Mogilev. From 1892 Nikolai lived in Hawaii where he fought for the rights of the locals. During the Russian-Japanese War of 1904-1905 Sudzilovsky actively conducted socialist propaganda among Russian prisoners of war. Following the demands of Russia's foreign minister, the US government revoked his citizenship. Sudzilovsky spent the last years of his life in the Philippines and China.
He was an author of several works on medicine and sociology and a member of the American Genetics Society.
Ignat Domeyko - Belarusian origin (he was born July 31, 1802 in Novogrudok), who became a national hero in Chile. A person with an active civil position and consummate scholar. One of the best graduates of Vilnius University. A member of a secret society Philomath ( "lovers of science"). After the suppression of the Polish uprising of 1830 - 1831 he emigrated to France. There he graduated from the School of Mines, and received a degree in mining engineering. Then he went to work at the invitation of Chile, where he revealed his potential scholar-researcher: geology, mineralogy, geography, ethnology. During his lifetime he became a scientist of world renown, he has participated in many scientific societies of Europe. For years, Ignat Domeyko was rector of the University of Chile. Organized Meteorological Service in Santiago de Chile. He died in Santiago de Chile, January 23, 1889 and was buried at the expense of the Chilean government; funeral day was declared a day of national mourning.
ReplyDeleteYuri Ivanovich Bandazhevski; born on January 9, 1957 in Belarus, former director of the Medical Institute in Gomel (Belarus), is a scientist working on sanitary consequences of the Chernobyl disaster. He was the first to create an institute in Belarus, in 1989, specially dedicated to scientific work on the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.On June 2001, Yury Bandazhevsky was sentenced to eight years imprisonment on the grounds that he had received bribes from students' parents.
ReplyDeleteYury Bandazhevsky was released on parole from prison on August 5, 2005, and prohibited for five months of leaving Belarus. He was afterward invited by the mayor of Clermont-Ferrand, in France, to work at the university and at the hospital on Chernobyl's consequences. Clermont-Ferrand has been since 1977 linked to Gomel where Bandazhevsky used to work. In France, he is notably supported by the Commission de recherche et d'information indépendantes sur la radioactivité (CRIIRAD) He got 21 academic awards. Yuri is an author of 269 scientific works and 7 books.
Nikolai Sudzilovsky is an ethnographer, a geographer, a chemist, a biologist, a genetic doctor and the first president of the Hawaii State Senate. He was born to an impoverished noble family in 1850 in Mogilev. From 1892 Nikolai lived in Hawaii where he fought for the rights of the locals.
ReplyDeleteDuring the Russian-Japanese War of 1904-1905 Sudzilovsky actively conducted socialist propaganda among Russian prisoners of war. Following the demands of Russia's foreign minister, the US government revoked his citizenship. Sudzilovsky spent the last years of his life in the Philippines and China.
He was an author of several works on medicine and sociology and a member of the American Genetics Society.