Hans Christian Ørsted (prononcé [h a n s k ʰ ʁ æ s d̥ j a n ˈ ɶ ɐ̯ s d̥ ɛ ð]) (14 août 1777 à Rudkøbing – 9 mars 1851 à Copenhague), parfois écrit Œrsted, est un physicien et chimiste danois.. Il est pionnier dans la mise en évidence de l'interaction entre électricité et magnétisme, et souvent considéré comme le premier à l'avoir observé, car il a grandement ...

Les prix Nobel sont des prix décernés chaque année, sauf exceptions, à des personnes, ou à des organismes (prix Nobel de la paix), sous l'autorité de la Fondation Nobel par l'Académie royale des sciences de Suède (physique et chimie), l'Académie suédoise (littérature), l'Institut Karolinska (physiologie ou médecine) et le comité Nobel norvégien du parlement (paix).

Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Classical Latin: [ˈkᶣiːn̪t̪ʊs̠ (h)ɔˈraːt̪iʊs̠ ˈfɫ̪akːʊs̠]; 8 December 65 – 27 November 8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horace (/ ˈ h ɒr ɪ s /), was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian). The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his Odes as just about the only Latin lyrics worth reading: "He ...

A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet. Its name in English is a (pronounced / ˈ eɪ /), plural aes. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar.

Hans Jørgensen Wegner (April 2, 1914 - January 26, 2007) was a Danish furniture designer. His work, along with a concerted effort from several of his manufacturers, contributed to the international popularity of mid-century Danish design.His style is often described as Organic Functionality, a modernist school with emphasis on functionality. This school of thought arose …

Secondo il The Sunday Telegraph, durante un'intervista, Watson avrebbe dichiarato «Se si potesse trovare il gene che determina la sessualità, e una donna decidesse che non vuole avere un figlio omosessuale, beh, io l'appoggerei».Il biologo Richard Dawkins, però, scrisse una lettera al The Independent in cui sosteneva che la posizione di Watson era stata travisata dal Sunday …

Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Baron Blackett OM CH FRS (18 November 1897 – 13 July 1974) was a British experimental physicist known for his work on cloud chambers, cosmic rays, and paleomagnetism, winning the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1948. In 1925 he became the first person to prove that radioactivity could cause the nuclear transmutation of one chemical element to …

A Christmas greeting for adults and children from Danish composers (Julehilsen til Store og Smaae fra danske Componister) (1850), C.C. Lose & Delbanco, Copenhagen, contains 6 little verses by Hans Christian Andersen as introductions to each of the 6 piano compositions (by the composers Niels W. Gade, J.P.E. Hartmann, Eduard Helsted, Emil ...

Bård André Hoksrud (født 26. mars 1973) er en norsk politiker ().Han er stortingsrepresentant for Telemark siden 2005 og var landbruks- og matminister i Erna Solbergs regjering fra august 2018 til januar 2019.. Hoksrud ble født 26. mars 1973 i Porsgrunn som sønn av lektromontør Rolf Oddbjørn Hoksrud (1944–) og kontormedarbeider Karin Gulbrandsen. ...