موسوعة العلمـاء و المخترعين .. العلمـاء بالترتيب حسب اسم الشهرة .. الحرف ث

Encyclopedia of Scientists and Inventors.. Scientists in order according to their nickname.. The letter T

⏹ Thabit bin Qurra, Abu Al-Hassan.
Thabit ibn Qurra

Arab astronomer and mathematician (826-901)
Thabit bin Qurra was born in Harran on the religion of the Sabeans. He was famous for astronomy. He extracted the movement of the sun and calculated the length of the sidereal year, so it was 365 days, six hours, nine minutes and ten seconds, i.e. it did not exceed the actual length of the year except by less than half a second. Thabit bin Qurrah paved the way for the creation of the calculus of integration and differentiation, and Ibn Qurrah is considered one of the greatest books in Arabic in the science of geometry - he was a brilliant transmitter and a capable compiler. He has various books, including what is translated from Greek, especially as an abbreviation of Aristotle’s book on metaphysics, and the compilations of Galen’s Book of Single Medicines, including what he wrote, such as the book Calculation of the Crescents, and a treatise on stones generated in the bladder, and a book on the anatomy of some organs of birds.
Thabit Ibn Qurra is considered one of the most famous representatives of classical culture in the Middle Ages.

⏹ Thorpe, Sir Thomas Edward
Thrope, Sir Thomas Edward

English chemist (1845 - 1925)
Thorpe studied in Manchester and Heidelberg, then worked as a professor in Glasgow, Leeds and South Kensington, then worked as a chemist for state institutions · He was chosen as a Fellow of the Royal Society. Robb determined the atomic weights of a number of elements with high accuracy, and a number of chemical compounds were discovered for him. · Thropp participated with others in studying the viscosity of liquids and reached a formula for viscosity equivalent. References in chemical analysis, history of chemistry, a chemical dictionary, and other works of special scientific and educational importance.

⏹ Thorndike, Edward Lee
Thorndike, Edward Lee

American educational psychologist (1874-1949)
Thorndike received his higher education at Wesleyan University and at Harvard, where he was a student of William James.
( from 1842 to 1910 )
He specialized in animal education, Thorndike worked in Columbia as a professor of psychology, and it was as a result of his work in animal education that he formulated his theories with a clear influence in educational psychology. He published a book entitled: Principles of Teaching.
A book on Psychology of Arithmetics and another book entitled Psychology of Algebra.
Thorndike has emphasized the importance of line concomitants, such as the mental conjugations of success and failure, or the so-called Law of Effect as influencing factors in education. His mechanical method in education was a catalyst for the progress of the study of behavior, despite the controversy raised against it. Thorndike has developed intelligence tests that appeared in his book entitled: Measurement of Intelligence.

⏹ Laurel, Axel Hugo Theodore
Theorell, Axel Hugo. Theodor

Swedish biochemist (1903-).
Theorel began his scientific life studying medicine, but he practiced it for urgent reasons, so he devoted himself to scientific research and teaching. • He worked as director of the Nobel Institute for Biochemistry, in Stockholm.
Theorell is one of the most prominent specialists in the study of
Blood, and has designed a special method to estimate the amount of alcohol in the blood of drivers for fear of drunk driving, as well as to assist in the investigation of accidents and felonies.
This method of thiorel is in force in Sweden.
He also has very important research on blood components. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1955 for his valuable discoveries about “enzyme, oxidative stress (see scientist Ochoa, Severo).

⏹ Theiler, Max Theiler, Max

Bacteriologist, South African-American (1899) specialized in tropical diseases. Thaler was educated in Cape Town and London. Then he accepted to study medicine at Harvard Medical School, specializing in tropical diseases. He joined the Rockefeller Foundation, to work in its laboratories as a researcher, and graduated until he held the position of director of laboratories.
Thaler received the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1951 for his important research on tropical diseases, in the discovery of a drug for immunization against yellow fever.