Hermann Minkowski
1864 CE–1909 CE · Kaunas (Kovno)
Hermann Minkowski (22 June 1864 – 12 January 1909) was a mathematician and professor at the University of Königsberg, ETH Zürich, and the University of Göttingen, described variously as German, Polish, Lithuanian-German, or Russian. He created and developed the geometry of numbers and elements of convex geometry, and used geometrical methods to solve problems in number theory, mathematical physics, and the theory of relativity. Minkowski is perhaps best known for his foundational work describing space and time as a four-dimensional space, now known as "Minkowski spacetime", which facilitated geometric interpretations of Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity (1905).
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Kaunas (Yiddish Kovno), the second city of Lithuania, was a major center of Jewish religious and cultural life. Rabbi Yitzchak Elchanan Spektor served as its chief rabbi from 1864 until his death in 1896, becoming one of the foremost halachic authorities of his era; the Kovno Kollel was named for him, and its suburb of Slobodka housed the famous Knesses Yisrael Mussar yeshiva. Kaunas was also the birthplace of the Talmud scholar Louis Ginzberg.
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- Lord Rayleigh (John Strutt)· 1842 CE–1919 CE
- Camillo Golgi· 1843 CE–1926 CE
- Wilhelm Rontgen· 1845 CE–1923 CE
- Gabriel Lippmann· 1845 CE–1921 CE
- Georg Cantor· 1845 CE–1918 CE
- Ilya Metchnikoff· 1845 CE–1916 CE
- Alexander Graham Bell· 1847 CE–1922 CE
- Thomas Edison· 1847 CE–1931 CE
- Gottlob Frege· 1848 CE–1925 CE
- Felix Klein· 1849 CE–1925 CE
- Ivan Pavlov· 1849 CE–1936 CE
- Emil Fischer· 1852 CE–1919 CE
- William Ramsay· 1852 CE–1916 CE
- Albert A. Michelson· 1852 CE–1931 CE
- Jacobus van 't Hoff· 1852 CE–1911 CE
- Hendrik Lorentz· 1853 CE–1928 CE
- Wilhelm Ostwald· 1853 CE–1932 CE
- Emil von Behring· 1854 CE–1917 CE
- Paul Ehrlich· 1854 CE–1915 CE
- Henri Poincaré· 1854 CE–1912 CE
- Andrey Markov· 1856 CE–1922 CE
- Émile Durkheim· 1858 CE–1917 CE
- Rudolf Diesel· 1858 CE–1913 CE
- Pierre Curie· 1859 CE–1906 CE
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- Gojong of Korea· 1852 CE–1919 CE
- Yuan Shikai· 1859 CE–1916 CE
- Georges Clemenceau· 1841 CE–1929 CE
- Theodore Roosevelt· 1858 CE–1919 CE
- Guangxu Emperor· 1871 CE–1908 CE
- Woodrow Wilson· 1856 CE–1924 CE
- Paul von Hindenburg· 1847 CE–1934 CE
- Emperor Meiji· 1852 CE–1912 CE
- Chulalongkorn (Rama V)· 1853 CE–1910 CE
- Mehmed V· 1844 CE–1918 CE
- Yaa Asantewaa· 1840 CE–1921 CE
- Abdulhamid II· 1842 CE–1918 CE
- Nicholas II· 1868 CE–1918 CE
- William Howard Taft· 1857 CE–1930 CE
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