List of Lithuanians - Science

Science

  • Kazys Almenas – physicist, writer and essayist
  • Antanas Andrijauskas - habilitated doctor
  • Algirdas Avižienis – (1932 - ) (lt:Algirdas Antanas Avižienis), extensive research in fault-tolerance
  • Jurgis Baltrušaitis junior – art-historian, expert of medieval art
  • Povilas Brazdžiūnas – (1897–1986) (lt:Povilas Brazdžiūnas) science of modern physics organisator in Lithuania
  • Kazimieras Būga renowned linguist
  • Ivan Chersky geographer and revolutionary
  • Simonas Daukantas – renowned Lithuanian historian, who wrote first book on history of Lithuania in Lithuanian language
  • Jurgis Dobkevičius – Aircraft designer
  • Birutė Galdikas – anthropologist
  • Marija Gimbutienė – archeologist
  • Vytautas Andrius Graičiūnas – management theorist
  • Algirdas Julius Greimas – linguist who contributed to the theory of semiotics, and also researched Lithuanian mythology
  • Aleksandras Griškevičius – (1809–1863) (lt:Aleksandras Griškevičius) pioneer of aviation in Lithuania
  • Jonas Jablonskis – Lithuanian practical linguist, founder of Standard Lithuanian
  • Adolfas Jucys – physicist, pioneer of theory of many-electron atoms in Lithuania
  • Aaron Klug – physicist and chemist, and winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
  • Algis Petras Piskarskas – (1942 -) (lt:Algis Petras Piskarskas) pioneer of laser physics and nonlinear optics in Lithuania
  • Juras Požela – (1935 -) (lt:Juras Požela (1925)) pioneer of plasma physics and semiconductor physics schools in Lithuania
  • Konstantinas Sirvydas – first Lithuanian lexicographer
  • Kazimieras Simonavičius – artillery and rocket scientist
  • Vytautas Straižys – astronomer

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    For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding. It is for hearing. It is not legible, but audible. Our science has always desired to monitor, measure, abstract, and castrate meaning, forgetting that life is full of noise and that death alone is silent: work noise, noise of man, and noise of beast. Noise bought, sold, or prohibited. Nothing essential happens in the absence of noise.
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    Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.
    Jules Henri Poincare (1854–1912)

    It is an axiom in political science that unless a people are educated and enlightened it is idle to expect the continuance of civil liberty or the capacity for self-government.
    Texas Declaration of Independence (March 2, 1836)