Georgios Papanikolaou

Georgios Papanikolaou (13 May 1883 – 19 February 1962) was a Greek pioneer in cytopathology and early cancer detection, and inventor of the “Pap smear”. On 13 May 2019, the date of what would have been his 136th birthday, he was honored with a Google Doodle.

Salvador Dalí

Salvador Dalí (11 May 1904 – 23 January 1989), was a prominent Spanish surrealist born in Figueres, Catalonia, Spain. His best-known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in August 1931. Dalí’s expansive artistic repertoire included film, sculpture, and photography…

Richard Feynman

Richard Feynman (May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) was an American theoretical physicist. For his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics, Feynman, jointly with Julian Schwinger and Shin’ichirō Tomonaga, received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965.

Marlene Dietrich

Marie Magdalene “Marlene” Dietrich (27 December 1901 – 6 May 1992) was a German-American actress and singer. Throughout her long career, which spanned from the 1910s to the 1980s, she continually reinvented herself.

Orson Welles

George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an American actor, director, writer and producer who worked in theatre, radio and film. He is remembered for his work in film, Citizen Kane (1941), consistently ranked as one of the greatest films ever made.

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst. In creating psychoanalysis, Freud developed therapeutic techniques such as the use of free association and discovered transference, establishing its central role in the analytic process. Freud lived and worked in Vienna, having set up his … Περισσότερα

Iris Murdoch-The Sea, the Sea-ΘΑΛΑΣΣΑ, ΘΑΛΑΣΣΑ-ΕΚΔΟΣΕΙΣ ΧΑΤΖΗΝΙΚΟΛΗ 1990

«Η ζήλεια είναι ίσως το πιο αθέλητο απ’ όλα τα ισχυρά συναισθήματα. Κλέβει τη συνείδηση, ξαπλώνεται πιο βαθιά κι από τη σκέψη. Είναι πάντα εκεί, σαν τα ίχνη μιας γροθιάς στο μάτι, αφαιρεί από τον κόσμο τα χρώματά του». (Iris Murdoch-The Sea, the Sea.) https://readingbookstoknowourselves.com/2019/05/02/iris-murdoch-the-sea-the-sea-%CE%B8%CE%B1%CE%BB%CE%B1%CF%83%CF%83%CE%B1-%CE%B8%CE%B1%CE%BB%CE%B1%CF%83%CF%83%CE%B1-%CE%B5%CE%BA%CE%B4%CE%BF%CF%83%CE%B5%CE%B9%CF%83-%CF%87%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%B6%CE%B7/