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[[Image:Baku 1.jpg|thumb|right|A view of Baku from the top of Maiden's Tower]]
*Prominent [[Chess]] [[International Grandmaster|Grandmasters]] hailing from Baku include [[Garry Kasparov]], who is ethnic Armenian, [[Elmar Magerramov]] and [[Teimour Radjabov]]▼
*[[Genrich Altshuller]] lived and worked in Baku since he was 5 years old. Genrich Altshuller is the father of [[TRIZ]] (TIPS) system, inventor and author.▼
*[[Lev Davidovich Landau]] [http://nobelprize.org/physics/laureates/1962/landau-bio.html] was born in Baku on [[January 22]] [[1908]]. He won The Nobel Prize in Physics in 1962 for his pioneering theories for condensed matter, especially liquid helium.
▲*Prominent [[Chess]] [[International Grandmaster|Grandmasters]] hailing from Baku include [[Garry Kasparov]], who is ethnic Armenian, [[Elmar Magerramov]] and [[Teimour Radjabov]]
*[[Kerim Kerimov]], head of [[Soviet space program]] for 25 years and one of the founders of the Soviet space industry, was born in Baku on [[14 November]] [[1917]].▼
*[[Lev Nussimbaum]] a prolific Jewish writer who reinvented himself as a Muslim under the pseudonyms Essad Bey and Kurban Said.
*[[Mstislav Rostropovich]] [http://www.bakupages.com/enc-show.php?cmm_id=0&id=172&c=938] was born in Baku on [[March 27]] [[1927]], and also died in Baku. He was one of the most esteemed cellists of his generation.
*[[Richard Sorge]] [http://www.bakupages.com/enc-show.php?cmm_id=0&id=171&c=938], one of the greatest spies in modern history, was born in 1895 in Baku. Acting as a German journalist in Germany, China and Japan he passed vital information to the Soviet intelligence agencies.
▲*[[Genrich Altshuller]] lived and worked in Baku since he was 5 years old. Genrich Altshuller is the father of [[TRIZ]] (TIPS) system, inventor and author.
*[[Lotfi Zadeh]], inventor of [[fuzzy logic]], was born in Baku on [[4 February]] [[1921]], grew up in Iran, and is now (2005) a professor of computer science at [[University of California, Berkeley]].
▲*[[Kerim Kerimov]], head of [[Soviet space program]] for 25 years and one of the founders of the Soviet space industry, was born in Baku on [[14 November]] [[1917]].
==Pictures of Baku==
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