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Copernicus Festival http://copernicusfestival.com A genius is a person who displays exceptionally superior intellectual ability, creativity or originality, typically to a degree that is associated with the achievement of new advances in a domain of knowledge. I his lecture George Ellis deal only with scientific geniuses and illustrates this theme by 27 examples of greats who set up the path of modern science. George Ellis is the Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Complex Systems in the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. He co-authored "The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time" with University of Cambridge physicist Stephen Hawking, published in 1973, and is considered one of the world's leading theorists in cosmology.