He was religious and therefore tried to connect his work to God by saying how he created the world for certain reasons. General Facts: * He was born 2 days after Christmas on the 27th of December at, now, somewhere in the Stuttgart Region * His grandfather was the mayor but recently their wealth had gone down. * Father was a mercenary and supposedly died in the 80 years’ war in the Netherlands * Mother was healer and herbalist. * Kepler said to be born prematurely and was weak. His Work * First major work: Mysterium Cosmographicum- published as a defence for the Copernican system.
The Franklin ancestry went from successful watchmakers to shopkeepers to publishers and Bankers. (Brenda Maddox, pp 3-4). ‘The Waley’s’; Rosalind’s antecedents on her mom’s side of the family were intellectual and professional. Rosalind’s maternal side of the family had been in England longer than the Franklins. Rosalind’s great grand-father Jacob Waley was first place in Mathematics and classics at University College London, and then he became a professor of Mathematics at University of London.
Shortly after he arrived, Tesla contracted cholera; he was bedridden for nine months and was near death multiple times. Nikola's father, in a moment of despair, promised to send him to the best engineering school if he recovered from the illness[33][34] (his father had originally wanted him to enter the priesthood). [35] In 1874, Tesla evaded being
In his career he was elected leader of several international astronomical groups. He received numerous awards, including the important Vetlesen Prize in 1966 from Columbia University. Oort's early studies, under his teacher Jacobus Kapteyn, made him familiar with Kapteyn's celestial model, which placed the sun at the center of a relatively small galaxy. In 1917, however, Harlow Shapley challenged Kapteyn's model, proposing a far bigger one. Oort's first major scientific achievement was to provide observational evidence that confirmed the main features of Shapley's model.
He attended Harvard beginning in 1923, and graduated in just three years with high honors (“J. Robert Oppenheimer” American History). It was there that he decided to pursue atomic physics (“J. Robert Oppenheimer” American History). He then went to Cambridge for a Doctorate in physics (Gladwell 97).
Leonhard Paul Euler was born on April 15, 1707, he was known as a great mathematician and a physicist. He made important discoveries in the mathematical fields of calculus and graph theory, and was well-known for his works in mechanics, optics, and astronomy. Leonhard Euler was the most one of the best mathematical writer of all times finding time between his thirteen children, to publish over eight hundred papers in his lifetime. He had a remarkable memory, after he lost eyesight in both eyes his memory aided him in publishing his work by dictating them. A man named Francois Arago said of him "He calculated just as men breathe, as eagles sustain themselves in the air."
Unit 4: development through life stages Task: knowing the stages of growth and development through the human lifespan * Famous people of life stages * Theories of development theories of growth. The famous celebrity I will talk about in my assignment is Stephen Hawking. Stephen is an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology within the University of Cambridge. Stephen Hawking was born on the 8th January 1942 in, oxford. He was the son of Frank Hawking, a research biologist, and Isobel Hawking.
John Napier and Logarithms John Napier is the inventor of logarithms. As we know, logarithms are highly used in math and are vital components of Algebra. Napier was born in the town of Merchiston, located in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was born in 1550 to Archibald and Janet Napier and died on April 4th, 1617. Napier’s discovery of logarithms- although hundreds of years old- still influences today’s modern math.
The neglect from her brother and low self-esteem led to Horney’s depression which would affect her for the rest of her life. In 1904 Horney’s stepmother divorced her father and left him to raise Horney and Brendlt by himself. “In 1906, Horney entered medical school against her parent's wishes. At medical school, she met Oscar Horney and married him in 1909. In 1910, she gave birth to Brigitte, the first of three daughters.
George Fairholme was a self-educated wealthy landowner who studied geology, geography, fossils, and living creatures. He wrote two books on geology and his studies of the valley systems of England and Europe and the erosion of sea coasts and some of the major waterfalls in Germany and America led him to believe that Noah’s flood did occur around five thousand years ago. John Murray was a highly educated in the science field with nearly twenty scientific inventions. He also authored twenty-eight books and sixty science journal articles on chemistry, physics, medicine, geology, natural science, and manufacturing. Murray is also credited with writing a passionate pamphlet advocating the end of slavery in the colonies.