For their efforts, along with a scientist named Wilkins, they were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology of Medicine in 1962 for their fascinating discoveries. James Watson was born April 6, 1928 (age 86) Chicago, Illinois. He was fascinated with bird watching, a hobby shared with his father, so he considered majoring in ornithology. Watson appeared on a popular radio show that challenged bright youngsters to answer questions. Thanks to the liberal policy of University president Robert Hutchins, he enrolled at the University of Chicago, where he was awarded a tuition scholarship, at the age of 15.
In 1895, he moved to Cleveland, Ohio, where he worked repairing sewing machines for a clothing manufacturer. In 1916 he helped to found the Cleveland Call newspaper, and subsequently participated in a 1928 merger that created the Call and Post newspaper. He married his first wife, Madge Nelson, in 1896, but that marriage ended in divorce. Word of his skill at fixing things and experimenting spread quickly throughout Cleveland, opening up various opportunities for him. On July 25, 1916, Garrett Morgan made national news for using his gas mask to rescue 32 men trapped during an explosion in an underground tunnel 250 feet beneath Lake Erie.
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT IN UNITED STATES HISTORY Lecture Outline 23 October 2007 Simon Baatz FOR THE THRILL OF IT: LEOPOLD, LOEB, AND THE MURDER THAT SHOCKED CHICAGO A. The Accused • Nathan Leopold: high school: Harvard School; two brothers; graduated Phi Beta Kappa from University of Chicago in 1923 at 18 years; studying law at Chicago; has published articles on ornithology: father is millionaire businessman; • Richard Loeb: high school: University High School; three brothers; graduated University of Michigan in 1923 at 17 years; graduate student in history at University of Chicago; father is millionaire & vice-president of Sears, Roebuck & Co. • Leopold & Loeb: first meet at age 15 B. The Confessions • 29
His activities resulted in a warrant for his arrest, and in 1842 Pinkerton fled to the United States, settling in Chicago” He was a cooper by trade, a trade he had learned in Scotland. After being in Chicago a year he set up a cooper shop in Dundee, Kane County. Pinkerton eventually became a Chicago Cook County Sheriff's Department as a deputy. According to The Limbaugh (2010) website “Mr. Pinkerton was contracted with the federal
In November 1885 he went to Newberg, Oregon, to live with his uncle Dr. John Minthorn, a physician and businessman whose own son had died the year before. After attending Quaker schools, Hoover became part of the first class to enter Stanford University when it opened in 1891. He graduated four years later with a degree in geology and launched a lucrative career as a mining engineer. Hoover traveled
Describe the life of the personality you have studied (2010 HSC) Born in Mannheim, Germany in 1905, Albert Speer was persuaded to take up architecture by his father who made a significant impact on Speer’s life. He pursued his architecture studies at the Institute of Technology in Karlsruhe in 1923 and graduated in four years later, two years before the Great Depression. He became Professor Tessenow’s assistant, a supporter of the Nazi Party in the same year, opening the door for Speer. It must be noted that Speer and his family were an apolitical family. Speer’s first introduction to Nazism was in 1930 where he attended a meeting which Hitler spoke at.
Later Severo was elected to become a member of the editorial board of the JBC. He would also become the president of the American Society of Biological Chemists. In 1929 he completed his college semester, and would now be starting his life as a scientist and a doctor. Severo Ochoa then headed over to Germany as a scholar. He went to Kaiser Wilhelm Institute Heidelberg.
Avery Brundage (/ˈeɪvri ˈbrʌndɨdʒ/; September 28, 1887 – May 8, 1975) was the fifth president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), serving from 1952 to 1972. The only American to attain that position, Brundage is remembered as a zealous advocate of amateurism, and for his involvement with the 1936 and 1972 Summer Olympics, both held in Germany. Brundage was born in Detroit in 1887 to a working-class family; when he was five years old, his father moved his family to Chicago and subsequently abandoned his wife and children. Raised mostly by relatives, he attended the University of Illinois to study engineering and became a track star. In 1912, he competed in the Summer Olympics, contesting the pentathlon and decathlon, but did not win any medals; both events were won by Jim Thorpe.
He received support for reasearch at the University of Toronto and began work on May 17th, 1921 assisted by Charles H. Best. later that year, Banting and Best were able to make a pancreatic extract which had anti-diabetic characteristics. they were successful in testing their extract on diabetic dogs. Within months professor J.J.R. Macleod, who provided the lab space and direction to Banting and Best, put his research team to work on the production and purification of insulin.
Hist 1302 Assignment 4 Henry Ford was born on July 30, 1863, on his family’s farm near Dearborn, Michigan. When Henry was 15, his father had given him a pocket watch, which he took apart right away and reassembled. Friends and neighbors were impressed and requested that he fix their timepieces too. Not satisfied with farm work, Henry Ford left home the next year, at age 16, to take an apprenticeship as a machinist in Detroit. In the years that followed, he would learn to skillfully operate and service steam engines, and would also study bookkeeping.