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.
Lloyd Hall Lloyd Hall was born on June 20, 1894 in Elgin, Illinois. He was an honor student while attending West Side High School in Aurora, Illinois and captained the school debate team while competing in baseball, football and track. Lloyd graduated High School in the top 10 of his class and had to choose between four college scholarship offers. He decided to attend nearby Northwestern University, earning a Bachelor Degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry in 1916. While at Northwestern, Hall attended classes with a fellow student named Carroll L. Griffith who would later go on to become the founder of Griffith Laboratories.
Martin had an enormous effect in social America. He led a massive protest in Birmingham, Alabama that was noticed world wide. In 1963, Dr. King directed a peaceful march in Washington D.C. when he delivered the speech, “I have a dream…” He was also named Man of the Year by Time Magazine in 1963. Martin led a social reform movement for civil rights that unified the middle class African-Americans. At age thirty-five, Martin Luther King, Jr. was the youngest man to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
He first served as an electronics instructor aboard the battleships Wyoming and Mississippi. He then went on to attend submarine school where he graduated third. In 1951 he joined the nuclear submarine program, and became engineering officers aboard the Sea Wolf.
I loved every detail about it so that’s what I choose when I was picking my electives for my first year of high school. My true inspiration was my uncle and my dad’s cousin who were both in the United States Marine Corps. My uncle (my mom’s brother) was in the Marine Corps as a private first class but was demoted down to private after shooting a firework at a barn that then got on fire. He died on October 23, 1983 in The Beirut Barracks Bombing in Beirut, Lebanon. What inspiring me about him was that he was in the 1st Marine Recon, my mother would tell me great stories about him, and his medal which is the Purple Heart.
Bell Laboratories invented the transistor. Edwin Land invented the Polaroid Land camera selling for $89.75. Holography, a technique that created three-dimensional images, was created by Dennis Gabor. In 1949 Physicist Harold Lyons built the first atomic clock which was accurate to within a few seconds over fifty years. In this same year cake mix was
Co-authors Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey were able to use their past and present life experiences to create the hit musical Grease, which some critics found entertaining, and some found mediocre. One of the authors of the play Grease was Jim Jacobs. He was born and raised on the northwest side of Chicago (“Playbill” 1). He went to Taft High school and played the guitar during the era of rock ‘n’ roll (“Playbill” 1). The band he played in was called DDT and the Dynamiters (Corbett
Harry did his graduate work at Stanford where he studied with Lewis Terman. Terman convinced Harry Israel to change his name to a “less Jewish-sounding name”, and so came the name Harry Harlow. Harry later married a former “gifted child” of Terman’s, Clara Waters (Slater, 6). Later on, he took a job at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Although his original plan was to work with rats, he wound up working with Rhesus monkeys (Slater, 6).
As a member of William Douglas McAdams, a small New York-based advertising firm, Sackler expanded the possibilities of medical advertising by promoting products in medical journals and experimenting with television and radio marketing. Perhaps his greatest achievement, detailed in his biography in the Medical Advertising Hall of Fame, was finding enough different uses for Valium to turn it into the first drug to hit $100 million in
OUR FOUNDING FATHER BENJAMIN FRANKLIN BRANDIE JACKSON COLLEGE AMERICA Benjamin Franklin our 6th president was born January 17, 1706, in Boston MA. His education was Boston Latin School 1714-1716. He was given the Copley award which is an award for outstanding achievements in research in any branch of science it was given by the Royal Society of London. Benjamin Franklin discovered electricity, and founded the first library. He was put to work at the age of 10 by his father making soap and candles; he didn’t like that too much, so he started writing newspapers with his brother.