Galileo Galilei was a world renowned mathematician, physicist and astronomer who made significant contributions to the scientific revolution. He was born on February 15, 1564 in Pisa, Italy. Galileo’s father, Vincenzo Galilei, was a well-known musician and his mother, Giulia Ammannati, came from a noble family. Galileo was the oldest of seven children. Galileo showed […]
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Michael Faraday was one of the most influential scientists of his time. His work on electricity and magnetism laid the foundations for the modern day understanding of these phenomena. Faraday was born in Newington Butts, England, on September 22, 1791. He was the third of four children born to James Faraday, a blacksmith, and Margaret […]
Max Planck: A Life in Science
Max Planck was born in 1858 in Kiel, Germany. His father was a professor of comparative literature at the University of Kiel. Max was an excellent student, completing his undergraduate studies in physics and mathematics at the University of Munich in 1879. He then went on to study theoretical physics under the guidance of Ludwig […]
Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science
Stephen Hawking was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who was born on January 8, 1942, in Oxford, England. His father, a research biologist, and his mother, a medical secretary, had high hopes for their only son. Stephen was a bright child but he was not a diligent student. At Oxford, he studied physics […]
The Life and Legacy of Marie Curie
Marie Curie was a Polish-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in Physics, the first person and only woman to win twice, the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different sciences, and was part of the Curie family legacy […]
The Wright Brothers: Aviation Pioneers
The Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur, were two American brothers, inventors, and aviation pioneers who are credited with inventing and building the world’s first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight, on December 17, 1903. In the two years afterward, the brothers developed their flying machine into the first […]
Alexander Graham Bell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on March 3, 1847. His family was famous for their work in elocution and speech correction. His father, Melville Bell, developed Visible Speech, a system of symbols that represented the position of the vocal organs in producing speech sounds. His mother, Eliza Grace, was a highly educated […]
A Brief History of Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin was born on February 12, 1809, in Shrewsbury, England. His father, Robert Darwin, was a successful doctor. His mother, Susannah Darwin, died when Charles was eight years old. His father remarried, and Charles gained a stepsister and a stepsister. Darwin was a shy child and was often teased by his siblings. He was […]
Isaac Newton was an English mathematician, physicist, and scientist who is widely considered to be one of the most influential scientists of all time. He was born on January 4, 1643, in the manor house of Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, Lincolnshire, England. His father, also named Isaac Newton, had died three months before Newton was born. His mother, […]
Nikola Tesla was born in 1856 in the Austrian Empire and was a Serbian American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist, and futurist best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system. Tesla started working in the telephone industry before moving to the United States in 1884 […]