Historic Bios
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, in the Kingdom of Württemberg in the German Empire, on 14 March 1879. His parents were Hermann Einstein, a salesman and engineer, and Pauline Koch. In 1880, the family moved to Munich, where Einstein’s father and his uncle Jakob founded Elektrowerkzeuge Hermann Einstein & Cie, a company that manufactured […]