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Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton is considered to be one of the greatest minds of all time. His achievements spanned across many fields including physics, optics, chemistry, mathematics and philosophy. His findings contributed towards the laws of calculus, motion,...

Louis Pasteur

Louis Pasteur

Louis Pasteur was born on 27 December 1822 in Dole in the Jura region of France. His father was a tanner. In 1847, he earned a doctorate from the École Normale in Paris. After several years research and teaching in Dijon and Strasbourg, in 1854, Pasteur...

Eli Whitney

Eli Whitney

Eli Whitney was born in Westboro, Massachusetts on December 8th, 1765. Throughout his spell at Yale University he worked on making and repairing machines to fund his own education. Graduating in 1792, he traveled to Savannah, Georgia, planning to study...

Heinrich Hertz

Heinrich Hertz

Heinrich Hertz was at the heart of many technological developments stemming from his theory that electricity could be transmitted in electromagnetic waves. This made possible the inventions of radio, television and radar. Hertz elaborated on the idea...

Galileo Galilei

Galileo Galilei

Galileo Galilei was born on 15th February, 1564 in Pisa, Italy. Famous for his role in the fields of astronomy and physics, it was his father, Vincenzo, who encouraged his son to become a doctor. At 17 years of age, Galileo began his medicine studies at...

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein

Born in Ulm, in Württemberg, Germany on March 14th 1879, Albert Einstein and his family soon moved to Munich where Einstein started his education - at the Luitpold Gymnasium. He continued his education in Aarau, Switzerland before entering the Swiss...

Tim Berners Lee

Tim Berners Lee

Tim Berners Lee has invented something which affects us all on a daily basis, and something which we take for granted, despite being a relatively new concept. Tim Berners Lee invented the World Wide Web. Born on June 8th, 1955 in London, England, Tim...

George Washington Carver

George Washington Carver

George Washington Carver was an American in nationality. He was loyal entire his life for exploring the developments linked mainly to the cultivating pattern of the southern most regions. The crops he obtained initially modernized the financial system of...

Johannes Gutenberg

Johannes Gutenberg

Johannes Gutenberg was born in the year 1398. He was a German goldsmith. He is the first European to have used movable type printing and also the inventor of the first mechanical printing press. His book, the Gutenberg Bible was one of the most popular...

Henry Ford

Henry Ford

Born in Greenfield, Michigan on the 30th July, 1863, Henry Ford began his historic life journey. Leaving school at 15, he worked on his father's farm, before moving to Detroit in 1879 becoming an apprentice in a machinery shop. Despite a poor salary, he...

Charles Babbage

Charles Babbage

Charles Babbage born in 1791. He originally belonged to England, from a small place called Teignmouth. Charles Babbage was famous in inventing calculators. He completed his high school from Cambridge. Almost all his life was used up to plan different...

Wright Brothers

Wright Brothers

Early age man had invented numerous things. Today, the invention has reached a new level. Fire, food, clothes and many other necessities were prepared for living a better life. Many great scientists and inventors have made it easier for us to get new...

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