William Hershel was a scientist that studied many things. He discovered the planet Uranus by looking through a telescope, and the telescope allowed Herschel to see that the planet Uranus was a planet and not a star. This was a huge discovery in science. The motivation that led to this discovery was the motivation to see if Uranus was a planet or a star.…
William Leidesdorff Jr As many would believe, being an African American severely shortens the line of opportunities compared to that of white individuals particularly white males. Especially in the field of business, yet some blacks such as Paul Cuffee, William Whipper, James forten and the many more who succeeded in the field of business who were some would say are the anomalies of success in the African American society. Though there are many African-American business men and women that made economic strides to better themselves and others. One in particularly became the first African American millionaire, William Leidesdorff Jr.…
For example, Rosalind Franklin discovered the chemical structure of DNA, but James Watson and Francis Crick got the majority of the credit until it was revealed that…
Millions, including Simon Wiesenthal, faced horrendous circumstances as a Nazi prisoner during the Holocaust. While performing slave labor, Wiesenthal receives with an astounding request from an unexpected source, a Nazi SS officer, and faces an unimaginable entreaty. When Simon Wiesenthal awoke each morning in the concentration camp, his primary thoughts were likely on survival and his only concern regarding the SS officers was avoidance. Unbeknownst to him, while performing slave labor at a hospital near the concentration camp, Wiesenthal would interact with an SS officer amid unlikely and unexpected circumstances.…
Week 3 compost Karl Singletary I am proud to call Karl Singletary uncle (Bird) this is a nick name my grandfather gave him because as a little boy he wanted to fly. My grandparents didn't approve of Karl dancing, so he left home at a very young age, he danced ballet in Europe and across the USA as a young man after training for decades under the world’s greatest Russian classicists. According to PAUL A. BARRA Karl Singletary was the first African American to receive a scholarship to the American Ballet Theater in Manhattan. That was in 1967.…
Not only did the discovery help people but it also cost the lives of many. New diseases were transferred to all corners of the world killing millions. (Bio) Wiping out a huge chunk of history that will never be found. He also set the table for the American Revolution and the founding of the United States.…
“An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made , in a narrow field.” Niels Bohr Everyone can become an expert in their own field By practicing ,working hard, and persevering through hard times. Paul George broke his leg at practice .He was out for most of the season .He had to learn how to walk ,jump ,and run again. He had to go to rehab to learn everything again. Then at the end of the season he came back better than ever.…
For example, Thomas Edison was extremely famous. Given credit for inventing the lightbulb, he also made the Phonograph, a device that can record and playback one’s voice, and the electric generator. He had his own laboratory where he also invented the first motion picture and an improved battery. Lewis Altimeter would soon improve Edison’s light bulb with a carbon filament making it last a whole lot longer. Cyrus Field laid a telegraph cable across the Atlantic and Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876.…
1900. 1869- Friedrich Miescher identifies "nuclein In 1868, Johann Friedrich Miescher, a Swiss, twenty-four years old, scientist went to Tilbingen to study with Ernst Felix Hoppe-Seyler, an ingenious chemist, the scientist who gave hemoglobin its present name, and who founded the first journal of biochemistry. Miescher was interested in the chemistry of the nucleus. Miescher did his experiments on white blood cells from pus, which have big nuclei and not much cytoplasm, and which he got from discarded surgical bandages from the local surgical clinic.…
William Herschel was an Englishman in the late 1700s who became very interested in astronomy and fascinated at the question that other life existed beyond Earth. He began reading novels on astronomy and even began making his own telescopes to begin observing the vast night sky. Motivated in his belief that life existed outside of Earth, Herschel began searching the heavens for clues of foreign new life. On March 13, 1781, Herschel noticed something he hadn’t before. Presuming it to be a comet, he recorded his discovery.…
Dietrich Bonhoeffer You can find most of the information that I’m about to type here: https://wikipedia.com/deitrich_bonhoeffer This will be a report about Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Bonhoeffer had a large family, including his twin sister. His career was a lecturer in systematic theology at the University of Berlin. Deeply interested in ecumenism, he was appointed by the World Alliance for Promoting International Friendship through the Churches (a forerunner of the World Council of Churches) as one of its three European youth secretaries. His dream for this career was drastically altered by the Nazi’s power on thirtieth January, 1933.…
He had many inventions in his life he had made geometry equations and problems and was one of the most people to solve a mathematic equation. He was a very intelligent man but he didn’t seem to know or do much till after he had started getting into math and other things. He had made very interesting things and even in college he even had helped other and he made a club to help others who were interested in science and math just like he was so then later on after that he had many of people do make and come up with many ideas to make and do for experiments for fun instead of dong boring things in college and partying like most people he and his friends wanted to actually do things and discover new…
Infrared waves is an electromagnetic radiations of a wavelength and or colour. They are usually between 740 nanometers. 1 millimeter is equals to 1 million nanometers. Human eyes can't detect on the red side of a rainbow. William Herschel is the person who first discovered infrared around 1800.…
My biography is about an inventor named Johannes Gutenberg which is short for Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg. Johannes Gutenberg was born in the year of 1395 in Mainz, Germany. Gutenberg's nationality was German. He was born in a modest family. I do know he had siblings, but I could not find any information about their names or anything else.…
Karl Lagerfeld is one of the most eminent fashion designers in today’s fashion industry. He was born in Hamburg, Germany on September 10th 1938. Karl is mainly recognized for being the head designer and creative director of the acclaimed fashion label Coco Chanel and Fendi. As a young boy, Karl grew up in a wealthy home alongside two sisters; his father was a businessman, and his mother an accomplished violin player, avid fan of fine fragrances, and an inspiration to Karl for her great sense of style. Aside from being inspired by his mother, Karl derived part of his inspiration from history books, and their lessons on costumes through the ages.…