The man who invented the computer, Charles Babbage was an English polymath, philosopher, inventor, and mechanical engineer. He is also the inventor of the Mechanical Computer. Often called the ‘Father of the Computer’, Babbage’s work was a stepping to stone that led to major break throughs in creation of more advanced electronic versions of the …
Ada Lovelace has often been credited as the world’s first computer programmer and was a famous mathematician. Early Life Augusta Ada Byron was born December 10, 1815, to the famous English poet George Gordon Byron and his wife Anne Isabella Milbanke. The Byrons were a complicated family. Lord Byron had left Anne for another woman …
Ptolemy was one of the most famous mathematicians of all time. He lived in Alexandria, Egypt during the 2nd century AD. His work on mathematics and astronomy is still studied and admired today. Ptolemy’s life was filled with adventure and discovery, and his work has had a lasting impact on the field of mathematics. Early …
Lynn Margulis was an American biologist and university professor who has pioneered important concepts in the fields of biology of cells and microbial evolution. She is best known for her theory on the origin of eukaryotic organelles. Early life Margulis was born in Chicago on March 5, 1938. She was the eldest of four daughters. …
Louis de Broglie, was a French physicist best known for his theory of wave nature of electrons. Early life Louis Victor Pierre Raymond Broglie was born on August 15th, 1892 to a noble family in Dieppe, Seine-Maritime. He was a son to Victor, Duc de Broglie and Pauline d’Armaillé. Education Louis De Broglie attended Lycée …
Kurt Friedrich Godel (Kurt Friedrich Gödel) was an Austrian mathematician/logician. Godel’s work made great impact on both mathematical and logical societies respectively. Early life Kurt Friedrich Godel was born April 28, 1906, in Brno, Austria-Hungary in ethnic German family of Rudolf Gödel, local manager in textile industry, and Marianne Gödel. Although he was ethnicaly Austrian, …
Karl Landsteiner was an Austrian biologist and physician. He is best know for distinguishing the main blood groups in 1900. He identified the presence of agglutinins in the blood and classified the blood groups. Early life Landsteiner was born on June 14, 1868. Landsteiner’s father Leopold, known Viennese journalist, died at age 56, when Karl …
Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch was a German physician. He is one of the founders of microbiology, and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Early life Koch was born on December 11, 1843 in Clausthal, which was then part of Prussia. He was one of thirteen childern born to a mining engineer and …
Rudolph Carl Virchow was a German doctor, anthropologist and pathologist , mostly known for his research of cellular pathology. Early life Rudolf Virchow was born on October 13th, 1821 in a farming family in town of Schivelbein, province of Pomerania, Kingdom of Prussia. However little is known about his family and his early years. Education …
Stephen Hawking was a British scientist considered to be one of the most prominent scientific minds of our time. His contribution is mostly recognized in the field of theoretical physics and cosmology. Early life Stephen Hawking was born on January 8th, 1942 to Frank Hawking and Isobel Hawking. He was one of four siblings, having …