Hans Bethe

Hans Albrecht Bethe was a German-American nuclear physicist, and Nobel Prize winner in category of Physics. Early life Hans Bethe was born on July 2, 1906, in Strasbourg, Germany. Hans’ father was a physician, and his mother was an accomplished musician. Hans was very talented child. He had above average mathematical understanding as a child. …

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Max Planck

Max Planck, German physicist considered to be the father of Quantum theory. Early life Max Planck was born on April 23, 1858 in Kiel, Germany, to Johann Julius Wilhelm Planck and Emma Patzig. The marching of Prussian and Austrian troops into Kiel during the Danish-Prussian war of 1864 instigated Planck family to move to Munich. …

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Marie Curie

Marie Curie was a French-Polish physicist and chemist known for her pioneering research on radioactivity. Early life Marie Salomea Skłodowska was born Warsaw on 7 November 1867. She was a child of Bronisława and Władysław Skłodowski, both teachers with good reputation. Marie had four more siblings, Zofia , Józef, Bronisława and Helena. At the age …

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Gustav Kirchhoff

Gustav Kirchhoff was a German physicist who greatly influenced and contributed the foundamental understanding of electrical circuits, spectroscopy, and the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects. Early life Gustav Robert Kirchhoff was born on March 12, 1824, in Königsberg, East Prussia. Gustav was the son of Friedrich Kirchhoff and Johanna Henriette Wittke. Education Kirchhoff …

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Frederick Gowland Hopkins

Frederick Gowland Hopkins was an English biochemist who is best known for his discovery of vitamins, for which he shared a Nobel Prize with Christiaan Eijkman in 1929. Early life Frederick Gowland Hopkins was born in Eastbourne, England on June 20, 1861. His father died when he was a baby, so his mother had to …

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Michael Faraday

Michael Faraday was an English scientist born on September 22, 1791 in Newington Butts. Best known for his breakthroughs in the field of electromagnetism, Faraday was praised by many famous scientists such as Albert Einstein. Early life Faraday, along with three other siblings, grew up in struggling family headed by his father James who was a …

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Francis Crick

Francis Harry Compton Crick was an English molecular biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist best known for being a co-discoverer of the structure of the DNA molecule. Early life Francis Crick was born on June 8th, 1916 in a small village near the English town of Northampton, in which Crick’s father and uncle ran the family’s boot …

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J. J. Thomson

Joseph John “J. J.” Thomson was a British physicist credited with discovering electrons and isotopes, for which he received a Nobel prize. Early life Joseph John Thomson was born in 1856 in Cheetham Hill, England Emma Swindells and Joseph James Thomson, an antiquarian bookshop keeper. Joseph James Thomson was of Scottish origin which explains the …

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Ernst Mayr

Ernst Mayr was one of the 20th century’s leading biologists, specializing in theory of evolution. Early life He was born on July 5, 1904 in Kempten, Germany. Mayr’s father was a jurist who was also interested in natural history. His father used to take him and his older brother out on field trips quite often. …

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Ernest Rutherford

Ernest Rutherford was a British chemist and physicist born in New Zeland, who became known as the father of nuclear physics. Early life Ernest Rutherford was born on August 30, 1871 in rural Nelson. He was the fourth child out of twelve to James and Martha Rutherford. As a boy, Ernest was surrounded by hard …

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