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Johannes Gutenberg

A German inventor, printer, publisher, and goldsmith who introduced printing to Europe

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A Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker and draughtsman

Nino Rota

An Italian composer, pianist, conductor and academic who composed the music for the first two fil...

Thomas Carlyle

A Scottish historian, satirical writer, essayist, translator, philosopher, mathematician, and tea...

William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin

William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin

A British mathematician, mathematical physicist, and engineer whose works helped to formulate the...

Oliver Cromwell

Oliver Cromwell

Aan English general and statesman who led armies of the Parliament of England against King Charle...

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Carl Woese: A structural biologist’s perspective

Carl Woese: A structural biologist’s perspective

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None who knew Carl will be surprise to learn that scientific meetings contributed next to nothing to our scientific interactions. The meeting of the ribosome fraternity that was held in Madison, WI, in 1979 is the only one I can think of that we both attended, and there Carl gave a talk in which he vehemently criticized the members of that community, to which I belong, for its collective failure to develop a theory about ribosomes and the mechanism of protein synthesis robust enough to guide the research we were doing.1 It baffled me. How do you come up with a theory about something you har...

Albert Einstein Biography From Nobel Lectures

Albert Einstein Biography From Nobel Lectures

Albert Einstein was born at Ulm, in Württemberg, Germany, on March 14, 1879. Six weeks later the family moved to Munich, where he later on began his schooling at the Luitpold Gymnasium. Later, they moved to Italy and Albert continued his education at Aarau, Switzerland and in 1896 he entered the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich to be trained as a teacher in physics and mathematics. In 1901, the year he gained his diploma, he acquired Swiss citizenship and, as he was unable to find a teaching post, he accepted a position as technical assistant in the Swiss Patent Office. In 1905 he obtained his doctor’s degree.During his stay at the Patent Office, and in his spare time, he produced much of his remarkable work and in 1908 he was appointed Privatdozent in Berne. In 1909 he became Professor Extraordinary at Zurich, in 1911 Professor of Theoretical Physics at Prague, returning to Zurich in the following year to fill a similar post. In 1914 he was appointed Director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Physical In...

Unthinkable: Irish radical’s challenge to notion of God still relevant

Unthinkable: Irish radical’s challenge to notion of God still relevant

That John Toland is not a household name in Ireland has surely much to do with the influence of the Catholic Church on education. A scholar, philosopher and political activist, he was the Richard Dawkins of the early Enlightenment period, railing against clericalism and superstition with a fiery tongue.Born in 1670 in Inishowen, Co Donegal, he grew up an Irish-speaking Catholic, and converted to Protestantism at the age of 14, allowing him to attend a secondary school. His first book Christianity Not Mysterious was declared heretical and was publicly burned, leading to Toland’s exile...

British Prime Ministers: Sir Robert Walpole

British Prime Ministers: Sir Robert Walpole

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Over the high table at King's College, Cambridge, hanging in the place of honour, is a splendid portrait of Sir Robert Walpole. There he is – short, fat, coarse-featured, jovial, resplendent in the Garter of which he was so proud. But he is not without dignity, nor even without a certain mystery; for his eyes, alert and guarded, hint that his character was not so obvious as, perhaps, he wished it to seem. The same remark may be made of Walpole's career. The lover of peace who carefully avoided sleeping dogs, the cynic who knew the price, of men, the creator of parties, of cabinet government...

Carl Woese: A structural biologist’s perspective

Albert Einstein Biography From Nobel Lectures

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British Prime Ministers: Sir Robert Walpole

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From Vienna to the Silver Screen: the life of Erich Korngold explored

Music

From Vienna to the Silver Screen: the life of Erich Korngold explored

Having Wolfgang for a middle name doesn’t necessarily guarantee musical prodigy status, but it sure helps. Following in Mozart’s footsteps, Erich Wolfgang Korngold began composing at a tender age. Whereas Mozart had a composer for a father, Korngold had a music critic. Dr Julius Korngold wrote fo...

Astronomer and Alchemist Tycho Brahe Died Full of Gold

Astronomy

Astronomer and Alchemist Tycho Brahe Died Full of Gold

A new study based on chemical analysis of Brahe’s remains has shown that he was regularly exposed to large quantities of gold throughout his life.Tycho Brahe, born on this day in 1546, is known for his interest in alchemy as well as his contributions to astronomy, like his d...

Mendeleev - the man and his legacy

Chemistry

Mendeleev - the man and his legacy

Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev the youngest of 14 children was born at Tobolsk, Siberia, 500 miles east of the Ural mountains, on 27 January 1834 (OS*). A double disaster struck the family of teenager Dmitri. First his father, headmaster and literature teacher at a local secondary school, died a...