Category Archives: Scientific

Sir Tim Berners-Lee – Computer Scientist

Posted on May 26, 2011 by admin

Many of the people we write about on this site are not heroic in the traditional sense of the word – there are very few military honours listed here. Sporting and artistic merit is just as important for us and … Continue reading →

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Neil Young – Musician – Part Six

Posted on May 4, 2011 by admin

In this final part of our brief look at the life and work of legendary recording artist Neil Young we’ll start by getting up to date with his most recent work. Several new albums were recorded during the mid to … Continue reading →

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Albert Einstein – Part Three

Posted on January 18, 2011 by admin

In the first two articles we looked at Albert Einsteins’s early life and education, his work for the patent office in Bern and his subsequent publication of his most famous papers on general and special relativity and other breakthrough works. … Continue reading →

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Albert Einstein – Part Two

Posted on January 11, 2011 by admin

Although an exceptional academic, Einstein had a domestic life as well. He met his first wife, Mileva Maric, when she was the only woman among six students enrolled in the mathematics and physics course at Zurich Polytechnic. Although a talented … Continue reading →

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Albert Einstein – Part One

Posted on January 5, 2011 by admin

Albert Einstein is often regarded as the father of modern physics. He preceded today’s physicists such as Roger Penrose and Stephen Hawking, arguably a couple of the best known scientists currently working today and came after such intellectual giants as … Continue reading →

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Stephen Hawking

Posted on December 21, 2010 by admin

Stephen Hawking was born on the 8th January 1942in Oxfordshire in the U.K. His contributions to mathematics and theoretical physics have placed him in the same league as genuises such as Isaac Newton, Carl Gauss and Albert Einstein. His teachers … Continue reading →

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