Albert Camus

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a man who stood up for his beliefs even until death. He left us an example of what a true Christian person is like. He lived in the time of World War II and the Holocaust. And because of his involvement as a spy during the World War II, opposing the Nazi government, and maintaining a leadership role in the Confessing Church, Dietrich Bonhoeffer is remembered as a very important individual in the fight against human injustice. Dietrich Bonhoeffer was born on…

Contemporary Exemplar Work Building upon the early research of Greenstein (1965) and others, more recent work on childhood exemplars has sought to focus on specific types of exemplars. Athletes and entertainers are the most popular areas of research, with general archetypes also being examined. Despite the fact that these studies do not overtly focus on the political nature of exemplars, these studies contribute both initial assumptions for what types of individuals are likely to be current…

biochemistry. After he graduated he married Margaret Joan Howe at age 22 and had three children with her. He later came back and worked with Albert Neuberger in order to study the metabolism of lysine, a protein not produced in animals. Later, he got his Ph.D. in 1943 and then turned his focus to the structure of proteins. Soon after, Sanger went to work with Albert Chinball in London in order to prove that the sequences of all proteins were…

Albert Einstein and Steve Jobs are two examples that used goals and dreams to push themselves to achieve great things. Albert Einstein, as a kid, was told he wasn’t intelligent enough in elementary school as he struggled through the younger years of his life in his schooling. He had speech challenges through elementary…

Leonhard Euler was born on 15 April 1707. In a town call Basel located in Switzerland. His father Paul Euler was a pastor of the Reformed church. Leonhard Euler had two younger sisters called Anna Maria and Maria Magdalena. Later on the Euler’s moved from basal to the town of Riehen, where Euler spent most of his child hood. Leonhard Euler formal education started in Basel where he was sent to live with maternal grandmother. When Leonhard Euler was thirteen he enrolled at the University of Basel…

orn in Odessa, Russia in 1904, George was raised by his mother and father who were both teachers, until he was nine-years-old when his mother died. Neither were science teachers, but they helped George to learn how to speak Russian and French. He also learned German and English. Nineteen years old, and one year after the founding of the USSR, George went to the University of Leningrad to study physics. He and his friends would often discuss quantum mechanics which was cutting edge science at…

James Chadwick was a very intelligent boy, as a teenager he knew that he wanted to study physics and so he did. James Chadwick went to the University of Cambridge at the age of 17, in the year 1908. When he was 19 he was in his final year of his physics degree. James’ teacher was Ernest Rutherford another famous scientist who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, because of his studies on disintegrating the atom. After James turned in his research paper he graduated with first class honors. For…

The human brain is an amazing organ full of resilience, sustainability to adapt. When the lost of a brain function occurs, the common coping mechanism is to "unlock" a new skill. However, this actuality is a complicated thought to grasp. Daniel Kish is an example of the brains amazing capacity ability. At the age of 13 months, he lost his ability to see, by age 2 Kish used echolocation to navigate the world. Psychologically and physically is a very demanding task, which is why only a few in the…

Joseph Licklider Joseph Licklider had a very full life he was very happy and also very energetic; He was born and raised in St. Louis Missouri. Lick got married on January 20, 1945 to a beautiful woman named Alberta Louise. They also had a lot of family for instance Tracy Robnett Licklider of Cambridge and Linda Licklider Smith of Arlington; his grandchildren, Allison R. Smith and Zachary Licklider; his daughter-in-law, Janani Licklider, and his son-in-law, Dr. Lorne A. Smith. But he sadly died…

University, where he went on to get his bachelor’s, master’s, and an honorary science doctorate.2 Despite having such prominent degrees in their respective science fields, every single one of these men was a member of multiple science societies. Professor Albert Perry Brigham, involved with geology and physical geography, was a member of closely related organizations such as the National Geographic Society, and the New York Science Teachers Association. The prominent men of science all had…