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Robert Boyle is known as the “Father of Chemistry”, as he was a well-known philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor. He made many contributions to science, particularly chemistry, philosophy, and even some physics. Although he never married or had children, Boyle spent his life excelling in his field of study in chemistry; however, his other work included hydrostatics, physics, and even medicine. Boyle was born on January 25, 1627. He lived in a town called Lismore, County Waterford, in the…

Mallory James Lynette Burdick CHM 130 11 November 2015 Fritz Haber: For Better and For Worse Fritz Haber, a scientist not well-known to many, has played an immense role for our world today. This paper will describe him, his contributions to the chemistry field, the hardships he had to go through during his career as a chemist and the contradictions of his inventions. Fritz Haber was born into one of the oldest families of Breslau, Germany (now part of Poland) on December 9, 1868. Sadly, his…

“You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.” Galileo Galilei made Mathematics and philosophy his profession, against his fathers thoughts that he should go into medicine. He emerged as the scientist who discovered four of jupiters moons. Without Galileo, we probably wouldn't have known that the speed an object falls is not proportional to its weight. Galileo was the oldest of Vincenzo Galileis children. He was sent to the university of piza to study…

Joseph Priestley was a famous chemist. He was famous for inventing soda water, his writings about electricity, and his discovery of gases. Joseph was born on March 24, 1733, in Bristall. He died February 6, 1804 at the age of 70. Joseph is most known for his discovery of oxygen and for isolating it. Oxygen was not first discovered by Joseph, instead the famous Swedish chemist, Carl W. Scheele, in 1772. Joseph discovered Oxygen independently in 1774. Joseph published his findings in the…

Lise Meitner, a woman physicist who had worked and studied radioactivity and nuclear fission. Meitner’s way of working and studying led to the “radiochemical discovery” of nuclear fission. Her achievement was rewarded with a Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1944. Meitner is often used as an example of a scientific women who was “overlooked by the Nobel committee”. Lise Meitner demonstrates the arduous work she had to do in order to discover her accomplishment which in this case is the discoverment…

Emmy Noether is a well-known mathematician, she was born in Erlangen, Germany on March 23, 1882 and died on April 14, 1935. Her father was the one who raised her; his name was Max Noether and he was a professor in mathematics which is how she became interested in math. She attended classes but was never allowed credit for them she was only able to observe because she was a lady. She did end up graduating from college in Hohere Tochter Schule in Erlangen and was finally able to teach. When she…

On April 22, 1904, the cries of a newborn J. Robert Oppenheimer were heard. He was born into a wealthy New York family. His father, Julius Oppenheimer was an immigrant from Germany in his family’s textile importing business while his mother; Ella Friedman was a painter in New York where her ancestry had been there for generations. Later on, he would receive a little brother named Frank, who would be also be a future physicist. At a young age, he was a sheltered child who was instilled morals,…

Raoul Wallenberg was born on August 4,1912, in Stockholm, Sweden. His father Raoul Oscar Wallenberg died two months before he was born. His mother, Maj Wising married Raoul Wallenberg’s father then married Fredrik von Dardel six years after her husband passed away. Out of this marriage came Raoul Wallenberg’s brother, Guy and sister, Nina. Raoul’s education was taken very seriously. He came from one of the most famous families in Sweden. He went to primary school in Stockholm. When he was nine…

“If you can't fly, then run, if you can't run, then walk, if you can’t walk, then crawl, But whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward. (Martin Luther King Jr.) Even though Eva and Anne both went through really hard times they both continued to move forward. They both had a miserable life but yet they made it the best they could. They both had times where they had to make hard decisions but they continued going. Both “The Diary of Anne Frank” and “Freedom Writers” share the life lesson of…

Albert Schweitzer is identified as a great humanitarian, philosopher, and physician. Albert Schweitzer once said, “The purpose of human life is to serve and show compassion and the will to help others.” Schweitzer was a true citizen of the world. Schweitzer was not only a great philosopher, environmentalist, and man of his time but he was also an extraordinary medical doctor. He lived to help serve those who could not help themselves. Schweitzer believed in having benevolence for all living…