Physics

The definition of honorable is highest respect; esteem. I think honorable Font means that it is someone being praised or does something good. They deserve to be honored. Some accomplishments of Alfred Wegener is he proposed the theory of continental drift – the idea that Earth’s continents move. Despite publishing a large body of compelling fossil and rock evidence for his theory between 1912 and 1929, it was rejected by most other scientists. It was only in the 1960s that continental drift…

The butterfly effect is one of the most apparent principles from the chaos theory in Brave New World. The Butterfly Effect is the idea that small changes have the potential to have monumental effects. In the late 1800s to the early 1900s, While working on the three body problem, Henri Poincare said, “small differences in the initial conditions produce very great ones in the final phenomena.” In 1901 Fichte wrote in The Vocation of Man, “you could not remove a single grain of sand from its place…

Ben Franklin was born in Boston on January 17, 1706. Ben had 16 brothers and sisters. Ben wanted to write for the paper with his brother, he was very successful with his job. Ben decided to turn to science and become an inventor. He invented the heat efficient stove. It was used to heat up houses. The stove helped improve society. Ben franklin also was the first person to invent the swim fins. Ben loved to swim and he wanted to find a way to make it easier to swim. First he invented wooden…

Frederick Sanger was born to Cicely Sanger and Frederick Sanger on August 13, 1918 in Rendcomb, England. At age 18 Sanger went against his family and decided to become a scientist instead of a doctor like his father (Jeffers, 2017). He attended St. John’s College in Cambridge and majored in 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…

1.a What is science? Science. What is it, and why exactly is it important? Well, sit back, and let me explain. Once upon a time, a guy named Isaac Newton, was sitting underneath an apple tree reading some book that he must have found amusing, when suddenly – an apple falls down, and hits his head. This made Isaac think: What gave the apple the power to fall down? Why didn’t it go up, or sideways? And then he wondered: Why do I fall back down, whenever I jump? After thinking about for a couple of…

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…

I found the story of John Harrison to be quite sad. He spent his lifetime trying to solve the problem of longitude only to be rejected time after again by people that most likely didn't even understand his constructions. Even after Harrison had finally finished the pocket watch that was capable of telling time more accurate than any other at its time, others were still unwilling to accept the possibility that it could solve the problem. I think that this was much more common in the past due to…

The Calculus Controversy is a very famous argument among many mathematicians. This argument consists of one simple question: who invented calculus? Many mathematicians argue Isaac Newton invented calculus; others say it was Gottfried Leibniz. Let’s start with Isaac Newton. Isaac Newton attended the University of Cambridge. In 1666 he was sent home due to a plague, thus resulting in free time on his own. Because of this, he came up with what we know now as calculus. Newton didn’t call it…

During the early twentieth century, getting an education was a dilemma, but it was more doable in comparison to centuries prior. Commonalities between the most prominent figures in science can be easily identified. Some of the most frequently seen similarities can be spotted between the job these men had and where they were from, the education they obtained, how far into their studies they went, and how involved they were in society. Based on the evidence provided, American men of the early…

My person is Leonhard Euler. He was born in Basel, Switzerland, on April 15, 1707. His parents were Paul Euler and Marguerite Brucker. Euler had 2 sisters. Later in his life, he had 13 children, with his first wife Katharina Gsell, though only 5 survived to adulthood. He had 2 spouses. Salome Abigail Gsell from 1776-1783, and Katharina Gsell from 1734-1773. Leonhard was a Swiss mathematician and physicist, which helped in him being one of the founders in pure mathematics. Euler contributed to…