Physicists Essays
Posted: July 9th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: People, World War 2 (WW2) | Tags: Albert Einstein, Anti-Nazism, Atomic Bomb, Germany, Judaism, Mass–Energy Equivalence, Nobel Prize, Patents, Photoelectric Effect, Physicists, Physics, Scientists, Theory of Relativity, World War II, Zionism | Comments Off
Of all the scientists to emerge from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries there is one whose name is known by almost all living people. While most of these do not understand this man’s work, everyone knows that its impact on the world of science is astonishing. Yes, many have heard of Albert Einstein’s General Theory [...]
Posted: July 9th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: People | Tags: Calculator, Mathematics, Philosophers, Physicists, Physics | Comments Off
Blaise Pascal was born at Clermont, Auvergne, France on June 19, 1628. He was the son of Etienne Pascal, his father, and Antoinette Begone, his mother who died when Blaise was only four years old. After her death, his only family was his father and his two sisters, Gilberte, and Jacqueline, both of whom played [...]
Posted: July 1st, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: People, Philosophy | Tags: Astronomy, kinematics, Mathematics, Philosophers, Physicists, Physics, Scientific Revolution | Comments Off
Galileo Galilei was born at Pisa on the 18th of February in 1564. His father, Vincenzo Galilei, belonged to a noble family and had gained some distinction as a musician and a mathematician. At an early age, Galileo manifested his ability to learn both mathematical and mechanical types of things, but his parents, wishing to [...]
Posted: July 1st, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: Ancient Greece, People | Tags: Mathematics, Physicists | Comments Off
Archimedes was a Greek mathematician and scientist. He was born in Syracuse, Sicily in the year 287 B.C. He was educated in Alexandria, Egypt. Due to the lack of information about Greek mathematics, many Greek mathematicians and their works are hardly known. Archimedes is the exception. Archimedes was very preoccupied with mathematics. For instance, he [...]
