Henry David Thoreau, The Father Of Civil Disobedience
Henry David Thoreau was born on July 12, 1817 in Concord, Massachusetts. When Thoreau was sixteen, he joined Harvard College,…
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Nikola Tesla, The Man Who Invented The 20th Century
In the last days of America’s Gilded Age, Nikola Tesla made a dramatic attempt to change the future of communications…
John Archibald Wheeler, Physicist
John Archibald Wheeler, (July 9, 1911 – April 13, 2008) the archetypal physics-for-poets physicist, is famed for his analogies and…
Michiaki Takahashi- The Brain Behind Chickenpox Vaccine
Michiaki Takahashi, was a Japanese virologist, born on 17 February 1928 in Osaka, Japan. That name might not sound familiar,…
Martin Luther King- The Face Of Civil Rights For People Of Color
Martin Luther King, Jr. was born on January 15, 1929 as Michael Luther King, Jr., but later had his name…
Stephen Hawking – One Of The Most Brilliant Theoretical Physicists In History
British cosmologist Stephen William Hawking was born in England on Jan 8, 1942- 300 years to the day after the…
Sir Isaac Newton- The Scientific Revolution Of The 17th Century
Isaac Newton was born on January 4, 1643 in the tiny village of Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, Lincolnshire, England. Beginning at age 12,…
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam- The Missile Man, The People’s President Of India
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, born October 15, 1931, Rameswaram, India was a renowned Indian scientist who played a leading role in…