GREAT SCIENTISTS

Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany on Mar. 14, 1879.
His family moved from Ulm to Munich when Einstein was an infant. In 1894, the family moved to Milan, Italy. Einstein returned in 1896 to the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
- 1901, Albert moves to Bern
- 1911, Einsteins move to Prague
- 1912, Einsteins move to Zurich
- 1914, Einstein becomes director of the Kaiser Wilhelm institute in Berlin.
-1933, move to US
Albert Einstein studied physics and one of his greatest contributions to scientific knowledge was the quantum theory.Einstein won the Nobel Prize in 1921 for it.

INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT ALBERT EINSTEIN

• Einstein was a slow learner as a child and spoke very slowly.
• The pathologist who made Einstein body's autopsy stole his brain and kept it in a jar for 20 years.
• Einstein was a slow learner as a child and spoke very slowly.
• Einstein's Nobel Prize money went to his ex-wife as divorce settlement.
• Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel which he politely declined.

Sir Isaac Newton was born on January 4th 1643 Woolsthorpe Colsterworth, United Kingdom.Sir Isaac Newton lived with his grandmother. At age 12, Newton went to study at the King's School in the market town of Gantham. He then returned to Woolsthorpe to try his hand at farming. Newton was admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1661, where he earned his M.A. and became a fellow.

Sir Isaac Newton was a physicist ,mathematician and an astronomer and one of his greatest contribution to scientific knowledge was the laws of motion.He never won a Nobel Prize because in his time they never existed.

INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT SIR ISAAC NEWTON

• Sir Isaac Newton was born a premature baby.
• From 1703 until 1727, Newton acted as president of the Royal Society, an organization that promotes the natural sciences.
• Newton’s father died before his birth and when he was 3 years old, his mother remarried and was brought up by his maternal grandmother and started his schooling in neighboring towns.
• When he was 14, the second husband of his mother died. She took Newton out of school and returned to Woolsthorpe and tried to make him a farmer.
• Newton estimated that the world would end no earlier than 2060.

Thomas Edison was born on February 11, 1847 in Milan, Ohio, United States and he also lived there. Thomas Edison was a pure inventor and electrical engineer.
His greatest contribution to scientific knowledge was the electrical light bulb.Thomas Edison never received a Nobel Prize for his inventions.

INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT THOMAS EDISON

• Edison built his first lab at the age of ten.
• Edison was deaf and he liked it that way.
• Edison had a mysterious tattoo on his arm.
• Edison saved a boy from a runaway train.
• Edison married a 16 year old girl.

Lies Meitner was born on November 7, 1878, in Vienna, Austria. The third of eight children of a Jewish family, she entered the University of Vienna in 1901, studying physics under Ludwig Boltzmann. After she obtained her doctorate degree in 1906, she went to Berlin in 1907 to study with Max Planck and the chemist Otto Hahn. She worked together with Hahn for 30 years, each of them leading a section in Berlin's Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry. Studying radioactivity, with her knowledge of physics and his knowledge of chemistry.

And one of her greatest contributions to science was In 1918, when they discovered the element protactinium. She never still never won a Nobel prize.

Mary Leakey was born on February 6, 1913 in London, United Kingdom
She married Louis Leakey and the pair soon became one of science's best-known husband-wife teams. One of her greatest contributions to scientific knowledge was when they discovered a skull fossil of an ancestor of apes and humans while excavating the Olduvai Gorge in Africa in 1960. Mary continued working after her husband's death. She died in Kenya in 1996. She never received a Nobel Prize or any major awards through out her career.

REFERENCES

• http://www.biography.com/people/albert-einstein-9285408
• http://www.biography.com/people/mary-leakey-9376051
• http://www.factslides.com/s-Einstein
• http://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/11/10-fascinating-facts-about-edison/
• http://www.famousscientists.org