Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac
.... 1964. In 1969 he
received the Oppenheimer Prize from the University of Miami. Lastly in 1973, he
received the Order of Merit.[3]
Dirac was well known for his almost anti--social behavior, but he was a
member of many scientific organizations throughout the world. Naturally, he was
a member of the Royal Society, but he was also a member of the Deutsche Akademie
der Naturforsher and the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. He was a foreign member
of Academie des Sciences Morales et Politiques and the Academie .....
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Sir Isaac Newton And Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
.... in 1672 by inventing a calculating machine that was capable of
multiplying, dividing, and extracting square roots. All this made him to be
considered a pioneer in the developement of mathematical logic.
Sir Isaac Newton is the other major figure in the development of Calculus. He
was an English mathemetician and physcist, whose considered to be one of the
greatest scientists in history. Newton was born on December 25, 1642 at
Woolsthorpe, near Grantham in Lincolnshire. He attended Trinity Colle .....
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Zeno Of Elea
.... In this way, the runner can
never reach the end of the course, as it would be infinitely long, much as the
semester would be infinitely long if we completed half, and then half the
remainder, ad infinitum. This interval will shrink infinitely, but never quite
disappear. This type of argument may be called the antinonomy of infinite
divisibilty, and was part of the dialectic which Zeno invented.
These are only a small part of Zeno's arguments, however. He is believed
to have devised at least .....
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Carl Friedrich Gauss
.... Augusta as "matheseos
cult."; that is to say, as a mathematics student. But it is often pointed out
that at first Gauss was undecided whether he should become a mathematician or a
philologist. The reason for this indecision was probably that humanists at that
time had a better economic future than scientists.
Gauss first became completely certain of his choice of studies when he
discovered the construction of the regular 17-sided polygon with ruler and
compass; that is to say, after his first year at .....
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Lucas: King Of Film
.... have chased girls and raced cars throughout
high school, and barely made it through (Moritz 258). Soon after high school,
Lucas attended Modesto Junior College in California and continued to work on
cars as his main interest (Moritz 258). In Smith, Lucas is quoted saying, "I
was a hell-raiser; lived, ate, breathed cars! That was everything for me"(84).
Lucas even worked on pit crews for race cars when he met Haskell Wexler, who
introduced him to film (Moritz 258). Eventually Lucas realized his new pas .....
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Shirley Temple: Black Hollywood's Youngest Star
.... Shirley liked to be competitive in everything. She decided to be
the first person in her class to become engaged. On September 19, 1945 Shirley
married John Black and 12,000 people waited outside the church to see her.
When Shirley stopped making movies, she got busy with politics.
President Nixon chose Shirley to become the U.S. Representative of the United
Nations.
Shirley is a kind and gentle girl to other people. She is special
to me because she is a good frie .....
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Steven Spielberg
.... an
episode of the Rod Serling series Night Gallery and the classic cult movie Duel.
His first feature, The Sugarland Express, was released in 1974, and he was soon
offered the chance to direct a thriller about a great white shark terrorizing a
small New England beach town. Jaws cost $8.5 million and grossed $260 million.
Spielberg followed it up two years later with Close Encounters of the Third Kind,
earning a Best Director Oscar nomination and proved to the world that he was one
of the best directors .....
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Walt Disney
.... For
several years, Disney stuggled to pay his expenses. He gained success in 1928,
when he released the first short cartoons that featured Mickey Mouse. Earlier
filmmakers had found that animals were easier to animate than people. Mickey
Mouse, drawn with a series of circles, proved ideal for animation.
In 1927, sound that had been added to motion pictures, and a process for
making movies in color was developed a few years later. Disney and his staff
made imaginative use of sound and color. Disney h .....
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Ludwig Van Beethoven
.... then, went to
Neffe who himself started composing at the age of 12.
In the late 1700's, Beethoven began to suffer from early symptoms of
deafness, and by 1802, Beethoven was convinced that the condition was not only
permanent but was getting much worse. The cause of his deafness is still
uncertain (Comptons, 1). He was determined to prove that deafness was not a
handicap to him (Thompson, 25). Beethoven's deafness started to be noticeable,
and by 1818 Beethoven was completely deaf (Schmit, 28 .....
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Duke Ellington: An American Legacy
.... employed as a butler yet always wanted the best for Duke. At the young age
of seven Ellington took up the piano, because his father had always wanted him
to become an artist(330). But how was Duke to become an artist in a time when
blacks weren't given the same rights as everyone else. They went to separate
schools. They were forced to the back of the bus and to use separate bathrooms.
If Duke were to become some one he had much to come over.
One thing that we do know is that Duke was always .....
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Eric Clapton
.... more rock like interpretations of old blues songs made blues more popular
to the mainstream, much more so than with The Yardbirds. Cream had several top
40 hits, including "Sunshine of Your Love", "White Room", and "Crossroads".
Towards the end of the ‘60s Cream split up. Eric Clapton joined the
band Blind Faith in '69 and did fairly well with it, but the group broke up
quickly after the release of their only album. It was then that Clapton
launched his solo career. For A few years in the ear .....
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Satie, Erik
.... with a so-called Rosicrucian
group, while he earned his living as a cafe pianist in Montmartre.
Satie was a conscious eccentric and a determined enemy of all
establishments, including the musical. The comical titles that he attached to
his small piano pieces are characteristic of the Bohemian wit in the Paris of
his day. Irony and a deceptively childlike attitude, a dislike for pomposity of
all kinds, and an instinctive secretiveness were hallmarks of both the man and
his music. In 1916, S .....
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Jimi Hendrix
.... Chas got Mitchel and Noel Reddin to join Jimi. They formed "The Jimi
Hendrix Experience" Jimi went back to America and toured with the monkeys. But
unfortunatley, this was not a good idea because both bands styles were TOTALLY
diffrerent. When Jimi returned to England, he joined up with "Band of Gypsies"
and recorded one album. On september 18, 1970, James Marshal Hendrix was
pronounced dead at St. Mary Abbot's Hospital in Kennsington England. His cause
of death was: He took an offbrand of sleeping pill .....
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Johann Sebastian Bach
.... prestigious posts in Germany. There in Leipzig he spent 20
years constantly battling with the school and church authorities. However, he
did write some of the best work in his lifetime during this period.
Johann Sebastian Bach spent his life devoted to his music. In that
respect he was a genius. He was one of the greatest composers and organists in
his period of time.
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John Lennon
.... challenges, he projected a sarcastic and rebellious tough-guy
personality, who was actually a vulnerable romantic. While Paul projected the
sweet image and who was underneath an injured, controlling, perfectionist.
By 1964, The Beatles arrived at JFK Airport. They were greeted with
mass hysteria. Two days later, more than 73 million people watched them perform
live on the Ed Sullivan Show. Four weeks later, The Beatles held the top five
music singles in America at the same time.
John was influenced b .....
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