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- 2041: Marie Curie
- ... began studying uranium radiations. She carefully measured the radiations of pitchblende, a radioactive mineral compound of the mineral uraninite using piezoelectric techniques devised by her husband and his brother J acques in 1880. The piezoelectric effect is the appearance of an electric potential across certain faces of a crystal when it is subjected to mechanical pressure. Conversely, when an electric field is applied on certain faces of the crystal, the crystal ...
- 2042: Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov
- ... was needed by Russia to keep its position as a world power. He became increasing concerned for the fallout victims of his test explosions. He used his knowledge of genetics to educate others on the effect of nuclear testing on human genetics. He began to become the conscience of the world on the ill effects of nuclear testing. In 1958, he wrote and published an article stating that testing hydrogen bombs ...
- 2043: Life of John F Kennedy
- ... feelings. His Presidency was plagued with confrontations with Russia over Berlin, and again when Soviet missiles were spotted in Cuba. This made the United States venerable to a nuclear attack from Russia. Kennedy put into effect quarantine on all weapons entering Cuba. Nuclear war was a real threat that week, as the world watched and waited, Russia withdrew their weapons. Kennedy was a hero; he possibly stopped World War 3. Kennedy ...
- 2044: Bill Bradley
- ... from oil drilling, mining and logging interests. Bill Bradley will continue to fight to preserve America's natural treasures for future generations to experience. Bradley has called for: early action to reduce the threat of greenhouse gases, the banning of drilling for oil and gas off our fragile coastline, and strict air and water pollution standards. Bill Bradley was a strong, unwavering supporter of a woman's right to choose throughout ...
- 2045: Gertrude Stein
- ... in Latin, when Leo attended Harvard in 1892, Gertrude followed in 1893, in the women’s Harvard Annex. While at Harvard, she was taken under the wing of noted psychoanalyst, William James. James had an effect on Stein’s later writings as well. His method of “automatic writing, in which subjects wrote down their unedited, free-associative thoughts” (Gombar 42), was often the way Gertrude wrote many of her literary pieces ...
- 2046: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- ... Christian relationship that will end discrimination between black and white people made a positive impression on whites outside the south. To protest against discrimination, King did marches, demonstrations, and boycotts. He boycotted buses in an effect to gain better treatment; but not end segregation. During his demonstrations, King was arrested and was sent to jail. National reactions to the bombing of King’s home focused on media attention and it built ...
- 2047: George Bernard Shaw: The Man, The Myth, The Legend
- ... for over a century (Collier's 651). "Shaw's irreverence for tradition and contempt of current morality exploded the conventions and illusions of the Victorian Age, and even his incursions into science had a humanistic effect" (Chesterton 165). All in all, he was a man who favor ffb ed morals in all corners of society. Shaw hated inhuman experiments on animals by inhuman people. He thought researchers should not be exempt ...
- 2048: Albert Einstein
- ... where he had originally studied. It was not until 1914 that Einstein was tempted to return to Germany to become research director of ! The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics. World War I had a strong effect on Einstein. While the rest of Germany supported the army, he felt the war was unnecessary, and disgusting. The new weapons of war which attempted to mass slaughter people caused him to devote much of ...
- 2049: Walt Disney
- ... family entertainment, and motion pictures. His innovations in these fields have revolutionized each of them in their own way. The purpose of this paper is to elaborate on how Walt Disney’s life had an effect on each of these areas. Walter Elias Disney was born on, December 5, 1901, in a modest Chicago household. He had four siblings named Herbert, Raymond, Roy, and Ruth. In 1906 his family moved to ...
- 2050: The Writing of Edgar Allan Poe
- ... of the supernatural. In “The Fall of the House of Usher” Poe uses the gothic idea of a house that is haunted. The dark, dreary settings that are part of his story add to the effect of what is really happening in the story. Most of Poe’s stories deal with what is happening in the mind of the characters. In “The Tell-Tale Heart” the narrator is compelled to kill ...
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