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- 1161: Martin Luther King
- ... Kennedy gave respect to the movement and reacted to protests in Birmingham by agreeing to submit broad civil rights legislation to Congress, which eventually passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. King had modeled his philosophy on that of Mohandas Gandhi, who is one of the worlds greatest advocates of non-violent resistance. During his meeting with Gandhi he became more convinced than ever that non-violent resistance was the most ...
- 1162: Lord Kelvin
- ... to carry out work in a laboratory in order to gain practical experience and competence in experimental work. At the age of only 22 Kelvin was elected to professor of physics (the 'chair of natural philosophy') as a result of a very well organized campaign run by his father, who was still a professor of mathematics. Kelvin remained at the University of Glasgow for the rest of his working life. He ...
- 1163: Life Of Fredrick Douglass
- ... was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1929. He was the son of Baptist Minister and was ordained to the ministry at the age of eighteen (Webb 18). Dr. King received a Ph.D. in systematic philosophy from Boston University in 1954. Unfortunately, King was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1968. In I Have a Dream King hopes that someday in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to ...
- 1164: Lenonard Bernstein
- ... Gebhard, who was the best piano teacher in Boston. At the age of seventeen, Bernstein was accepted at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was interested in many other things other than music. For example, philosophy and history were both subjects of great importance to him. After graduating from Harvard cum laude in 1939, Leonard spent a year in New York City. He met many influential people throughout the course of ...
- 1165: John Hancock
- ... student in the liberal arts so he can follow the same path at college. The foundation of the school was classical languages, but with his mastery of the ancients, he also acquired knowledge of history, philosophy , and theology. By the time spring came around in 1750, John was finishing his time at Latin. He had completed the school s curriculum and was preparing for college. Of course the choice was Harvard ...
- 1166: John Dalton 2
- ... 1793 he moved to Manchester, this is where he would remain the rest of his life. Dalton was influenced greatly by the mathematician John Gough. Dalton while in Manchester became the teacher of math and philosophy at a college. He taught there until 1799. Dalton became a chemist and physicist after his teaching jobs. Dalton did a lot of experimenting but did not test his experiments to make sure they were ...
- 1167: John Dalton
- ... tutoring, and expiermenting. He orally reported the results of the experiments at the "Lit and Phil" and published them in a book in 1808. This was his most famous work, A New System of Chemical Philosophy, Part I. Dalton relied on his observations and mathematical reasoning to produce a book containing a revolutionary theory. He adopted the idea of atoms and drew individual particles to illustrate chemical reactions. Not everyone accepted ...
- 1168: Jean Lamark
- ... result of time and environment interacting with the organization of organic beings. From the simplest forms of life, more complex forms emerged naturally. These ideas were initially presented in Lamarck's major theoretical work, Zoological Philosophy, and he elaborated on them throughout his career. His final treatment of his hypothesis was included in his multi-volume work on invertebrates. Here, Lamarck explains his scale of nature as being controlled by three ...
- 1169: James Watt
- ... at this time no one would have even imagined his effect on the Industrial Revolution that was to occur within that century. When James was fifteen he had read books about and become accustomed to Philosophy (similar to modern physics). He had also completed many of his own chemical experiments and even started produce and construct his own products such as a small electronic device that startled his companions. He soon ...
- 1170: Jacques Louis David
- David was the virtual art dictator of France for a generation. Extending beyond painting, his influence determined the course of fashion, furniture design, and interior decoration and was reflected in the development of moral philosophy. His art was a sudden and decisive break with tradition, and from this break modern art is dated. David studied with Vien, and after winning the Prix de Rome (which had been refused him four ...
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