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- 1231: Irene Joliot-curie
- ... December, 1924 at which time he met with Marie at the suggestion of his mentor, Paul Langevin. Marie invited Frederick to join the institute as one of her assistants. Irene was given the job of teaching him the techniques required to work with radioactivity. Irene and Frederick were married in a civil ceremony on October 29, 1926. Because of the respect with which the Curie Name was held, the two combined ...
- 1232: I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings.
- ... social discrimination and knew that others must learn of the disturbing past. It would be an understatement to say that Mrs. Flowers influenced Maya s life; she indirectly transformed thousands of individual s minds through teaching Maya the importance of words, literature, and the pride in the black race.
- 1233: Herman Melville
- ... time, Herman's branch of the family altered the spelling of its name. Though finances were unstable, Herman attended Albany Classical School in 1835 and became an active member of a local debating society. A teaching job in Pittsfield made him unhappy, however, and after three months he returned to Albany. Melville had already begun writing, but the remainder of his youth became a search for security. The crisis that started ...
- 1234: Henry Ford 2
- ... sociological department in his company. This department was in charge of going around to the employees homes and suggesting ways to save their money, telling them not to spit on the floors in their houses, teaching proper hygiene to the employees and their families, and discouraging them from drinking, smoking, and gambling. To me it appears that Ford really did care about how his employees and their overall health in general ...
- 1235: Harriet Stowe
- ... the Lord to call her six sons into the ministry. All eventually preached; Henry Ward Beecher, the youngest son became the most prominent. After her mother s death, Harriet grew close to her sister, Catherine, teaching in her school and writing books with her soon after she turned thirteen. Harriet was brilliant and bookish, and idolized the poetry of Lord Byron. When her father became president of Lane Theological Seminary in ...
- 1236: George Washington Carver2
- ... study of fungi. In 1894, Carver earned a bachelor of science degree and, in 1896, a Master of Science degree in agriculture and bacterial botany. That same year, Booker T. Washington offered Carver a job teaching at Tuskegee Institute. During his first few years at Tuskegee, he made many improvements in the agricultural program. With the help of other colleagues, he created the Farmers Institute. This was a group of farmers ...
- 1237: George Washington Carver
- ... is now Iowa State University. It was there that George became the first African American to get a Bachelor s Degree and a Masters Degree in bacterial botany and agriculture. After his graduation, George started teaching classes about agriculture and chemurgy. In 1897, Booker T. Washington, the founder of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute for Negro s, convinced George to come there and serve as the director of agriculture. It ...
- 1238: Galileo 3
- ... Tonight the Holy office has decided that the theory according to which the earth goes around the sun is foolish, absurd, and a heresy. I am charged, Mr. Gallilei, with cautioning you to abandon these teaching (Galileo, pg79). Galileo tried very hard to defend himself against theologian, one which he was not; however he did not succeed. He was summoned by the Holy office and the sentenced condemning him and compelled ...
- 1239: Gailileo 3
- ... Pisa, but his real interests were always in mathematics and natural philosophy. He is chiefly remembered for his work on free fall, his use of the telescope and his employment of experimentation. After a spell teaching mathematics, first privately in Florence and then at the university of Pisa, in 1592 Galileo was appointed professor of mathematics at the university of Padua (the university of the Republic of Venice). There his duties ...
- 1240: Galileo Galilei
- ... the other professors at the university. They felt that he was too radical and that his teachings were not suitable. In 1592, his three-year contract was not renewed. 1n 1592, he landed a job teaching mathematics at the University of Padua with the help of some aristocratic friends. After his father s death, Galileo supported many relatives (including his brother Michelangelo and his family) and the sum of money he ...
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