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384 BCE
Aristotle
When Aristotle was 17 he enrolled in Plato's academy and remained there for 20 years learning from the best teacher, Aristotle was also a gifted student making it a learning experience for his master. Although Aristotle was a very smart person and had many successful discoveries he was not all ways right, as he thought that the heart had the job of the brain in thinking and problem solving. -
287 BCE
Archimedes
The Archimedes screw is still being used in modern day for boats in Egypt. Archimedes determined the exact or near to the exact digits of Pi. -
Apr 15, 1452
Leonardo Da Vinci
Leonardo sketched a helicopter at which would have flew, but due to the scientific development needed to make it, The sketch was not made in real life. Leonardo also loved water and made sketches of floating snowshoes and a breathing device that would allow him to explore the unknown depths. -
Feb 15, 1564
Galileo Galilei
Galileo had 5 siblings and he was the first of all of them being intelligent and gifted. Galileo became blind due to him staring at the sun and sun spots for long periods of time. This led to him becoming seriously ill later in life.. -
Isaac Newton
Isaac was born very prematurely and was thought not to live a full live as he was born 11 to 15 weeks early and could fit in a quart-sized cup. For a time Isaac was in parliament and only stood up to speak once and that was to ask for someone to close the window. -
Maria Sibylla Merian
In 1691 Maria moved to Amsterdam, to study te city's rich natural history collections, in this time Maria prepared 127 illustrations for a French book on metamorphosis. Her daughters went on to publish Maria's last book and they then also had the talented gene for illustration, and therefore went on to become court sketch artists. -
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin is a member of the international swimming hall of fame. Benjamin owned 2 slaves throughout his life, both of whom worked as household servants, he made a petition for the American congress to grant freedom to all slaves now employed, he also in his will required his daughter and son-in-law to free their slaves to get there inheritance. -
Charles Robert Darwin
Charles has appeared on the 10 pound note since the year 2000, however this was changed in 2013 and he was replaced by Jane Austen. Charles waited longer than 20 years to publish one of his ground breaking theories. -
Nikola Tesla
Nikola was born approximately at midnight while a lightning storm occurred, this was seen as a bad omen by the midwife and she said "This child wil be a child of darkness." But Tesla's mother said "No. He will be a child of light." Tesla was worried that the Earths resources would be used too quickly and so he looked into a way to make resources renewable. -
Marie Curie
Marie worked out of a shack, she conducted bulk amounts of research and experiments in there, and this led to the discovery of the 2 radioactive substances. Marie also became the first person to win 2 noble prizes. -
Maria Goeppert-Mayer
Maria was born in Kattowitz, Germany but after 4 years of Maria being alive they moved to Gottingen where her father took a role as a professor at the University of Gottingen. In 1960 Maria too became a professor but at the university of California, San Diego. -
Gertrude B. Elion
Gertrude was an advisor to the world Heath organisation and American association fro cancer research. In 1937 Gertrude graduated from Hunter College with a B.A degree in chemistry and 4 years later completed her M.S in chemistry, from New York Universtiy. -
Steven Hawking
Steven was not a very good student throughout school as his grades were very mediocre in his 9th grade Steven had some of the worst results in the class. Steven joined a rowing team during the duration of his time at Oxford, this was a very high standard sport for oxford and so this gave Steven a popular title.
