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Franixcois Arago
Franixcois Arago (Dominique Frani§ois Arago) was born on Sunday, February 26, 1786 in Estagel and he was a famous physicist from France, where his father held the position of Treasurer of the Mint. He was the eldest of four brothers. Jean (1788–1836) emigrated to North America and became a general in the Mexican army. Jacques Étienne Victor (1799–1855) took part in Louis de Freycinet's exploring voyage in the Uranie from 1817 to 1821, and on his return to France devoted himself to his journalism and the drama. The fourth brother, Étienne Vincent de (1802–1892), is said to have collaborated with Honoré de Balzac in The Heiress of Birague, and from 1822 to 1847 wrote a great number of light dramatic pieces, mostly in collaboration. [...]
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Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin was born on February 12, 1809, in Mount House, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England and died on April 19, 1882. He was one of the most important naturalists of all times.
Biography and Career :
His parents were Robert and Sussannah; Robert was a doctor in the high society and Sussannah was daughter of Josiah Wedgwood, the founder of the most popular pottery factory in England. [...]
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Selman A. Waksman
Selman A. Waksman (Selman Abraham Waksman) was born on Sunday, July 22, 1888 in Novaya Priluka and he was a famous scientist from United States of Jewish religion. He received his early education primarily from private tutors, and completed his school training in Odessa in an evening school and with private tutors. He obtained his matriculation diploma in 1910 from the Fifth Gymnasium in Odessa as an extern, and left for the United States immediately afterwards. [...]
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Linus Pauling
Linus Pauling (Linus Carl Pauling) was born on Thursday, February 28, 1901 in Portland and he was a famous chemist from United States of Atheist religion. Linus attended the public elementary and high schools in the town of Condon and the city of Portland, Oregon, and entered the Oregon State College in 1917, receiving the degree of B.Sc. in chemical engineering in 1922. During the years 1919-1920 he served as a full-time teacher of quantitative analysis in the State College, after which he was appointed a Teaching Fellow in Chemistry in the California Institute of Technology and was a graduate student there from 1922 to 1925, working under Professor Roscoe G. [...]
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Otto Wallach
Otto Wallach was born on Saturday, March 27, 1847 in Kinigsberg and he was a famous chemist from Germany of Jewish religion. During his early school years at the humanistic "Gymnasium" at Potsdam, Wallach had a profound liking for history and art - in those days subjects like chemistry were hardly taught at secondary-school level. In 1867 he went to Göttingen to study chemistry with Wöhler, Fittig and Hübner but soon left for Berlin to study for one semester under A.W. Hofmann and G. Magnus.[...]
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