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384 BCE
Aristotle
Alexander the Great was tutored by Aristotle. He started as a student of Aristotle's in 343 bc and took alot of advise from his teacher. Aristotle also taught Ptolomey and Cassander, who were later crowned kings. The amount of Aristotle's original work has been lost through time. -
187 BCE
Archimedes
His inventions made him quite well known in his day, but his mathematical genius wasn't fully understood until 800 years after his death. Archimedes was able to work out wether e kings crown was pure gold or that the gold smith had taken some of the gold and replaced it with something else while he was in his bath tub. -
Apr 15, 1452
Leonardo Da Vinci
He was never formally educated. However he was given instruction at home in reading, writing and mathematics. He work on a number of weapon designs. These designs were cannons, smoke machines, portable bridges and even armoured vehicles. -
Feb 15, 1564
Galileo Galilei
He wrote about relativity long before Einstein. What he wrote about wasn't exactly the same as what Einstein wrote about, but he had a very good understanding that motion was relative. That is that your perception of an object has to do with your movement and the movement of the object your looking at.
The telescope, was in fact not invented by Galileo but improved on from spyglass, which was created by Dutch spectacle makers to observe ships. His design had a much higher magnification. -
Isaac Newton
He was born prematurely, around 11-15 weeks. Newton was born on Christmas and the 4th of January because the gregarian calendar hadn't been implemented until after, when it was they had to adjust the calendar 11 days making his new birthday the 4th of January. -
Maria Sibylla Merian
In 1699 she set sail to Suriname in South America, to explore and study new species of insects and plants. She was not only an entomologist she was also a fabulous artist. -
Charles Darwin
During his time at Cambridge University, Charles was part of the "Gourmet Club" where he ate food thats not normally found on a menu. One time he ate a brown owl which he broke down eating and found indescribable.
There is a set of awards named after him called the "Darwin Awards", they are awards given to people who protect our gene pool from becoming stupid by eliminating them selves in idiotic ways. -
Alexander Graham Bell
He studied the human voice and worked at various schools for the deaf. The telephone was created in 1876 and by 1886 over 150000 people owned telephones in the United States. -
Marie Curie
A bulk of the research and experimentation done on the founding of the 2 elements radium and polonium was done in a "shack". During the 1st world war Marie Curie help the French soldiers and doctors by sending out ambulances called "little Curies" which had x-rays in them to help the French doctors find shrapnel and bullet in soldiers. -
Albert Einstien
Born in the kingdom of Wurttemberg in the roman empire in 1879, Einstein became stateless, then Swiss, Austrian, German and American. Albert Einstein is an anagram for ten elite brains. -
Maria Goeppert Mayer
Her 1930 doctoral thesis was written on two photon absorption by atoms, and it wasn't until 1961 when the invention of the laser gave the fist verification that her theory was possible. At the start of her carrier she was attracted to mathematics but later went into the field of physics. -
Gertrude Elion
She won the nobel prize for medicine in 1988 along with George Hitchings and James Black. They had created drugs for diseases such as herpes, leukaemia, gout, AIDS and malaria.
She won a nobel prize with only having a masters degree. -
Steven Hawking
He is reliant on other people or technology for most things including bathing, dressing, eating, mobility and speech. He is able to only move a few fingers on one hand. his speech synthesiser has an American accent when he is British. he has been on "The Big Bang Theory", Star Trek: The Next Generation' and "The Simpsons" in person.