AMIDST DISCOVERIES

The world we live in today would have been entirely different if it weren’t for the uncountable inventions by our scientists. Covering a broad spectrum of scientific fields including physics, astronomy, biology and chemistry, these great minds have pushed the world of science forward, allowing the human race to answer seemingly impossible questions while at the same time opening the door to new fields of research and discovery. Here are few lesser known facts about those scientists who changed our lives for good:

ALBERT EINSTEIN

Do you know that Einstein suffered from dyslexia as a child and couldn’t speak until he turned 4-years-old.

He wrote his first scientific paper titled ‘The investigation of the state of Aether in Magnetic Fields’, when he was 16.

It was in his paper on ‘Equivalence of Matter and Energy’ where Einstein gave his famous formula E=mc2

MARIE CURIE

Marie Curie was the first woman to win a noble prize and first person and only woman to win twice.

Marie’s century-old notebooks are still radioactive, so they are kept in lead-lined boxes for protection against radiation exposure. Her body was also highly contaminated and hence was placed in a coffin lined with an inch of lead when she was buried at the Pantheon mausoleum in Paris.

ISSAC NEWTON

The total credit for the famous Newton’s laws of motion does not go to Newton. 1700 years of research in different scientific fields and contributions of various scientists like Johannes Kepler, Galileo Galilei formed a base on which Newton built the theory of motion.

He must have become a farmer under the persuasion of his mother if not for Henry Stokes, a master at the King’s School, who convinced his mother to send Einstein back to school so that he could complete his education.