Henry Dunant was born in Geneva on 8 May 1828. Have you heard of the Red Cross? I expect most people have. But you may never have heard of Henry Dunant, who was the force behind the founding of the Red Cross in 1863, the Geneva Conventions, and won the first ever Nobel Peace Prize […]
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Christiaan Huygens was a mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor. He was responsible for many discoveries during his lifetime. He discovered a new way to make more accurate telescope lenses by grinding and polishing them differently, and he used those lenses to find the first moon of Saturn, Titan, and to observe the true shape
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Joseph Lister was born in Britian in 1827. He became a doctor in 1950 and a surgeon shortly after. During his career he revolutionized the way surgery was performed, saved countless lives, and made surgery safer for all of us today. He realized that germs were responsible for the majority of deaths after surgery and
#840 Joseph Lister – introduced antiseptics into surgery Read More »
On the Shoulders of Giants #1 Euclid was an ancient Greek mathematician. He is most famous for his book “The Elements”. He probably lived in the City of Alexandria in about 300 BC, but there is not much reliable historical evidence for his existence. All of the records about him were written several centuries later.
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