Author: alienshooter

Unique Ability Historical Context Mary Leakey (along with her husband Louis, who died in 1972 AD) continued what Darwin had started: searching for the origin of the human species that we know…

Unique Ability Historical Context Born in 1897 AD in Tellicherry in the British Raj, unlike other Indian girls at the time, her parents encouraged Janaki Ammal Edavale th Kakkat to pursue her…

Unique Ability Historical Context Scottish chemist James Young devised an improvement for Michael Faraday’s battery, proposed a method of combating potato blight, is responsible for advancements in rustproofing the Royal Navy’s fleet,…

Unique Ability Historical Context Born in Woolsthorpe to a farming family in 1643 AD, at the time of his death in 1727 Sir Isaac Newton had been living with a niece near…

Unique Ability Historical Context Declared by some “the greatest woman of her time,” Hildegard was a Benedictine abbess, philosopher, liturgical poet and composer, botanist and herbalist, polymath, mystic (she had visions of…

Unique Ability Historical Context In any history of science, Galileo Galilei plays a key part; he is a – if not the – central figure in the Scientific Revolution. His works on…

Unique Ability Historical Context All that can be said of Euclid’s life, all that is known with a certainty, is that – according to the Greek philosopher Proclus – he taught in…

Unique Ability Historical Context Maybe not as famous as that famous cat, Erwin Schrödinger was a Nobel Prize-winning Austrian physicist whose groundbreaking wave equation moved quantum theory from the margins to the…

Unique Ability Historical Context Gabrielle Emilie le Tonnelier de Breteuil was born in Paris in 1706 AD to a well-connected, noble family – her father the baron was a favorite of Louis…

Unique Ability Historical Context After a five-year voyage on the HMS Beagle, followed by years of thought, Charles Darwin published ‘On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection’ in 1859…