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…
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Carl Sagan | Civilization VI
Unique Ability Historical Context Carl Sagan was many things – astronomer, astrophysicist, astrobiologist – but it was his efforts as a popularizer of modern science that made him famous. Sagan, among other…
Aryabhata | Civilization VI
Unique Ability Historical Context Born sometime around 476 AD, somewhere in central India, scholars are fairly certain (or not) that the mathematician Aryabhata (if that was his name) travelled to the city…
Alfred Nobel | Civilization VI
Unique Ability Historical Context Alfred Nobel – whose fortune established the famed Nobel Prizes – held some 350 patents by the time of his death (mostly for things that blew other things…
Albert Einstein | Civilization VI
Unique Ability Historical Context Considered the greatest genius of the 20th Century and the most influential theoretical physicist of all time, Albert Einstein had a passion for inquiry that eventually led him…
Alan Turing | Civilization VI
Unique Ability Historical Context Alan Mathison Turing is today considered the “father” of both theoretical computer science and of artificial intelligence. His 1936 paper “On Computable Numbers” – proving that a universal…
Abu Al-Qasim Al-Zahrawi | Civilization VI
Unique Ability Passive Effect Historical Context Around 936 AD, Abu al-Qasim Khalaf ibn al-Abbas al-Zahrawi was born in the town of El-Zahra, a few miles northwest of Cordoba, in Islamic al-Andalus. Under…
Abdus Salam | Civilization VI
Unique Ability Triggers the Eureka moment for all technologies from the Information era. Historical Context Born in Jhang in January 1926, Abdus Salam would become of the first Pakistani and the first…
Great Musicians | Civilization VI
Antonin Dvorak – Also an amateur musician, his father encouraged his son’s pursuit of a musical career, getting him violin lessons and eventually sending him to the prestigious Prague Organ School. Antonio…
Great Prophets | Civilization VI
Adi Shankara – Adi believed whole-heartedly in the Vedas simultaneously disputed the need for over-exaggerated associated rituals and religious practices. Bodhidharma – Thus Bodhidharma became the first Buddhist patriarch in China, as…