When many people hear the name Albert Einstein, they say, "Ooh what did he do, write a bunch of stuff on a chalkboard, prove to some scientists that he was right, and then star in a Pepsi commercial? Well, I'm here to tell you that he did much more than that, (even though I really li...

John Von Neumann was born on December 28, 1903 in Budapest. His father was a banker. John was a child prodigy. At the age of 6, he could divide two 8-digit numbers in his head. At 8, he mastered calculus; by 12 he was at the graduate level in mathematics. At 17, his father tried to get him ...

John Von Neumann was born on December 28, 1903 in Budapest. His father was a banker. John was a child prodigy. At the age of 6, he could divide two 8-digit numbers in his head. At 8, he mastered calculus; by 12 he was at the graduate level in mathematics. At 17, his father tried to get him ...

Born on April 22, 1904 into a wealthy, New York, Jewish family with German decent, Oppenheimer quickly began to show signs of his ingeniousness. He attended Harvard as a 17 year old, graduating in 1925 after "intellectually looting the place". Oppenheimer then studied abroad at Englan...

Oppenheimer and Sakharov and the Cold War J. Robert Oppenheimer and Andrei Sakharov are both considered leaders of nuclear physics during the World War II and the Cold War. The two men had astonishingly similar lives, achievements and views on nuclear weapons. Andrei Sahkarov (1921-1989), ...

In the 1930s, some scientists theorized that bombarding an atom's nucleus with a neutron from another atom would cause the first atom to split in two. The splitting atom would release another neutron, which would then strike a neighboring atom, causing it to split, and so on. It was thought that ea...

Albert Einstein was born March 14,1879 in Ulm, Germany. He is considered to be one of the greatest theoretical physicists of all time. He is best known as the creator of the special and general theories of relativity. He contributed much to the kinetic theory of matter and the theory of spe...

Social Responsibility I don't think scientists should be obligated to consider and figure out how their work will affect society, if they decide to go through with it. Sometimes scientist might not even have their work planned, but then all of a sudden in a daze the...

About the book: "The Enemy" tells us about a Russian scientist that was brought to England in order to reveal Russia's nuclear secrets. One day, years after he was brought to England, George Ashton disappeared leaving no trace. I decided to change the plot a bit and to add a letter that was written...

Einstein, intelligent or ignorant? This is a question many people ask, but do not take the time to research whether he was intelligent or ignorant. Einstein received his doctorate in 1905 for writing his papers titled "A New Determination Of Molecular Dimensions." Einstein is known very w...

There are a very large amount of smart and genius like people spread around the world. Although very smart they some times do not use their knowledge to their ability. Albert Einstein was an individual who many consider a genius, but many also question if he used that knowledge to the fullest of h...

Lewis, Cameron 85095 TT Koyaanisqatsi 12/4/03 Koya Anis Whatsy?: The Chaos Revealed Chaos, disorder, and pandemonium all reign supreme in the state of life known as Koyaanisqatsi. World and civil wars, terrorism, inner-city violence, all indicate that this condition does persist today. Wh...