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 Marie Curie
Marie Curie was born in November 7th 1867, Warsaw, Poland.
She is famous for the discovery of the elements polonium and
radium. She was prohibited from the higher education in her native
Poland, then controlled by Russia. She moved to Paris in 1891 and
studied at the Sorbonne.
She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize, the first
person, the only woman to win the Nobel Prize twice and the only
person to win Nobel Prize in two different scientific fields.
She was part of the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes.
She was also the first woman to become a professor at the University of
Paris, and in 1995 became the first woman to be entombed on her own
merits in the Panthéon in Paris. (1867-1934)
 Alfred Bernhard Nobel
Alfred Bernhard Nobel was born in October 21st 1833, in
Stockholm, Sweden. He was a Swedish businessman, chemist, engineer,
inventor and philanthropist.
Alfred is best known for his invention of dynamite and
explosive device called blasting cap, which inaugurated the modern use
of high explosives. He also founded the Nobel Prizes. He was a
paradox: An arms dealer in life, Nobel decided n death to use his
dynamite fortune to fund a peaceful foundation. For nearly a
millennium, gunpowder reigned supreme as the world's premium
explosive. He died December 10th 1896, Sanremo, Italy.
(1833-1896)
 SOCRATES
Socrates was born in Alopece. 469 B.C.
Socrates was a classical Greek philosopher who is credited with
laying the fundamentals of modern Western philosophy. He
is known for creating Socratic irony and the Socratic method
(elenchus). ... He has had a profound influence on Western
philosophy, along with his students Plato and Aristole.
Socrates believed that philosophy should achieve
practical results for the greater well-being of society. He attempted
to establish an ethical system based on human reason rather than
theological doctrine. Socrates pointed out that human choice was
motivated by the desire for happiness.

(469-399 B.C.)
 HIDEKI YUKAWA
Hideki Yukawa ForMemRS FRSE was born in January 23rd
1907, Azabu, Tokyo. He was a Japanese theoretical physicist and the
first Japanese Nobel laureate for his prediction of the pi meson.
He grew up in Kyoto with two older brothers, two older
sisters, and two younger brothers. He read the Confucian
Doctrine of The Mean, and later Lao-Tzu and Chuang-Tzu. His father,
for a time, considered sending him to technical college rather than
university since he was "not as outstanding a student as his older
brothers". However, when his father broached the idea with his middle
school principal, the principal praised his "high potential" in
mathematics and offered to adopt Ogawa himself in order to keep him
on a scholarly career. At that, his father relented.
(1907-1981)
 GALILIEO GALILEI
Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaulti de Galilei was born in
February 15 1564, Pisa, Italy.
was an Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer,
sometimes described as a polymath, from Pisa. Galileo has been
called the "father of observational astronomy", the "father of
modern physics", the "father of the scientific method", and the
"father of modern science".
He is best known for his discovery of the four most
massive moons of Jupiter, now known as the Galilean moons:
Io, Ganymede, Europa and Callisto. When NASA sent a mission
to Jupiter in the 1990s, it was called Galileo in honor of
the famed astronomer. (1564-1642)
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