Benjamin Franklin was a statesman, author, publisher, scientist, inventor and diplomat who occupied a prominent place in early American history. Benjamin Franklin, born into a Boston family of modest means, received little formal education. In Philadelphia, he established a successful printing business and became extremely wealthy. Among other things, Franklin helped start a lending library,…
Albert Einstein German-born physicist (born March 14, 1879, Ulm, Württemberg, Germany – Died April 18, 1955, Princeton, New Jersey, US) who developed general and special theories of relativity and won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921 for explaining the photoelectric effect. A notable physicist of the 20th century, Einstein is generally regarded as one…
Ancient Greek philosopher and scientist Aristotelus (born 384 BCE in Stagira, Chalcidice, Greece – died 322, Chalcis, Euboea), one of the greatest intellectual figures of Western history. Christian Scholasticism and medieval Islamic philosophy owe a great deal to him since his philosophies and scientific systems were the framework and vehicle for both. Western thought remained…