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Great Minds That Shaped Our Civilisation: Werner Heisenberg

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Werner Karl Heisenberg (December 5, 1901 – February 1, 1976) was a celebrated physicist and Nobel laureate, one of the founders of quantum mechanics. Quantum mechanics As a student, he met Niels Bohr in Göttingen in 1922. A fruitful collaboration developed between the two. He invented matrix mechanics, the first formalization of quantum mechanics in [...]

Great Minds That Shaped Our Civilisation: Albert Einstein

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Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879 – April 18, 1955) was a theoretical physicist, with considerable applied mathematical abilities, who is widely regarded as the most important scientist of the 20th century. He proposed the theory of relativity and also made major contributions to the development of quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics and cosmology. He was awarded [...]

Ten Great Mentors from the Silver Screen History

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Back in 1989, in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg may have been making a point about what a bad-ass their archaeologist superhero when they cast the original James Bond as their hero’s father and then showed that he felt no awe for this paragon: instead, he filched his personal [...]

Great Minds That Shaped Our Civilisation: Pablo Picasso

Pablo Ruiz Picasso (October 25, 1881 – April 8, 1973) was one of the recognized masters of 20th century art. Overview His name in full was Pablo (or Pablito) Diego Jose Santiago Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Crispin Crispiniano de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santisima Trinidad Ruiz Blasco y Picasso Lopez. His father was [...]

Alexander the Great: A Lesson

In a recent biography of Alexander the Great, the author, in exploring Alexander’s motivations and driving forces, makes some fascinating observations. It would seem that Alexander was a devoted reader of Homer’s great epic poems, The Odyssey and the Iliad; particularly the latter. The Iliad deals with Ancient Greek ideals of hero, warfare and glory [...]

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