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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 [...]

Leaders Do Have to Follow Too: Friedl BohmTalking about His Mentors

Trailblazing isn’t what made Friedl Bohm successful. Instead, he found mentors to guide him along the way. Friedl Bohm believes people are allowed to make a mistake once. “But if you make the same mistake three times over,” he says, “you’re an idiot.” Bohm, who for the past 13 years has been head of the [...]

Meet Ronal Skaggs, Chairman of HKS Inc.

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 [...]

Famous Doctors!

Historical figures, politicians, TV and radio personalities, athletes, musicians…yes, there is a doctor in the house. Here are some famous people we all know as “Doctor:” “Doctor Livingstone, I presume?” — supposedly uttered by explorer Henry Morton Stanley in 1871 — is so familiar it’s easy to forget that Livingstone had a first name in [...]

Great Minds That Shaped Our Civilisation: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky, Dostoyevsky also spelled Dostoevsky (FYOH-dahr dahs-tah-YEHVS-kee) (born November 11, (October 30, Old Style), 1821, Moscow; died February 9, (January 28, O.S.), 1881, St. Petersburg, Russia), Russian writer, one of the major figures in Russian literature. He is sometimes said to be a founder of existentialism. Born to parents Mikhail and Maria, Fyodor [...]

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