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Alfred Nobel

spiri — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 03:58:46 +0000

Alfred Nobel founded Nobel prize which is famous around the world.

He put nitroglycerine which the chemist of his acquaintance invented to practical use and, furthermore, he improved this and invented dynamite.

It is often said that he was a merchant of death because the business that he dealt with first and launched last was weapon production.

He produced weapons while advocating pacifism and held contradiction to be active for peace while profiting from war.

However, there was the war after all, so he was anxious about it and he wrote a will to establish Nobel prize and left the world.

Sources

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Nobel

Takuya Matsumoto

Isaac Newton

spiri — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 03:53:55 +0000

Isaac Newton, who is an English physicist and mathematician, was born in 1643 in a manor house.

He is famous for his work on the laws of motion, optics, gravity, and calculus.

He was born in Lincolnshire, England and started education at the The King’s School, Grantham .

After a few years, his mother called him back to his home and asked him to do farming.

But, his teacher begged for Newton to come back to his school .So after he did so.

Later, he wrote a paper about physics and mass called the Philosophiae naturalis Principia Mathematica which became very famous.

Simple Wikipedia

http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton

Thomas Edison

spiri — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 01:17:51 +0000

1. Thomas Edison was born in Ohio. When he was 7 years old, he moved to Michigan

2. He stopped to go to elementary school, because he was sick. But his mother taught him some projects.

3. He gained fame by inventing the phonograph at institute of Menlo Park in 1877.

4. He invented practical things. For example, telephone, record player, etc.

5. In 1931, he passed away when he was 84 years old.

6. His name will live forever as the great inventor.

by Mamoru Narutaki

Hideyo Noguchi

spiri — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 06:41:44 +0000

1. Hideyo Noguchi was a famous Japanese bacteriologist.

2. He suffered a burn injury on his left hand when he was small.

His left fingers stuck together because he couldn’t consult a doctor.

3. Thanks to contribution from his teacher and friends, he was able to have an operation on his left hand. Then, he made the decision to become a doctor.

4. He acquired a doctor license at 20 years old and studied syphilis and yellow fever and so on. While working in Ghana, he was struck down by the yellow fever virus.

5. Dr. Noguchi’s portrait has been printed on 1000 yen paper currency since 2004.

Sources

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideyo_Noguchi

http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%87%8E%E5%8F%A3%E8%8B%B1%E4%B8%96