John Napier was a very famous mathematician of his time and he was born in 1550 in Edinburgh, Scotland. His father was Sir Archibald Napier. Logarithms and the decimals’ modern notations were introduced by him. He was very bright and he got admitted in the University of St. Andrews only when he was thirteen years […]

John Logie Baird was a very famous Scottish inventor who was born in 1888 in Scotland. He played a vital role in the invention of the television and it was his invention of photomechanical television that broadcast the transmission live for the first time ever. He studied at the University of Glasgow and also at

John Locke was an English philosopher and physician, often considered as one of the greatest and most influential Enlightenment thinkers in history.Born in Somerset, England in 1932, John Locke’s father was a prominent country lawyer. He was raised in a rural house in Belluton. Locke attended the famous Westminster School in London, and was later

The scientific field has witnessed the emergence of many great physicists and chemists, but it is incomplete without the mention of the great British chemist, meteorologist and physicist John Dalton. His tremendous efforts led to the evolution of modern atomic theory. He was the first person to record colour blindness. He also carried out his

John Bardeen was an eminent American physicist, who won the Nobel Prize twice. In 1956, with fellow scientists William B. Shockley and Walter H. Brattainhe, Bardeen shared the award for the invention of the transistor. He received the award for the second time in 1972, with Leon N. Cooper and John R. Schrieffer, for formulating

Johannes Kepler is one name that will always be remembered in the field of astronomy. He was the chief founder of contemporary astronomy and also a great mathematician and astrologer. The German astronomer was the first person to explain planetary motion. His three laws on planetary motion were codified by later astronomers based on his

Entering the professional world as a woman has never been easy. It is not because women are inefficient or lack quick learning power, but simply because they are not men. For ages women have stayed and worked at their homes. Although today things have modernized to a great extent yet the world still carries over

Jim Al-Khalili is a famous British physicist and author of Iraqi descent. A professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Surrey, Al-Khalili gained fame for writing a popular science book named “Blackholes, Wormholes and Time Machines”. He often appears on several television shows to explain scientific ideas. Jim Al-Khalili was born in Baghdad in

Jean-Baptiste-Pierre-Antoine de Monet, chevalier de Lamarck, more commonly known as Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, was a legendary French biologist who advocated that acquired characters are inheritable. Though his theory of heredity has been refuted by modern genetics and evolutionary theory yet Lamarck is widely regarded as one of the most influential naturalists and an important forerunner of

Jean Piaget was a Swiss psychologist who is known for conducting a systematic study of the acquisition of understanding in children. He is widely considered to be the most important figure in the 20th-century developmental psychology. Born in 1896 in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, Jean Piaget’s father, Arthur Piaget, taught medieval literature at the University of Neuchâtel.

“Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.” This famous quote is by a lady who has been interested in animals all throughout her life. Dame Valerie Jane Goodall was born in London in 1934. Jane Goodall is the world’s foremost authority on chimpanzees, having closely observed their

James Dewey Watson was an American geneticist and biophysicist. He is noted for his decisive work in the discovery of the molecular structure of DNA, the hereditary material associated with the transmission of genetic information. He shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins in 1962. James Watson was

James Prescott Joule was an English physicist who studied the nature of heat and established its relationship to mechanical work. He, therefore, laid the foundation for the theory of conservation of energy, which later influenced the First Law of Thermodynamics. He also formulated the Joule’s laws which deal with the transfer of energy. Born in

James Clerk Maxwell was born on June 13, 1831, in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was a physicist by profession and he gave out very important theories on electromagnetism. He has been very intelligent as a child. From the very beginning he solved many complex problems of geometry. It was due to both Maxwell’s heredity and surrounding

James Chadwick was an Englishman and he was a Physicist by profession. He was born on October 20, 1891 in Manchester. His parents Anne Mary Knowles Chadwick and John Joseph had him as their eldest son. Chadwick got admitted in Victoria University, Manchester. He was more interested in studying mathematics but instead he was admitted