With contributions to physics, physiology, ophthalmology, psychology, and philosophy, Adelbert Ames Jr. is a scientist of great distinction. However, when his family background is looked at, it is not difficult to see how he came to achievement so much. He was born in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1880. His father, whom he is named after, was a man of distinction. He was a general in the Union army during the Civil War and later became Governor and a Senator during the Reconstruction Era. He also gained several patents for pencil sharpeners and other mechanical objects. His mother, Blanche Butler Ames, was the daughter of a controversial military leader, politician, and unsuccessful candidate for the U.S. presidency. Ames’ sister was a women’s rights suffragist and his brother was an Army officer and politician. Even Ames’ son, Adelbert Ames III went on to be a professor at Harvard University.
Ames attended Phillips Academy at Andover, before going on to Harvard where he earned his law degrees. Around this time, he married Fanny Vose Hazen and had his son and daughter. After working as a lawyer for four years, he got tired of it and decided to become a painter. He worked alongside his sister who was also a painter. Together, they tried to find different ways to improve the visual quality of art. In their time together, the Ames siblings worked to develop a color-notation system. They mixed thousands of colors and came up with about 3,300 new colors of differing values, intensities, and hues. They wanted to make paintings like no one had ever seen. As a result, they turned to study vision on a scientific level. Ames believed that if he studied the human eye and learned everything he could about it, then he w...
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...on sitting on it diminishes as well. Suddenly, when a normal man comes to stand in front of the chair legs, your mind is tricked into seeing a normal person looking at tiny person or vice versa.
Despite not coming from a background or education in psychology, Adelbert Ames Jr. has truly changed how we can perceive the world. With his demonstrations that were ridiculed and shot down, we can see that how we perceive the world around us is not always how it really is. His room and chair trick our eyes into seeing unreal things simply because we have never had an experience with them before. For an artist and a lawyer, Ames made many great contributions through his work. Everyone could learn a lesson from him. Follow what you want to do and not what others think you should do. He certainly did follow his own path and changed many lives because of it.
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Born December 19, 1880 Earl “Pete” Hancock Ellis was a product of modest means. He was educated in prairie schools of Kanas. Yet, by 1911, his high aptitude for strategizing military tactical objectives and predicting the moves of the enemy earned him the high honor as a student at the Naval War College. Ellis would go on to teach at the Naval War College and write many works that were innovative for his time and ours. Advanced Based Operations In Micronesia, is arguably his most notable work. ELLIS’ WRITINGS PROVIDE SOLUTIONS TO MANY OF THE PROBLEMS WE FACE IN MODERN WARFARE AND BUSH BRIGADES IS PERHAPS THE MOST RELEVANT WORK OF ELLIS’ FOR OUR TIME. His works serve as the bases for Marine Corp Operations as we know them.
Edward Bartholomew Bancroft was born 20 January 1745 in Westfield, Massachusetts to Edward and Mary Bancroft. Edward Bancroft had one sibling, a brother Daniel, born in 1746. The senior Bancroft died at the early age of 28, leaving the widow Mary to take care of little Edward and John. The widow Bancroft met David Bull whom she married in 1751. The new family moved throughout the New England area of the colonies and ended up settling in Hartford, Connecticut. David Bull became a proprietor of a local tavern in Hartford. Edward Bancroft would not grow to have a normal education. His mother saw the need of studies and in 1759, Silas Deane, a graduate of Yale College, became a private tutor for Edward Bancroft. These studies would prove b...
Robert would not see his family’s hometown of Worcester again until he was seventeen in 1899. Much of his life was spent as an ill child (Spangenburg, 10), and he was an average student with an aversion to mathematics. Illness kept him out of school entirely in that autumn of 1899, and by this time Robert had only completed his freshman year of high school. Although he was unable to spend a lot of time within institutional walls, the young Goddard was not without a strong yearning to learn--at least to learn science. Much of the time he spent sick at home sick was consumed reading the Scientific American, or books from the library both science and science fiction novels—-especially H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds, a novel he would re-examine often in later years (Burrows, 32).
Louis Agassiz (1807-1873), born in Switzerland, was a naturalist. (Gould, 74) In 1840’s, Agassiz migrated to America and became a professor at Harvard. (Gould, 75) Agassiz was an extremely successful man in the science world. (Gould, 75) As a matter of fact, he raised money to support his buildings, collections, and publications. (Gould, 75)
Henri Le Chatelier had grown up in a family background with a vast amount of knowledge about science and technology as his family included architects, scientists and engineers as well. He had come from a Roman Catholic Family, and he had five siblings (1 sister and four brothers). Henri’s mother had raised him and his siblings in a very strict fashion, where discipline and respect were to be implemented. His father, Louis Le Chatelier and relatives were a major influential role model for Henri, as they contributed towards the origin of the Martin-Siemens steel and iron industry, railway production, mining, and the French aluminum industry. This had a key impact on the way Henri’s career advanced.
The McGraw-Hill Irwin, “AFLAC and CEO Dan Amos,” video, is quite an informative one as it relates to the AFLAC company and it top level manager. It deals with the way in which Chief Executive Officer Amos, runs the day-to-day business of AFLAC. It speaks on how Mr. Amos, who is a top level manager is a risk taker. Mr. Amos is now taking a big risk in allowing the stockholders of AFLAC to vote on his compensation packet. Not only will the decision that is made by the stockholders affect his professional life, but it will have an impact on his personal life as well.
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the painters that came after him. He used oil paints that, due to the ability of the colors blending
John Dalton from a very young age was intelligent. Born in 1766 Cumberland, England he grew up with his family who were all tradesmen. When he was twelve years old he started as a teacher’s assistant at a Quaker school. He continued that role until he was fourteen. At fourteen Dalton went to a farm for a year. He later returned to the Quaker school and became an official teacher. For two years he worked at that school until he was promoted and became the principal. He taught as a public lecturer until 1793 when he moved to Manchester. Later he was invited to join the Philosophical Society and the Manchester Literary [“John Dalton Biography.”]. He joined and his membership granted him access to the laboratory. Dalton was a self-taught experimenter. He used the laboratory to initially study meteorology, which is the study of the atmosphere.
Long before Aylmer became acquainted with Georgiana, he was always a man of science, and a philosopher. Taking pride in his work, there was almost nothing that could form a wedge between Aylmer and his research. During his time, with exceptional discoveries being made such as electricity, “it was not unusual for the love of science to rival the love of woman” (Hawthorne). Despite this, Aylmer still set aside time in the pursuits of a woman to wed.
In 1929, after completing some painting classes at both the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and The Art Institute of Chicago, Albright achieved an Honorable Mention at the Annual American Art Exhibition at The Art Institute of Chicago. The success inspired him to continue pursuing his art career, and in 1927 he and his twin brother Malvin, who specialized in sculpture under the name Zsissly, began coexisting in a studio in an abandoned church in Illinois, where they worked together for twenty years. (www.cmoa.org)
Burrhus Frederic Skinner was born in a small town called Susquehanna, Pennsylvania on March 20, 1904. His dad was a lawyer and his mom was a house wife. Skinner was the typical boy, he enjoyed playing outside and to build things. He created many inventions as a kid. He and a friend made a cabin in the woods and Skinner created a cart with backwards steering. When working for a shoe store he thought of and invention that helped the broom pick up dust. Skinner also invented a flotation system for a door to door business that would sell berries. The flotation system separated the ripe berries from the bad. Skinner also enjoyed school very much. He even dedicated a book later in life to his English teacher Miss Graves. Skinner did not have a tragic childhood it was fairly easy. The only tragedy was that younger brother died at sixteen from a cerebral aneurysm.
Dr. Edgar F. Codd started his monumental life on the south coast of England on August 19, 1923 (Date). His education consisted of attending the Poole Grammar School in Dorset, United Kingdom and Oxford University. He received a full scholarship to Oxford and initially started studying chemistry in 1941-1942. After a while, Codd interrupted his studies to volunteer for active duty even though he was offered deferment. He advanced to the position of lieutenant of the Royal Air Force Coastal Command until the war ended. After the war ended, he returned to his studies at Oxford, changing his major to mathematics. He ultimately received his mathematics degree in 1948.
Throughout the 1920's, art, through dancing, singing, painting, photographing and acting became a pastime and provided individualized entertainment and lively joy for those of the time. Many had the ability to discover passions that were previously unavailable for everyone to explore, due to the need to be working harsh hours to provide for their families. Edward Harper became immersed in art, with a simple beginning of an illustrator. He was born in 1882, from small town Upper Nyack in the state New York. He took interest in art from a very young age, and would draw extremely well at a young age. His strict, religious, but caring parents were able to support him, and they sent him to school to become an illustrator, as it was the most realistic