Albert Abraham Michelson (surname pronunciation anglicized as Michael-son) was born December 19, 1852 in Strzelno, Poland into a Jewish family. He moved to the US with his parents in 1855, at the age of 2. He grew up in the mining town s of Murphy’s Camp, California and Virginia City, Nevada, where his father was a merchant. His family was Jewish by birth but non-religious, and Michelson himself was a lifelong agnostic. He spent his high school years in San Francisco in the home of his aunt, Henriette Levy (nee Michelson), who was the mother author Harriet Lane Levy. President Ulysses S. Grant awarded Michelson a special appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy in 1869. During his four years as a midshipman at the Academy, Michelson excelled in …show more content…
In the following year he obtained leave of absence to continue his studies in Europe. He visited the Universities of Berlin and Heidelberg, and the College de France and Ecole Polytechnique in Paris. In 1877, he married Margaret Hemingway, daughter of a wealthy New York stockbroker and lawyer. They has two sons and a daughter. Michelson was fascinated with the sciences, and the problem of measuring the the speed of light in particular. While at Annapolis, he conducted his first experiments of the speed of light, as a part of a class demonstration in 1877. His Annapolis experiment was refined, and in 1879, he measured the speed of light in air to be 299,864 + 51 kilometers per second, and estimated the speed of light in vacuum as 299,940 km/s, or 186,380 mi/s. After two years of studies in Europe, he resigned from the Navy in 1881. In 1883 he accepted a position as professor of physics at the Case School of Applied Science in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1890 he accepted a similar position at Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, and in 1892 he became Professor of Physics and the first Head of Department at the new University of Chicago where in 1925 he was appointed to the first of the Distinguished Service
James Lafayette Dickey, III was born in the town of Atlanta, Georgia on February 2, 1923. His parents were Maibelle and Eugene Dickey. He went to Ed S. Cook Elementary School and North Fulton High School as a kid, both of which are in Atlanta. He was athletic as a child. He played football and track, but his football career led him to a scholarship at the University of Clemson, in Clemson, South Carolina. But, before he went off to college he spent one year at the Darlington School in Rome, Georgia for one year in preparation for a college. He didn’t last longer than a year in Clemson though because he enlisted into the Army Air Corps.
James Earl Carter, Jr. was born October 1, 1924, in Plains, Georgia, into a family of fifth-generation Georgians. He grew up in the nearby small town of Archery. A fervent Baptist, He is a product of the Plains public school system. After he graduated from high school he attended Georgia Southwestern College and the Georgia Institute of Technology, and received a Bachelor of Science degree from the United States Naval Academy in 1946. In the Navy he became a submariner, serving in both the Atlantic and Pacific fleets and rising to the rank of lieutenant. Chosen by Admiral Hyman Rickover for the nuclear submarine program, he was assigned to Schenectady, N.Y., where he took graduate work at Union College in reactor technology and nuclear physics, and served as senior officer of the pre-commissioning crew of the Seawolf, the second nuclear submarine. He would serve under Rickover for the final two years of his career in the Navy, working as engineering officer on the nuclear sub.
Charles Portis was born in 1933 in El Dorado, Arkansas. He was known as Buddy by his friends (Chilton). His parents were Samuel and Alice Portis. The family also included Charles two brothers and one sister. He spent many days outdoors with friends and family. Charles went to the movies and watched western movies a lot which helped grow his interest in the west. Portis and his family moved to many different places in Arkansas including Hamburg. After graduating high school in Hamburg, Charles enlisted in the United States Marine Corps during the Korean War. He achieved the rank of sergeant and then got discharged in 1955 at the age of 22. After Portis was discharged from the Marine Corps, he went to college at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville to get his degree in journalism. He obtained his degree in 1958.
Otto Frank, born on May twelfth, 1889 in Frankfurt am Main in Germany belonged to a Jewish liberal family with three siblings(www.biography.com). He studied art history and economics at the University of Heidelberg, eventually leading him to working at a bank and then to accepting an internship position at Macy's Department Store in Manhattan. His father's death held him back from gaining the business experience he longed to discover at first, but determined the young Otto Frank continued his business(www.biography.com). In 1911, Otto Frank left America for his home in Germany, and eventually during 1914, became conscripted into the German army on the Western Front and earned the title of lieutenant(www.annefrank.org). Once the war ended, Frank took over the family bank, married his first wif...
In 1946 graduated from high school as a Valedictorian and joined the U.S. Army. He trained in engineering school at Fort Lewis, Washington. He served 18 months in occupational forces in Japan.
“After working for Wabash he wrote for acceptance in West Point, and was accepted in the fall of 1911. During his schooling in West Point he came to like military life and its style. He flew through college and ‘graduated on June 12, 1915’ (Omar Nelson Bradley General of the Army). “Bradley graduated 44th in his class as a 2nd Lt. of Infantry and was stationed at Fort Benning, Georgia for” (Omar Nelson Bradley General of the Army).
Born in Virginia, to mother Martha Puller and father Matthew Puller, he grew to become a well recognized marine globally (Russell & Cohn, 2012). His father’s dead while he was 10 years did not stop him to achieve a high point career; in fact, his childhood lifestyle of listening to war stories...
His college years took place during the height of the Vietnam War, which he personally supported. Subsequently, he joined the United States Army Reserve Officer Training Corps, but unfortunately his military career was short-lived due to his poor eyesight. After graduating in 1969 with a b...
Wyatt Earp’s dad was Nicholas Porter Earp and his mom was Virginia Ann Cooksey Earp she died before Wyatt’s dad. Wyatt’s dad was a deputy sheriff of Warren county, Illinois, he was a sergeant in the civil war. Wyatt’s mom just stayed home to do chores around the house and work on the garden. Wyatt’s brothers are Newton Jasper, James Cooksey, Virgil Walter, Warren, and Morgan S Earp. Wyatt’s sister’s are Adelia Douglas, Mariah Ann, Martha Elizabeth Earp. Virgil was the second real brother Virgil secretly married Ellen Rysdam in Iowa. Morgan Earp the younger brother to Wyatt as well as he was a participant in the O.K. Corral.
Alvin C. York who was an American war hero during WWI, was born on December 13, 1887, in Pall Mall, Tennessee. York was third out of eleven kids , he grew up in a small cabin and didn’t receive a lot of schooling as a child. When his father died in 1911, York, was forced to help his mother raise his younger siblings. Because of all the pressure he was under, of trying to fill his father’s shoes. York became a heavy drinker and was frequently involved in bar fights. York stayed a heavy drinker until 1914, when his friend Everett Delk was beaten to death during brawl in Static, KY. After that, he became a member of a Church. This is where York met his wife, Gracie Williams, through the church's Sunday school and singing in the choir. York then
Hiram Revels was born on September 27, 1827 in Fayetteville, NC. Unlike the majority of African Americans in the south, Hiram was born to free parents. His father worked as a Baptist preacher and his mother was of Scottish descent. Because of his Scottage background he was believed to be mixed with African and Croatan Indian lineage. In a time when teaching African Americans was illegal, Revels had an opportunity to attend a school taught by a black women. His older brother Elias Revels owned a barbershop, which he inherited upon his sibling’s death. Two years later he left to continue his education and to obtain a job.
Rankin was born on June 11, 1880 in Missoula, Montana. She was the oldest of seven siblings. Her mother, Olive Pickering, was an elementary school teacher. Her father, John Rankin was a victorious rancher and lumber businessman. He passed away in 1904, shortly after Jeannette graduated from University of Montana in 1902. When Jeannette’s father died she assumed the responsibility for five sisters and her brother, to whom she grew very close and who aided her in many of her future political attempt. On a trip to visit her brother at Harvard in 1904, she became aware of the dirty city conditions. As she traveled through Boston, New York, and Chicago she witnessed the clear contrast between the poverty of the urban people and the wealth
Why do serial killers kill? Most serial killers kill because they were abandoned in their young life either by their mother or father. Some think that serial killers kill due to a chemical imbalance or because their genetic makeup is slightly altered. There are a lot of serial killers in this world, but Donald Neilson is one of the most famous.
Victor Delfin was born December 20, 1927. He is a famous artist in Peru. He found his source of inspiration in the ancient Paracan culture of Peru. Delfin's Master pieces can be traced back to the colorful, traditional mantles worn by the Paracans 500 to 800 years ago. The Incan city/people is famous as being an advanced culture. Delfin's use of Incan symbols reestablishes links with the past that could very well hold signs of our future. Delfin graduated from the National School of Fine Arts in Lima in 1958. He served briefly as director of the Puno School of Fine Arts and then as an art teacher in Chile. Delfin established a mixed art studio in the seaside district of Barranco, and he has been there ever since, producing art that has won many awards and honors.
born in Portland, Marine on Sept 21, 1947. He was raised by his mother, Nellie Pillsbury,