Joseph Achille Le Bel Joseph Achille Le Bel was a French Chemist who was born January 21, 1847, and died August 6, 1930 in Paris. Joseph had an interesting personal life. He studied at a French school called Ecole Polytechniques in Paris. Achille also had a very successful professional career with many great findings. Le Bel worked in stereochemistry in which he achieved many accomplishments. Joseph Achille Le Bel was born on January 21, 1847, and raised in Pechelbronn, France where he grew up with four siblings, two brothers and two sisters. He was born into a wealthy family which ran a petroleum business in France.He went to highschool at College de Haguenau in which he graduated from in Paris. In 1865 he was sent to Ecole Polytechniques at the age of 18 in Paris and spent most of his time doing chemical research trying to obtain a chemical education. The same year his father passed away causing his sisters to take over the business in effect letting him continue his studies. He studied chemistry many years, Joseph Achille Le Bel was very very experienced in this field. …show more content…
He was appointed preparateur, which means he is responsible for preparing the technical equipment and machinery needed in lecture used in lecture demonstrations, to the General Chemistry chair at the University of Strasbourg. After some time he left and took a job that was very similar. He took this position at the College de France with Antoine-Jerome Balard, which is the person who discovered Bromine. He moved to Paris to work in the laboratory with Charles Adolphe Wirtz . He is regarded as the cofounder of stereochemistry, with J. H. van't Hoff. He was known for many successful
Peter Salem : a slave who was freed by his owner, Jeremiah Belknap, to join the Framingham militia in Massachusetts. He was a patriot for over seven years, supporting the Americans fight the British, and became a militia himself and served for four years and eight months. In 1775, Peter took part in fighting the war’s first battle at Concord. He enrolled in Captain Drury’s Company of John Nixon’s 6th Massachusetts Regiment. He also took part in the Battle of Bunker Hill, where he mortally wounded British Marine Major, John Pitcairn. Then in 1776, he reenlisted for another year in the 4th Continental Regiment. After his enlistment was over, he volunteer for three years in the 6th Massachusetts Regiment of Colonel Thomas Nixon. Achievement : Contribute to Concord battle(1775), Battle of the Bunker Hill(1775), and the Battles of Saratoga and Stony Point(1777).
Philippe Petit changed numerous peoples’ thoughts about the Twin Towers when he performed his high wire walk between them in 1974. Before Philippe Petit walked the high wire between the Twin Towers in 1974, people weren’t certain how they felt about the construction of the World Trade Center. After Philippe performed, people began to warm up to the idea of the towers. Philippe Petit walked the high wire between the Twin Towers on August 7, 1974. This event prompted Andrew McMahon to write the song “Platform Fire” about this event for his band, Jack’s Mannequin. This song was not a hit for the band; however, fans of Jack’s Mannequin seem to have a special place in their heart for it.
Ronald Joseph Dominique was born in Thibodaux , Louisiana,( Between New Orleans and Baton Rouge), on January 9, 1964. Thibodaux was a relatively well-sized city of about 14, 567 people. Ronald had attended Thibodaux High School and was involved in their glee club and choir, and unfortunately was a victim of sexual discrimination; Ronald was a victim of bullying where the students had accused him of homosexuality. Due to the event, as he aged he developed a sense of split- personality. One side of him would be a gentle, calm, mild -natured and friendly neighbor, and the other side of him was a cross-dressing drag queen attending homosexual bars. In fact, Ron was in the Lions Club just a few months before his arrest and his confession to the
When searching for lab space in 1894, Marie came across Pierre Curie. He was the laboratory chief at the Municipal School of Industrial Physics and Chemistry. The meeting of Pierre and Marie would not only change their individual lives, but also the course of Science.
Vernon Loeb has lived in Houston for less than four years and has been in two floods and believe that Houston is its own enemy for flood control. It is a flat place and no amount of preparation could have helped to minimize the impact of the rain from Hurricane Harvey. Loeb walked to work on Sunday in waist-deepwater. In other places, the water was chest-deep. The next day, he saw a very expensive, recently updated park completely covered in water. The National Weather Service describes Harvey with “all impacts … unknown & beyond anything experienced” and as “catastrophic, unprecedented, epic.” Loeb contributes Harvey to climate change, and hopes that acknowledging this will help Houston recover and reinvent itself to developing cleaner energies.
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.
Alphonse Bertillon was born in Paris on April 24, 1853. He was the son of the distinguished physician, anthropologist, and physician, Louis Adolphe Bertillon (bookrags.com). Young Alphonse was seen as hopeless through his fathers eyes. He often suffered from migraine headaches, and nosebleeds, and was very shy and lacked social skills. However, the young Bertillon was not a complete loss, he was an intellectual who had a thirst for knowledge and shared his father's interest in statistics and anthropology (http://jimfisher.edinboro.edu).
In 2015, Father Junipero Serra was canonized by Pope Francis. To some people, Junipero Serra deserved to become a saint after all of his work establishing numerous missions along the California coastline, starting in 1769 with the San Diego Mission (Junipero Serra: Saint or Sinner?, n.a). However, while the Catholic Church may commend Father Junipero Serra for his actions and even held him to sainthood, Pope Francis announcement had brought bitter feeling for the Native American community throughout California. For Native Americans and others, he is seen more as a glorified leader of genocide. After his canonization there were numerous cases of vandalism in California missions such as the Mission San Fernando, where a statue of Father Serra’s hand were painted red and murderer was scribbled onto his statue. Other acts of such vandalism were also experienced at Mission Carmel and Mission Santa Cruz (Father Serra Statue Vandalism, n.a). While Father Serra did accomplish spreading Catholicism throughout California, which is a great feat itself and has greatly influence California society today; I do not believe he deserved to be canonized by Pope Francis to become a saint.
recognized as a writer. He became one of the most famous and well paid French
Henry Cavendish was born October 10, 1731 in Nice, France. His mother, Lady Anne Grey was the daughter of the first Duke of Kent while his father Lord Charles Cavendish, was second Duke of Devonshire. His ancestry links back to many of the aristocratic families in Great Britain. The chemist/physicist is most accredited for the discovery of hydrogen, the “inflammable air” and measuring the Earth’s density, but he also researched and discovered many other important scientific revolutions.
Andre Marie Ampere was a French Physicist who had many great discoveries throughout his life. He was born on January 22, 1775 in Lyon, France. Ampere created electromagnetism, which started the science of electrodynamics. With this discovery the unit measure of electromagnetism was named after ampere. Ampere was born into a very financially set middle class family. Andre’s mother was a devout woman (Shank). She was a charitable and very religious (Fox). His father (Jean Jacques Ampere) was a successful merchant. Ampere combines both of his parent’s personal traits. His father was a big admirer of Jean Jacques Rousseau, a philosophy scientist. Amperes father believed that and education should be taught from nature and not taught from a school. Jean let his son educate himself in his own well stocked library. By the age of 12 Andre taught himself advanced mathematics. Andre’s mother made his is initiated within the catholic faith along with the Enlightenment of Science (Shank).
With his skill in science, and with his work with the scientific method, Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac earns the title of a great scientist. He was born on December 6, 1778 and he was the oldest child. His father was Antoine Gay. He was a lawyer who called himself Gay-Lussac to be apart from all of the other people with the same last name as Gay there. He got that name from the name of some family property near St Leonard(4) .
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Antoine Laurent Lavoisier was born on August 26, 1743 in Paris, France. He was the only child of a wealthy middle-class family (Antoine Laurent Lavoisier). His father was a very successful merchant. His education consisted of the study of mathematics, the classics, and sciences. He chose to pursue a career in chemistry because of an interest in that he had and grew with over time. Following his gift in education, he went off to college and discovered a passion for law while he was there. After he finished college, he went to law school. He spent much of his time attending various lectures about chemistry and physics because he didn’t find the teachers to be very demanding of his effort and time. He continued to practice experiments in his free time under the supervision of a naturalist (“Antoine” Britannica). He then attended the very prestigious Collége Mazarin to study humanities and different types of sciences (“An...
Alexander-Gustave Eiffel was an only son and the first child of Catherine- Melanie Eiffel and Francois-Aleixandre. He was born on December 15, 1832, in Dijon, France. Eiffel’s dad was a soldier in the French army, and he had run away from his wealthy family. He had to go back to Dijon, France, where an army was stationed there. That was where he had met Catherine Eiffel, and later married her and became one of Mrs. Eiffel’s family of wealthy lumber merchants. Eiffel recalled that in Dijon, his childhood was one of the happiest times of his life. Eiffel was really close to his mother. Therefore, she was the one who taught him a lot of the early education things. That is how he got his intelligence. Eiffel also looked forward to Sundays, because his uncle, jean batiste mollerat. He was a successful chemist. He would go to Eiffel’s home every Sunday, and teach his chemistry to Eiffel. Later in his life, Eiffel went to a nearby Royal School where he thought was a place of wasting time and not learning anything, and his grades were very low. Later he stated that that school was the worst part of his life. His last 2 years of school were great. Thanks to his teacher’s effort, he was especially great in the subjects of Science and Literature. His grades soon got so much better the he graduated with a double baccalaureate on literature and science. After graduation, he had to get rea...