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 ISAAC NEWTON

Isaac Newton is one of the most extraordinary minds in history. He is considered the representative of modern science, for his important contributions to physics and mathematics. He was much more than a scientist.

He did not know his father and his mother did not want to raise him. He barely felt loved.

He received a rather strict education, especially in religion.

His adolescence was spent far from his family, but still the years were quiet.

He met Catherine, with whom he had a great friendship.

He created many toys (wood, light, water, wind).

At the age of 16, he finished his studies at King's School.

He studied at the University of Cambridge.

He chose physics. He explained the Law of Gravity, which changed many concepts of science.  In 1669 he invented the reflecting telescope.

He even made some complicated calculations to discover when the end of the world would be.  He concluded that it would be in 2060.

This great sage died in 1727.

Inés Morán Aller --- sixth grade

ALBERT EINSTEIN

Albert was born in Germany on March 14, 1879, in a small town called Ulm. Throughout his life he had three different nationalities: German, then Swiss and the United States, where he died in April 1955.

As unlikely as it may seem, Einstein was considered by his teachers to be a bad student, a bit irresponsible, lazy and rather clumsy with mathematics. He enjoyed the violin, however, a passion that was instilled in him by his mother and which accompanied him throughout his life.

Curious, isn't it? Especially when we know him as one of the most brilliant minds in the fields of arithmetic, mathematics, physics... and we know that his contributions came to revolutionize all these areas, even giving rise to new branches of study.

At Einstein College he was very interested in mathematics and physics, but the other subjects were boring and simple.

Einstein's first wife had been a fellow student.

she accompanied him in the development of his first theories, which were published in 1905 

Five articles where Einstein expressed and exposed his interpretation of phenomena such as relativity. Thanks to the magnificent development of these ideas, Einstein obtained the degree of Doctor and the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921.

Some of his most interesting theories are

Brownian Movement

Theory of Special Relativity

Mass Energy Equivalence. E = mc²

Theory of General Relativity.

You see that even for a genius like Einstein studying required effort.

Hugo  Guerra Pérez   Sixth Grade

THOMAS  EDISON

This American inventor was born in Milan (Ohio) on 11 February 1847. His childhood was not easy because his family was poor. Furthermore, as a child, he became partially deaf as a result of scarlet fever. This handicap conditioned his way of seeing the world and his relationships with children of his age. Since he was a child he liked to carry out experiments.

. Although he was smart, he was bored in class and his grades were low. At the age of seven he was expelled from school because his teacher considered him to be a retard.

His mother, who was a school teacher, decided to take over his training. She was able to convey to him things that were very difficult to teach: curiosity about things and phenomena, perseverance in work and a desire to read. It was precisely the reading of a book provided by his mother that created in Thomas a great fascination for experimentation. And since he was ten years old, he had been conducting experiments in a pantry at home. At the age of twelve, he sold newspapers and knick-knacks on the train to pay for his laboratory experiments.

After saving a child from dying on the train tracks, the child's grateful father taught him telegraphy. He liked what he didn't know so much that he built a domestic telegraph. He was a tireless reader; it is said that he tried to read a whole library. He reproduced the experiments he had read. All his circumstances and calamities in his childhood force us to think of this character not only as an inventor but as a person.

In 1868, Thomas Edison patented his first invention. It was a device for counting votes in elections. But it was not very successful.

He improved Graham Bell's telephone by adding a carbon microphone.

In 1877, he made one of his most important contributions: the phonograph.

Perhaps his most famous discovery was the light bulb.

Behind all these discoveries there were many hours of work and not always successful. Thomas Edison had a natural optimism and great perseverance.

And on another occasion, he said: "An experience is never a failure, because it always comes to prove something".

Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla, was a Croatian engineer born in Smija, in the Austrian Empire in July 1856. He was an inventor in the field of electromagnetism. His studies and researches today have been the basis of systems for the use of alternating electric current.

Son of Serbian parents. His father Milutin Tesla was a priest of the Serbian Orthodox Church and his mother Duka Mandic was a housewife who invented small domestic appliances, although she was illiterate.

In 1862, the family moved to Gospic, where Nikola attended  a secondary school like the lycée in France, and studied for three years when the normal was four, but Tesla's genius helped him complete the curriculum in less time.

He was convinced by his father to return to university and entered Charles University in Prague, where he met Ernst Macht, an Austrian physicist and philosopher in the field of optics and acoustics.

However, when his father died, he dropped out of the course.

Nikola Tesla moved to Paris in 1882, and there he began working at the Continental Edison Company as an engineer, designing electrical equipment. That year, he invented the induction motor, which is an alternating current electric motor.

In 1884 he arrived in the United States to work with Thomas Edison himself, who hired him to work at the Edison Machine Works. Tesla excelled at repairing the damaged dynamos of the Oregon liner, which earned him Edison's congratulations and further consideration.

He redesigned the Edison company's DC generators, for which he was offered $50,000. In 1886, Tesla opened his own company: Tesla Electric Light & Manufacturing, without much success since its investors did not approve the project of an alternating current motor.

But he continued with his project. Later George Westinghouse bought Tesla's patent for his alternating current motor. With this money he became more independent and opened a workshop in Manhattan with hired personnel.

Nikola's inventions are many: the Tesla coil, wireless lighting, the steam oscillator generator, among others.

This ingenious electrician died in New York in 1943.