Marie Curie : 1867–1934 Marie Skłodowska Curie was a trailblazing scientist and physicist who made significant advances in the chemistry and radioactivity domains. She was the first woman to get the Nobel Prize and is still the only individual to have received honours in two distinct scientific disciplines. Childhood On November 7, 1867, Marie Curie […]
Malala Yousafzai This is Malala Yousafzai’s biography : Childhood: Born in Mingora, Pakistan, on July 12, 1997. Father Ziauddin Yousafzai oversaw a girls’ school in their village and was an advocate for education. Tor Pekai Yousafzai, her mother, encouraged her daughter to pursue her education and displayed a love of learning at an early age. […]
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar This is Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar’s biography: Childhood and Schooling: Born on October 19, 1910, in Lahore, British India, he was the third child in a well-educated family of ten. He was homeschooled by his parents and private tutors. He attended Hindu High School, Triplicane, Madras, from 1922 to 1925. At the age of 14, […]
C. V. Raman Lived 1888 – 1970. It was discovered by C. V. Raman that light may give a small amount of energy to a molecule when it interacts with it. The molecule vibrates and the light changes colour as a result. The molecule may use the colour shift as a “fingerprint.” Certain fingerprints are […]
