Essays on Scientists & Inventors

Albert Einstein Of all the scientists to emerge from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries there is one whose name is known by almost all living people. While most of these do not understand this man’s work, everyone knows that its impact on the world of science is astonishing. Yes, many have heard of Albert Einstein’s...

I chose Alan Turing after watching the 2014 film The Imitation Game, discovering the significant impact he had on World War II and his relatively unknown contributions. His work as a Computer Scientist, Engineer, Mathematician, and Philosopher lead to the foundation of many current technologies and new scientific fields. The inventions he both theorized and...

Animal welfare is defined as the well-being of nonhuman animals. However, the standards of “good” animal welfare vary based upon different contexts (McArthur 27). In general, there are two forms of criticism with opposite positions on the concept of animal welfare. One point of view, believes humans owe no duties of any kind to animals....

Although Thomas Edison is known for several innovations (including the light bulb), he was also a successful businessman who was able to market and transform ideas into profitable businesses. Nikola Tesla was the other way around. Tesla was a pure inventor with less sense of business, he even worked for Edison and bring some new...

Sir Isaac Newton was an English physicist and mathematician renowned for his principles of physics. His most famous work published in 1687 is called the Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica. It has been called “the most influential book on physics”. His three laws of motion resulted in the discovery of the law of universal gravitation. Sir...

Blaise Pascal was born in Clermont-Ferrand, France on June 19th,1623. He lost his mother, Antoinette Begon, at the young age of three years old. His father, Etienne Pascal was a local judge and a member of the group, “Noblesse de Robes”, he also had an interest in science and mathematics, also Pascal’s father was the...

Introduction Alan Mathison Turing was born in London on the 23rd of June 1912, he was born into a upper-middle-class family to his father Julius Mathison Turing and his mother Ethel Sara Turing, he had one older sibling named John Ferrier Turning. At an early age Turing showed an aptitude for Mathematics and Science. At...

In his two-volume work, The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex (1871), Charles Darwin states “Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science” (brainy quotes)....

Antiseptic Who is given credit as the inventor? Antiseptic is a medicated substance preventing disease, and the inventor of was Hungarian Ignaz Semmelweis in 1847. However, Joseph Lister is said to have successfully introduced carbolic acid (now known as phenol) to sterilize surgical instruments and to clean wounds (after applying for Louis Pasteur’s advances in...

Tell us about your model entrepreneur and you consider them as your role model. The model Entrepreneur I have selected is Thomas Edison. Thomas Alva Edison was born in February 11, 1847, and lived to become recognised as one of the world’s greatest inventor that ever existed. Edison was a passionate innovator from a young...