Featuring two thinkers born 8th of January, political scientist and sociologist Emily Balch and physicist and mathematician Stephen Hawking. Featuring two great thinkers born 8th January: Emily Green Balch (January 8, 1867 – January 9, 1961). Emily Balch was an American political scientist and sciologist, who shared the 1946 Nobel Peace Prize, a leader of women’s movement for peace. Balch …Read the Rest
Stephen Cole Kleene, Founder of Theoretical Computer Science
Mathematicians
Stephen Cole Keene worked on recursion theory that laid the foundation of theoretical computer science. Stephen Cole Kleene (1909-1994), American mathematician and logician, born in Hartford, Connecticut, celebrates his 99th birthday anniversary today January 5. With his mathematical logic, he worked on recursion theory which laid the foundation of theoretical computer science. A number of mathematical concepts are named after …Read the Rest
Inventions and Discoveries around Us
Inventions & Discoveries
Discoveries and Inventions This site shares especially to interested readers information about the amazing world of discoveries & inventions, and naturally, the great minds of inventors. What is an Invention? Simply, any new object or matter is an invention. It can be a new material like iPad or iPod, rayon or nylon. It can also be a process, like a …Read the Rest
Great Thinkers Widen our Knowledge
Chemists
Great thinkers include scientists, inventors and other people who pioneered through inventions and discoveries numerous things we benefit today. When we learn about great thinkers along with their lives and times, we enlarge our knowledge, and even expand our competencies. World shapers and movers have always fascinated me even as a child, and so I was not surprised when, visiting …Read the Rest
