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T he most famous people

T he most famous people. In Great Britain and the USA. Scientists. of the USA. Tomas Edison.

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T he most famous people

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  1. The most famous people In Great Britain and the USA

  2. Scientists ofthe USA

  3. Tomas Edison • Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American businessman and inventor. By developing many devices, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulbhegreatlyimprovedthelivingstandardsaroundtheglobe. He was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production and large teamwork to the process of invention, and because of that, he is often credited with the creation of the first industrial research laboratory.

  4. James Dewey Watson • James Dewey Watson (born April 6, 1928) is an American molecular biologist,zoologist and geneticist, best known as a co-discoverer of the structure of DNA in 1953 with Francis Crick.After studies at theUniversity of Chicago and Indiana University, he worked at the University of Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory in England, where he first met his future collaborator and friend Francis Crick. Watson, Crick, and Maurice Wilkins were given the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material„.

  5. John Cromwell Mather • John Cromwell Mather (born August 7, 1946, Roanoke, Virginia) is an American cosmologist, astrophysicist andNobel Prize in Physics laureate for his work on the Cosmic Background Explorer Satellite with George Smoot. COBE was the first experiment to measure "... the black body form andanisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation." • Thisachievementhelpedwithprovingthebing-bangtheory of universeright. According to the Nobel Prize committee, "the COBE-project can also be regarded as the starting point for cosmology as a precision science."

  6. George Fletcher Bass • George Fletcher Bass (born December 9, 1932 in Columbia, South Carolina) is recognized as one of the early practitioners of underwater archaeology, along with Peter Throckmorton, Honor Frost, and others. • Bass was the director of the first archaeological expedition to entirely excavate an ancient shipwreck: Cape Gelidonya (1960). Since directing his first excavation, he has excavated shipwrecks of theBronze Age, Classical Age, and the Byzantine. Bass is professor emeritus at Texas A&M University, where he held the George T. and Gladys H. Abell Chair in Nautical Archaeology. He holds an M.A.in Near Eastern Archaeology from The Johns Hopkins University and a Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology from the University of Pennsylvania.

  7. Walter Gilbert • Walter Gilbert (b.21 III 1932) is an American biochemist, physicist, molecular biology pioneer, and Nobel laureate.

  8. Scientists ofGB

  9. Isaac Newton • Sir Isaac Newton (25 XII 1642 – 20 III 1727 ) was an English mathematician, alchemist, physicist,astronomer, natural philosopher, and theologian, who has been "considered by many to be the greatest and most influential scientist who ever lived. His most knowndiscoveriesarethreelaws of motion and universalgravitation.

  10. Charles Darwin • Charles Robert Darwin (12 II 1809 – 19 IV 1882) was an English naturalist. He proclaimed that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection.

  11. Stephen Hawking • Stephen William Hawking (b. 8 I 1942) is a Britishcosmologist and theoretical physicist. His key scientific works to date have included providing, with Roger Penrose, theorems regarding gravitational singularities in the framework of general relativity, and the theoretical prediction that black holes should emit radiation, which is today known as Hawking radiation (or sometimes as Bekenstein–Hawking radiation). He alsowrote a bookregarding his discoveries „A BriefHistory of time”

  12. Francis Crick • Francis Harry Compton Crick (8 June 1916 – 28 July 2004) was an English molecular biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist, and most noted for being a co-discoverer of the structure of the DNA molecule in 1953 together with James D. Watson. He, Watson and Maurice Wilkins were jointly awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material"

  13. Politiciansof the USA

  14. George Washington • George Washington (b. 22 II 1732, d. 14 XII 1799) was the first President of the United States of America, serving from 1789 to 1797, and the dominant military and political leader of the United States from 1775 to 1799

  15. Thomas Jefferson • Thomas Jefferson (IV 13, 1743  – VII 4, 1826) was an American Founding Father who was the principal author of the United States Declaration of Independence (1776) and the third President of the United States (1801–1809). At the beginning of the American Revolution, Jefferson served in the Continental Congress, representing Virginia.

  16. Theodor Roosevelt • Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt ( X 27 1858 – II 61919) was the 26th President of the United States of America(1901–1909). He waswellknown for his exuberant personality, range of interests and achievements, and his leadership of the Progressive Movement, as well as his "cowboy" persona and robust masculinity. He was a leader of the Republican Party and founder of the short-lived Progressive ("Bull Moose") Party of 1912. Before becoming President, he held offices at the city, state, and federal levels. Roosevelt's achievements as a hunter, explorer, naturalist, author, and soldier are as much a part of his fame as any office he held as a politician.

  17. James Madison • James Madison, Jr. (III16, 1751  – VI 28, 1836) was an American political theorist and statesman. He is hailed as the “Father of the Constitution” for being instrumental in the drafting of the United States Constitution and as the key champion and author of the United States Bill of Rights. He was the fourth President of the United States (1809–1817). He served as a politician much of his adult life. Like other Virginia statesmen in the slave society,he was a slaveholder and part of the élite; he inherited his plantation known as Montpelier, and owned hundreds of slaves during his lifetime to cultivate tobacco and other crops.

  18. „Bill” Clinton • William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (b.VIII 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation. Clinton has been described as a New Democrat. Many of his policies have been attributed to a centrist Third Wayphilosophy of governance.

  19. Politiciansof GB

  20. Egbert of Wessex • Egbert (alsospelled EcgberhtorEcgbert ; 771 – 839) was King of Wessex from 802 until his death in 839. His father was Ealhmund of Kent. In the 780s Egbert was forced into exile by Offa of Mercia and Beorhtric of Wessex, but on Beorhtric's death in 802 Egbert returned and took the throne.

  21. James II & VII • James II & VII (b.14 X 1633 – 16 IX 1701) was King of England and King of Ireland as James II and King of Scotland as James VII,from 6 February 1685. He was the last Roman Catholic monarch to reign over the Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland. Members of Britain's political and religious elite increasingly opposed him for being pro-French and pro-Catholic, and for his designs on becoming an absolute monarch.

  22. Queen Victoria QueenVictoria( 24 V 1819 – 22 I 1901) - was the monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death. From 1 May 1876, she used the additional title of Empress of India.

  23. Tony Blair • Anthony Charles Lynton Blair • (b. 6 V1953) is a British Labour Party politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2 May 1997 to 27 June 2007. He was the Member of Parliament for Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. He resigned from all of these positions in June 2007.

  24. Elizabeth II • Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; b. 21 IV 1926) is the constitutional monarch of 16 sovereign states known as the Commonwealth realms, and head of the 54-member Commonwealth of Nations. In her specific role as the monarch of the United Kingdom, one of her 16 realms, she is alsoSupreme Governor of the Church of England.

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