Thursday, July 10, 2008

Foreign Scientist

This is an assignment in Science of a First Year Student..


John Bardeen (May 23, 1908January 30, 1991) was an American physicist and electrical engineer, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics twice: first in 1956 with William Shockley and Walter Brattain for the invention of the transistor; and again in 1972 with Leon Neil Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer for a fundamental theory of conventional superconductivity known as the BCS theory.

Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (March 27, 1845February 10, 1923) was a German physicist, who, on November 8, 1895, produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range today known as x-rays or Röntgen rays, an achievement that earned him the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901.

Pierre Curie (May 15, 1859 – died April 19, 1906) was a French physicist, a pioneer in crystallography, magnetism, piezoelectricity and radioactivity. He shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in physics with his wife, Maria Skłodowska-Curie (Marie Curie), and Henri Becquerel, "in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel."

Marie Curie (born Maria Skłodowska; also known as Maria Skłodowska–Curie; November 7, 1867July 4, 1934) was a physicist and chemist of Polish upbringing and, subsequently, French citizenship. She was a pioneer in the field of radioactivity, the first and only person honored with Nobel Prizes in two different sciences, and the first female professor at the University of Paris.

Victor Francis Hess (June 24, 1883December 17, 1964) was an Austrian-American physicist, and Nobel laureate in physics, who with Carl David Anderson discovered cosmic rays.

Antoine Henri Becquerel (December 15, 1852 ; August 25, 1908) was a French physicist, Nobel laureate, and one of the discoverers of radioactivity. He won the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering radioactivity.

Gustav Ludwig Hertz (July 22, 1887, HamburgOctober 30, 1975, Berlin) was a German experimental physicist and Nobel Prize winner, and a nephew of Heinrich Rudolf Hertz.

Sir William Lawrence Bragg CH, FRS, (31 March 18901 July 1971) was an Australian physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1915 with his father Sir William Henry Bragg. He was the director of the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge when the epochal discovery of the structure of DNA was made by James Watson and Francis Crick in February 1953.

Bertram Neville Brockhouse, CC, FRSC (July 15, 1918October 13, 2003) was a Nobel prize-winning Canadian physicist. Brockhouse was born in Lethbridge Alberta, and was a graduate of the University of British Columbia (BA, 1947) and the University of Toronto (MA, 1948; Ph.D, 1950).[1] From 1950 to 1962 he carried out research at Atomic Energy of Canada's Chalk River Nuclear Laboratory.

Aage Niels Bohr (IPA: [ˈɔːʊ̯̩ nels ˈb̥oɐ̯ˀ] = AWE-ah) (born June 19, 1922 in Copenhagen) is a Danish physicist and the son of Margrethe and Niels Bohr. Growing up among physicists like Wolfgang Pauli and Werner Heisenberg, he became a notable nuclear physicist in his own right, being awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1975. In 1946, he became an associate at the Niels Bohr Institute of Theoretical Physics at the University of Copenhagen. He served as the director of the institute from 1963 to 1970.

Poems About Education

1. Education

The zeal without education is fire without light
But zeal with education is fire with flames of light
I have seen the holy well with it watercress plants
Where one drinks and never goes taste again,
Fools and madman speak pure truth about it temperaments,
This well gives eminent fruit and the fruit never perish,
When buying it is expensive but it water never dries.

I have seen the great treasure were it is hidden,
It is dinged by the sons of patient in situations
Those who have wolf in their belly never play around,
They pass like some swam of bees and regret later.

I have seen the bread of the internal soul,
It never dry, get rotten nor get finish in you,
Ones you eat it lives in you,
Those served with it never ask for second help.

I have found a great weapon of the millennium age,
It is greater than the sharp spears of our ancestors,
With this dynamite you destroy the vocabulary of poverty,
You pass where people are closing,
You ride running like a strike of a thunder in communities.

Phinda Mkhonta

2. Do You Really?

Do you really
Want to take me on
And challenge
What I really know

You just think that
I don't know anything
Because I don't have
A college education

Jerry Abrahamson

3. School Dropout

He never went to school
But he was no fool
He was simply playing Mr Cool
Eyes closed by cottonwool
Cheered on my mates
Sealed his present faith

There is a time to play
A time to go to school
His parents told him
Make that your number one rule
He wholly ignored them
How can education
be a such golden gem

Now he sobs, sobs, sobs
Now he robs, robs, robs

No qualifications
Zero education
His mates have moved on
to better jobs
In many glorious nations

Now he sobs, sobs, sobs
Now he robs, robs, robs

He wishes he was a student
He wishes he had the talent
He had at one moment

There are no more screams and shouts
Because he knows what he is all about
He is a school dropout

Copyright 2005 - Sylvia Chidi

4. Stay In School

Stay in school, don't be a fool
A dropout gets left out
A dropout gets pushed out
Show me your name, what does it mean
Show me your ring, you're in the scene
Without an education there is no beginning
With education you are winning
Stay in school, student maintain your cool
It's so hard to get a job now days
Without education just be on your way
Show me your car, what does it prove?
Show me youe diploma, you're in the groove
You don't have to be smart to finish school
But you are a square if you are not there
Dropout, you can start back
Students that are in school
You are on the right track
You can stand around the corner
Watching the school bus go by
You know deep down inside you want to cry
It is good to stop drinking
It is good to stop smoking
When you are thinking about stopping your education
My friend you better start thinking

Leon Thomas Lee

5. The Education of the Young Mind

The education of the young mind
Took place
Behind closed doors
Because that mind -
Initially free -
Had to be
Taught
The value of freedom.

The education of the young mind
Took place
In an open space
Because that mind -
Once closed -
Had to be
Set free
To explore itself.

Peter Stavropoulos


Brain Teasers


This is an assignment in English of a First Year Student. .

1. Question: Try to unscramble the word jumbles to make 4 common words.
All letters must be used:
lcpein
ngaore
tpmcuore
rryblai


Answer: pencil, orange,computer, library

2. Question: It’s the first day of school and there are three other students in your row.
If everyone in the row shakes hands with everyone else in the row,
how many handshakes in all took place?
Make sure you don’t count a handshake twice!


Answer: 6 handshakes in all

3. Question: : What are the next 4 numbers in the series:
75, 150, 225, 300, ____, _____, _____


Answer: Add 75 to each number: 375, 450, 525

4. N N N N N N N

A A A A A A A

C C C C C C C

Answer: 7-up Cans


5. LANG4UAGE

Answer: Foreign Language