Sir Alexander Fleming was a Biologist, Pharmacologist and Botanist. He wrote many things on bac Immunology and Chemotherapy. His best-known discoveries are the enzyme lysozyme in 1923 and the amo substance penicillin in 1928, for which he won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945. Fleming was born on 6 August 1881 at Lochfield, a farm near Darvel, in Ayrshire, Schotland. His discovery of penicillin changed the world of modern medicine. His alma mater, St. Mary's Hospital School, merged with Imperial College London in 1988. Fleming was knighted, as a knight Bachelor, by Gerorge VI in 1944. In 11 March 1955 Fleming died at his home in London of a heart attact. He was buried in St. Paul's Cathedral. Niels Bohr (1885-1952) a Danish Physicist, was only 37 when won the Noble Prize for physics in 1922 for his progress in understanding the structure of atoms (specifically his theory that electrons lived outside the nucleus in orbits of energy). Bohr continued his important reserch as the director of the institute for theoretical physics at the University of Copenhagen for rest of his life, except during war II. During WW II when the Nazis invaded Denmark, Bohr and his family escaped to Sweeden on a fishing boat. Bohr then spent the rest of the war in England and the United States, helping the Allies create an atomic bomb. (Interesting, Niels Bohr's son, Aage Bohr, also won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1975.
Albert Einstein was born in Germany in 1879. His father was a businessman. When their business failed, they moved to Milan. He completed his secondary education from, a high school in Aarau. He got admitted in Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in 1896. He graduated in 1900. He obtained Ph.D. degree from the University of Zurich. For the next couple of years, he taught mathematics, and physics in secondary school. In 1922, he obtained Nobel Prize in Physics. He is famous for his relativity theory. He died in 1955. William Shakespeare was the greatest poet and dramatist of the world. He was born on 23 April, 1564 in the small village of Stratford-on-Avon. He possessed property both in Stratford and in London. Shakespeare was interested in the theatre and very soon he became an actor. By 1592, he established himself as a dramatist of the age. In the next two years, he wrote two long poems entitled, 'Venus and Adonis' and 'Pope of 'Lucre'. Shakespeare composed both tragedies and comedies. In 1594 he became a member of the newly formed Lucre Chamberlains Company. He was ranked the greatest dramatist by 1598. He was retired sometimes before Icoanned with CamScanner School Question Analysis: Bogra Zilla School-2013 Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of telephone, was born on March 3, 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland. His education was largely received through numerous experiments in sound and the furthering of his father's work on visible speech for the deaf. Bell worked with Thomas Watson on the design and patent of the first practical telephone. He died in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, at the age of 76, Canada. Alexander Graham Bell was home schooled by his mother who instilled in him an infinite curiosity about the world around him. He received one year of formal education in a private school and two years at Edinburgh's Royal High School. Though a Mediocre. student, he displayed an uncommon ability to solve problems. At the age of 12, while playing with a friend in a grain mill, he noticed the slow process of hasking the wheat grain. He went home and built a device with rotating paddles with sets of nail brushes that de-husked the wheat. It was his first invention. Byron was born London in 1788, the year preceding the French Revolution held, in his eleventh year of age his grand uncle died left him heir to New Stead Abbey. He published his frist volume of poems, 'Hours of Idleness' in *1807. Two years later, he started on a tour of Eurpoe and the Orient. After six years of this he married Milbank, an English heiress, who left him a year later. He left England under a cloud of distrust and disappointment in 1816. Lastly in Italy where he was associated with Shelley until the latter's tragic death in 1822. Two years later he went to Greece to give away a lage part of his fortune to help that country in its struggle for liberty against the Turks. He breathed his last in the same year. Scanned with CamScanner Thomas Alva Edison was born on February 11, 1847 in Milan, Ohio, U.S. He was an inventor and businessman. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world. The devices are phonograph, the motion picture camera and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb. Dubbed "The Wizard of Merilo Park," he was one of the first inventor to apply the principles of mass production and large-scale teamwork to the process of the invention and because of that, he is often credited with the creation of the first industrial research laboratory. His advanced work in these fields was an outgrowth of his early as a telegraph operator. Edison developed a system of electric power generation and distribution to homes, businesses and factories a crucial development in the modern industrialized world. His first power station was on Pearl in Manhattan, New York. He died on October 18, 1931. Charles Dickens was born on 7th February in 1812 at Port sea in England. His father was a clerk in the Navy pay office. At the age of 3 his family moved to Chatham. By that time his father got promotion in his service. But when * Dickens was only 12 his father was arrested for debt and taken to the Marshel Sea prison. The family had to fall in .. · troubles. At the age of 12 Dickens was bound to take a job in Warren's Black Factory owned by a relative. They had to live with hardship. Dickens again began his schooling but he started learning short hand. In 1828, he left the job and became a shorthand writer. After two years he became a reporter of the press gallery of the HOUSE of Commons. At the age of he began to write his first book sketched by Boz which appeared in 1831. Later he became ? a famous writer. At the age of fifty eight he had a sudded stroke at dinner: and died on the 9th lune Scanned with CamScanner
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