UnitfiveScientists,scholars,knavesandfoolsbackUnitfivescientists,scholars,knavesandfoolswarmerAbouttheauthorAboutthestructureofthetextParaphrasesofsomefigurativesentencesnotesMadebybalanceUnitfiveScientists,scholars,knavesandfoolsbackWarmer:commentonthefollowingpictureUnitfiveScientists,scholars,knavesandfoolsbackWarmer:Whoarethey?Englishmathematicianandscientistwhoinventeddifferentialcalculusandformulatedthetheoryofuniversalgravitation,atheoryaboutthenatureoflight,andthreelawsofmotion.Histreatiseongravitation,presentedinPrincipiaMathematica(1687),wassupposedlyinspiredbythesightofafallingapple.Newton,SirIsaac(1642-1727)UnitfiveScientists,scholars,knavesandfoolsbackWarmer:Whoarethey?German-bornAmericantheoreticalphysicistwhosespecialandgeneraltheoriesofrelativityrevolutionizedmodernthoughtonthenatureofspaceandtimeandformedatheoreticalbasefortheexploitationofatomicenergy.Hewona1921NobelPrizeforhisexplanationofthephotoelectriceffect.AlbertEinstein(1879-1955)UnitfiveScientists,scholars,knavesandfoolsbackWarmer:Whoarethey?Frenchchemist(borninPoland)whowontwoNobelPrizes;one(withherhusbandandHenriBecquerel)forresearchonradioactivityandanotherforherdiscoveryofradiumandpolonium.MadameCurie(1867-1934)UnitfiveScientists,scholars,knavesandfoolsbackWarmer:Whoarethey?Englishmathematicianandlogician,apioneerintheworldofcomputersandartificialintelligence,whoin1937suggestedatheoreticalmachine,sincecalledaTuringMachine,thatbecamethebasisofmoderncomputing.AlanTuring(1912-1954)UnitfiveScientists,scholars,knavesandfoolsbackWarmer:Whoarethey?EnglishcomputerscientistcreditedwithinventingtheWorldWideWeb,thesystemoftextlinksandmultimediacapabilitiesthatmadetheInternetaccessibletomassaudiences.TimBerners-Lee(1954-)UnitfiveScientists,scholars,knavesandfoolsbackWarmer:Whoarethey?U.S.geneticistandbiophysicist,bestknownasoneoftheco-discoverersofthedouble-helixstructureofDNA(deoxyribonucleicacid).JamesWatson(1928-)UnitfiveScientists,scholars,knavesandfoolsbackWarmer:Whoarethey?Chineseastronome...
