Amelia Earhart: Most celebrated American aviatorAmelia Earhart was an American aviator who became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic ocean. Amelia Earhart was born in Atchison, Kansas, on July 24, 1897. Her father was a railroad lawyer, and her mother came from an affluent family. While still a child, Earhart…
Jane Addams: American social reformerJane Addams was an American social reformer and pacifist, best known as the cofounder of Hull House in Chicago, one of the first social settlements in North America. Jane Addams was born on September 6, 1860 in Cedarville, Illinois. She was the eighth of nine children born to…
Fritz Haber: German Chemist Who Discovered the Synthesis of AmmoniaFritz Haber was born on December 9, 1868, in Breslau, Germany, into one of the town's oldest families, as the son of trader Siegfried Haber and Paula Haber. Fritz attended the St. Elizabeth classical school in Breslau and conducted numerous chemical experiments there. From 1886…
Ronald Ross: British Doctor Who Discovered the Transmission of Malaria Ronald Ross was born on May 13, 1857, as the son of Sir Campbell Claye Grant Ross, a Scottish officer in the British Indian Army. Ronald began his medical studies at St. Bartholomew's Hospital in London in 1875, and in 1881, he joined the Indian Medical Service. He began…
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