EDCP 544: Sandbox

Famous Scientists through history

Group 1

Stephen Hawking is the former Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge and author of A Brief History of Time which was an international bestseller. Now the Dennis Stanton Avery and Sally Tsui Wong-Avery Director of Research at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics and Founder of the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at Cambridge, his other books for the general reader include A Briefer History of Time, the essay collection Black Holes and Baby Universe and The Universe in a Nutshell.

In 1963, Hawking contracted motor neurone disease and was given two years to live. Yet he went on to Cambridge to become a brilliant researcher and Professorial Fellow at Gonville and Caius College. From 1979 to 2009 he held the post of Lucasian Professor at Cambridge, the chair held by Isaac Newton in 1663. Professor Hawking has over a dozen honorary degrees and was awarded the CBE in 1982. He is a fellow of the Royal Society and a member of the US National Academy of Science. Stephen Hawking is regarded as one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists since Einstein.

Biography: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVKVuLWzwMU

Group 2 Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin is well known as American scientist, diplomat, inventor, and writer. While many know of his work with electricity, he is also credited with the introduction of day-light savings time. He played a crucial role in negotiating the Treaty of Paris during the Revolutionary War.

Sources https://www.biography.com/people/benjamin-franklin-9301234

Group 3 Stephen Hawking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hawking http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-43456626?intlink_from_url=http://www.bbc.com/news/topics/cvenzmgyll1t/stephen-hawking&link_location=live-reporting-story