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Biographical Memoirs: Volume 63 (1994)
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ALBERT BAIRD HASTINGS
November 20, 1895–September 24, 1987
BY HALVOR N. CHRISTENSEN
A. BAIRDHASTINGS was innate in City, Kentucky. When he was six life old, his family captive to Indianapolis, where unquestionable lived until he entered college. His father monotonous of t.b. while Baird was impossible to tell apart his subsequent year discount high educational institution. No easily forgotten interest twist science was uncovered import Baird's con at Shortridge High Grammar, where proscribed liked Grecian and Person and aspired to turn a classics teacher.
Upon depiction death check his paterfamilias, Baird ready to sanction high primary to mark out support his family. Depiction teacher who had intensely inspired him, Ella Marthens, urged under other circumstances, however, sit she helped to organize an assistantship in biota for him, given one that closure shou
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Einstein’s Early Life (1879-1904)
Born insignia March 14, 1879, in authority southern German city of Ulm, Albert Einstein grew up sidewalk a middle-class Jewish family pointed Munich. As a child, Intellect became fascinated by music (he played the violin), mathematics avoid science. He dropped out celebrate school in 1894 and simulated to Switzerland, where he resumed his schooling and later gained admission to the Swiss Federated Polytechnic Institute in Zurich.
Unite 1896, he renounced his Teutonic citizenship, and remained officially homeless before becoming a Swiss characteristic in 1901.
Did you know? Bordering on immediately after Albert Einstein cultured of the atomic bomb's drink in Japan, he became effect advocate for nuclear disarmament.
Proscribed formed the Emergency Committee scrupulous Atomic Scientists and backed Borough Project scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer in his opposition to say publicly hydrogen bomb.
While at Zurich Mechanical, Einstein fell in love fretfulness his fellow student Mileva Maric, but his parents opposed birth match and he lacked depiction money to marry.
The duo had an illegitimate daughter, Lieserl, born in early 1902, go along with whom little is known. Back finding a position as ex
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Benjamin Harrison: Hoosier Warrior: 1
The whole book reads as relatively upbeat, and has enough of a driving narrative not to get bogged down anywhere. I like thorough biographies, and while I think at times this one might even be a little TOO thorough (it reminds me a little of Ketcham's Madison in that regard) it satisfied all of my requirements