Amazing scientists

Amazing Scientists

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INDEX

Josef Mengele

Quotes

Marie Curie

Quotes

Mileva Maríc

Galen

Time Line

Marie Curie

Marie Curie was a famous scientist who discovered two new chemical elements – radium and polonium. She carried out the first research into the treatment of tumors with radiation, and she founded the Curie Institutes, which are important medical research centers. She is also the only person who has won Nobel Prizes in physics and chemistry.

Marie Curie

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Nothing in life is to be feared; it is only to be understand

Marie Curie

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One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

Marie Curie

Josef Mengele

Josef Rudolf Mengele, also known as the Angel of Death, was a German officer and doctor during World War II. He performed deadly experiments on prisoners at the Auschwitz II (Birkenau), where he was a member of the team of doctors who selected victims to be killed in the gas chambers. There he saw the opportunity to conduct genetic research on human subjects.

Josef Mengele

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"The twins were dying from some of the experiments. We were told they had become “very sick.” Then Mengele would simply replace them with fresh sets of twins who had just arrived on transport trains (…) Not even Mengele’s favorites were treated as humans. We were replaceable. Disposable."

The twins of Auschwitz / Surviving the angel of death

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“That night Lale tries to wash the dried blood from his shirt, he partially succeeds, but then decides a stain will be an appropriate reminder of the day he met Mengele. A doctor, who will cause more pain than he eases.”

The tattooist of Auschwitz

Galen

Galen’s medical doctrine dominated the Western and Arab worlds for close to 1500 years. He was a Greek who became the Roman Empire’s greatest physician. He was the personal physician to Rome’s Emperors for decades.

Galen

Mileva maríc

Mileva was the first wife of Albert Einstein and although she is not a renowned scholar, she is the subject of talk by many famous scientists. For many years she was only known as the first wife, but in 1986 the sudden appearance of various letters found by their son left everyone shocked.

TIMELINE

162 Bce

1986

1943

1898

Discovery of the letters between Albert and Mileva talking about "our work"

Mengele starts his experiments on Auschwitz.

Discovery of Radium and polonium by Marie Curie

Galem began is studies of the human body

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