Alfred Binet was born on July 11, 1857 in Nice, France. He was an only child to artist mother and a physician father. ("Alfred Binet") His parents separated when Binet was young, and Binet stayed living with his mother. At the age of fifteen, Binet moved to Paris, France with his mother to begin law school. ("Role of Intelligence Testing in Society") In 1884, Binet married Laure Balbiani and had two daughters. Interested by Jean-Marin Charcot and his studies and work on hypnosis, in 1887, Binet abandoned his law school education. He decided to change to scientific studies at a hospital in Paris, France, where he stayed until 1891. After his journey and work at the hospital, Binet later became involved at a research laboratory at Sorbonne in 1891, and he was the director of the lab from 1895 until his death on October 18th, 1911. In a span of 21 years, Binet published over 200 books, articles, and reviews on psychology. (The Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica)
Alfred Binet played an important role in science, and science discovery. Binet was a “French Psychologist who played a domi...
To begin, Alfred’s childhood was very common in the late 40’s, early 50’s. He grew up with a very demanding father, who was established in the church community. He was raised Christian and very conservative. Therefore, was taught nothing about masturbation, let alone the act of sexual intercourse. He was always interested in biology and was adamant about studying this as a career, despite his father’s wishes. This
Bragg, Melvyn, On Giants' Shoulders: Great Scientists and Their Discoveries from Archimedes to DNA. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1998.
allowed humans to see individual atoms. Binnig and Rohrer both worked as physicists for the
Jean Piaget, a Swiss psychologist, was brought into this world on August 9, 1896, in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. He was the eldest child of Arthur Piaget and Rebecca Jackson. His father was a medieval literature professor and Piaget began to grasp some of his traits at an early age. At only 11 years old, Piaget wrote a short paper on an albino sparrow and that along with other publications gave him a reputation. (Encyclopedia Britannica 2013) After high school, Piaget went to the University of Neuchâtel to study zoology and philosophy where he also received a Ph.D. in 1918. Sometime later Piaget became acquainted with psychology and began to study under Carl Jung and Eugen Bleuler. Later he started his study at the Sorbonne in Paris in 1919. Four
Only in a time when the pressure of the world amounts to angst and the
Chester Alan Arthur was born on October 5, 1830 in Fairfield, Vermont. The son of Malvina Arthur and the Reverend William Arthur, a passionate abolitionist, young Chester and his family migrated from one Baptist parish to another in Vermont and New York. The fifth of eight children, Chester had six sisters and one older brother. Before beginning school in Union Village (now Greenwich), New York, he studied the fundamentals of reading and writing at home.
Rieber, R. W. (2001). Wilhelm Wundt in history: the making of a scientific psychology. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum.
...hat have many contibutions to different parts of science such as fluid mechanics. While some of them have worked on theorems or theories about the functioning of anything about the life, some parts of scientists have tried to work on making inventions. Some of them are well-known scientists and many people know a lot of information about them. However, there are many other scientists that have stayed in the background. One of them is Henri De Pitot. It is necessary to thank to whole scientific family.
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Andre Marie Ampere was a French Physicist who had many great discoveries throughout his life. He was born on January 22, 1775 in Lyon, France. Ampere created electromagnetism, which started the science of electrodynamics. With this discovery the unit measure of electromagnetism was named after ampere. Ampere was born into a very financially set middle class family. Andre’s mother was a devout woman (Shank). She was a charitable and very religious (Fox). His father (Jean Jacques Ampere) was a successful merchant. Ampere combines both of his parent’s personal traits. His father was a big admirer of Jean Jacques Rousseau, a philosophy scientist. Amperes father believed that and education should be taught from nature and not taught from a school. Jean let his son educate himself in his own well stocked library. By the age of 12 Andre taught himself advanced mathematics. Andre’s mother made his is initiated within the catholic faith along with the Enlightenment of Science (Shank).
Jacob Bernoulli was born on the 27th of December, 1654, to Niklaus and Margarethe Bernoulli, in Basel, Switzerland. He initially abided by his father’s wishes and studied theology, eventually joining the ministry, but also chose to study both mathematics and astronomy on the side. From the ages of 22 to 28, he traveled throughout Europe, learning about the most recent advances in mathematics and the natural sciences, including recent discoveries by Boyle and Hooke.
He had wanted to be a research scientist but anti-Semitism forced him to choose a medical career instead and he worked in Vienna as a doctor, specialising in neurological disorders (disorders of the nervous system). He constantly revised and modified his theories right up until his death but much of his psychoanalytic theory was produced between 1900 and 1930.
To begin, a major shift in scientific thinking arrived with the dawn of the printing press and the new-found accessibility of knowledge. "Alchemy was from its origins a secret art;" (Roberts 66) secrecy was an absolute necessity in early science when a powerful recipe or method had been discovered, as such knowledge was a valuable commodit...
Blaise Pascal lived during a time when religion and science were clashing and challenging previous discoveries and ideas. Pascal lived from 1623 to 1662 due to his untimely death at the age of thirty nine. The scientific community grew enormously and Pascal was a great contributor to this growth. The growth in the scientific community is known as the Scientific Revolution. He lived in a time where an absolute monarch came into power, King Louis the XIV. Louis XIV was a believer in “one king, one law, and one faith” (Spielvogel, 2012). Pascal saw the destruction of protestant practices in France and the growth and acceptance of scientific discoveries. He used the scientific method to refine previous experiments that were thought to be logical but Pascal proved otherwise and eventually led to Pascal’s Law. He spent his life devoted to two loves: God and science. Within his book, “Pensees,” Pascal argues and shares his thoughts about God, science, and philosophy.