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like many children of his era, John had to work from the very early age. However, he finally had made it: Since a couple of years, or, to be more precise, since the year 1793, he finally had a position as [...] liked it to lecture, actually he had already begun to teach at the age of twelve in a local school. But he also loved science, and his new position offered him the opportunity to combine both his passions

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like many children of his era, John had to work from the very early age. However, he finally had made it: Since a couple of years, or, to be more precise, since the year 1793, he finally had a position as [...] liked it to lecture, actually he had already begun to teach at the age of twelve in a local school. But he also loved science, and his new position offered him the opportunity to combine both his passions

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and finally, in 1888, to Taranaki, also for flax milling. At the age of 10, Ernest read his first science book and started performing his first experiments. In 1887, Ernest won a scholarship to Nelson [...] academics. Ernest Rutherford died on October 19, 1937, at the age of 66. His remains were interred at West- minster Abbey in London. References: Campbell, J. (2011). Ernst Rutherford’s Path to the [...] was among the first few to earn this degree. By 1898, at the age of 27, with JJ’s help, Rutherford obtained his first job as professor at McGill Uni- versity in Montreal, Canada. Finally, he was

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• Rutherford’s Nuclear Atom

of many buildings in the city and also of manors nearby. At the age of 15, Otto enrolled the faculty of Art at the University of Leipzig. He interrupted this studies in 1619 because of the outbreak of

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• Guericke and vacuum

of many buildings in the city and also of manors nearby. At the age of 15, Otto enrolled the faculty of Art at the University of Leipzig. He interrupted this studies in 1619 because of the outbreak of

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• Guericke and vacuum

Sciences and Literature), he wrote about the achievements of the age he lived in: ‘Our 18th century has nothing to be ashamed of when it will pass its inventory of the acquired knowledge and designed

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• Lichtenberg and the electrophorus

birth. Since childhood, Lichtenberg was a very ill man. Around the age of eight, it turned out that he had kyphoscoliosis, which is a serious spinal deformity, rather inborn than acquired in this case. [...] theory. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg died on 24th February 1799, aged 57. His grave is in the St. Bartholomew in Göttingen. As physician famous during his life, he was almost completely forgotten after

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• Lichtenberg and the electrophorus

birth. Since childhood, Lichtenberg was a very ill man. Around the age of eight, it turned out that he had kyphoscoliosis, which is a serious spinal deformity, rather inborn than acquired in this case. [...] theory. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg died on 24th February 1799, aged 57. His grave is in the St. Bartholomew in Göttingen. As physician famous during his life, he was almost completely forgotten after [...] Sciences and Literature), he wrote about the achievements of the age he lived in: ‘Our 18th century has nothing to be ashamed of when it will pass its inventory of the acquired knowledge and designed

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- hill, Pendlebury, by tutors till he was about fifteen years of age. At fifteen he commenced working in the brewery, which, as his father's health declined, fell entirely into the hands of his brother Benjamin and himself. At the age of 16 Joule was sent to the Manchester Literary and Philosophy Society (Lit & Phil) to be taught chemistry, physics, mathemat- ics. [...] the relationships between electricity and work. In 1840, at the age of 22, he established that a conductor carrying an elec- tric current became hot, and that the rate of heating for a current I flowing

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• The hard work of experimenting James Prescott Joule, William Thomson, and the mechanical equivalent of heat.

life. While it was traditional at that time to enter university at age 16 – 17, William enrolled at the early age of ten. Inspired by his father, he had very high expectations for himself and for what [...] on the Figure of the Earth” and began to publish papers at the age of fifteen. However, despite being academically inclined, William was still a regular teenage boy known for his good sense of humor [...] to Cambridge after four and a half months in Paris. At the young age of 22, William was elected as Chair of Natural Philosophy at Glasgow University, making his father very proud. His father died of

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• The hard work of experimenting James Prescott Joule, William Thomson, and the mechanical equivalent of heat.