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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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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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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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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 Westmin- ster Abbey in London. References Campbell, J. (2011). Ernst Rutherford’s Path to the

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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 [...] 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.

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with ease and passed his university-entrance exams in 1875, at the age of 17. After high-school graduation, Christiaan chose to attend the Military Medical School at the University of Amsterdam. The [...] this time, his wife became ill and died on January 8, 1886, at the age of 27. Through his connections at Koch’s laboratory, he met Cornelis Adrianus Pekelharing and Cornelis Winkler, who were both part [...] by scientific societies and health care commissions. In 1923, at age 65, Christiaan re- tired. Three years later, based on Eijkman’s trials and research into beriberi, B. C. P. Jaiisen and W. F. Do-

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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 [...] 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.

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observing and drawing silkworms, caterpillars and butterflies at the age of thirteen. Nineteen years later the first volume of her work “The caterpillars’ wonderful transformation and curious flower nutrition

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library, belonging to her father and stepfather. From an early age she was fascinated by the world of insects and plants. Her interests were unusual, because people at that time still believed that [...] them live and represent the true color. On May 16, 1665, at the age of 18, Maria married older 10 years than she painter, Johann Andreas Graff, another stepfather's student, who later specialized in [...] . Her watercolor were constantly earning buyers. In 1699, at the age of 52, in spite of friends and family, who advised against the trip, she made her will and boarded the ship to Surinam (Dutch colony

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