24/02/2010 
As they say in less than half a year as I again tell you something new. I think a museum of wax figures Marie Tussaud known to everyone. Basic Wax Museum in England, and its subsidiaries with branches in Amsterdam, Las Vegas, Copenhagen, New York, Los Angeles, Hong Kong and Berlin. Everyone knows its museums, but few people interested in her biography.
Maria Groskholts born in Strasbourg on 7 December 1761. Family, which was born Marie passed it by, as did her father was a butcher. Unsociable Johann-Joseph Groskholts was disliked by Anna, the mother of Mary. Anna's heart belonged to a young sculptor Philip William Kurtiusu.
According to the site of the museum, her father was a soldier and was killed in the Seven Years' War for a couple of months before the birth of a daughter.
Anna Marie, along with a little moved to Bern in Switzerland with her mother. What would make money on the life of Anna Groskholts got a job as a doctor Philippe Curtius housekeeper.
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Tags: Biography , wax figures , stars , Tussaud's
Category: Biography , History
12/22/2009 
Curie, Marie and Pierre (1867-1934) and (1859-1906), French physicist, Nobel Prize winners.
Marie and Pierre Curie were married. In the framework of joint research, they found himicheskie elements radium and polonium, and investigated their radiation. This study was one of the foundations of modern nuclear physics.
Pierre Curie was born May 15, 1859 in Paris, he studied physics at the Sorbonne. In 1880, he studied with his brother Jacques electrical potential. The brothers opened a phenomenon pezoelektrichestva. Pierre Curie also discovered that the magnetic material (at a certain temperature (Curie point)) lose their magnetism.
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Tags: Biography , Curie , radium , USSR
Category: Biography , History
06/12/2009 But then luck turned to face the Tesla. Or rather because of their persistence and perseverance Tesla was able to interest the local businessmen. Tesla opened the firm Tesla Electric Light Company.
Nikola Tesla developed a system of generators, motors, transformers, multi-phase current. The war between Tesla and Edison, the war and alternating current. Edison did not want to lose his DC empire. Tesla won the war.
Popularity: 51%
Tags: america , biography , Nikola Tesla , the United States , Tesla
Category: Biographies
12/02/2009 
As promised earlier, this post will be discussed at one of the most mysterious, fruitful and far-sighted scientists around the world. The man, whom many people associate such mysterious phenomena as the Tunguska meteorite and the Philadelphia Experiment. Genius, thanks to which there was a general electrification, no studies of which there would be no radio. This is the "mad genius" Nikola Tesla.
Popularity: 56%
Tags: Biography , Nikola Tesla , the United States , Tesla , The Philadelphia Experiment
Category: Biographies
