Now famous as the father of NASCAR racer Richard Petty, Lee Petty was no slouch in his own day. An avid pacifist, he nevertheless put into motion the invention of the hydrogen and atomic bombs with a letter to President Roosevelt, urging him to beware the possibility of Germany's building an atom bombġ912 Les Brown - Bandleader for Les Brown and His Band of Renown (Sentimental Journey, My Dreams are Getting Better All the Time, Leap Frog, I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm)ġ914 Lee Arnold Petty - Stock car racer, born near Randleman, North Carolina. He emigrated to the US to avoid persecution in Germany during Hitler's rise to power.
Einstein's revolutionary theories introduced entirely new ways of thinking about time, space, and gravity, and he profoundly affected the way scientific inquiry occurred.
In 1921 he won the Nobel Prize for Science. He published his special theory of relativity, which described the relationship of the universe to time, in 1905, and his general theory in 1916. He worked originally as an examiner at the Swiss Patents Office, and studied for his PhD, writing scientific papers in his spare time. She was also a prolific writer under the pen name Janey Canuck (Janey Canuck in the West, The Black Candle, Impressions of Janey Canuck Abroad)ġ879 Albert Einstein - German born Swiss physicist and mathematician who developed the Theory of Relativity. She took part in the battle to have women declared legal "persons" under the British North America Act, and in 1929, Britain's Privy Council ruled women were indeed persons. In 1916, Murphy was appointed police magistrate for Edmonton, and later Alberta. There was a stalled freight train ahead on the tracks, but Jones stayed at the controls in an effort to save the passengers, who all managed to jump to safety before the train crashedġ868 Emily Murphy - Canadian jurist who was the British Empire's first female judge. He died in a wreck near Vaughan, Mississippi, as his train, the Cannonball Express, was making its run between Chicago and New Orleans. 1804 Johann Strauss, the elder - Austrian composer of Viennese waltzesġ854 Paul Ehrlich - German medical scientist who founded chemotherapy, discovered a remedy for syphilis, and developed an antitoxin for diphtheriaġ864 John "Casey" Jones - Legendary engineer of the Illinois Central Railroad who was immortalised in the song, The Ballad of Casey Jones.
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