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Marie Curie (居里夫人）

Newton (牛顿）One day, Newton was walking and thinking in a garden. He saw that an apple fell from a tree to the ground. It came into his thought that the power of gravity was not limited to a certain distance from earth. This power must extend much further than what people usually thought back then and perhaps retain the moon in its orbit.Marie Curie (居里夫人）Marie Curie was born in the late 1800s in Poland. The country was torn by wars when she was growing up. Her family called her Manya. Manya’s parents were teachers, and they taught their five children the value of learning. Before Manya turned 11, her eldest sister had died of typhus and her mother had died of tuberculosis. Despite these losses, Manya graduated from high school at 15 with the highest honors. Women were not permitted to study at the University of Warsaw back then. She and her sister had to go to Paris to get their college education. After many years of hard work, she completed her doctoral thesis in 1903 became the first woman to receive a doctorate in France.

ISAAC NEWTON (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1727) was an English physicist and mathematician who is widely regarded as one of the most influential scientists of all time and as a key figure in the scientific revolution. His book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica ("Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy"), first published in 1687, laid the foundations for most of classical mechanics. Newton also made seminal contributions to optics and shares credit with Gottfried Leibniz for the invention of the infinitesimal calculus.

Maxwell was 8 years old, mother died, but on father's loving care and instruction, add their own courage and curiosity, Maxwell's childhood is still full of beautiful. When he was 10 years old in Edinburgh provincial high school,, with thick country accent, by wealthy highborn ridicule, bullying in class, called him "bumpkin", but he is very stubborn, hard-working, without interference, soon showed that their own talent, reversing the others view. He in the mathematics contest and poetry competitions school are made first, became known as "child prodigy". "Child prodigy" is not born, is the result of his strong desire and assiduously.Maxwell has a strong thirst for knowledge and imagination, love thinking, good question. It is said that he has more than two years old, there is a father took him to Shangjie, saw a cart parked on the roadside, he asked: "Dad, why not take the carriage?" Father said: "it is at rest." Maxwell asked: "why should it take?" Father just said one sentence: "probably tired?" "No," Maxwell said seriously, "it is a stomach ache!" Another time, my aunt brought a basket of apples to Maxwell, he kept asking: "why is this apple red?" She doesn't know how to answer, let him play blowing soap bubbles. Who knows when he blew bubbles on a soap bubble, see a riot of colours colors, questions instead of more. In high school, he also mentioned as "dead beetle why not conducting", "live cats and living dog friction will power it" etc.. Father had taught Maxwell to learn geometry and algebra. After high school, textbook on mathematics knowledge about Maxwell's will, so my father always gave him a "special treatment", let him bring some difficulties to the school to do. Whenever students dancing and skipping with joy to play, Maxwell has entered the mathematical paradise, he often hide in the corner of the classroom alone, or sitting in the shade of a tree, ecstasy thinking and calculus mathematics problem.Maxwell at school, always listen earnestly, positive thinking. He not only create new styles to mention some problems, but also can correct the mistakes in the teacher. It is said that one time, he found a lecturer writing formula has a mistake, stand up immediately made a report. The teacher is very confident, sarcastically said: "if you are right, I will call it the Maxwell's formula!" Then the teacher home a check, it is Maxwell.The 2 met the teacherAt the age of 19, Maxwell arrived in Cambridge, it all felt fresh. This time, Maxwell specialized in mathematics, reading the book devoted a lot of. However, he read little about system. Sometimes, in order to study a problem, he can continue for several weeks doing nothing; sometimes, he could see what to read, boundless.This is good at learning and thinking of young people, need the teacher enlightenment, to shine. Fortunately, an accidental opportunity, Maxwell must be met a good teacher, this is Hopki. Hopki is a professor of mathematics at University of Cambridge, one day, he went to the library to borrow, a math book but he want a student to borrow. The book is the general students could not understand the strange, professor. He asked the library name, the administrator replied "Maxwell". The professor found Maxwell, saw the young man is in extract, painted all kinds of notebooks, clueless, the room was in a mess. Hopki could not help the youth become interested, quipped: "young man, without order, you will become good deal of mathematical physics." From that day on, Hopki became the guidance of Professor Maxwell.