Alexander Fleming

Alexander Fleming Penicillin’s discoverer
Sir Alexander Fleming was a Scottish biologist and pharmacologist. Fleming published many articles on bacteriology, immunology, and chemotherapy. His best-known achievements are the discovery of the enzyme lysozyme in 1922 and the discovery of the antibiotic substance penicillin from the fungus Penicillium notatum in 1928, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Florey and Chain
Investigations
By 1928, Fleming was investigating the properties of staphylococci. He was already well-known from his earlier work, and had developed a reputation as a brilliant researcher.
After returning from a long holiday, Fleming noticed that many of his culture dishes were contaminated with a fungus, and he threw the dishes in disinfectant. But subsequently, he had to show a visitor what he had been researching, and so he retrieved some of the unsubmerged (tries to mean not submerged) dishes that he would have otherwise discarded.
He then noticed a zone around an invading fungus where the bacteria could not seem to grow. Fleming proceeded to isolate an extract from the mould, correctly identified it as being from the Penicillium genus, and therefore named the agent penicillin.
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Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Fleming

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Alexander Graham Bell

Alexander Graham Bell (March 3, 1847 - August 2, 1922) was a teacher, scientist and inventor. He was the founder of the Bell Telephone Company.
Bell was born in Edinburg, Scotland. His family was known for teaching people how to speak English clearly. His grandfather taught in China, his uncle in Dublin, and his father, Mr. Alexander Melville Bell, in Edinburgh. His father wrote often about this and is most known for his book on Visible Speech. In this, he explains a way of teaching people who are deaf and mute. It shows how these people can learn to speak words by using their eyes to read what other people are saying, and by watching their lips.
Alexander Graham Bell went to the Royal High School of Edinburgh. He graduated at the age of fourteen. At the age of sixteen, he got a job as a student and teacher of elocution and music in Weston House Academy, at Elgin in Morayshire. He spent the next year at the University of Edinburgh. While still in Scotland, he became more interested in the science of sound. He hoped to help his deaf mother. From 1866 to 1867, he was a teacher at Somersetshire College in Bath, Somerset.
In 1870 when he was 23 years old, he moved with his family to Canada where they settled at Brantford, Ontario. Bell began to study communication machines. He made a piano that could be heard far away by using electricity. In 1873, he went with his father to Montreal, Quebec in Canada, where he took a job teaching about "visible speech". His father was asked to teach about it at a large school for deaf mutes in Bsoton, but instead he gave the job to his son. He began teaching there in 1871. Alexander Graham Bell soon became famous in the United States for this important work. He published many writings about it in Washinton D.C. Because of this work, thousands of deaf mutes in America are now able to speak, even though they cannot hear.
In 1876 Bell got a patent for the telephone and started the Bell Telephone Company with others in July, 1877. In 1879, this company joined with the New England Telephone Company to form the National Bell Telephone Company. In 1880, they formed the American Bell Telephone Company, and in 1885, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, still a large company today. Along with Thomas Edison, Bell formed the Oriental Telephone Company on January 25, 1881.
Bell married Mabel Hubbard on July 11, 11877. He died in 1922.

Patricia

Bob Marley

Robert "Bob" Nesta Marley OM(February 6, 1945 – May 11, 1981) was a Jamaican musician, singer-songwriter and Rastafarian. He was the lead singer, songwriter and guitarist for the ska, rocksteady and reggae bands: The Wailers (1964 – 1974) and Bob Marley & the Wailers (1974 – 1981). Marley remains the most widely known and revered performer of reggae music, and is credited for helping spread Jamaican music to the worldwide audience.Bob Marley was born in the small village of Nine Mile in Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica as Nesta Robert Marley. A Jamaican passport official would later swap his first and middle names. His father Norval Sinclair Marley was a white English Jamaican. In 1975, Marley had his international breakthrough with his first hit outside Jamaica, "No Woman, No Cry," from the Natty Dread album.In 1963, Bob Marley, Bunny Livingston, Peter McIntosh, Junior Braithwaite, Beverley Kelso, and Cherry Smith formed a ska and rocksteady group, calling themselves "The Teenagers". In 1975, Marley had his international breakthrough with his first hit outside Jamaica, "No Woman, No Cry," from the Natty Dread album. He died at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Miami, Florida on the morning of May 11,1981 at the age of 36

Manolo

Madonna - Queen of pop

Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone was born in Michigan, United States, the 16th August, 1958.
She is singer, composer and producer of pop, dance and electronic music. She also been devoted to been actress, writer and fashion designer. And now she is debuting as a film director. She has won seven Grammy awards.
In 2000, the book of records Guinness published that Madonna is the most successful female artist of all time.
In 1983 Madonna works in her first album called The first album.


And her last album is called Hard Candy.

Madonna Louise Ciccone Ritchie

PROFESIONAL LIFE

She's known as Madonna and she was bron in Bay City, Míchigan, (U.S.A) on August 16, 1958. Her principal job is singer, but she's also songwriter, dancer, record producer, film director, fashion designer, author and actress. She playes the guitar and percussion.Madonna has been regarded as "one of the greatest pop acts of all time" and dubbed the "Queen of Pop".Guinness World Records list her as the world's most successful female recording artist of all time.

PERSONAL LIFE

Her mother died when she was five years old. The relationship with her father worsed when her mother died. So, in 1977 she went to New York City and she had serious economic problems. Some years ago, on December 22, 2000, Madonna and Guy Ritchie were married in Scotland. On October 15, 2008, a spokeswoman confirmed that Madonna and husband Guy Ritchie plan to divorce.

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When is the english test?

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Elvis

Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977; middle name sometimes written Aron) was an American singer, musician and actor. A cultural icon, he is commonly referred to by his first name, and as the "The King of Rock 'n' Roll" or "The King".

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Charles Darwin

Charles Robert Darwin (February 12, 1809 – April 19, 1882) was an English naturalist, who realised and demonstrated that all species of life have evolved over time from common ancestors through the process he called natural selection. The fact that evolution occurs became accepted by the scientific community and the general public in his lifetime, while his theory of natural selection came to be widely seen as the primary explanation of the process of evolution in the 1930s, and now forms the basis of modern evolutionary theory. In modified form, Darwin’s scientific discovery remains the foundation of biology, as it provides a unifying logical explanation for the diversity of life.

Pablo Picasso

Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Martyr Patricio Clito Ruíz y Picasso (October 25, 1881 – April 8, 1973) was an Andalusian-Spanish painter, draughtsman, and sculptor. As one of the most recognized figures in twentieth-century art, he is best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) and his depiction of the German bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War, Guernica (1937).

Stephen William Hawking

Stephen William Hawking (born 8 January 1942) is a British theoretical physicist. Hawking is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge. He is known for his contributions to the fields of cosmology and quantum gravity, especially in the context of black holes, and his popular works in which he discusses his own theories and cosmology in general.

Marie Curie

Marie Skłodowska–Curie (7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934) was a physicist and chemist of Polish upbringing and, subsequently, French citizenship. She was a pioneer in the field of radioactivity, the only person honored with Nobel Prizes in two different sciences, and the first female professor at the University of Paris.
Her achievements include the creation of a theory of radioactivity (a term coined by her and Pierre), techniques for isolating radioactive isotopes, and the discovery of two new elements, radium and polonium. It was also under her personal direction that the world's first studies were conducted into the treatment of neoplasms ("cancers"), using radioactive isotopes.

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