Martin Luther King Jr.: Made "I have a dream speech" on August 28th, 1963 and was a civil rights activist for blacks. He was assassinated in Dallas, TX.
Harvey Milk: Gay rights activist. First Gay city commisioner in the US. played football in high school? Passed non-discriminatory laws. Assassinated in 1978.
Dorothy Hodgkins: Used crystallography to find structure of penacillin. Born in Eygpt, but parents were English. Studied at summerville college in Oxford. University of Cambridge; where she worked with crystallography. Discovered different proteins and received nobel prize in Chem, the Cochlee prize and many others. Nicknamed crowfoot because it was her maiden name.
Albert Einstein: dropped out of hish school and gained admission to a polyotechnic institute. Created the e=mc2 formula for theory of relativity. Energy gravity light ad time. awarded nobel prize in physics. Us in 1933 to NJ. development of electrical advancements.
Wisnton Churchill: prime minister for two years. Lead britain as Prime Minsters.
Harriet Tubman: slave since young child, 1849 escaped slavery and went to Philly and then returned to free family and other slaves. Cook in the army lead armed people into war. Nelson Davis became her adoptive daughters father. Slave in MD.
Florence Nightingale: Florence , Italy 1820. Youngest of two chidren. Active in philanthropy. Vaered to the poor and by the age of 16, she knew she wanted to be a nurse. Created Red Cross. Queen Elizabeth named a broach after her and gave her lots of money and created nightingale training school for nurses.
Jane Goodall: Born april 3rd 1934 london. Went to tanzania to study chimps. Never had a pet until age of 47- cat. awarded 47 different awards for her research with chimps. studied island of Lake Victoria.
Bill Gates: first computer program at age 13. dropped out of college to follow dreams with Microsoft. created windows that everybody but apple uses. $250 a second. 7 million dollars a day till he was 90 and not run out of money. Married to Melinda. He made a difference because he created the most poular software that has now developed into what we use today.
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