Notable People in History

In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we take a look at the life of Heron of Alexandria, the scientist and educator credited with inventing the first steam engine, the first automatic vending machine, and the first automaton.

In today’s episode, we’ll take a look at the life of Frida Kahlo, the Mexican born artist who would produce about 200 paintings in her lifetime, and even had an affair with Leon Trotsky.

In today’s episode, we’ll take a look at the life of Ctesibius, the hands-on engineer who crafted compressors still in use until this very day. Like Archimedes, and Heron of Alexandria, he too studied at the Library of Alexandria.

Anne Frank… the teenage Jewish girl who was gifted a diary for her 13th birthday and would be transported to Auschwitz on September 3rd, 1944. Hope that you enjoy learning about her as much as I did and that you subscribe and share.

Galileo Galilei, the Italian physicist & astronomer from Pisa. He challenged the presiding view of his time stating that the earth was the center of the universe and published the controversial book Galileo Galilei, wherein the meetings of four days, are discussed the two chief systems of the world, Ptolemaic and Copernican which angered the Catholic church and landed him in house arrest.

This week, we meet Marie Curie. The first woman to win the Nobel Prize and the only woman to have won the Nobel Prize twice; for physics in 1903, and chemistry in 1911. During her lifetime, she would discover both polonium and radium. In 1994, a new element, Curium, would be named after her and husband, Pierre Curie.

Let's take a look at the life of Archimedes… one of several great thinkers during the Hellenistic period. He’s credited with inventing the Archimedean screws, and the discovery of "Archimedes Principle,” which states that when an object is placed in a fluid, it is buoyed up by a force that is equal to the weight of the fluid is displaces. Hope that you enjoy learning about him as much as I did and...

In this episode, we meet Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman to have traveled to space… and she’s quoted to have said, “My greatest joy would be to become the first woman to set foot on the moon.”  Did you know that her favorite perfume at the time was called “Red Moscow”?

In this premier episode of Notable People in History , we'll take a look at the life of Albert Einstein. Did you know that he had sweaty feet? Did you know that the theory of special relativity actually started off as L=MV^2? ...that he was socially conscious and concerned about injustice and inequality? He even published an essay, "The Negro Question," in which he called racism America's "worst d...