Biographies

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Dr. Robert H. Goddard – A Brief Biography: Father of American Rocketry and the Space Age

By: Doug West

Dr. Robert Goddard is considered the father of modern rocketry in the United States. His pioneering work lead the way to “space age” and man’s ability to travel to the

Jesse Owens, Adolf Hitler and the 1936 Summer Olympics

By: Doug West

One of the evilest men in history, Adolf Hitler, would cross paths with the fastest man on the planet, Jesse Owens, at the 1936 Summer Olympics at Berlin, Germany during

Nicolaus Copernicus: A Short Biography: The Astronomer Who Moved the Earth

By: Doug West

Nicolaus Copernicus was a brilliant mathematician and astronomer who lived during the Renaissance and Reformation eras and contributed to science with a new model of the universe that placed the

Vice President Mike Pence – A Short Biography

By: Doug West

Mike Pence has been a politician much of his adult life. He has served in the House of Representatives, been governor of Indiana, and final a vice president of the

Martha Washington: First Lady of the United States: A Short Biography

By: Doug West

Martha Washington, the wife of President George Washington, served as the first First Lady of the United States of America with grace and distinction. During the Revolutionary War and as

The Mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr : A Short Biography

By: Doug West

John Forbes Nash Jr. was a brilliant mathematician who won the Nobel Prize, despite spending his darker years coping with paranoid schizophrenia.

John Adams – A Short Biography

By: Doug West

John Adams was in some form of service to America for most of his adult life - serving as a representative to the Continental Congress, envoy to European nations, vice

James Clerk Maxwell: A Short Biography: Giant of Nineteenth-Century Physics

By: Doug West

James Clerk Maxwell is regarded by most current physicists as the scientist of the nineteenth-century who had the greatest influence on twentieth-century physics. He is ranked with Sir Isaac Newton