If anyone is a milk drinker, they might have heard or seen the term "pastueurized" used in describing milk.  The term comes from the last name of Louis Pasteur who discovered the bacteria in  milk that caused illnesses and the process for removing them from the milk.  Louis Pasteur was born in 1822 in France.  Pasteur's observations involved microorganizims, bacteria and germs.  Though his discoveries, we have learned how to preserve our food, create vacinations, and live in a sanitary enviroment.  Diseases and food born illnesses have decreased thanks to Pasteur's work and many other microbiologists.

Louis Pasteur

    Galileo was born on Febuary 15, 1564 to Vinecezo Galilei and Guilia Ammannati.  He was the oldest of seven children.  Studying medicine was not his first choice of occupation.  He wished to be a painter, but his father wanted him to be a cloth merchant or a doctor.  While studing at the University of Pisa, Galileo changed his major from medicine to mathmatics and science.  Galileo was quite a trouble maker and was fired at the University of Pisa for is inability to keep his ideas to himself.  Previously he had to drop out of school becasue of a lack of funds.  He did not qualify for scholarships becasue of his trouble making reputation.  When he was fired at The University of Pisa, He went to teach at the University of Padua where he invented sevearl devices and concluded that objects of varing weights fall at the same rate.  Some of his inventions include the proportional compass, instruments for measuring temperature, and the telescope.  Galileo was inspired by a spying glass the Lippershey invented and played around with various lenses and eventualy invented a telescope which saw nine times better than the naked eye.  As time went on he improved his telescope and began to study the moon and other objects in space.  He published his results in his book Siderius Nuncius.  Galileo died in 1642 and was buried in the Church of Santo Croce, in Florence.

Galileo

     Cancer is a popular word these days. It seems as though you can get cancer from just about anything.  Many developements have been made in th last 150 years in the field of cancer.  Marie Curie was prehaps one of the most influetial woman who took part in the developements of treatments for cancer.  Curie was born in 1867 in Warsaw, Poland.  She studied mathmatics and Chemistry at The University of Paris and later went on to study radioactive substances with her husband Pierre Curie.  Marie won two noble prizes for her discoveries of "radium" and "poloninium", and being able to sucessfully isolate the element radium.  Both of these elements are very important parts of the procedures for cancer treatment.  Marie Curie died of leukima in 1934.  In her memory, the Radium Institute in Paris changed their name to the Curie Institute.

Marie Curie in her laboratory

      Wilbur and Orville Wright were two of five children born to Milton and Susan Wright.  As boys, Wilbur and Orville gained mechanical expertise from their mother and intellectual chalanges from their father.  A trinket top and a newspaper article about the death of a German pilot sparked the interest of flying in the two boys.  The first airplane was built in the year 1900.  The Wright Brothers were the first aviators to discover the need to control an airplane in three axes of motion.  They accomplished this through "wing warping".  The brothers created a wind tunnel to test various shapes and sizes of wings.  Four gliders were constructed by the Wright Brothers between the years 1900 to 1903.  Each time they improved the designs and on December 17, 1903 Orville Wright flew 120 feet.
      Most of the glider testing done by the Wright Brothers was done at  Kitty Hawk, NC and then later at Huffman Prairie.  Wilbur Wright died May 30, 1912 of typhoid fever and Orville Wright died on January 30, 1948 of old age.