Biography

Michelangelo worked for seven popes in Rome.

Oppenheimer was a compulsive smoker. In late 1965, he was diagnosed with throat cancer.

California Goldrush drove him into bankruptcy.

Jane had numerous siblings - six brothers and one sister.

Constantine died of natural causes on May 22, 337, in the imperial villa at Ancyron, near Nicomedia.

When Ernest Rutherford introduced him to the Danish Nobel laureate Niels Bohr at a university conference, he was delighted and the conversation with him restored his confidence in his own abilities and skills. He decided to pursue theoretical physics.

Beethoven's ancestors were Catholic farmers from what is now Belgium (the prefix "van" is a typical element of common Dutch surnames, often derived from the name of a place).

Towards the end of his life, Ludwig senior had his portrait painted, which remained in his grandson's rooms as a talisman of his musical heritage.

The Nobel family came from Östra Nöbbelöv, a village in Skåne, hence the family name.

Toward the end of his life, Tesla worked obsessively on the concept of free energy.