Biography

During World War II, he became the scientific director of the Manhattan Project.

Ada Lovelace lived from 1815 to 1852.

She was also a gambling enthusiast - in her late 40s she lost more than £3,000 on horse racing.

At the age of seventeen, Ada was introduced to the royal court.

At a very young age, he lost his younger brother Thomas due to illness, and his mother died shortly thereafter.

In 1791, Wolfgang's librettist and friend Emanuel Schikaneder commissioned him to write "The Magic Flute" - a fairy tale opera (singspiel - opera with spoken interludes).

In 1881, Tesla moved to Budapest to work for the telegraph company of Tivadar Puskás de Ditró, the Hungarian inventor of the telephone exchange and pioneer of telephony.

The Stade Roland Garros tennis complex in Paris is named after Roland Garros.

He had many plans and dreams connected with his art, but he failed to achieve them all.

In 1838, Charles Darwin developed the theory of natural selection.