Biographies

=15 Biographies= On this page, There are 15 Biographies. One is made on a voice thread, one is a glogster, and one is a obituary. The rest of the biographies are just one paragraph long.

Albert Einstein Voice Thread
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Henri Dunant Obituary
Jean Henri Dunant, mainly known as Henri Dunant, was born on May 8th, 1828 in Geneva, Switzerland and died on October 30th 1910 at the age of 82 in Heiden, Switzerland. Throughout his life, Henri was always changing. But one thing that stayed the same, was his avid humanitarianism. This is what led him to become the founder of the well known, Swiss Red Cross. At the age of 18, Henri joined the Geneva Society for Alms giving. The next year he hung out with friends at the Thursday Association which was a group of young men that met to study the bible and help the poor. He spent his free time doing social work and prison visits. Henri wrote the book, //Un Souvenir de Solferino,// and was published in 1862. It was about the Battle of Solferino which Dunant took an initiative in and organize the civilian population and assisted injured and sick soldiers. The publishing of this book is what lead him to founding Red Cross on February 17, 1863 which is when the first meeting was gathered. It all started on February 9, 1863, when the idea of starting an organization first came up. A committee of 5 people was then made, Henri Dunant being one of them. This became known as Red Cross. One of Henri’s main accomplishments after founding Red Cross was receiving the first ever Nobel Peace Prize in 1901.

Bertrand Piccard
Bertrand Piccard, born March 1st, 1958, is a Swiss psychiatrist and balloonist. Bertrand was the first to complete a non-stop balloon flight around the world. While growing up he became a handglide pilot and became interested in motorized flight. On March 1st, 1999, Bertrand and Brian Jones started their journey in the balloon which was called Breitling Orbiter 3. The adventure started in Switzerland and landed in Egypt. They were the first to circumnavigate the globe in a gas balloon. For this, they recieved awards such as the Harmon Trophy.

Jacques Piccard
Jacquest Piccard was a Swiss oceanographer and engineer. he was known for developing underwater vehicles and studying ocean currents. One of Jacques biggest adventures in when Lt. Don Walsh and him dove down the Challenger Deep in the Bathyscaphe Trieste. The Challenger Deep mission was so important and historical because that was the deepest part of the ocean ever explored and the deepest location of the Earth's crust ever explored. They reached a depth 24,000 feet and saw many new types of fish and shrimp.

Claude Nicollier
Claude Nicollier was the first Swiss astronut. During his career, he made four missions into space. His first mission was an 8 day space shuttle mission on the //Atlantic// in 1992//.// His second mission was 10 days aboard the Endeavour in 1993. The third mission was was in 1996 and was aboard the space shuttle, //Columbia//. His fourth and last mission was aboard the //Discovery// in 1999. It was an 8 day mission and while their, Claude took part in an 8 hour space walk. This was the first of any ESA astronaut to take part in a space walk.

Daniel Bernoulli
Daniel Bernoulli was a Swiss mathematician is the 1700's. He is well known for Bernoulli's Principal, the Kinetic Theory of Gases, and Thermodynamics. In 1738, Bernoulli published a book called //Specimen theoriae novae de mensura sortis (Exposition of a New Theory on the Measurement of Risk).// He was also the earliest writer to attempt to formulate the Theory of Kinetic Gases into a formula which he later applied to explain Boyle's Law.

Elie Ducommun
Elie Ducommun was a tutor, language teacher, journalist, and translator for the Swiss Federal Chancellery. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1902 and helped found the Ligue do la paix et de la liberte (League for Peace and Liberty). In 1967 he was appointed director of the Inernational Peace office and refused to accept a salary.

Charles Albert Gobat
Charles Albert Gobat was a Swiss lawyer, politition, and education administor. In 1902 he won the Nobel Peace Prize with Elie Ducommun. He won this for the leadership of Permanent International Peace Bureau which he was the director of.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer in the 18th century. Some of his major findings in philosophy is the Theory of Natural Human and Political Theory. Jean-Jacques also had a philosophy for education and child rearing.

Alberto Giacometti
Alberto Giacometti was a Swiss sculpter, painter, printmaker, and draughtsman. In 1962, he was given a grand prize award for a sculpture at the Venice Biennale. With this win also brought fame. His work was then in high demand. He had many paintings and sculptures. Some of them would be //Three Men Walking II//, Woman of Venice, and Cat although there are many more.

Ferdinand de Saussure
Ferdinand de Saussure was a Swiss linguist. While in school, Ferdinand published important work in philosophy that exposed the existance of ghosts called sonant coefficients. This latter lead to what is now known as the Laryngeal Theory. Ferdinand de Saussure's linguistic ideas were important in their time. Saussure is also one of the founding fathers of semiotics.

Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi was a Swiss pedagogue and education reformer. Johann was a Romantic. He felt that education should be must be personal and appealing to each learners intuition. Pestalozzi's philosophy on education was that it was a 4 concept sphere and tha thuman nature in essentially good.

Jean Piaget
Jean Piaget was a Swiss developmental pyschologist and philosopher. In the 1920's Jean investigated children's minds and suggested that children moved from egocentrism to sociocentrism. Something else Jean studied was figurative thought. He was also interested in the process of the qualitative development of knowledge. One of Piaget's main highlights was that he wrote a book called "Genetic Epistemology."