Tackling the finer points of biographies

For the past week, we've been working on biographies. I'm posting Lillian's and Blair's, unedited, so you can see what a good job they did with only a few examples to work with. Here's Lillian's:

Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking was a scientist who made some major discoveries about the outer space that benefited science. He also spent most of his life in a wheelchair, and unable to talk.

Early life

Stephen Hawking was born on January.8, 1942. His father’s name was Frank Hawking, and his mother was Isobel Hawking. Hawking’s mother worked at a hospital making medicine, and his father worked as a biologist. He also had 3 siblings, Mary, Edward, and Philippa Hawking. 

Education 

Later, he attended University Collage, Oxford. He studied physics, and cosmology. He graduated University College in 1962. Then went to study at Trinity Hall, Cambridge.  

A sickness strikes

When he was almost 21, he was diagnosed with ALS, a very serious disease that causes people to lose control of their muscles in their body, therefore by the end of two years or so, they will not be able to move any muscle in their entire body. But, he continued to work as the disease spread, causing him to need a wheelchair to get around. After, he couldn’t even talk, but later technology helped him and as he got older and could use only one muscle in his cheek. So scientists took advantage of that, and constructed a machine to put on his wheelchair, so he could move his cheek muscle to select words so his mechanical voice can say the words he wants to say for him! He lived more then 50 years longer than he was supposed to live.

His achievements 

Soon, he became a professor for his knowledge on space and physics. His greatest discovery was about black holes, he learned that they can decay. After thousands of years, the black hole will get smaller, and smaller, and when the black hole disappears, it put all of the atoms and particles back together in the same form that they entered the black hole in! Even if it’s a star! He also discovered the link between quantum physics and Einstein’s theory of relativity, as well as how the Big Bang must have been infinitely small. Hawking also won many awards:

• Presidential Medal Of Freedom (2009)

• Copley Medal (2006)

• Gold Medal Of Royal Astronomical Society (1985)

• Wolf Prize Of Physics (1988)

• Albert Einstein Medal (1979)

• Albert Einstein Reward (1978)

• Hughes Medal (1976)

• Franklin Medal (1981)

• Princess Of Asturias Award For Concord (1989)

• Adams Prize ( 1966)

• Audie Award For Science Fiction ( 2019)

• Dannie Heineman Prize For Mathematical Physics (1976)

• Special Breakthrough Prize For Fundamental Physics (2013)

• Eddington Medal (1975)

• Fonseca Prize (2008)

• James Clerk Maxwell Medal And Prize ( No Date Recorded)

• Dirac Medal Of The Institute Of Physics (1987)

Famous Quotes

“ However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed  at.”

“ Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.”

“ Work gives you meaning and purpose, and life is empty without it.”

“ I believe that there are no questions that science can’t answer about the physical universe.”

“  Many people find the universe confusing - it’s not.”

 

Late Life

After many years of hard work and successful discoveries, Stephen Hawking’s time came. On March.14, 2018, he died peacefully in his sleep. But, lets end this biography on a happy note, and list some of the book he wrote. 

• A Brief history of time

• Brief answers to the big question

• Theory of everything

• The Grand Design 

• The Universe In A Nutshell

• A Briefer History Of Time

• George’s Secret Key To The Universe

• My Brief History 

• Black Holes And Baby Universes 

• On The Shoulders of Giants

• George And The Big Bang

•  George's Cosmic Treasure  Hunt

• The Nature Of Space And Time

• George And The Unbreakable Code

• George And The Blue Moon

• God Created The Integers 

• Unlocking The Universe

• The Large Scale Structure Of Space-Time

• The Dreams That Stuff Is Made Of 

• The Physics of Star Trek 

• Black Holes: The Reith Lectures

• The Future Of Space-Time

• Properties Of Expanding Universes

• General Relativity

• Hawking On The Big Bang And Black Holes

• Stephen Hawking Time And Universe

Wow! Thats A lot of books! Good By……….. Wait! One more thing, it’s not that important, but, while Stephen Hawking was all busy with nerdy stuff, he also had time for humor! So, he was super duper smart, and also pretty darn funny!

And here's Blair's

Anne Frank

Anne Frank was a jewish girl who hid in the secret annex from 1942 to 1944. She is famous for writing a diary during WWII. Early Life Anne Frank was born on June 12, 1929. Her parents were Edith and Otto frank. Anne Frank was only thirteen when she started to go into hiding. She lived in a secret place behind a bookshelf. There was one bathroom and four bedrooms. Anne frank didn’t have her own room though. She had to share her room with a man named Fritz Pfeffer. Anne Frank wrote in her diary in the attic and in her room, where her roommate argued with her about who should use the little table next to their beds. Late life

After two years of hiding, fritz, the franks, and the van pels were discovered in the secret annex. They only had a few minutes to gather their belongings, but Miep Gies hid Anne Frank's diary in a drawer of her desk, hoping to give it back to her after she returned. But she never did. Margot and Anne were moved to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after they were discovered. They were given dirty clothes to change into and drank dirty water and didn’t have much to eat. Margot got sick, and Anne Frank had to take care of her until she got sick too. Margot first, and then Anne died of typhus. The exact dates were not recorded. All we know is they died in late winter. Margot died at age 19, and Anne died at age 16.the legacy lives on Only one out of the eight people who hid in the secret annex survived through WWII, and that’s Otto Frank. After the war, Miep Gies gave Otto Frank Anne’s diary. Otto read a couple pages every day. Anne’s diary was published in june 25, 1947 and is translated into over 70 languages. It has passed through many generations and will live through many generations to come.