Essays Tagged: "Cambridge"
STEPHEN J. HAWKING
ngland. Hegrew up near London and was educated at Oxford, from which he received hisBA in 1962, and Cambridge, where he received his doctorate in theoreticalphysics. Stephen Hawking is a brilliant and ... ghly productive researcher, and,since 1979, he has held the Lucasian professorship in mathematics atCambridge, the very chair once held by Isaac Newton. Although still relativelyyoung, Hawking is alre ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Biographies
Ted Hughes, Britain's Poet Laureate
1930 in Yorkshire into a family of a carpenter. After graduating from Grammar School he went up to Cambridge to study English, but later changed to Archaeology and Anthropology. At Cambridge he met S ... are Yorkshire landscape, where he grew up as a son of a carpenter, totemism studied by the poet at Cambridge and theories of Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer (4:161, 6:414). The main themes, as sin ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
Baptism. Nicholas Ferrar
ome in London. Ferrars niece was named Virginia, the first known use of thisname. Ferrar studied at Cambridge and would have gone further with his studies but thedamp air of the fens was bad for his h ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity
Newtons law of gravity
the sight of an apple falling to the ground (he was resting at Woolsthorpe because of the plague at Cambridge) that caused Newton to wonder if this same force was what held the moon in place (Gamow 41 ... n, Sir Arthur. (1987). Space, Time, & Gravitation: An Outline of the General Relativity Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Edwards, Paul. (Ed.) (1967). The Encyclopedia of Philosophy. N ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Physics
A biography of Germaine Greer
aine GreerGermaine Greer was born in 1939 and educated in the universities of Sydney, Melbourne and Cambridge. Her main occupation is a writer but she is also seen as a strong advocate for the sexual ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
The economic contributions of Nobel Prize winner, Amartya K. Sen.
in economics for his contributions to welfare economics. Born in 1933, Sen studied in Calcutta and Cambridge (where he received his PhD) and has held teaching positions at Oxford, London, Delhi, Calc ... s held teaching positions at Oxford, London, Delhi, Calcutta, Harvard, Berkeley, Stanford, MIT, and Cambridge. He holds honorary doctorates from more than 25 schools and universities. Sen became the f ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics > Development Studies
Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation
the sight of an apple falling to the ground (he was resting at Woolsthorpe because of the plague at Cambridge) that caused Newton to wonder if this same force was what held the moon in place (Gamow 41 ... on, Sir Arthur. (1987). Space, Time, & Gravitation: An Outline of the GeneralRelativity Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Edwards, Paul. (Ed.) (1967). The Encyclopedia of Philosophy. N ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Physics
Nicholas Ferrar
me in London. Ferrars' niece was named Virginia, the first known use of thisname. Ferrar studied at Cambridge and would have gone further with his studies but the damp air of the fens was bad for his ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Alternative
The Life of Charles Darwin
to Edinburgh University with his brother to study medicine.After two years at Edinburgh he went to Cambridge to become a clergyman because he was not interested in being a physician. Darwin felt that ... gyman because he was not interested in being a physician. Darwin felt that his three years spent at Cambridge were wasted as far as academic studies were concerned. While at Cambridge he met a natural ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Charles Darwin
Elitism in the UK university system.
ersities up and down the country; notably the distinguished 'Oxbridge' institution, i.e. Oxford and Cambridge. Many ex-scholars from a wide range of academic backgrounds have gone on to achieve excell ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education
Essay reviewing and outlining major points included in the study How Families Still Matter by USC Prof. Verne Bengtson
ill Matter, by Vern L. Bengtson, Timothy J. Biblarz, and Robert E.L. Roberts which was published by Cambridge University Press in Fall 2002, addresses these questions and more based on the results of ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology
The case of Claus von Bulow.
the country to England in the belly of a British Mosquito Bomber. Claus went to Trinity College in Cambridge and graduated in 1946. In the 1950's, Claus was practicing law after graduation. While in ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Biographies
This paper explains how in Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift presents his realistic style through a narrative that has three levels of depth.
a small Estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the Third of Five Sons. He sent me to Emanuel-Colledge in Cambridge, at Fourteen Years old, where I resided three Years, and applied my self close to my Studi ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
This essay is a biography along with the acheivements of Ernest Rutherford
brick walls. This caused him to be awarded with a scholarship, which provided further education at Cambridge.In 1895 Rutherford began his first work in the field with Sir J.J Thomson at the Cavendish ... 95 Rutherford began his first work in the field with Sir J.J Thomson at the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University. In 1897 he showed that the radiation emitted by uranium differs from X rays an ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry
Essay on the fathers of modern computing, Charles Babbage and George Boole. Five pages long, prof. loved it.
arly age. Babbage soon became so proficient in mathematics that he was out performing his tutors at Cambridge. By 1812 Babbage co-founded the Analytical Society with the help of three other Cambridge ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science
Double Helix
erer, developer, or inventor.For instance, Watson joined Francis Crick in bio-molecular research at Cambridge in 1951. Together, Watson and Crick attempted to determine the chemical structure of livin ... ey continued their work in secret and. On Feb. 28, 1953, Francis Crick walked into the Eagle pub in Cambridge, England, and, as James Watson later recalled, announced that "we had found the secret of ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biochemistry
Real Identity of Shakespeare. (Possibly Christopher Marlowe?)
is factual.Marlowe, Born in 1564, was born in the cathedral town of Canterburry. He was educated at Cambridge on a scholarship given to people preparing for the ministry. Marlowe's life was surrounded ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare
The Awakening Kate Chopin
and written off as having disagreeable glimpses of sensuality and "language unfit for publication"(Cambridge Literature: Resource Notes of "The Awakening"). Now, after a century the novel is apprecia ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
"The Lawyer's Tale: An Extension to The Canterbury Tales"
I have been through almost twenty years of schooling, and I have graduated from the King's Hall at Cambridge. But books alone do not teach enough to live by, so I became an apprentice. My teacher was ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > "Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucher
Management of Employee Relations.
um-sized business.1. TERMS OF REFERENCEDuring the last decade staff figures of Mobile Communication Cambridge did increase to 300 employees. To coordinate these resources the Board of Directors appoin ... current situation.3. FINDINGSThe survey highlighted two basic problems within Mobile Communication Cambridge: A lack of communication between the senior management and the employees as well as a cont ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management