Great Figures Blog

Richard Feynman

2010-11-26T19:20:00.000+07:00

Richard Phillips Feynman, this Jewish man was born on May 11, 1918 in Far Rockaway, New York, United States. His father, a seller of military uniforms. He educates Feynman with a wide range of natural science. At the age of 12 years, young Feynman has made his own laboratory. He makes electrical experiments, make a simple radio, until it becomes a call amateur radio technician in his laboratory.
Not only that, he also played with simple chemistry experiments. The materials are taken from the leaves and his mother's spices.
after completing college majoring in Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1939, Feynman continued his education to Princeteon University. That's where he met and trained famous astro-physicist, John Wheeler.

When Feynman was a speaker at colloquy periodically (student colloquy ), John Wheeler invited several renowned physicists at that time included Albert Einstein. In fact Einstein come and ask.
after from Princeton, Feynman joined the Manhattan Project, the first atomic bomb development project. He was stationed at Los Alamos to work on the theories of decomposition of the nucleus as a source of energy atomic bomb. He successfully completed a lot of problems and help the United States made the first atomic bomb.
After completion of this project. Feynman decided to join the Cornell University (1945 - 1950), then moved to California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and in 1959 was appointed professor of physics at Tolman university.

In 1961, Feynman could provide her basic physical sciences to teach new students the first year. Lecture was attended not only from the students themselves, but also by senior students, researchers, and even professors.Feynman of the world's biggest contribution is in the field of Physics Quantum electrodynamics. A quantum theory describing the interaction of light and matter (light-matter interaction).
Quantum electrodynamics theory pioneered quantum expert Paul Dirac, Werner Heisenberg, Pauli Wolf, and Enrico Fermi in the 1920's. Feynman successfully complete this theory.
In addition, the contribution of Feynman was "Feynman diagrams", which compress pages and pages of calculations into a simple diagram that easy to interpret physically.

Feynman diagrams explain's, how the two electrons repel each other when adjacent to a stream of photons. For this brilliant idea, Feynman got Physics Nobel prize in 1965, along with Julian Schwinger (United States) and Shinichiro Tomonaga (Japan). The three of them contribute the same in quantum electrodynamics, but a different mathematical methods.
Not only that, Feynman also contributed in several other areas of physics. Like the Theory of Liquid Helium (joint Russian physicist, LD Landau), Theory of Beta Decay, Parton theory that leads us to the understanding of Quark, and also involved in pioneering nanotechnology and quantum computers.
Inspiring adventure, fun, as well nosy, summed up in two books biography "Surely you are joking, Mr. Feynman" (1985) and "What do you care what people think" (1989).
Feynman had worked as drummers drum festival when he became a visiting professor at the University of Rio, Brazil. He also practiced drawing and some of his works have been published in the name of "Ofey". The most famous adventures was when successfully solve the mystery explosion of the space shuttle Challenger in 1986. Feynman died on February 15, 1988, because of intestinal cancer.

Elephant

2010-11-23T20:27:00.000+07:00

Physically, the Elephant could not run or jump. They are quick, but they can only walking faster. Big animals have trouble getting airborne. Elephant can weight more than four tons and have surprisingly low ratio of muscle to body mass.

Mark Zuckerberg

2010-11-18T17:30:00.002+07:00

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg was born in the area called Dobbs Ferry, Westchester County, New York City. Since childhood, Zuckerberg likes to play with the computer, trying various computer programs and learn to make it. While in high school Phillips Exeter Academy, he and his partner, D'Angelo, made a plug-in for MP3 player Winamp. Plug-ins are computer programs that can interact with host applications such as web browsers or email for specific purposes.

Zuckerberg and D'Angelo made plug-ins to gather people to different types of favorite songs and then make his playlist according to their tastes. They send the program to various companies including the AOL (America Online) and Microsoft.

When go to college, D'Angelo entered Caltech while Zuckerberg entered Harvard. At Harvard, Zuckerberg finds the idea to making the online student directory because the university did not share the face book (a book that contains photographs of students and the identity of students at the university) on new students as a place of friendship between them. But each time he offered to create a directory, Harvard refused.

Although rejected, he is always looking for ways to make it happen. His first project is CourseMatch (www.coursematch.com) that allow classmates to communicate with one another on the website. One night in the second year he studied at Harvard, Zuckerberg's sabotage Harvard student data and put it into a website he created called Facemash. A number of fellow students photos posted there. Do not forget he put a sentence that asks patrons to determine which of these pictures are most "hot". Within four hours since he launched the website was carrying 450 people to visit as many as 22,000 photos Facemash and they are open. Harvard know it. Zuckerberg had case because he steal data. This curly-haired young man had to apologize to the colleagues who the picture entered in Facemash. But he did not regret his actions. "I think such information should be available (online)," he said.

after that, he even made a new website with the name "Facebook" (www.thefacebook.com). This website launched in February 2004. Facebook is a refinement of Facemash. function as a meeting place for fellow Harvard students. Facebook offers easy navigation for users. Each account owner has a room for displaying his picture, his friends, network, and do other things such as can send messages and so forth. The number of applications that can be used by its members make up well liked.

Investments in many applications make "Facebook" is different from previous social networking websites like MySpace. Then people flocked to his website and sign up to be members. Within two weeks after launch, half of Harvard students already have an account on Facebook. Apparently not only Harvard students who are interested, several university was requested to be included in the networking up. This makes Zuckerberg overwhelmed. He then requested the help of two friends to participate in developing Facebook. Within four months Facebook has been able to capture the 30 university. By the end of 2004 the number of Facebook users already reached one million.

Facebook users continues to increase. In fact there are some people who could no longer be a student or still at school wanted to join. The high pressure makes Zuckerberg and his friends decided to open up a network for high school students in September 2005. Soon they are also open networking office workers. This extraordinary busyness makes Zuckerberg should drop out from Harvard.

Zuckerberg and his friends then develop Facebook even further. In September 2006 Facebook opens registration for general networking with the terms have email. Since then the number facebook of members going up further.
The success of the Facebook make Zackerberg accommodate tremendous wealth. Forbes magazine says Zackerberg own wealth reach U.S. $ 1.5 billion. magazine named him as The Youngest `Self-Made 'Billionaire on the Planet.
Aged only 24 years old Mark Zuckerberg, but he could produce 1.5 billion U.S. dollars. The success of the founders Facebook bring him within the ranks of 400 richest people in the U.S. version of Forbes.

Honey

2010-11-17T21:19:00.000+07:00

Honey can not rot because of the large osmotic pressure (osmotic pressure depends on the mass of substance dissolved per 100 milliliters of solution) so that bacteria will soon undergo a process of dehydration and death
Due to the nature of botulinum endospores in honey, children under one year should not be given honey. Adult digestive system has evolved so that it can destroy the spores. But the baby could get food poisoning from honey.

Lionel Messi

2010-11-17T09:01:00.001+07:00

Lionel Andrés Messi (born on June 24, 1987 in Rosario) is an Argentine football player. His position is striker. Currently, he is strengthening FC Barcelona in La Liga (Spanish League). His ability often makes it dubbed as "the new Diego Maradona". At first, the player who has a height 169 cm is in action in Grandoli club, club upbringing Jorge Messi, Messi's father.

Then he switched to Newell's Old Boys. But this club could not afford the cost of hormone therapy that exceed 500,000 pounds per month. Fortunately Barcelona immediately identified great potential in Leo Messi and offered to move to Spain to join the Catalan club is a plus to finance the entire cost of therapy.

"I only took less than 10 minutes to believe that he is a future star." Barcelona B coach said at the time, Carles Rexach. "Throughout my career for 40 years, I've never seen a player who is really talented. Someone with minimal knowledge of football will be aware of messi great ability."

His talent attracted the attention of the world while acting with the Argentine national football team at the World Youth Cup and Barcelona in 2005. In 2006 he succeeded in helping Barcelona before an injury in the quarterfinals of match against Chelsea in the Champions League. Messi, who has a rather small body is very agile on the field and often open space for his partners who pursue goals.

Soft drink

2010-11-17T08:20:00.000+07:00

A researcher from the University of California, San Francisco, USA named Dr. Kristen Bibbins-Domingo said in his research is to increase consumption of soft drinks which generally contain high sugar impact on the occurrence of 130 000 new cases of diabetes, 14,000 new cases of heart disease, and 50,000 patients with disorders heart in the last decade.

Larry Page and Sergey Brin

2010-11-16T21:37:00.001+07:00

Lawrence Edward "Larry" Page, was born in Lansing, Michigan, March 26, 1973. Page is a graduate of East Lansing High School. Page earned title "Bachelor of Science" in computer engineering from the University of Michigan graduate with honors and a Masters from Stanford University. When being a student in the Ph.D. program computer science at Stanford University, Page met Sergey Brin.

Sergey Mikhailovich Brin, Russian: Сергей Михайлович Брин. born in Moscow, Soviet Union, August 21, 1973. when He was 6 years old, his family moved to the United States. There, He registered in primary school Montossori Paint Branch, Adelphi, Maryland. In September 1990, after graduating from Eleanor Roosevelt High School, he received at the University of Maryland, College Park. There he majored in computer science and mathematics, and obtained a tittle "Bachelor of Science" in 1993. He then went on his computer science education at Stanford University through a scholarship from the National Science Foundation. He received his master's degree in August 1995. At Stanford he met Larry Page.

Beginning in January 1996. A research conducted by Larry Page and worked with Sergey Brin . They concluded that the search engine that analyzed the relationship between website produces better ranking results than the search engines with the existing methods at that time.
Eventually they both make a search engine with the name "BackRub" because it has a system to check backlinks to estimate the level of importance a site was. At that time, a small search engine called Rankdex also doing the same investigation.

Based on the logic that the page with many links, associated with those pages are important and relevant pages, then Larry Page and Sergey Brin tested their thesis and make a research for their search engine. Finally, they used search engines made by Stanford University in google.stanford.edu. And the domain google.com was registered on 15 September 1997 and became company Google Inc.

On 4 September 1998, Google is at that time was still based at the garage owned by a friend of Larry Page and Sergey Grin has reached to $ 1.1 million investment. Google's office in March 1999 moved to Palo Alto. Since that time, google continues to grow and continue to receive many visits to search engines because of its simple design and good search results.

Jackie Chan

2010-11-15T17:35:00.002+07:00

Jackie Chan was born in Hong Kong on April 7, 1954. His parents are named Charles and Lee-Lee Chan is the Chinese civil war refugees. Jackie Chan, has little name Chan Kong Sang, which means born in Hong Kong. He spent his childhood in elite environment, District of Victoria Park.

When he was a child,his parents register Chan to the China Drama Academy, Peking Opera School. Thanks to the expertise of martial arts and acrobatics, eventually brought Chan to be included in the Seven Little Fortunes, a performance group that membered by the best student in her school.

Chan has entered the world of movies since I was eight years old, when he appeared in a movie called Big Little Wong Tin Bar. In this film, Jackie Chan play with Sammo Hung Kam-Bo and Li Hua Li. Next year, he played with Li Hua Li in the movie musical The Love Eterne.

When he growing up, at the age of 17, his expertise in art martial arts led him to become a stuntman in films played by Bruce Lee. Stunts played by Chan in First of Flury and Enter The Dragon.

He was given the chance to be a star in the movie Little Tiger of Canton who had a limited release in Hong Kong in 1973. The next year, Chan played in a film called Rumble in Hong Kong.

But over the next two years, Chan was not involved in film production. Finally he decided to stay with her parents who had moved to Canberra, Australia, where his parents worked as cooks. There, Chan continued his studies at Dickson College.

While in college, he also worked as a construction worker. Apparently, nickname Jackie Chan aimed when he worked as a construction worker. He got his nickname Little Jack, who later became Jackie.

The presence of Chan in Canberra Australia did not last long, because in the same year he got a telegram from Willie Chan, a Hong Kong film producer, who was very impressed with Chan. Willie Chan offered him a film directed by Lo Wei, titled New First Fury. But unfortunately this film fails in the market.

In 1978, Chan comes with a kung fu comedy genre film titled Snake in the Eagle's Shadow. The success of the film could be the start of the kung fu comedy movie . After that, Chan's career began to climb after he played in the film mainstream who success in the market, the Drunken Master, and then forwarded to the kind of film entitled Half a Lot of Kung Fu and Spiritual Kung Fu.

Throughout his career in action films, Chan has recorded three times a nasal fracture, one ankle fracture, most of the fingers, both cheekbones and his skull bone, and has a permanent hole in his head, because of an accident in action in front of the camera.

Movies that played by Jackie Chan:

* Young Tiger (1973)
* Eagle Shadow Fist (1973)
* The Killer Meteors (1976)
* Shaolin Wooden Men (1976)
* New Fist of Fury (1976)
* Countdown in Kung Fu (1976)
* To Kill With Intrigue (1977)
* Jackie Chan’s 36 Crazy Fists (1977)
* The Magnicient Bodyguards (1978)
* Spiritual Kung Fu (1978)
* Snake in the Eagle’s Shadow (1978)
* Snake and Crane Arts of Shaolin (1978)
* Half a Lot of Kung Fu (1978)
* Drunken Master (1978)
* The Fearless Hyena (1979)
* Dragon Fist (1979)
* The Young Master (1980)
* The Big Brawl (1980)
* The Cannonball Run (1981)
* Dragon Lord (1982)
* The Fearless Hyena II (1982)
* Winners and Sinners (1983)
* Wheels on Meals (1984)
* Jackie Chan’s Crime Force (1984)
* Fantasy Mission Force (1984)
* Cannonball Run II (1984)
* The Protector (1985)
* Twinkle, Twinkle Lucky Stars (1985)
* Police Story (1985)
* Ninja Thunderbolt (1985)
* Heart of the Dragon (1985)
* Naughty Boys (1986)
* Project A II (1987)
* My Lucjy Stras (1987)
* Police Story II (1988)
* Dragons Forever (1988)
* Miracles (1989)
* The Prisoner (1990)
* The Kid From Tibet (1991)
* Island on Fire (1991)
* The Best Of Martial Arts Films (1992)
* Supercop (1992)
* City Hunter (1992)
* The Armour of God (1994)
* Project A (1994)
* Once A Cop (1994)
* Crime Story (1994)
* Supercop (1996)
* Rumble In The Bronx (1996)
* Operation Condor (1997)
* Jackie Chan’s Second Strike (1997)
* First Strike (1997)
* Gods (1998)
* The Operation Condor 2 : Armour of the Gods (1998)
* Who Am I ? (1998)
* Rush Hour (1998)
* Mr. Nice Guy (1998)
* Hongkong Face Off (1998)
* Burn, Hollywood, Burn (1998)
* Twin Dragons (1999)
* Master of Disaster (1999)
* Jackie Chan’s Project A (1999)
* Heikek Chi Wong (1999)
* Bolei Cheun (1999)
* The Legend of Drunken Master (2000)
* Shanghai Noon (2000)
* The Accidential Spy (2001)
* Rush Hour 2 (2001)
* The Tuxedo (2002)
* The Medallion (2003)
* The Cin Gei Bin (2003)
* Snake in Eagle’s Shadow 2 (2003)
* Shanghai Knights (2003)
* San Gingchat Gusi (2004)
* Around the World in 80 Days (2004)
* Sen-Hua (2005)
* Legends of Martial Arts (2005)
* Come Drink With me (2005)
* Thunderbolt (2006)
* Bo Bui Ga Wak (2006)
* Rush Hour 3 (2007)
* The Forbidden Kingdom (2008)

Masashi Kishimoto

2010-11-14T08:29:00.002+07:00

Masashi Kishimoto was born in Okayama Prefecture in 1974 as the twin brother of 2 children (younger brother named Seishi Kishimoto , who is the mangaka of 666 Satan).

When Kishimoto-sensei is still a child, one of the most favorite TV show is Doraemon. All Masashi Kishimoto friends like Doraemon and draw the characters. Kishimoto-sensei is the best. He showed what parts are wrong in his friends drawing and shows how to draw.

when he at Elementary school, Masashi Kishimoto really like drawing. During school, he fill his notebook with a drawing, even he still drawing when he was playing with his friends. Kishimoto Favorite anime is Doraemon, until one day he saw Mobile Suit Gundam, he drawing all of Gundam Character.

After He drawing Mobile Suit Gundam, a new anime show, which is famous manga from Akira Toriyama-sensei: Dr. Slump. Masashi Kishimoto tells of how he did not believe, how can Dr. Slump picture is very good and he began to draw that anime characters.

Towards graduation in Elementary School, Kishimoto really crazy about Dragon Ball, the most famous manga from Akira Toriyama-sensei. And finally Masashi Kishimoto made a decision. He began by thinking that he wanted to be a popular manga like Akira Toriyama. Kishimoto made his first work entitled "Hiatari-kun", about a young ninja.

When stepping on Junior High School, Kishimoto focus on something other than drawing. Drawing was almost not anymore because he did not have the time. But one day he saw a poster which he said was excellent. it is "Akira" Figure by Katsuhiro Ootomo.

Kishimoto began drawing "Akira". But, no matter how much he tried to imitate, he can not.Effects, design, and every detail of the picture is very different from other mangaka. Kishimoto-sensei finally realized, that great work is original work.

Kishimoto tries to draw with its own character, but he still can not. He finally gave up and spent his first all high school time to mimic the drawing of Ootomo-sensei.

When he was in class XI, Kishimoto successfully completed his first comic book containing 31 pages. He asked the opinion of his family. But he could only got negative answers. Kishimoto remain enthusiastic and send it to comic Jump Magazine Award, but failed.

Kishimoto did not give up and make a lot of comics. But his comics are always not good. He wondered why the comic was not good and what makes others comics looks great?

Because he spent his time to find the answer, Kishimoto graduated high school with a rating of 38 out of 39 students. Things go awry. Not good at drawing comics, is also not smart at school. Masashi Kishimoto did not give up and try harder to become a Jump mangaka. If now Kishimoto remind everything, He will not had a lot of thought, "Well, all will succeed. Thank God because I'm stupid! "

Now Masashi Kishimoto achieved his dream of becoming a famous Jump mangaka, his comic about a ninja that called "Naruto" become one of the most popular and most sought after all over the world.

Bill Gates

2010-11-13T17:45:00.002+07:00

William Henry Gates III, better known by the name of Bill Gates was born on October 28, 1955, in Seattle, Washington.

When he was eleven years old, his parents decided to send him to Lakeside School, a special primary school for boys. At Lakeside, in 1968 Bill Gates for the first time introduced the world's computers, in the form of a teletype machine.

He quickly mastered BASIC, a computer programming language, and with hackers who study on lakeside, he spent time with the hours to learn a lot about computers. Bill Gates took classes at Harvard University in Cambridge in 1975. There he met Paul Allen. Together with Paul Allen, Bill Gates continues to develop his talents in the field of computer programming. However, Bill Gates decided to drop out to donate his time for Microsoft.

Through his hard efforts, the company that he founded called Microsoft Corporation became success and Bill Gates become a millionaire. In 1990 Bill Gates successfully released a very successful operating system in the world market.

However, Bill Gates also got a bad reputation in his career. In 1990 Bill Gates received demands from the United States Department of Justice related that Gates has monopoly on small firms. In 2000, Bill Gates resigned from his position as Chief Executive Officer and he chose to return to his old profession who is Head of Research and Development of Software in his own company, Microsoft Corp. in 2008, Bill Gates decided to resign from Microsoft's management and concentrated on charity work through the establishment of social foundations, namely the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Strongest Muscle

2010-11-12T23:01:00.000+07:00

The strongest muscle in the body may be the tongue, or the muscles that move the jaw, or heart or buttock muscle (gluteus maximus). Muscle physiology experts, said that the strength and muscle endurance depends on age, sex, and some often do you train these muscles (including the gluteus maximus).

Back muscles

2010-11-12T18:19:00.000+07:00

Back muscles need to be trained for a stronger supporting your body, and not easily injured. with a strong back muscles you easily through the daily activities like walking, running, up and down stairs, even carrying a child.

Banana peel

2010-11-12T17:57:00.003+07:00

Researchers in Taiwan found that banana peel extract can remove depression as rich in Serotonin, a chemical that balances the mood. Banana peel is also good for the eyes because it contains Lutein, an antioxidant that protects eyes cells from exposure to ultraviolet light. These ultraviolet light can cause cataracts.

Soichiro Honda

2010-11-11T20:56:00.004+07:00

Soichiro Honda (Honda Sō'ichirō 本田宗一郎, 17 November 1906-5 August 1991) was a Japanese industrialist who was born in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan.

When he was 12 years, Honda managed to create a model bicycle with foot brakes. At the age of 15 years, Honda worked at Hart Shokai Company. His boss, Saka Kibara, very pleased to see how Honda works. He carefully and skillfully in a matter of machinery. Finally, at the age of 21 years, Honda's boss propose Honda to work at a branch office in Hamamatsu.

This offer is not rejected. In Hamamatsu achievements still works better. He always receive reparations are rejected by another shop. In those days, the radius of a car made of wood, so, not good to dampen shocks. Honda had the idea to replace it with a metal trellis. As a result, metal trellis sold, and exported to all over the world.

At age 30, Honda signed a patent first. After creating a trellis, Honda wanted to leave his boss, makes his own garage business.

He began to work, to manufacture Pinston Ring, which is produced by his own workshop in 1938. Unfortunately, his work was rejected by the Toyota, because they do not meet the standards. Ring homemade inflexible, and not sold .because of that, Honda became ill. Two months later, his health restored. He returned to his shop. But, the Pinston Ring problem isn't solve yet. then, He try find a solution. By looking for answers, He went to college again to increase his knowledge of the machine. After two years as a student, he was eventually drop out because rarely follow the lecture.

Thanks to his hard work, his designs Ring Pinston accepted. Toyota awarded the contract, so that Honda wants to build a factory. However, because Japan was preparing a war, he did not get the funding. Honda is not desperate, he is raising capital from a group of people to set up factories.

After the war broke out, the factory burned twice. However, Honda is not discouraged. He was rushed to collect their employees. They were instructed to take the rest of benzene cans discarded by the U.S. ships, used as a factory. Unexpectedly, an earthquake erupted destroying the factory, so it was decided to sell the Pinston Ring factory for Toyota

After that, Honda tried several other businesses. But always failed. Finally, in 1947, after the war, Japan's shortage of gasoline. Here the condition of the Japanese economy in ruins. Honda can not sell his car to buy food for his family. Under these circumstances, he had the idea to put small motors on bicycles. Who would have guessed, the bike is enthused by the neighbors. They flocked to order, so that Honda ran out of stock. Here, re-established the Honda motorcycle factory. Since then, success is never out of his hand.

2010-08-12T17:21:00.001+07:00

Hello everybody, this is the first time I made a blog. Maybe there is some mistakes while made it.
This is about me: I born in Indonesia. Surabaya, 30 January 1995.
I use English for my blog language. But, I know that I was not good at grammar. So, I hope you understand if there is still a mistakes.