第一篇:GRE寫作名人例子
在練習(xí)作文的過程中,發(fā)現(xiàn)很多人名在很多人名在很多題材的作文中都可以反復(fù)用到,在沒有總結(jié)這些名字之前,老是寫新文章時(shí)就忘記了以前用過的人名的拼寫.所以就開始積累常用人名了.由于論壇里其它形式的資料帖都有了,為求有點(diǎn)新意,能給g友們更快地提升作文,遂決定把本人的人名總結(jié)及其適用文章貢獻(xiàn)出來.:)
由于適用的文章是我臨時(shí)回憶的,所以肯定不止下面列舉的這些適用文章.歡迎補(bǔ)充!
凡高 Van Gogh: 藝術(shù)類文章里引用,如arts and critics, greatness總是超前時(shí)代的所以只能由后人評(píng)判, history強(qiáng)調(diào)individual(因?yàn)樵谒囆g(shù)歷史領(lǐng)域只能強(qiáng)調(diào)individual),還有percive world with different eyes也可以引用這個(gè)例子.此人的另類抽象painting風(fēng)格和當(dāng)時(shí)的審美標(biāo)準(zhǔn)不符,故遭排擠,而幾百年后的critics才發(fā)現(xiàn)他的價(jià)值.哥白尼 Copernicus:引用題目有:greatness超前時(shí)代,挑戰(zhàn)權(quán)威(當(dāng)時(shí)是church),history強(qiáng)調(diào)individual(因?yàn)樵诳茖W(xué)研究領(lǐng)域只能強(qiáng)調(diào)individual).此人是日心說,當(dāng)時(shí)宗教教育說是地心說,死前才公布自已的論斷(因?yàn)榕略缢?.莫扎特 Mozart: greatness只能由后人判斷的反面例子.此人音樂才華在世時(shí)就被教皇看重,給以了很多贊助,使其.......畢加索 Picasso: greatness只能由后人判斷的反面例子,arts反映hidden ideas的反面例子.此人是20世紀(jì)最偉大的畫家,其畫風(fēng)格為cubism,很多人說他的畫只反映個(gè)人的ideocyncratic,而沒有反映社會(huì)的hidden ideas,此人在世時(shí)就被判為greatness了.林肯 Abraham Lincoln: history關(guān)注individuals,effective leader要隨機(jī)應(yīng)變,justand unjust laws.此人南北戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng),解放黑奴,沒有他,可能就沒有今天這樣的美國了.據(jù)說他在南北戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)前是不支持解放黑奴的,而之后又支持了.馬丁路德金 Martin Luther King: leaders要有很高的moral and ethical standards, history關(guān)注individuals的重要性,just and unjust laws,學(xué)習(xí)歷史的重要性.此人為黑人獲得與白人相同的權(quán)利發(fā)起了黑奴運(yùn)動(dòng),他的“I have a dream”演講教育了一代一代人.他的moral and ethical standards是不用說的,沒有這個(gè)individual,美國黑人現(xiàn)在可能還要坐在汽車后面的座位.莎士比亞 Shakespeare: greatness由后人評(píng)判的反面例子,survive and arts里強(qiáng)調(diào)arts可以培養(yǎng)人什么的.此人的介紹我就不多說了.貝多芬 Beethoven: arts的重要性,arts and critics.此人為著名作曲家,'命運(yùn)'激勵(lì)了多少人,當(dāng)時(shí)的critics也批斗過他,因?yàn)閟tandards很rigid and stale.希特勒 Hitler:
不能迷信權(quán)威啊,學(xué)習(xí)歷史的重要性啊(不重蹈覆轍),history強(qiáng)調(diào)individual啊.此人是著名戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)狂,由于全國人都迷信他的言論才能坐上首相位置,學(xué)習(xí)他的例子可以使現(xiàn)在的社會(huì)不重蹈他的覆轍,他這個(gè)individual也反映當(dāng)時(shí)common people/multitude的普遍value:戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)主義,chauvinism.加利略 Galileo:不迷信權(quán)威,history強(qiáng)調(diào)individual(因?yàn)樵诳茖W(xué)研究領(lǐng)域只能強(qiáng)調(diào)individual),beginner and expert.當(dāng)時(shí)的expert和authority就是Aristotle,認(rèn)為物體越重下降越快.而此人證明了其實(shí)都是一樣快的.亞力士多德 Aristotle: 和加利略一起舉例.愛因斯坦 Einstein: 不迷信權(quán)威.greatness由后人判斷的反面例子.beginner andexpert中expert的劣勢(shì).此人證明了權(quán)威牛頓三大定律只能在宏觀世界有效,而不適于微觀世界.其greatness在其在世時(shí)就確立了,他曾說過,自從他成名后,就沒能找出一段完整屬于自己的時(shí)間來深入思考這個(gè)世界了.牛頓 Newton.不迷信權(quán)威,greatness由后人判斷.此人是個(gè)權(quán)威,被愛因斯坦挑戰(zhàn)見愛因斯坦那條.華盛頓 George Washington: history研究individual的重要性.leaders 要有moralstandards.此人為美國開國總統(tǒng),沒有他開了連續(xù)任兩屆總統(tǒng)就得下臺(tái)的先河,可能美國在他之后好久都是專制國家,因?yàn)楫?dāng)時(shí)有人要他當(dāng)皇帝.凱薩 Caesar.history研究individual的重要性.此人即是亞利山大大帝,所建立的亞力山大帝國地跨三大陸.研究那個(gè)帝國如果研究他,只研究multitude怎么能研究得下去?
托馬斯.杰佛森 Thomas Jefferson: 這個(gè)有點(diǎn)想不起來用在哪里了.此人說過all men are created
equal->the declaration of independence:
甘地 Gandhi: greatness的文章,leaders and moral standards的文章.此人是印度的建國祖師,坐過很多牢,stoic,情操很高,結(jié)果可以只demenstration來和平解放印度.拿破侖 Napoleon: individual的重要性.此人是著名戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)狂,他的發(fā)起的戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)雖然很荒唐,但卻被法國中場(chǎng)階認(rèn)為很浪漫,他的individual反映當(dāng)時(shí)的普遍價(jià)值觀.肯尼迪 Kennedy: scandals,leaders should have moral standards.此人在位時(shí)很大程度緩解了蘇美關(guān)系.卻有marital scandals.所以scandals會(huì)distract us from
people's real responsibility.羅斯福 Roosevelt(FDR): individual的重要性,領(lǐng)導(dǎo)要聽取群眾意見,隨機(jī)應(yīng)變.此人有兩大貢獻(xiàn):發(fā)動(dòng)反德戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng),帶美國走出Depression.沒有他的發(fā)動(dòng)戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)宣言,可能WWII不會(huì)這么快結(jié)束.據(jù)說一位英國著名經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)家曾寫信給他說要他采取蘇聯(lián)模式來政府介入自由經(jīng)濟(jì),操控經(jīng)濟(jì),才使他在1930年代出臺(tái)各種政府措施來改善經(jīng)濟(jì),使得經(jīng)濟(jì)復(fù)蘇(大國崛起里說的).成吉斯汗 Genghis Khan: 領(lǐng)導(dǎo)要聽取群眾意思,而不是有強(qiáng)硬持久的原則和目標(biāo): 這個(gè)也不用介紹了.斯大林 Stalin: 同成吉斯汗.達(dá)爾文 Darwin: 挑戰(zhàn)權(quán)威.進(jìn)化論的祖師爺,寫過'the origin of species'.挑戰(zhàn)當(dāng)時(shí)普遍的神創(chuàng)論.孟德爾 Mendel: expert and beginner,data的重要性.因?yàn)槭莈xpert,因?yàn)樽隽耸暄芯糠e累了大量data,才由統(tǒng)計(jì)學(xué)原理發(fā)現(xiàn)了law of Inheritance.瓦特 Watt James: 很多都適用,如creativity很重要啊,興趣很重要而不是老去考慮對(duì)社會(huì)會(huì)有什么貢獻(xiàn)啊.此人發(fā)明了蒸汽機(jī),從小喜歡機(jī)械,并一直研究.里根 Reagon: 投資類題目適用.他發(fā)起了星球計(jì)劃.為將來的太空軍備競(jìng)賽作準(zhǔn)備.結(jié)果由于工程浩大而放棄,浪費(fèi)了很多錢,所以投資都應(yīng)該用在對(duì)社會(huì)有實(shí)在好處上.居里 Mary Curie: 學(xué)習(xí)歷史人物的重要性,失敗是成功之母.此女人經(jīng)過十年才找到radium這種元素,并把提取方法毫無保留地與全世界共享,獲得了若貝爾獎(jiǎng).其堅(jiān)持不懈的品質(zhì)值得學(xué)習(xí),其十年失敗,終成功的例子說明了失敗是成功之母.克里克 Crick: imagination and knowledge.此人很變態(tài),發(fā)現(xiàn)DNA結(jié)構(gòu)是由于做夢(mèng)!
麥克斯維 Maxwell: imagination and knowledge,greatness由后人判斷.此人是著名物理學(xué)家,他大膽推測(cè)出電磁場(chǎng)理論electromagnetism并給予理論證明,但當(dāng)時(shí)很多人不能相信,在他死后就有人從實(shí)驗(yàn)室證明了他的理論.
第二篇:SAT寫作名人例子
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第三篇:新GRE寫作例子使用原則
新GRE寫作例子使用原則
相關(guān)性很重要,不要提供不相關(guān)的信息,和大家眾所周知又對(duì)你論證不是非常必要的內(nèi)容。舉個(gè)不恰當(dāng)?shù)睦樱f愛因斯坦和相對(duì)論的時(shí)候,不需要說愛因斯坦的其他理論;說萊特兄弟發(fā)明飛機(jī)的時(shí)候,沒有必要說他們當(dāng)時(shí)在哪個(gè)州。這些看似比較顯而易見,但是如果自己比較隨意,就會(huì)有很多不相關(guān)的信息傳遞出去。
不能只提供例子,不提供對(duì)例子的分析,哪怕只有一句話。例子出現(xiàn)的時(shí)刻,應(yīng)該是分析到了一定程度,水到渠成了自然出現(xiàn)。然后例子之后,最好再加1-2句為什么這個(gè)例子能支撐我的觀點(diǎn),或者是,我們能從這個(gè)例子看出什么,或者是,這個(gè)例子為什么很重要。這樣就顯得飽滿。
上述就是有關(guān)新GRE作文例子使用的問題解答,此外,例子其實(shí)不能展得太開。一個(gè)觀點(diǎn)段,大概只有6-8句話。那么例子差不多也就2句話。有些例子可能只有一句話,或者只有一個(gè)such as blablabla.一定要精練,才能真正的助力GRE作文高分。
第四篇:GRE作文例子
伽利略的所有試驗(yàn)中,最著名的該算是“質(zhì)量相異者同時(shí)落地”,這個(gè)試驗(yàn)推翻了亞里士多德的關(guān)于落體速度與其質(zhì)量成正比的理論。但事實(shí)上,并沒有紀(jì)錄表明伽利略真的做了這個(gè)著名試驗(yàn)。
Galileo was an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer and philosopher who played a major role in the Scientific Revolution.A biography by Galileo's pupil Vincenzo Viviani stated that Galileo had dropped balls of the same material, but different masses, from the Leaning Tower of Pisa to demonstrate that their time of descent was independent of their mass.This was contrary to what Aristotle had taught: that heavy objects fall faster than lighter ones, in direct proportion to weight.While this story has been retold in popular accounts, there is no account by Galileo himself of such an experiment, and it is generally accepted by historians that it was at most a thought experiment which did not actually take place.Charles Robert Darwin was an English naturalist who established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection.He published his theory with compelling evidence for evolution in his 1859 book On the Origin of Species.Journey of the Beagle貝格爾號(hào)旅程
Movements
The term labor movement or labor movement is a broad term for the development of a collective organization of working people, to campaign in their own interest for better treatment from their employers and governments, in particular through the implementation of specific laws governing labour relations.Martin Luther King, Jr.(January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968)was an American clergyman, activist, and prominent leader in the African American civil rights movement.His main legacy is securing progress on civil rights in the United States.Because of this work, he has become a human rights icon.In 1964, King became the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his work to end racial segregation and racial discrimination through civil disobedience and other non-violent means.“I Have a Dream” is the famous name given to the sixteen minute public speech by Martin Luther King, Jr., in which he called for racial equality and an end to discrimination.伊斯蘭教婦女The study of women in Islam investigates the role status of women within the religion of Islam.The complex relationship between women and Islam is defined by both Islamic texts and the history and culture of the Muslim world.Sharia(Islamic law)provides for differences between women's and men's roles, rights, and obligations.Majority Muslim countries give women varying degrees of rights with regards to marriage, divorce, civil rights, legal status, dress code, and education based on different
interpretations.Scholars and other commentators vary as to whether they are just and whether they are a correct interpretation of religious imperatives.Conservatives argue that differences between men and women are due to different status and), p.278 while liberal Muslims, Muslim
feminists, and others argue in favor of other interpretations.Some women have achieved high political office in Muslim majority states.Sartorial hijab(頭蓋), and the veil(面紗)in particular, has often been viewed by Westerners as a sign of oppression of Muslim women.婚禮Wedding traditions and customs vary greatly between cultures, ethnic groups, religions, countries, and social classes.Most wedding ceremonies involve an exchange of wedding vows by the couple, presentation of a gift(offering, ring(s), symbolic item, flowers, money), and a public proclamation of marriage by an authority figure or leader.Special wedding garments are often worn, and the ceremony is followed by a wedding reception.Chinese wedding customs
Main articles: Chinese marriage and Southern Chinese wedding
Traditional Chinese marriage is a ceremonial ritual within Chinese societies that involve a
marriage established by pre-arrangement between families.Within Chinese culture, romantic love was allowed, and monogamy was the norm for most ordinary citizens.A band of musicians with gongs and flute-like instruments accompanies the bride parade to groom's home.Similar music is also played at the wedding banquet.Depending on the region that the bride hails from, Chinese weddings will have different traditions such as Tea Ceremony or the use of a wedding emcee.Also in modern times, Chinese couples will often go to photo studios to take “glamour shots” posing in multiple gowns and various backgrounds.Most regional Chinese wedding rituals follow the main Chinese wedding traditions, although some rituals are particular to the peoples of the southern China region.In most southern Chinese wedding, the bride price is based on the groom's economic status.The idea of “selling the daughter” or bride isn't a phrase that is used often therefore the price of the bride isn't too
demanding.Most of the time the bride price is in the form of gold jewelry, fine fabric, or money, even a roast pig which symbolizes the bride to be a virgin.Wedding presents are given by the elderly couples or couples that are older than the newlyweds and tea is served by the younger family members.A number of cultures have adopted the traditional Western custom of the white wedding, in which a bride wears a white dress and veil.This tradition was popularized through the wedding of Queen Victoria.Some say Victoria's choice of a white gown may have simply been a sign of
extravagance, but may have also been influenced by the values she held which emphasized sexual purity.Within the modern 'white wedding' tradition, a white dress and veil are unusual choices for a woman's second or subsequent wedding.The notion that a white gown might symbolize sexual purity has been long abandoned, and is criticized by etiquette writers like Judith Martin as distasteful.The use of a wedding ring has long been part of religious weddings in Europe and America, but the origin of the tradition is unclear.Historians like Vicky Howard point out that belief in the
“ancient” quality of the practice are most likely a modern invention.“Double ring” ceremonies are also a modern practice, a groom's wedding band not appearing in the United States until the early 20th Century.The wedding is often followed by a reception, in which the rituals may include toasting the newlyweds, their first dance as spouses, and the cutting of a wedding cake.
第五篇:英語寫作西方名人例子
Great Souls
? Nelson Mandela
Mandela, the South African black political leader and former president, was awarded 1993 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to antiracism and antiapartheid.Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country.Since his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela has been at the centre of the most compelling and inspiring political drama in the world.As president of the African National Congress and head of South Africa's antiapartheid movement, he was instrumental in moving the nation toward multiracial
government and majority rule.He is revered everywhere as a vital force in the fight for human rights and racial equality.(138)
? Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi was the pre-eminent political and spiritual leader of India during the Indian independence movement.He was the pioneer of the resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience, firmly founded upon total non-violence—which led India to independence and has inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world.He is officially honored in India as the Father of the Nation.After assuming leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921, Gandhi led nationwide campaigns to ease poverty, expand women's rights, build religious and ethnic amity, and increase economic self-reliance.Above all, he aimed to achieve the
independence of India from foreign domination.Later he campaigned against the British to Quit India.Gandhi spent a number of years in jail in both South Africa and India.(128)
Additionally, Gandhi influenced important leaders and political movements.Leaders of the civil rights movement in the United States, including Martin Luther King and James Lawson, drew from the writings of Gandhi in the development of their own theories about non-violence.Anti-apartheid activist and former President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, was inspired by Gandhi.Prior to becoming President of the United States, then-Senator Barack Obama noted that: Throughout my life, I have always looked to Mahatma Gandhi as an inspiration, because he embodies the kind of transformational change that can be made when ordinary people come together to do extraordinary things.That is why his portrait hangs in my Senate office: to remind me that real results will come not just from Washington – they will come from the people.(129)
??Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King, Jr.was an American clergyman, activist and prominent leader in the
African-American civil right movement.His main legacy was to secure progress on civil rights in the United States and he is frequently referenced as a human rights icon today.King led the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957, serving as its first president.King's efforts led to the 1963 March on Washington, where King delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech.There, he raised public
consciousness of the civil rights movement and established himself as one of the greatest orators in U.S.history.By the time of his death in 1968, he had refocused his efforts on ending poverty and opposing the VietnamWar, both from a religious perspective.In 1964, King became the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his work to end
racial segregation and racial discrimination through civil disobedience and other non-violent means.He was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977 and Congressional Gold Medal in 2004;Martin Luther King, Jr.Day was established as a U.S.national
holiday in 1986.(192)
? Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa was an Albanian Roman Catholic nun with Indian citizenship who founded the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, India in 1950.For over 45 years she ministered to the poor, sick, orphaned, and dying, while guiding the Missionaries of Charity?s expansion.Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity continued to expand, and at the time of her death it was operating 610 missions in 123 countries, including hospices and homes for people with HIV/AIDS,leprosy and tuberculosis, children's and family counseling programs, and schools.By the 1970s she was internationally famed as a humanitarian and advocated for the poor and helpless.She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 and India's highest civilian honor, the Bharat Ratna in 1980 for her humanitarian work.(122)
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? Susan B.Anthony
Although I am not a feminist, I admire Susan B.Anthony for her daring to hold on to her view even being mocked cruelly by her contemporaries.A tireless civil rights worker, Anthony devoted her life to the work which has guaranteed women‘s basic right, including suffrage and equal protections under law.She believed that men and women are created equal and persevered unremittingly in opening doors and expanding acceptable modes of behavior for women.In the patriarchy society of her time, people considered her unladylike and ridiculous.However, 19th Amendment to the Constitution gives women‘s rights to vote, which established Susan B.Anthony as a bold revolutionary feminist in history.(111)
?Margaret Sanger
Margaret Sanger sparked the birth control movement with the publication of The Woman Rebel, in which she encourages women to view conception as a choice rather than an obligation.In 1923, her tireless efforts resulted in the establishment of America's first legal birth control clinic, which served as a contraceptive dispensary and research facility under the auspices of the American Birth Control League(one of the groups that eventually morphed into Planned Parenthood).The birth control movement has had far-reaching, worldwide implications, from women's rights to population control to the sexual revolution.(92)
l Bright Minds
? Newton
Newton‘s aim at Cambridge was a law degree.Instruction at Cambridge was dominated by the philosophy of Aristotle but some freedom of study was allowed in the third year of the course.Newton had a golden opportunity to study an abundance of great minds: the philosophy of Descartes, Gassendi, Hobbes, and in particular Boyle.The mechanics of the Copernican
astronomy of Galileo attracted him and he also studied Kepler‘s Optics.It is a fascinating account of how Newton‘s ideas were formed.He collected all these thoughts and developed his own system by which he successfully explained a wide range of previously unrelated phenomena: the eccentric orbits of comets, the procession of the Earth‘s axis, and motion of the Moon as perturbed by the gravity of the Sun, as well as the three laws of motion that made him an international leader in scientific research and the greatest pilot in human‘s civilization.(157)
? Darwin’s Origin of Species
The theory of evolution is one of the great intellectual revolutions of human history.Hundreds of years ago, people were confused with the complexity of different species of the world, and believed that species were created by the mysterious God.However, Darwin did not believe so.After several years' study, he eventually demonstrated that species, however complex seemingly, all evolved by natural selection from simple and preliminary conditions.When Darwin published his famous research results on the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, the book encountered lots of controversies.Members of the religious community, as well as some
scientific peers, were outraged and protested.However, Darwin's idea of evolution eventually defeated the traditional belief and was accepted and acknowledged by some insightful scientists and finally by the society.It is now reverenced as one of the greatest intellectual revolutions of human history.(144)
??Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus was a Polish mathematician and astronomer who proposed that the sun was stationary in the center of the universe and the earth revolved around it.Disturbed by the failure of Ptolemy's geocentric model of the universe to follow Aristotle's requirement for the uniform circular motion of all celestial bodies, Copernicus decided that he could achieve his goal only through a heliocentric model.He thereby created a concept of a universe in which the distances of the planets from the sun bore a direct relationship to the size of their orbits.At the time
Copernicus's heliocentric idea was very controversial;nevertheless, it was the start of a change in the way the world was viewed, and Copernicus came to be seen as the initiator of the Scientific Revolution.(129)
? Galileo Galilei
Galileo Galilei was an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who played a major role in the Scientific Revolution.His achievements include improvements to the
telescope and consequent astronomical observations, and support for Copernicanism.Galileo's observations about four satellites of Jupiter with his new telescope convinced him of the truth of Copernicus's sun-centered or heliocentric theory.Galileo has been called the “father of modern observational astronomy,” the “father of modern physics,” and “the Father of Modern Science.” Stephen Hawking says, “Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science.”(96)
? Christopher Columbus
In 1485, Columbus presented his plans to John II, King of Portugal.He requested he be made “Great Admiral of the Ocean”, appointed governor of any and all lands he discovered, and given
one-tenth of all revenue from those lands.The king submitted the proposal to his experts and rejected it.In 1488 Columbus appealed to the court of Portugal once again, and once again it also proved unsuccessful.Then, Columbus travelled from Portugal to both Genoa and Venice, but he received encouragement from neither.In1486, Columbus presented his plans to Queen Isabella.After the passing of much time, these savants of Spain, like their counterparts in Portugal, pronounced the idea impractical, and advised their Royal Highnesses to pass on the proposed venture.But after endless attempts at establishing a settlement of Hispanism, Catholic Monarchs finally gave him an annual allowance of 12,000 maravedis and furnished him with a letter ordering all cities and towns under their domain to provide him food and lodging with which Columbus successfully initiated widespread contact between Europeans and indigenous Americans and carved out the cross-continental trade market.(183)
? John Nash
Before 1950, Adam Smith was respected as ―the father of Game Theory‖, he wrote a famous book named The Wealth of Nations and demonstrated ―perfect competition‖ which was
commonly accepted by people.There is a sentence from the book ―Individual ambition serious the common good‖ which means when each individual pursue his own interests, the benefits of the group will be improved most effectively.However, John Nash, a normal mathematician in Princeton University, created a theory ―Nash Equilibrium‖ which laid the foundation of Game Theory in 1950.He doubted the statement from Adam Smith, and he succeeded.John Nash wrote a 28 pages dissertation to argue a new theory.Due to the fact that personal benefits
conflict each other, the interest of a group will be harmed.To ensure the interests of whole group, individuals should find equilibrium between the personal and group interests.Consequently, John Nash received the Nobel Prize in economics and fundamentally reformed the arena of economics.(160)
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??Alfred Bernhard Nobel-1
Alfred Bernhard Nobel was a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, armaments manufacturer and the inventor of dynamite.To be able to detonate the dynamite rods he also invented a detonator which could be ignited by lighting a fuse.The market for dynamite and detonating caps grew very rapidly and Alfred Nobel also proved himself to be a very skillful entrepreneur and businessman.He later produced ballistite, one of the first smokeless powders.At the time of his death, his will provide his enormous fortune of the major portion of $9 million estate to
institute the Nobel Prize, a yearly prize for merit in physics, chemistry, medicine and physiology, literature, and world peace.The synthetic element nobelium was named after him.(119)
? Thomas Edison
In 19th century, people could only get light from candles, but it suffered from several
disadvantages, including exorbitantly high price and in adequate lightness.Thomas Edison, one of the most prominent inventors in the 20th century, overcame 1500 failure and suitable filament for electric light bulb which were affordable for all people to buy and use.He tried numerous
materials such as iron, copper, aluminum, silver, hair, even his colleague‘s brown beard, but he fails all times.Nevertheless he did not give up and dedicated himself in finding the best material.The belief held by him was that ―we will make the electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn
candles.‖ He had the first successful experiment in 1879, finding that carbon filament can last over 40 hours, but he and his team were not satisfied for that.Through hundreds of tough trying, they finally found carbonized bamboo filament which could last over 1200 hours.Furthermore, the light bulbs invented by Edison with the most suitable filament have not only lighted up the world, but influenced people‘s lives all over the world until now.(185)