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Animal Scientist and Activist Jane Goodall

Animal Scientist and Activist Jane Goodall

Do you enjoy visiting animals at the zoo or playing with pets? As a child, Jane Goodall loved watching and interacting with animals. As an adult, she became a scientist working with chimpanzees in Africa.Goodall used unconventional research methods to...

Astronaut and Physicist Sally Ride

Astronaut and Physicist Sally Ride

Have you ever dreamed of going to outer space? When Sally Ride was a little girl, she watched on TV as astronaut John Glenn launched into space. Twenty years later, she became the first American woman to go to space.Ride had loved science since she...

Astrophysicist and Space Advocate Neil deGrasse Tyson

Astrophysicist and Space Advocate Neil deGrasse Tyson

Have you ever stared into the night sky, full of stars and planets? As a kid, Neil deGrasse Tyson was star-struck when he first visited a planetarium. The universe was calling him.Tyson pursued his interest in astronomy and studied to be an...

Genius Physicist Albert Einstein

Genius Physicist Albert Einstein

Have you ever used your imagination to solve a problem? When Albert Einstein was young, he was fascinated by the way magnetism made a compass work. As an adult, he used thought experiments to solve some of the universe's greatest mysteries. Einstein...

Minecraft Creator Markus "Notch" Persson

Minecraft Creator Markus "Notch" Persson

Do you play computer games? If you do, you've probably played Minecraft. When Minecraft creator Markus Persson was young, he wasn't very interested in the games themselves. He was more interested in the programing instructions in the computer's...

NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson

NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson

What do you want to be when you grow up? When Katherine Johnson was young, women weren't expected to go into the math and science fields. Johnson loved math, but she never thought she could be a mathematician. After studying math in school and...

Science Educator and Advocate Bill Nye

Science Educator and Advocate Bill Nye

Do you think science is fun and exciting? Bill Nye does. In fact, he wanted to become an astronaut, but NASA rejected his applications. Instead, Nye has spent his career helping other people understand science and showing them how cool science can...

Theoretical Physicist Stephen Hawking

Theoretical Physicist Stephen Hawking

Do you like to gaze at the stars? So did the young Stephen Hawking. Eventually, he turned his fascination with the night sky into a career of trying to figure out how the universe began and how it works.As a child, Hawking loved the stars and he loved...

YouTube Founders Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim

YouTube Founders Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim

Have you ever watched a home video that went viral on the Internet? Then you've probably heard of the company YouTube.YouTube was created by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim in 2005. When these three friends wanted to share a video from a...