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- Only one third of his work still remains to this day
- Some of his famous quotes include:
“Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.”
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- He coined the term "eureka" when he successfully proved that silver was mixed in with he gold crown that was made for King Hiero II
- The Archimedes screw was a great discovery made by him that is still used for irrigation in Egypt today
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- He used to buy caged animals at the market just to set them free
- Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time
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- After discovering four of Jupiter's moons, the king of France asked him to find some more moons so they could be named after him
- His first name is so similar to his last name because when he was born, it was customary to give the first-born son a name based on the family name
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- He had two nervous breakdowns
- His mother wanted him to become a farmer but he had no interest in it and failed his exams
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- Her father died when she was three years old so she was raised by her mother and stepfather.
- Her daughter Dorothea Maria was the first woman to be employed by the Russian Academy of Sciences
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- He is most famous for his work on natural selection, the idea that all species of life have evolved over time from ancestors.
- He wrote a book called 'On the Origin of Species’ which was about much of his research on natural selection
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- Charles Babbage made a machine that could follow directions, now recognised as the world's earliest form of a computer. Ada's own writings became the first algorithm used to make the machine function
- Ada excelled in maths and had a lifelong interest in numbers and number theory
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- She was the first person to ever win 2 Nobel prizes and she is the only woman to ever win 2, so far
- She was buried twice. When she died of leukaemia, she as buried alongside her husband Pierre. Then her body was moved to be buried at the Pantheon
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- She was the second Nobel prize laureate in physics, after Marie Curie
- Maria Goeppert Mayer was often asked why girls needed to study science. Sometimes she answered with a counter question: “Do girls only have to learn how to read just to study cook books?”
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- Gertrude had some problems choosing one subject to major in since there was no scientific subject that she did not love
- She invented the first major medicine to fight leukaemia
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- She helped discover the DNA double helix
- She was never a feminist. She had always thought of herself simply as a scientist whose achievements should be judged on their own terms, not as a woman scientist striking a blow for the rights of women.
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- He is well known for his bestselling book 'A Brief History of Time'
- He suffers from ALS, a type of motor neurone disease which has left him almost completely paralysed