This is the final product of the ''STEM FOR THE FUTURE GENERATIONS'' etwinning project.

ICONIC SCIENTISTS EVER

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Stephen William Hawking was born on January 8, 1942, in Oxford, England. He studied at the University of Oxford and earned a bachelor’s degree from there in 1962. When Hawking was 21, he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis—a disease that weakens muscles and causes paralysis. Despite his diagnosis, he continued to work. He earned a doctorate from the University of Cambridge in 1966. As a cosmologist, Hawking studied the basic laws that govern the universe. One of his theories was that mini black holes were formed following the&nbsp;big bang. These mini black holes contain one billion tons of mass but occupy less than the space of an&nbsp;atom.&nbsp; <a href="https://school-education.ec.europa.eu/en/networking/people/n00alwma">Özlem&nbsp;AL Çelik</a>-<a href="https://school-education.ec.europa.eu/en/networking/schools-organisations/ibrahim-doganer-ilkokulu">İbrahim Doğaner İlkokulu</a> <a href="https://school-education.ec.europa.eu/en/networking/people/n00a2pyg">Zeliha&nbsp;Subaşı</a>-<a href="https://school-education.ec.europa.eu/en/networking/schools-organisations/ibrahim-doganer-ilkokulu">İbrahim Doğaner İlkokulu</a>

Albert&nbsp;Einstein&nbsp;was born in Ulm, Germany. As a child, the prodigy enjoyed solving math riddles and building skyscrapers out of playing cards. Even as a young boy, Einstein showed he had a great mind for maths and physics. During his lifetime, Albert Einstein came up with some amazing theories about light, matter,&nbsp;gravity, space and time and soon enjoyed world-wide fame! When Einstein was 15, his family moved to Milan in Italy. From there he attended the&nbsp;Polytechnic Academy&nbsp;in the Swiss city of Zurich. In 1900 Einstein graduated with a degree in physics and maths. Einstein is probably most famous for his ‘theory of relativity’ and the equation he made famous,&nbsp;e=mc². On April 18 1955, Albert Einstein died at the age of 76 from heart failure. <a href="https://school-education.ec.europa.eu/en/networking/people/n0035353">Violeta&nbsp;Karamihaleva</a>-<a href="https://school-education.ec.europa.eu/en/networking/schools-organisations/sredno-uchilishtenikola-vaptsarov-hadzhidimovo">Sredno Uchilishte"Nikola Vaptsarov", Hadzhidimovo</a>

Born in&nbsp;England&nbsp;on December 10, 1815, Ada was the daughter of the famous poet Lord George Byron and his wife, Lady Anne Byron. In 1835, Ada married William King, who became the Earl of Lovelace three years later, making her the Countess of Lovelace.&nbsp; Ada Lovelace is the&nbsp;world’s first computer programmer. She was the first person to&nbsp;write a program - a series of commands that Charles Babbage’s mechanical computer could use to do complicated calculations.&nbsp; <a href="https://school-education.ec.europa.eu/en/networking/people/n00c5zoo">Teresa Jesús&nbsp;Gragera Delgado</a>-<a href="https://school-education.ec.europa.eu/en/networking/schools-organisations/ceip-principe-de-asturias-0">CEIP Príncipe de Asturias</a>

Galileo was born in Pisa, Italy where he grew up with his brothers and sisters during the Italian Renaissance. His father was a music teacher and a famous musician. His family moved to the city of Florence when he was ten years old.It was in Florence that Galileo began his education. Galileo sparked the birth of modern astronomy with his&nbsp;observations of the Moon, phases of Venus, moons around Jupiter, sunspots, and the news that seemingly countless individual stars make up the Milky Way Galaxy. <a href="https://school-education.ec.europa.eu/en/networking/people/n007bahe">Manca&nbsp;Žuna</a>-<a href="https://school-education.ec.europa.eu/en/networking/schools-organisations/osnovna-sola-oskarja-kovacica">Osnovna šola Oskarja Kovačiča</a> <a href="https://school-education.ec.europa.eu/en/networking/people/n00aphb1">Petra&nbsp;Šlankovič</a>-<a href="https://school-education.ec.europa.eu/en/networking/schools-organisations/osnovna-sola-oskarja-kovacica">Osnovna šola Oskarja Kovačiča</a>

STEM FOR THE FUTURE GENERATIONS

Tesla was born on July 10, 1856, in Smiljan, Austro-Hungarian Empire (modern-day&nbsp;Croatia).&nbsp;&nbsp;His mother, Georgina-Djuka, came from a long line of inventors. She was a great influence on her son. Nikola Tesla was an electrical engineer.His work was an important initial step in various developments in wireless communications, radar, X-rays, robotics and many more. Tesla got his first job in&nbsp;Budapest&nbsp;in 1882, working at a&nbsp;telephone&nbsp;company. A few years later he moved to the United States. Even in his early life, he was inventing things. His best-known invention was an&nbsp;electric motor&nbsp;that could run well on AC power. Tesla died of&nbsp;coronary thrombosis&nbsp;in a hotel room in&nbsp;Manhattan,&nbsp;New York City&nbsp;on 7 January 1943. <a href="https://school-education.ec.europa.eu/en/networking/people/n008bg1q">Cristina&nbsp;Tomescu</a>-<a href="https://school-education.ec.europa.eu/en/networking/schools-organisations/colegiul-national-tudor-vladimirescu-targu-jiu">Colegiul National „Tudor Vladimirescu”, Targu Jiu</a>

Pasteur was born on December 27, 1822, in Dole, France. He received a doctor of science degree in 1847. He then taught chemistry at French universities. At the University of Lille, Pasteur discovered that&nbsp;fermentation&nbsp;involved microbes. Fermentation is a chemical change used to make bread, wine, cheese, and other foods. Pasteur showed that heat killed the microbes that cause fermentation. This discovery led to his invention of a process for destroying harmful microbes in food.&nbsp; Pasteur discovered that many diseases are caused by microbes. He developed a method of preventing disease called&nbsp;vaccination. Vaccination involves putting weakened germs into an animal’s or person’s body.&nbsp; <a href="https://school-education.ec.europa.eu/en/networking/people/n00a94bv">Agnieszka&nbsp;Michalska</a>-<a href="https://school-education.ec.europa.eu/en/networking/schools-organisations/szkola-podstawowa-nr-59-w-szczecinie">Szkoła Podstawowa nr 59 w Szczecinie</a>

Mendeleev was born in&nbsp;Tobolsk,&nbsp;Siberia, the youngest of fourteen children of Ivan Pavlovich Mendeleyev and Maria Dmitrievna Mendeleeva (nee Kornilieva). At the age of fourteen, after the death of his father, Mendeleyev attended the&nbsp;Gymnasium&nbsp;in Tobolsk. Russian&nbsp;chemist,Mendeleev, became known as one of two scientists who created the first version of the&nbsp;periodic table&nbsp;of elements.&nbsp; <a href="https://school-education.ec.europa.eu/en/networking/people/n00avzrg">María&nbsp;Pinilla Correa</a>-<a href="https://school-education.ec.europa.eu/en/networking/schools-organisations/ceip-principe-de-asturias-0">CEIP Príncipe de Asturias</a>

Alexander Fleming was born on August 6, 1881, at Lochfield, Ayrshire, Scotland. He is best known for discovering the&nbsp;antibiotic&nbsp;substance&nbsp;penicillin&nbsp;in 1928.Penicillin has saved about millions of people’s lives.&nbsp; He also served in battlefield hospitals when World War I broke out. Fleming married Sarah McElroy in 1915. They had one son, Robert, who was born in 1924. Fleming’s first wife died in 1949. In 1953 he married a Greek research bacteriologist, Amalia Coutsouris. Fleming died in London on March 11, 1955. <a href="https://school-education.ec.europa.eu/en/networking/people/n00a3kzh">Olcay&nbsp;KAMBİRİMER</a>-<a href="https://school-education.ec.europa.eu/en/networking/schools-organisations/mehmet-atmaca-ilkokulu">Mehmet Atmaca İlkokulu</a>

Marie Curie was born in Warsaw, Poland, on 7th November 1867. She was born Maria Salomea Sklodowska, but adopted her French husband's name, Curie. Marie Curie's parents were both teachers. They taught her to value knowledge and help others. She was the youngest of five children. She was the first woman to win a Nobel prize and the only person to win Nobel prizes in two different sciences: physics and chemistry. Marie Curie discovered radioactivity. She named the element 'polonium' after Poland. Marie Curie died on 4th July 1934 in France. Her death certificate states that she died of 'aplastic anemia', which is a blood disease. This was caused by her long-term exposure to radiation. <a href="https://school-education.ec.europa.eu/en/networking/people/n006tdqq">Ruben&nbsp;Alarcon</a>-<a href="https://school-education.ec.europa.eu/en/networking/schools-organisations/collegi-francesc-de-borja-moll">Collegi Francesc de Borja Moll</a>

Alexander Graham Bell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on March 3, 1847. Alexander was mostly schooled at home. As a young man Alexander worked with his father to teach deaf people to speak. In the mid-1870s, Bell began work on the telephone with Thomas Augustus Watson. On March 10, 1876, Bell made the first successful test of the telephone. He spoke a few words to Watson, beginning with “Mr. Watson, come here.” Alexander Graham Bell was an inventor and a teacher of the deaf. He is famous for creating one of the world’s most important communication devices—the&nbsp;telephone. <a href="https://school-education.ec.europa.eu/en/networking/people/n00cn4ul">Guadalupe&nbsp;Duran Muñoz</a>-<a href="https://school-education.ec.europa.eu/en/networking/schools-organisations/ceip-principe-de-asturias-0">CEIP Príncipe de Asturias</a>

Aziz Sancar was born in Savur in southeast Turkey in a lower middle class family. His parents had no education but considered education important for their children. Sancar studied at Istanbul University and at the University of Texas, Dallas, where his received his doctorate in 1977. He is a professor at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill. Aziz Sancar is married to Gwen Boles Sancar who also is a professor in biochemistry and biophysics. Aziz Sancar&nbsp;&nbsp;is a Turkish&nbsp;molecular biologist&nbsp;specializing in&nbsp;DNA repair,&nbsp;cell cycle&nbsp;checkpoints, and circadian clock. In 2015, he was awarded the&nbsp;Nobel Prize in Chemistry&nbsp;along with&nbsp;Tomas Lindahl&nbsp;and&nbsp;Paul L. Modrich&nbsp;for their mechanistic studies of DNA repair. <a href="https://school-education.ec.europa.eu/en/networking/people/n002f7iz">Elif&nbsp;Emiral</a>-<a href="https://school-education.ec.europa.eu/en/networking/schools-organisations/grundschule-am-lettenholz">Grundschule am Lettenholz</a>

Isaac Newton was born in Woolsthorpe, England on January 4, 1643. Isaac was always a top student, and went off to the University of Cambridge at age 19. Isaac had to leave Cambridge from 1665 to 1667 because of the Great Plague. He is famous for his work on the laws of&nbsp;motion,&nbsp;optics,&nbsp;gravity, and&nbsp;calculus.&nbsp;In 1668 Newton invented the&nbsp;reflecting telescope. Newton is probably most famous for discovering gravity. <a href="https://school-education.ec.europa.eu/en/networking/people/n009fss2">Sara&nbsp;Gonzalez</a>-<a href="https://school-education.ec.europa.eu/en/networking/schools-organisations/ceip-principe-de-asturias-0">CEIP Príncipe de Asturias</a> <a href="https://school-education.ec.europa.eu/en/networking/people/n00bxacc">Carmen&nbsp;Calero</a>-<a href="https://school-education.ec.europa.eu/en/networking/schools-organisations/ceip-principe-de-asturias-0">CEIP Príncipe de Asturias</a>

Thomas Alva Edison was born on February 11, 1847, in Milan, Ohio. He experienced hearing loss at an early age. He was an imaginative and curious child. He did poorly in school, though, perhaps because he could not hear his teacher. His mother then educated him at home. When Thomas was a teenager he became a&nbsp;telegraph&nbsp;operator. Telegraphy was one of the nation’s most important&nbsp;communication&nbsp;systems at the time. Thomas was good at sending and taking messages in Morse code.&nbsp; Thomas's most famous invention&nbsp;came in the year 1879 when he built his first light bulb.&nbsp; <a href="https://school-education.ec.europa.eu/en/networking/people/n00b6why">ÖZLEM&nbsp;GEÇTİ</a>-<a href="https://school-education.ec.europa.eu/en/networking/schools-organisations/ibrahim-doganer-ilkokulu">İbrahim Doğaner İlkokulu</a> <a href="https://school-education.ec.europa.eu/en/networking/people/n00cjzcm">SERKAN&nbsp;ARICIOĞLU</a>-<a href="https://school-education.ec.europa.eu/en/networking/schools-organisations/ibrahim-doganer-ilkokulu">İbrahim Doğaner İlkokulu</a>

Rosalind Elsie Franklin was born on July 25, 1920, in London, England. She attended Saint Paul’s Girls’ School before studying chemistry at Newnham College, Cambridge. She graduated in 1941. She made important contributions to the discovery of the structure of&nbsp;DNA. DNA is the material that carries all the information about how a living thing will look and function. Rosalind Elsie Franklin&nbsp;was a British chemist who made a major contribution in the discovery of&nbsp;DNA’s&nbsp;double helix structure.&nbsp; <a href="https://school-education.ec.europa.eu/en/networking/people/n00c4gqm">GERMAN&nbsp;SANCHEZ</a>-<a href="https://school-education.ec.europa.eu/en/networking/schools-organisations/ceip-principe-de-asturias-0">CEIP Príncipe de Asturias</a>

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