Explain the academic career of the scientist you are reading about. For example, did they have a learning disability, were they gifted, were they home-schooled, did they drop out of school, what university did they attend, did they apprentice under someone?
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Whitney Rodgers
8/27/2013 09:50:37 am
Leonardo always had a thrive to learn. As a pre-teen, his grandparents hired private teachers and priests to school him. Then, he attended an art school in Florance, Italy. In this school yes, Leonardo was an apprentice under Alendrea del Verrocchio, the painter and sculptor of his day. In 1492, at the age of 20 he finished his training and became an official member of the Florentine painters guild.
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Ethan Arzt
9/11/2013 10:32:12 am
Lovell graduated from Milwaukee's Solomon Juneau High school in the year of 1946. But at that time colleges didn't offer rocket science as a degree yet. So the only way he could get the knowledge he needed was to join the military.
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9/23/2013 09:09:19 am
Thomas loved to read in fact he spent most of his time in the library. Science books was all time favorite
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Emilee Hall
9/26/2013 09:51:44 am
Marie was extremely intelligent. She attended the University of Paris. She got her masters degree in physics.
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Landon morgan
9/26/2013 11:54:39 pm
Mark attended Ardsley High School in Ardsley, New York, for two years. There he studied classics before transferring to Phillips Exeter Academy, a prepartory school in Exeter, New Hampshire, for his junior year. He studied classical studies as well as won prizes for math, astronomy, and physics and was captain of the fencing team. For his senior project at Exeter mark and another student wrote a music program called synapse. Synapse used artificial intelligence to analyze a users music listening habits and used that information to reccomend other music
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austin preston
9/27/2013 11:08:31 am
steve jobs went to homestead high school and attended reed college in portland, oregon. becouse of low funds jobs later dropped out. he continued to audit classes there while sleeping in friends dorm rooms, collcting coke bottles for food money, and recieving an ocasional free meal. he also dropped in on a calligraphy course in college. he later said if he had never attended the calligraphy course the mac would have never been invented.
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