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Hippocrates
460 BC –370 BC
Ancient Greek physician
He separated the discipline of
medicine from religion
Human body itself contain
balancing capability his
therapy focused easing this
natural process
Aristotle
384 BC – 322 BC
Greek philosopher
Student of Plato and teacher of Alexander
the Great
Physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater,
music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government,
ethics, biology, and zoology.
William Shakespeare
Born in 1564; died 1616
Greatest writer in English language
England’s National Poet
38 plays
Career as an actor in London
Books
Henry IV, V, VI
Romeo and Juliet
Julius Caesar
Hamlet
Othello
Antony and Cleopatra
As You Like It
Romeo and Juliet
Hamlet
Adaption of Othello
John Milton
1608 –1674
An English poet, author
He is best known for his epic poem
Paradise Lost.
Writings related to contemporary issues
In last stage of life became blind
Jane Austen
16December 1775 – 18 July
1817
Novelist: Romantic fiction
Most widely read and most
beloved writers in English
literature.
Sense and Sensibility
Pride and Prejudice
Mansfield Park
Emma
Sense and sensibility
Tamil film
Kandukondain Kandukondain
Pride and prejudice
George Eliot
Mary Anne
She used a male pen name
1819 – 1880
English Novelist
Politically astute pen
Her books for their depictions of rural society
Books
The Mill on the Floss
Silas Marner
Middlemarch
Daniel Deronda
Mark Twain
1835 – 1910
American author and
humorist.
Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn (1884), which has been
called "the Great American
Novel“
Tom Sawyer
Life on mississippi
Henry James
1843 -1916
American born writer
James never married
James spent the last 40 years of his life
in England
Articles and book of travel, biography,
autobiography, and criticism, and wrote
plays.
The Portrait of a Lady
Washington Square
The Wings of the Dove
Beast in the Jungle
George Bernard Shaw
1856 –1950
Irish
An ardent socialist
He is the first person to have been awarded
both a Nobel Prize for Literature and an
Oscar for Pygmalion.
D.H. Lawrence
1885 – 1930
An English author, poet,
essayist
He endured official
persecution, censorship, and
misrepresentation of his
creative work.
valued significant
representative of
modernism in English
literature
Sons and Lovers
The Rainbow
Women in Love
Margaret Mitchell
1900 –1949
American author
Won Pulitzer Prize in 1937 for her novel
Gone with the Wind
Albert Einstein
14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955
Theoretical physicist, philosopher and
author who is widely regarded as one of
the most influential and best known
scientists and intellectuals of all time.
Regarded as father of modern physics
1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to Theoretical Physics, and
especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect
Theories
Theory of relativity
Fluctuation dissipation theorem
Quantum theory of atomic motion in solids
Isaac Newton
4 January 1643 – 31 March 1727
English physicist, mathematician,
astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist,
and theologian
One of the most influential people in human
history.
Publication of the Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica
Described universal gravitation and the three laws of motion
Jonathan Swift
1667 – 19 October 1745
Essayist, political pamphleteer
A Tale of a Tub, Gulliver's Travels, A
Modest Proposal, The Battle of the Books
Adam Smith
16 June 1723 – 17 July 1790
Scottish moral philosopher and a pioneer
of political economics.
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of
the Wealth of Nations
Edward Gibbon
1737 - 1794
English Historian
The History of the Decline and Fall of
the Roman Empire
Hegal
1770 – November 14, 1831
German philosopher
Logic, Philosophy of history, Aesthetics,
Religion, Metaphysics, Epistemology, Political
Philosophy
Philosophy of history
Philosophy of right
Karl Marx
1818 – March 14, 1883
German philosopher, political economist,
historian, political theorist
Significant role in the development of
modern communism.
Dos Capital famous work
Sigmund Freud
1856 – 23 September 1939
Austrian neurologist who founded the
psychoanalytic school of psychiatry
Origin of development of psycho-analysis
Interpretation of dreams
Declaration of Independence
(US)
July 4, 1776
Statement, which announced that the thirteen American colonies then at
war with Great Britain were now independent states
Written primarily by Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson was third president of America
The birthday of the United States of America—Independence Day—is
celebrated on July 4, the day the wording of the Declaration was approved
by Congress
John Stuart Mill
1806 –1873
British philosopher and civil servant
Theory of liberty
Charles Darwin
1809 – 19 April 1882
English naturalist who established that all
species of life have descended over time
from common ancestors
Book On the Origin of Species
Charles Dickens
February 1812–9 June 1870) was the most popular
English novelist
Oliver Twist
Christmas Carol
Harry Potter
Series of seven fantasy novels
Written by J.K Rowling
Adventure of Wizard Harry Potter
First novel released in June 1997
J.K Rowling
British Author of Harry Potter
Twelfth riches women in Britain
Twilight
Author: Stephen Meyer
Vampire romance novel
One of biggest selling book of 2008
Karen Armstrong
English writer
Work on comparative religious
studies
Successful book: History of God
Books
History of God
Muhammad
Battle for God
In the beginning
Short history of Islam
Case for God (latest)
Clash of civilization
Full name: clash of civilization and remaking
of world order
Written by: Political scientist Samuel P.
Huntington
Idea: people's cultural and religious identities
will be the primary source of conflict in the
post-Cold War world
The Da Vinci Code
Author: Dan Brown
Thriller function, American author