Albert Jacquard. Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. Pour les articles homonymes, voir Jacquard. Albert Jacquard Albert Jacquard, en 2009. Albert Jacquard, né le dans le 1er arrondissement de Lyon, et mort à Paris le [1], est un chercheur et essayiste français. Spécialiste de génétique des populations, il a été directeur de recherches à l'Institut national d'études démographiques et membre du Comité consultatif national d'éthique. Conférencier et auteur de nombreux ouvrages de vulgarisation scientifique, il tient un discours humaniste destiné à favoriser l’évolution de la conscience collective[2]. Il est également connu pour ses engagements citoyens, parmi lesquels la défense du concept de la décroissance soutenable, le soutien aux mouvements du logiciel libre, à la langue internationale espéranto, aux laissés-pour-compte et à l'environnement.
Biographie[modifier | modifier le code] Albert Jacquard obtient à Besançon deux baccalauréats, Mathématiques élémentaires et Philosophie, en 1943[5],[6]. Albert Jacquard (rediffusion) Albert Einstein Quotes. Nikola Tesla. Nikola Tesla (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Тесла; 10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was a Serbian-American[3][4] inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist, and futurist who is best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.[5] Born and raised in the Austrian Empire, Tesla received an advanced education in engineering and physics in the 1870s and gained practical experience in the early 1880s working in telephony and at Continental Edison in the new electric power industry.
He emigrated to the United States in 1884, where he would become a naturalized citizen. He worked for a short time at the Edison Machine Works in New York City before he struck out on his own. With the help of partners to finance and market his ideas, Tesla set up laboratories and companies in New York to develop a range of electrical and mechanical devices. Early years Tesla's baptismal record, 28 June 1856 Working at Edison A move to the US. Why Nikola Tesla was the greatest geek who ever lived. Additional notes from the author: If you want to learn more about Tesla, I highly recommend reading Tesla: Man Out of Time Also, this Badass of the week by Ben Thompson is what originally inspired me to write a comic about Tesla.
Ben's also got a book out which is packed full of awesome. There's an old movie from the 80s on Netflix Instant Queue right now about Tesla: The Secret of Nikola Tesla. It's corny and full of bad acting, but it paints a fairly accurate depiction of his life. The drunk history of Tesla is quite awesome, too. History.com has a great article about Edison and how his douchebaggery had a chokehold on American cinema. X-rays: just to clarify, Tesla did not discover x-rays, but he was one of the early pioneers in its research.