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Who's Who Website Expansion Project

 

Wesleyan University: Chem 160/360

Science and Modernism

 

 “Who’s Who” Website Expansion Project

         Learning Objective: This project is intended to familiarize you in more depth with one of the cast of characters being taken up in our class, and to make the results of each of your efforts available to all others in the class. Simultaneously, it is designed in a way to build additional materials into the Science and Modernism web site http://dbeveridge.web.wesleyan.edu/wescourses/2001f/chem160/01/ , which has obvious benefits for all of us. Once again, be concise: quality instead of quantity, pictures are worth 103 words, but feel free to write as much as you wish. Note:

 Due date: Tuesday October 2. We ask you to observe some protocols of format, and if you don’t know how to do these there will be a workshop session on the weekend before the due date to take you through it. Details to be announced. 

Assignment: Each student is to complete the following for one individual from the Modernist era: 

  1. A short description telling what the person did during his/her lifetime that made him/her go down in history.  This should include his/her profession, any major accomplishment (i.e. discovery or major work), and any big awards.
  2. A timeline of the person’s life prepared in a table format with the dates in the left column and the event in the right column.  It is imperative that you complete this part of the assignment in a table made in Word for compatibility with the Science and Modernism web site. An example is enclosed.
  3. 5-10 pictures from the individual’s life that are not already in the Photo Gallery on http://dbeveridge.web.wesleyan.edu/wescourses/2001f/chem160/01/photo_gall ery.htm (You may need to scan in pictures from books if you have trouble finding more pictures online)
  4. Links on the web that have good resources, especially associations that focus on the individual and sites that have multi-media resources within.  Once again, do not repeat the links that are on the links page of the course website.
  5. Most importantly, please include a complete list of all the sources used to complete this assignment.  This should be in the following format:

 William Everdell, The First Moderns, University of Chicago Press (1977).

If some information is taken from other websites, please be sure to include all of the information for the site as well including the full address; i.e. cite your sources properly.

       Additional Notes: The entire assignment must be handed in on a 3.5 inch IBM-compatible disc as well as in print. You may work in pairs or groups if you wish, but each student is responsible for one individual. Please note that the text you provide through this assignment will directly appear on the website with your byline.  Therefore, it is critical that the information submitted is thorough and accurate.  

  

“Who’s Who” Website Expansion Project: Sign Up Sheet

Please place your name next the individual that you would like to research for this project

Mathematicians:

  1. Georg Cantor                                                                                                              
  2. Richard Dedekind                                                                                                      
  3. Gottlob Frege                                                                                                             
  4. Bertrand Russell                                                                                                        

 

Physicists:

  1. Ludwig Boltzmann                                                                                                     
  2. Max Planck                                                                                                                
  3. Albert Einstein                                                                                                           
  4. Marie Curie                                                                                                                
  5. Ernest Rutherford                                                                                                       
  6. Niels Bohr                                                                                                                  
  7. Louis de Broglie                                                                                                        
  8. Erwin Schrodinger                                                                                                     

 

Biologists:

  1. Santiago Ramon y Cajal                                                                                             
  2. Hugo de Vries                                                                                                            
  3. Gregor Mendel                                                                                                           
  4. Charles Darwin                                                                                                          

 

Psychologists:                                                                                    

  1. Sigmund Freud                                                                                                           

 

Philosophers:                                                                                                                         

  1. Edmund Husserl                                                                                                         
  2. Henri Rousseau                                                                                                          

 

Painters:

  1. Georges Seurat                                                                                                           
  2. Pablo Picasso                                                                                                             
  3. Wassily Kandinsky                                                                                                     
  4. Paul Cezanne                                                                                                              

 

Poets:

  1. Walt Whitman                                                                                                            
  2. Arthur Rimbaud                                                                                                          
  3. Jules Laforgue                                                                                                            
  4. T.S. Eliot                                                                                                                    
  5. William Carlos Williams                                                                                           

 

Government/Military officials:

  1. Valeriano Weyler y Nicolau                                                                                      
  2. Guillaume Apollinaire                                                                                               
  3. Alfred Dreyfus                                                                                                           

 

Cinematographers:

  1. Edwin S. Porter                                                                                                          
  2. Eadweard Muybridge                                                                                                 
  3. Etienne-Jules Marey                                                                                                   

 

Playwrights:

  1. August Strindberg                                                                                                       
  2. Alfred Jarry                                                                                                                

 

Musicians:

  1. Arnold Schoenberg                                                                                                    
  2. Erik Satie                                                                                                                   
  3. Igor Stravinsky                                                                                                           

 

Authors:

  1. James Joyce                                                                                                               
  2. Marcel Proust                                                                                                             
  3. Colette                                                                                                                        

 

Dancers:

  1. Isadora Duncan                                                                                                          
  2. Martha Graham                                                                                                          

 

Sculptors:

  1. Camille Claudel