•Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration."

BIOGRAPHY

• Born February 11, 1847 Ohio, United States • Died October 18, 1931, New Jersey, United States• Occupation Inventor, scientist, businessman• Spouse Mary Stilwell (1871–1884) Mina Miller (1886–

1931)• Children Marion Estelle Edison (1873–1965)

Thomas Alva Edison Jr. (1876–1935) William Leslie Edison (1878–1937) Madeleine Edison (1888–1979) Charles Edison (1890–1969) Theodore Miller Edison (1898–1992)

• Parents Samuel Ogden Edison, Jr. (1804–1896)

Nancy Matthews Elliott (1810–1871)

Ludwig van beethoven• What you are, you are by accident of birth;

what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.

biography

• Born on : Dec 16, 1770

• Died on : March 26 1827

• Ludwig had two sisters, but they did not have any children.

• Only one of his four brothers had a child. The child was a boy, named Carl

ACHIEVEMENTS

• There are 138 pieces of music composed by Beethoven and numbered by himself or his publishers. These numbers are called Opus numbers.

• There are also 205 works without opus numbers. They were published after Beethoven's death and were numbered with WoO numbers (Werke ohne Opuszahl - Works without Opus number).

Helen keller• I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot

do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

BIOGRAPHY

• Born on : June 27, 1880

• Alabama USA

• Education : Bachelor Degree

• Works : 12 Books and several

• Articles.

• The Story of My Life (1983)

• Died on : June 1, 1968.

awards

• In 1999, Keller was listed in Gallup's Most Widely Admired People of the 20th Century.

• In 2003, Alabama honored its native daughter on its state quarter.[28]

• The Helen Keller Hospital in Sheffield, Alabama is dedicated to her.[29]

• There are streets named after Helen Keller in Getafe, Spain and Lod, Israel.[30]

Wilma rudolph• My doctor told me I would never walk

again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.

biography• Birth : June 23, 1940

• Tennesses

• Education : Bachelor Degree

• Spouse : Robert Eldridge

• Children : Yolanda

• Diuanna

• Robert Jr

• Xurry

• Death : Nov 12, 1994

awards• United Press Athlete of the Year 1960 • Associated Press Woman Athlete of the Year 1960 • James E. Sullivan Award for Good Sportsmanship 1961 * • The Babe Zaharias Award 1962 • European Sportswriters' Sportsman of the Year * • Christopher Columbus Award for Most Outstanding

International Sports Personality 1960* • The Penn Relays 1961 * • New York Athletic Club Track Meet * • The Millrose Games * • Black Sports Hall of Fame 1980 • U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame 1983 • Vitalis Cup for Sports Excellence 1983 • Women's Sports Foundation Award 1984

achievements

• Earned licence to fly at the age of 25. 10th October, 2008.

• Two Black Belts in Tace Kwan Do

• Degree in Psychology

• Career – Motivational Speaker.

quotes

• Handicaps are mindsets, whatever it is that stands in the way of achieving something, that's when it's a handicap. I prefer them as obstacles or challenges. This is how I've been my whole life, I don't know any different. I just live my life through my feet.”

• I think it does make a point and got me for a second, and I looked around.”

Stephen hawkin

• Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

biography

• Born January 1942 (age 68)• Birth place Oxford, England, UK England. • Residence UK British• Fields Applied mathematics

Theoretical physics Cosmology

• Institutions University of Cambridge Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

• Known for Black holes Theoretical cosmology Quantum gravity Hawking radiation

awards

• Wolf Prize (1988)Prince of Asturias Award (1989)Copley Medal (2006)Presidential Medal of Freedom (2009)

rajalakshmi

ACHIEVEMENTS

• Kalpana Chawla Awardee.