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Romantic artist, works embraced the imagination as “the body of God” or “human existence itself”, mystical elements, deities, universe
William Blake
An English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist {1796 first oil painting}. Imaginative landscapes, turbulent/violent marine paintings. chromatic palette, atmospheric washes of paint. shipwrecks, fires, natural phenomena: sunlight, storm, rain, fog
fascination: power of the sea
Josehp Mallord William Turner
Revolution in religious art – Holy Land – studying archeological evidence – clothing, appearance, etc. – biblical scenes as accurate as possible
William Hunt
love as the most important subject
Rosetti
paintings of landscapes, people, wildlife of Scotland – picture of Scotland for others in the UK – high in demand
Edwin Landseer
Aesthetic Movement
Oscar Wilde, Whistler, Rossetti, Leighton
Classical Revival. medieval themes: Arthurian legend, religious themes
excuse to paint idealized figures/scenes – avoid reflecting the reality of industrial Britain
scenes of Ancient Rome, scenes from Ancient Greece
emphasis on passivity and internal drama
worked primarily in bright colours
Lawrence Alma-Tadema
free schooling for poor children
John Pounds
1970 - more comprehensive schools were established -the Secretary of State for Education in the new Conservative government
Margaret Thatcher
1918 empowered the local authorities to levy a rate (tax) to finance technical colleges
the Fisher Act
a self-selected association of twenty-four public research universities. its members - the UK’s most prestigious universities
Russell Group
provided a theory to explain why species evolved, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (1859), „survival of the fittest“
Charles Darwin
penicilin
studied influenza (гріпп)
Alexander Fleming
1945 discovered the atomic structure of penicillin
1954 discovered the structure of vitamin B12
revealed the structure of insulin
Dorothy Hodgkin
discovery of images of molecular structures of DNA
Rosalind Franklin
theoretical prediction that black holes emit radiation (Hawking radiation), theory of cosmology explained by the union of the general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics, A Brief History of Time (1988)
Stephen Hawking
inventor of the World Wide Web, implemented the first successful communication between a HTTP (hypertext transfer protocol) client and server via the Internet
Sir Tim Berners-Lee
expert on chimpanzees
Tanzania research, 1960s
observed human-like behaviours amongst chimpanzees
Jane Goodall
successfully broke the challenging German Enigma machine codes
development of theoretical computer science (concepts of algorithm and computation – the Turing machine – model of a general-purpose computer)
father of artificial intelligence
Alan Turing
1902 invention of Tarmac - asphalt
Hooley
1907 electroluminescence (principle behind LEDs)
Round
1928 first colour television
Baird
1930 jet engine - реактивний двигун
Sir Frank Whittle
1964 the first theory of the Higgs boson
Higgs
1966 patents the cash machine and PIN
Goodfellow
1976 develops the first Lithium ion battery
Whittingham
1976 develops the first Lithium ion battery
Whittingham
1996 first mammal cloned (a sheep)
Roslin Institute