Calendar 2015

2015 Calendar GREAT MINDS

Welcome to the 2015 Graduate Union Calendar This calendar celebrates knowledge focusing on some of the world's most accomplished scholars and innovators.

As each new month arrives we hope that you enjoy learning a bit more about these unique people and, of course, that you are inspired by their stories and work.

Members, please go to the page after December for a host of vouchers to be cut out and used to experience the benefits of The Graduate Union.

From all of us here at The Graduate Union, we hope that 2015 is a good year for you.

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The Graduate Union is a membership association, a residential college and a meeting place for graduates of all universities, ages, life stages, disciplines and countries.

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ZORA HURSTON D.O.B: JANUARY 7, 1891 Acclaimed author of over fifty published short stories, plays and essays, Zora Hurston was a prominent writer in the early twentieth century, particularly in the 1920s, a period known as the Harlem Renaissance in New York City.

Hurston is perhaps best known for her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God which was written during her travels to the Caribbean and South America. Throughout her journey, she took a sharp interest in folklore and anthropology which she used to enhance her writing in later articles.

MICHIO KAKU

D.O.B: JANUARY 24, 1947 Michio Kaku is the Henry Semat Professor of Theoretical Physics at City College of New York. A futurist and a communicator of science, he is best known for his book Hyperspace and as a key proponent of light-cone string field theory.

As part of his research into physics, Kaku has written more than seventy scientific articles, as well as several books in an effort to increase the accessibility of science. He has become somewhat of a celebrity within the science community, explaining complex theories and concepts in ways the layperson can understand.

SAVITRIBAI PHULE

D.O.B: JANUARY 3, 1831 Savitribai Phule was a significant contributer to women's rights in India, fighting for social reform and education for women. Encouraged by her husband to study, she later became the first female teacher in India after establishing the first school for girls in 1848. By 1951 she was running three schools with over 150 students.

Phule spent the later years of her life helping those affected by famine and the plague, eventually leading to her death.

Phule's most notable publications included a collection of poems titled Kavya Phule.

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ADRIENNE DIANE LEMAIRE

D.O.B: FEBRUARY 2, 1923 Adrienne Lemaire was a leading aeronautical engineer and the first woman to graduate in Engineering from The University of Melbourne.

After her degree, Ms Lemaire was sent to England for a two-year assignment in the aerodynamics department of the Royal Aircraft Establishment before leaving to pursue a master’s degree in aeronautical engineering at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. She eventually became a principal research scientist working on low speed wind tunnels, as well as pursuing her interest in breeding Lhasa Apso dogs.

EPICURUS

D.O.B: FEBRUARY 341 BC Epicurus was a Greek philosopher and founder of the Epicurean School of thought. He spent two years in the military before leaving to studying the teachings of Democritus under Nausiphanes before starting his own teaching career. He developed a basic philosophy as a reaction to Platonism, and an opposition to stoicism. The main purpose of Epicureanism was to live a happy and tranquil life free from worry and pain.

Most of Epicurus’ three hundred written works have been lost over time. His philosophies and teachings have been ascertained from the work of his disciples.

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NORMAN BORLAUG

D.O.B: MARCH 25, 1914 Norman Borlaug was an American agriculturist and biologist who started studying forestry at the University of Minnesota. He later moved to Mexico to study genetic mutation where he was successful in developing disease-resistant wheat.

OTTO HAHN

D.O.B: MARCH 8, 1879 Otto Hahn was a chemist and researcher who pioneered the fields of radiochemistry and radioactivity. He studied chemistry at The University of Marburg before moving to London and later Montreal, where he discovered radiothorium and radioactinium.

Upon returning to Germany, he became keenly interested in uranium, and, assisted by radiochemist Fritz Strassman, discovered nuclear fission. For this, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1944. His discovery indirectly helped the development of the Manhatten Project.

These new wheat varieties transformed agricultural production in Mexico and later in Asia, Pakistan and India. The resultant increases in yield eventually saved over a billion people from starvation and are said to have been a factor in averting a war between India and Pakistan. The “Green Revolution� earned Norman Borlaug the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1970.

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MARCUS AURELIUS

D.O.B: APRIL 26, 121 AD Marcus Aurelius stood as a Roman Emperor from 161 – 180 AD alongside his brother Verus.

His campaign, marked by war and disease, included the Parthian War and constant conflict with German tribes.

Aside from this military career, Aurelius is known for his collection of personal writings on stoic philosophy. Named Meditations, these twelve books were a vault for his thoughts and reflections on self-analysis and self-improvement. They are a philosophy of duty, describing how to find and preserve composure in the midst of conflict by following nature as a source of guidance and inspiration.

MAYA ANGELOU

D.O.B: APRIL 4, 1928 Over her life, Maya Angelou's occupations included civil rights activist, historian and performer. She wrote, produced, directed, and starred in productions for stage, film, and television which included writing and producing the original score for the film Georgia Georgia.

Angelou is most famous for producing six autobiographies depicting her childhood and early adulthood. The book I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings made her the first African American person to produce a nonfiction best seller. Adding to her skills as a writer, she was also a famous poet, writing and delivering a poem for the inauguration of President Bill Clinton.

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D.O.B: MAY 16, 1718 Maria Agnesi was an Italian philosopher and mathematician throughout the 18th Century. She mastered several languages by her eleventh birthday and by the age of twenty had published Propositiones Philosophicae, a series of essays on philosophy and natural science. Agnesi’s best-known work is Instituzioni Analitiche ad uso della Gioventù Italiana. This publication earned her such repute that she was appointed by Pope Benedict XIV to the chair of mathematics and natural philosophy and physics at Bologna. She turned down the position and subsequently devoted her life to the less fortunate.

D.O.B: MAY 15, 1937 Madeleine Albright stands as the first woman to be appointed as the Secretary of State of the United States of America after spending three years as the United States’ representative at the United Nations. She held the position of Secretary of State for several years under the Clinton administration before leaving to pursue other interests. Since 2001, she has written a number books including her own autobiography, and is currently teaching at Georgetown University.

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JÜRGEN HABERMAS

D.O.B: JUNE 18, 1929 A German philosopher and sociologist identified with critical social theory and pragmatism, Jürgen Habermas is ranked as one of the most influential philosophers in the world.

In 1954, after studying at the Universities of Bonn, Göttingen and Zürich, he received a PhD in Philosophy with a dissertation on the works of Friedrich Schelling. He later moved to the University of Frankfurt where he became the Chair of Philosophy and Sociology.

Positivism influenced Habermas to recast his work to social and political theory, constitutional law, historical sociology, the history of philosophy and the philosophy of language. He wrote numerous papers, contributions to journals, periodicals, newspapers and books including his famed Theory and Practice.

“…equip yourself for life, not solely for your own benefit but for the benefit of the whole community.”

GENERAL SIR JOHN MONASH

D.O.B: JUNE 27, 1865 Sir John Monash was a man of wide ranging intellect and influence. Graduating from The University of Melbourne in arts, law and engineering, by 1895 he had also qualified as a municipal surveyor, an engineer of water supply and a patent attorney.

Having joined The University of Melbourne company of the 4th Battalion and worked his way up the ranks while undertaking his degrees, by 1913 Monash was in command of the 13th Infantry Brigade. With the outbreak of World War I, he entered active service, leading infantries in Gallipoli and France and earning a knighthood from King George V as one of WWI's most outstanding commanders.

Sir Monash is known as Australia's 'bridge builder'. He brought projects and people together in war and in peace.

Monash University and the M1 freeway are named in his honour. The Graduate Union is proud that Sir Monash was a founding member of the Graduates Association in 1911.

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GOTTFRIED WILHELM VON LEIBNIZ D.O.B: JULY 1, 1646

Gottfried Von Leibniz is perhaps most famous for his refinement of the binary system which exists as the foundation of digital devices and computer programs used today. He was a keen philosopher and mathematician, as well as a scholar of natural science, history, politics, jurisprudence, economics, theology and philology. In parallel with Sir Isaac Newton, he discovered the new mathematical method called calculus.

As a philosopher, von Leibniz was an advocate of rationalism.

His philosophical approach was laid out in notes, letters and short essays rather than in published books and, as such, did not receive much notice until after his death.

JOCELYN BELL BURNELL

D.O.B: JULY 15, 1943

From an early age, Jocelyn Burnell had a keen interest in astronomy. She went on to study physics at Glasgow University and radioastronomy at the University of Cambridge where she was a research assistant to Professor Anthony Hewish. Her work at Cambridge helped build an enormous radio telescope to study quasars, ultimately leading to the discovery of cosmic sources of peculiar radio pulses or pulsars.

Her later academic career involved lecturing at several universities, including being appointed as Dean of Science at the University of Bath. She was promoted to Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2007.

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LEE DE FOREST

D.O.B: AUGUST 26, 1873 Lee De Forest was an inventor credited as one of the fathers of the electronic age.

In 1906 he notably designed the Audion Vacuum Tube.

The Tube made live radio broadcasting possible and was the integral part of all radio, telephone, radar, television and computer systems. Through the use of this invention De Forest found a way also to record sound on film.

He died in 1961 with over 180 patents to his name and the title “The Father of Radio."

"I discovered an Invisible Empire of the Air, intangible, yet solid as granite."

ERNEST RUTHERFORD

D.O.B: AUGUST 30, 1871 Known as the father of nuclear physics, Ernest Rutherford devised the code names for alpha, beta and gamma rays while studying uranium radiation at the University of Cambridge. Rutherford left Cambridge in 1902 to take up a professorship at McGill University where he made the groundbreaking discovery that nearly the entire mass of an atom is concentrated in a nucleus, and fashioned the concept of radioactive half-life.

For these discoveries he received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Rutherford later discovered out how to split the nucleus in a controlled manner and devoted the rest of his scientific career to nuclear reactions.

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D.O.B: SEPTEMBER 16, 1950 Henry Louis Gates Junior is a preeminent scholar in the field of African-American literature. After studying at Yale and Cambridge Universities, he began working on the Black Periodical Literature Project. His quest to broaden the discourse on African-American literature led him and his colleagues to amass more then forty thousand texts by writers of African descent in America. Gates is the author of several works of literary criticism including Figures in Black: Words, The Racial Self and The Signifying Monkey: Towards a Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism. He has edited several more in the promotion of his theory of education reform.

D.O.B: SEPTEMBER 28, 1872 From an early age, David Unaipon showed a strong interest in education, and later became a spokesperson for Indigenous Australian rights. He was an inventor, most notably of an improved shearing machine that, like his nineteen other inventions, failed to get patented due to lack of funding. In 1930, Unaipon became the first Indigenous Australian writer to be published. This came about after several years of collecting Aboriginal stories which made up his book Myths and Legends of the Australian Aboriginals. He also produced an autobiography alongside a collection of books and poems. For his life of achievements, Unaipon was awarded the Coronation Medal in 1953 and became the face of the Australian fifty dollar note.

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MARCIA LANGTON

D.O.B: OCTOBER 31, 1951 Marcia Langton is one of Australia’s foremost Aboriginal scholars publishing extensively on indigenous issues such as land rights, gender and identity, resource management and the social impacts of development. She has worked with several organisations dealing with indigenous social and cultural issues and land claims. Her advocacy of Aboriginal rights earned her the Order of Australia in 1993. She is currently Foundation Chair in Australian Indigenous Studies at The University of Melbourne.

“The racialised Aboriginal citizen is an unacceptable and inappropriate replacement for the absence of the Aboriginal person that our Constitution required for six decades.”

EVANGELISTA TORRICELLI

D.O.B: OCTOBER 15, 1608 Evangelista Torricelli was sent at an early age to be educated by his uncle, a monk, until he was old enough to learn mathematics at the Collegio di Sapienza. At this college, Torricelli spent many years corresponding with Galileo and writing his book Opera Geometrica (1644) within which was De Motu Gravium, an important, albeit impractical, treatise in the history of hydrodynamics. His writing earned him an invitation to Florence by Galileo; and after Galileo's death, Torricelli succeeded him as Grand-Ducal Mathematician and Professor of Mathematics at the Florentine Academy. He made important contributions to calculus and to theories of hydraulics and dynamics; and is best known for his invention of the barometer.

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HEDY LAMARR

D.O.B: NOVEMBER 9, 1914 Hedy Lamarr was a multi-talented Hollywood actress best known for her work as a movie star during MetroGoldwyn Mayer’s ‘Golden Age’ in the 1930s and 40s. In addition to starring in over thirty films and television series, Lamarr was also an inventor. Along with avantgarde composer George Antheil, she developed a “secret communication system” in an attempt to help the war effort. Known today as spread spectrum communication techniques, Lamarr helped invent the technology that has made wireless phones, GPS systems and many other communication devices possible.

JUANA INÉS DE LA CRUZ

D.O.B: NOVEMBER 12, 1651 Juana Ines de la Cruz was a 17th century nun, self-taught scholar and acclaimed writer of the Spanish Baroque who played a lead role in the then developing history of Mexican literature. Her poetic works were controversial at the time, setting precedents for feminism long before the philosophy was popularised.

De la Cruz is proclaimed for her Repuesta which defends a women’s right to fully participate in scholastic inquiry.

MARIE CURIE

D.O.B: NOVEMBER 7, 1867 Marie Curie spent her life studying radioactivity, which led to her demise in 1934. She began her studies at Sorbonne University where she ended up teaching as a professor later in her career after her husband Pierre Curie's death.

Marie Curie’s most notable achievement came from her collaboration with her husband Pierre Curie and their investigation of a substance called pitchblende. From this they isolated the elements polonium and radium which won them half the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903, making her the first woman to win a Nobel prize. In 1911, Curie received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, making her the only person who has ever won Nobel Prizes in both physics and chemistry.

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CHARLES DUCANGE

D.O.B: DECEMBER 18, 1610 Charles Ducange studied and practiced law before taking the office of Treasurer of France. He was known as an energetic man and dedicated scholar, whose passion for knowledge could only be rivaled by his love for his family, of which he was the head.

Ducange’s most important work is his Glossarium mediae et infimae Latinitatis which he wrote in Paris, 1678. The glossary gave distinction between medieval Latin and Greek, and their classical forms. It remains a relevant text in the field of philology to this day and marks the beginning of the study of the historical development of languages.

NOAM CHOMSKY

D.O.B: DECEMBER 7, 1928 “The Father of Modern Linguistics”, Noam Chomsky is renowned as a philosopher, linguist and cognitive scientist who holds that linguistics and grammar are inherently human and that unique biological traits in a human brain allow for language. His grammatically correct but meaningless sentences demonstrated the distinction between syntax and semantics, and debunked probabilistic models prevalent in the 1950s. Chomsky's theories have influenced not just the field of linguistics, but also the fields of mathematics and analytics.

Chomsky has been serving as an honorary member of The International Association of Professional Translators and Interpreters since 2009.

“Colourless green ideas sleep furiously.”

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