Famous People in Education

A good teacher knows how to bring out best from his students. A teacher’s success is measured only with the success of his students. When a student leaves a school or college, what he takes away is a connection with his teacher who was successful at instilling inspiration and passion for a subject. Success cannot be measured, and in the world of education, teachers are responsible for re-evaluating the quantification of learning. These inspiring stories of famous people in education will tell you about some people who were successful at reaching their students.

  • First Woman to Win Abel Prize: Dr. Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck
    Norway's world-renowned mathematician Marius Sophus Lie was the first eager promoter of establishing an Abel Prize. In his last few years, he gathered support for establishing a fund for Abel Prize for outstanding work in pure Mathematics every five years. However, the sup...

  • Donna Strickland Story
    In 1903, Marie Curie née Maria Sklodowska became the first-ever woman to win a Nobel Prize in Physics. The Polish and naturalized French Physicist was recognized for her co-discovery of radiation. For the next 60 years, no women Physicist were awarded until 1963. German...

  • DR. CHRISTINE BLASEY FORD
    3rd October 2018: The archaic meaning of the word ‘Success’ is ‘the good or bad outcome of an undertaking’, while as a noun, it is generally described as ‘the accomplishment of an aim or purpose’. In the case of the alleged sexual...
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    The Imperial Grandmother of Performance Art: Marina Abramovic Story
    Profile The purpose of art has always been to express a wide variety of concepts and emotions that confront the human condition. In the annals of art history, many artistic disciplines have emer...
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    Simon James Harris Story
    Profile Simon Harris James is more than just a usual co-inventor. If you have read profiles of the top code breakers and pros in pattern recognition, James Harris Simon won't probably miss out on the list of experts. The 78-year-old mathematician doubles as a h...
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    Vera Rubin Story
    Profile Vera Rubin is an American astronomer known for her pioneering studies on galaxy rotation rates. She made several remarkable contributions to our understanding of physics and astronomy. ...

  • Tomas Lindahl Success Story
    Profile Tomas Robert Lindahl is a Swedish scientist, and a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in the year 2015. Mr Lindahl focuses on Cancer research.He along with Turkish Chemist Aziz Sancar and American Chemist Paul L. Modrich...

  • Aziz Sancar Success Story
    Profile Aziz Sancar, recipient of the Nobel prize in Chemistry in 2015, is a Turkish-American biochemist and molecular biologist specializing in DNA repair, the circadian clock and cell cycle checkpoints. Not...

  • Zaha Hadid: The Most Important Female Architect of our Time
    Profile Zaha Hadid was an Iraqi-British architect. She is the first woman receiver of Pritzker Architecture Prize. Her design of the Heydar Aliyev Cultural Centre won the Design Museum Design of the Year Award. She has also won the RIBA Gold Medal in 2015, thus bec...

  • James Hansen Story
    James Hansen is an esteemed adjunct professor from America. At present, he professes at Columbia University in the department of Earth & Environmental Sciences. The former head of NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Hansen is famous as “father of global warming...

  • Hans Bethe
    Synopsis Hans Bethe was an esteemed German & American Nobel Prize winner nuclear physicist who is renowned for significant contributions in solid-state physics, astrophysics, quantum electrodynamics and of course stellar nucleosynthesis. Childh...

  • Terence Tao
    Synopsis Terence Tao is an award winning Australia-born Chinese mathematician. Though he was worked in different mathematical aspects yet his primary focus has been on- harmonic analysis, algebraic combinatorics, partial differential equations, geometric combinator...

Whether it’s about teaching a new topic or revising a chapter, a successful teacher has a sense of purpose, and can see the bigger picture beyond the boring and hard lessons. Sometimes, he may not bring 100% results from the students, but teachers know not to rely on instant gratification. Instilling education is a messy endeavor, more like nurturing a plant. It will take time, and a little dirt too, in order to grow. A successful teacher also knows that it is important to keep a balance between listening to his students, and ignoring them. A teacher should listen to his students when necessary, but should ignore them if they are going in the wrong direction.

A successful teacher needs to have a positive attitude, as negativity can zap creativity and increase risk of failure. He should have a cheerful mood, with a sense of energy and vitality. He should have confidence in his students, and put stock on their abilities. Here, you will read some inspiring stories of famous people in education who set the bars high for their students.