Influential People

I recently made a top ten list about the most influential people in the last millennium. In my list, I had names such as Christopher Columbus, Johannes Gutenberg and Henry Ford. Making my top three was very difficult when I have other names like William Shakespeare. But when I made my decision, I was really satisfied with my choices. I chose Dr. Martin Luther King as number three, Albert Einstein as number two and Isaac Newton as number one.
I asked myself, why Dr. King so deserving to be number three on the most influential people in the last millennium. He was the prominent leader in the African American civil rights movement. In March of 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man and was arrested for her actions and also caused The Montgomery Bus Boycott planned by Nixon and led by King. King was arrested during this campaign which ended with a United States District Court ruling in Browder v. Gayle that ended in all racial segregation on all Montgomery public buses. In 1964, King became the youngest to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his work to end racial segregations and racial discrimination. King probably has the most famous speech in American history called “I Have a Dream.” In that speech he expresses his desire for a future where white and blacks would coexist as equals.
Albert Einstein is best known for his theory of relativity and specifically mass-energy equivalence, expressed by the very famous equation E = mc2. Similar to Dr. King, Einstein received a Nobel Prize but in Physics. He received the award for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect. Einsetin has many contributions to physics including; the special theory of relativity, the first post-Newtonian expansion, explaining the perihelion advance of the planet Mercury, and the geometrization of fundamental physics. In 1999, Time Magazine named Einstein, “The Person of the Century.” Einstein created the atomic bomb and wrote a letter to President Roosevelt urging him about this such nuclear weapon.
Sir Issac Newton is most famous for the three laws of motion which changed the scientific view of the physical universe for the next three centuries. He investigated the refraction of light demonstarting that a prism could decompose white light into a spectrum of colours. Newton showed the motion of objects on Earth. Here are Newton’s famous three laws of motion; the first law states that an object at rest tends to stay at rest and that an object in uniform motion tends to stay in uniform motion unless acted upon by a net external force. Newton’s second law states that an applied force on an object equals the rate of change of its momentum with time. Newton’s third law states that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. This means that any force exerted onto an object has a counterpart force that is exerted in the opposite direction back onto the first object. Newton himself often told that story that he was inspired to formulate his theory of gravitation by watching the fall of an apple from a tree