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BitLearn: Piet Mondrian
Geometrical shapes and bright primary colors are the architecture of the most famous paintings by Piet Mondrian.
Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) was and is an incredibly influential modern abstract artist. His paintings hang in many of the most famous museums in New York, Chicago, London and Paris.
Mondrian had a lengthy painting career that was not always characterized by the straight lines, geometry and primary colors of his most famous “Neo-Plasticist” works, such as his Composition with Yellow, Blue and Red. Mondrian also painted in the naturalist and cubist style early in his career.
His well known neo-plasticism works were produced beginning in the early 1920s through the 1940s. One of his most famous, Broadway Boogie-Woogie, was produced in New York and hangs today in the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan.
Take some time to learn a bit more about Piet Mondrian with these additional resources -
BitQoute: Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Posted by Ari in History, Ideas, People, Quotations on October 20th, 2009
“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) Thirty Second President of the United States (1933-1945), Governor of New York (1929-1933), US Democratic Politician (1882 – 1945).
BitLearn: Robert C. Gallo, M.D.
Prominently know for his co-discovery of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), Robert C. Gallo, M.D. was also unfortunately left off of the recipient list for the nobel prize relating to the discovery.
Controversy over the discovery of the HIV virus was somewhat settled in the 1990s by scientists at the Institut Pasteur taking the credit for being the first ones to isolate HIV and Dr. Gallo and his peers taking the credit for linking it to Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS).
Dr. Gallo later published his discovery that chemo-kines may block the HIV virus and slow the progression of AIDS. In 1993, he wrote a bestseller entitled “Virus Hunting: Aids, Cancer, And The Human Retrovirus: A Story Of Scientific Discovery.”
Dr. Gallo is well known for his biomedical research related to viruses, particularly retroviruses. He is the director of the Institute of Human Virology at the University of Maryland in Baltimore.
Take some time to learn a bit more about Dr. Robert Gallo and his work with these resources -
- Institute of Human Virology - Robert Gallo – Article
- Wikipedia – Robert Gallo- Article
- About.com – The History of HIV - Article
- Aids.org – Interview with Dr. Robert Gallo – Article
Get a copy of Dr. Gallo’s Bestselling Book Here ->Virus Hunting: Aids, Cancer, And The Human Retrovirus: A Story Of Scientific Discovery
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