Few people below prove how their lives would have changed if they believed in themselves and be daring enough to live and market their talents.
In the same few people below very clearly prove by believing in themselves what remarkable things they developed (though people during their time might not acknowledge) and ultimately everyone recognized and valued their contributions.
Galileo Galilei
He was an Italian astronomer, physicist and much more. Died at the age of 77, he has written about kinematics, Dynamics, Heliocentrism, milky way and stars. He was house arrested until his death for his findings on heliocentrism and copernicanism.
Now he is termed as the father of modern science, father of modern physics and father of modern observational astronomy. He was buried in a small room next to novices’ chapel but when his studies have become famous and recognized, he was reburied after 95 years of his death and one of his right-hand fingers is still kept in “Museo Galileo” museum as a remembrance.
Vincent van Gogh
At the age of 37, this painter died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Till before his death, he could sell very few of his paintings and he was not quite famous as well.
After his death, several exhibitions have been conducted of his paintings and soon his paintings turned out to be the most expensive paintings ever sold, few of them sold for US$ 100 million and US$ 57 million.
Source: Wikipedia
Srinivasa Ramanujan
He was an Indian mathematician and autodidact. Died at the age of 32, he compiled nearly 3900 results and famous for mock theta functions, Ramanujan prime, Ramanujan conjecture and so on.
Till date few colleges in his hometown celebrate his birthday as Ramanujan Day, a postage stamp was released with his picture in 1962 and Indian government has declared his birthday as National Mathematics Day.
Source: Wikipedia
Emily Dickinson
She was an American poet. Dickinson remained a recluse while alive, and died in 1886 of Bright's disease. During her life, only seven of her poems were published. After her death, Dickinson's sister and two friends edited and published her work. In 1971, there was even an Emily Dickinson postage stamp to commemorate her work.
Source: Wikipedia
Gregor Mendel
He was a German scientist. Died at the age of 61, he is termed as the founder of the modern science of genetics. Mendel’s experiments established many rules of heredity, now referred to as the laws of Mendelian inheritance.
Source: Wikipedia
H. P. Lovecraft
He was an American author. Died at the age of 46 is now regarded as one of the most significant 20th-century authors in his horror fiction genre. He rarely went out in public and considers himself a recluse who will have very little to do with people wherever he may be. “The Call of Cthulhu”, “At the Mountains of Madness” are few of his famous works.
Source: Wikipedia
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