Internet exercise. What did these people do? Use a search engine (e.g. Google) to find out the answers, if necessary.

Solution:

1. Alexander Fleming: discovered penicillin.
2. Giuseppe Verdi: composed operas.
3. Rembrandt van Rijn: painted portraits.
4. Edmund Whymper: climbed the Matterhorn.
5. Mary Shelley: wrote 'Frankenstein'.
6. Stephanie Kwolek: invented Kevlar.
7. Christopher Wren: designed St Paul's Cathedral.
8. Akira Kurosawa: directed films.