Francis Bacon

Name: Francis Bacon

Born: January 22, 1561, in Strand, London, England

Death: April 9, 1626 (Age: 65)

Computer-related contributions

• English philosopher, scientist, statesman, jurist, author, and orator.
• Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England.
• Called the creator of empiricism.
• He famously died by contracting pneumonia while studying the effects of freezing on the preservation of meat.

Significant publications

• Topical Inquisitions into Light and Luminosity (1625).
• Thoughts on the Nature of Things (1624).
• An Advertisement touching an Holy War (1623).
• The Colours of Good and Evil (1597).

Honors and awards

• Knighted (1603).

Quotes

"He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator."