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2 days ago · William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, OM, GCVO, PC, FRS, FRSE (26 June 1824 – 17 December 1907) [7] was a British mathematician, mathematical physicist and engineer born in Belfast. [8] He was the professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Glasgow for 53 years, where he undertook significant research and mathematical analysis of ...
3 days ago · Niels Bohr. Niels Henrik David Bohr ( Danish: [ˈne̝ls ˈpoɐ̯ˀ]; 7 October 1885 – 18 November 1962) was a Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. Bohr was also a philosopher and a promoter of scientific research.
2 days ago · Adolf Hitler forbade four Germans, Richard Kuhn (Chemistry, 1938), Adolf Butenandt (Chemistry, 1939), Gerhard Domagk (Physiology or Medicine, 1939) and Carl von Ossietzky (Peace, 1936) from accepting their Nobel Prizes. The Chinese government forbade Liu Xiaobo from accepting his Nobel Prize (Peace, 2010) [9] and the government of the Soviet ...
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2 days ago · In 1820, John Herapath (1790–1868), proposed a paper introducing a kinetic theory of gases to the Royal Society of London who rejected his largely correct treatment. In 1845, another young scientist, John James Waterston (1811–1883) introduced a more rigorous paper on the kinetic theory of gases. The Royal Society rejected it, too.
1 day ago · This month sees the publication of Lichenpedia, “an illustrated mini-encyclopedia about the weird and wonderful world of lichens”.There are a few facts that often get repeated about lichens, including that they’re a symbiosis between a fungus and an alga, and that when a tree is covered in lichen, it can indicate that air pollution levels are low.
1 day ago · In 2007, physicist Paul Davies wrote an opinion article for the New York Times with the title, “Taking Science on Faith.” He wrote: [T]o be a scientist, you had to have faith that the universe is governed by dependable, immutable, absolute, universal, mathematical laws of an unspecified origin. . . . Clearly, then, both religion […]
5 days ago · John N. Thompson. Distinguished Research Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz. Contributions to understanding how coevolution shapes ecological web of life over time and space. Identified major patterns and processes in ways that species coevolve with their parasites, predators, and mutualists ...
