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== Are You Sure ==
 
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Latest revision as of 08:36, 19 March 2025

Better Than News

Beyond Plausible

In Other Words

Are You Sure

• ... that in 1896, Russian physicist Alexander Stepanovich Popov transmitted a message between campus buildings in St Petersburg via radio waves?

• ... that biochemist and crystallographer John Kendrew shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for chemistry with Max Perutz for determining the atomic structures of proteins using X-ray crystallography?

• ... that chemist, philosopher, educator, and clergyman Joseph Priestley is historically credited with the discovery of oxygen, having isolated it in its gaseous state; yet Priestly's determination to defend phlogiston theory and to reject what would become the chemical revolution left him isolated from the scientific community of his time?

• ... that the Rider-Waite Space Elevator is a space elevator based on the Ryder-Waite tarot deck?


Selected Anniversaries

<gallery> File:Joseph Priestley.jpg|link=Joseph Priestley (nonfiction)|1733: Chemist, philosopher, educator, and clergyman Joseph Priestley born. He will be historically been credited with the discovery of oxygen, having isolated it in its gaseous state, but his determination to defend phlogiston theory and to reject what would become the chemical revolution will leave him isolated within the scientific community.

File:Alexander Stepanovich Popov.jpg|link=Alexander Stepanovich Popov (nonfiction)|1896: Russian physicist Alexander Stepanovich Popov uses radio waves to transmit a message between different campus buildings in St Petersburg.

File:Paul Lorenzen.jpg|link=Paul Lorenzen (nonfiction)|1915: Mathematician and philosopher Paul Lorenzen born. Lorenzen will found the Erlangen School (with Wilhelm Kamlah), and invent game semantics (with Kuno Lorenz).

File:Myoglobin John Kendrew.jpg|link=John Kendrew (nonfiction)|1917: Biochemist and crystallographer John Kendrew born. Kendrew will share the 1962 Nobel Prize for chemistry with Max Perutz for determining the atomic structures of proteins using X-ray crystallography.

File:Ranger spacecraft.jpg|link=Ranger 9 (nonfiction)|1965: NASA spacecraft Ranger 9, equipped to convert its signals into a form suitable for showing on domestic television, brings images of the Moon into ordinary homes before crash landing.

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Topic of the Day

Star Wars