Notices by Stephen Sekula (steve) tagged onthisday
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Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Feb-2021 00:11:03 UTC Stephen Sekula
From AntarcticReport https://twitter.com/AntarcticReport on Twitter: Happy birthday McMurdo Station - 65 years old today! Established #OnThisDay #OTD in 1956 in the lead up to the 1957-58 International Geophysical Year (IGY). Logistics hub for the US Antarctic Program, its the largest scientific research center in #Antarctica @NSF https://twitter.com/AntarcticReport/status/1361642161205256192/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/70799 -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Jan-2021 22:40:48 UTC Stephen Sekula
From ValerieH137 https://twitter.com/ValerieH137 on Twitter: It was another snowy one @Fermilab #onthisday 31 years ago. Photo by former lab photographer Reidar Hahn. https://twitter.com/ValerieH137/status/1354140546105802752/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/70513 -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Monday, 14-Dec-2020 02:00:47 UTC Stephen Sekula
From AntarcticReport https://twitter.com/AntarcticReport on Twitter: The South Pole finally reached! #OnThisDay #OTD in 1911 Amundsen and four companions became the first humans to stand at 90South, placing a tent they called Polheim (Home of the Pole) with the flag of Norway. They left a letter inside for Scott, which he found five weeks later https://twitter.com/AntarcticReport/status/1338180626910887939/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/69856 -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Saturday, 03-Oct-2020 00:50:50 UTC Stephen Sekula
From ValerieH137 https://twitter.com/ValerieH137 on Twitter: #OnThisDay 47 years ago: delivery and installation of a new computer at @Fermilab's Wilson Hall. https://twitter.com/ValerieH137/status/1312097516704403459/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/68091 -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Friday, 03-Jul-2020 16:11:04 UTC Stephen Sekula
From BrookhavenLab https://twitter.com/BrookhavenLab on Twitter: #OnThisDay in 1999, a particle beam made the first complete lap around one of #RHIC's two accelerator rings. #RHIC20 https://twitter.com/BrookhavenLab/status/1279083240477855746/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/65882 -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2020 23:50:45 UTC Stephen Sekula
From ValerieH137 https://twitter.com/ValerieH137 on Twitter: #OnThisDay 28 years ago: @Fermilab's CDF detector with muon chambers in the foreground. https://twitter.com/ValerieH137/status/1214967112260837378/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/62781 -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Saturday, 19-Oct-2019 13:00:56 UTC Stephen Sekula
From NobelPrize https://twitter.com/NobelPrize on Twitter: #OnThisDay in 1900, Max Planck produced his law of black body emission, Plancks law. Planck's law (coloured curves) accurately described black body radiation and resolved the ultraviolet catastrophe (black curve) a prediction of late 19th/early 20th century classical physics. https://twitter.com/NobelPrize/status/1185507386951458816/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/61950 -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Friday, 13-Sep-2019 13:50:52 UTC Stephen Sekula
From RAS_Diversity https://twitter.com/RAS_Diversity on Twitter: Irene Joliot-Curie, French chemist who shared the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, becoming the second woman to ever win the Prize, was born #OnThisDay in 1897 #OTD #DiversityandInclusion #WomenInSTEM #WomenInScience #RocketWomen https://twitter.com/RAS_Diversity/status/1172029606045659137/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/61320 -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Tuesday, 21-May-2019 20:31:08 UTC Stephen Sekula
From ValerieH137 https://twitter.com/ValerieH137 on Twitter: #OnThisDay 26 years ago: @Fermilab's Proton Pagoda. You can learn more about this structure, which opened in 1976, here: https://history.fnal.gov/proton.html https://twitter.com/ValerieH137/status/1130509510832009216/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/57911 -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Sunday, 31-Mar-2019 15:00:50 UTC Stephen Sekula
From NobelPrize https://twitter.com/NobelPrize on Twitter: The youngest person awarded a Nobel Prize in the sciences (so far) - Lawrence Bragg was born #OnThisDay in 1890. Together with his father William Bragg, he was awarded the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics for their discoveries within the scientific field of X-ray crystallography. https://twitter.com/NobelPrize/status/1112256214921035776/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/56445 -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Sunday, 25-Nov-2018 23:11:25 UTC Stephen Sekula
From NobelPrize https://twitter.com/NobelPrize on Twitter: Nearly a decade after the foundation of special relativity, @AlbertEinstein submitted his paper 'The Field Equations of Gravitation' for publication #OnThisDay in 1915, which gave the correct field equations for the theory of general relativity. https://twitter.com/NobelPrize/status/1066708149942521858/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/52927 -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Saturday, 21-Jul-2018 11:41:22 UTC Stephen Sekula
From NobelPrize https://twitter.com/NobelPrize on Twitter: There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. Ernest Hemingway, born #OnThisDay in 1899, is one of the world's most influential writers. https://twitter.com/NobelPrize/status/1020568062196625409/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/51414 -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jan-2018 15:01:38 UTC Stephen Sekula
From royalsociety https://twitter.com/royalsociety on Twitter: It was #onthisday 1610, Italian polymath Galileo Galilei observed the 3 largest moons of Jupiter for the first time. He discovered the fourth on 13 January. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei?utm_source=social&utm_medium=hootsuite&utm_campaign=standard https://twitter.com/royalsociety/status/949936202798465024/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/47034 -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Monday, 25-Dec-2017 12:51:35 UTC Stephen Sekula
From royalsociety https://twitter.com/royalsociety on Twitter: Sir Isaac Newton FRS, one of the foremost scientific minds of all time, was born #onthisday in 1642 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton?utm_source=social_media&utm_medium=hootsuite&utm_campaign=standard https://twitter.com/royalsociety/status/945218854539710464/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/46262 -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Sunday, 10-Dec-2017 22:11:44 UTC Stephen Sekula
From Twitter https://twitter.com/: British mathematician Ada Lovelace, regarded as the world's first computer programmer, born #onthisday https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace?utm_source=social_media&utm_medium=hootsuite&utm_campaign=standard #WomenInSTEM https://twitter.com/royalsociety/status/939963121803956227/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/45188 -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Monday, 20-Nov-2017 15:31:41 UTC Stephen Sekula
From Twitter https://twitter.com/: Happy birthday to #astronomer Edwin Hubble, who proved other #galaxies exist beyond our own, born #OnThisDay, 1889 https://www.biography.com/people/edwin-hubble-9345936 https://twitter.com/SandiaLabs/status/932626729213894663/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/43415 -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Saturday, 11-Nov-2017 16:51:30 UTC Stephen Sekula
From Twitter https://twitter.com/: It was #onthisday in 1675, Gottfried Leibniz demonstrated integral calculus for the first time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottfried_Wilhelm_Leibniz?utm_source=social_media&utm_medium=hootsuite&utm_campaign=standard https://twitter.com/royalsociety/status/929348554484830209/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/42670 -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Aug-2017 22:11:26 UTC Stephen Sekula
From Twitter https://twitter.com/: The great physicist & experimentalist, Ernest Rutherford FRS, was born #onthisday in 1871 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Rutherford?utm_source=social_media&utm_medium=hootsuite&utm_campaign=standard https://twitter.com/royalsociety/status/902984475650523136/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/40331 -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Sunday, 20-Aug-2017 17:21:26 UTC Stephen Sekula
From Twitter https://twitter.com/: #OnThisDay 1858 Charles Darwin's book On the Origins of Species was 1ST published and became an instant bestseller https://www.theguardian.com/science/2008/feb/09/darwin.bestseller -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Aug-2017 17:31:42 UTC Stephen Sekula
From Twitter https://twitter.com/: The first evidence of antimatter, the positron, was discovered #OnThisDay 1932 by the physicist Carl D. Anderson (Physics 1936) #NobelPrize https://twitter.com/NobelPrize/status/892714793047601152/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/38023