Notices tagged with otd
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From mcnees https://twitter.com/mcnees on Twitter: Physicist Marietta Blau was born #OTD in 1894. She pioneered the use of nuclear emulsion plates for particle detection, and discovered "disintegration stars" produced by cosmic rays interacting with nuclei in the plates. Photo: Agnes Rodhe https://twitter.com/mcnees/status/1387778911107534856/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/71831
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From JLab_News https://twitter.com/JLab_News on Twitter: #OTD in 1891 Soviet physicist Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov was born in Moscow.. Vavilov was known for his works with luminescence. In 1934, he co-discovered the Vavilov-Cherenkov effect, which garnered Pavel Cherenkov a #NobelPrize in Physics in 1958. https://twitter.com/JLab_News/status/1374704556223967237/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/71479
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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
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From mcnees https://twitter.com/mcnees on Twitter: Carl Sagan passed away #OTD in 1996. In his final interview he left us with two messages that are still relevant today: one emphasizing the importance of a science literate public, the other a warning about how hard it is to extract ourselves when weve been conned. https://twitter.com/mcnees/status/1340697644545531904/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/69931
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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
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From PhysicsToday https://twitter.com/PhysicsToday on Twitter: Astronomer Vera Rubin, whose measurements of galactic rotation curves confirmed the existence of dark matter, was born #OTD 1928. In 2006 she wrote in Physics Today about how that pivotal work came to be http://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.2435662
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From JLab_News https://twitter.com/JLab_News on Twitter: Born #OTD in 1918, Abraham Pais, whose ideas culminated in the discovery of the existence of strange quarks inside subatomic particles, such as those we study at #JLab! https://twitter.com/JLab_News/status/1262865121145225216/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/65276
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From mcnees https://twitter.com/mcnees on Twitter: "That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives." Carl Sagan Voyager 1 captured the "Pale Blue Dot" image thirty years ago, #OTD in 1990. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech https://twitter.com/mcnees/status/1228313717798035457/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/63100
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From NobelPrize https://twitter.com/NobelPrize on Twitter: The original publication on graphene was published #OTD in 2004. The discovery of the material - incredibly thin yet strong and able to conduct heat and electricity - led to a Nobel Prize for authors Konstantin Novoselov and Andre Geim. https://twitter.com/NobelPrize/status/1186626513732587521/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/61999
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From NobelPrize https://twitter.com/NobelPrize on Twitter: "It is inevitable that many ideas of the young mind will later have to give way to the hard realities of life." Remembering Felix Bloch, born #OTD in 1905 and awarded the 1952 Physics Prize for developing methods for precise measurement. https://twitter.com/NobelPrize/status/1187007278274240515/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/61993
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From NobelPrize https://twitter.com/NobelPrize on Twitter: Remembering David Thouless, who was awarded the 2016 Physics Prize. Thouless worked with Michael Kosterlitz to describe phase transitions in thin layers at low temperatures. He also explained the quantum Hall effect. He was born #OTD in 1934 and passed away on 6 April 2019. https://twitter.com/NobelPrize/status/1175297610581708800/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/61486
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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
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From NobelPrize https://twitter.com/NobelPrize on Twitter: In developing quantum mechanical theory, physicist Paul Dirac, born #OTD, predicted that all matter has a kind of mirror image - antimatter. Dirac's theory would later be proved experimentally. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1933 which he shared with Erwin Schrodinger. https://twitter.com/NobelPrize/status/1159345255101227008/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/60251
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From JLab_News https://twitter.com/JLab_News on Twitter: Born #OTD 95 years ago in 1924, Cesar Lattes discovered the pion a particle made up of a quark and an antiquark along with Cecil Powell and Guiseppe Occhialini. #science #history #TBT https://twitter.com/JLab_News/status/1149301085183598593/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/59507
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From NobelPrize https://twitter.com/NobelPrize on Twitter: #OTD in 1903, Marie Skodowska Curie defends her doctoral thesis on radioactive substances at Universite de la Sorbonne in Paris becoming the first woman in France to receive a doctoral degree. https://twitter.com/NobelPrize/status/1143396657347944448/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/58730
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From JLab_News https://twitter.com/JLab_News on Twitter: Born #OTD in 1922, Aage N. Bohr won the 1975 #Physics @NobelPrize "for the discovery of the connection between collective motion and particle motion in atomic nuclei and the development of the theory of the structure of the atomic nucleus." https://twitter.com/JLab_News/status/1141391467426078727/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/58554
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From PhysicsToday https://twitter.com/PhysicsToday on Twitter: Andrei Sakharov, Soviet theoretical physicist and outspoken advocate for nuclear disarmament and human rights, was born #OTD 1921 in Moscow http://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.881252 https://twitter.com/PhysicsToday/status/1130826528022040577/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/57943
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From ESA_History https://twitter.com/ESA_History on Twitter: #OTD 14 January 2005, #ESA's #Huygens landed on #Titan. This was the first landing on a body in the outer Solar System. This is the first image from the surface of this alien world... http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Cassini-Huygens/First_images_from_Titan https://twitter.com/ESA_History/status/1084742608910409729/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/53578
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From esa https://twitter.com/esa on Twitter: Take a look at #Titan through infrared eyes thanks to @CassiniSaturn, as we recall the Huygens probes thrilling descent to the moons surface 14 years ago today #OTD http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2019/01/Seeing_Titan_with_infrared_eyes https://twitter.com/esa/status/1084792258069696512/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/53554
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From mcnees https://twitter.com/mcnees on Twitter: Computer science pioneer and United States Navy rear admiral Grace Hopper was born #OTD in 1906. As far as Im aware, she is the only person with both a supercomputer and a US Navy destroyer named after her. Image: Computer History Museum https://twitter.com/mcnees/status/1071772236506427392/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/53082
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