Philosophy
Emilio Gino Segrè--early atomic physics
Emilio Gino Segrè February 1st, 1905 to April 22nd, 1989 One of those physicists of relative unknown status during the infancy of atomic physics. He is credited with the discovery of the first artificially synthesized chemical element not occurring in nature--technetium as well as astatine and plutonium-239. And along with Owen Chamberlain discovered antiprotons. atomicarchive.comNobelPrize.orgScienceMatters@BerkeleyEmilio Gino Segrè's online autobiography book:Emilio Gino Segrè's autobiography
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Bad Advice
My Fellow Comedists, This weekend let's share stories of bad advice. People mean well, think they are helping, but good intentions do not always translate into effective results. There was the time in college I took my grandfather's suggestion...
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Deceased--gerson Goldhaber
Gerson Goldhaber February 20th, 1924 to July 19th, 2010 "Gerson Goldhaber, world-famed physicist, dies" by David Perlman July 22nd, 2010 San Francisco Chronicle Gerson Goldhaber, an internationally known physicist who contributed to some of the most...
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Not Movie Star Autographs But Just As Valuable
"logbook: nobel meeting" by Andrea Mustain April 2010 Symmetry Toward the end of June 1962, a virtual pantheon of modern physics descended on a tiny island just off the shores of Lake Constance, in Germany’s rolling Bavarian countryside. They’d...
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Paul Kazuo Kuroda
Many times in the course of the exposition of science and scientific discoveries, the lime light is focused on one or two individuals and it is often forgotten that many other worthy individuals were involved: Those that provided fundamental input, the...
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Hands On Laboratory Work...glenn T. Seaborg Style
This is somewhat of a rare opportunity to read how original experimental laboratory work is performed. Specifically, Glenn T. Seaborg's research work with heavy isotopes at Berkeley University in the early 1940's and more specifically the discovery...
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