The document provides examples of descriptions of inventions and discoveries. It describes Whitcomb Judson's invention of the zipper in 1893. It also summarizes the discovery of radioactivity by Antoine Henri Becquerel in 1896, when he discovered that uranium salts emitted invisible and penetrating rays capable of exposing photographic plates even in the dark. Additionally, it discusses the discovery of DNA in the early 1950s by Francis Crick and James Watson at Cambridge University and Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin at King's College in London.
Contribution of Physicists and Chemists in BiologyDhaval Bhatt
Biology is the science of living things. But the biology/life sciences we know now has its roots in physics and chemistry. For that, many physicist and chemists have contributed in the field.
Contribution of Physicists and Chemists in BiologyDhaval Bhatt
Biology is the science of living things. But the biology/life sciences we know now has its roots in physics and chemistry. For that, many physicist and chemists have contributed in the field.
Ernest Rutherford was an eminent scientist in chemistry.He earned Nobel prize in chemistry for the investigation of the disintegration of element and also for the chemistry of radioactive element.
Ernest Rutherford was an eminent scientist in chemistry.He earned Nobel prize in chemistry for the investigation of the disintegration of element and also for the chemistry of radioactive element.
LECTURE 14 ATOMIC STRUCTURE ELECTRONS, PROTONS and NEUTRONS.docxmanningchassidy
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The above figure displays a cathode-ray tube (CRT). Today, a CRT is described as a vacuum tube that contains one or more electron guns and a phosphorescent screen, and is used to display images. It modulates, accelerates, and deflects electron beams onto a screen tocreate the images. The images may represent electrical waveforms (in an oscilloscope), pictures (a television screen, computer monitor), radar targets, or other phenomena.
We now know that cathode rays are streams of electrons observed in discharge tubes. If an evacuated glass tube (upper image) is equipped with two electrodes and a voltage is applied, glass behind the positive electrode is observed to glow (lower image), due to electrons emitted from the negative cathode.
The above “official” account presupposes that one knows what an electron is and what are its physical properties (mass and charge). The discovery of the electron opened up a whole new chapter in the understanding of matter. This led to the realization that light and matter could not be fully understood using the classicallaws of physics, and that a totally different way of understanding nature was needed. Thus emerged, beginning in the last years of the 19th century, a completely new description of light and matter. This new description became known as quantum mechanics, and resulted in the quantum theory of atoms, molecules and the chemical bond. This is the historical journey on which we shall embark in this Lecture.
Cathode rays were discovered by Julius Plücker (1801-1868) and Johann Wilhelm Hittorf(1824-1914). Their experimental apparatus depended on two earlier inventions: 1) Volta’s battery; and, 2) a sealed glass tube in which a partial vacuum was maintained. The latter was invented by a German physicist and glassblower, Heinrich Geissler, in 1857.
Hittorf observed that some unknown rays were emitted from the cathode (negative electrode) which could cast shadows on the glowing wall of the tube, indicating the rays were traveling in straight lines. In 1890, Arthur Schuster demonstrated cathode rays could be deflected by electric fields, and William Crookes showed they could be deflected by magnetic fields.
It was these experiments on cathode rays inside the cathode ray tube that drew the attention of Röntgen. After repeating the above experiments, he began to study the radiation emitted outside the cathode ray tube, using fluorescent chemical sensors, e.g., barium platinocyanide, to detect radiation. His discovery of x-rays on November 8, 1895 was communicated to the Physico-Medical Society of Würzburg later in November, 1895. A translation of his paper appeared two months later on January 23, 1896 in the English journal, Nature. (You can dial up this article on Gallica and read it for yourself).
Paraphrasing Louis XV(1710 – 1774) of France, were he not such a humble, unassuming man,Röntgenmight have said "A.
The Ingenious Irish: how Irish inventors and scientists helped to shape the modern world.
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The discovery of the atomic world and the constituents of matterRochelle Forrester
The discovery of the atomic world and the constituents of matter was written to investigate the order of discovery of the sub atomic particles. The discovery of these particles took place in a necessary and inevitable order with charged particles, such as electrons and protons, discovered before neutrons, and particles in the outer regions of the atom such as electrons being discovered before protons and neutrons in the atomic nucleus, and with quarks which exist within protons and neutrons being the last discovery. The order of discovery is from those particles closest to us to those further from us in the sense of being deeper in the atom. The order of discovery and the social and cultural consequences of the discoveries took place in a necessary and inevitable order and is consistent with the conclusions reached in my book How Change Happens: A Theory of Philosophy of History, Social Change and Cultural Evolution.
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Acetabularia acetabulum is a single-celled green alga that in its vegetative state is morphologically differentiated into a basal rhizoid and an axially elongated stalk, which bears whorls of branching hairs. The single diploid nucleus resides in the rhizoid.
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Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
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This presentation provides a briefing on how to upload submissions and documents in Google Classroom. It was prepared as part of an orientation for new Sainik School in-service teacher trainees. As a training officer, my goal is to ensure that you are comfortable and proficient with this essential tool for managing assignments and fostering student engagement.
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
The French Revolution, which began in 1789, was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France. It marked the decline of absolute monarchies, the rise of secular and democratic republics, and the eventual rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. This revolutionary period is crucial in understanding the transition from feudalism to modernity in Europe.
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3. EXAMPLE 2 The Discovery of Radioactivity It's been 100 years since the discovery of radioactivity. Happy 100th Birthday! This section will describe the surprise discovery of radiation and the significant contributions of several other scientists. How exciting it must have been for them to be on the forefront of such new and exciting research! Little did they know how much their discoveries would benefit mankind 100 years in the future.
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7. Did you know this?? In 1903, Becquerel and the Curie together received the Nobel Prize in physics. This award was for their discovery of radioactivity and their other contributions in this area. Marie Curie received a second Nobel Prize in 1911 for the discovery of polonium and radium. She was the first person to win two Nobel Prizes. Did you know that the Curie's had a word named after them? That's right! The curie is a basic unit of measurement for describing radioactivity. http://www.chem.duke.edu/~jds/cruise_chem/nuclear/discovery.html
8. EXAMPLE 3 The Discovery of DNA In the early 1950s, the race to discover DNA was on. At Cambridge University, graduate student Francis Crick and research fellow James Watson (b. 1928) had become interested, impressed especially by Pauling's work. Meanwhile at King's College in London, Maurice Wilkins (b. 1916) and Rosalind Franklin were also studying DNA. The Cambridge team's approach was to make physical models to narrow down the possibilities and eventually create an accurate picture of the molecule. The King's team took an experimental approach, looking particularly at x-ray diffraction images of DNA. In 1951, Watson attended a lecture by Franklin on her work to date. She had found that DNA can exist in two forms, depending on the relative humidity in the surrounding air. This had helped her deduce that the phosphate part of the molecule was on the outside. Watson returned to Cambridge with a rather muddy recollection of the facts Franklin had presented, though clearly critical of her lecture style and personal appearance. Based on this information, Watson and Crick made a failed model. It caused the head of their unit to tell them to stop DNA research. But the subject just kept coming up. (…)
9. Example 4 The discovery of Lithium The petalite and spodumene (minerals containing lithium) were discovered by the Brazilian scientist José Bonifácio de Andrada e Sìlva at the end of the 18th century while visiting Sweden. Lithium was then discovered by Swedish scientist Johan August Arfvedson in 1817 during an analysis of petalite ore, an ore now recognised to be LiAl(Si2O5)2, taken from a Swedish island. Arfvedson subsequently discovered lithium in the minerals spodumene and lepidolite. He named new element as a lithium (from Greek word lithos meaning stone. The first isolation of elemental lithium was achieved later in 1818 by Sir Humphrey Davy by the electrolysis of Li2O. In 1855, Bunsen and Mattiessen isolated larger quantities of the metal by electrolysis of lithium chloride. Lithium metal is prepared by the electrolysis of a fused mixture of lithium chloride and potassium chloride in a cell at a temperature of about 400 °C recently.
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11. Description Lithium has a silvery appearance but quickly becomes covered by a film of black oxide when exposed to air. It is usually stored immersed in an inert oil. Lithium is the lightest of all metals. Reacts slowly with oxygen and water. In solution, a lithium will give an intense carmine-red flame test color, the color somewhat resembling that of the strontium flame but deeper. In very small quantities it is visible using a diffraction spectroscope. The lithium minerals, which are either silicates or phosphates, do not become alkaline after ignition.