jlynch | July 20, 2007Events
1969 - Apollo Program: Apollo 11 lands on the Moon.
1976 - The Viking 1 lander successfully lands on Mars.
1994 - Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9’s Fragment Q1 hits Jupiter.
Births
1797 - Sir PaweÅ Edmund Strzelecki, Polish explorer and geologist
1822 - Gregor Mendel, father of modern genetics
1897 - Tadeus Reichstein, Polish-born chemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate
1909 - Jean Focas, Greco-French astronomer
1947 - Gerd Binnig, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1937 - Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics
jlynch | July 19, 2007Remember this?
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just…
jlynch | July 19, 2007Easing myself into blogging with the Personality Defect Test. Apparently I’m a Robot: 100% Rational, 42% Extroverted, 14% Brutal and 0% Arrogant.
Your exact opposite is the Class Clown.
Other personalities you would probably get along with are the Hand-Raiser, the Emo Kid, and the Haughty Intellectual.
I hated "class clowns" at school. PZ is a "Haughty Intellectual" with scores of 100/14/0/57... we seemed to get on when we met and he is remarkably quiet in meatspace compared to his online persona. He’s an arrogant bastard though :)
jlynch | July 19, 2007I’m finally back in circulation, albeit only for a few days. Next Tuesday I leave for the ISHPSSB conference in Exeter (UK) and wont be bringing a laptop with me. The past ten days, I was spending time with family in Michigan - hence the relative silence
Below the fold is Today in Science.
Births
1865 - Charles Horace Mayo, American surgeon and founder of the Mayo Clinic
1921 - Rosalyn Yalow, American physicist, Nobel laureate
1938 - Jayant Narlikar, Indian astrophysicist
Deaths
1838 - Pierre Louis Dulong, French physicist
1910 - Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer
jlynch | July 17, 2007Events
1898 - Marie and Pierre Curie announce the discovery of a new element and proposed to call it polonium.
Births
1635 - Robert Hooke, English scientist
1720 - Gilbert White, English ornithologist
1853 - Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1937 - Roald Hoffman, Polish-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1948 - Hartmut Michel, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1884 - Ferdinand von Hochstetter, Austrian geologist
1968 - Corneille Heymans, Belgian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate
1997 - Eugene Merle Shoemaker, American astronomer
2002 - Victor Emery, British…
jlynch | July 17, 2007
Events
1975 - Apollo-Soyuz Test Project: An American Apollo and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock with each other in orbit marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations.
1976 - Viking 1 successfully lands on Mars.
1998 - Biologists report how they sequenced the genome of the bacterium that causes syphilis, Treponema pallidum (above).
Births
1920 - Gordon Gould, inventor of the laser
1955 - Paul Stamets, American mycologist and environmentalist
Deaths
1894 - Josef Hyrtl, Austrian anatomist
1912 - Henri Poincaré, French mathematician
jlynch | July 16, 2007
Events
1862 - Comet Swift-Tuttle is discovered by Lewis Swift.
1945 - Manhattan Project: The Atomic Age begins when the United States successfully detonates (see above) a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon at the Trinity site near Alamogordo, New Mexico.
1994 - Jupiter is hit by fragments of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9.
Births
1888 - Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist, Nobel laureate
1926 - Irwin Rose, American biologist, Nobel laureate
Deaths
1916 - Ilya Mechnikov, Russian microbiologist, Nobel laureate
1994 - Julian Schwinger, American physicist, Nobel laureate
jlynch | July 14, 2007Births
1918 - Bertram N. Brockhouse, Canadian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1921 - Robert Bruce Merrifield, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1922 - Leon M. Lederman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1928 - Carl Woese, American microbiologist
1943 - Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Irish astrophysicist
Deaths
1919 - Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
jlynch | July 14, 2007
Events
1965 - Mariner 4 flyby of Mars takes the first close-up photos (above) of another planet.
Births
1671 - Jacques D’Allonville, French astronomer and mathematician
1801 - Johannes Peter Müller, German physiologist
1921 - Geoffrey Wilkinson, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1924 - James W. Black, Scottish pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Deaths
1907 - William Henry Perkin, English chemist
jlynch | July 12, 2007
Births
1527 - John Dee, English scientist
1579 - Arthur Dee, English physician
1932 - Hubert Reeves, Canadian astrophysicist
Deaths
1896 - Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz, German chemist and discoverer of the structure of benzene (above)
jlynch | July 11, 2007Births
1849 - Sir William Osler, Canadian physician and author
1850 - Otto Schoetensack, German anthropologist
1861 - George Washington Carver, American botanist
1863 - Albert Calmette, French physician
1863 - Paul Karl Ludwig Drude, German physicist
1913 - Willis Lamb, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1928 - Elias James Corey, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1682 - Jean Picard, French astronomer
jlynch | July 10, 2007
Events
1979 - Skylab (above) returns to Earth.
Births
1916 - Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov, Russian physicist, Nobel laureate
1924 - César Lattes, Brazilian physicist
1931 - Tullio Regge, Italian physicist
Deaths
1909 - Simon Newcomb, American astronomer and mathematician
jlynch | July 10, 2007Events
1796 - Carl Friedrich Gauss discovered that every positive integer is representable as a sum of at most three triangular numbers.
1925 - Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins with John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher, accused of teaching evolution in violation of a Tennessee state law.
1962 - Telstar, the world’s first communications satellite, is launched into orbit.
Births
1809 - Friedrich August von Quenstedt, German geologist
1832 - Alvan Graham Clark, American telescope maker and astronomer
1902 - Kurt Alder, German chemist, Nobel…
jlynch | July 8, 20076.02 x 1023
Births
1800 - Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, German physician
1858 - Franz Boas, German anthropologist
1911 - John A. Wheeler, American physicist
1926 - Ben Roy Mottelson, American-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1856 - Amedeo Avogadro, Italian chemist; the number of elementary entities in one mole of a substance, 6.02 x 1023, is known as Avogadro’s number.
1880 - Paul Broca, French physician and anatomist
1903 - Alphonse François Renard, Belgian geologist
jlynch | July 8, 2007I'm going to be scarce the next twelve days or so. "Today in Science" will continue to be posted, but there will be no other posts until I get back into circulation. Enjoy the break!
jlynch | July 8, 2007
I received a copy of Planet Earth on DVD (the version with David Attenborough narrating) for my recent birthday. This was a fun segment and one that my daughter loved - a displaying male Superb Bird of Paradise (Lophorina superba).
jlynch | July 8, 2007The Wellcome Trust has released its medical image collection under the Creative Commons Attribution, Non-commercial Licence 2.0. Go get yourself some pictures.
jlynch | July 8, 2007In 1999, Dembski established the Michael Polanyi Center - an ID institute - at Baylor University. As this article notes, Dembski appropriated Michael Polanyi’s name, contrary to the wishes of his literary executor and son, Nobel Laureate John Polanyi, in an attempt to associate Polanyi with a cause he clearly would not have shared. Richard Gelwick, the articles author, should know. He is the author of The Way of Discovery: an Introduction to the Thought of Michael Polanyi (1977) and Michael Polanyi: Credere Aude: His Theory of Knowledge and Its Implications for Christian Theology (1965),…
jlynch | July 8, 2007Births
1857 - Alfred Binet, French psychologist
1895 - Igor Tamm, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1695 - Christiaan Huygens, Dutch scientist
1784 - Torbern Bergman, Swedish chemist
1895 - Johann Josef Loschmidt, Austrian scientist
1934 - Benjamin Baillaud, French astronomer
1939 - Havelock Ellis, British physician
1979 - Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist, Nobel laureate
1979 - Robert B. Woodward, American chemist, Nobel laureate
jlynch | July 7, 2007Mort Sahl said:
The reason people still remember [John F. Kennedy] is because he’s a metaphor for what they were capable of. And the reason they hate Nixon is he’s the metaphor for what they became.
Makes you wonder what Sahl would say Bush is a metaphor for.