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Science Teachers’ Assocation of NSW inc 2017 Calendar
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1877; birth of Bjørn Helland-Hansen, Norwegian whose studies of the physical structure and dynamics of the oceans were instrumental in transforming oceanography into a science.
1925; the first television transmission was seen in London. John Baird built the transmitter in his attic from a tea chest, cardboard scanning discs, an empty biscuit box, old electric motors, darning needles, motorcycle lamp lenses, piano wire, glue, string, and sealing wax.
1945; death of Francis W. Aston, English scientist awarded a 1922 Nobel Prize for his development of the mass spectrograph, a device that separates atoms or molecular fragments of different mass and measures those masses with great accuracy.
1914; birth of Edward G Begle, US mathematician who designed an educational program to emphasise the fundamental importance of understanding the principles of mathematics.
16 17 18 nucleus in 1911. 19 20 21 content of milk. 22
2011; NASA’ s 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft entered orbit around Mars with a primary mission to search for traces of hydrogen which could indicate water.
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1911; birth of Samuel Warren Carey, Australian geologist who contributed a model of an expanding earth in support of Alfred Wegener’ s concept of moving continents. His ideas were the precursor of the theory of plate
30 31 tectonics. 1 2 3 science journals. 4 5
1908; Prof. Ernest Rutherford announced in London that he had isolated a single atom of matter.
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1744, Gowan Knight presented his research to the Royal Society. He had discovered a method for permanently magnetising hard steels.
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1993; death of Bruno Rossi, Italian-US physicist, a pioneer in the study of cosmic radiation. In the 1930s, his experimental investigations of cosmic rays and their interactions with matter laid the foundation for high energy particle
1878; Edison made electricity available for household usage.
1784; death of Paolo Frisi, Italian scientist, known for his work in hydraulics and dissemination of the work of other scientists, such as Galileo Galilei and Sir Isaac Newton.
1937; death of Sir Ernest Rutherford, NZ-English physicist who laid the groundwork for the development of nuclear physics. With 2 others in 1907 he devised the alpha-particle scattering experiment that led to the discovery of the atomic
1972; death of Igor Sikorsky, Russian-born U. S. pioneer in aircraft design, best known for his successful development of the helicopter.
1966; death of Peter Debye, Dutch-American physical chemist whose investigations of dipole moments, X rays, and light scattering in gases brought him the 1936 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
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1694; death of Marcello Malpighi, Italian scientist who, in developing experimental methods to study living things, founded the science of microscopic anatomy.
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1916; death of Walter Sutton, US geneticist who provided conclusive evidence while studying grass-hopper cells that chromosomes carry the units of inheritance and occur in distinct pairs.
1925; birth of Simon van der Meer, Dutch engineer and physicist who codiscovered the W and Z particles by colliding protons and antiprotons, for which he shared a Nobel Prize.
1824; in Yorkshire, England, Joseph Aspdin, a stone mason, patented Portland cement, made by burning finely pulverized lime and clay at high temperatures in kilns.
1946; the US Atomic Energy Commission of five civilians was appointed by President Harry S. Truman to develop and utilize atomic energy for public welfare, increase the standard of living, strengthen free competition in private enterprise and promote
1869; the first issue of Nature was published, edited by astronomer Sir Norman Lockyer, with articles on astronomy, plants, moths, science teaching in schools, and paleontology. It remains one of the most popular and well respected
1477; English printer William Caxton,( 1422- 1491) produced the first book printed in England, Dictes or Sayengis of the Philosophres. In the next 15 years, he printed 107 works, including 74 books.
1843; birth of Stephen M. Babcock, American agricultural chemist, often called the father of scientific dairying because of his development of the Babcock test( 1890), a simple method of measuring the butterfat
1879; death of James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist and mathematician. whose researches united electricity and magnetism into the concept of the electromagnetic field.
1990 death of Georgy Flerov, Soviet physicist who in 1941 recognized that uranium undergoes spontaneous fission( needing no neutron bombardment).
1894; birth of Norbert Wiener, US mathematician who established cybernetics, a term he coined, which is concerned with the common factors of control and communication in living organisms, automatic machines,
Themes for 2017 are about sustainability. To achieve this we need a focus on STEM- where Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths come together. This calendar notes the many people in history who have contributed in these areas.
Science dates compiled by Sue Siwinski