History of Science

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Sep
2022

The Scientific Collaboration that Brought Gaia to...

With a two-page letter to the editor of the scientific journal Atmospheric Environment published in 1972, the English scientist and inventor James Lovelock (1919-2022) introduced Gaia into the professional...
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7
Jul
2022

What is International Asteroid Day All About?

Every year June 30 marks International Asteroid Day. A United Nations resolution from 2016 declares that that holiday serves to mark “the anniversary of the Tunguska impact over Siberia, Russian Federation,...
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7
Jun
2022

Understanding Intelligence

There are a lot of questions about the validity of IQ tests and the nature of ‘intelligence’. Ken Richardson, author of Understanding Intelligence...
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26
Aug
2021

Conversations on Quantum Gravity

The following press release was first published courtesy of University of Amsterdam: https://iop.uva.nl/content/news/2021/08/conversations-on-quantum-gravity.htmlhttps://iop.uva.nl/content/news/2021/08/conversations-on-quantum-gravity.html ‘Conversations...
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15
Jul
2021

Situating the Natural Sciences in Early Modern...

During the socially and politically turbulent seventeenth century, Moroccan scholars studied the natural and mathematical sciences throughout a network of rural and urban institutions of learning that...
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30
Jun
2021

Technological Internationalism

Visions of a world organization armed with its own air force, imposing international law and order through high-tech aeroplanes, may sound like a science-fiction fantasy, straight from the books of H.G....
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28
May
2021

Conversations with 24 Nobel Laureates on their...

The following is a Press Release prepared by Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings for Nobel Life: Conversations with 24 Nobel Laureates on their life stories...
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17
Mar
2021

Marie Tharp: discovered the Rift Valley in the Mid...

Marie Tharp’s transatlantic profiles with her annotations of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and its central valley. Acknowledgement: US Library of Congress. Simon Mitton. In this post on “deep...
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Authors in History of Science

Jácome (Jay) Armas

Jácome (Jay) Armas Editor of Conversations on Quantum Gravity

Joseph Braat

Joseph Braat co-author of Imaging Optics, 2019

Simon Mitton is a Life Fellow at St Edmund\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s College, University of Cambridge. For more than fifty years he has passionately engaged in bringing discoveries in astronomy and cosmology to the general public. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a former Vice-President of the Royal Astronomical Society, and a Fellow of the Geological Society. The International Astronomical Union designated asteroid 4027 as Minor Planet Mitton in recognition of his extensive outreach activity and that of Dr Jacqueline Mitton.

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