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, New Zealand. There, he became a very active student, not only in science, but also playing for the rugby team. He also participated in the Dialectic Society (a student debating group) and the graduation [...] sensitivity from his mother. Education was very important to his par- ents. James Rutherford’s work was also very impor- tant to the development of his son’s personality. His father’s work required the family [...] they moved to Havelock in the Marlborough Sounds for flax- milling and finally, in 1888, to Taranaki, also for flax milling. At the age of 10, Ernest read his first science book and started performing his
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in 1909, Mach was also very prominent in his times) and the proponents of a statistical inter- pretation (most notably Boltzmann) was not just based on physical issues but involved also deep philosophical [...] girl’s character, her world-view and love to science were shaped by her mother. The father, Pierre, had also the huge impact on Irene. Unfortunately, he died tragically on 19th April 1906 while he was trying [...] research in which she indicated the atomic mass of chlorine, gained from different materials. She was also interested in radioactivity. She worked out the equipment used to measure the radioactivity in the
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als who co-founded an anti-fascist movement in Paris. Despite her political engagements, they had also been very active in their scientific research. This was the reason why Irene had to stay at her desk [...] Even though sometimes their findings in the end turned out to be erroneous. And of course there were also stories about the moments when they had received their recognition – most no- tably the story when [...] to receive this honor. Incredibily, she was not only the first female to receive a Nobel Prize, but also the first person ever to receive a second Nobel Prize. But then these days of childhood were over
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girl’s character, her world-view and love to science were shaped by her mother. The father, Pierre, had also the huge impact on Irene. Unfortunately, he died tragically on 19th April 1906 while he was trying [...] research in which she indicated the atomic mass of chlorine, gained from different materials. She was also interested in radioactivity. She worked out the equipment used to measure the radioactivity in the [...] field of chemistry. It gave the new direction for the actions not only in physics and chemistry, but also in biology, medicine and technology. From 1936 Irene and Frédéric worked separately, because Joliot
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certain amount of mechanic- al force was transformed into a respective amount of heat? Could that also be the case with electricity? He started to think about how to examine these connections. About three [...] Inside the vessel there was an axis with brass paddles to mix the water. Additionally, there were also fixed paddles that helped to produce a larger friction in the water – meanwhile he could use weights
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them through Euclid’s books on geometry, and covered a vast range of natural phenomena. There was also a wilder side of Joule’s science educa- tion: he blew his eyebrows off in a gun experiment; he flew [...] conservation of en- ergy, are among the greatest achievements of nine- teenth-century science. Joule also calculated that the water just beyond the bottom of a waterfall will be one degree Fahren- heit warmer [...] explained by Mr. Joule in 1847 by the heat developed by bodies rushing into our atmosphere. Joule also did a series of beautiful experiments on electrolysis and combustion. Batteries work because some
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concept of absolute zero—the temperature at which no heat can be removed from a system. Thomson’s work also played a large part in formalizing the second law of thermodynamics, where he formulated the familiar
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founded by Becher and Stahl. This played also a role in naming the first instrument that enabled measurements of the amount of heat calorimeter (Roberts 1991, see also Beretta 2005), the ice calorimeter. For [...] the glass. also in 1804 an investigation in which he analyzed the ability of various materials to emit radiant heat. 2 Whilst this inquiry may be seen as funda- mental research, there are also aspects of [...] experimental resources (which will be discussed later) it also caused a difficulty: Even though conceptual difficulties played a role, it was also Joule’s status that was meaningful. He was not a trained
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involved. Finally, we conducted the ex- periment on 150 seedlings. We were not only water- ing, but also fertilizing fifty of them. Another fifty were only watered. The last fifty were watered and fertilized [...] While he was looking for the medicine for Emma, he was working not only on the poultry extract, but also beef one. During the experiment, he no- ticed that the strained meet that was lying on the glasses
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the law of the minimum, which states that the scarcest resource is what limits a given organism. He also developed a process for producing meat extract and founded the company Liebig Extract of Meat Company [...] because of his involvement with a radical nationalist student organization called Korps Rhenania, but also because he was looking for a place to carry out more advanced chemical research. In autumn of 1822 [...] titled Logic, because it promoted science as a means to social progress and political development, and also because Mill described several examples of Liebig’s research as an ideal for the scientific method