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Rutherford’s Nuclear Atom Listen Ernest Rutherford was born in New Zealand into a poor farming family in 1871. When the young "Ern," as his family called him, received his first science book at the ag
https://www.science-story-telling.eu/en/stories/by-subject-area/physics/guericke-and-vacuum
Guericke and vacuum Listen Wandering the streets of the city of Magdeburg Otto was poring over something he had heard: The latest astronomical considerations that the scientific (and the non-scientifi
https://www.science-story-telling.eu/en/stories/by-subject-area/physics/lichtenberg-and-the-electrophorus
Lichtenberg and the electrophorus Listen Lichtenberg, who lived in the 18th century, was an outstanding naturalist, art critic, satirist, aphorist, and one of the creators of the German experimental p
https://www.science-story-telling.eu/en/stories/by-subject-area/physics/rumford-and-calorics
production of new cannons. As you may notice, Benjamin Thompson is not really a common Bavarian name, and act ually, Thompson was not a Bavarian citizen but he was born in the British colonies in North America [...] to discuss took place by the end of the 18th century. During the American Revolution, Thompson had acted as a spy for the British, consequently he had to leave when things turned out to end bad for them
https://www.science-story-telling.eu/en/stories/by-subject-area/physics/mouchot-and-the-solar-cooker
Mouchot and the solar cooker Listen The period in which we live is a time of many inventions, that change our lives. The pace of these changes is very large and seems to grow. Some believe that this p
https://www.science-story-telling.eu/en/stories/by-subject-area/physics/joliot-curie-and-artificial-radioactivity
Joliot-Curie and artificial radioactivity Listen Irene was alone at home as her husband Frederic had to give a lecture early in the morning. Their two children were taken for a walk by the nanny, and
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ly accurate. The dialogues you can find here are, indeed, entirely fictional, and the motives of acting persons in the stories are our interpretation of assured historical information. Hence, our stories
https://www.science-story-telling.eu/en/stories/by-subject-area/physics/joule-and-energy/the-hard-work-of-experimenting-james-prescott-joule-william-thomson-and-the-mechanical-equivalent-of-heat
The hard work of experimenting Listen Manchester, in the early 1840s. Manchester was a busy industrial town in these days, actually, it could be named as the industrial cen-ter of England, and in thos
https://www.science-story-telling.eu/en/stories/by-subject-area/physics/joule-and-energy/scientific-partnership-james-prescott-joule-william-thomson-and-the-mechanical-equivalent-of-heat
Scientific Partnership Listen James Prescott Joule, a Manchester owner of a brewery stood in the lecture hall and looked into the faces of the audience that was going to listen to his talk. It was the
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"External Solidarity: EU’s responses to global challenges" Organized within the Zukunftswoche 2015 at EUF, the conference "External Solidarity: EU’s responses to global challenges" aimed at raising th