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1802 Sir Charles Wheatstone FRS was born - scientist, electric telegraph inventor & a founder of the company that ultimately evolved into today's BT https://t.co/FKIJyUj65D 1/2

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2020-02-07

"Making fruit attractive in print is not easy."

John Lindley, English horticulturalist and author of Pomologia Britannica (1841), is 's Scientist of the Day!

https://t.co/X0qbbZh52E


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2020-02-06

It's a in Most schools & cultural institutions, including , are closed so people can celebrate the ' victory.

The image below, featuring actual is from John Ross, A Voyage of Discovery (1819).

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2020-02-05

Ogden Nicholas Rood, American physicist whose work on color theory may have inspired the Neo-Impressionists, is 's Scientist of the Day!

https://t.co/oDdaMscrHp

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2020-02-03

The Tragic Fate of Physicist Paul Ehrenfest: The Unraveling of a Probing Mind: https://t.co/Zr7y7jxdU5

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2020-01-26

Max Born, one of the founders of quantum mechanics, was dismissed from the University of Göttingen during the Nazi regime because of its racist and antisemitic policies. Strangely enough, Hitler sent him a letter thanking him for his service: https://t.co/tGjNjpqWHz

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2020-01-15

Chien-Shiung Wu: The Manhattan Project Physicist Who Proved that Parity (Mirror-Image Symmetry) is Violated in Certain Types of Weak Decay, and Fought for Equal Rights for Women: https://t.co/luqjPUp6rw

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2020-01-12

Albert Einstein marked the New Year of 1931 in San Diego, California, where adoring crowds greeted him and his wife as they disembarked (video): https://t.co/JR3ytdE0GQ

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2020-01-01

W H Preece, the telegraph, telephone and wireless radio pioneer, a great Welsh scientist, was appointed GPO Engineer-in-Chief and Electrician 1892. He was an early mentor of Marconi https://t.co/EPMgWM9q9j

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2019-11-18

An entangled tale: why Einstein found quantum action at a distance to be 'spooky:' https://t.co/UbMh7uXhl6

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2019-10-19

Richard Feynman's first talk after he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1965, was at . Wearing a suit to be 'Nobel-like,' the crowd, including Director Viki Weisskopf, persuaded him to remove his jacket (which he is pointing to in the photo): https://t.co/vmi1njjDaw

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2019-10-07

How can the writings of Friedrich enhance our understanding of modern science?

Find out tomorrow at a lecture by research fellow Will Parkhurst.

Registration & livestream details: https://t.co/PEsRzkecGV

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2019-08-14

Thirty nine years ago this week BT opened the first System X processor-controlled digital switching system telephone exchange in London, on 1 July 1980. InnovationWeek2019

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2019-07-02

Quantum physicist Werner Heisenberg loved to draw in his sketchbook. Here is his colourful portrait of beautiful Würzburg, Germany, with its prominent medieval bridge and Festung (fortress / castle). (From the Jochen Heisenberg collection)

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2019-07-01

Congratulations to Thony Christie () on the 10th anniversary of his excellent history of science blog, 'The Renaissance Mathematicus:' https://t.co/aIE3BtaWEr

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2019-06-15

Three new books on Worlds of Wonder! Let's find out what a mycologist, a microscope manufacturer and a popular science writer had to say about microscopy and which illustrations they used.

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2019-06-08

Today's lunchtime read: Celebrate the 200th birthday of with this article exploring the role of science in his poems, courtesy of the .

https://t.co/uASDiUGtAG

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2019-05-31

Catherine (Kate) Furbish—American botanist who collected & illustrated the flora of born 1834.

More on her life via:
* -https://t.co/X4pMZ16eso

* -https://t.co/OSFaI63O68

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2019-05-20

Celebrating the extraordinary life and legacy of physicist Richard Feynman (11 May 1918 – 15 February 1988) as his centenary year draws to a close: https://t.co/7wzESaXT1q

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2019-05-01

He didn't just draw birds.

John James naturalist and illustrator-is 's Scientist of the Day!

https://t.co/r5xvZs7I7f

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2019-04-26