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The Mystery of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays
A video is featured on this site exploring the High Resolution Fly's Eye at the University of Utah. This project was designed to help explain cosmic rays formerly referred to as cosmic radiation. These fast-moving particles origin and...
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Ucar: About Temperature
This site from the University Corporation of Atmospheric Research provides a lengthy page covering numerous topics including the difference between heat and temperature, the use of different temperature scales, thermal expansion, how a...
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Fund. Of Phys. Geography/energy, Temperature, and Heat
A page describing (in part) the distinction between energy, temperature and heat. Includes graphic illustrating the quantity of energy needed to transform water between its various states. Methods of thermal energy transfer (convection,...
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Etc: Maps Etc: Southern Limit of Glaciation, 1911
A map from 1911 showing the centers of ice accumulation, the position of the Driftless Area, the general direction of radiation, and the southern limit of glaciation in North America during the last glacial period. The map shows the...
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Unidentified Woman and Edward Dorris Mc Alister (B. 1901)
An unidentified woman and Edward Dorris McAlister (b. 1901) are shown working at the Smithsonian Institution's Division of Radiation and Organisms in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The apparatus shown was being used to measure the strength of...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Marie Agnes Hinrichs (B. 1892)
Marie Agnes Hinrichs (b. 1892) received her Ph.D. in zoology from the University of Chicago in 1923. After teaching at the university from 1926 to 1934, Hinrichs received an M.D. from Rush Medical College and joined the faculties at...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Laurel Van Der Wal (D. 2009)
Pioneering female aeronautical engineer Laurel van der Wal (d. 2009) (later Laurel van der Wal Roennau) had had a brief career as a model, art instructor, and deputy sheriff before training to be a pilot during World War II; she returned...
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Eternal Egypt: Head of Senusert the First
The head was carved in the style of the Eleventh Dynasty with small slanting eyes and horizontal eyebrows, a straight mouth surrounded by an incised line, and the alternate dark and light bands of the royal head cloth carved in radiating...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in New Jersey: Horn Antenna
Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson discovered the microwave background radiation that permeates the universe using this antenna. This work earned them the 1978 Nobel Prize for Physics and led to the confirmation of the Big Bang theory.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: John Tyndall
(1820-1893) A Prominent nineteenth century physicist whose scientific fame arose in the 1850s from his study of diamagnetism. Later he studied thermal radiation and produced a number of discoveries about processes in the atmosphere.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: John Tyndall
(1820-1893) A Prominent nineteenth century physicist whose scientific fame arose in the 1850s from his study of diamagnetism. Later he studied thermal radiation and produced a number of discoveries about processes in the atmosphere.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Wilhelm Rontgen
(1845-1923) German scientist she produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range today knob as X-rays or Rontgen rays, an achievement that earned him the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: William Roentgen
A German physicist, of the University of Wurzburg, who, on Nov. 8, 1895, produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range today known as x-rays or Rontgen Rays.
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Science Kids: Science Images: Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen
This image is of German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen. He is famous for his work on electromagnetic radiation, earning the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901.
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