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The Space Race
The Space Race Aims: To arrange the key events of the “Space Race” in chronological order. To decide which country won the Space Race. Space – the Final Frontier “Space” is everything Atmosphere that exists outside of our planet’s atmosphere. The atmosphere is the layer of Earth gas which surrounds our planet. Without it, none of us would be able to breathe! Space The sun is a star which is orbited (circled) by a system of planets. Earth is the third planet from the sun. There are nine planets in our solar system. How many of the other eight can you name? Neptune Saturn Mars Venus SUN Pluto Uranus Jupiter EARTH Mercury What has this got to do with the COLD WAR? Another element of the Cold War was the race to control the final frontier – outer space! Why do you think this would be so important? The Space Race was considered important because it showed the world which country had the best science, technology, and economic system. It would prove which country was the greatest of the superpowers, the USSR or the USA, and which political system was the best – communism or capitalism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvaEvCNZymo The Space Race – key events Discuss the following slides in your groups. For each slide, try to agree on: • which of the three options is correct • whether this was an achievement of the Soviet Union (USSR) or the Americans (USA). When did humans first send a satellite into orbit around the Earth? 1940s, 1950s or 1960s? Sputnik 1 was launched in October 1957. -
Is It the First Use of the Word Astrobiology ? Author
Title : Is it the first use of the word Astrobiology ? Author : Danielle Briot Adress : Observatoire de Paris 61 avenue de l’Observatoire 75014 Paris France tel : 33(0)1 40 51 22 39 and 33(0)1 45 07 78 57 [email protected] running title : First use of the word Astrobiology ? 1 Abstract The research of life in Universe is a ancient quest that has taken different forms over the centuries. It has given rise to a new science, which is normally referred as Astrobiology. It is interesting to research when this word was used for the first time and when this science developed to represent the search for life in Universe as is done today. There are records of the usage of the word "Astrobiology" as early as 1935, in an article published in a French popular science magazine. Moreover this article is quite remarkable because its portrayal of the concept of the subject is very similar to that considered today. The author of this paper was Ary J. Sternfeld (1905 - 1980), who was ortherwise known as a poorly respected great pioneer of astronautics. We provide a brief description of his life, which was heavily influenced by the tragic events of the 20th century history, from Poland and France to Russia. He was a prolific scientific writer who wrote a number of very successful scientific books and papers. Keywords : History – Pioneers 2 1. Introduction The question of the life in the Universe, in relation with the question of the multiplicity of worlds, is very ancient and probably dates back to Greek philosophers. -
The Ethics of Animal Research – Teacher Notes
The Ethics of Animal Research – Teacher Notes The previous lesson showed the extensive use of animals in the early days of space research and even today to further our understanding of the space environment. This raises important questions about the ethics of using animals in research. The use of animals in scientific experimentation has always been, and will always be a controversial subject. It is however an unavoidable fact that without animal research we would know far less about biology, diseases and medical conditions that affect humans and other animals. While researchers agree that animals should only be used when there is no known alternative and they should be treated with humane respect to avoid suffering, the scientific community continue to agree that the historical use of animals in research has allowed the development of medical treatment, surgical techniques, vaccines and the advancement of science in other areas. As we know animals were used extensively to serve as surrogates for human beings in the early days of spaceflight to learn vital information about the environment. In recent times, although animals continue to be used in space research, valid arguments about animal suffering have led to great improvements in their treatment. It is estimated that between 50 and 100 million animals are used in research experiments every year. Animals used in testing come from a variety of sources. While many animals, particularly worms and rats, may be purpose bred for testing other animals are still caught in the wild. Opponents to animal testing argue that it is cruel and unnecessary, that the results never reliably predict the reaction of human physiology and that animals have the same right as humans not to be used for experimentation. -
The Science of Astrobiology
The Science of Astrobiology Cellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology ________________________________________________________________ Volume 20 (Second Edition) ________________________________________________________________ Julian Chela-Flores The Science of Astrobiology A Personal View on Learning to Read the Book of Life Julian Chela-Flores The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics P.O. Box 586 34014 Trieste Italy [email protected] ISSN 1566-0400 ISBN 978-94-007-1626-1 e-ISBN 978-94-007-1627-8 DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-1627-8 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2011934255 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com) The cupola in the West Atrium of St. Mark's Basilica in Venice, Italy representing the biblical interpretation of Genesis (Cf., also pp. 215-216 at the beginning of Part 4: The destiny of life in the universe. With kind permission of the Procuratoria of St. Mark's Basilica.) For Sarah Catherine Mary Table of contents Table of contents vii Preface xvii Acknowledgements xxi Recommendations to the readers xxiii INTRODUCTION The cultural and scientific context of astrobiology I.1 Early attempts to read the Book of Life 3 ARISTARCHUS OF SAMOS AND HIPPARCHUS 4 NICHOLAS OF CUSA (CUSANUS) 4 NICHOLAS COPERNICUS 4 GIORDANO BRUNO 5 CHARLES DARWIN 6 I.2 Some pioneers of the science of astrobiology 8 ALEXANDER OPARIN 8 STANLEY MILLER 10 SIDNEY W. -
Scientific and Related Works of Chen Ning Yang
Scientific and Related Works of Chen Ning Yang [42a] C. N. Yang. Group Theory and the Vibration of Polyatomic Molecules. B.Sc. thesis, National Southwest Associated University (1942). [44a] C. N. Yang. On the Uniqueness of Young's Differentials. Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 50, 373 (1944). [44b] C. N. Yang. Variation of Interaction Energy with Change of Lattice Constants and Change of Degree of Order. Chinese J. of Phys. 5, 138 (1944). [44c] C. N. Yang. Investigations in the Statistical Theory of Superlattices. M.Sc. thesis, National Tsing Hua University (1944). [45a] C. N. Yang. A Generalization of the Quasi-Chemical Method in the Statistical Theory of Superlattices. J. Chem. Phys. 13, 66 (1945). [45b] C. N. Yang. The Critical Temperature and Discontinuity of Specific Heat of a Superlattice. Chinese J. Phys. 6, 59 (1945). [46a] James Alexander, Geoffrey Chew, Walter Salove, Chen Yang. Translation of the 1933 Pauli article in Handbuch der Physik, volume 14, Part II; Chapter 2, Section B. [47a] C. N. Yang. On Quantized Space-Time. Phys. Rev. 72, 874 (1947). [47b] C. N. Yang and Y. Y. Li. General Theory of the Quasi-Chemical Method in the Statistical Theory of Superlattices. Chinese J. Phys. 7, 59 (1947). [48a] C. N. Yang. On the Angular Distribution in Nuclear Reactions and Coincidence Measurements. Phys. Rev. 74, 764 (1948). 2 [48b] S. K. Allison, H. V. Argo, W. R. Arnold, L. del Rosario, H. A. Wilcox and C. N. Yang. Measurement of Short Range Nuclear Recoils from Disintegrations of the Light Elements. Phys. Rev. 74, 1233 (1948). [48c] C. -
Astrobiology and the Possibility of Life on Earth and Elsewhere…
Space Sci Rev DOI 10.1007/s11214-015-0196-1 Astrobiology and the Possibility of Life on Earth andElsewhere... Hervé Cottin1 · Julia Michelle Kotler2,3 · Kristin Bartik4 · H. James Cleaves II5,6,7,8 · Charles S. Cockell9 · Jean-Pierre P. de Vera10 · Pascale Ehrenfreund11 · Stefan Leuko12 · Inge Loes Ten Kate13 · Zita Martins14 · Robert Pascal15 · Richard Quinn16 · Petra Rettberg12 · Frances Westall17 Received: 24 September 2014 / Accepted: 6 August 2015 © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015 Abstract Astrobiology is an interdisciplinary scientific field not only focused on the search of extraterrestrial life, but also on deciphering the key environmental parameters that have enabled the emergence of life on Earth. Understanding these physical and chemical parame- ters is fundamental knowledge necessary not only for discovering life or signs of life on other planets, but also for understanding our own terrestrial environment. Therefore, astrobiology pushes us to combine different perspectives such as the conditions on the primitive Earth, the B H. Cottin [email protected] 1 LISA, UMR CNRS 7583, Université Paris Est Créteil et Université Paris Diderot, Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, 61, av du Général de Gaulle, 94010 Créteil Cedex, France 2 Leiden Institute of Chemistry, P.O. Box 9502, 2300 Leiden, The Netherlands 3 Faculty of Applied Sciences, City of Oxford College, Oxpens Road, Oxford, OX1 1SA, UK 4 EMNS, Ecole Polytechnique, Université libre de Bruxelles, 1050 Bruxelles, Belgium 5 Blue Marble Space Institute of Science, -
A Bibliography of Publications of Stanis Law M. Ulam
A Bibliography of Publications of Stanislaw M. Ulam Nelson H. F. Beebe University of Utah Department of Mathematics, 110 LCB 155 S 1400 E RM 233 Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090 USA Tel: +1 801 581 5254 FAX: +1 801 581 4148 E-mail: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] (Internet) WWW URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/ 17 March 2021 Version 2.56 Abstract This bibliography records publications of Stanis law Ulam (1909–1984). Title word cross-reference $17.50 [Bir77]. $49.95 [B´ar04]. $5.00 [GM61]. α [OVPL15]. -Fermi [OVPL15]. 150 [GM61]. 1949 [Ano51]. 1961 [Ano62]. 1963 [UdvB+64]. 1970 [CFK71]. 1971 [Ula71b]. 1974 [Hua76]. 1977 [Kar77]. 1979 [Bud79]. 1984 [DKU85]. 2000 [Gle02]. 20th [Cip00]. 25th [Ano05]. 49.95 [B´ar04]. 1 2 60-year-old [Ano15]. 7342-438 [Ula71b]. ’79 [Bud79]. Abbildungen [MU31, SU34b, SU34a, SU35a, Ula34, Ula33a]. Abelian [MU30]. Abelsche [MU30]. Above [Mar87]. abstract [Ula30c, Ula39b, Ula78d]. abstrakten [Ula30c]. accelerated [WU64]. Accelerates [Gon96b]. Adam [Gle02]. Adaptive [Hol62]. additive [BU42, Ula30c]. Advances [Ano62, Ula78d]. Adventures [Met76, Ula76a, Ula87d, Ula91a, Bir77, Wil76]. Aerospace [UdvB+64]. ago [PZHC09]. Alamos [DKU85, MOR76a, HPR14, BU90, Ula91b]. Albert [RR82]. algebra [BU78, CU44, EU45b, EU46, Gar01a, TWHM81]. Algebraic [Bud79, SU73]. Algebras [BU75, BU76, EU50d]. Algorithm [JML13]. Algorithms [Cip00]. allgemeinen [Ula30d]. America [FB69]. American [UdvB+64, Gon96a, TWHM81]. Analogies [BU90]. analogy [Ula81c, Ula86]. Analysis [Goa87, JML13, RB12, Ula49, Ula64a, Jun01]. Andrzej [Ula47b]. anecdotal [Ula82c]. Annual [Ano05]. any [OU38a, Ula38b]. applicability [Ula69b]. application [EU50d, LU34]. Applications [Ula56b, Ula56a, Ula81a]. Applied [GM61, MOR76b, TWHM81, Ula67b]. appreciation [Gol99]. Approach [BPP18, Ula42]. -
Important Events in the Life of Chen Ning Yang (CNY)
10-Aug-11 Important Events in the Life of Chen Ning Yang (CNY) First published in Chinese in “Yang Chen Ning” 《人情物理楊振寧》(ed. by Yip Chung-man, The Chinese University Press, 2002). Amended by CNY in 2010. 1922 CNY was born on October 1 in Hefei, Anhui, China. His father was Yang Wu-zhi (楊武之) and his mother Luo Meng-hua (羅孟華). He is the eldest son of the family and was nicknamed “Da Ning-zi” (大寧子). 1923 When CNY was not one year old, his father left for the US to pursue graduate studies and CNY lived with his mother in Hefei. 1926 His mother taught him how to read. 1928 CNY's father came back from the US. Went with his parents to Xiamen. Enrolled in primary school grade two. His father taught him English, arithmetic and Tang poetry at home. 1929 CNY’s family moved to Beijing and lived in No. 19 (later changed to No. 11), Xi-yuan, of Tsinghua Yuan. He enrolled in grade three of Chengzhi Primary School where he showed great talents in mathematics. His classmates called him "Big Head", "Science Head". Hsiung Ping-ming (熊秉明), who later became an artist in France, and Zheng Shi-cheng (鄭士成, who later changed his name to 鄭師拙) were his childhood friends. 1930 Brother Chen-ping (振平) was born. 1931 Japanese troops occupied Manchuria. CNY’s teacher, Mr. Han, detailed to the class Japanese brutality. 1932 Brother Zhen-han (振漢) was born. 1933 After graduating from Chengzhi primary school, CNY boarded at Chongde Middle School. 1934 CNY in grade eight. -
Journal of Natal and Zulu History Vol.29, 2011
Journal of Natal and Zulu History Vol.29, 2011 “Colours Do Not Mix”: Segregated Classes at the University of Natal, 1936-19591 Surendra Bhana and Goolam Vahed University of Kansas and University of KwaZulu-Natal The “university” was situated at the back of Sastri College. It consisted of a small office, a well-furnished common room for the lecturers; an ill-furnished, flea-infested common room for the black students. We had a library, which we used to call “two-by-two”…a tiny library and there was a prefab building. That was Natal University Non-European Section. Sum total of it! It only became alive after four ‘o clock in the afternoon when the part-time students, who were in the majority, mainly Indian teachers, came from school. And we had to wait for the classrooms of Sastri College to be evacuated …Whites had three universities, one in Pietermaritzburg, and in Durban one in Warwick Avenue and the main campus was Howard College. I spent six years at Natal University and only went twice to Howard College.2 - Kader Hassim When A.H. Peters, a respected court interpreter in Pietermaritzburg, applied for permission for his son Maurice to do a pre-medical course at Natal University College (NUC) in 1921, the application was declined on racial grounds. Maurice instead left for Edinburgh and returned in 1926 as a qualified medical practitioner. He established a practice in Pietermaritzburg and holds the distinction of being the first South Africa born Indian to qualify as a medical doctor. He joined the Colonial Born Indian Settlers Association and played an active public role among Indians in the province.3 When Krish Bharatram requested admission into the Science programme at NUC, he was informed that the university could not accommodate him but that he could enrol for an Arts degree which the university offered to Black students in segregated classes.4 1 An earlier version of this paper was presented by S. -
Lee, Tsung-Dao
Name in English: Tsung-Dao Lee Name in Chinese: 李政道 [李政道] Name in Pinyin: Lǐ Zhèngdào Gender: Male Birth Year: 1926 Birth Place: Shanghai, China Profession(s): Physicist, well-known for parity violation, Lee Model, particle physics, relativistic heavy ion physics. Current interests: the bosonic nature of high Tc superconductivity, the neutrino mapping matrix and new ways to solve Schrödinger equation. Education: 1943-44: Zhejiang University[浙江大學, Guizhou (貴州) province, China, temporary location during Japan’s invasion), 1945: Southwest Associated University(西南聯合大學), Kun- ming (昆明), Yunnan (雲南) province, China (Peking and Tsinghua Universities (北京和清華大學) of Beijing (北京) and Nankai University (南開大學) of Tianjin (天津) without a degree, PhD, Physics, 1950, University of Chicago under Enrico Fermi. Colleges without degree, 1943-45: Zhejiang University, Guizhou province; Southwest Associated University, Kunming; Peking and Tsinghua Universities, Beijing; Nankai University, Tianjin. Ph. D/Physics, University of Chicago (under Enrico Fermi), 1946-50 Awards: 1957, Nobel Prize in Physics; 1957, Albert Einstein Award; 1979, Galileo Galilei Medal; 1994, Science for Peace Prize; 1955, China National- International Cooperation Award; 1997, Naming of Small Planet 3443 as the T.D. Lee Planet; 1997, New York City Science Award, 2000New York Academy of Science Award; 2007, Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star, Japan. Contribution (s): In 1957, Lee, with C. N. Yang, won the Nobel Prize in Physics on the violation of parity law in weak interaction, which Chien-Shiung Wu experimentally verified (first Chinese Nobel winners). Publications: Lee, T.D. (1986). Ed. G. Feinberg: Selected Papers, Vols 1-3. Boston•Basel•Stuttgart: Birkhauser. ISBN 0-8176-3344-8(complete set), 3-7643- 3344-8(complete set). -
A Complete Bibliography of Publications of John Von Neumann
A Complete Bibliography of Publications of John von Neumann Nelson H. F. Beebe University of Utah Department of Mathematics, 110 LCB 155 S 1400 E RM 233 Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090 USA Tel: +1 801 581 5254 FAX: +1 801 581 4148 E-mail: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] (Internet) WWW URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/ 09 March 2021 Version 1.199 Abstract This bibliography records publications of John von Neumann (1903– 1957). Title word cross-reference 1 + 2 [vN51c]. $125 [Lup03]. $19.95 [Kev81]. 2; 000 [MRvN50]. $23.00 [MC00]. $25.00 [Jon04]. $29.95 [CK12]. 21=3 [vNT55]. $35.00 [Ano91, Pan92]. $37.50 [Ano91]. $45.00 [Ano91]. e [MRvN50, Rei50]. F∞ [vN62]. H [vN29b, von10]. N [vN46b]. ν [vN62]. p [DJ13]. p = Kρ4=3 ρ [vNxxb]. π [MRvN50, Rei50, She12]. q [DJ13]. Tρ = 0 [vN35h]. -theorem [von10]. -Theorems [vN29b]. /119.00 [Emc02]. /89.00 [Emc02]. 1 2 0 [Lup03, MC00, Rec07]. 0-19-286162-X [Twe93]. 0-201-50814-1 [Ano91]. 0-262-01121-2 [Ano91, Bow92]. 0-262-12146-8 [Ano91]. 0-262-16123-0 [Ano91]. 0-521-52094-0 [Jon04]. 0-7923-6812-6 [Emc02, Lup03]. 0-8027-1348-3 [MC00]. 0-8218-3776-1 [Rec07]. 1 [GvN47b, GvN47c, GvN47d, Rec07, vNW28a]. 10/18/51 [McC83]. 12th [Var88, Wah96]. 1900s [IM95]. 1927 [Has10a]. 1940s [IM09a]. 1942-1952 [Fit13]. 1946 [vN57b]. 1949 [Ano51]. 1950s [IM09a, Mah11]. 1954 [R´ed99]. 1957 [Ano57c, OPP58, Tel57, Wig57, Wig67a, Wig67c, Wig80]. 1981 [Bir83]. 1982 [TWA+87]. 1988 [B+89, GIS90, Var88]. -
Building a World Without Borders for Scientific
ADVERTISEMENT FEATURE CUSPEA Symposium and CUSPEA Prize in October 2020 at Wenzhou China BUILDING A WORLD WITHOUT BORDERS FOR SCIENTIFIC EXCHANGE A NEW SCIENTIST-LED INITIATIVE is presenting young scholars with opportunities for international recognition and collaborative innovation. The global pandemic and entrepreneur, and chair of the students from China, including Chinese Academy of Sciences, geopolitical landscape presents CUSPEA Foundation for the three who were tutored by such as Xincheng Xie and Chao new challenges for international Advancement of Science and Leggett, and with whom he Tang (currently the president of scientific exchange. The Technology. continues to collaborate. CUSPEA Scholars Association). inaugural CUSPEA prize, whose “In less than a year, despite “Carrying on Lee’s invaluable “We will take our vision to roots can be traced to the 1979 the pandemic, our global legacy to gather scholars of all fruition from promoting Lee’s economic opening of China, is network of CUSPEA alumni backgrounds and nationalities, contributions and spirits across set to transcend borders and has mobilized resources for we want to recognize not just national universities in China, to create new platforms for growth the CUSPEA prize launched first-class research, but also planning joint programmes at and exchange. in October 2020,” she said. outstanding efforts in science Columbia University,” Dong said. Initiated by Tsung-Dao Lee, “Along with our other planned communications to the general The China Association the Chinese-American 1957 initiatives, this will promote a public,” explained Leggett. for Science and Technology Physics Nobel Prize Laureate and scientific collective, while giving is another key collaborator, the University Professor Emeritus back to the world.