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Hace 3 días · Early life Portrait of Charles Babbage (c. 1820)Babbage's birthplace is disputed, but according to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography he was most likely born at 44 Crosby Row, Walworth Road, London, England. A blue plaque on the junction of Larcom Street and Walworth Road commemorates the event.. His date of birth was given in his obituary in The Times as 26 December 1792; but then a ...
Hace 3 días · William Herschel (1738-1822) Although best known as an astronomer who discovered Uranus, William Herschel also made significant contributions to the Industrial Revolution. He improved the design of reflecting telescopes, enabling him to build the largest telescopes of his time.
Hace 2 días · Sir Frederick William Herschel was a brilliant scientists who revolutionized astronomy. But before becoming a brililant scientists, William had a whole nothe...
Hace 5 días · But Shakespeare doesn’t get all the glory in Uranian moon names. In 1851, William Lassell had discovered two other moons of Uranus. But it was John Herschel who gave all four moons their final names. For the two Lassell discovered he chose Ariel and Umbriel.
Hace 4 días · Anatoli Bugorski’s Accident Inside the U-70 Synchrotron. Anatoli was born on June 25, 1942, in Russia. In 1978, he started working as a researcher at the Institute for High Energy Physics in Protvino, working with the U-70 synchrotron particle accelerator, On that fateful day on July 13, 1978, it was routine work for Bugorski as he was ...
Hace 4 días · You get to meet John Herschel who will share his many scientific pursuits and we’ll try out one of his inventions, cyanotypes. We’ll learn about ultraviolet light, our Sun and do a bit of chemistry. It’s related to astronomy and life on this planet, you and me, and the birth of the Royal Astronomical Society!
Hace 17 horas · Variously called the “Cumbrian Princess” and the “Finsthwaite Princess,” Clementina has been reputed to be the illegitimate daughter of Charles Edward Stuart, commonly known as Bonnie Prince Charles (1720-1788) the Jacobite “Young Pretender” to the throne of Great Britain, by his mistress, Clementina Maria Sophia Walkinshaw (c1720 – 1802).
