NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNER JOHN BOYD ORR

The Scottish physician and biologist John Boyd Orr emerged in the inter-war years as one of Britain's leading experts on nutrition. He maintained that many Britons were malnourished because their incomes were too low. Boyd Orr participated in the efforts in the League of Nations to achieve an international policy on nutrition. During the Second World War, he proposed the idea of a "world food plan" to President Franklin D. Roosevelt of the USA. In 1945 he was elected Director-General of the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization), the first of the specialised organisations established under the United Nations. Food and prosperity for all people on earth led to peace, Boyd Orr argued.

Boyd Orr was an ardent adherent of world organisation as a means of securing peace, and argued for a world government ruling according to rules of international law. The nations of the world were now so dependent on each other that they had to give up some of their sovereignty. Boyd Orr was elevated to the peerage for his national and international commitment.

In 1949 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize "for his lifelong effort to conquer hunger and want, thereby helping to remove a major cause of military conflict and war."

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THE GENIUS OF CHARLES DARWIN

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PART 1: LIFE, DARWIN & EVERYTHING

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In the first part of this series, Richard Dawkins retraces Darwin's journey as a scientist, from the UK via Africa, to America.

He re-examines the rich evidence of the natural world which opened Darwin's eyes to the extraordinary truth that all living things must be related and had evolved from a common ancestor.

Darwin knew his espousal of evolution would cause outrage, challenging, as it did, the prevailing religious view of the world and our place in it.

As Dawkins explains, it was really his theory of natural selection that undermined the notion of a benevolent God who designed all creatures great and small.

Back in Britain, Dawkins tries to convince a year 11 science class that evolution is the truth but confesses that 'a few hours in the science lab is no substitute for a lifetime of religious indoctrination'.

 

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NIKOLA TESLA

REMEMBERING SPB ON HIS FIRST DEATH ANNIVERSARY

BIOGRAPHY OF H G WELLS : Famous Biographies

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H.G. Wells' parents were shopkeepers in Kent, England. His first novel, The Time Machine was an instant success and Wells produced a series of science fiction novels which pioneered our ideas of the future. His later work focused on satire and social criticism. Wells laid out his socialist views of human history in his Outline of History.

 

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H.G.WELLS, GRANDFATHER OF SCIENCE FICTION

Sep 21, 1866 :

It's the birthday of Herbert George Wells. His sci-fi novels,  The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, and War of the Worlds made him famous. 

He is known as THE GRANDFATHER OF SCIENCE FICTION.

He passed away in 1946.

MICHAEL FARADAY, FATHER OF ELECTRICITY

*Michael Faraday* was an English scientist who contributed to the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. His main discoveries include the principles underlying electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism and electrolysis.

He was born on this day in 1791 (September 22) and passed away on 25 August 1867.

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He is known as The Father of Electricity.

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NOBEL LAUREATE DONALD GLASER

"I wanted to be sure not to overlook simple experimental possibilities, so I took some bottles of beer, ginger ale, and soda water into my laboratory, warmed them as much as I dared, and opened them with and without a radioactive source nearby."

Remembering physicist and music lover Donald Glaser, born on this day in 1926, who was awarded the physics prize in 1960 for inventing and developing the bubble chamber.

In 1952, Glaser invented the bubble chamber. His invention made it possible to study particles with higher energies compared to what had been possible in the predecessor - the cloud chamber. 

To test the limitations of his new apparatus, Glaser did a beer experiment with his bubble chamber. It went as planned, the only issue being that the Michigan laboratory smelled like a brewery for weeks afterwards. 

Read Glaser's Nobel Prize lecture to learn more about the invention of the bubble chamber: https://bit.ly/3m1mYHh

Photos: Donald Glaser at work. A artistically-enhanced image that shows the tracks of real particles produced when a neutrino interacted in a liquid mixture of neon and hydrogen inside the Big European Bubble Chamber (BEBC). The tracks become visible when bubbles form along the paths of the particles as a piston expands the liquid. A magnetic field is produced in the detector causing the particles to travel in spirals, allowing charge and momentum to be measured. (text from CERN)

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