Accomplishments and Awards
Articles, Quotes and Other Writings of George Washington Carver
Caring for the Fruits of Creation
Creative Quotes from George Washington Carver
Poem: "Equipment" (recited at the 1942 Selma University commencement address)
Articles of Interest
Everything's relative. Speed, mass, space and time are all subjective. Nor are age, motion or the wanderings of the planets measures that humans can agree on anymore; they can be judged only by the whim of the observer. Light has weight. Space has curves. And coiled within a pound of matter, any matter, is the explosive power of 14 million tons of TNT. We know all this, we are set adrift in this way at the end of the 20th century, because of Albert Einstein.
The popular magazine TIME put together this attractive site of the biographies and accomplishments of the most important scientists and inventors of the 20th Century to accompany TIME's Man of the Century site - that man being Albert Einstein. Essays on the Wright Brothers (aviation), Watson and Crick (genetics), Tim Berners-Lee (the World Wide Web) and many others in between are designed for a mainstream audience, though should prove useful as background information for scholars. The articles were written by established scholars (Peter Gay wrote about Sigmund Freud for instance while Donald Johanson wrote about the Leakey family). The site also includes photographs, audio-clips, and slide presentations.
When their father died, Fleming's eldest brother inherited the running of the farm. Another brother Tom had studied medicine and was opening a practice in London. Soon, four Fleming brothers and a sister were living together in London. Alec, as he was called, had moved to London when he was about 14, and went to the Polytechnic School in Regent Street. Tom encouraged him to enter business. After completing school he was employed by a shipping firm, though he didn't much like it. In 1900, when the Boer War broke out between the United Kingdom and its colonies in southern Africa, Alec and two brothers joined a Scottish regiment. This turned out to be as much a sporting club as anything; they honed their shooting, swimming, and even water polo skills, but never went to the Transvaal. Soon after this, the Flemings' uncle died and left them each 250 pounds. Tom's medical practice was now thriving and he encouraged Alec to put his legacy toward the study of medicine.
Each month one or more issues is published in each of the topic areas you can see below. To have access to any one of these areas over the Web, as new issues are published, is only GBP2/US$3 per month, and double that to have unrestricted personal access to ALL areas. Please contact us at info@exnet.com for subscription information for individuals or groups (accredited educational institutions may be accepted free of charge).
What have Astronomy, Photography, Engineering and Horticulture got in common ? Obviously they are branches of the sciences, but there is a less obvious link, a family and their home in almost the exact centre of Ireland.
A few clues, between 1845 and 1915, the world's largest telescope, the invention of the steam turbine in 1884 and the world's first steam turbine powered ship in 1897.
The castle and estate at Birr, Co. Offaly in Ireland, has been owned by the Parsons family for over 300 years. In this time, Birr castle demense has seen a host of scientific and technological achievement, much of which has changed the world. To help preserve this heritage for future generations, the ``Birr Scientific and Heritage Foundation'' was formed.
In accordance with the mandate to study the "Transformation of Canada," the collection of the Canada Science and Technology Museum encompasses a broad cross-section of Canadian scientific and technological heritage. National in scope, this unique collection consists of artifacts, photographs, technical drawings, trade literature, and rare books, all of which are complemented and supported by library holdings of monographs and serials.
Then + Now
A brief overview of this Web site that compares what we knew in 1900 to what we know today
That's My Theory
Meet some of the scientists who made twentieth century history on this made-for-the-Web game show
On the Edge
These comic-book style stories take you back through time and present scientists soon after they made their discoveries
The Nobel Prize is the first international award given yearly since 1901 for achievements in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and peace. The prize consists of a medal, a personal diploma, and a prize amount.
This site begins with articles about Physics, Chemistry and Medicine and lists of all Nobel laureates. Each year is a link to more detailed information about that year's winner and many of the presentation speeches before the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Sadly there is no search engine that would permit researchers to quickly find specific ideas and concepts. Additionally, more recent speaches are not included in this site (and the video versions do not come with a transcript). Links also provide more detailed information about winners and their theories. The page also provides information about Alfred Nobel and the history of the Nobel Prize.
Biography and Major Scientific Achievement of Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins.
Pioneer of the discipline of Biochemistry, and discoverer of vitamins and essential amino acids.
Biography and Major Scientific Achievement of Marshall W. Nirenberg.
The man who cracked the genetic code.
The site includes bibliographies and short biographies of two important biochemists, Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins and Marshall W. Nirenberg who made significant contributions to the knowledge of amino acids and dna, leading to the development of genetic science. Both the pages for Hopkins and Nirenberg include chronologies of the men and biographies of works by and about the two biologists.
Click on letter to go to index.)
-A-
Ampère, André Marie (1775-1836):
Ampère, a teacher at Paris, has his permanent place in the history of science because it was his name that was given to the unit by which we measure electrical current. He had, of course, an interest in electricity; in addition, Ampère made similar investigations as did Avogadro into the nature of matter in its gaseous state.
Alfven, Hannes Olof Gosta (1908- ):
What I know of Alfven is that he was born in Sweden in 1908; and, while at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, in 1970, he won the Nobel Prize in Physics "for fundamental work and discoveries in magneto-hydrodynamics with fruitful applications in different parts of plasma physics." I first bumped into Alfven when I picked up a small paperback book of his, which I very much enjoyed, Atom, Man, and the Universe, The Long Chain of Complications (San Francisco: Freeman, 1969). It was written simply and plainly for a general audience, and enables us "to view ourselves both as a part of the atomic microcosm and as part of the universe that dwarfs us."
