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...angstrom is equal to one hundred-millionth of a centimeter and is used to measure the length of light waves. The word has nothing to do with Angst, but pays tribute to Pioneer Spectroscopist Anders Angstrom...
...didn't like the erotic bits," Lord Rutherford told the young novelist one day in 1934. But otherwise, Britain's most famous scientist conceded, he liked The Search-a first novel by a young spectroscopist named Charles Percy Snow. The book was one of the first to take scientists at their own high estimate of themselves, it presented science itself as a religion, and it even mentioned Rutherford himself as a high pontifical character of unapproachable magnificence...
...alumnus of the Atomic Energy Commission plant at Los Alamos, Lehrer has been on a brief leave from his defense job as "theoretical physicist, research mathematician, spectroscopist, or what have you" in Cambridge, Mass. Next week he is due back at his desk, where, says Lehrer, "I sit and think...
Duane (an amateur entomologist) and Tyler (a spectroscopist) teamed up to test the possibility that female moths send-and the males receive-mating calls in infrared (heat) waves. The researchers first took the temperature of the female night-mating moth with a tiny thermocouple buried in the fur of her thorax. They found that it might be as much as 11° above the temperature of the surroundings. Since all warm objects radiate in the infrared, the conclusion was that a hot-blooded female moth "must literally 'shine' against a background of cool forest objects...
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