HAPPY BIRTHDAY Mr 'SPECTROSCOPY' ANGSTROM!

Happy b-day Anders Jonas Ångström (by sciencemug)

[A.J. Ångström's picture is adapted from a Public Domain image by sciencemug (source: wikia.com)]

AJ, the 10^-10 metre guy...

(Wanna know something 'bout AJ's creature, miss spectroscopy? Go here) 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GALILEO!

Happy b-day Galileo! (by sciencemug)

Galileo Galilei (born: 15-2-1564), physicist, Italian, genius.

PS: the tool is the telescope

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SIR ISAAC NEWTON!

Happy b-day Sir Isaac (by sciencemug)

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*The exact date of Isaac's birthday depends on which calendar one refers to.

HAPPY B-DAY LORD 'WHY THE SKY IS BLUE' RAYLEIGH!

Happy B-day Lord Rayleigh! (by sciencemug)

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John William Strutt (aka Lord Rayleigh) was born this day in 1842. The man, a physicist, found out that the sky is blue 'cause the tiny molecules that compose the atmosphere do a trick, called scattering, to the sunlight. It's something that has to do with the fact that light is an electromagnetic wave, colours have different wavelenghts, molecules in the air are mean little things that manage to mess up only with colours with short wavelenghts, like our friend, Mr. Blue (aka 'Shorty'). So the other colours pass through the atmosphere like pros, while Shorty, here, it is all 'scattered' around... 

That's the story, more or less...

But maybe it's not like that, maybe it's just that you, human beings, you all are poets, in the flourishing, clumsy, bizarre depth of your chests. So when your self-consciousness emerged along the puzzling misty path of evolution and your eyes were fuelled for the first time by this new prodigious gift from semi-casuality, you, human beings, you poets and chanters, you simply decided that your sky is blue, 'cause blue fits it. Not too strong, as a colour, to burden the spectacle of it, not too dull to lessen its simple, pure, absolute majesty. 

Well, I said may be, no? Bhà...

Ah, by the way, my lord Rayleigh, there, he won a Nobel Prize in 1904 for he (and this dude, Sir Ramsay) discovered the gas argon (you know, that stuff that is used in lighting and is less than 1% of the above mentioned atmosphere of yours). 

Ah, by the way 2 the return of the bad jokes, what else a Lord and a Sir could have discovered if not a noble gas...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY EINSTEIN!

Happy birthday Einstein! (by sciencemug)

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Guess who said: "Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics, I assure you that mine are greater"... Go here if you want to know more about him and read other quotations of his.

BUON COMPLEANNO GALILEO!

Happy birthday Galileo!

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Curious about Galileo Galilei? Try this, and this.

WHO SAYS QUANTUM PHYSICS CAN'T COME IN HANDY?

A Schrodinger's box for mailmen (by sciencemug)