ideas these ideas were proposed that the bar was very high and I know the the discoverers of these ideas held back and were not comfortable with discussingwhat looked like growing evidence for the existence of yet another unseen entity right because though other unseen
So this very human scientist, I think also give us lessons about the role and the example of being a discoverer and an inventor. He reveled most in the excitement of discovery.
It was the first time diamonds had ever been found in the volcanic rock they came from. The discoverers named the source rock kimberlite, after the town, and started to study it. And after a hundred-odd years, we finally figured out how those special stones got there.
the capability of actually enhancing putting focus on a natural environment. So the shuttle discoverer is a pretty large machine.
And the rest of my talk is going to be devoted Lavoisier, who was really the founder of modern chemistry. He was the discoverer , or the co-discoverer , of nitrogen, oxygen, and hydrogen. But however, he was very much involved in pre-revolutionary and post-revolutionary politics.
We have today, Doctor Don Johanson. He's the discoverer of Lucy. Ever since finding that skeleton, that hominid, his team has discovered over 350 skeletons of that same species.
And in fact, I'd already decided that I wanted to discover a comet, in particular, for the very good reason that comets are named after their discoverers . If you discover an asteroid, you have to name it after somebody else.
actually a good way, very often, of getting at the truth. So they're also discoverers . They're attention-holders. And they're anchors for a fixed points.
the capability of actually enhancing putting focus on a natural environment. This is the bridge to the shuttle discoverer .
A few dozen times actually. The Hymenoptera were the main discoverers of this way of living. The bees, wasps and ants and they are able to live in gigantic colonies with massive division of labor, and they are able to do it because they are all sisters.
the capability of actually enhancing putting focus on a natural environment. not that big of a leap to the shuttle discoverer .
The other observation, sort of my final one, is that he would observe-- I think-- that we have moved too far away from the individualization of the inventor or the discoverer . We now do things with teams.
to research and science in the popular eye. His contributions to physics and cosmology include being the co-discoverer of oscillons, and of the publishing of numerous articles. And his research and his books have actually wound up in the publishing of four books, including "A Tear at the Edge
I'm curious about the transition from that into a very social role. I had a student who was one of the discoverers , or one of the original thinkers on string theory.
This image appeared in National Geographic in 1981 in an article written by my mentor in that field, Dr. Robert Ballard, you may know as the discoverer of the Titanic. And in this article, Ballard laid out this new vision for exploring the seafloor which was remote or telepresence.
that. So, the example that's very close to my heart is, in The Invention of Air, the hero of that book is Joseph Priestly, who is most famous for isolating oxygen for the first time. He's known as the discoverer of oxygen, although when he did it, he called it "dephilostigated air" instead of oxygen, which was not a very good brand and didn't really stick. And it turned out that actually, two other people, Lavoisier and Scheele, the Swedish, I believe, scientist, also isolated oxygen within about a year; somewhere between
Deeply shaken, he concluded this new substance, nitroglycerin, was just too dangerous. He later wrote, "I am almost ashamed to admit to be its discoverer ." But Alfred disagreed. To him, the hammer strike was like a pistol shot.
That's part of the American origin myth. Even though Columbus never set foot in North America, he is still claimed as the discoverer of America. But others, maybe a little more subtle, are things like the first Thanksgiving, right?
So it comes back to this is Robert Trivers, who was the discoverer of reciprocal altruism, which is basically the idea, why do we help people in the biological sense?
Why is Angela Duckworth, who is one of the discoverers and major proponents of grit, has said, why is it that no one really
to all of you he is a was a great molecular biologist he's one of the co discoverers of the structure of the DNA
convened a group of 20 of the world's leading HIV scientists, including Nobel Prize winner and co-discoverer of HIV.
the Historic American Engineering Record and our mandate was to document the technology of the built environment. Historic technology, as I like to say, from wind mills to steel mills to even the shuttle discoverer . And this program has all the documentation that I did over a 35 year period of time becomes public domain
That reminds me of a quote by, I think it was Joseph Priestley, the discoverer of oxygen and inventor of carbonated beverages,
Yes, you did. So Semmelweis, as those who heard about him know, is, in some sense, the discoverer of hygiene, the fact
discovering the waters off the bank. But then in 1957, Mel Fisher, who some of you guys may know is the discoverer of the richest treasure on the sea floor off of Florida.
That's because science has become so big in the meantime, two people from Nobel Prize for physics in 1965 the discoverers of the microwave background,
What would be a possible discovery, such that it kind of almost automatically spells the end of the discoverers ?