User:Kinhull
Luis Walter Alvarez (1911–1988) was an American experimental physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1968 for his discovery of resonance states in particle physics using the hydrogen bubble chamber. After receiving his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1936, Alvarez went to work for Ernest Lawrence at the Radiation Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley. He joined MIT Radiation Laboratory in 1940, where he contributed to a number of World War II radar projects and worked as a test pilot, before joining Robert Oppenheimer on the Manhattan Project in 1943. He moved back to Berkeley as a full professor after the war, going on to use his knowledge in work on improving particle accelerators. This 1969 photograph shows Alvarez with a magnetic monopole detector at Berkeley.Photograph credit: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory / Department of Energy
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Celestial globe by Åkerman
- ... that Anders Åkerman started the production of terrestrial and celestial globes (example pictured) in Sweden?
- ... that the West Georgia Wolves football team won 13 games in 13 years before folding, but upon returning two decades later compiled consecutive undefeated regular seasons and became national champions?
- ... that Fūka Izumi became a voice actress despite initially doubting that she could be one?
- ... that seven countries competed in the Eurovision Song Contest 1994 for the first time, the largest single expansion of participating countries since the contest's first edition?
- ... that the young Turkish open water swimmer Aysu Türkoğlu has completed three of the Oceans Seven series?
- ... that the Indianapolis African-American community raised $100,000 in just ten days in 1911 to establish the Senate Avenue YMCA?
- ... that Edgar Wright's pitch for an Ant-Man film in 2006 helped to shape the early films of Phase One of the Marvel Cinematic Universe?
- ... that while touring for her album Wallsocket, Underscores handed out pizza before her sets?
- ... that The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763–1789 has been the first, second, and third volume of the Oxford History of the United States?
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Voyager 1
- NASA announces that the Voyager 1 space probe (rendering shown) is sending readable data for the first time in five months.
- The HDZ-led coalition wins the most seats in the Croatian parliamentary election but falls short of a majority.
- Ichthyotitan, the largest known marine reptile, is formally described.
- Flooding in the Persian Gulf and Arabian Peninsula leaves more than thirty people dead.
- The historic Børsen in Copenhagen, Denmark, is severely damaged by a fire.
Selected anniversaries[edit]
April 24: Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day (1915); Administrative Professionals Day in various countries (2024)
Hubble Space Telescope
- 1837 – A fire broke out in Surat, India, which went on to destroy about 75% of the city.
- 1914 – The Franck–Hertz experiment, the first electrical measurement to clearly demonstrate quantum mechanics, was presented to the German Physical Society.
- 1916 – Irish republicans led by Patrick Pearse began the Easter Rising against British rule in Ireland, and proclaimed the Irish Republic an independent state.
- 1990 – The Hubble Space Telescope (pictured) was launched aboard STS-31 by Space Shuttle Discovery.
- 1993 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated a truck bomb in London's financial district in Bishopsgate, killing one person, injuring forty-four others, and causing damage that cost £350 million to repair.
- Mellitus (d. 624)
- Kumar Dharmasena (b. 1971)
- Estée Lauder (d. 2004)
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My Infobox[edit]
I am Kinhull.
I started editing wikipedia at 10:49 23 October 2005.
I like Distributed Computing (currently via the BOINC platform).
I am also a fan of the works of Arthur C. Clarke.
I am the founder of Team ACC - Arthur C Clarke Fans, an international BOINC community team.
I have written a BOINC mini-FAQ: 10 Frequently Asked Questions / Common Problems
My talk/discussion pages are here: User talk:Kinhull
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