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mirror in the direct sunlight. To his amazement, the water, which he had initially measured to be 15 degrees, boiled in just an hour and a half. From then on—on sunny days—Augustin saved himself the bother [...] Third Re- public. Many of the arrangements that Augustin had had in place vanished, the notable solar ma- chine that he had set up in Paris was nowhere to be found, and the technical support from the Im-
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teacher at the primary schools of Morvan (1845–1849) and then taught at Dijon. In 1852 he attained a degree in Mathematics and a Bachelor of Physical Sciences in 1853. Later Mou- chot was a mathematics teacher [...] exper- iments with other materials as insulators an tried cooking at different altitudes. Claude Servais Ma- thias Pouille was a French physicist.. Between 1837 and 1838, independently of John Frederick Wil-
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naked eye to 1/20 of a division it followed that 1/200 of a degree Fahr, was an appreciable tem- perature" (Joule 1884, p. 303). At such a degree of sensitivity, water is far from being at a constant temperature [...] Mouchot who, in the 1870ies carried out substantial re- search on using solar energy for industrial ma- chinery. Count Rumford and his work on heat Rumford’s work on heat covers a huge variety of researches; [...] a field that nowadays can be labeled ‘energy effi- ciency’, particularly with respect to different ma- terials. The formulation of the principle of energy con- servation Joule started his research in analyzing
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Thanks to that job, she gained the valuable experience. In 1921, she already had the bachelor’s degree in physics and maths, and she finished her research in which she indicated the atomic mass of chlorine [...] years old, and she started working with her mother in military hospitals where they operated the X-ray ma- chines, an innovation to surgery that saved a lot of lives of wounded soldiers. At the same time Irene
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pervisor. Cambridge had just instituted the new “Doctor of Philosophy” degree, and Rutherford was among the first few to earn this degree. By 1898, at the age of 27, with JJ’s help, Rutherford obtained his [...] high-frequency electrical circuits and worked with radio waves. After he graduated with his Master’s degree, he looked for a job as a school teacher. Evidently, he must not have been very good at it because [...] atom. Philosophical Magazine, 21, 669–688. Wilson, D. (1983). Rutherford: Simple genius. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Ernest’s Nuclear Atom was edited by Cathrine Froese Klas- sen with the support the European
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decision to take physics courses the following year. In 1893, Rutherford obtained a Master of Arts degree with double First Class Honours, in Mathe- matics, Mathematical Physics, and Physical Science (s [...] gold foil. The scatter- ing of the alpha particle should have only been de- flected by one or two degrees. A few days later, Marsden reported that he saw about one in 10,000 alpha particles scattered at [...] Such a state- ment is somewhat annoying from today’s point of view; however, it illustrates the degree to which knowledge about the nature of science has developed in recent decades. In order to teach
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naked eye to 1/20 of a division it followed that 1/200 of a degree Fahr, was an appreciable tem- perature" (Joule 1884, p. 303). At such a degree of sensitivity, water is far from being at a constant temperature [...] In 1968, units of temperature on the absolute degree scale were given the official name of kelvin, and the symbol K. References Lindley, D. (2004). Degrees Kelvin : a tale of genius, invention, and tragedy [...] e increase in the water was 0,055 degrees oF. 2. You have selected a mass of 10 lbs. and let it drop 10 times. The temperature increase in the water was 0,109 degrees oF. 3. You have selected a mass of
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persuaded by his father, he took up Law studies at the University of Paris and obtained his Bachelor’s degree on September 6, 1763. One year later on July 26, 1764, he acquired a license to run a solicitor practice [...] mass. Lavoisier’s explanations led to the overthrow of the phlogiston theory, which maintained that ma- terials gave off a substance called phlogiston dur- ing combustion (Reflexions sur le Phlogistique [...] declared that one calorie is the amount of energy needed to heat up one gram of water from 4 to 5 degrees centigrade (see Ziegler 1922, pp. 520 – 526). 10 Duden, Fremdwörter, Eintrag Energie 11 The term