Research Projects: ...man sailing ship 400 feet (120 m) away. In all of the experiments, the sail failed to reach the 210 °C (410 °F) required to catch fire, and the verdict was again "busted". The show...
Research Projects: ...also concluded that objects retain their velocity unless a force—often friction—acts upon them, refuting t...it mathematically, verify it experimentally, and introduce the idea of frictional force, the key breakthro...
Research Projects: ...although many others do not.
Various atoms and molecules as depicted in John Dalton's A New Syst...tomic theory, the principles of the theory survived. To be sure, the conviction that atoms cannot be subdi...
About me: ...orn
30 August 1871Brightwater, Tasman District, New Zealand
Died...tudents
Nazir AhmedNorman AlexanderEdward Victor AppletonRobert William Boyl...her notable students
Edward AndradeEdward Victor AppletonPatrick BlackettNie...
Awards, Honours, Patents: ...ledge Award in the Ecology and Conservation Biology Category, 2010
Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture, 2010
2010 Heartland Prize for fiction for his first novel Anthil...