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[[File:Rider-Waite_Space_Elevator.jpg|link=Rider-Waite Space Elevator|thumb|The '''[[Rider-Waite Space Elevator]]'''. (Publicity photo courtesy of the #AsBelowSoAbove Society.)]]
[[File:Rider-Waite_Space_Elevator.jpg|link=Rider-Waite Space Elevator|thumb|The '''[[Rider-Waite Space Elevator]]'''. (Publicity photo courtesy of the #AsBelowSoAbove Society.)]]


• ... that chemist, philosopher, educator, and clergyman '''[[Joseph Priestley (nonfiction)|Joseph Priestley]]''' is historically been credited with the discovery of oxygen, having isolated it in its gaseous state; yet Priestly's determination to defend phlogiston theory and to reject what would become the chemical revolution left him isolated within the scientific community of his time?
• ... that in 1896, Russian physicist '''[[Alexander Stepanovich Popov (nonfiction)|Alexander Stepanovich Popov]]''' transmitted a message between campus buildings in St Petersburg?


• ... that in 1896, Russian physicist '''[[Alexander Stepanovich Popov (nonfiction)|Alexander Stepanovich Popov]]''' transmitted a message between campus buildings in St Petersburg?
• ... that biochemist and crystallographer '''[[John Kendrew (nonfiction)|John Kendrew]]''' born shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for chemistry with Max [[Max Perutz (nonfiction)|Perutz]] for determining the atomic structures of proteins using X-ray crystallography?
 
• ... that chemist, philosopher, educator, and clergyman '''[[Joseph Priestley (nonfiction)|Joseph Priestley]]''' is historically been credited with the discovery of oxygen, having isolated it in its gaseous state; yet Priestly's determination to defend [[Phlogiston theory (nonfiction)|phlogiston theory]] and to reject what would become the chemical revolution left him isolated within the scientific community of his time?


• ... that the '''[[Rider-Waite Space Elevator]]''' is a space elevator based on the Ryder-Waite tarot deck?
• ... that the '''[[Rider-Waite Space Elevator]]''' is a space elevator based on the Ryder-Waite tarot deck?

Revision as of 08:28, 24 March 2021

The Rider-Waite Space Elevator. (Publicity photo courtesy of the #AsBelowSoAbove Society.)

• ... that in 1896, Russian physicist Alexander Stepanovich Popov transmitted a message between campus buildings in St Petersburg?

• ... that biochemist and crystallographer John Kendrew born shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for chemistry with Max Perutz for determining the atomic structures of proteins using X-ray crystallography?

• ... that chemist, philosopher, educator, and clergyman Joseph Priestley is historically been credited with the discovery of oxygen, having isolated it in its gaseous state; yet Priestly's determination to defend phlogiston theory and to reject what would become the chemical revolution left him isolated within the scientific community of his time?

• ... that the Rider-Waite Space Elevator is a space elevator based on the Ryder-Waite tarot deck?

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