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How Viruses Were Discovered
The history of the discovery of viruses spans many years, and includes many different biologists that contributed their share to the discovery. It all started with Adolf Mayer, a German agricultural biologist, in the 19th century, and other notable scientists include Dmitri Ivanovsky, Martinus Beijerinck, and Wendell M. Stanley.
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How The Atomic Number Was Discovered
Просмотров 40 тыс.День назад
Henry Moseley was a British physicist known for his discovery of Moseley's Law, which relates the atomic number to the "characteristic X-ray" of each element. Before Moseley's discovery, the atomic number was merely an arbitrary number given to elements, and was not the way elements were sorted on the periodic table.
The Maid Who Discovered A New Type of Star and Helped Map the Universe
Просмотров 1,1 тыс.28 дней назад
Williamina Fleming was a Scottish astronomer known mostly for her discovery of a new type of star, along with a plethora of new nebulae, novae, and variable stars. She started work as a maid in the home of Edward Pickering, and eventually became the head of a female team of "computers" at the Harvard College Observatory, responsible for analyzing and cataloging images taken by telescopes.
The Physicist Who First Connected Electricity and Magnetism
Просмотров 3,1 тыс.Месяц назад
Hans Christian Ørsted was a Danish physicist who is known for his accidental discovery that led to the connection of electricity and magnetism. He was also a talented chemist and was the first to isolate piperine and aluminum.
One of the Greatest Feuds in the History of Science
Просмотров 2,3 тыс.Месяц назад
This is the story of the feud between Sir Isaac Newton and Robert Hooke. This video covers what actually happened, some of what didn't happen, and discusses the effect it still has today.
The Man Who Accidentally Saved Millions of Lives
Просмотров 1,6 тыс.2 месяца назад
Alexander Fleming was a British microbiologist who is most known for his discovery of penicillin. His discovery happened accidentally after leaving out a culture of bacteria while on a vacation, leading to contamination of the culture by a fungus. Ernst Chain and Howard Florey took this discovery and made it producible at a massive scale, leading to penicillin saving hundreds of millions of liv...
The Father and Son Who Shared a Nobel Prize in Physics
Просмотров 3,4 тыс.3 месяца назад
William Henry Bragg and William Lawrence Bragg were a father and son duo that contributed heavily to both X-ray crystallography and X-ray spectroscopy. W.H. Bragg is known for the invention of his X-ray spectrometer, while W.L. Bragg is known for his simple but effect equation, known today as Bragg's law, which relates the incident angle of an x-ray with its angle of scattering in a crystal lat...
The Physicist Who Unveiled Crystal Structure With X-Rays
Просмотров 4,1 тыс.3 месяца назад
Max von Laue was a German physicist most known for his experiment that revealed crystalline structure though x-ray diffraction. This experiment also showed that x-rays are a form of light, and for both of these discoveries, he won the Nobel Prize in physics 1914.
The Chemist Who Discovered Vitamins
Просмотров 4,1 тыс.3 месяца назад
Casimir Funk was a Polish chemist who discovered the first 4 vitamins and is therefore responsible for curing the 4 correlated diseases. He coined the term "vitamine" in reference to the chemical structure of the first vitamin he discovered, thiamine. He, perhaps unfairly, was never given credit, for the Nobel Prize for the discovery of vitamins were give to predecessors who found a link betwee...
The Physicist That Validated the Existence of Atoms
Просмотров 5 тыс.3 месяца назад
Brownian Motion was first discovered by botanist Robert Brown, when doing experiments with pollen grains suspended in water. Since 1828, many developments on this theory have happened, and 1909 experiments done by Jean Baptiste Perrin confirmed Einstein's proposed theory in 1905 that Brownian Motion is due to collisions with molecules.
The Physicist Who Split Light Using an Electric Field
Просмотров 47 тыс.3 месяца назад
Johannes Stark was a German physicist who is known for two main discoveries done through research with canal rays, otherwise known as anode rays. He discovered the Doppler Effect in canal rays and also used them to split spectral lines of luminous hydrogen using strong electric fields.
The Man Who Saw Subatomic Particles for the First Time
Просмотров 10 тыс.4 месяца назад
CTR Wilson was a meteorologist and physicist known for the invention of the cloud chamber, for which he won the Nobel Prize in 1927. His invention allowed scientists to see radiation and other atomic and subatomic particles for the first time.
How Rutherford Split the Atom for the First Time
Просмотров 83 тыс.4 месяца назад
Ernest Rutherford was one of the greatest scientists of the 20th century, and was arguable the biggest pioneer of nuclear physics. This video covers his last major discovery: That alpha particles, when bombarding nitrogen atoms, cause the nitrogen to transform and release a proton in the process. This was the first documentation of a proton being expelled from the nucleus of an atom.
How A Radioactive Element Race Led to a Breakthrough Discovery
Просмотров 9 тыс.4 месяца назад
Frederick Soddy was a chemist who, after a scientific race with chemist Kasimierz Fajans, discovered isotopes of atoms. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1921 for his contributions.
The Mystery That Led to 3 Nobel Prizes in Physics (Including Einstein's)
Просмотров 37 тыс.5 месяцев назад
The photoelectric effect was a mysterious phenomenon that, alongside blackbody radiation, led to the birth of quantum physics. Three physicists won the Nobel Prize in Physics for their contributions to explaining this phenomenon: Philipp Lenard, Albert Einstein, and Robert Millikan.
The Experiment That Proved the Quantum Nature of the Atom
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The Experiment That Proved the Quantum Nature of the Atom
How the Oil Drop Experiment Discovered the Charge of the Electron
Просмотров 14 тыс.5 месяцев назад
How the Oil Drop Experiment Discovered the Charge of the Electron
The Physicist Who Brought Quantum Physics to the Atom
Просмотров 6 тыс.5 месяцев назад
The Physicist Who Brought Quantum Physics to the Atom
The Physicist Who Discovered Cosmic Rays
Просмотров 1,6 тыс.6 месяцев назад
The Physicist Who Discovered Cosmic Rays
How the Gold Foil Experiment Changed Our Understanding of the Atom
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How the Gold Foil Experiment Changed Our Understanding of the Atom
The Physicist Who First Liquefied Helium
Просмотров 4,1 тыс.6 месяцев назад
The Physicist Who First Liquefied Helium
The Nobel Laureate Who Was Blinded in His Pursuit of Innovation
Просмотров 13 тыс.6 месяцев назад
The Nobel Laureate Who Was Blinded in His Pursuit of Innovation
The Physicist Who Pioneered Thermal Radiation
Просмотров 14 тыс.7 месяцев назад
The Physicist Who Pioneered Thermal Radiation
The Physicist Who Transformed Gas Theory
Просмотров 41 тыс.7 месяцев назад
The Physicist Who Transformed Gas Theory
Did Edison Really Invent the Light Bulb?
Просмотров 1,1 тыс.7 месяцев назад
Did Edison Really Invent the Light Bulb?
How Rutherford Discovered Radioactive Decay
Просмотров 17 тыс.8 месяцев назад
How Rutherford Discovered Radioactive Decay
How Color Photography Was Proven to be Possible
Просмотров 2,5 тыс.8 месяцев назад
How Color Photography Was Proven to be Possible
The Chemist Who Accidentally Solved Fermentation
Просмотров 4,4 тыс.9 месяцев назад
The Chemist Who Accidentally Solved Fermentation
The Most Famous Null-Resulting Experiment in the History of Physics
Просмотров 11 тыс.9 месяцев назад
The Most Famous Null-Resulting Experiment in the History of Physics
The Chemist Who First Isolated Fluorine
Просмотров 37 тыс.9 месяцев назад
The Chemist Who First Isolated Fluorine

Комментарии

  • @JohnSmall314
    @JohnSmall314 День назад

    Well, researched, well explained. And remarkably, not voiced by AI. Unlike many others. Well done

  • @JohnSmall314
    @JohnSmall314 День назад

    Subscribed. That was very interesting. I appreciate the work you must have done in finding out the history and making the video.

  • @Rafaga777
    @Rafaga777 День назад

    Thanks a lot for another great video.

  • @emileschlemmer1033
    @emileschlemmer1033 2 дня назад

    Thank you again for such wonderful upload! Your content provides clear and concise histories of diverse scientific achievements - no easy feat! These videos help to direct my own curiosity along more productive routes of knowledge acquisition. Again; thank you and the other 'Channels who regularly create content that so readily help to disseminate Knowledge!

    • @RationalThinker118
      @RationalThinker118 День назад

      I'm so glad you enjoy them and that I can help you out! Thanks for watching my videos and thanks for the kind words 🙏

  • @doncarlodivargas5497
    @doncarlodivargas5497 2 дня назад

    Tobacco plants develop nicotine to fight of treats in nature, get infected by viruses

  • @ashritsai3744
    @ashritsai3744 2 дня назад

    Wow!!!, that was an amazing video, thank you very much for bringing such interesting topics to light, cheers my friend 😀👍

  • @ulfaxmacher999
    @ulfaxmacher999 2 дня назад

    Another high-quality and very educational video. Your research and presentation skills are excellent. Thank you!

  • @AtlasReburdened
    @AtlasReburdened 2 дня назад

    Do you have one on the discovery of prions?

  • @Fomites
    @Fomites 2 дня назад

    Great video - thank you. 😊

  • @Fomites
    @Fomites 2 дня назад

    Fantastic video with a great perspective on the discovery process without sensationalism. 😊 Very useful and thought provoking.

    • @RationalThinker118
      @RationalThinker118 2 дня назад

      Thanks! I try to be as direct as I can and put the actual history before anything else 😁

  • @Unna1969
    @Unna1969 2 дня назад

    Medeleev could have become the chemical Einstein. But it is too late. Physicists have Einstein and Newton and many others. Biology has Darwin. Chemistry? - No equivalent figure that became a popular figure and a household name. Just an interesting observation.

    • @GH-oi2jf
      @GH-oi2jf 2 дня назад

      Lavoisier? Marie Curie? Linus Pauling?

    • @Unna1969
      @Unna1969 2 дня назад

      @@GH-oi2jfFeel free to ask your cousin about the difference between Pauling and Einstein. Or show him 2 portrait pictures: Lavoisier and Darwin, asking who is the guy with the curls?

  • @rohanmandayam847
    @rohanmandayam847 2 дня назад

    Very well-researched and informative channel. How can I support? Do you have a Patreon?

    • @RationalThinker118
      @RationalThinker118 2 дня назад

      I can set one up! I'll do that shortly and probably have the link in the description in the next video. Thank you for your kind words 🙏

  • @jamesT008
    @jamesT008 2 дня назад

    Thanks for such detailed info on Virus. Surely its great work

  • @subramanianr7206
    @subramanianr7206 2 дня назад

    Thanks for your presentation. De VU2RZA

  • @Gremriel
    @Gremriel 2 дня назад

    I never knew we grew tobacco in the Netherlands.

  • @dcorgard
    @dcorgard 7 дней назад

    Though Arrhenius was a genius... electrolysis was discovered by Faraday.

  • @JimMichels-dy3vm
    @JimMichels-dy3vm 7 дней назад

    I read Soddy's Nobel speech, and it is remarkable that the folks back then developed wet chemistry techniques to resolve isotopes and be able to isolate enough to weigh accurately on the balances of the time. The existence of isotopes was later corroborated by the development of mass spectrometry.

  • @itzakehrenberg3449
    @itzakehrenberg3449 7 дней назад

    4:08 You stated Moseley's law incorrectly: It is supposed to be a linear relationship between the atomic number Z and the SQUARE ROOT of the frequency.

    • @volta2aire
      @volta2aire 7 дней назад

      "the law states that the square root of the frequency of the emitted X-ray is approximately proportional to the atomic number"-Wikipedia

    • @RationalThinker118
      @RationalThinker118 7 дней назад

      @@volta2aire Yep, it's square root. Square root is even in my script. Just mispronounced it and never caught it. Thanks

  • @giorgiomrm3141
    @giorgiomrm3141 7 дней назад

    Alessandro Cruto Italian inventor In 1882 he participated in the Electricity Exhibition in Munich, where he achieved enormous success for his light bulb, whose efficiency was greater than Edison's and emitted a whiter light than Edison's yellowish one,[2] a success confirmed at the National Exhibition of Turin in 1884,[3] so much so that Cruto managed to sell the project in France, Switzerland, Cuba and the United States.

  • @luisaparecido5885
    @luisaparecido5885 7 дней назад

    Very good

  • @kingoftadpoles
    @kingoftadpoles 8 дней назад

    I don't recall hearing about Moseley before, but it is 40+ years since I studied chemistry.

  • @johndepledge1811
    @johndepledge1811 8 дней назад

    Thank you.

  • @tonypitsacota2513
    @tonypitsacota2513 8 дней назад

    Well done. By far the best video on youtube concerning atomic numbers. Thank you.

  • @adrianocd0806
    @adrianocd0806 8 дней назад

    Show👏👏👏👏👏

  • @angusmackaskill3035
    @angusmackaskill3035 9 дней назад

    Avagadros number

  • @tomakmens2607
    @tomakmens2607 9 дней назад

    Excellent channel

  • @jimparsons6803
    @jimparsons6803 9 дней назад

    I recall hearing of Moseley's Law and Staircase during my Freshman year's Chemistry. A key moment in Chemistry or Physics. Boggle. What is not often talked about is that Rutherford smashed Atoms of Nitrogen about 1919 or so. He used a small bit of Radium mounted in a dent in a small Lead block. Radium produces radioactivity in the form or Helium nuclei. Even more boggle.

  • @TerribleShmeltingAccident
    @TerribleShmeltingAccident 9 дней назад

    well done sir

  • @doncarlodivargas5497
    @doncarlodivargas5497 9 дней назад

    But,how in the world did people in that time find the atomic weight!?!?

    • @RationalThinker118
      @RationalThinker118 9 дней назад

      Perhaps I will make a video on that as well 😉

    • @doncarlodivargas5497
      @doncarlodivargas5497 9 дней назад

      @RationalThinker118 - yes please do, it have always puzzled me, and everyone mentioning this, but never explain how to find out Another issue I find just as puzzling is how people are referring to iron or oxygen if it is about atoms, but nobody refeer to an iron proton etc, but if atoms release energy when they fuse together, something inside must change, and what is inside is exactly protons and neutrons etc

  • @Book-em_media
    @Book-em_media 9 дней назад

    When I hear about how wars drive innovation and all the great stuff we get from it I think about how far it also sets us back. the lose of all the bright futures of those killed and the generational knowledge they hold that won’t be passed down.

    • @jimralston4789
      @jimralston4789 8 дней назад

      Truly. The lost potential of millions of lives killed as well as the loss of contribution from their potential offspring is immeasurable.

    • @alainquinzelaire1253
      @alainquinzelaire1253 7 дней назад

      ​@@jimralston4789 C'est pourquoi on fait du sur-place en perdant du temps avec la bêtise humaine....

  • @JoseFernandez-qt8hm
    @JoseFernandez-qt8hm 9 дней назад

    scientists want the fruits of victory but are unwilling to die for them.....

  • @jakubkusmierczak695
    @jakubkusmierczak695 9 дней назад

    👍

  • @noelamundarain6719
    @noelamundarain6719 9 дней назад

    Quiero más videos como este, en español! Gracias!

  • @nevillehoward8736
    @nevillehoward8736 10 дней назад

    The first "official" table?

  • @Ledgwins
    @Ledgwins 10 дней назад

    Nice video but you could use a pop filter on the mic.

  • @mooredelira
    @mooredelira 10 дней назад

    very sad

  • @richardpark3054
    @richardpark3054 10 дней назад

    Sorry, Bro: atomic number was not 'discovered'. It was invented.

    • @larrybrown8180
      @larrybrown8180 8 дней назад

      Don't be sorry! You just didn't understand. Atomic number existed before anyone "invented" it.

  • @garyc1384
    @garyc1384 10 дней назад

    2:45 - in the atoms orbit around the nucleus, LMAO.

  • @majorrgeek
    @majorrgeek 10 дней назад

    actually it was Dimitri Mendeleev who invented/discovered the periodic table based on atomic number of the elements. It left gaps in the table for future scientists to fill with newly discovered elements - the advantage they had is that they knew what elements to look for to fit the gaps

    • @richardpark3054
      @richardpark3054 10 дней назад

      But how would one search for an element knowing only its atomic number?

    • @doncarlodivargas5497
      @doncarlodivargas5497 9 дней назад

      ​@@richardpark3054 - I think elements have characteristic qualities based on their atomic number, that's why Medelev came up with the periodic table in the first time, sorting the elements by their characteristic qualities

    • @alainquinzelaire1253
      @alainquinzelaire1253 7 дней назад

      ​@@richardpark3054 Avec ce tableau, on a pu prévoir les qualités des éléments avant de les découvrir, ce qui surprend ceux qui pensent que tout vient du hasard !

  • @drnotof6124
    @drnotof6124 10 дней назад

    I had never heard about this, nice video!

  • @roliveira2225
    @roliveira2225 10 дней назад

    Excellent!

  • @jmchez
    @jmchez 10 дней назад

    The great Science and Science Fiction writer, Isaac Asimov, stated that Moseley's death was the costliest to science of any death in any war.

  • @tvviewer4500
    @tvviewer4500 11 дней назад

    If the rich want a war their sons and daughters should be the first in line

  • @JohnSmith-l7c
    @JohnSmith-l7c 11 дней назад

    He is a handsome young man in the picture. His obvious intelligence and good looks, I know I would date him, that's if he was gay! 🤔 😎 👍 😍

  • @PursuitofKnowledge178
    @PursuitofKnowledge178 11 дней назад

    Excellent story and documentary...well done!

  • @felixlegare
    @felixlegare 11 дней назад

    May I humbly suugest the purchase of a depopper? Please. Otherwise, cool.

  • @christianlibertarian5488
    @christianlibertarian5488 11 дней назад

    I’m 64 and a retired physician. This is the first time I have heard this tragic story.

  • @jupa7166
    @jupa7166 11 дней назад

    Very interesting video, thank you very much!

  • @arifurrahman1498
    @arifurrahman1498 11 дней назад

    The great scientific minds are often victim of prejudice and political meanness. another example is Alan touring.

  • @bgcdk
    @bgcdk 11 дней назад

    Please deactivate the obnoxious AI translation. Otherwise, it's a very interesting video 🙂

    • @RationalThinker118
      @RationalThinker118 11 дней назад

      Can you explain? Are you trying to watch in another language?