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  Science Fair Projects - Wolfgang Pauli
Wolfgang Ernst Pauli (April 25, 1900 – December 15, 1958) was an Austrian-Swiss physicist noted for his work on the theory of spin.
According to a story well known in the physics community, after his death in 1958 Pauli was granted an audience with God.
Science kits, science lessons, science toys, maths toys, hobby kits, science games and books - these are some of many products that can help give your kid an edge in their science fair projects, and develop a tremendous interest in the study of science.
www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Wolfgang_Pauli   (1527 words)

  
 ScienceDaily: NASA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which was established on July 29, 1958 by the National Aeronautics and Space Act,[1] is the agency responsible for the public space program of the United States of America, funding annually amounting to Billion.
NASA's earliest programs were research into human spaceflight, and were conducted under the pressure of the competition between the USA and the USSR (the Space Race) that existed during the Cold War.
The Mercury program, initiated in 1958, started NASA down the path of human space exploration with missions designed to discover simply if man could survive in space.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/nasa   (3791 words)

  
 Scientific Policy 1958
It is this, which, for the first time in man's history, has given to the common man in countries advanced in science, a standard of living and social and cultural amenities, which were once confined to a very small privileged minority of the population.
Science and technology can make up for deficiencies in raw materials by providing substitutes, or, indeed, by providing skills which can be exported in return for raw materials.
An early and large scale development of science and technology in the country could therefore greatly reduce the drain on capital during the early and critical stages of industrialisation.
www.lakshadweep.nic.in /depts/laktech/new_page_4.htm   (746 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: 1958
Photo of Charles Starkweather taken by the Nebraska department of corrections, 1958 Charles Starkweather (November 24, 1938 – June 25, 1959) was a spree killer who murdered 11 victims in Nebraska and Wyoming, USA during a road trip with his underage girlfriend Caril Ann Fugate and became a national fascination, eventually...
Explorer-I, officially known as Satellite 1958 Alpha, was the first United States Earth satellite and was sent aloft as part of the United States program for the International Geophysical Year 1957-1958.
Taiwan Strait The Second Taiwan Strait Crisis, also called the 1958 Taiwan Strait Crisis, was a conflict that took place between the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (ROC) governments in which the PRC was accused by Taiwan of shelling the islands of Matsu and...
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/1958   (8501 words)

  
 Science Fair Projects - 1958
1958 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar).
February 4 - Henry Kuttner, science fiction author (b.
March 21 - Cyril M. Kornbluth, science fiction writer (b.
www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/1958   (1849 words)

  
 Big Splashes in a Little Bay, Alaska Science Forum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
On July 9, 1958, an event occurred on the Alaska Panhandle that was so spectacular that it is still talked about among boaters and fisherman and the scientists who studied it.
As it developed, it was that "big wall of water" that denuded the slope opposite the rock slide to a height of 1740 feet.
As he has noted, it is not just the 1958 earthquake slide that sloshed into Lituya Bay that has made the place a chancy bet for an anchorage.
www.gi.alaska.edu /ScienceForum/ASF7/763.html   (797 words)

  
 1958 in science   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The club was formed in 1958 with an average of 75 members providing an opportunity to explore the science of astronomy.
The prinicipal focus of the Science Library's collection, one of the largest among college science libraries, is the support of the curriculum in Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Exercise and Sport Studies, Geology, History of Science, Mathemaics, Physics, and Psychology.
A not-for-profit educational organization that promotes a better understanding of what science is, and does, by advocating for science education, educating the public about the nature and value of science and serving as an information resource.
www.omniknow.com /common/wiki.php?in=en&term=1958_in_science   (1803 words)

  
 NASA's Fortieth Anniversary: Pioneering The Future
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) emerged in some measure because of the pressures of national defense during the cold war with the Soviet Union, a broad contest over the ideologies and allegiances of the nonaligned nations of the world in which space exploration emerged as a major area of contest.
From the latter 1940s, the Department of Defense pursued research and rocketry and upper atmospheric sciences as a means of assuring American leadership in technology.
As a direct result of this crisis, NASA began operations on 1 October 1958, absorbing into it the earlier National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics intact; its 8,000 employees, an annual budget of $100 million, three major research laboratories—Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Ames Aeronautical Laboratory, and Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory—and two smaller test facilities.
www.hq.nasa.gov /office/pao/History/40thann/40home.htm   (510 words)

  
 Plant Science Bulletin - 1958, Voume 4, Issue 1
Nominations for the 1958 award, accompanied by a statement of the merits of the case and by reprints of the publications supporting the candidacy, should be sent to the Chairman of the Committee to be received by May1, 1958.
Further, in our desire to improve both the quantity and quality of science education we must not lose perspective to the extent that we encourage, or even allow, increased science education to plasmolyze education in the humanities and in the more respectable and less carminative social studies.
But botanists do have the opportunity to emphasize the contributions of "pure science" discoveries to practical applications, and they should take advantage of that opportunity to implant in the minds of their students and all other lay- men that lesson.
www.botany.org /PlantScienceBulletin/psb-1958-04-1.php   (5466 words)

  
 Christian Science
The occasion of Mary Baker Eddy's discovery of divine healing was her immediate recovery of life and health when in 1866 she read an account of healing by Jesus in the New Testament.
An extremely active organization, the board enabled Christian Science to grow steadily in numbers and scope of activity during the first third of the 20th cent.
Jill Carroll, - Jill Carroll, freelance reporter for the Christian Science Monitor, was kidnapped at gunpoint in...
www.infoplease.com /ce6/society/A0812103.html   (497 words)

  
 Plant Science Bulletin - 1958, Voume 4, Issue 6
The 1958 meetings were held at Yale University in May. The larger geographical area is undoubtedly preferable to the alternative of establishing a new section for New York and New Jersey plant physiologists.
The institutes were established to improve the subject matter competence of secondary school science and mathematics teachers, in view of the fact that many teachers, though well fortified with courses and degrees in education, have had inadequate preparation in the subjects they are teaching.
Even those teachers who have a reasonable number of courses in the sciences in their transcripts are frequently very poorly informed in the sciences they teach, particularly as regards developments subsequent to their undergraduate days.
www.botany.org /PlantScienceBulletin/psb-1958-04-6.php   (6491 words)

  
 JYI Volume Five Features: Sputnik: Fellow Traveler Takes America for a Ride
In particular, physical science was an area so poor that MIT physics professor Jerrold Zacharias established the Physical Sciences Study Committee (PSSC) to remedy the situation.
Physical science, as well as mathematics and the other and sciences, was taught as a series of unrelated technical subjects, vaguely exploring the operation of machines and dodging underlying concepts ("The New" 1958).
The National Science Foundation (NSF), which was a recently-created government organization at the time, approved the allocation of $300,000 to the PSSC in late 1956, after the committee's ideals were heralded by a number of America's top scientists.
www.jyi.org /volumes/volume5/issue4/features/howes.html   (1221 words)

  
 1958 in science - InformationBlast
The year 1958 CE in science and technology included many events, some of which are included below.
See also: 1957 in science, other events in 1958, 1959 in science, and the list of years in science.
January 4 - Sputnik 1 falls to Earth from its orbit (launched on October 4, 1957)
www.informationblast.com /1958_in_science.html   (128 words)

  
 1957 in science   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The year 1957 CE in science and technology.
See also: 1956 in science, other events of 1957, 1958 in science, list of years in science.
Painting the first few rooms was difficult; the next were easier, but now I have it down to a science.
www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-1957_in_science.html   (703 words)

  
 Arctic glacier photos worth a thousand words, Alaska Science Forum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Ned Rozell is a science writer at the institute
In 1958, glaciologist Austin Post took a snapshot of McCall Glacier, one of a handful of Brooks Range glaciers, and stored the negatives from his trip in a shoebox.
The hows and whys of McCall Glacier’s retreat are some of the things Nolan and his colleagues are studying during trips to the glacier that began in 2003 and will last until 2007.
www.gi.alaska.edu /ScienceForum/ASF17/1716.html   (580 words)

  
 1958 in the FSU Biological Science History project
In 1958, the departmental stockroom was inaugurated, under the supervision of staff member Harry Dunlap.
These awards were sponsored by the Phi Sigma Society, a national organization devoted to the promotion of research in the biological sciences.
This page is part of the Departmental History Project of the Department of Biological Science at Florida State University.
www.bio.fsu.edu /history/1958.html   (176 words)

  
 Wallace R. Brode Papers (Library of Congress)
The papers are particularly comprehensive in their coverage of Brode's tenure as director, 1951-1960, and foreign secretary, 1965-1967, of the American Chemical Society; associate director, 1947-1958, of the National Bureau of Standards; and science advisor, 1958-1960, to Secretary of State John Foster Dulles.
Brode was one of triplet brothers, all of whom, like their father, Howard Stidham Brode, became professors of science.
Science attache program 1948-67 (7 folders) Box 25 Undated (2 folders) Travel, 1955-66, n.d.
www.loc.gov /rr/mss/text/brode.html   (1749 words)

  
 Michigan Science Benchmark Clarification: Strand IV: Physical Sciences, High School Level   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
She was the first to conclude that the emission of radiation follows, rather than precedes, the emission of the particles in the process of disintegration of radioactive materials.
In 1911, the French Academy of Sciences voted down her membership, but 11 months later she was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry –; becoming the first person to ever receive two Nobel Prize science laureates.
She also received the Scientist of the Year award from Industrial Research Magazine, the National Science Medal, the Wolf Prize in Physics from the Wolf Foundation in Israel, and was elected to the Academia Sinica (the Academy of Sciences of China).
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 Helen L. Brownson
As I think back over the early days of information science, when I was at the National Science Foundation, the memorable "moment" that first comes to mind occurred right after the 1957 launching of Sputnik.
The President and his Science Advisory Committee, headed by Dr. James R. Killian, took an interest in the science information problem, The Committee named a special subcommittee, headed by Dr. W.
NSF promptly announced, on December 11, 1958, the establishment of a Science Information Service, its objective to extend the Foundation's existing science information programs in order to carry out the President's objective.
www.libsci.sc.edu /bob/ISP/brownson2.htm   (434 words)

  
 MAGAZINES page of ULTIMATE SCIENCE FICTION WEB GUIDE
Here are 142 hot links to Magazines, on-line magazines, and bibliographic indices (indexes) to Science Fiction magazines, and/or e-mail addresses of their editors,as well as information on pulp magazine characters and graphics; plus brief notes on 413 magazines which do not appear to be on the Web.
SF EYE: The EYE is best known as the house organ of the cyberpunks, a 'zine founded nearly ten years ago for the purpose of publishing criticism and art related to cutting edge SF (and anything else interesting to the c-punkish).
Landsberg then proceeded to convince Hal Clement to write a science column for the magazine, and Harlan Ellison to write a writing column (Ellison was apparently convinced to sign on by Landsberg's chutzpah in even daring to ask him to contribute).
www.magicdragon.com /UltimateSF/magazines.html   (7811 words)

  
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 U.S. History: NASA, The First 25 Years 1958-1983: Chapter 8 Space Science@ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
In 1958, when NASA received responsibility for developing space science, the Moon, the planets, the Sun, the universe seemed remote and inaccessible.
Only Explorer 1's discovery of the Van Allen radiation belts suggested the knowledge that was to come.
In 1958 and 1959 eight were launched to study Earth-Moon relationships.
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:28036899&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf   (178 words)

  
 Black Arrow: British Rocket Science and the Cold War
On 3 November 1957 the USSR scored a world first: the rocket Sputnik 2 was launched with a dog on board.
Sputnik 2 continued orbiting the Earth until 14 April 1958 when it re-entered the atmosphere and burned up.
At least 13 other Russian dogs were launched towards orbit in the Sputnik series of satellites between 1958 and 1961.
www.fathom.com /course/21701717/session1.html   (719 words)

  
 Le divorce de la science et de la culture
Les découvertes de la science moderne ont mis entre les mains des gouvernements une puissance sans précédent dont ils peuvent user pour le bien ou pour le mal.
Ce divorce entre la science et la " culture ", est un phénomène moderne.
Le Renaissance s'est autant préoccupée de rénover la science que l'art et la littérature.
www.unesco.org /courier/2001_12/fr/science.htm   (739 words)

  
 The Idaho Academy of Science
Academies of Science were well-established and flourishing in many states by the middle of the 20th century, but Idaho, with its scattered pockets of population and its exhausting distances had not yet organized such an Academy.
On Saturday, May 10, 1958, a group of about fifty scientists and educators met in the Science Building of [then] Boise Junior College to organize an Idaho Academy of Science.
The meeting was temporarily chaired by William H. Baker of the University of Idaho, who explained the purpose of the meeting and asked for an expression of the intention of the body.
www.isu.edu /ias/detailedhistory.shtml   (756 words)

  
 University of Idaho Library. Public Services
Prior to reorganization in 1993 the Public Services division of the University of Idaho Library was composed of three divisional libraries (Humanities, Social Science, and Science), Circulation and Interlibrary Loan.
Included in the records are correspondence, committee records of the Humanities and Science librarians, videotapes and other papers.
The records of the Science Library are in the second series.
www.lib.uidaho.edu /special-collections/Archives/ug054.htm   (384 words)

  
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