More Great Science Style – 1940’s – 1960’s
June 20, 2009
Who said scientists weren’t stylish? These images definitely prove otherwise. Look at all of those french cuffs, bowties, skinny ties, and the white oxford!
Dr. Robert M. White
Scientists at a physics convention
Charles Feltz with Project Apollo moonship designers
Scientists at panel discussing medicine.
High school science teacher - I love the bowtie!
Wernher von Braun
Atomic physicist Ralph E. Lapp
Dr. Humberto, Fernandez Moran-Young
Dr. John F. Enders, Harvard scientist
Dr. Stanley Liningston
Physicist Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu
Dr. Gordon Ferrie Hull
Physicist G. E. Brown
Physicist Clifford Berry
Scientist-preacher William G. Pollard - Check out the clerical collar!
Stanford r. Ovshinsky
The Mercury Project Astronauts – 1959
May 24, 2009
Here are some more incredible images of the Mercury Project astronauts. I’m obsessed with the old space suits!
The original Mercury astronauts - John Glenn, Virgil Gus Grissom, Alan Shepard, Scott Carpenter, Walter Schirra, Donald Deke Slayton, Gordon Cooper.
LIFE Magazine September 14, 1959
LIFE Magazine Space Wives - September 21, 1959
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Stephen Hawking – 1965
March 12, 2009
It doesn’t get much better than this.
Sartorial all-star and theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking with his first wife Jane - 1965
Vintage Sci-Fi Book Covers
February 1, 2009
I found all of these great old sci-fi book covers on “Found in Mom’s Basement”. These are all really cool.
Amazing Celestial Images
January 17, 2009
I found these amazing celestial images on Ted Wolfe’s Starsite. Mr. Wolfe uses an ST8e camera and a sweet Ritchey-Chretien telescope to shoot these images. Here are some of my favorites.
The Crab Nebula - A star that went supernova in the year 1054. The explosion remnants have been traveling outward at the rate of 78 million miles per day since then.
Eagle Nebula - The dark figure is in the form of an eagle with its wing spread to the back, and its "talons" seemingly grasping a struggling fish. A fanciful description of a striking star forming nebula in our galaxy.
Andromeda Gallaxy - The nearest large galaxy to our own. An immense, island universe of stars, gas and dust. Recent estimates place it about 2.9 million light years away, and its diameter at about 250,000 light years. This makes it 2 1/2 times larger than our galaxy. It is moving towards us, and will eventually collide with the MilkyWay.
The "Whirlpool" galaxy is seen rotating in a counter clockwise direction. Note the smaller, yellow galaxy on the left. It has passed quite close to the larger galaxy. This near encounter has resulted in the "plumes" of material coming out of it, and a long arm has been drawn out of the "Whirlpool" towards it.
Named "The Perfect Galaxy" by some astronomers because of its wonderfully symmetrical design. This galaxy shows its reddish "HII" regions along its winding arm structure
A beautiful barred spiral at 64 million light years away
The "Veil" nebula threads its way across the constellation Cygnus, covering about 2 1/2 degrees of the night sky. Another supernova remnant scattering heavy elements such as gold, silver, uranium, and titanium etc. into space for incorporation into future solar systems.
Nice group of active prominences on the edge of the sun
How and Why Wonder Books
January 13, 2009
I found all of these great How and Why Wonder Books from the 1960’s – 1970’s on Rocket Roberts. I love the artwork and illustrations on the cover. Kids must have had a blast reading these. Below are some of my favorite.
Robots and Electronic Brains
Airplanes and the Story of Flight
Atomic Energy
Beginning Science
Chemistry
Electricity
Famous Scientists
The Microscope
Oceanography
Planets and Interpanetary Travel
Rockets and Missiles
Science Experiments
Stars
The Moon
Large Hadron Collider – The World’s Largest Atom Smasher
January 4, 2009
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) which is the world’s largest and highest energy particle accelerator should be up and running again as early as summer 2009. The LHC which is 17 miles of underground track in Switzerland was built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). Scientists believe that the LHC, which can send ions and protons in opposite directions at 99.9% the speed of light, will collide the opposing beams into each other at high enough speeds to create dark matter, thought to provide structure throughout the universe. The experiment will create conditions present a trillionth of a second following the “Big Bang”. Scientists all over the world are anxiously awaiting the results because they believe it will give them a better understanding of the universe and it’s creation. Below are some amazing photographs that I found on CERN’s official site of the LHC under construction.
Arial view of the CERN facility and 17 mile underground track on the border of Switzerland & France
