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By K Krishna Murty

The following we have now scientists who neglected Nobel Prize and people whom Nobel neglected. A Nobel Prize offered to Pauling was once branded as an insult! yet he's the one one to obtain unshared Nobels. Bardeen back to Swedish king for an additional Nobel as though to meet prior promise. sarcastically an Agricultural Scientist got a Nobel Peace Prize. certain! what's peace with no meals? An anguished Barbara Mc Clintock refused to put up her papers, yet Nobel committee found her. Then we have now scientists who obtained awards in felony cells, scientists who made discoveries within the legal cells. Tesla used to be thrown out of his labs, cheated by way of one other nice guy yet his alternating present runs our houses now. Carlson went from pillar to put up together with his photocopy laptop and it really is now the Xerox. Townes had a revelation for LASER on a park bench. whilst Maiman made it useful, a Hollywood actress, Bette Davis questioned whether it is a demise Ray. medications from Jenner, Pasteur and so forth consigned a few ailments to heritage. If basically Subba Rao had lived many years extra, he might have killed a few extra illnesses. A trio of scientists remodeled the 20 th century through inventing the transistor. To best it, a scientist who used to be no longer allowed to move on a vacation invented the microchip. "New York occasions" reversed its ridicule ladled out on a rocket scientist after forty years merely after guy landed at the moon. a faculty instructor testified within the courtroom to avoid wasting his outdated scholar, Fansworth for his rightful invention, the tv. Davy overtly declared his scholar as his maximum discovery, Michael Faraday! you've gotten all of them! This identify contains biographies that train and entertain too.

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Rao Day' by the Mayor of Kent in 2000, who also presented Dr. Rao with a key to the city. ) VULCANISATION Napoleon III awarded the 'Cross of the Legion of Honour' to this scientist. Surprisingly, it had to be presented to him in the prison where he was thrown in for non-payment of debts. But then, some of his first experiments were carried out in the jail itself. His wife brought pieces of raw rubber and her rolling pin to the cell, where he was incarcerated. Kneading and rolling for hours and adding bit of magnesia, he produced nice white compound that seemed to solve all the problems for the time.

L. Schawlow, presented their joint paper on optical and infrared masers (microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation) or lasers (light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation). In pioneering researches in radio and infrared astronomy, his team detected the first complex molecules in interstellar space and first measured the mass of the black hole in the center of our galaxy. S. government. He was the Chairman of the Advisory Committee for the first human landing on the moon, and Chairman of the Defense Department's 39 Committee on the MX missile.

Basov and Aleksandr Prokhorov for contributions in Quantum Electronics leading to the development of the maser and laser. Templeton Prize for progress towards research or discoveries about spiritual realities was awarded to him in 2005. He was awarded the Niels Bohr International Medal for contributions to the peaceful use of atomic energy in 1979 and in 1982. He also received the National Medal of Science, presented by then President Ronald Reagan. In 2000, the Russian Academy of Science awarded him the Lomonosov Medal.

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