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Six STEM Tweets - July 7 2024
DeLorean, Buckyballs, Curie, Narlikar and other topics
Harshal Chhaya
July 07, 2024
Six STEM Tweets
Six tweets that celebrate engineering and all things STEM.
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#1
Remembering the remarkable Marie Skłodowska Curie - awarded the 1903 physics prize and 1911 chemistry prize - who passed away #OTD 90 years ago.
— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize)
3:00 PM • Jul 4, 2024
She was such an OG scientist.
And I love this quote of hers. Encapsulates the purpose of this newsletter perfectly.
A few years back, I was lucky enough to visit Hotel Metropole, site of the famous 1927 Solvay Conference, that she had participated in. Look at the brain power assembled in one single photo graph below.
#2
Jayant Narlikar is a renowned Indian astrophysicist who has made significant contributions to various fields of astronomy and cosmology.
He developed the Hoyle-Narlikar theory of gravity with Sir Fred Hoyle, which is a conformal theory that incorporates Mach’s principle and the… x.com/i/web/status/1…
— Physics In History (@PhysInHistory)
5:24 PM • Jul 4, 2024
Among his many discoveries, he predicted the existence of supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies in 1966, long before they were confirmed by observations.
#3
A Munchausen number is a natural number that is equal to the sum of its digits each raised to the power of itself. There are very few known Munchausen numbers.
— Fermat's Library (@fermatslibrary)
1:34 PM • Jul 5, 2024
#4
In 1985 chemists Richard Smalley, Robert Curl and Harold Kroto published the discovery of a brand new form of carbon - the fullerene. The most common fullerene structure, called a buckyball, has 60 carbon atoms arranged in a sphere and looks very much like a football.
— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize)
3:14 PM • Jul 5, 2024
Its formula is C60 and small quantities of it can be found in soot.
According to the Wikipedia page:
Buckminsterfullerene is a truncated icosahedron with 60 v32 faces (20 hexagons and 12 pentagons where no pentagons share a vertex), and 90 edges (60 edges between 5-membered & 6-membered rings and 30 edges are shared between 6-membered & 6-membered rings), with a carbon atom at the vertices of each polygon and a bond along each polygon edge.
#5
BREAKING: DeLorean hits 88 miles per hour in Toronto, Canada.
— W1tch D0kt0r (@w1tch_d0kt0r)
1:20 PM • Jul 5, 2024
Please check for the state of any clock towers in the area.
#6
That’s it for this issue.
(Didn’t realize we ended up with two Nobel-prize related posts today. But they are both really good - so didn’t feel the need to forcibly remove one.)
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Let’s all celebrate science and engineering and curiosity.
Best wishes,
Harshal