#OnThisDay, 7 Jan 1939, French physicist Marguerite Perey discovers element 87, which she later names francium. It was the last element to be discovered naturally.

Perey was a student of Maria Skłodowska-Curie. She was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize but never received it.

#WomenInSTEM #ScienceHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 7 Jan 1939, French physicist Marguerite Perey discovers element 87, which she later names francium. It was the last element to be discovered naturally.

Perey was a student of Maria Skłodowska-Curie. She was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize but never received it.

#WomenInSTEM #ScienceHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

Single-Celled Marine Organisms Resulted in an Influential Illustrated Book

https://lithub.com/how-the-discovery-of-single-celled-marine-organisms-resulted-in-one-of-the-most-influential-illustrated-books-ever-published/

#HackerNews #SingleCelledOrganisms #IllustratedBooks #MarineBiology #ScienceHistory #NatureArt

Scientists Reveal How the Maya Predicted Eclipses for Centuries

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-reveal-how-the-maya-predicted-eclipses-for-centuries

#HackerNews #Maya #Astronomy #Eclipses #ScienceHistory #AncientCivilizations #Discovery

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

https://darwin-online.org.uk/

#HackerNews #CharlesDarwin #OnlineWork #ScienceHistory #Evolution #Literature

After decades of research, a seemingly unremarkable find retrieved from a Roman shipwreck proved to be a sensational scientific discovery, proving that the ancient Greeks were capable of making mechanical models of the cosmos. The Antikythera Mechanism is the world‘s first known analog computer.

https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/en/2023/11/an-ancient-greek-computer/

My virtual replica:

https://www.thomasweibel.ch/anticythera2/

#history #sciencehistory #antiquity #archaeology #astronomy #digitalhumanities #mathematics #physics #astrophysics

After decades of research, a seemingly unremarkable find retrieved from a Roman shipwreck proved to be a sensational scientific discovery, proving that the ancient Greeks were capable of making mechanical models of the cosmos. The Antikythera Mechanism is the world‘s first known analog computer.

https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/en/2023/11/an-ancient-greek-computer/

My virtual replica:

https://www.thomasweibel.ch/anticythera2/

#history #sciencehistory #antiquity #archaeology #astronomy #digitalhumanities #mathematics #physics #astrophysics