Neil deGrasse Tyson: "Adventures of an Astrophysicist" [6/11]

Recorded 2011/05/12 during Tyson's lecture at the University of Washington entitled "Adventures of an Astrophysicist"

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[pustolov9]

"math is language of the universe and if you take that out of your personal equation you no longer contribute to the advance of human understanding of that universe" NdGT

[danzombie666]

2:18 is priceless :-D

[mymoset]

@rv186rs Wikipedia and its things. The english entry about Fausto Elhúyar tells us this:

In 1783, he visited several European universities, such as the School of Mines of Freiberg, at which he lectured on metallurgy and mine machinery; the University of Uppsala, where he collaborated with Torbern Olof Bergman; and Köping, where he visited Carl Wilhelm Scheele, the one who announced Elhúyar's discovery of tungsten, and for some reason is credited for being made by him himself.

Curious, eh?

[rv186rs]

@mymoset Exactly, and you'r original comment about it was about discoveries. :)

(the swedish wiki does give another story though so I'm not completely sure about the validity of either one,

"Tungsten was discovered in 1783 by the Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele, together with his Spanish laboratory assistants, brothers JJ and Don F. de Elhuyar. The mineral scheelite was already known and was called tungsten because of its high density.")

[mymoset]

@rv186rs It was actually a double discovery. It was discovered independently by two people on two different places, nearly at the same time. Scheele discovered the element, Elhuyar succesfully isolated it.

[rv186rs]

@mymoset "Isaac Asimov called him "hard-luck Scheele" because he made a number of chemical discoveries before others who are generally given the credit."

So what that you quoted means to say is that Scheele made the discovery of the new element first but was not credited the discovery.

[mymoset]

@rv186rs In 1781, Scheele discovered that a new acid, tungstic acid, could be made from scheelite (at the time named tungsten). Scheele and Torbern Bergman suggested that it might be possible to obtain a new metal by reducing this acid.[9] In 1783, José and Fausto Elhuyar found an acid made from wolframite that was identical to tungstic acid. Later that year, in Spain, the brothers succeeded in isolating tungsten by reduction of this acid with charcoal, and they are credited with the discovery.

[rv186rs]

@mymoset Tungsten was discovered by a Swede, it's even called Heavy Stone in Swedish.

[avalsonline2]

@Nightwing690 muslims and islams??? wow, that alone shows your ignorance. who the hell are islams and how are they different from muslims.

as for all muslims being dumb, clearly oyu havent watched the video all the way through...

you ARE the weakest link... thank you for playing. no consolation prise here.. may you bath in your ignornce in peace

[Zebonka]

Someone needs to get this guy to put it all into some hilarious early-80's style hip hop

[Nightwing690]

muslims and islams are just crazy suicide bombing bastards who are so dumb stupid they don't know when to stop, drop a nuke on every middle eastern country where terrorism is occuring, please obama, kill off the loonies

[PrincessTS01]

Creationism and Christianity have so greatly misinformed and mislead America in the last 30 years that so many don't believe in the truths in evolution and science, we are loosing ground and will become as zealots of stupidity leading to the total destruction and overrule of our nation. Religion needs to stay out of schools & education, stay out of government and leave the people that are not part of their sects and cults alone! Creationisms lies are a work of the Devil of mankind!