RTÉ - Icons of Irish Science
By RTÉ:Ireland
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Podcast Description
This series looks at the life and career of some Irish scientists who have made an internationally recognised contribution to scientific knowledge.
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Jocelyn Bell Burnell (1943 - ) | Jocelyn Bell Burnell detected the first pulsar, a rapidly rotating and strongly magnetised neutron star emitting regular pulses of radio waves. (Originally broadcast 24th September 2005) | 12 1 06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Erwin Schrodinger (1887 - 1961) | Erwin Schrodinger who was Head of the School of Theoretical Physics in the Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies from 1940 - 1956. (Originally broadcast 17th September 2005) | 5 1 06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nicholas Joseph Callan (1799 - 1864) | Nicholas Joseph Callan Irish priest, scientist and inventor. (Originally broadcast 3rd September 2005) | 5 1 06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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George Stokes (1819 - 1903) | George Stokes laid the foundation of the modern engineering science of fluid mechanics and was a pioneer in the science of geodesy. (Originally broadcast 10th September 2005) | 5 1 06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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William Rowan Hamilton (1805-65) | William Rowan Hamilton is Ireland's most world-renowned scientist. He contributed to the development of optics, dynamics, and algebra -in particular, discovering the algebra of quaternions. His work proved significant for the development of quantum mechanics. Hamiltonian mechanics is used commercially today to determine orbital trajectories of satellites and was used for the recent Mars Mission. His friend, the poet, William Wordsworth, convinced him to devote his energies to science rather than poetry. (Originally broadcast 6th August 2005) | 2 12 05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Charles Parsons (1854 - 1931) | Charles Parsons invented the steam turbine, which revolutionised marine transport and electricity generation. (Originally broadcast 20th August 2005) | 2 12 05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ernest Walton (1903 - 1995) | Ernest Walton won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1951 for his part in splitting the atom (Originally broadcast 13th August 2005) | 2 12 05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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George Boole (1815-64) | George Boole, the first professor of Mathematics at University College, Cork. He invented a revolutionary way of translating abstract ideas into algebraic equations which could be processed by a machine. Boolean logic is now critical in all internet search engines such as Google and Yahoo. In a search on the internet for famous names Boole appears more than almost anybody else. Einstein also used Boole's invariant theory when developing his theory of relativity. Bertrand Russell described Boole's book An Investigation of the Laws of Thought as 'the book where pure mathematics was discovered'. In 1855 Boole married Mary Everest, niece of the man after whom the mountain is named. (Originally broadcast 20th August 2005) | 2 12 05 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 8 Episodes |
