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"The Scientist" is a melancholic, piano-driven ballad written in the key of F major. [9] [10] The lyrics to the song allude to a man's powerlessness in the face of love. [11] [12] It begins with the main four-chord piano melody created by lead singer Chris Martin, then joined by the first verses.
Henry G. J. Moseley, known to his friends as Harry, [5] was born in Weymouth in Dorset in 1887. His father Henry Nottidge Moseley (1844–1891), who died when Moseley was quite young, was a biologist and also a professor of anatomy and physiology at the University of Oxford, who had been a member of the Challenger Expedition.
Frederick Griffith (1877–1941) was a British bacteriologist whose focus was the epidemiology and pathology of bacterial pneumonia.In January 1928 he reported what is now known as Griffith's experiment, the first widely accepted demonstrations of bacterial transformation, whereby a bacterium distinctly changes its form and function.
Millikan in 1891. Robert Andrews Millikan was born on March 22, 1868, in Morrison, Illinois. [6] He went to high school in Maquoketa, Iowa and received a bachelor's degree in the classics from Oberlin College in 1891 and his doctorate in physics from Columbia University in 1895 [11] – he was the first to earn a Ph.D. from that department.
In 2008 Fox was the Deputy Project Scientist for Living With a Star, NASA's Van Allen Probes mission. [14] [15] Fox joined the Heliophysics space research branch in 2015. [16] She was lead Project Scientist for the Parker Solar Probe mission, and was present at the launch in August 2018.
Antoine Henri Becquerel (/ ˌ b ɛ k ə ˈ r ɛ l /; [3] French: [ɑ̃ʁi bɛkʁɛl]; 15 December 1852 – 25 August 1908) was a French physicist who shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pierre and Marie Curie for his discovery of radioactivity. [4]
Jennifer J. Wiseman is an American astronomer and Senior Project Scientist on the Hubble Space Telescope. [1] [2] She was born into a rural community in Mountain Home, Arkansas. [3] She earned a bachelor's degree in physics from MIT and a Ph.D. in Astronomy from Harvard University in 1995.
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (/ h ɜːr t s /, HURTS; German: [ˈhaɪnʁɪç hɛʁts]; [1] [2] 22 February 1857 – 1 January 1894) was a German physicist who first conclusively proved the existence of the electromagnetic waves predicted by James Clerk Maxwell's equations of electromagnetism.