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The pitch drop experiment is on public display on Level 2 of Parnell building in the School of Mathematics and Physics at the St Lucia campus of the University of Queensland. Hundreds of thousands of Internet users check the live stream each year. [4] Professor John Mainstone died on 13 August 2013, aged 78, following a stroke. [11]
In October 2005 he was posthumously awarded the Ig Nobel prize for Physics for the pitch drop experiment, along with the experiment's then custodian, John Mainstone. He was survived by his wife and son, Thomas Meredith Parnell who would later become Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Queensland.
The pitch drop experiment is a famous fluid breakup experiment using high viscous tar pitch. The rate of breakup is slowed to such a degree that only 11 drops have fallen since 1927. The rate of breakup is slowed to such a degree that only 11 drops have fallen since 1927.
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John Mainstone Professor J S Mainstone OAM ... Due to plans for the refurbishment of the historic Parnell Building affecting the site of the Pitch Drop Experiment ...
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