Mount St. Helens 1980 Eruption
On May 18, 1980, a major volcanic eruption occurred at Mount St. Helens, a volcano located in Skamania County, in the State of Washington. The eruption (a VEI 5 event) was the most significant volcanic...
View ArticleAlbert Einstein
Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics (alongside quantum mechanics)....
View ArticleGeorge Washington Carver
George Washington Carver (1860s – January 5, 1943) was an American botanist and inventor. He actively promoted alternative crops to cotton and methods to prevent soil depletion. Apart from his work to...
View ArticleChernobyl Disaster
On April 26, 1986, a Soviet nuclear power plant near Chernobyl, Ukraine, became the site of the most disastrous nuclear accident in history, when it experienced explosions at one of its reactors....
View ArticleGrand Canyon
The Grand Canyon is a mile-deep, 277-mile-long steep-sided gorge in Arizona, formed over millennia by the Colorado River. Location The Grand Canyon lies in the southwestern part of the United States,...
View ArticleMarie Curie
Marie Curie (7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934) was a Polish-born French physicist and chemist who made landmark discoveries about radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the first...
View ArticleLake Nyos Disaster
On August 21, 1986, a rare natural disaster occurred in the West African country of Cameroon when a large cloud of carbon dioxide gas erupted from Lake Nyos (Nios), a deep volcanic crater lake....
View ArticleFounding of the Smithsonian Institution
The Smithsonian Institution (a complex of national museums and research centers in the United States) was founded on August 10, 1846, through legislation signed by President James Polk. The cornerstone...
View ArticleShackleton Expedition
The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914–1917) was a British expedition to … Read more The topic Shackleton Expedition appeared first on Topics.
View ArticleJ. Robert Oppenheimer
Julius Robert Oppenheimer (April 22, 1904 – February 18, 1967), the “father of the atomic bomb,” was an American theoretical physicist. During World War II, Oppenheimer served as director of the Los...
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