ABC Wednesday reaches the letter "N", which I am using to illustrate the Nobel Prizes (which were announced last week) and a past local winner- Novoselov.
Manchester University has a long history in breaking scientific and technological boundaries. In a space of a few hundred yards and over 90 years or so, Ernest Rutherford split the atom and won a Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1917), Tom Kilburn and Freddie Williams designed the world's first stored-programme computer (the Small-Scale Experimental Machine in 1948) and Andre Geim and Kostya Novoselov discovered graphene (in 2003), winning a Nobel Prize for Physics in 2010 in the process. The workers above are on a crane building the Graphene Centre, built upon the noble Nobel efforts of Geim and Novoselov.
I envy these guys working at those heights.
ReplyDeleteI'd heard about graphene but didn't know a great deal about it.
ReplyDeleteThe guys on the cranes should have a Nobel Prize for Heights. I have a fear of heights.
ReplyDeleteThanks for this interesting post!
Wil, ABCW team.
Nice post Chrissy.
ReplyDeleteYou blinded me...with SCIENCE.
ReplyDeleteROG, ABC Wednesday team
Well done and well thought out!
ReplyDeleteI had never heard of graphene before. Now I know. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteLea
Vertigo...
ReplyDeleteGod bless you!
Cezar