Brian K Nunnally

I write a This Week in Science History blog each week.

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Follow @bashreport for daily (#thisday) #science #history tweets & weekly (#thisweek) science history blogs! This week: http://t.co/o9s855Ny

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@HISTORYmag this twitter feed is dead, but my new twitter handle is @bashreport. Same content, new name!

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The 1st BASH report is live (https://t.co/i1hE1e1f). It is on the first launch of the shuttle Challenger. @bashreport #science #history

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Dear followers - I am transitioning to a new feed @bashreport! If you still want your daily science history moment - follow me @bashreport!

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On 3/29/1974, Mariner 10 took the first close-up pictures of Mercury. Launched on 11/3/73, it found a thin atmosphere and a magnetic field.

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On 3/28/1979, a partial meltdown occured at Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in PA. It was caused by human and mechanical errors.

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On 3/27/1933, polyethylene was discovered by Reginald Gibson and Eric William Fawcett. It was discovered by accident.

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Benjamin Thompson Rumford is born on 3/26/1753. He determined heat is a form of motion and developed a calorimeter and a photometer.

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On 3/25/1655, Christiaan Huygens discovered Titan, Saturn's largest moon. He determined its period of revolution and discovered the rings.

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3/24/1882: Robert Koch announces he discovered the bacillus responsible for tuberculosis. He won the 1905 Nobel Prize in Medicine.

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On 3/23/1962, the first xenon, XePtF6, compound was made by Neil Barlett. It is a yellow-orange solid that was stable at room temperature.

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Happy Birthday Burton Richter (3/22/1931)! He won the 1976 Nobel Prize for Physics for the discovery of the J/psi particle.

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Happy Birthday Walter Gilbert (born on 3/21/1932)! He won the 1980 Nobel Prize for his work on DNA sequencing.

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On 3/21/1684, Giovanni Domenico Cassini discovered 2 moons of Saturn: Tethys and Dione.

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Torbern Olof Bergman was born on 3/20/1735. He improved chemical analysis and contributed to the theory of crystal structure.

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This week's post is on Robert Millikan, a scientist with one really well known experiment. Check it out at: http://t.co/SaEp6Zif