Sheffield Science Outreach

Offering a couple of hours of your time to share something you can do with someone else can make a BIG difference. Make a Tiny Fun Palace or join your local one on 3 & 4 October: bit.ly/31aWEkF #FunPalaces

It's September tomorrow, which means I'll be starting Miles for Refugees! I'm going to log 160 miles during September to raise money for @BritishRedCross and their work supporting refugees. If you're able to sponsor me I'd really appreciate it 😊 …es-for-refugees-2020.everydayhero.com/uk/ruby-1

Cloud “Streets” A phenomenon where the air convects in persistent cylinders, forming long, parallel lines of puffy clouds that can stretch all the way to the horizon. [Descending through 20,000 feet, on approach to Washington DC from Boston]

Our #ScientistThisWeek is #PierreCurie a French #physicist a pioneer in #crystallography #magnetism, #piezoelectricity, and radioactivity #SSO @BritSciAssoc #SheffScience

Our #ScientistThisWeek is #DarshanRanganathan an organic chemist from India who was known for her work in bio-organic chemistry, including pioneering work in protein folding #SSO @BritSciAssoc #SheffScience

Our #ScientistThisWeek is #NielsBohr a Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding #atomic structure and #quantum theory, for which he received the #NobelPrize in #physics in 1922 #SSO @BritSciAssoc #SheffScience

Our #ScientistThisWeek is #SofiaKovalevskaya a #Russian mathematician who made noteworthy contributions to analysis, partial differential equations and #mechanics #maths #SSO @BritSciAssoc #SheffScience

Our #ScientistThisWeek is #MauriceWilkins a #NewZealand -born #physicist & #molecularbiologist whose research contributed to #opticalmicroscopy, #development of #Radar & work at King's College London on the structure of #DNA #SSO @BritSciAssoc #SheffScience

Our #ScientistThisWeek is #RosalynSussmanYalow an #American #Medical #physicist, winner of the 1977 #NobelPrize for development of the #radioimmunoassay (RIA) technique; the second woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine #SSO @BritSciAssoc #SheffScience

Our #ScientistThisWeek is #FranciscoMojica a #Spanish #microbiologist known for having made early contributions (1993) describing the repeated CRISPR sequences in archaea which later crystallized in the development of #CRISPRCas #technology #SSO @BritSciAssoc #SheffScience

Our #ScientistThisWeek is #JenniferDoudna an #American #biochemist who was one of the #scientists who first proposed #CRISPRCas9 (enzymes from bacteria that control microbial immunity) could be used for #programmable #editing of #genomes #SSO @BritSciAssoc #SheffScience

Our #ScientistThisWeek is #GeorgeWashingtonCarver an American #agricultural #scientist and #inventor. He actively promoted alternative crops to cotton and methods to prevent #soil #depletion. #SSO @BritSciAssoc #SheffScience

Our #ScientistThisWeek is #LindaBuck an #American #biologist best known for her work on the #olfactorysystem. She was awarded the 2004 #NobelPrize in #physiology or #medicine along with #RichardAxel, for their work on #olfactory #receptors #SSO @BritSciAssoc #SheffScience

Happening now in #Sheffield!

#Sheffield don’t miss this #Christmas seminar by @ComunidadCeru!

Our #ScientistThisWeek is #EnricoFermi an Italian #physicist creator of the world's first #nuclear #reactor. He was called the "architect of the nuclear age and the #atomicbomb & won the #NobelPrize (1938) for discovering #transuranium #elements. #SSO @BritSciAssoc #SheffScience

Our #ScientistThisWeek is #MaraDierssen an #Spanish #scientist whose work tries to understand how #Genetic #perturbation in #mental #disorders modifies the way the #brain integrates information #SSO @BritSciAssoc #SheffScience

Our #ScientistThisWeek is #Edward OsborneWilson an American biologist, father of #sociobiology & #biodiversity .He developed the #theory of island which served as the #biogeography foundation of the field of #conservation #area #design #Sheffield #SSO @BritSciAssoc #SheffScience

Our #ScientistThisWeek is #HedyLamarr an Austrian-American #actress & #inventor who developed a #radioguidance system for #allied #torpedoes in #WorldWarII .Spread-spectrum techniques are incorporated into #Bluetooth & #WiFi #technology #Sheffield #SSO @BritSciAssoc #SheffScience

Our #ScientistThisWeek is #DmitriMendeleev a Russian #chemist who formulated the #PeriodicLaw, creating the #PeriodicTable of elements. He corrected the properties of some elements & predicted the ones of eight more yet to be discovered #Sheffield #SSO @BritSciAssoc #SheffScience