Konrad Zuse – Inventor of the First Freely Programmable Computer
Konrad Zuse
Born June 22, 1910, Berlin-Wilmersdorf; German inventor of pre-war electromechanical binary computer designated Z1 which was destroyed without trace by wartime bombing; developed two more machines before the end of the war but was [...]
Cassini-Huygens:Cassini-Huygens Participating Scientists Research Announcement 2012
The scientific community is invited to respond to the current Research Announcement to submit proposals for Participating Scientists to the Cassini-Huygens mission. This Research Announcement is published jointly by ESA, NASA and ASI. The deadline [...]
Richard Dawkins: Illness made Hitchens a symbol of the honesty and dignity of atheism
Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011): Christopher Eric Hitchens was an English author and journalist whose books, essays, and journalistic career spanned more than four decades. He was a columnist and literary critic at The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, [...]
Profiles in Science | Michael S. Gazzaniga: Telling the Story of the Brain’s Cacophony of Competing Voices
Michael Gazzaniga: An interview with the neuroscientist and professor of psychology known for his studies, and stories, about the brain’s split personality.
The scientists exchanged one last look and held their breath.
Everything was [...]
Congratulations to James Krupa
James KrupaNCSE is delighted to congratulate James Krupa on being named the 2011 winner of the Four-Year College & University Section Biology Teaching Award from the National Association of Biology Teachers. The award honors a four-year [...]
Introducing the 2011 Nobel Prize winners
If you win a Nobel Prize in physics or chemistry, you’ll receive a medallion just like this one, in addition to fame and money. Credit: Registered trademark of the Nobel Foundation
It’s an annual tradition: Every fall, the Nobel Foundation [...]
Dr Homi Nusserwanji Sethna: Pokhran-I scientist
A nationalist who was wary of the US, a no-nonsense man and a bold and quick decision-maker. This is how colleagues described 86-year-old Homi Nusserwanji Sethna, the man behind India’s first peaceful nuclear test in Pokhran in 1974 that [...]
MUST SEE: Ordinary Indians, extraordinary images
Padma Shri T S Satyan (1923-2009), one of the most eminent and earliest photojournalists in the country. But his never-seen-before compositions, powered by his supreme aesthetic sense, etch into the hearts of his many fans across the globe.
Born [...]
Snapshot of Steve Jobs – Wall Street Journal
Not long after Steve Jobs announced in August that he was stepping down as CEO of Apple Inc., I went to my basement, found a 1983 interview I’d done with Jobs while we drove around Apple’s fledgling campus in Cupertino, Calif.—it [...]
Congratulations to Victor H. Hutchison
Victor H. HutchisonNCSE is delighted to congratulate Victor H. Hutchison on receiving the Jack Renner Distinguished Service to Oklahoma Science Education Award from the Oklahoma Science Teachers Association.
Announcing the award, OSTA’s [...]
