November It is another month with important scientific and technological days to remember influential scientists. which has left memorable research works for future generations to study and learn from And there are also various important international days. To remember the resolutions and wishes that have been made on important days to happen such as …..
November 2 It’s the birthday of the person who solved the mystery of the sun’s corona. “Bengt Edlén” Swedish physicist and astronomer He is famous for identifying previously unknown spectral lines of the solar corona. He participated in solving the mystery of the corona, an unidentified emission line in the solar spectrum (1942). He showed that some of these lines come from the fission of ionized iron (Fe
November 3 It’s the birthday of “Eugenius warming” Danish botanist He was the founder of the scientific field of ecology. and is the author of the first textbook on plant ecology.
November 5 It’s the birthday of “leon teisserenc de bort” Discoverer of the stratosphere This led to the study of other atmospheres. French meteorologist and was a pioneer in the field of aeronautics. He is credited with co-discovering the stratosphere, along with Richard Assmann, and being the first to identify the region in the atmosphere between 8 and 17 kilometers in altitude.
“Stratosphere” It is one of the layers of the earth’s atmosphere. It is the second layer of Earth’s atmosphere, located between the troposphere and the mesosphere. It ranges from a height of 10 kilometers to 50 kilometers. It is a layer that contains ozone gas that helps absorb ultraviolet radiation from the sun. Prevents harmful radiation to life on Earth.
November 15 It is the birthday of the founder of stellar astronomy. “william Herschel” German-British astronomer He is best known for his discovery of Uranus and its moons Titania and Oberon. He is considered one of the greatest astronomers of all time. He is widely considered to be the founder of sidereal astronomy and the author of the Theory of Stellar Evolution for the observation of celestial bodies. Herschel’s contributions include the discovery of infrared radiation. Survey of binary star systems, publication of catalogs of stars and nebulae. He is also the inventor of many telescopes. Including building the largest telescope of that era.
read : William Herschel, musician who discovered “Uranus” and “infrared radiation”
November 22 It’s the birthday of “Guion Stewart Bluford Jr.” Former NASA astronaut in such capacity He became the first African American to travel into space. He participated on four space shuttle flights between 1983 and 1992. In 1983 and as a crew member of the Orbiter Challenger on the STS – 8 mission, he became the first African American to go to space.
Reference information: Institute for the Promotion of Teaching Science and Technology IPST.
