Jan Broek (1 November 1585 - 21 November 1652) was a Polish polymath: a mathematician, astronomer, physician, poet, writer, musician and rector of the Kraków Academy. Read more
Alfred Lothar Wegener (November 1, 1880 - November 1930) was a German polar researcher, geophysicist and meteorologist. During his lifetime he was primarily known for his achievements in meteorology and as a pioneer of polar research, but today he is most remembered for advancing the theory of co...
Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico is a photograph by Ansel Adams, taken late in the afternoon on November 1, 1941, from a shoulder of U.S. Route 84. The photograph became so popular and collectible that Adams personally made over 1,300 photographic prints of it during his long career. On October 17, 2...
Orbital elements:
2012 UA174 Earth MOID = 0.1484 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 349.62927 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.28000552 Peri. 176.24131 +0.73266783 -0.66840081
a 2.3139732 Node 226.58520 +0.61973306 +0.73307501
e 0.5076989 Incl. 10.16616 +0.28129841 +0.12586260
P 3.52 H 2...
When the Arecibo L-Band Feed Array (ALFA) was installed on a misty April morning two years ago, it promised to bring phenomenal new sensitivity to the Arecibo Observatory.
Now, well into an ambitious series of comprehensive sky surveys using the receiver, astronomers say ALFA is delivering s...
Ivy Mike was the codename given to the first United States nuclear test of a fusion device, in which a major part of the explosive yield came from nuclear fusion. It was detonated on November 1, 1952 by the United States at 11.6709°N 162.1980°E on Enewetak, an atoll in the Pacific Ocean, as part of Opera...
Operation Buster-Jangle was a series of seven (six atmospheric, one underground) nuclear weapons tests conducted by the United States in late 1951 at the Nevada Test Site. Buster-Jangle was the first joint test program between the DOD and Los Alamos National Laboratories. 6,500 troops were invo...
The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1610-11, and thought by many critics to be the last play that Shakespeare wrote alone. It is set on a remote island, where Prospero, the exiled Duke of Milan, plots to restore his daughter Miranda to her rightful place, usin...
The 1755 Lisbon earthquake, also known as the Great Lisbon Earthquake, was a megathrust earthquake that took place on Saturday 1 November 1755, at around 9:40 in the morning. Read more
World Vegan Day is an annual event celebrated on 1 November, by vegans around the world. The Day was established in 1994 by Louise Wallis, then President & Chair of The Vegan Society UK. 2011 marks the 67th anniversary of the term 'vegan' (and thus the verbally clarified concept of 'veganism' and...
Robert Betts Laughlin (born November 1, 1950) is a professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Stanford University. Along with Horst L. Störmer of Columbia University and Daniel C. Tsui of Princeton University, he was awarded a share of the 1998 Nobel Prize in physics for their explanation of the fr...
Sir Hermann Bondi, KCB, FRS (1 November 1919 - 10 September 2005) was an Anglo-Austrian mathematician and cosmologist. He is best known for developing the steady-state theory of the universe with Fred Hoyle and Thomas Gold as an alternative to the Big Bang theory, but his most lasting legacy will pr...
Donald William Kerst (November 1, 1911-August 19, 1993) was an American physicist. In 1940, Dr. Kerst developed the betatron and became the first person to accelerate electrons using magnetic induction, reaching energies of 2.3-MeV. Read more
Europe's oldest prehistoric town unearthed in Bulgaria Archaeologists in Bulgaria say that have uncovered the oldest prehistoric town found to date in Europe. The walled fortified settlement, near the modern town of Provadia, is thought to have been an important centre for salt production. Its...
The dark side of the white, polar world The polar regions have, for centuries, been considered to be otherworldly. But where does this idea come from, and why do even Western scientists find themselves taking it seriously? Read more
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