Discoveries Category
The Noble Gases
Sir William Ramsay, KCB (1852-1916) from Glasgow was awarded the 1904 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery…
Paraffin Oil
The birth of the oil industry took place in Bathgate, 25 miles east of Glasgow, under the…
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The cuneiform writing system of the ancient Middle Eastern nations first began to be deciphered in the…
Latent Heat and the Joule
Joseph Black (1728-99) was educated in Belfast, Glasgow and Edinburgh and worked in the latter two universities.…
The I-SPY book series
When children are travelling on a long car journey, a popular game to pass the time is“I…
Rayleigh Scattering
Before these days of scientific research funded by bodies with specific outcomes in mind, wealthy, well-educated gentlemen…
Oxygen & other gases
Yorkshireman Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) was a skilled experimental chemist, among other occupations, and in 1774 he made…
Helium (He)
The founder of the prestigious magazine ‘Nature’ was Warwickshire-born Sir Norman Lockyer (1836-1920) and its first edition…
The Eddington Limit
The Eddington Limit (or Luminosity) is a measurement of the the maximum brightness of, say, a star…
Secretin
At the time that secretin was discovered, post-Industrial Revolution, scientific materialists were encouraging the idea of a…
Test-tube babies
Louise Brown, born in Lancashire in 1978, and Alastair MacDonald, born in Glasgow six months later, were…
Neutrons
Mathematician and physicist Sir James Chadwick (1891-1974) from Cheshire discovered the third type of sub-atomic particle, namely…