Posted on November 7, 2018
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I've already written about Curie (see "Also on this date" below)...but there have been five other Nobel Laureates born on this date! That's...impressive.
Two of these Nobel-Prize-winning birthday-peeps came from two very different places and won for two very different areas of study: Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman was born on this date in 1888, in India, and won for work in physics; and Konrad Lorenz was born on this date in 1904, in Austria, and won for his work in zoology.
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Rayleigh scattering is called "elastic scattering," and the energy of the light (photon) stays the same but the direction changes. C.V. Raman studied "inelastic scattering" in liquids (and also gases and solids). In this kind of scattering, some of the energy of the light (photon) is lost or increased. This kind of scattering is called Raman scattering. Scientists use this Raman effect to figure out what is in a substance without necessarily touching and therefore without damaging the substance.
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When Lorenz was a young person and a student, he accumulated a lot of animal pets - including some more exotic not-usually-pet animals such as a capuchin monkey. What gets me about that is that his pets lived in his parents' apartment - and if they hadn't allowed such a thing, the world might not have gained all the knowledge about animals that Lorenz discovered.
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The ugliness of Lorenz's life and science was the ways in which he may or may not have helped the hateful and untrue bigotry of the white supremacy and white nationalism that characterize the Nazi party.
The beauty of Lorens's life and science was that he was able to discuss animal behavior within the theory of evolution by natural selection. He asked questions like - How did behavior X benefit the animal? How did the behavior make the animal better adapted to its environment and therefore better able to pass on its genes?
Thus animal behavior became more than just cute and funny anecdotes or "believe it or not" oddities - it became a scientific study.
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