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Fans of Nikola Tesla are hard at work raising funds for a museum to honor their hero, at the site of his last remaining laboratory in Shoreham, NY.
Tesla, who registered over 700 patents, brought electricity to the World’s Columbian Exhibition in Chicago in 1893. His discoveries include the alternating current, Tesla Coil, AC induction motor, fluorescent light, laser beam, remote control and wireless communications.
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If you missed our program on Dark Matter and Dark Energy listen now the latest updates from the Aspen Center for Physics from Cosmologists Lisa Randall and Michael Turner or come to our fall program to learn the latest about the Universe.
Over 500 people curious about the Higgs boson visited Fermilab in Batavia on Sunday, July 29, to participate in ‘Ask A Scientist’ day, a program Chicago Council on Science and Technology was pleased to partner on with the National Laboratory.
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Media Contact: Katie Yurkewicz, Fermilab Office of Communication, 630-840-3351, media@fnal.gov
What’s a Higgs boson? Has it been discovered?
Find out at Fermilab on July 29
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Science and Technology are the Stars this Thursday at the Adler Planetarium
Some of Chicago’s political and business leaders will be joining top scientists and philanthropists to celebrate science and technology in Chicago today–this Thursday, June 14, at the Adler Planetarium. Chicago Council on Science and Technology will host its second annual gala fundraiser, Science in the Second City, at 6:30 p.m.
CHICAGO–Rocky Kolb and Jacob Bean “ Discovering Alien Worlds” at the Science of the Second City
Cosmologist Rocky Kolb is a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of Chicago, and former director of the particle astrophysics center at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. Though he has joked that the quickest way to a peaceful plane ride is to let a seatmate know what he does for a living, Dr. Kolb likes to bring understanding of science and the Cosmos to the public through outreach and education.
