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Sep 12, 2026
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
From this same aspect of dissymmetry and hemihedrism, he studied the aspartates and the malates, shed light upon obscure questions which no chemist before had successfully handled, established the laws of molecular dissymmetry, and took up and solved the problem of dissymmetry in cellular life.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Pasteur continued to address memoranda to the Academy of Sciences, and the learned world began to be stirred by these communications which proved him to be an investigator endowed with genius.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The most celebrated members of the Institute followed his progress with sympathetic interest.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Men such as Dumas, whom as a young student he could not hear lecture at the Sorbonne without emotion, Biot, Ballard, Regnault, and Senarmont, and it occurred to them to elect him as corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences.
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Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
In June of 1853 he announced to his father and to Biot that he had artificially obtained racemic acid.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
It was a splendid victory which amazed all scientists versed in the study of crystals and of chemistry.
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The Luna 18 has reached the lunar area and is now surfing the Moon.
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A researcher studying at Academy of Sciences, Yuri Korotsov, made the following comment.
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To bring a spacecraft to a pre-designated site near the Moon, the flight course must be extremely precise, Dr. Kolopov says.
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The reason is only a tiny error in the rocket's speed or the slightest deviation from the course.
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Warning services have been established on this principle in the United States.
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These facts and others which would be too long to enumerate led us 19 years ago to announce to the Academy of Sciences that the sun must necessarily emit, besides its heat rays and luminous rays, a great abundance of intense Hertzian waves.
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This results a priori from the very nature of these waves.
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If the luminous waves act upon our retina and other waves do not, it is only due to a sort of physiological accident, as expressed by Henri Poincaré, who also says, quote, To the physicist, the infrared does not differ more from the red than the red does from the green, the wavelength being greater in each case.
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Nothing better has yet been found in favor of the plurality of worlds than the reasoning by analogy, which was so prettily developed long ago by the good M. de Fontenelle.
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And when I am told that stupidity, in the comical form assumed in man, is a thing which ought to be generally spread in the universe, let us acknowledge with him that, pending a more geometrical demonstration, we are almost convinced.
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It is amusing to remember that prize of one hundred thousand francs bequeathed to the Academy of Sciences by an excellent lady for the first person to communicate with a planet other than Mars.
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The donor thought that Mars would be too easy.
Mark ChrislerHOST
The import of Mesmer's story with Kempelen's is that Mesmer was the example par excellence of the greatness of French science and skepticism.
Mark ChrislerHOST
A lot of nobles, including Marie Antoinette, had been taken in by Mesmer, but the Academy of Sciences was on the case.
Mark ChrislerHOST
Soon, they'd appoint a committee to investigate animal magnetism, performing the first blinded scientific experiment and debunking the phenomenon entirely.
Mark ChrislerHOST
The leader of that commission was a visiting dignitary who was, among other things, a chess aficionado.
Tammy GrimesHOST
I shall return shortly with Act Three.
Tammy GrimesHOST
In April 1898, Marie Curie's miracle discovery was announced to the Academy of Science.
Tammy GrimesHOST
The presence of a new element contains powerful radioactivity.
Tammy GrimesHOST
Her father regained his health, learning with the world that the substance was called radium.
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the news tomorrow.
Carol TytelVOICE_ACTOR
We'd been to Austria to a mine near St. Joachimsthal.
Carol TytelVOICE_ACTOR
Just at the time an official from the Austrian Academy of Science was there.
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He knew of our work.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
They had produced the astronomical system of Copernicus with Kepler's great additions, the astronomical discoveries and the physical investigations of Galileo, the mechanics of Stevinus, and the De Magnet of Gilbert, the anatomy of the great French and Italian schools, and the physiology of Harvey.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
In Italy, which had succeeded Greece in the hegemony of the scientific world, the Accademia delle Scienze and sundry other associations for the investigation of nature, the models of all subsequent academies and scientific societies, had been founded, while the literary skill and biting wit of Galileo had made the great scientific questions of the day not only intelligible but attractive to the general public.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
In our own country, Francis Bacon had essayed to sum up the past of physical science and to indicate the path which it must follow if its great destinies were to be fulfilled.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
And though the attempt was just such a magnificent failure as might have been expected from a man of great endowments who was so singularly devoid of scientific insight that he could not understand the value of the work already achieved by the true instaurators of physical science, yet the majestic eloquence and the fervid vaticinations of one who was conspicuous alike by the greatness of his rise and the depth of his fall drew the attention of all the world to the new birth of time.
Maria ThereseNARRATOR
Still he persevered, and after incredible fatigues arrived at the summit of the volcano.
Maria ThereseNARRATOR
An account of this wonderful exploration was communicated to the Academy of Sciences on July 6, 1846, and was signed Sebastian Weiss and Garcia Moreno.
Maria ThereseNARRATOR
In spite of these scientific pursuits, Garcia Moreno did not neglect his law studies, and at twenty-three years of age he had obtained the rank of doctor and was called to the bar under the direction of an eminent lawyer, Joaquin Henriquez.
Maria ThereseNARRATOR
His estimate of his people may be judged by the following extract from his certificate.
Thomas BodkinNARRATOR
He encouraged musicians and fought the cause of Lully.
Thomas BodkinNARRATOR
He joined with Cloud in a successful effort to found the Academy of Science.
Thomas BodkinNARRATOR
claude perrault had something of his brother's versatility and shared his love for architecture and the two now became deeply interested in the various schemes which were mooted for the completion of the louvre bernini was summoned by the king from rome and entrusted with the task but the brothers perrault intervened charles conceived the idea of the great east front and communicated it to claude who drew the plans and was commissioned to carry them out.
Thomas BodkinNARRATOR
The work was finished in 1671 and is still popularly known as Perrault's Colonnade.
Andy MinterNARRATOR
Instead of joining an Arctic expedition, I was sent out by the Geographical Society on a modest tour in Finland and Sweden to explore the glacial deposits, and that journey drifted me in a quite different direction.
Andy MinterNARRATOR
The Russian Academy of Sciences sent out this summer two of its members, the old geologist General Helmersen and Friedrich Schmidt, the indefatigable explorer of Siberia, to study the structure of those long ridges of drift which are known as Åsar in Sweden and Finland and as Esker, Kammes, and so on in the British Isles.
Andy MinterNARRATOR
The Geographical Society sent me to Finland for the same purpose.
Andy MinterNARRATOR
We visited, all three, the beautiful ridge of Punkahaju and then separated.
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Andy MinterNARRATOR
Even at the time when the circle of Tchaikovsky did nothing but distribute books, all of which had been printed with the censor's approval, Tchaikovsky was twice arrested and kept some four or six months in prison.
Andy MinterNARRATOR
On the second occasion, at a critical time of his career as a chemist.
Andy MinterNARRATOR
His researches had recently been published in the Bulletin of the Academy of Sciences, and he had come up for his final university examinations.
Andy MinterNARRATOR
He was released at last because the police could not discover sufficient evidence against him to warrant his transportation to the Urals.
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