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Czy Scott zdobędzie się jeszcze na wyższe osiągnięcia ? 

Scott Kelly @StationCDRKelly 9:50 PM · 15 lip 2021

In space I enjoyed looking down at rugged mountain ranges below. Yesterday, I got a new perspective, although from a lower altitude, but the highest I’ve ever climbed here on Earth.
My wife, @amikokauderer, and I celebrating our anniversary on Mt. Bierstadt at 14,065 ft!

https://twitter.com/StationCDRKelly/status/1415760589872324613

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Maidarzhavyn Ganzorig (Gankhuyag), cosmonaut (05.02.1949-04.07.2021):

http://www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum38/HTML/002412.html

Majdardżawyn Ganzorig zmarł w wieku 72 lat.

Chociaż nie poleciał w kosmos został pierwszym mongolskim doktorem nauk kosmicznych po zdobyciu doktoratu w Sowieckim Instytucie Badań Kosmicznych.

Majdardżawyn Ganzorig (05.02.1949-04.07.2021)

Majdardżawyn Ganzorig pełnił ostatecznie funkcję rezerwowego kosmonauty dla 1-go Mongoła w kosmosie wybranego w ramach grupy Interkosmos 2 (1978).

Przed wyborem na kandydata na kosmonautę nosił nazwisko Gankhuyag, które pod naciskiem strony radzieckiej zostało zmienione ze względu na jego brzmienie. („Khuyag” po mongolsku oznacza „muszlę”).

W latach 1981-1984 pisał pracę dyplomową w Instytucie Badań Kosmicznych w Moskwie, po obronie uzyskał stopień kandydata nauk technicznych.
Doktor nauk technicznych, profesor.

http://www.spacefacts.de/bios/international/english/ganzorig_maidarzhavin.htm
http://www.astronautix.com/g/ganzorig.html
https://www.worldspaceflight.com/bios/g/ganzorig-m.php

https://www.kozmo-data.sk/kozmonauti/ganzorig-maidarzavyn.html
https://www.astronaut.ru/index/in_pers/16_001.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maidarjavyn_Ganzorig
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Майдаржавын Ганзориг

https://novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/news/80615/

https://www.forum.kosmonauta.net/index.php?topic=3483.msg181762#msg181762

САНСРЫН НИСЭГЧ М.ГАНЗОРИГ ТААЛАЛ ТӨГСЛӨӨ
НИЙГЭМ 2021.07.05 11:07

Монгол Улсын Хөдөлмөрийн баатар, Шинжлэх ухааны гавьяат ажилтан, сансрын нисэгч Майдаржавын Ганзориг хорвоогийн мөнх бусыг үзүүлжээ.

Архангай аймгийн Цэцэрлэг сумаас гаралтай тэрээр 1975 онд Киев хотын политехникийн сургуулийг автоматикийн инженерээр төгсөж, үргэлжлүүлэн Улаанбаатар хотын Нэгдүгээр цахилгаан станцад ажиллаж байжээ.

Улмаар 1977 оны гуравдугаар сард сансрын нисгэгчдийг сонгон шалгаруулалтад орж,нийт 10 мянга орчим хүний материалыг судлан, олон шалгуураар шүүсний дүнд М.Ганзориг, Ж.Гүррагчаа нар сонгогдон үлдсэн байдаг.

М.Ганзориг 1977 оноос хойшхи бүхий л амьдралаа сансартай холбож, монголын сансар судлалын түүхийг бүтээлцсэн нэгэн юм. Түүний дэвшүүлсэн сансрын зураг боловсруулан ашиглах санал, аргазүйг байгалийн нөөц, геологийн судалгаанд өргөнөөр ашиглах болсон. Ингэснээр тухайн үед манай орны эдийн засгийн суурь болж байсан хөдөө аж ахуй салбарт үр дүнгээ өгчээ.

Тэрээр хэдий сансарт нисээгүй ч гэсэн сансрын судалгааны ажлаа үргэлжлүүлж, ЗХУ-ын Сансар судлалын хүрээлэнд докторын зэрэг хамгаалснаар Монголын анхны сансар судлалын доктор болжээ.

Эх орондоо эргэж ирээд геологи, ургамал судлал, физикийн олон залууг нэгтгэн сансраас ирсэн мэдээллийг боловсруулах лабораторыг нээж, дараагийн олон судлаач, эрдэмтдийг төрөн гарах үндсийг суулгасан билээ.
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Скончался Майдаржавын Ганзориг
Бадарчин 05.07.2021


Печальная новость: 4 июля 2021 года ушел из жизни Герой Труда Монголии, заслуженный деятель науки, монгольский космонавт Майдаржавын Ганзориг, дублер Ж. Гуррагчи во время советско-монгольского космического полёта.
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МАЙДАРЖАВЫН ГАНЗОРИГ (1949 - 2021)
 G.Admin  2021-07-05



ШУА-ийн Газарзүй, Геоэкологийн хүрээлэнгийн Зайнаас тандах судлал, оронзайн загварчлалын салбарыг үндэслэгч, Монгол Улсын хөдөлмөрийн баатар, Шинжлэх ухааны гавьяат зүтгэлтэн, Сансрын нисэгч Майдаржавын Ганзориг 2021 оны 7 дугаар сарын 4-ний өдөр таалал төгсөж, Монгол Улсын шинжлэх ухааны салбарт хүнд гарз тохиолоо.

Майдаржавын Ганзориг нь 1949 онд Архангай аймгийн Цэцэрлэг суманд төрж, 1968 онд Цэцэрлэг хотын 10 жилийн сургуулийг, 1975 онд ЗХУ-ын Киев хотын Политехникийн дээд сургуулийг дулааны нарийн хэмжүүр, автоматикийн инженер мэргэжлээр тус тус төгсчээ.

М.Ганзориг нь 1978 оноос ШУА–ийн ФТХ-ийн Сансар судлалын секторт эрдэм шинжилгээний ажилтнаар ажиллаж, улмаар Ю.А.Гагарины нэрэмжит сансрын нисэгчдийг бэлтгэх төвд сансрын нислэгийн бүрэн курс төгсөж, сансрын нисэгч, шинжлэн судлаач болсон. 1981-1984 онд ЗХУ-ын Сансрын шинжилгээний хүрээлэнд судалгааны ажил хийж, техникийн ухааны докторын зэргийг амжилттай хамгаалан, Монгол улсын сансрын тандан судлалын салбар дахь анхны эрдэмтэн болсон юм.

М.Ганзориг нь 1984-1990 онд ШУА–ийн ФТХ-ийн Агаар, сансрын мэдээлэл боловсруулах эрдэм шинжилгээ, арга зүйн лабораторийн эрхлэгч, 1990-2014 онд өөрийн үүсгэн байгуулсан Информатикийн хүрээлэнгийн захирлаар, 2014 оноос эрдэм шинжилгээний тэргүүлэх ажилтан, сэдвийн удирдагчаар амьдралынхаа сүүлчийн мөчийг хүртэл ажиллаж, шинжлэх ухаан, сансар судлалын үйл хэрэгт бүхий л ухамсарт амьдралаа зориулсан юм.

Монгол улсын зайнаас тандан судлалын анхны эрдэмтэн, тус салбарыг үндэслэгч, доктор М.Ганзориг нь олон арван ном туурвиж, олон зуун эрдэм шинжилгээний өгүүллийг дотоод гадаадад нийтлүүлсэн, олон тооны эрдэмтэн шавь төрүүлсэн, шинжлэх ухааны салбарын нэрт эрдэмтэн, соён гэгээрүүлэгч, ШУА-ийн Бага чуулган, Үндэсний Инженерийн академийн гишүүн, Улаанбаатарын их сургуулийн профессор байлаа.

М.Ганзоригийн нөр их, бүтээлч хөдөлмөрийг нь Монгол Улсын Төр өндрөөр үнэлэн, 1981 онд “БНМАУ-ын сансрын нисэгч” цол хүртээж, Сүхбаатарын одонгоор, 2001 онд Хөдөлмөрийн гавьяаны улаан тугийн одон, 2006 онд “Монгол Улсын шинжлэх ухааны гавьяат зүтгэлтэн” цол, 2011 онд “Монгол Улсын Хөдөлмөрийн баатар” цолоор тус тус шагнасан юм. Мөн М.Ганзоригийг ОХУ-ын Найрамдлын одон, БНАСАУ-ын Найрамдлын медаль, ОХУ-ын сансрын нисэгчдийн холбооны “Сансрыг эзэмших гавьяаны төлөө” медаль, Гагарины алтан медаль, Америкийн газарзүйн нийгэмлэгээс геоинформатикийн салбарын Дэлхийн шилдэг эрдэмтэнд олгодог О.Миллерийн алтан медалиар шагнажээ.

Монголын ард түмний хайртай хүү, хөдөлмөрийн баатар, сансрын нисэгч Майдаржавын Ганзоригийн гэгээн дүр төрх бидний сэтгэл зүрхэнд үүрд дурсагдах болно.











https://igg.ac.mn/c/1003754?content=2097131

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Maidarzhavyn Ganzorig (Gankhuyag), cosmonaut (05.02.1949-04.07.2021):

http://www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum38/HTML/002412.html

Majdardżawyn Ganzorig zmarł w wieku 72 lat.

Dzięki @Orionid za słuszą korektę wieku zmarłego. Poprawiłem  na witrynie:

http://lk.astronautilus.pl/astros/ganzorig.htm

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Steven Weinberg 1933-2021

PRZERWANY SEN STEVENA WEINBERGA
ŁUKASZ LAMŻA 26.07.2021

23 lipca zmarł w wieku 88 lat jeden z najważniejszych twórców fizyki kwantowej, laureat Nagrody Nobla w 1979 r. Steven Weinberg w latach 60. i 70. XX w. odegrał kluczową rolę w rozszerzeniu opisu kwantowego na kolejne cząstki i oddziaływania znane fizyce. Współtworzył teorię oddziaływań elektrosłabych, która dziś stanowi jeden z filarów opisu świata mikroskopowego – tzw. „modelu standardowego cząstek elementarnych”.

Był też niestrudzonym popularyzatorem nauki. Jego „Pierwsze trzy minuty” z 1977 r. przez długie lata stanowiły dla milionów ludzi wprowadzenie w teorię Wielkiego Wybuchu. „Sen o teorii ostatecznej” z 1993 r. to fascynujący zapis przemyśleń na temat hipotetycznej „teorii wszystkiego” mającej stanowić fundament dla całej fizyki. Weinberg nie uciekał od subtelności. Choć fizyk, i to noblista, śmiało pisał, że w poszukiwaniu ostatecznej teorii przyświeca mu nie tylko racjonalność dobrego naukowca, a głównie osobista przyjemność z poszukiwania. Choć zdeklarowany ateista, nie bał się przyznać, że „czasem przyroda wydaje się piękniejsza, niż jest to rzeczywiście konieczne”. Odszedł nie tylko znawca, ale i wielbiciel świata.
https://www.tygodnikpowszechny.pl/przerwany-sen-stevena-weinberga-168501

https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/1418804320611364867

Steven Weinberg, Nobel-winning physicist who united principal forces of nature, dies at 88
By Martin Weil July 26, 2021 at 2:14 p.m. EDT


Physicist Steven Weinberg in 2008. (Larry Murphy/University of Texas at Austin)

Steven Weinberg, who was acknowledged as one of the world’s foremost theoretical physicists and won the Nobel Prize for showing how to unify two of the principal forces of nature, died July 23 in Austin. He was 88.

Dr. Weinberg’s death was announced by the University of Texas, where he had been a professor for many years.

During a long career spent in the exploration of the most basic problems of physics and cosmology, he won lasting renown as a creator of an “electroweak” theory that unifies electromagnetism and the “weak” force that operates on the subatomic scale and is one of the four forces that govern the universe. (...)

“If there is no point in the universe that we discover by the methods of science,” he told PBS, “there is a point that we can give the universe by the way we live, by loving each other, by discovering things about nature, by creating works of art.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/steven-weinberg-nobel-winning-physicist-who-united-principal-forces-of-nature-dies-at-88/2021/07/26/75d8d24a-ee31-11eb-bf80-e3877d9c5f06_story.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Weinberg
https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Weinberg

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Steven Weinberg, Groundbreaking Nobelist in Physics, Dies at 88
By Dylan Loeb McClain Published July 25, 2021 Updated July 29, 2021

His discoveries deepened understanding of the basic forces at play in the universe, and he took general readers back to its dawn in his book “The First Three Minutes.”


Dr. Steven Weinberg at the University of Texas at Austin. Though he had the respect, almost awe, of his colleagues for his scientific abilities, he also possessed a rare ability among scientists to communicate and explain abstruse scientific ideas to the public.Credit...Tamir Kalifa for The New York Times

Steven Weinberg, a theoretical physicist who discovered that two of the universe’s forces are really the same, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize, and who helped lay the foundation for the development of the Standard Model, a theory that classifies all known elementary particles in the universe, making it one of the most important breakthroughs in physics in the 20th century, died on Friday in a hospital in Austin, Texas. He was 88.

His daughter, Dr. Elizabeth Weinberg, confirmed the death but did not specify a cause.

Dr. Weinberg’s stature in physics would be hard to overstate.

In 2011, Dr. Brian Greene, a theoretical physicist at Columbia University, invited Dr. Weinberg to be the inaugural speaker at a new lecture series, titled “On the Shoulders of Giants,” produced by the World Science Festival at New York University. While introducing his guest, Dr. Greene related how, in the early 1980s, he was working at I.B.M. when he was invited to give a lecture at the University of Texas at Austin, where Dr. Weinberg was a professor. When he told his boss, John Cocke, a pioneer of computer science, that Dr. Weinberg would be at the talk, Dr. Cocke warned him, “You should know, there are Nobel laureates and then there are Nobel laureates.” Dr. Weinberg was in the second category.

Though he had the respect, almost awe, of his colleagues for his scientific abilities and insights, he also possessed a rare ability among scientists to communicate and explain abstruse scientific ideas to the public. He was a sought-after speaker, and he wrote several popular books about science, notably “The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe” (1977).

The work for which Dr. Weinberg was awarded the Nobel had a transformative impact on physics, in particular on the development of quantum mechanics, which tries to understand and explain what happens in the subatomic world.

There are four known forces in the universe: gravity; electromagnetism; the strong force, which binds the nuclei of atoms together; and the weak force, which causes radioactive decay. The first two forces have been known for centuries, but the other two were discovered only in the first two decades of the 20th century.

Over the next decades, physicists struggled to find a theory that would account for all the forces, or what Einstein called a theory of everything. Though there were significant discoveries, particularly of new particles with exotic names like quarks (the components of protons and neutrons in the nucleus) and leptons (which include electrons but also more esoteric particles called muons and taus), a unified theory or model remained elusive.


Dr. Weinberg in October 1979 at Harvard after learning that he would receive the Nobel Prize in Physics. Credit...Associated Press Photo

In 1967, Dr. Weinberg began using something called gauge theory to study the interactions in weak forces, which had not been successfully explained up to that point.

Gauge theory had been developed in the 19th century by James Clerk Maxwell, a British physicist, in his seminal work to explain electromagnetism. In the 1950s, it was used by Robert Mills and Chen Ning Yang, a Chinese American physicist, who later won the Nobel Prize, to understand strong-force interactions.

But Dr. Weinberg’s application of gauge theory to the weak force soon ran into a problem.

Electromagnetism is a force that acts at large distances, but the weak force acts only at very short distances — smaller than the nucleus of an atom. In electromagnetism, when two particles — say, electrons — collide, they exchange a massless neutral particle called a photon, which is also known as a gauge boson. If two particles collide because of the weak force, gauge theory requires — because of the short distances of the interaction — that the gauge bosons that are exchanged be massive and possibly electrically charged.

Fortunately, several years earlier, physicists had come up with a way to generate mass for gauge bosons called the Higgs Mechanism. It was named for Peter Higgs, a British physicist, and it predicted the existence of a previously unknown particle that is responsible for giving other particles their mass. The particle was given the name the Higgs boson, and its discovery, in 2012, brought Dr. Higgs and his colleague François Englert the 2013 Nobel Prize.

Toward a Unified Theory

Using this new idea, Dr. Weinberg was able to create a model in which weak interactions produced massive, at least by atomic standards, gauge boson particles. He called them W and Z bosons.

His theory also predicted that in some collisions — for example, between two electrically neutral particles like a neutron and a neutrino — a neutral current, as opposed to a charged one, would be created, indicating that there had been an exchange of a Z boson.

Dr. Weinberg theorized that there was a link between the photon and the W and Z bosons, suggesting that they were created by the same force. The conclusion was that, at very high energy levels, the electromagnetic and weak forces were one and the same. It was a step on the path to the unified theory that physicists had been searching for.

Dr. Weinberg published his findings in 1967 in a groundbreaking paper, “A Model of Leptons,” in the journal Physical Review Letters. The article is one of the most cited research papers in history.

Working separately, Dr. Abdus Salam, a Pakistani theoretical physicist, came to the same conclusions as Dr. Weinberg. Their model became known as the Weinberg-Salam Theory. It was revolutionary, not only for proposing the unification of the electromagnetic and weak forces, but also for creating a classification system of masses and charges for all fundamental particles, thereby forming the basis of the Standard Model, which includes all the forces except gravity.

The existence of neutral current was confirmed experimentally in 1973, while it took another decade for the W and Z bosons to be verified, by Carlo Rubbia and Simon van der Meer at the CERN supercollider in Switzerland near Geneva. That work earned Dr. Rubbia and Dr. van der Meer the 1984 Nobel Prize.


Dr. Weinberg and Dr. Sheldon Lee Glashow spoke to reporters after learning that they would share the 1979 Nobel. Working separately, Dr. Abdus Salam, a Pakistani theoretical physicist, also shared in the prize. Credit...Associated Press Photo

Dr. Weinberg, Dr. Salam and Dr. Sheldon Lee Glashow, an old high school classmate of Dr. Weinberg’s who had resolved a critical problem with the Weinberg-Salam model, were jointly awarded the 1979 Nobel Prize “for their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles.”

After learning that Dr. Weinberg had died, John Carlos Baez, a theoretical physicist at the University of California, Riverside, wrote on Twitter: “For all the talk of unification, there are few examples. Newton unified terrestrial and celestial gravity — apples and planets. Maxwell unified electricity and magnetism. Weinberg, Glashow and Salam unified electromagnetism and the weak force.”

Dr. Weinberg’s prodigious output went well beyond his contributions to the Standard Model.

In the mid-1960s, after the discovery of cosmic background radiation, the heat signature left over from the Big Bang at the beginning of the universe, Dr. Weinberg began studying cosmology, leading to his book “Gravitation and Cosmology” in 1972.

Soon after, he was invited to give a talk on the subject at the undergraduate science center at Harvard. During the lecture, Dr. Weinberg described the evolution of the universe in the first three minutes after the Big Bang, when things had cooled down enough for atomic nuclei to bond together. He then commented, “After that, nothing of any interest would happen in the history of the universe.”

How It All Began, Explained

The quip led a book publisher to engage Dr. Weinberg to write “The First Three Minutes,” which gained a wide readership and made cosmology a respectable field for physicists. In the book he described the earth as “a tiny part of an overwhelmingly hostile universe” and famously, and grimly, concluded, “The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.”

He wrote many other books, including one on the history of science, “To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science” (2015), and three volumes totaling 1,500 pages, on quantum field theory, which merges classical physics, special relativity and quantum mechanics. The series is widely regarded as the definitive text on the subject.

Dr. Willy Fischler, a theoretical physicist whom Dr. Weinberg recruited for the faculty of the University of Texas, Austin, in 1982, said that Dr. Weinberg’s greatest work may have been in the development of effective field theory, which provides a mathematical method to use in relatively low-energy experiments to detect the effects of higher energy particles that can’t be seen or measured directly. Dr. Fischler called him the father of effective field theory.

Steven Weinberg was born in New York City on May 3, 1933, the only child of Frederick and Eva (Israel) Weinberg. His father was a court stenographer, his mother a homemaker.

As he told the Nobel Institute in a 2001 interview, he first became interested in science when a cousin of his who had been given a chemistry set passed it along to him. The cousin had decided to take up boxing instead. “Perhaps he should have stayed in science,” Dr. Weinberg said.

He went to the Bronx High School of Science, where Sheldon Lee Glashow was among his classmates and friends. After graduating from Cornell University in 1954, he spent a year at the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Copenhagen, which was later renamed the Niels Bohr Institute, after the Nobel laureate. Dr. Weinberg returned to the United States in 1955 to work on his Ph.D. at Princeton University under Sam Treiman, a noted theoretical physicist.

Dr. Weinberg worked at Columbia University until 1959 and then at the University of California, Berkeley, until 1966, when he became a lecturer at Harvard and a visiting professor at nearby M.I.T. until 1969. M.I.T. then hired him, but he moved back to Harvard in 1973 to become the Higgins professor of physics, succeeding Julian Schwinger, who had won the Nobel Prize in 1965 for his contributions to the understanding of particle physics. Dr. Weinberg was also named the senior scientist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, which is also in Cambridge, Mass., along with Harvard and M.I.T.

Dr. Weinberg married Louise Goldwasser in 1954; they had met as undergraduates at Cornell. In 1980, Ms. Weinberg joined the University of Texas, Austin, as a law professor. For the next two years, she and Dr. Weinberg commuted back and forth from Cambridge as Dr. Weinberg wrapped up his work at Harvard. He joined his wife in Texas in 1982, becoming a professor of physics and astronomy, as he had been at Harvard.

As part of his move, Dr. Weinberg was allowed to create a high-level theoretical physics research group at the University of Texas and to recruit professors for it. It has grown to include eight full professors and five assistant professors and is considered one of the leading centers of physics research in the United States.

Dr. Fischler, who continues to work with the theory group, said of Dr. Weinberg, “He had a knack to consider the important problems, but not only what was important, but what was solvable.”

‘There Is No Cosmic Plan’

Dr. Weinberg, who never retired, continued to teach until the spring this year.

He received many awards and accolades besides the Nobel, including the National Medal of Science in 1991 and the Benjamin Franklin Medal for Distinguished Achievement in Science in 2004. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Royal Society in Britain. Last year, he received a $3 million award for his contributions to fundamental physics from the Breakthrough Prize Foundation, founded by Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, Sergey Brin of Google and Jack Ma of Alibaba, among others.

In addition to his daughter, a medical doctor, he is survived by his wife and a granddaughter.

Dr. Weinberg opposed religion, believing that it undermined efforts to seek and discover truth. In “The First Three Minutes” he wrote, “Anything that we scientists can do to weaken the hold of religion should be done and may in the end be our greatest contribution to civilization.”

In his interview with the Nobel Institute, he was asked about his often-quoted line near the end of “The First Three Minutes” — “The more that the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.”

“What I meant by that statement is that there is no point to be discovered in nature itself; there is no cosmic plan for us,” he said. “We are not actors in a drama that has been written with us playing the starring role. There are laws — we are discovering those laws — but they are impersonal, they are cold.”

He added: “It is not an entirely happy view of human life. I think it is a tragic view, but that is not new to physicists. A tragic view of life has been expressed by so many poets — that we are here without purpose, trying to identify something that we care about.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/25/science/steven-weinberg-groundbreaking-nobelist-in-physics-dies-at-88.html

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Steven Weinberg, Nobel Prize-winning physicist, has died
By Tia Ghose - Assistant Managing Editor 7 days ago

The physicist unified two of the four fundamental forces.



(...) "Professor Weinberg unlocked the mysteries of the universe for millions of people, enriching humanity's concept of nature and our relationship to the world," said Jay Hartzell, president of UT Austin, said in the statement. "From his students to science enthusiasts, from astrophysicists to public decision makers, he made an enormous difference in our understanding. In short, he changed the world." (...)
https://home.cern/fr/news/obituary/cern/steven-weinberg-1933-2021

With Steven Weinberg’s death, physics loses a titan
By Tom Siegfried JULY 24, 2021 AT 9:17 PM

He advanced the theory of particles and forces, and wrote insightfully for a wider public


Steven Weinberg in his office at the University of Texas at Austin in 2018. T. SIEGFRIED

(...) Among his peers, Weinberg was one of the most respected figures in all of physics or perhaps all of science. He exuded intelligence and dignity. As news of his death spread through Twitter, other physicists expressed their remorse at the loss: “One of the most accomplished scientists of our age,” one commented, “a particularly eloquent spokesman for the scientific worldview.” And another: “One of the best physicists we had, one of the best thinkers of any variety.” (...)
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/steven-weinberg-death-physics-electromagnetism-standard-model

https://www.usnews.com/news/news/articles/2021-07-24/nobel-prize-winning-physicist-steven-weinberg-dies-at-88
https://apnews.com/article/science-nobel-prizes-physics-fa5df3e3f8027f545d6d41c19151caeb
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/mar/03/steven-weinberg-interview-rational-heroes
https://nauka.poinformowani.pl/artykul/37676-zmarl-fizyk-steven-weinberg

https://www.gremintals.com/steven-weinberg

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Steven Weinberg in conversation with Andrew Strominger
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Nobel prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg dies at 88
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Eugene Francis "Gene" Kranz (17.08.1933)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Kranz
https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Kranz
https://www.grandaire.com/news/eugene-f-kranz-nasa-legend-toledoan/
https://twitter.com/NASAhistory/status/1427676602465464323

17 août
Un très bon anniversaire (90) à Gene Kranz🎂🎂🎂
un des plus mythiques Flight Directors de l'histoire de la NASA

https://twitter.com/spacemen1969/status/1692054902527213727

Wishing a happy 90th birthday to the incomparable Gene Kranz! 🎂
Kranz is best known for leading the "Tiger Team" of NASA flight directors who helped bring the Apollo 13 crew safely back home in 1970, but his remarkable career with NASA spanned 34 years.

https://twitter.com/NASAhistory/status/1692174447241744539

Happy birthday to Gene Kranz, NASA flight director and Apollo legend. 🎂
His iconic vests came to represent the strong and can-do approach that pervaded his mission control team. His white vest from Apollo 13 is in our collection: https://s.si.edu/3E1xKGQ

https://twitter.com/airandspace/status/1692227970167922900

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Oto smutna informacja z FB dziś rano:

Miles M. O’Brien, Jr. of died peacefully on August 12, 2021 at age 86 after contracting COVID-19 in the Sea Breeze Rehabilitation Facility where he was being treated for a other chronic illnesses. He was born July 21, 1935 in Detroit and grew up in Grosse Pointe, MI, where he resided until November 1986 when he moved to Vero Beach, Florida.
He graduated from Georgetown University in Washington, DC in 1957 where he met his future wife, Carol Riley of Weston, MA, who was enrolled at Marymount College in Arlington, VA. They were married at St Ignatius Church, Newton MA, in September 1958 and settled in Grosse Pointe Farms.
There, they raised a son, Miles M. O’Brien, III, and a daughter, Aileen C. O’Brien.
After two years in retailing and three years in banking, Miles became a life insurance agent in 1963 and, twenty years later, a life insurance recruiter as well. He remained active in the business until 2012.
He was a private pilot who sparked a lifelong passion for flying in his son, an aviation analyst for CNN.
Miles was an active fundraiser for various charitable organizations including Bon Secours Hospital, The Grosse Pointe Academy, and Children’s Hospital of Michigan. He was also very active in his two parishes, St Paul in Grosse Pointe Farms and Holy Cross in Vero Beach, serving as a lector and lay Eucharistic minister.
For many years he took great pride and fulfillment in delivering the Eucharist to homebound members of the Holy Cross Parish. In his final hours, he found solace in their examples of peace, courage and joy at the end of their lives.
During the pandemic lockdown, he met the second love of his life. Jeanne Lawrence, at the Solaris Assisted Living Facility in Vero Beach. They made plans to be married, but she too contracted COVID in another rehabilitation facility and died in February of 2021.
He was also predeceased by his wife and daughter. Surviving family members include his son and four grandchildren, Aileen C. Graef of Washington, DC, Miles M. O’Brien, IV of Catania, Italy, Connery F. O’Brien of Brooklyn, NY and Katherine R. Graef of Jacksonville, FL.
In lieu of flowers, we invite donations to the Visiting Nurses Association of Indian River County, FL. https://vnatc.org/waystogive/

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O synu zmarłego Miles O'Brien

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/remembering-challenger-a-disaster-that-shook-up-the-space-program

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Prowadził słynny TWIS (This Week in Space) 

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Zaraz - Miles O'Brien urodził się w 1959 roku:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_O%27Brien_(journalist)

Więc o co chodzi?

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Zaraz - Miles O'Brien urodził się w 1959 roku:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_O%27Brien_(journalist)

Więc o co chodzi?

Bo to jego ojciec był...

Miles bez ręki nadal żyje...

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Umberto Guidoni jest 345. człowiekiem w kosmosie oraz 3. Włochem.
Odbył 2 loty kosmiczne, które trwały łącznie 27d 15g 10m 20s.

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Astronauts/Umberto_Guidoni

http://www.spacefacts.de/bios/international/english/guidoni_umberto.htm
http://www.astronautix.com/g/guidoni.html

https://mek.kosmo.cz/bio/ostatni/00345.htm
https://www.astronaut.ru/crossroad/348.htm
https://www.april12.eu/otherastron/guidoni344ru.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umberto_Guidoni
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umberto_Guidoni
https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umberto_Guidoni

ESA space history@ESA_History

#HappyBirthday to Umberto Guidoni  (18 August 1954)! Veteran of 2 Shuttle flights STS-75 in 1996 & STS-100 in 2001 when he was the 1st #ESA astronaut to visit @Space_Station@ESA_Italia@esaspaceflight@NASAhistory

https://twitter.com/ESA_History/status/1427918379168509955

18 août
Joyeux anniversaire (69) à Umberto Guidoni🎂🎂🎂
(astronaute italien de l'ASI puis de l'ESA avec 2 vols : STS-75 et STS-100 soit 27 jours 15 heures 10 minutes) Retrouvez sa longue interview accordée à Space Quotes - Souvenirs d'espace https://spacemen1969.blogspot.com/2015/11/interview-dumberto-guidoni-astronaute.html

https://twitter.com/spacemen1969/status/1692417290359431203
https://twitter.com/ASE_Astronauts/status/1692582435089797195

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Gene Roddenberry - setna rocznica urodzin
19 sierpnia 1921 roku urodził się twórca serialu Star Trek Gene Roddenberry.

Gene Roddenberry (z prawej) z członkami obsady Star Trek na uroczystości zorganizowanej przez NASA w 1976 roku. Credit: NASA
więcej: https://www.forum.kosmonauta.net/index.php?topic=3483.msg168587#msg168587
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Today, we celebrate the 100th birthday of #StarTrek creator Gene Roddenberry. To honor Gene's legacy, @NASA and
@RoddenberryFdn are co-hosting a panel conversation on Star Trek's impact at 2:00 PM EST!

https://twitter.com/StarTrek/status/1428340983578595331

https://www.dailystartreknews.com/read/today-in-star-trek-history-great-bird-of-the-galaxy-gene-roddenberrys-100th-birthday

https://www.nationalreview.com/2016/09/star-trek-gene-roddenberry-was-misogynistic-hack/

https://twitter.com/RoddenberryFdn/status/1428435011355750404

https://twitter.com/i/events/1428444279832252416