Bernard Vonnegut, that most surprising atmospheric scientist, gets appreciated in an Italian-language essay called “Ice Numbers“, by Franco Bagnoli of the University of Florence, published in Ciencia y Cultura. Here’s a machine translation of bits of Bagnoli’s essay: At the end of 2016, at the Institute of Complex Systems of the CNR in Florence, Italy, a new […]
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Langmuir and Vonnegut together
This photo from General Electric shows a Nobel Prize winner and an eventual Ig Nobel Prize winner working together. GE describes it: “Thinking Outside the Cold Box: How a Nobel Prize Winner and Kurt Vonnegut’s Brother Made the Clouds Snow at GE in the 1940s… Irving Langmuir, Bernard Vonnegut, and Vincent Schaefer are seeding a […]
All literature explained in graphs
All of literature is explained, or not, in simple graphs, in this essay by Kurt Vonnegut, the younger brother of Ig Nobel Prize winner (for monography “Chicken Plucking as Measure of Tornado Wind Speed.”) Bernie Vonnegut. It begins: Kurt Vonnegut at the Blackboard I want to share with you something I’ve learned. I’ll draw it […]