Thanks Anita
for spelling this out to me.
I wonder if anyone else realized the mistake?
I read Thomson Structure also! For some reason though I got Thomas in my
head!
Well, I better wait until the real name is revealed! :-)
Happy hunting Moni
From: Anita Westlake [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 08:56:33 -0500
Hi Moni:
It's funny you should mention this. I, too, read the article and found
it
quite interesting. I was confused by the spelling of his last name (as
apparently you were since you spelled it a couple of different ways.) The
article spelled his name Thomson but the Cambridge Encyclopedia of
Meteorites spelled it Thompson. Does anyone know which one is the correct
spelling? He was also referred to as Lord Kelvin I believe.
Anita
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Hi List,
on this beautiful Sunday here in Sacramento, but too far away from the
Mojave desert! :-(
I went walking at the Gym instead!
While walking on the treadmill, I read this great informative article by
Kevin Kichinka in the Meteorite magazine.
A Rose by any other name... explained that William Thomas was the first man
to discover the so called Widmanstätten pattern in 1804.
Very interesting to read!
part of the articleThomas... Structure, that name was proposed by John
G. Burke, author of COSMIC DEBRIS, the definitive book of meteoritical
history. Burke gives Thomas complete credit for the discovery.
Hap McSween, a former President of the Meteoritical Society, was unaware of
the discrepancy, but advises that he will now credit Tomas with the
discovery in any future editions of Meteorites and their Parent Planets.
Thank you Kevin for the article and teaching me something new.
Made up for not going meteorite searching, well, almost! :-) Moni
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