The difference in the fame of Niépce de Saint-Victor vs. Henri Becquerel was that Marie Curie took and interest in one over the other.
Who will be the Henri Becquerel of LENR and who will be LENR’s Marie Curie? On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 7:41 PM, Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: H Veeder > > This is an interesting bit of history that is new to me. It > seems Niépce de Saint-Victor investigated the phenomena of radioactivity 40 > years before Henri Becquerel discovered it. > > Let's see: Niépce finds an "unknown" kind of radiation from the > serendipitous exposure of his film to uranium chloride [sound familiar?] He > sez... "this persistent activity cannot be due to phosphorescence, for it > would not last so long...." Niépce mentions this in 1863 - but then there > is > his close association with Edmond Becquerel, who it turns out, was the > father of Henri Becquerel, who would later be credited with the discovery > of > radioactivity, using almost the same serendipitous photographic film > technique - and who won a share of the Nobel prize for its "discovery" in > 1903, 40 years thereafter. > > One more prize given in error? Makes one think that someone who did not > read > the script closely wandered off-the-map by a few streets ... ala 13th > Floor. > ... almost too coincidental ... or is it a case of a bug-in-the SIM > program? > > In the next reboot of this bizarre SIM, with all the improved code written > in APL by renegade bots ... the cynical amongst us (or their offspring) > should not be too surprised if the bug has not been fixed yet, due to > inclusion of the RSA random number generator, and in that chapter (our > collective future) the kid of a tireless skeptic, say granddaughter of Mary > Yugo, wins the Nobel for the discovery of LENR in 2129... :-) > > Kokopelli rules... >
