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Article: Corrosion
World of Earth Science;      540 words ... ... growth. In 1824, to protect the copper from deterioration, the team of English scientists Humphrey Davy (1778-1829) and Michael Faraday (1791-1867) applied zinc protector plates to the copper sheathing. This was the first successful application of ...

Article: Cousteau, Jacques-Yves (1910-1997)
World of Earth Science;      700+ words ... ... problems and to reduce marine pollution. Jacques-Yves Cousteau was born in St. André-de-Cubzac, France, on June 11, 1910 to Elizabeth Duranthon and Daniel Cousteau. Jacques, for the first seven years of his life, suffered from chronic ...

Article: Faraday, Michael (1791-1867)
World of Earth Science;      700+ words ...Faraday, Michael (1791-1867) English physicist and chemist Michael Faraday's early life had a remarkable resemblance ... born in Newington, Surrey, England. Like Franklin, Michael Faraday was part of a large family. His father was ...

Article: Fujita, Tetsuya Theodore (1920-1998)
World of Earth Science;      700+ words ... ... Theodore for use in the United States. He married Sumiko Yamamo in June, 1969, and has a son from his first marriage. From the mid ... earthquakes. Fujita did not actually witness a tornado until June 12, 1982, so the mainstay of his work was research on the aftermath ...

Article: Polar Axis and Tilt
World of Earth Science;      700+ words ... ... orientation toward the star Vega. Precession also affects the dates of solstice. At the summer solstice (currently occurring about June 21), the north polar axis points in a direction 23.5 degrees from vertical— relative to the plane of the ecliptic ...

Article: Space and Planetary Geology
World of Earth Science;      700+ words ... ... date from early work c. 1612 by Galileo Galilei (1564–1642). The first true lunar geologic map was that of Michael van Langren (1598–1675), which he completed in 1645. After this, many other such telescopic maps were made ...

Article: Urey, Harold (1893-1981)
World of Earth Science;      700+ words ... ... Hopkins University in Baltimore, a post he held until 1929. He briefly interrupted his work at Johns Hopkins to marry Frieda Daum in Lawrence, Kansas, on June 12, 1926. Daum was a bacteriologist and daughter of a prominent Lawrence educator