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Who is Nikola Telsla?

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-He was an inventor, mechanical engineer, and electrical engineer. He was an important contributor to the birth of commercial electricity, and is best known for his many revolutionary developments in the field ofelectromagnetism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Tesla's patents and theoretical work formed the basis of modern alternating current (AC)electric power systems, including the polyphase system of electrical distribution and the AC motor. This work helped usher in the Second Industrial Revolution.-

He was proud Serb .

What did Nikola Tesla do as a child?

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Nikola was the fourth of five children, having one older brother and three sisters, Milka, Angelina and Marica. Dane, who was killed in a horse-riding accident when Nikola was five, made Nikola to become the older brother of the Tesla's silibins.

What things do geochemists try to determine?

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when natural disasters are going to occur.

How did Ernest Rutherford come up with his discoveries?

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Rutherford's major discovery of the structure of the atom occurred through his gold foil experiment. Check out the related link to learn more about this experiment.

Why do scientists study matter?

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To verify the premise,s of various scientists as to origins of the cosmos

Was Bert Geoffrey Achong a scientists?

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Yes!Bert Achong was a scientist from a great country in the windward island name Trinidad

Was Nikola Tesla Croat or Serbian?

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He was an Serbian.

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A man of Serbian origin who spent his first 18 years in Croatia.

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He was born in Croatia being a part of Austro-Hungarian Empire at that time. He has Croatian origin, but his father was an Orthodocs priest due to the circumstances I will elaborate bellow.

I'll try to stay as objective as possible, therefore I will give you the link to the original article in Croatian language about hidden Tesla's diary being kept in Belgrade and the translation of the most interesting parts, so you can check the facts for yourselves and come to your own conclusions.

Here is the link to the original article in Croatian language: http://www.hkv.hr/hkvpedija/znanost/5907-zato-beograd-skriva-tajni-dnevnik-nikole-tesle.html

Translation of the most interesting parts:

"It's sensational how Croatian public is unaware of the details from Tesla's diary, although Professor Ljubica Stefan, an author of the numerous books, made ​​sure that many interesting information get in Croatia. While living in Belgrade she had an opportunity to see Tesla's diary and some other secret data. They thought she was a Serb, so they showed her some closely guarded secrets - said Dr. Peter Vucic, a famous Croatian intellectual whose specialty is geopolitics. A record from the secret diary of Nikola Tesla, hidden at the state archives in Belgrade, was released at the 55th page of the book Speech to Croats on the right path."

Here is what Tesla said:

"I'm glad that Croats consider me to be one of them too, since my ancestors were Croatian noblemen by the name of Draganić from Zadar. As Croatian noblemen they came to Lika in 16th century and stayed there. My ancestors came to Lika via Novi Vinodol (note: historical part of Croatia). My mother's ancestors, by the name of Kalinić, were also Croatian nobles of the New Vinodol. Due to the circumstances, my great-grandfather had to go to Bosanska Krajina (Turkish Croatia - note: historical name for occupied parts of medieval Croatia) and there married Orthodox girl and converted to Orthodox Christianity. He had protruding front teeth so he was called by tool named "tesla" used to process wood, and hence my current name Tesla. This was actually a nickname. My grandfather was an officer in the regiment of Lika, and my father an Orthodox arch priest! "

Nota bene: Tesla studied at Graz and Prag, as did most of the Croats of that time. Before that he paused for two years in his schooling, due to the pressure of his parents to become a priest which was against his wishes. Tesla wanted to leave his manuscripts "to his old country". Tito's diplomat and Tesla's cousin Savo Kosanović deliberately misinterpreted his wish and that's how they ended up in Belgrade instead of the country he was born and raised in.

Now I hope this makes it a bit more clear what the origin of this genius is.

What was Lynn Margulis' religion?

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Lynn Margulis was a Jewish recipient of the U S National Medal of Science in 1999.

Lynn Margulis was a Jewish recipient of the U S National Medal of Science in 1999.

Lynn Margulis was a Jewish recipient of the U S National Medal of Science in 1999.

Lynn Margulis was a Jewish recipient of the U S National Medal of Science in 1999.

Why did Alexander fleming's discovery of penicillin in 1928 have such a limited on medical treatment at the time?

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Two reasons:

1) Not even Fleming believed penicillin could kill bacteria inside the human body. From 1927 to 1931 he studied this possibility, and concluded it would not. Not until the 1940s did researchers find that it was a "miracle drug" in its ability to do so.

2) Manufacturing penicillin, in quantities pure, strong, and large enough to be of medical use, was difficult and expensive -- no drug company wanted to expend the effort to find a way to do so for a drug that was still unproven. More specifically, no company wanted to expend that effort when Fleming refused to patent the drug. If a drug company did expend the resources and found a way to do so, any other company could then use the same process to manufacture penicillin -- meaning the first company to do so would spend the money and every other company would make the profit.

According to Albert Einstein What will be the religion of the future?

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The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things natural and spiritual as a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description. If there is any religion that could cope with modern scientific needs it would be Buddhism. If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

Immortality? There are two kinds. The first lives in the imagination of the people, and is thus an illusion. There is a relative immortality which may conserve the memory of an individual for some generations. But there is only one true immortality, on a cosmic scale, and that is the immortality of the cosmos itself. There is no other.

-- Albert Einstein, quoted in Madalyn Murray O'Hair, All the Questions You Ever Wanted to Ask American Atheists (1982) vol. ii., p. 29 * Theology; Albert Einstein * Quotes; Albert Einstein