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Scientists

This category is for questions about the people who apply the scientific method to solve problems, introduce new concepts, and strive to explain the natural world.

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Why do scientists use tools when they make observations?

Tools enable scientists to make more accurate observations, and to observe things that they otherwise could not observe. For example, microscopes allow scientists to observe bacteria, which otherwise are too small to see.

How do tools help scientists?

well in other words it helps them by their work ,and they use the kind of tools.. For example... I guess a thermometer, And other material.

What do you think would be the two most important tools of a scientist?

The most important tool for any scientist is curiosity and the desire to know. Without this, the scientist is a mere lab technician. The second most important tool for any scientist is patience. The media love to portray scientists being struck by inspiration and having a eureka moment, but even the most inspired scientist has spent long hours in thought and research preparing her mind for that eureka flash of insight.

Did Nikola Tesla drink?

Nikola Tesla drank whiskey, but stopped after prohibition laws were enacted in the United States. He avoided tea and coffee, as he concidered these to be harmful.

The orderly method that scientists use to solve problems is called?

The orderly method that scientists use to solve problems is called the scientific method. This helps to organize thoughts and procedures.

What are the different traits that scientist generally posses?

They have to be weird! creative and have an imagination. Maths is good, but being able to loigcally understand something that you cant see and imagine what it is at the atomic scale. problem solving skills too.

How do scientist usually design experiments?

with a good idea of the expected experimental results.

Not everything that can be counted counts and not everything that counts can be counted Albert Einstein what does it mean?

First one needs to verify that this is really said by Einstein.

Now this can mean that not everything that you can measure has value relevance and not everything valuable can be measured (e.g. love).

What usually happens after a scientist develops a hypothesis?

According to the scientific method, after a scientist forms a hypothesis, he will make a prediction of the outcome of his experiment, based on his observations.

How was Nikola Tesla significant to American history?

First off, Nikola Tesla was brilliant. The Croatian-born engineer spoke eight languages, almost single handedly developed technology that harnessed the power of electricity for household use, and invented things like electrical generators, FM radio, remote control, robots, spark plugs, fluorescent lights, and giant machines that shoot enormous, brain-frying lightning bolts. He had an unyielding, steel-trap photographic memory and an insane ability to visualize even the most complex pieces of machinery the guy did advanced calculus and physics equations in his head, memorized entire books at a time, and successfully pulled off scientific experiments that modern-day technology STILL can't replicate. For instance, in 2007 a group of lesser geniuses at MIT got all pumped up out of their minds because they wirelessly transmitted energy a distance seven feet through the air. Nikola Tesla once lit 200 light bulbs from a power source 26 miles away, and he did it in 1899 with a machine he built from spare parts in the middle of the desert. To this day, nobody can really figure out how he pulled that off, because two-thirds of the schematics only existed in the darkest recesses of Tesla's all-powerful brain.

Of course, much like many other eccentric giga-geniuses and diabolical masterminds, Tesla was also completely insane. He was prone to nervous breakdowns, claimed to receive weird visions in the middle of the night, spoke to pigeons, and occasionally thought he was receiving electromagnetic signals from extraterrestrials on Mars. He was also obsessive-compulsive and hated round objects, human hair, jewelry, and anything that wasn't divisible by three. He was also asexual and celibate for his entire life.

When do scientist use scientific inquiry?

when scientist go out on the field and in the lab that doesnt mean they allways use i, i means jus they use it alot.

Do you prefer to be a scientist or a billionaire?

Um... what is the point of this...? I would prefer to be a billionaire by the way.

When did Nikola Tesla invent better electricity than the one Thomas Edison invented?

Tesla moved to the United States in 1884. When he arrived, he worked as an assistant to Thomas Edison, then in his late 30's. Edison had just invented the electric light bulb, but he needed a system to distribute electricity to houses. He designed a DC (direct current) system, but it had many bugs in it. Edison promised Tesla lots of money in bonuses if he could get the bugs out. Tesla took the challenge and ended up saving Edison over $100,000, which was millions of dollars by today's standards. Edison later refused to keep his promise. Tesla quit not long after that, and Edison spent the rest of his life trying to discredit Tesla which is the main reason why he is so unknown today. Edison was envious of him and instead of working a relatioship and working with him, the rest is known.

How did Nikola Tesla's discoveries affect us?

He was one of the most important contributors to the birth of commercial electricity and is best known for his many revolutionary developments in the field of electromagnetism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Cite:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla

What does math have to do with being a scientist?

Sometimes in Science you will have to measure things and/or you will have to find the average. So basically that's what math has to do with being a scientist.

What was Nikola Tesla's awards prizes and inventions?

Alternating-current power transmission

The Death Ray Machine

Fluorescent lights

Induction motor

Polyphase alternating-current system

Radio

Rotating magnetic field principle

Telephone repeater

Tesla coil transformer

Wireless communication

An apparatus for producing manifestations of energy in free air instead of in a high vacuum as in the past. This, according to Tesla in 1934, was accomplished.

A mechanism for generating tremendous electrical force. This, according to Tesla, was also accomplished.

A means of intensifying and amplifying the force developed by the second mechanism.

A new method for producing a tremendous electrical repelling force. This would be the projector, or gun, of the invention.

Mestrovic made a bronze bust (1952) that is held in the Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade and a statue (1955/56) placed at the Ruder Boskovic Institute in Zagreb. This statue was moved to Nikola Tesla Street in Zagreb's city centre on the 150th anniversary of Tesla's birth, with the Ruder Boskovic Institute to receive a duplicate. In 1976, a bronze statue of Tesla was placed at Niagara Falls, New York. A similar statue was also erected in his hometown of Gospic in 1986.

The SI unit tesla (T) for measuring magnetic flux density or magnetic induction (commonly known as the magnetic field ) was named in Tesla¹s honour at the Conférence Générale des Poids et Mesures, Paris in 1960 and The Tesla crater on the far side of the Moon and the minor planet 2244 Tesla are also named after him.

The street sign "Nikola Tesla Corner" was recently placed on the corner of the 40th Street and 6th Avenue in Manhattan. There is a large photo of Tesla in the Statue of Liberty Museum. The Liberty Science Center in Jersey City, New Jersey has a daily science demonstration of the Tesla Coil creating a million volts of electricity before the spectators eyes. Many books were written about Tesla : Prodigal Genius: The Life of Nikola Tesla by John J. O'Neill and Margaret Cheney's book Tesla: Man out of Time has contributed significantly to his fame. A documentary film Nikola Tesla, The Genius Who Lit the World, produced by the Tesla Memorial Society and the Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade, The Secret of Nikola Tesla (Orson Welles), BBC Film Masters of the Ionosphere are other tributes to the great genius.

Did Nikola Tesla have a business?

In 1886, Tesla formed his own company, Tesla Electric Light & Manufacturing. The initial financial investors disagreed with Tesla on his plan for an alternating current motor and eventually relieved him of his duties at the company. Tesla worked in New York as a common laborer from 1886 to 1887 to feed himself and raise capital for his next project.