July 15, 2016 Friday

Today after a long long time I could do squats with the same weights as before the attack.

Moreover, I finally gathered the courage to try upper body workout.

I hit both the deltoids and the pectoralis with dumb bells.

Did not go heavy but felt the strength coming back.

       


Henry Moseley  who was always known as Harry by his family came from a wealthy and scientifically enlightened family of England.

He was born in 1887 to a biologist and professor of anatomy and physiology at the University of Oxford when the British Empire was at its peak.

His father was also a member of the famous Challenger expedition of 1872-76 that was funded by the Royal Society.

That is another hallmark of a superpower nation state or an Empire.

It will invest in pure and fundamental research.

Just have a look at the 4 scientific goals of the Challenger expedition which sailed around the entire globe:

1. To investigate the physical conditions of the deep sea of the great oceanic basins such as depth, temperature, currents, specific gravity and light penetration.

2. To determine the chemical composition, organic constituents and suspended particles at various depths.

3. To ascertain the physical and chemical composition of deep sea deposits.

4. To investigate marine life on the sea floor and at the different depths.

This was a landmark oceanographic expedition that opened up an entire frontier of academic and research.

Moseley's mother interestingly was the daughter of a Welsh biologist and conchologist (somebody who studies mollusc shells which is an exoskeleton in contrast to endoskeleton of us apes).

So Moseley had a perfect background of an educated family of a powerful world empire at the time when scientific discoveries were transforming Europe, England and the United States.

Inspite of all his biological background, destiny would have him landed in 1910 at the age of 23 in the laboratory of none other than the great Ernest Rutherford.

At the University of Manchester.

We shall continue our journey with this fascinating young man who had the world class experimentalist as his supervisor.

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Good night mon ami and my fellow cousin ape.