brucine (broo'-seen), 1) n. Pharm., Chem. a bitter, poisonous alkaloid, C23H26N2O4, obtained from the nux vomica tree; 2) n. Bruce Bortin's 'low-impact' weblog

Friday, April 01, 2011

Penzias



Penzias, originally uploaded by dumbeast.
From Bell Labs "The Big Bounce", a short film about the Echo 1 satellite, 1962. isn't this the horn that Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson were using when they discovered the Cosmic Background Microwave Radiation in a couple years later?

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