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Happy birthday, engineer & inventor Nikola
#Tesla
, whose alternating current system changed how we use
#energy
⚡️ born
#OnThisDay
in 1856
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Greener chile 🌶 In a recent experiment, Sandia engineer Kenneth Armijo roasted green chile using concentrated sunlight instead of propane, creating flavorful results without the carbon dioxide emissions
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It’s the birthday of Hedy Lamarr, actress and inventor of the spread-spectrum communication tech behind Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS, born
#OnThisDay
in 1914
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It’s the birthday of renowned physicist and chemist Marie Curie, discoverer of radium, born
#OnThisDay
in 1867
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Happy birthday, Hedy Lamarr, actress and
#inventor
of the spread-spectrum communication tech behind WiFi, Bluetooth and GPS, born
#OnThisDay
in 1914
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It’s the birthday of the world’s first computer programmer, Ada Lovelace, born
#OnThisDay
in 1815
#CSEdWeek
#WomenInSTEM
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Happy birthday, Hedy Lamarr, actress &
#inventor
of spread-spectrum tech behind WiFi & GPS, born
#OnThisDay
in 1914
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The first African American woman to receive a graduate degree in physics, Carolyn Parker worked on the Manhattan Project’s Dayton Project, advancing the study of the element polonium
#BHM
#BlackInSTEM
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#YearInReview
3️⃣: Sandia engineer Kenneth Armijo roasted green chile using concentrated sunlight instead of propane, creating flavorful results without the carbon dioxide emissions 🌶
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Green chile made with green energy ☀️ Sandia engineers are using concentrated sunlight to roast chile with flavorful results and no propane emissions
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It's the birthday of the pioneering astronomer who discovered the first direct evidence of dark matter, Vera Rubin, born
#OnThisDay
in 1928 🔭
#WomenInSTEM
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Happy birthday to physicist, engineer and inventor Nikola
#Tesla
, whose alternating current system changed how we use
#energy
⚡️ born
#OnThisDay
in 1856
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On Nov. 12, people from around the world will come together to play SIGNAL, an online video game designed to study nuclear conflict escalation and strategic stability 🕹️ Join them for the largest wargaming event of its kind
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Born
#OnThisDay
150 yrs ago, science pioneer & only person to win a Nobel Prize in 2 different fields:
#MarieCurie
🔬
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Physicist Carl Anderson’s discovery of the positron
#OnThisDay
90 years ago was the first physical evidence of antimatter 🔬 The achievement earned him a
@NobelPrize
in 1936, the same year he discovered the muon
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The Atomic Age began
#OnThisDay
in 1942 ⚛️ Beneath the
@UChicago
football stadium, a team of scientists led by Enrico Fermi achieved the first controlled, self-sustained nuclear chain reaction
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We're honored to be named by
@Forbes
as one of America's Best Employers: number 1 in Aerospace & Defense, 20 overall
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It’s the birthday of Maria Goeppert Mayer, the second woman to win a
@NobelPrize
in physics for proposing the nuclear shell model, born
#OnThisDay
in 1906 ⚛️
#WomenInSTEM
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35
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It’s the birthday of Emmy Noether, one of the most important women in the history of mathematics known for her contributions to theoretical physics and abstract algebra, born
#OnThisDay
in 1882
#WomensHistoryMonth
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It’s the birthday of Hedy Lamarr, actress and inventor remembered as “the mother of Wi-Fi” for pioneering spread-spectrum communication tech, born
#OnThisDay
in 1914
#WomenInSTEM
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Sandia will serve as the leading partner with
@BerkeleyLab
in one of five national research centers for quantum information science established to perform valuable work for
@ENERGY
and the nation
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It’s the 80th anniversary of the world’s first controlled and self-sustained nuclear chain reaction ⚛
#OnThisDay
in 1942, Enrico Fermi’s team conducted the successful experiment beneath
@UChicago
’s football stadium
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Happy birthday, actress and
#inventor
of spread-spectrum tech behind WiFi and GPS, Hedy Lamarr, born
#OnThisDay
in 1914
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Margaret Hamilton, the computer scientist and entrepreneur who programmed the software that took America to the moon, was born
#OnThisDay
in 1936 🌑
#WomenInSTEM
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It’s the birthday of Carl Sagan, an inspirational American astronomer and famed science communicator, born
#OnThisDay
in 1934
#CarlSaganDay
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It’s the birthday of physicist Katharine Way, one of the Manhattan Project’s leading female scientists and pioneer of nuclear data analysis, born
#OnThisDay
in 1903 ⚛
#WomenInSTEM
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27
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Happy 455th birthday to physicist, mathematician, astronomer and philosopher
#Galileo
Galilei, born
#OnThisDay
in 1564 🔭
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Sandia engineers have designed and tested new kits to boost the number of breathing machines available to
#COVID19
patients 🏥 100 kits are now ready for NM hospitals
#TechTransfer
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The Atomic Age began
#OnThisDay
in 1942 when the first controlled
#nuclear
chain reaction was achieved under the stands of the University of Chicago football stadium
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Happy 159th birthday, engineer & inventor Nikola
#Tesla
, whose alternating current system changed how we use
#energy
.
http://t.co/AF3d5K78oo
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We’re named after a mountain that’s named after a watermelon.
Tell me a story about yourself the sounds like a lie but is absolutely true.
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We remember the courage and sacrifice of the 156,000 Allied troops who stormed the beaches of Normandy
#OnThisDay
73 years ago.
#DDay
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A rare machine 💻 A free, open-access quantum computing testbed at Sandia is now available to scientists worldwide
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It’s the birthday of astrophysicist and discoverer of the first radio pulsars, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, born
#OnThisDay
in 1943 🔭
#WomenInSTEM
3
34
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On
#NationalSiblingsDay
it's only right to introduce ours: meet the
#NationalLabs
family in one interactive portrait
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This
#NationalSiblingsDay
, we’re giving a shout out to our fellow
#NationalLabs
for banding together against
#COVID19
. Here are just a few examples of how our family is fighting the novel coronavirus 👇
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Remembering
#Apollo11
's moon landing with the woman who made it happen 🌕 via
@TIME
#WomenInSTEM
#NationalMoonDay
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With a BS in mechanical engineering from
@UNM
, Mary Jo Vaughn started at Sandia in 1949. Her wind tunnel expertise swept her into research testing Labs designs at facilities around the country
#WomensHistoryMonth
#WomenInSTEM
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On
#NationalSiblingsDay
it's only right to introduce ours: meet the
#NationalLabs
family in one interactive portrait
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Bolstering
#StrategicDeterrence
🌐 Visiting the Labs’ Albuquerque site this week,
@US_STRATCOM
’s Gen. Anthony Cotton and Sgt. Maj. Howard Kreamer met with Sandia and
@NNSAnews
leadership to discuss the current strategic environment and importance of the nuclear deterrence mission
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The husband and wife team of Pierre and Marie Curie discovered radium
#OnThisDay
in 1898, with their research leading to a
@NobelPrize
in Physics five years later ⚛️
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A trio of Sandia women are being honored for their impacts in
#STEM
and diversity 👩🔬
#WomenInSTEM
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Computer science prodigy John McCarthy, who pioneered the
#ArtificialIntelligence
field and the Lisp
#AI
programming language, was born
#OnThisDay
in 1927 💻
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Happy birthday to Admiral Grace Hopper, pioneer who taught computers to "talk," born
#OnThisDay
1906 💻
#WomenInSTEM
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“The principle behind this research was to see if high-temperature food roasting, not just peppers, could be done with solar and produce comparable results as traditional propane roasting, and the answer is yes.” – Kenneth Armijo ☀
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Born
#OnThisDay
200 years ago, Florence Nightingale was a skilled statistician who invented the polar area chart as a way to explain the spread of contagious disease 👩⚕️ Today, we thank all nurses on the front lines of
#COVID19
, including Sandia’s own
#NursesDay
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The first wind turbine blades made from a
#3Dprinted
mold could cut the cost of wind energy tech and slash a year off production
#AmericanWindWeek
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Happy birthday, Emmy Noether, known for contributions to theoretical
#physics
& abstract algebra
#WomensHistoryMonth
1
67
86
It’s the birthday of mathematician Alan Turing, whose innovations set the foundation for modern computing and played a crucial role in the Allied victory in WWII, born
#OnThisDay
in 1912
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Happy 104th birthday to creator of modern computing & crucial part of the Allied victory in WWII,
#AlanTuring
.
#OTD
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Don’t worry — these high-performance computers thrive in liquid 💧 Sandia engineers discovered that submerging computer servers in liquid coolant eliminates the need for power-hungry fans, potentially lowering energy consumption at data centers ➡️
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Happy birthday to astronomer Johannes Kepler, who discovered planets move in an elliptical path around the sun, born
#OnThisDay
1571
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It’s the birthday of astrophysicist and discoverer of the first radio pulsars, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, born
#OnThisDay
in 1943
#WomenInSTEM
1
32
84
Happy birthday, engineer & inventor Nikola
#Tesla
, whose alternating current system changed how we use
#energy
⚡️ born
#OnThisDay
165 years ago
5
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Today marked the 40th anniversary of the National
#Solar
Thermal Test Facility, a day to celebrate the past, present and future contributions of the world’s 1st large-scale solar tower ☀️
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It’s the birthday of mathematician Alan Turing, who defeated Nazi codes in WWII, made modern computing possible, and established the field of
#AI
, born
#OnThisDay
in 1912
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Richard
#Feynman
, iconoclast & physicist celebrated for breakthroughs in quantum mechanics, born
#OnThisDay
in 1918
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Inside the Sandia Z machine 💥 where scientists create conditions found nowhere else on Earth, and can produce the same dense plasma found in white dwarf stars
#science
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Isaac Newton's Principia, one of the most important
#science
works ever written, was published
#OnThisDay
in 1687 🍎
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Pioneers of the space era 🚀 Remembering the legacies of Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson and Dorothy Vaughan, among
@NASA
’s “human computers” who broke down barriers and made American space exploration possible
#BHM
#BlackInSTEM
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Five seconds at F/16, with a broken camera 📸 20 years since capturing the iconic image of the Z machine as it fires, here’s the story behind the stunning "Arcs and Sparks" photo
#photography
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Pioneering computer programmer. US Navy Admiral. Mentor to
#WomenInSTEM
. 💻 As the Grace Hopper Celebration convenes today, dive into the inspiring story of the woman who taught computers to “talk”
#GHC18
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New Sandia director Jill Hruby will be 1st woman to lead a national security lab
http://t.co/wGLGk1C9uo
#WomenInSTEM
http://t.co/R8aIPLda1G
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Happy birthday to nuclear physicist, early pioneer of nuclear data analysis, and key contributor to the Manhattan Project, Katharine Way, born
#OnThisDay
1903
#WomenInSTEM
1
26
77
It’s the birthday of Hedy Lamarr, actress and inventor of the spread-spectrum communication tech behind Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS, born
#OnThisDay
in 1914
2
41
77
Sandia will serve as the leading partner with
@BerkeleyLab
in one of five national research centers for quantum information science established to perform valuable work for
@ENERGY
and the nation
2
22
75
Happy birthday, Hedy Lamarr, actress and
#inventor
of the spread-spectrum communication tech behind WiFi, Bluetooth and GPS, born
#OnThisDay
in 1914
2
41
75
As one of five national research centers, the Quantum Systems Accelerator brings together 15 labs and universities to transform quantum computers into machines that perform valuable work for the nation
#InnovationXLab
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Happy birthday, Werner Heisenberg,
#NobelPrize
-winning physicist known for his uncertainty principle and theory of quantum mechanics, born
#OnThisDay
1901
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Today is
#WorldQuantumDay
🖥 The importance of quantum science to Sandia’s research and technology development continues to grow, unveiling new possibilities and economic opportunities
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For the first time, wind turbine blades can be made from a
#3Dprinted
mold, significantly reducing the time and cost of developing the innovative
#energy
tech
2
41
72
A supercharged Sandia Z machine could provide a path to sustainable
#fusion
#energy
via
@sciencemagazine
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47
74
It's the birthday of the pioneering astronomer who discovered the first direct evidence of dark matter, Vera Rubin, born
#OnThisDay
in 1928 🔭
#WomenInSTEM
1
26
74
#OnThisDay
in 1945 the world’s first nuclear device, the “Gadget,” was detonated at the Trinity Site, near Alamogordo, NM
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Isaac Newton, one of science’s most influential scholars, was born 375 years ago
#OnThisDay
🍎 Learn about his legacy with this
@novapbs
primer
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Demonstrating a new approach to
#3Dprinting
, a Sandia team built a precision telescope in a third of the time for about a fifth of the cost 🔭
#AdditiveManufacturing
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In 1998, photographer Randy Montoya used an old, beat-up
#Nikon
F to capture one of Sandia’s most famous images: the moment 200 trillion watts of x-ray energy fired at Z machine 📷
#NationalCameraDay
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A faster flow 🚀 Sandia nuclear engineer Sal Rodriguez is harnessing the aerodynamic power of dimples to make rockets more efficient
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Using a new mineral “sponge,” Sandia and a team of national labs researchers are soaking up uranium at a former mill in Colorado, reducing the levels by ten-thousandfold
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330 years ago
#OnThisDay
, Isaac Newton's Principia was published, one of the most important
#science
works written 🍎
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Pioneering astronomer who discovered evidence of dark matter, Vera Rubin, was born
#OnThisDay
1928 🔭
#WomenInSTEM
2
40
71
Congratulations to the team at
@Livermore_Lab
and
@lasers_llnl
for this amazing breakthrough 🎉
This milestone brings the nation one step closer to a future low-carbon energy supply.
BREAKING NEWS:
@ENERGY
and
@NNSAnews
today announced the achievement of
#FusionIgnition
at
@lasers_llnl
— a major scientific breakthrough decades in the making that will pave the way for advancements in national security and clean energy:
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Happy 101st birthday to famed mathematician and “human computer” Katherine Johnson, whose many contributions to space exploration include calculating Apollo 11’s trajectory to the moon, born
#OnThisDay
in 1918 🚀
#WomensEqualityDay
#WomenInSTEM
3
31
70
It's the birthday of mathematician, computer pioneer, and first female fellow of
@ans_org
, Margaret Butler, born
#OnThisDay
1924
#WomensHistoryMonth
1
47
67
The first African American woman to receive a graduate degree in physics, Carolyn Parker worked on the Dayton Project – a top secret site for the Manhattan Project – studying the radioactive element polonium
#BHM
#BlackInSTEM
1
18
66
Sandia's 1st woman honored with a Great Minds in
#STEM
tech achievement award: Bernadette Hernandez-Sanchez
#WomensEqualityDay
#WomenInSTEM
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In honor of
#GlobalEngineer
Day, meet 5 pioneering women of
#engineering
who changed history 🚀
#WomenInSTEM
#STEM
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Today's Google doodle honors the “Prince of Mathematicians,” Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss, hailed for contributions to number theory, geometry, probability theory and astronomy, born
#OnThisDay
in 1777
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It's the 100th birthday of Richard
#Feynman
, iconoclast and Nobel Prize-winning physicist celebrated for his breakthroughs in quantum mechanics, born
#OnThisDay
in 1918
3
38
68
In honor of
#NationalSiblingsDay
, we’d like to introduce ours: meet the
#NationalLabs
family in one interactive portrait from
@symmetrymag
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70