Europe 2007

 

On this trip we visited Germany, Poland, Lithuania, France and England to rediscover interesting information on the chemical elements and their discoverers.
   
 
Statue of Bunsen with Jim in Heidelberg, Germany
Bunsen's Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany
Tübingen Castle in Tübingen, Germany
 
   
 
Location of discovery of DNA in Tübingen Castle
Home of Döbereiner--Bug, Germany
Döbereiner discovered triads in elements from their atomic weight
 
   
 
Tiny model of Berlin in 1750 in the Märkisches Museum
Marie Curie's Museum in her former home in Warsaw, Poland
Statue of Sniadecki in cathedral in Vilneus, Lithuania
 
   
 
Painting of Sniadecki in Vilnius cathedral. He worked to isolate ruthenium
Big folk festival in Vilneus, Lithuania
University in Wroclaw, Poland where Lother Meyer was a professor
 
   
 
Foucault's Pendulum in the Pantheon in Paris, France
Display of Marie and Pierre Curie in the Pantheon in Paris, France
Priestley's house in The Green near Calne, England, where he lived when he worked at Bowood.
 
 
 
 
Townhall in Manchester, England where there is a painting of John Dalton gathering marsh gas.
John Dalton statue in the Town Hall of Manchester, England
Plaque commemorating where Priestly studied in Warrington, England
 
     
  Jim and Dr. Anthony Fletcher at the Great Central Railroad at Loughborough, England
At Rothley Station waiting on another train
   

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