By MC3 Chris Lussier Trident Staff
Program designed by Diane Green, Naval Academy Publications.
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As the Naval Academy’s brass quintet played, the seats of Alumni Hall filled with Mids, faculty, and curious Annapolitans eagerly awaiting a dose of brain food, in this case N&N’s, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, served up by Sir Harold W. Kroto Oct. 23.
The Naval Academy invited Kroto, a 1996 Nobel Laureate winning chemist, to speak at the academy as part of the 27th annual Michelson Memorial Symposium.
The symposium honors the late Dr. Albert A. Michelson, a 1907 Nobel Prize winning physicist, who taught physics at the academy between 1875 and 1879. While instructing at the academy, Michelson conducted experiments that lead to the precise determination of the speed of light and helped lay the foundation for Einstein’s theory of relativity.
This year’s symposium marked the 100th anniversary of Michelson’s Nobel Prize. It also highlighted the significant scientific advances of the 20th century.
In only 100 years, scientific understanding has gone from determining the speed of light to discovering new molecular structures that will enable scientist to make devices a million times smaller than those made by traditional mechanical engineering techniques.
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