Prog Scientists
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Topic: Prog Scientists
Posted By: Bern
Subject: Prog Scientists
Date Posted: March 13 2006 at 22:58
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I recently learned that there was a guy named Dr. Rush who was a famous mathematician. Of course, Van Der Graaf Generator is also a machine invented by Mr. Van Der Graaf. So, I wondered if there was any other bands with scientist's name? Yet another silly poll  -------------   RIP in bossa nova heaven. |
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Posted By: ClemofNazareth
Date Posted: March 13 2006 at 23:03
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Spock's Beard?
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Posted By: Empathy
Date Posted: March 14 2006 at 00:06
It's an especially silly poll... considering there's no poll!!  ------------- Pure Brilliance: 
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Bern wrote:Posted By: Bern
Date Posted: March 14 2006 at 00:08
Hahaha oops  ------------- RIP in bossa nova heaven. |
Posted By: Mikerinos
Date Posted: March 14 2006 at 00:10
What about the band called Rocket Scientists?
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Posted By: Fitzcarraldo
Date Posted: March 14 2006 at 02:00
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Well, there was a band named after a famous Russian scientist's dog(s). See if it rings a bell.
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: March 14 2006 at 03:26
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speaking of Van Der Graaff (real spelling) I worked for a few days back in 01 in a sister scientific institute in Belgium with one of those Van Der Graaff particule accelerators ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: NutterAlert
Date Posted: March 14 2006 at 03:51
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Atomic Rooster ------------- Proud to be an un-banned member since 2005 |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: March 14 2006 at 05:30
Mr Pavlov of course.. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Fitzcarraldo
Date Posted: March 14 2006 at 06:01
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Yep. Pavlov studied conditional reflexes, and found that eventually a dog would salivate at the sound of a bell alone if the bell had previously been rung when the dog was given food. Here's another one for you, although I'm cheating a little as the scientist's name is in the band's name but the band's name does not refer to the scientist: What scientist's name is mentioned in a prize-winning band's name? I used to listen to their music on the radio. ------------- http://www.progarchives.com/Collaborators.asp?id=326" rel="nofollow - Read reviews by Fitzcarraldo |
Posted By: Empathy
Date Posted: March 14 2006 at 10:17
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Combustible Edison? Well, they're "Proto-Prog", but wasn't there a crazy story about the bassist from Iron Butterfly being some kind of genius in physics? Didn't he disappear mysteriously or something like that? ------------- Pure Brilliance:
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Posted By: Fitzcarraldo
Date Posted: March 14 2006 at 10:59
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Not a bad guess, Empathy. But not the band or scientist I'm looking for. Here's another clue: Edison also experimented in the same field (amongst many fields) as the scientist to whom my previous clue refers, but did not quite achieve the practical system that this guy came up with. They both founded successful companies too.
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: March 14 2006 at 11:06
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Shame this band is not yet in the Archives But Forever Einstein is another goodie (on Cuneiform label) ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: March 14 2006 at 20:41
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There are a lot of bands called Occam's Razor... Not strictly science though. -------------   
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Posted By: RaphaelT
Date Posted: March 15 2006 at 03:49
Tesla?? ------------- yet you still have time! |
Posted By: RaphaelT
Date Posted: March 15 2006 at 03:49
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No, hang on - Premiata Forneria Marconi!!! ------------- yet you still have time! |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: March 15 2006 at 05:04
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George Westinghouse.
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Posted By: Velvetclown
Date Posted: March 15 2006 at 07:59
Werner von Braun sugar............  ...Kind of a song really  ------------- Billy Connolly Dream Theater Terry Gilliam Hagen Quartet Jethro Tull Mike Keneally |
Posted By: Harkmark
Date Posted: March 15 2006 at 08:33
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Mars Volta? |
Posted By: Fitzcarraldo
Date Posted: March 15 2006 at 08:42
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Correct! Marconi is considered the father of radio. Here's another one for you. This time the scientist is a fictional character in a book (and a film): Which band has the name name of a rocket scientist, a professor no less.
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: March 15 2006 at 09:01
However legend has it that the name comes from a bakery - first (or premier) oven Marconi ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Fitzcarraldo
Date Posted: March 15 2006 at 09:12
That's why I said in my original post "although I'm cheating a little as the scientist's name is in the band's name but the band's name does not refer to the scientist". Actually, "premiata" does not mean "first (or premier)" it means "prize-winning" or "award-winning", that's why one of my clues was "prize-winning band". Back to my latest clue: Which band has the name name of a rocket scientist, a professor no less?
EDIT: BTW, Hughes, it's no legend: "Forneria Marconi" comes from a bakery shop in Chiari, Brescia, Italy. The band added the "Premiata" to make the name sound a bit special (Award-winning Marconi Bakery).
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Posted By: MattiR
Date Posted: March 15 2006 at 10:55
Uff, I was right |
Posted By: Fitzcarraldo
Date Posted: March 15 2006 at 13:45
No takers? And it's a Prog group. Here's another clue: He was a British scientist. ------------- http://www.progarchives.com/Collaborators.asp?id=326" rel="nofollow - Read reviews by Fitzcarraldo |
Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: March 15 2006 at 13:58
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Are you still referring to the fictional scientist, or is he real?
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Posted By: Fitzcarraldo
Date Posted: March 15 2006 at 14:23
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Yes, I'm still referring to the fictional character of book and film: a British rocket scientist. And Prog group. ------------- http://www.progarchives.com/Collaborators.asp?id=326" rel="nofollow - Read reviews by Fitzcarraldo |
Posted By: erik neuteboom
Date Posted: March 15 2006 at 14:34
| Jethro Tull ..! |
Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: March 15 2006 at 14:51
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Quatermass. -------------
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Posted By: Fitzcarraldo
Date Posted: March 15 2006 at 15:02
That's the guy! Here's another one: This Prog band took its name from a scientist who was knighted. He was quite a bright spark, by all accounts. ------------- http://www.progarchives.com/Collaborators.asp?id=326" rel="nofollow - Read reviews by Fitzcarraldo |
Posted By: Fitzcarraldo
Date Posted: March 16 2006 at 07:52
Hmm... seems that Prog fans aren't into crossword puzzles. Too difficult? Or just boring? Some additional clues for this band/scientist: The scientist was British but the band is American... and has changed its name but is still listed in the Archives under the original name (which includes the scientist's name). The name of the band is the name of an instrument that includes the name of the scientist. ------------- http://www.progarchives.com/Collaborators.asp?id=326" rel="nofollow - Read reviews by Fitzcarraldo |
Posted By: BebieM
Date Posted: March 16 2006 at 13:13
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The only Band I know which has the name of an instrument is Harmonium,
yet they're Canadian and I don't know a scientist with that name.
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Posted By: Rosescar
Date Posted: March 16 2006 at 14:08
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The Theremin's named after a scientist!1 And that's all I can contribute. ------------- http://www.soundclick.com/rosescar/ - My music! "THE AUDIENCE WERE generally drugged. (In Holland, always)." - Robert Fripp |
Posted By: Agemo
Date Posted: March 16 2006 at 15:31
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...actually it is Van de Graaf.. ------------- Dona Nobis Pacem |
Posted By: Fitzcarraldo
Date Posted: March 16 2006 at 18:11
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Did I say musical instrument?!
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Posted By: Fitzcarraldo
Date Posted: March 16 2006 at 18:12
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Any electrical or electronics engineers around?
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Posted By: Fitzcarraldo
Date Posted: March 17 2006 at 06:55
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OK, apathy rules, so here's the answer: the American Prog band WHEATSTONE BRIDGE. Yes, they're listed in the Archives. Sir Charles Wheatstone has an electrical circuit/instrument named after him: the Wheatstone Bridge, which every secondary school physics student and every college engineering strudent should have heard about: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheatstone - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheatstone Well, I can think of at least two more Prog Scientists in the Archives, but I'll leave someone else to find those.
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Posted By: greenback
Date Posted: March 19 2006 at 23:41
Man! I arrive too late...sorry! ------------- [HEADPINS - LINE OF FIRE: THE RECORD HAVING THE MOST POWERFUL GUITAR SOUND IN THE WHOLE HISTORY OF MUSIC!> |
Posted By: greenback
Date Posted: March 20 2006 at 00:15
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algebra mathematicians pavlov's dog pythagoras fermat(a) ------------- [HEADPINS - LINE OF FIRE: THE RECORD HAVING THE MOST POWERFUL GUITAR SOUND IN THE WHOLE HISTORY OF MUSIC!> |
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: March 20 2006 at 12:47
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Thought that was the name of a Milanese baker - like Abba is/was also the trade name of a Swedish canned fish company.......... Hey they interviewed the discoverer of Cygnus X's black hole last night on Beeb 4, only 6000 light years away apaprently! |
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: March 20 2006 at 12:48
| Tesla! |
Posted By: Fassbinder
Date Posted: July 10 2006 at 18:47
...I saw his name spelled as Van de Graaff...
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