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The UNIVAC computer used this format for permanent data storage

After Sir James Chadwick's 1932 discovery of this fundamental particle of matter, the world went fission

In the '70s Hans Dehmelt took a color photo of Astrid, a single charged ion of this element, Ba

The crepe ring is the transparent C ring in this planet's ring system

Eugene Dubois died in 1940 still believing his "Java Man" to be this legendary connector between man & ape

In MS-DOS, the .bak file extension meant the file was this type

In 1929 this Berkeley physicist bought a cabin in New Mexico; he'd spend lots of time in the state in the early '40s

In the 19th century Gerhard Hansen found out what causes this disease that goes back to Biblical times

An isohel on a weather map is a line showing connecting places with an equal amount of this

Sadly for science, when he was elected abbot in 1868 he had no more time for puttering around in the garden