Giants of Science 2 LbNA #65623
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Add Location| Owner: | Wisconsin Hiker  |
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| Plant date: | Aug 10, 2013 |
| Location: | |
| City: | ??? |
| County: | Cook |
| State: | Illinois |
| Boxes: | 5 |
| Found by: | ??? |
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| Last found: | Nov 2, 2018 |
| Status: | FFF |
| Last edited: | May 14, 2016 |
Last checked/found: 10-AUG-13
Location: To determine the location, complete the “Name That Scientist Quiz” which can be found at:
www.letterboxing.homestead.com/Name_That_Scientist_Quiz.pdf
Time/Distance: ~ 3 hours / ~3.5 miles
Terrain: Mostly wide gravel/asphalt trail that is fairly level. However the hunt will require traveling on some smaller side trails.
This series is a joint effort of Wisconsin Hiker & Martini Man. We had miscellaneous scraps and old carving material, so we decided to use the stuff up by creating some boxes to plant for our friends in Illinois. We’re also not sure of the reliability of the containers, so would appreciate it if you could bring some duck tape (easy to carry if you wrap some around a pencil stub) to repair any holes in the baggies, or perhaps some new freezer baggies if they need to be replaced.
The logbooks will contain the name and image of various “Giants of Science”, but the clues will give you info allowing you to guess the name of each scientist. How many will you figure out before you find the box?
Mystery Scientist 1
This scientist was a British naturalist and is widely considered to be one of the greatest and most revolutionizing scientists in history. He formulated the theory of evolution, demonstrating that all living things on earth have descended from common ancestors who lived millions of years ago. Start near the map at the beginning of parking area. Just north of the map, take the trail heading west. Born at Shrewsbury in 1809, he was raised by his eldest sister from the age of eight. As a youngster he had a passion for gathering up insects and minerals. He joined Edinburg University to study medicine at age 16. However, he was too gentle and tender to become a proper physician. He hated the surgical operations, because they had to be performed without any anesthetics at that time. This made him a failure as a medical student. Watch for a “dirty red” on the right. Take it and then cross a creek. He therefore switched to Cambridge to study theology and there he became friends with the professors of botany and geology. At age 22 he was selected to travel as a naturalist on a 5-year voyage around the world for a scientific expedition. Throughout this voyage, he collected bones of extinct animals and was curious about the relationship between the extinct animals and the existing ones. These observations led to his legendary ideas on evolution. About 60 steps from the creek watch for a large fallen tree on the right. In 1859 he publicized the theory in his famous book, “The Origin of Species by Natural Selection”. He also commented that in the struggle for life, only the ‘fittest’ creatures would survive while others fail. In 1882 he died at 74 and he was buried in Westminster Abbey. Who is he? Hopefully you are ‘fit’ and have survived to find the scientist nestled under bark on the back side, near a broken fork. Please rehide him well so he doesn’t become extinct.
Mystery Scientist 2
This scientist is one of the greatest American inventors who held numerous patents related to electricity and power. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb. Continue on the trail to a crimson post, then head left on the sunshine color of a light bulb. He was born in Ohio in 1847 and was mostly homeschooled by his mother. At the age of 12 he started working by selling candy & newspapers on trains. By age 15 he worked as a telegraph operator, trained by the father of a child whose life he had saved. He was exempted from military service due to his deafness. In 1868 he was recruited by Western Union Telegraph Company and his early career as a telegraph operator led to many of his inventions. Ignore those who gallop, then ignore the fruit of the vine. His first patent was for an electric vote recorder. He acquired partnership in a New York electrical company in 1869, where he refined the stock ticker. The proceeds from the sale allowed him to establish several factories and laboratories before the age of 30. He was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production and large-scale teamwork to the process of invention, and because of that, he is often credited with the creation of the first industrial research laboratory. One of his companies later became the General Electric Company. Continue on the trail as it curves right and then follow the emerald path on the right.
He is the fourth most prolific inventor in history and is credited with numerous inventions that also included a battery for an electric car, electrical power, recorded music and motion pictures. In 1931 he died of complications of diabetes at age 84 while he was at home in New Jersey. Who is he? Before getting to the top of the rise, look right to find a fallen giant and other deadfall. The scientist is resting where the tree broke, at the front and under bark. Keep his light under a bushel so he will be able to meet more LBers.
Mystery Scientist 3
This Swedish scientist was an inventor, entrepreneur, author and pacifist. He invented dynamite and many other explosives and constructed companies and laboratories in more than 20 countries. He also established a prize that honors people from all around the world for their great accomplishments in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and for work in peace. Continue on the trail. Pass a green dot and then head left. He was born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1833. When he was nine years old, his family moved to Saint Petersburg, where his father started a “torpedo” works. The young boy received his early education by private tutors. “Love makes you happy” – head right. At the age of 18 he traveled to the United States where he spent four years studying chemistry. He also went to Paris where he was first introduced to nitroglycerin. Pass a fenced culvert. Walk quite a ways, past culverts and swamps and encountering some slight inclines & declines. At age 30 he succeeded in exploding nitroglycerin from a distance with a gunpowder charge, and two years later he patented the mercury fulminate detonator which is a critical component for the development of high explosives. He then built factories in Hamburg, Stockholm, New York and California. Pass a metal post on the left and shortly after that stop at a scarlet post on the right. Due to several accidents, he continued to work to produce a safer explosive and he received a patent for dynamite in 1867. At age 63, he died of a stroke in Italy and was buried in Stockholm. Who is he? Proceed on this path and step over first one, then another, fallen tree. Stop. This dynamic scientist is waiting for you behind the fallen tree, about 7’ from the trail. Keep him safe by rehiding well.
Mystery Scientist 4
This scientist gained worldwide fame as he created extraordinary theories related to relativity and for his suggestions and premises that are related to the light’s particle nature. Return to the main trail. Continue on and cross a stone bridge. He was born in 1879 in Germany. He dropped out of his first high school, not happy with the militaristic style. He later obtained his diploma at a Swiss school, but only because it was required to obtain college admission. He earned his doctorate while working as a patent clerk and continued working there even as he was writing papers that altered humanity's understanding of the basics of time, space, and science. In 1905 he wrote five scientific papers, including his most famous work, which concluded that any increase in energy causes a corresponding increase in mass, and that these increases are related by the speed of light in a vacuum squared. Ignore a trail on the right. In another paper written the same year, he proposed that electromagnetic radiation must consist of quantums or photons, which became a cornerstone concept of quantum theory and earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921. He came to the USA in 1932 to avoid the Holocaust. For most of his life, he worked as a university professor. In 1952 he was offered the Presidency of Israel, but declined. Stop at a descending dirt trail on the left (if you reach another stone bridge, you went too far). In the last months of his life he co-authored a public letter pleading for a concerted effort against the growing threat of nuclear war. The impact of his ideas was not limited to science: his achievements influenced philosophy, art, literature, and countless other disciplines. As an individual passionate in his convictions and outspoken in his politics, he transformed the image of the scientist in the twentieth century. He died in 1955 of heart failure in New Jersey at the age of 76. Who is he? From the dirt trail, take a bearing of 340° to a quad. Some of our energy resulted in a mass behind the base. Please rehide well so you don’t create a vacuum.
Mystery Scientist 5
This scientist is currently making his name in chemistry. He was born in 1975 and received his higher education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Northwestern University. Now you have a choice to make – you can be foolish like us and take the dirt trail down and then follow it as it generally follows a creek and ultimately joins the main trail (be forewarned that this could be very muddy and hard to follow) OR you can stay on the main trail, crossing another stone bridge and choosing the sinister whenever the main path offers an alternative. He is a Ph.D. scientist with a research background in organic, analytical, and inorganic chemistries, as well as, surface science and emerging high-throughput (HTS) assays for biodiscovery. His specialties are SAMDI, MALDI, Robotic Liquid Handling, High-Throughput Screening, Self-Assembed Monolayers, Peptide Arrays, Enzymatic Assays, Surface Chemistry, Thin-layer Metal Deposition, TECAN-Freedom Evo, ABI/Sciex 4800 MALDI TOF/TOF, ABI/Sciex 5800 MALDI TOF/TOF, Labcyte Echo, TTP LabTech 1 and 8 tipped Moquito, Perkin Elmber Multiprobe II, Small-molecule Synthesis, Column Chromatography, Air-Sensitive Inorganic Synthesis, Organic Synthesis, NMR, GC-MS, and FT-IR. (Holy jamoly! What is all this stuff??) Eventually you will be on asphalt again and a cyclone fence will appear on your right. He worked as a Research Specialist at Howard Hughes Medical Institute and his accomplishments include exploring integrated surface chemistry with robotic high-throughput screening technology as well as designing and implementing automated methods for 384 and 1536 spot assays to screen 250,000 interactions/week. Shortly after the end of the fence you will see another fence and a Foot Trail on your left (this foot trail is the end of the dirt trail mentioned in the clues for the previous box). He is the author of several scientific articles. He has also invented a slackboxer. Who is he? From the main trail, take the foot trail to a large fallen tree on the right, perpendicular to the path. If your analytical skills have served you well, you should now travel through some organic material to find the scientist behind the standing tree at 30° approximately 30 steps in. Be sure to rehide him well or he may use you in a future experiment!
Return to the MAIN path and continue on until you reach an intersection and some barriers. Stay right to ultimately return to your vehicle.
We don’t live nearby so we won’t be able to check the boxes very often. We’d therefore appreciate an email to let us know how these “Giants of Science” are doing. Thank you!
Hike length: 3-5 miles
Location: To determine the location, complete the “Name That Scientist Quiz” which can be found at:
www.letterboxing.homestead.com/Name_That_Scientist_Quiz.pdf
Time/Distance: ~ 3 hours / ~3.5 miles
Terrain: Mostly wide gravel/asphalt trail that is fairly level. However the hunt will require traveling on some smaller side trails.
This series is a joint effort of Wisconsin Hiker & Martini Man. We had miscellaneous scraps and old carving material, so we decided to use the stuff up by creating some boxes to plant for our friends in Illinois. We’re also not sure of the reliability of the containers, so would appreciate it if you could bring some duck tape (easy to carry if you wrap some around a pencil stub) to repair any holes in the baggies, or perhaps some new freezer baggies if they need to be replaced.
The logbooks will contain the name and image of various “Giants of Science”, but the clues will give you info allowing you to guess the name of each scientist. How many will you figure out before you find the box?
Mystery Scientist 1
This scientist was a British naturalist and is widely considered to be one of the greatest and most revolutionizing scientists in history. He formulated the theory of evolution, demonstrating that all living things on earth have descended from common ancestors who lived millions of years ago. Start near the map at the beginning of parking area. Just north of the map, take the trail heading west. Born at Shrewsbury in 1809, he was raised by his eldest sister from the age of eight. As a youngster he had a passion for gathering up insects and minerals. He joined Edinburg University to study medicine at age 16. However, he was too gentle and tender to become a proper physician. He hated the surgical operations, because they had to be performed without any anesthetics at that time. This made him a failure as a medical student. Watch for a “dirty red” on the right. Take it and then cross a creek. He therefore switched to Cambridge to study theology and there he became friends with the professors of botany and geology. At age 22 he was selected to travel as a naturalist on a 5-year voyage around the world for a scientific expedition. Throughout this voyage, he collected bones of extinct animals and was curious about the relationship between the extinct animals and the existing ones. These observations led to his legendary ideas on evolution. About 60 steps from the creek watch for a large fallen tree on the right. In 1859 he publicized the theory in his famous book, “The Origin of Species by Natural Selection”. He also commented that in the struggle for life, only the ‘fittest’ creatures would survive while others fail. In 1882 he died at 74 and he was buried in Westminster Abbey. Who is he? Hopefully you are ‘fit’ and have survived to find the scientist nestled under bark on the back side, near a broken fork. Please rehide him well so he doesn’t become extinct.
Mystery Scientist 2
This scientist is one of the greatest American inventors who held numerous patents related to electricity and power. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb. Continue on the trail to a crimson post, then head left on the sunshine color of a light bulb. He was born in Ohio in 1847 and was mostly homeschooled by his mother. At the age of 12 he started working by selling candy & newspapers on trains. By age 15 he worked as a telegraph operator, trained by the father of a child whose life he had saved. He was exempted from military service due to his deafness. In 1868 he was recruited by Western Union Telegraph Company and his early career as a telegraph operator led to many of his inventions. Ignore those who gallop, then ignore the fruit of the vine. His first patent was for an electric vote recorder. He acquired partnership in a New York electrical company in 1869, where he refined the stock ticker. The proceeds from the sale allowed him to establish several factories and laboratories before the age of 30. He was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production and large-scale teamwork to the process of invention, and because of that, he is often credited with the creation of the first industrial research laboratory. One of his companies later became the General Electric Company. Continue on the trail as it curves right and then follow the emerald path on the right.
He is the fourth most prolific inventor in history and is credited with numerous inventions that also included a battery for an electric car, electrical power, recorded music and motion pictures. In 1931 he died of complications of diabetes at age 84 while he was at home in New Jersey. Who is he? Before getting to the top of the rise, look right to find a fallen giant and other deadfall. The scientist is resting where the tree broke, at the front and under bark. Keep his light under a bushel so he will be able to meet more LBers.
Mystery Scientist 3
This Swedish scientist was an inventor, entrepreneur, author and pacifist. He invented dynamite and many other explosives and constructed companies and laboratories in more than 20 countries. He also established a prize that honors people from all around the world for their great accomplishments in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and for work in peace. Continue on the trail. Pass a green dot and then head left. He was born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1833. When he was nine years old, his family moved to Saint Petersburg, where his father started a “torpedo” works. The young boy received his early education by private tutors. “Love makes you happy” – head right. At the age of 18 he traveled to the United States where he spent four years studying chemistry. He also went to Paris where he was first introduced to nitroglycerin. Pass a fenced culvert. Walk quite a ways, past culverts and swamps and encountering some slight inclines & declines. At age 30 he succeeded in exploding nitroglycerin from a distance with a gunpowder charge, and two years later he patented the mercury fulminate detonator which is a critical component for the development of high explosives. He then built factories in Hamburg, Stockholm, New York and California. Pass a metal post on the left and shortly after that stop at a scarlet post on the right. Due to several accidents, he continued to work to produce a safer explosive and he received a patent for dynamite in 1867. At age 63, he died of a stroke in Italy and was buried in Stockholm. Who is he? Proceed on this path and step over first one, then another, fallen tree. Stop. This dynamic scientist is waiting for you behind the fallen tree, about 7’ from the trail. Keep him safe by rehiding well.
Mystery Scientist 4
This scientist gained worldwide fame as he created extraordinary theories related to relativity and for his suggestions and premises that are related to the light’s particle nature. Return to the main trail. Continue on and cross a stone bridge. He was born in 1879 in Germany. He dropped out of his first high school, not happy with the militaristic style. He later obtained his diploma at a Swiss school, but only because it was required to obtain college admission. He earned his doctorate while working as a patent clerk and continued working there even as he was writing papers that altered humanity's understanding of the basics of time, space, and science. In 1905 he wrote five scientific papers, including his most famous work, which concluded that any increase in energy causes a corresponding increase in mass, and that these increases are related by the speed of light in a vacuum squared. Ignore a trail on the right. In another paper written the same year, he proposed that electromagnetic radiation must consist of quantums or photons, which became a cornerstone concept of quantum theory and earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921. He came to the USA in 1932 to avoid the Holocaust. For most of his life, he worked as a university professor. In 1952 he was offered the Presidency of Israel, but declined. Stop at a descending dirt trail on the left (if you reach another stone bridge, you went too far). In the last months of his life he co-authored a public letter pleading for a concerted effort against the growing threat of nuclear war. The impact of his ideas was not limited to science: his achievements influenced philosophy, art, literature, and countless other disciplines. As an individual passionate in his convictions and outspoken in his politics, he transformed the image of the scientist in the twentieth century. He died in 1955 of heart failure in New Jersey at the age of 76. Who is he? From the dirt trail, take a bearing of 340° to a quad. Some of our energy resulted in a mass behind the base. Please rehide well so you don’t create a vacuum.
Mystery Scientist 5
This scientist is currently making his name in chemistry. He was born in 1975 and received his higher education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Northwestern University. Now you have a choice to make – you can be foolish like us and take the dirt trail down and then follow it as it generally follows a creek and ultimately joins the main trail (be forewarned that this could be very muddy and hard to follow) OR you can stay on the main trail, crossing another stone bridge and choosing the sinister whenever the main path offers an alternative. He is a Ph.D. scientist with a research background in organic, analytical, and inorganic chemistries, as well as, surface science and emerging high-throughput (HTS) assays for biodiscovery. His specialties are SAMDI, MALDI, Robotic Liquid Handling, High-Throughput Screening, Self-Assembed Monolayers, Peptide Arrays, Enzymatic Assays, Surface Chemistry, Thin-layer Metal Deposition, TECAN-Freedom Evo, ABI/Sciex 4800 MALDI TOF/TOF, ABI/Sciex 5800 MALDI TOF/TOF, Labcyte Echo, TTP LabTech 1 and 8 tipped Moquito, Perkin Elmber Multiprobe II, Small-molecule Synthesis, Column Chromatography, Air-Sensitive Inorganic Synthesis, Organic Synthesis, NMR, GC-MS, and FT-IR. (Holy jamoly! What is all this stuff??) Eventually you will be on asphalt again and a cyclone fence will appear on your right. He worked as a Research Specialist at Howard Hughes Medical Institute and his accomplishments include exploring integrated surface chemistry with robotic high-throughput screening technology as well as designing and implementing automated methods for 384 and 1536 spot assays to screen 250,000 interactions/week. Shortly after the end of the fence you will see another fence and a Foot Trail on your left (this foot trail is the end of the dirt trail mentioned in the clues for the previous box). He is the author of several scientific articles. He has also invented a slackboxer. Who is he? From the main trail, take the foot trail to a large fallen tree on the right, perpendicular to the path. If your analytical skills have served you well, you should now travel through some organic material to find the scientist behind the standing tree at 30° approximately 30 steps in. Be sure to rehide him well or he may use you in a future experiment!
Return to the MAIN path and continue on until you reach an intersection and some barriers. Stay right to ultimately return to your vehicle.
We don’t live nearby so we won’t be able to check the boxes very often. We’d therefore appreciate an email to let us know how these “Giants of Science” are doing. Thank you!
Hike length: 3-5 miles