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    Posted: March 13 2006 at 22:58
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

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 13 2006 at 23:03

Spock's Beard?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Peace is the only battle worth waging."

Albert Camus
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 14 2006 at 00:06
Originally posted by Bern Bern wrote:


Yet another silly poll


It's an especially silly poll...










considering there's no poll!!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 14 2006 at 00:08
Originally posted by Empathy Empathy wrote:

Originally posted by Bern Bern wrote:


Yet another silly poll


It's an especially silly poll...










considering there's no poll!!


Hahaha

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 14 2006 at 00:10
What about the band called Rocket Scientists?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 14 2006 at 02:00

Well, there was a band named after a famous Russian scientist's dog(s). See if it rings a bell.

 

 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 14 2006 at 03:26
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
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 14 2006 at 03:51
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 14 2006 at 05:30
Originally posted by Fitzcarraldo Fitzcarraldo wrote:

Well, there was a band named after a famous Russian scientist's dog(s). See if it rings a bell.

 

 

Mr Pavlov of course..

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 14 2006 at 06:01

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.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 14 2006 at 10:17
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?


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 14 2006 at 10:59

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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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 14 2006 at 11:06

Shame this band is not yet in the Archives

But Forever Einstein is another goodie (on Cuneiform label)

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 14 2006 at 20:41
There are a lot of bands called Occam's Razor...

Not strictly science though.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 15 2006 at 03:49
Originally posted by Fitzcarraldo Fitzcarraldo wrote:

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.

 

Tesla?? 

yet you still have time!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 15 2006 at 03:49
No, hang on - Premiata Forneria Marconi!!!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 15 2006 at 05:04
George Westinghouse.


BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 15 2006 at 07:59
Werner von Braun sugar............ ...Kind of a song really
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 15 2006 at 08:33

Mars Volta?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 15 2006 at 08:42

Originally posted by RaphaelT RaphaelT wrote:

No, hang on - Premiata Forneria Marconi!!!

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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