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Points: 20268 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 15 2006 at 09:01
Originally posted by Fitzcarraldo Fitzcarraldo wrote:

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.

 

However legend has it that the name comes from a bakery - first (or premier) oven Marconi



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Points: 1835 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 15 2006 at 09:12
Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

However legend has it that the name comes from a bakery - first (or premier) oven Marconi

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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Points: 1200 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 15 2006 at 10:55
Originally posted by Fitzcarraldo Fitzcarraldo wrote:

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".



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Points: 1835 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 15 2006 at 13:45
Originally posted by Fitzcarraldo Fitzcarraldo wrote:

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.



No takers? And it's a Prog group.

Here's another clue:

He was a British scientist.
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Are you still referring to the fictional scientist, or is he real?
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Yes, I'm still referring to the fictional character of book and film: a British rocket scientist. And Prog group.
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Jethro Tull ..!
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Points: 1835 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 15 2006 at 15:02
Originally posted by Geck0 Geck0 wrote:

Quatermass.


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.
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Points: 1835 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 16 2006 at 07:52
Originally posted by Fitzcarraldo Fitzcarraldo wrote:



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.




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.
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Points: 854 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 16 2006 at 13:13
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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The Theremin's named after a scientist!1

And that's all I can contribute.
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Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

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

...actually it is Van de Graaf..
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Originally posted by BebieM BebieM wrote:

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. 

Did I say musical instrument?!

 
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Points: 1835 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 16 2006 at 18:12

Any electrical or electronics engineers around?

 
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Points: 1835 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 17 2006 at 06:55

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

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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Points: 3300 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 19 2006 at 23:41
Originally posted by Fitzcarraldo Fitzcarraldo wrote:

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

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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Points: 3300 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 20 2006 at 00:15

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Points: 12814 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 20 2006 at 12:47

Originally posted by RaphaelT RaphaelT wrote:

No, hang on - Premiata Forneria Marconi!!!

 

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!
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