Milky Way
Miller, Stanley
Missing Links (Reader)
Mohorovii?c, Andrija
molecule
monitor lizards
Monod, Jacques
Moody, Plinus
Moon (Earth’s): birth of; distance from Earth, measuring; cratering rates; lack of liquid core; stability of Earth and
Morgan, Thomas Hunt
Morley, Edward
Morley, Lawrence
Moss Flora of Britain and Ireland (Smith)
mosses
Movius, Hallum
Mullis, Kary B.
Murchison, Roderick
Murray, John
museum, first public
Myers, Norman
Naked Earth: The New Geophysics (Vogel)
Natural History Museum, London
necrotizing fasciitis
Neptune; distance from Earth; moons
neutrino
neutron; activation analysis
neutron stars
New Horizons spacecraft
Newlands, John
Newton, Isaac; ether and ether drift; gravity and; laws of motion
Ngalli, Jillani
nitrogen: bacteria and; bends and; in human body; intoxication
nitric oxide
nitrous oxide (laughing gas)
Nobel Prize: Alvarez, Luis; Bohr, Niels; Chadwick, James; Crick, Watkins, and Wilson; Curie, Marie; delay in receiving; Einstein, Albert.; geologists never win; Hoyle, Fred; Libby, Willard; Medawar, Peter; Morgan, Thomas Hunt; opposition to Avery’s; Pauling, Linus; Rutherford, Ernest; Sulston, John; Urey, Harold
noble gases,
North Star
Norton, Trevor
Norwood, Richard
Note on the Species of Living and Fossil Elephants (Cuvier)
Notes on the State of Virginia (Jefferson)
Nuland, Sherwin B.
numbers, very large
Nuttall, Thomas
oceans: abyssal plain; Alvin, explorations of; amphipods; Antarctic Circumpolar Current; Atlantic; Beebe and Barton, deep dives; bends; blue whale; carbon absorption and; coral reefs; currents; deepest free dive; depletion of fish in; drop of water, time to travel between oceans; exploration and investigation of; floor, exploration of; giant squid; Gulf Stream; guyots; human body and pressure; lack of underwater research; life, at great depths; Mariana Trench; mid-Atlantic rift; mountain range, most extensive on Earth; oceanography, discipline begun; Pacific; percentage of Earth’s water in; phytoplankton; Piccards, deep sea dives; pressure; radioactive waste dumped in; rising of; salinity of; sea level; seafloor spreading; seawater; sediment, where it goes; species of animals in; thermohaline circulation; undiscovered life in; vents, life near; vents, refreshing of seawater and
Oldham, R. D.
Olduvai Gorge (Great Rift Valley), Tanzania
On the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances (Gibbs)
On the Origin of Species (Darwin)
Oort cloud
Oort, Jan.
Oppenheimer, Robert
Opik, Ernst
Organic Remains of a Former World Parkinson)
Orgel, Leslie
Ostro, Steven
Other Side of Everest, The (Dickinson)
Overbye, Dennis
Owen, Richard
oxygen: abundance; atomic weight; atmospheric, creation of; combustion and.; discovery of; identification of; isotope geochemistry and; oxidation; size of creatures and
ozone; CFCs and
