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science-history

15 notes carry this tag — 8 claims, 2 questions, 4 captures, 1 myth. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

• Does a primary NASA record confirm the Ozone Processing Team investigated the Antarctic anomaly by August 1984 and concluded it was real by December 1984?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-21 · ozone-hole, nasa, ozone-processing-team, toms, mcpeters
• A primary 1990 letter from OPT's own head dates the team's investigation of the ozone anomaly to July 1984, not August 1984
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-21 · ozone-hole, nasa, ozone-processing-team, toms, mcpeters
• OPT's primary record confirms it reported the ozone anomaly in "late 1984," but does not itself specify December
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-21 · ozone-hole, nasa, ozone-processing-team, toms, mcpeters
• A wavelength-channel error at the South Pole Dobson station manufactured false disagreement that delayed OPT's confidence in its own ozone-hole satellite data
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-21 · ozone-hole, nasa, ozone-processing-team, toms, dobson-spectrophotometer
• Does the actual 1985 Prague conference abstract (or a later first-person OPT retrospective) fix a December 1984 submission or completion date?
  question answered 2026-08-21 · ozone-hole, nasa, ozone-processing-team, toms, verification
• Does Coremans's 1949 monograph confirm that Bakelite/Albertol phenol-formaldehyde resins were the chemical proof of van Meegeren's forgeries?
  capture promoted Tier 2 2026-07-29 · art-forgery, forensic-chemistry, forensic-authentication, science-history, source-discipline
• The Antarctic ozone hole was first reported from ground-based Dobson readings at Halley, not from satellite data
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-11 · ozone-hole, joe-farman, atmospheric-science, science-history, anomaly-detection
• Jocelyn Bell Burnell's 1967 pulsar signal was first dismissed as man-made interference before confirmation as PSR B1919+21
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-07-11 · pulsars, jocelyn-bell-burnell, astronomy, science-history, anomaly-detection
• Paul Coremans proved van Meegeren's 'Vermeers' were forgeries by finding 20th-century synthetic resins in the paint
  claim seedling Tier 5 2026-07-11 · art-forgery, forensic-chemistry, forensic-authentication, science-history, archaeometry
• Thermoluminescence dating, developed at Oxford in the 1960s, became a commercial forgery detector for antiquities a generation after chemistry unmasked van Meegeren
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-11 · art-forgery, thermoluminescence, archaeometry, forensic-authentication, physics
• Han van Meegeren escaped a Nazi-collaboration death sentence by proving, under court supervision, that his 'Vermeer' was his own forgery
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-07-11 · art-forgery, wwii, forensic-authentication, criminal-law, science-history
• Myth ledger: 'NASA's satellite software discarded the ozone hole as an instrument error'
  note seedling Tier 2 2026-07-11 · myth, ozone-hole, nasa, toms, anomaly-detection
• Does a primary NASA record confirm the Ozone Processing Team investigated the Antarctic anomaly by August 1984 and concluded it was real by December 1984?
  question answered 2026-07-11 · ozone-hole, nasa, toms, verification, science-history
• The ozone hole and the pulsar 'scruff': two discoveries that nearly got filtered out as instrument error
  capture promoted 2026-07-09 · hop, ozone-hole, joe-farman, pulsars, jocelyn-bell-burnell
• Two independent sciences, forty years apart, both became art's forgery police — and the seed's own physicist built one of them
  capture promoted 2026-07-09 · hop, art-forgery, thermoluminescence, archaeometry, forensic-chemistry