# Botticelli - June 2019 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [June 1, 2019, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880 "2019-06-01T15:59:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2019, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/141 "2019-06-14T14:08:12Z")
DQ1: Does your discovery have anything to do with quantum physics? DQ2: Are you considered a scientist of the Enlightenment? ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2019, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/142 "2019-06-14T19:48:25Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Not American 4. Born before 1925 5. Not British 6. Not known for the Arts 7. European 8. Dead 9. Not known for a business or product 10. Not known for politics 11. Not known for military 12. Known for Science 13. Physicist 14. Known for a particular discovery/invention 15. Not known for work on nuclear weapons 16. Last name starts with O 17. Discovery made long before WWII 18. Born after 1400 19. Not German 20. Born after 1750 21. The discovery has to do with electricity and magnetism. 22. The discovery does not deal in quantum physics. 23. Post-Enlightenment ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2019, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/143 "2019-06-14T21:48:40Z")
My best guess is Georg Ohm, but he’s not really physics. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2019, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/144 "2019-06-14T22:23:18Z")
That’s who I was thinking. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2019, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/145 "2019-06-14T22:25:12Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Not American 4. Born before 1925 5. Not British 6. Not known for the Arts 7. European 8. Dead 9. Not known for a business or product 10. Not known for politics 11. Not known for military 12. Known for Science 13. Physicist 14. Known for a particular discovery/invention 15. Not known for work on nuclear weapons 16. Last name starts with O 17. Discovery made long before WWII 18. Born after 1400 19. Not German 20. Born after 1750 21. The discovery has to do with electricity and magnetism. 22. The discovery does not deal in quantum physics. 23. Post-Enlightenment, or maybe really Late Enlightenment. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2019, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/146 "2019-06-14T23:09:56Z")
I keep getting stuck on J.J. d’Omalius d’Halloy, but only because his name is so fun to say. He was a geologist, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2019, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/147 "2019-06-15T01:01:41Z")
Okay, you all have until 9 pm EDT Saturday for final guesses. (And, no, it’s not Ohm). ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2019, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/148 "2019-06-15T05:13:55Z")
I’m stumped. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2019, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/149 "2019-06-16T00:04:38Z")
Ditto. Oppenheimer was the only “O” physicist I could think of, but he was American. I’ll take a what-the-hell crack at it: Are you Ernst Öpik? ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2019, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/150 "2019-06-16T00:08:19Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > Ditto. Oppenheimer was the only “O” physicist I could think of, but he was American. > > I’ll take a what-the-hell crack at it: Are you Ernst Öpik? No, I am not. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2019, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/151 "2019-06-16T01:06:22Z")
Well, I hope somebody else has heard of him. I am **Hans Christian Ørsted** , 1777-1851, Danish physicist who discovered electric currents create magnetic fields. Oersted’s law is named for him. He apparently was also the first scientist to use “thought experiments” to help in determining the laws of physics, as well as being the first to produce aluminum. Oersted was also a close personal friend of Hans Christian Andersen, as it happens. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2019, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/152 "2019-06-16T10:36:02Z")
Technically, Ø is a different letter from O. Both are in the Danish alphabet. Plus, I haven’t heard of Ørsted. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2019, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/153 "2019-06-16T13:39:29Z")
Well, it is known as Oersted’ Law in English, and SMV did guess Öpik, so I don’t consider than a real problem. I’m wondering if our emissary to the SDSAB knows him, mainly. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2019, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/154 "2019-06-16T16:20:23Z")
Hmm. Never heard of him, regardless of spelling. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2019, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/155 "2019-06-16T16:29:47Z")
Okay. That just leaves SMV to affirm, or hosting goes back to SCAdian. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2019, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/156 "2019-06-16T16:30:57Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > DQ: Does the discovery have something to do with electricity/magnetism? KO, I thought you certainly had it with this DQ. Live and learn. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2019, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/157 "2019-06-16T19:34:40Z")
I wasn’t involved with this game, but you can add me to the list of people who haven’t heard of him. ETA: Never heard of Öpik, either. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2019, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/158 "2019-06-16T19:58:00Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > KO, I thought you certainly had it with this DQ. Live and learn. I was trying to remember fields of physics and that was the only one I could think of besides the big bang kind. I couldn’t think of anybody besides Ohm when you verified. That’s why this game gets to me sometimes. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2019, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/159 "2019-06-17T17:08:30Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Okay. That just leaves SMV to affirm, or hosting goes back to SCAdian. Nope. Never heard o’ the man. And to be honest, I had never heard of Erik Öpik, until I’d googled Oort to find out his first name. The comet-producing field of planetesimals is technically the Öpik-Oort Cloud But I’m content to say that the Prof won this round. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2019, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/160 "2019-06-17T17:47:52Z")
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