![]() Using chalkboards and beakers and bunsen burners and more props than Gallagher's comedy routine, Professor Julius Sumner Miller would explain complex concepts in ways any old Joe could comprehend. Finally, in 1971 Miller starred in the TV series "The Hilarious House of Frightenstein" as simply "The Professor." In his science program, each week he would tackle a new scientific problem, with the assistance of meticulous and melodramatic presentations of lab experiments. His tenure with Disney was from 1955 to 1959. Before that he appeared on The Mickey Mouse Club as Professor Wonderful. Professor Miller's "Demonstrations in Physics" was first produced and broadcast in Australia in the 1960s. With thanks due to the Public Broadcasting System, this man's curious and admittedy geeky approach has enlightened and entertained thousands.Īll in all he was involved in three television shows in his lifetime. With his New England accent and a distinctly energetic approach towards his passion of science, he managed to communicate and educate many practical concepts of the laws of physics to people all over the world. ![]() Professor Julius Sumner Miller was a professor of Physics from El Camino Colledge, California. These 'classes' were instructed by a curiously animated man. ![]() In the late 1960s, Sydney University hosted a series of television programs that taught physics. It’s the only number equal to the sum of those below it and the only number whose sum with those below equals the product of them and itself.īut you don’t have to be Einstein to deduce that threes do not grow on trees.The man for whom physics was his business. Pythagoras called three the noblest of digits. I am beginning to become obsessed with three – seeing trinities, triumvirates and triads of them everywhere except on the blinking trailer. “They all go the minute we get them in.”ĭid the Three Tenors, Three Little Pigs, Three French Hens, Three Stooges, Three Musketeers, Three Amigos, Three Blind Mice, three bean salad, Three Little Figs Cafe, three-toed sloths, three bedroom houses, Three Fates, Three Furies, three wise men, 3-D movies and Goldilocks and the Three Bears use them all up? “ There are never any threes mate,” the sales assistant said. He felt compelled to ask at the third Bunnings what was the chance of ever getting a 3 and was informed he’d virtually need to be on the doorstep at 3am on the day of delivery to secure the elusive number. The hubby has been to a variety of stores at various locations and been faced by the same dearth of desired numeral on every occasion. Is there some correlation between genius and electrified hair I wonder?Īt any rate clearly I have neither the hair, nor the head space to resolve what has become the V ery Vexing Mystery of the Number Three.įor some weeks now we’ve been trying to buy a three two stick-on reflective 3’s in fact, to affix to a trailer to mirror the ute’s registration so we can take some of the accumulated junk in the garage to the tip. As student and friend of Albert Einstein – whose hair also famously stood on end – Miller had the world’s best brain in his corner. In any event who cared about the stuffy alumni. I knew my purpose well and clear: to show how Nature behaves without cluttering its beauty with abstruse mathematics.” “ If I had done what they wanted my programs would be as dull as their classes. ![]() “ The academics were a special triumph for me,” he proudly declared. Miller was the bane of the intellectual elite who accused him of trivialising maths and science. This involved putting a lit piece of paper into a bottle and placing a peeled boiled egg on top: as “Watch it! Watch it!” the air inside the bottle heated up, the egg would be sucked inside due to the change in air pressure. He used his considerable showmanship to hook kids on the basic principles of physics.īack in the day when there were still milk bottles, many, many eggs were sacrificed in households across the land by children trying to replicate his most famous trick to demonstrate atmospheric pressure. ![]() With his outlandish wiry ear muffs and beetling black brows raised independently in fierce inquiry, he was the poster boy for the most unpopular of sciences. It may be 27 years since his death, but who can’t immediately conjure Professor Julius Sumner Miller asking that trademark question in his trans-Atlantic twang? ![]()
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