Member of Endre Takacs’ research group gathered at NIST in 2017. The Newton Apple Club decided to try to bring a Newton apple tree to Clemson University. But the greatest idea of all turned out to be the most adventurous. The club quickly developed a fount of ideas: fund-raising, student support, potential seminars and lectures. We didn’t know at the time if we were going to do anything meaningful, but starting a club can be the first step to new discoveries.” That afternoon, we decided that we would form a new club within the physics department called Newton’s Apple Club. This is Newton’s apple.’ And it inspired me to call a meeting with my group. But after a couple of months, I began to notice that it was aging really beautifully,” Takacs said. I didn’t know what was going to happen to it. “At first, I thought it was just going to rot. Takacs, who has visited the tree at NIST many times with students, cohorts and friends, put the apple on display in a glass bowl in his house. Sengupta gave one of the apples to Takacs, a professor in the department of physics and astronomy. “When I touched the trunk of the tree, it felt like being connected across time with Sir Isaac Newton.” “Seeing that tree was a very special experience for me as a scientist. Sengupta and the others found several apples lying on the ground and brought them back to Clemson.
While there, they visited a clone of the Newton Apple Tree that thrives on the NIST campus. From left, Amy Gall, Bishwambhar Sengupta and Samuel Sanders stand beneath a clone of the Newton Apple Tree that is located on the campus of NIST.īishwambhar Sengupta, a doctoral candidate in the College of Science’s department of physics and astronomy, met up with his faculty mentor, Endre Takacs, and Takacs’ research group during an experiment they were conducting at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Maryland. But the story of how a descendant of the tree came to Clemson University didn’t sprout until the first week of August 2017. The story of Sir Isaac Newton and the apple tree first began to blossom in the 17th century.
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27, a public ceremony will mark the planting of a grafted clone of the Newton apple tree in a patch of soil surrounded by three buildings – Kinard Laboratory of Physics, and Martin and Long halls – that are teeming with scientists. The next location lucky enough to claim this living piece of scientific history is the main campus of Clemson University.
Over the years, several dozen descendants of the Newton Apple Tree have been planted around the globe on the grounds of universities, research centers and even in botanical gardens. Evidence suggests that Newton’s early musings on the understanding of gravitational force were inspired by watching an apple fall from the famous tree, which first took root about 400 years ago and amazingly is still alive in the hamlet of Woolsthorpe in Lincolnshire, England. Though almost certainly embellished, the story is believed to contain at least a seed of truth. FebruThis direct descendant of the Newton Apple Tree was grafted and grown at Musser Fruit Research Center and will be planted on Clemson’s main campus.ĬLEMSON, South Carolina – As the legend goes, Isaac Newton was sitting beneath an apple tree in his family’s garden when an apple conked him on the head, startling the young scientist so much that it inspired a monumental insight – his theory of gravity.
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