1986 St. Mary's County Science and Engineering Fair History

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The fair was held at St. Mary's College.

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The Senior Grand Award winner was Eric Fleming from Chopticon High School in the category of Biochemistry.  His project was titled "Fat vs. Fat"

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The Junior Grand Award winner was Michele Cardello from Mother Catherine Spalding in the category of Biochemistry.  Her project was titled "Purple Spots Tell the Story."

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1986 World History Of Science and Engineering

John C. Mather of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, and George F. Smoot University of California, Berkeley, CA work on measurements from the COBE satellite.  The work provided increased support for the Big Bang scenario for the origin of the Universe, as this is the only scenario that predicts the kind of cosmic microwave background radiation measured by COBE.  This work won the both the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2006