Scientists

[Gale_Snail]

hello! im helping my little 9 year old with her science homework and we can't find the answer to one of her questions, does anybody know the name of a scientist that studies exlosives? thank you in advance

[shammydodger]

Alfred Nobel, of Nobel Prize fame, is credited with the invention of dynamite in 1866. He took out a patent for it the following year.

[Gale_Snail]

thank you - we inclueded that example on her homework, however what is the acctualy name of the scientific study of explosives e.g a biologyist a chemist a pathologyist

[JustSia]

Explosives fall under the applied or thermo chemistry. So yes it would be a chemist.

S.

[Mortartube]

I suppose that it may fall under Pyrotechnician, even though these are more usually considered to be firework makers etc. I used to be one!!

[Catso]

What a question for a 9-year old?! I don't know the answer and it seems neither do the abers. How on earth is she supposed to know this?

[dawkins]

Hello Gail-Snail



It is a strange question to ask a 9 year old, not least because there isn't actually any one definitive answer you can give. There isn't even a simple answer to what an explosion is. (they come in many forms). Having said that -and ignoring nuclear explosions and other phenomenon such as balloons bursting - concentrating just on chemical explosions, II think the simplest answer your 9 year old could give would be: a chemist.

D.

[mrbatfink]

I would call them pyrotechnic chemists.

[newtron]

The university that I went to in New Mexico offered a degree in Explosives Chemistry. So you can call them an explosives chemist.