{"id":497,"date":"2014-09-20T01:33:03","date_gmt":"2014-09-20T06:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/texasfireframe.com\/fireplace-grate-blog\/?p=497"},"modified":"2014-10-22T15:47:44","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T20:47:44","slug":"president-texas-fireframe-company-serves-american-institute-physics-development-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texasfireframe.com\/fireplace-grate-blog\/2014\/09\/20\/president-texas-fireframe-company-serves-american-institute-physics-development-board\/","title":{"rendered":"President of Texas Fireframe Company Serves on American Institute of Physics Development Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"AIP - One Science. Many Minds.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TgZTTbx4kWA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>AIP&#8217;s video\u00a0&#8220;One Science. Many Minds.&#8221; (The geodesic dome Nicole&#8217;s physicist father built for her and her brother made it into the film &#8211; as did some comments from her today.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/texasfireframe.com\/fireplace-grate-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/nicole_c_photo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-510\" src=\"http:\/\/texasfireframe.com\/fireplace-grate-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/nicole_c_photo-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"nicole_c_photo\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aip.org\/donate\/crosby\">Nicole Cranberg<\/a>, President of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.texasfireframe.com\">Texas Fireframe<\/a> Company, is honored to \u00a0serve on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aip.org\/donate\/meet-our-board\">development board<\/a> of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aip.org\">American Institute of Physics<\/a> (AIP). \u00a0Her father, <a href=\"http:\/\/scitation.aip.org\/content\/aip\/magazine\/physicstoday\/news\/10.1063\/PT.4.1798\">Lawrence Cranberg,<\/a> PhD, was a noted physicist and former professor who instilled in both her and her brother, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utsystem.edu\/board-of-regents\/current-regents\/alex-m-cranberg\">Alex Cranberg,<\/a> a lifelong love of science. \u00a0Their father invented the Texas Fireframe grate\u00a0nearly 40 years ago, and\u00a0his scientific paper about his improvements in domestic fire building were\u00a0published in the\u00a0AIP publication,<em>\u00a0Amerian Journal of Physics.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To this day, I&#8217;m\u00a0not aware of any other fireplace grate that is documented in the scientific literature,&#8221; said Nicole. \u00a0&#8220;My father considered that an important distinction. How else is the public supposed to know the difference between a between a genuine scientific advance and a me-too type of product &#8211; of which there have been\u00a0many over the years? AIP&#8217;s\u00a0scientific journals have played an important role in helping to tell\u00a0the story of the Texas Fireframe grate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My dad had a long history with the AIP &#8211; having many\u00a0letters to the editor published in <em>Physics Today<\/em> over his decades as a reader, in addition to his scientific papers.\u00a0Ten years after he invented the\u00a0Texas Fireframe grate, he was interviewed about it\u00a0for AIP&#8217;s <em>Science Report<\/em>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0educational programming which\u00a0AIP continues to this day (now known as <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aip.org\/science-news\">Inside Science<\/a>)<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0daughter of the inventor recalled her father&#8217;s passion for science. &#8220;My father could observe\u00a0the most ordinary\u00a0phenomenon &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0something as insignificant as a row of flames darting\u00a0across a log when another log was\u00a0lifted off of it<a href=\"http:\/\/texasfireframe.com\/fireplace-grate-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/TFF-fire-photo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-516\" src=\"http:\/\/texasfireframe.com\/fireplace-grate-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/TFF-fire-photo-300x234.jpg\" alt=\"TFF fire photo\" width=\"300\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.texasfireframe.com\/fireplace-grate-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/TFF-fire-photo-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.texasfireframe.com\/fireplace-grate-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/TFF-fire-photo-1024x801.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> &#8211; and translate that into an invention that would change the way people build fires in their fireplaces. And then, of course,\u00a0he would insist that everyone understand the physics behind the invention, and we were all\u00a0well-schooled in Kirchoff&#8217;s theory of\u00a0blackbody radiation which was the principle behind the arrangement of logs on\u00a0the Texas Fireframe grate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In her term on the development board of \u00a0AIP, Nicole has drawn from her marketing training and experience to assist the organization with fundraising and awareness of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aip.org\/donate\">two ways to give.<\/a> \u00a0In AIP&#8217;s &#8220;One Science Many Minds&#8221; video, she comments on\u00a0the importance of the Neils Bohr Library and Archives which houses\u00a0a\u00a0vast and notable\u00a0collection of historical\u00a0papers, books, oral histories, digital collections and photographs related to\u00a0the physical sciences. The Library\u00a0also serves as a clearinghouse for 10,000 collections from over 900 repositories worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know my dad would be\u00a0so pleased that I&#8217;m serving on the AIP development board,&#8221; said Nicole. \u00a0&#8220;As different as my field of marketing is from his field of physics, it&#8217;s funny how our fields converged.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; AIP&#8217;s video\u00a0&#8220;One Science. Many Minds.&#8221; (The geodesic dome Nicole&#8217;s physicist father built for her and her brother made it into the film &#8211; as did some comments from her today.) Nicole Cranberg, President of the Texas Fireframe Company, is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasfireframe.com\/fireplace-grate-blog\/2014\/09\/20\/president-texas-fireframe-company-serves-american-institute-physics-development-board\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texasfireframe.com\/fireplace-grate-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texasfireframe.com\/fireplace-grate-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texasfireframe.com\/fireplace-grate-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texasfireframe.com\/fireplace-grate-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texasfireframe.com\/fireplace-grate-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.texasfireframe.com\/fireplace-grate-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":523,"href":"https:\/\/www.texasfireframe.com\/fireplace-grate-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions\/523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texasfireframe.com\/fireplace-grate-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texasfireframe.com\/fireplace-grate-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texasfireframe.com\/fireplace-grate-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}