The man who oversaw the world's longest running laboratory study, the University of Queensland's Pitch Drop Experiment, has died after suffering a stroke at age 78. Professor John Mainstone died in ...

Professor Thomas Parnell, who began the University of Queensland’s Pitch Drop Experiment in 1930. Grandparents bring their grandchildren to show them the experiment and reminisce about the drop ...

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John Mainstone, former head of the department of physics at the University of Queensland, was custodian of the world's longest running laboratory experiment for 52 years. The Pitch Drop Experiment was ...

John Mainstone, a physics professor who oversaw the world’s longest-running scientific experiment, has died at the age of 78. The experiment for which Mainstone was the custodian is called the Pitch ...

Professor John Mainstone (third left), the former head of the Department of Physics at the University of Queensland, with students examining the world's longest running laboratory test, the Pitch Drop ...

Professor John Mainstone, the longtime custodian of the University of Queensland’s famous Pitch Drop experiment, has died after suffering a stroke. For more than 50 years, Professor Mainstone ...