• Well, he was a mathematician, a physicist and an astronomer, an amateur astronomer, and so I was going to be a physicist. (aip.org)
  • Satyendra Nath Bose, (born January 1, 1894, Calcutta [now Kolkata], India-died February 4, 1974, Calcutta), Indian mathematician and physicist noted for his collaboration with Albert Einstein in developing a theory regarding the gaslike qualities of electromagnetic radiation. (mathisfunforum.com)
  • Satyendra Nath Bose (1 January 1894 - 4 February 1974) was an Indian mathematician and physicist specialising in theoretical physics. (mathisfunforum.com)
  • Though German-born American mathematician and engineer Charles Proteus Steinmetz suffered from a deformed back since childhood, he excelled in math, physics, and classical literature. (thefamouspeople.com)
  • While there, he learned the Russian language and worked on theoretical physics problems related to his doctoral studies. (wikipedia.org)
  • The deutsche Physik movement was anti-Semitic and anti-theoretical physics. (peoplepill.com)
  • Finkelnburg invited five representatives to make arguments for theoretical physics and academic decisions based on ability, rather than politics: Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, Otto Scherzer, Georg Joos, Otto Heckmann, and Hans Kopfermann. (peoplepill.com)
  • He made significant contributions to theoretical physics, including achievements in quantum mechanics and nuclear physics such as the Born-Oppenheimer approximation for molecular wave functions , work on the theory of electrons and positrons , the Oppenheimer-Phillips process in nuclear fusion , and early work on quantum tunneling . (wikipedia.org)
  • Physicists and chemists are vital to a key part of that quest: decoding the three-dimensional structures of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) proteins and finding locations where drugs could latch on and disable the viral machinery. (adamasuniversity.ac.in)
  • We're seeing a body of results, either with conventional chemists or nuclear physicists. (newenergytimes.com)
  • In 1901, when the first Nobel Prizes were awarded, the classical areas of physics seemed to rest on a firm basis built by great 19th century physicists and chemists. (nobelprize.org)
  • Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. (itsquote.com)
  • By the early 1920's, the experimental work of physicists such as Ernest Rutherford Rutherford, Ernest and George Gamow Gamow, George demanded that an artificial means be developed to generate streams of atomic and subatomic particles at energies much greater than those occurring naturally. (wikisummaries.org)
  • George Gamow was a Ukrainian-American cosmologist and a theoretical physicist. (famousastronomers.org)
  • After relocating to the US in 1934, Gamow started working as a professor of Physics at the University of George Washington. (famousastronomers.org)
  • Gamow, one of the founding fathers of quantum physics, tells us that in the mid-1920's, Goudsmit and Uhlenbeck discovered not only that electrons were orthorotating, but also that they were spinning at 1.37 times the speed of light. (newdawnmagazine.com)
  • Gamow makes it clear that this discovery did not violate anything in quantum physics, what it violated was Einstein's principle that nothing could travel faster than the speed of light. (newdawnmagazine.com)
  • In November 1926, Tomaschek went to the Technische Hochschule München (today, the Technische Universität München ) and then to the Philipps-Universität Marburg , where he was appointed ausserordentlicher Professor (extraordinarius professor) for experimental physics, in late 1927. (peoplepill.com)
  • Born in New York City, Oppenheimer earned a bachelor of arts degree in chemistry from Harvard University in 1925 and a doctorate in physics from the University of Göttingen in Germany in 1927, where he studied under Max Born . (wikipedia.org)
  • 4] He graduated in physics and mathematics from North Central College in Naperville, Illinois, in 1927, and then attended the University of Iowa where he earned an M.A. degree in 1929 and a Ph.D. degree in 1931, both in solid-state physics. (hellenicaworld.com)
  • This was one of several factors that led to a deep rivalry and bitterness between Tesla and Thomas Edison . (biographyonline.net)
  • The fact is, Tesla was also a physicist who studied in college such courses as analytic geometry, experimental physics and higher mathematics. (newdawnmagazine.com)
  • As far as I know, no standard text on the history of physics mentions Tesla even though these ideas would lead to Nobel Prizes when they were further developed by Rutherford and Bohr (with their solar-system description of the atom with electrons orbiting the nucleus) and Einstein's discovery of the photoelectric effect, which was equivalent to Tesla's wave and particle-like description of light. (newdawnmagazine.com)
  • However, another idea which Tesla discussed was abandoned by modern physicists, and that was the concept of the all pervasive ether. (newdawnmagazine.com)
  • Rudolf Karl Anton Tomaschek (23 December 1895 in Budweis, Bohemia - 8 February 1966, Breitbrunn am Chiemsee) was a German experimental physicist. (peoplepill.com)
  • German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen is credited for discover of x-rays in 1895. (adamasuniversity.ac.in)
  • Founded in 1895 , the Nobel prize was assigned for the first time in 1901 to Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen, a German physicist . (italianomadrelingua.com)
  • One of the unexpected phenomena during the last few years of the 19th century, was the discovery of X-rays by Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen in 1895, which was awarded the first Nobel Prize in Physics (1901). (nobelprize.org)
  • From 1956 to 1957, he was a member of the Nuclear Physics Working Group in Germany. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the year after Bothe's death, his Physics Institute at the KWImF was elevated to the status of a new institute under the Max Planck Society and it then became the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics. (wikipedia.org)
  • They also needed AEC licensing, and components that were either just becoming available or that had to be hand assembled by talented technicians and engineers, guided by knowledgeable, physicists trained in the new field of nuclear physics. (fusor.net)
  • I became deeply involved with nuclear physics in High school and all through college, taking 2 courses outside my field at that time. (fusor.net)
  • Still, I was always playing with nuclear physics and constantly read and am, now, still reading. (fusor.net)
  • Once I met Tom Ligon, circa 1995, my interest in nuclear physics was once again piqued. (fusor.net)
  • By the end of the war, increases in the public and private funding of scientific research and a demand for even higher energy particles created a situation in which this plan looked as if it would become reality, were it not for an inherent limit in the physics of cyclotron operation. (wikisummaries.org)
  • Beta particles can therefore be emitted with any kinetic energy ranging from 0 to Q . By 1934, Enrico Fermi had developed a Fermi theory of beta decay , which predicted the shape of this energy curve. (nuclear-power.com)
  • Bosons, a class of elementary subatomic particles in particle physics were named after Satyendra Nath Bose to commemorate his contributions to science. (mathisfunforum.com)
  • Particle physicists have discovered a slew of apparently elementary particles, and there may be more. (profmattstrassler.com)
  • Before quarks and gluons were identified however, Japanese physicist Yoichiro Nambu and others proposed string theory as a way of explaining the powerful bonds between protons, nucleons, and other particles that experience the strong force, known in general as hadrons. (bigthink.com)
  • Stripped also of his direct political influence, Oppenheimer continued to lecture, write, and work in physics. (wikipedia.org)
  • This was a revolutionary insight at the time, and it led in the end, through parallel work in other areas of physics, to the creation of the first useful picture of the structure of atoms. (nobelprize.org)
  • The funds were used to help establish endowed positions in practical fields of physics, a far cry from his own speculative work. (bigthink.com)
  • He returned to England in 1958 for his graduate work, conducted at Imperial College, University of London, under the supervision of Pakistani physicist Abdus Salam. (bigthink.com)
  • Thoughts on work and life from particle physicists from around the world. (quantumdiaries.org)
  • There is a substantial body of work in physics education looking at gender disparities in physics. (bvsalud.org)
  • Recent work has linked gender disparities in college physics course performance to disparities in high school physics preparation, but to our knowledge, the origin of the disparity in high school physics preparation is still underexplored. (bvsalud.org)
  • Results of this work aligned with previous findings on gender disparity in timed exams call upon investigating gender equitable assessment formats for evaluating physics knowledge to replace timed assessments, either high or low stakes. (bvsalud.org)
  • As applied in the university environment, political factors took priority over the historically applied concept of scholarly ability, even though its two most prominent supporters were the Nobel Laureates in Physics Philipp Lenard and Johannes Stark. (peoplepill.com)
  • Therefore, a few awards for chemistry will also be mentioned in the text that follows, particularly when they are closely connected to the works of the Physics Laureates themselves. (nobelprize.org)
  • Image credit: Abdus Salam via the Alfred Nobel foundation, http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1979/salam.jpg . (bigthink.com)
  • Thank you for visiting Quantum Diaries, which from 2005 to 2016 hosted blogs by scientists from particle physics institutions around the world. (quantumdiaries.org)
  • To see new posts, visit the Interactions collaboration 's new blog, Particle People , which hops from country to country, highlighting a new blogger involved in particle physics research each month. (quantumdiaries.org)
  • April 22, 1904 - February 18, 1967) was an American theoretical physicist and director of the Manhattan Project 's Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II . (wikipedia.org)
  • Harold Adelbert Zahl (August 24, 1904 - March 11, 1973) was an American physicist who had a 35-year career with the U.S. Army Signal Corps Laboratories, where he served as the director of research at Fort Monmouth and made major contributions to radar development. (hellenicaworld.com)
  • It enters into realm of the practical use in medical physics instantly after berth. (adamasuniversity.ac.in)
  • Details of Young Researchers' Association of Medical Physics (YRAMP) was introduced. (bvsalud.org)
  • In addition, several questionnaire surveys on medical physics education (MPE) or medical physicist training system (MPTS) in Japan have been conducted, none have targeted the current status and issues of MPE and MPTS. (bvsalud.org)
  • The questionnaire survey was conducted between 14th September to 14th October 2021, for 112 members of the Young Researchers' Association of Medical Physics via Google Forms. (bvsalud.org)
  • Formally designated as the Manhattan Engineering District (MED) , Manhattan Project refers specifically to the period of the project from 1941-1946 under the control of the United States Army Corps of Engineers, under the administration of General Leslie Groves, with its scientific research directed by the American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer . (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • South Dakota Mines physics doctoral student Jairo Rodriguez and mechanical engineering masters student Kole Pickner test optical fibers by submerging them in liquid nitrogen to determine how well they will perform in DUNE. (sdsmt.edu)
  • Johannes Georg Bednorz is a German physicist who shared the 1987 Nobel Prize for Physics (with Karl Alex Müller ) for their joint discovery of superconductivity in a new class of materials at temperatures higher than had previously been thought attainable. (todayinsci.com)
  • It must be regarded as a historical coincidence, probably never foreseen by Alfred Nobel himself, that the Nobel Prize institution happened to be created just in time to enable the prizes to cover many of the outstanding contributions that opened new areas of physics in this period. (nobelprize.org)
  • Harry Nyquist was a Swedish electronic engineer and physicist best remembered for his contributions to communication theory. (thefamouspeople.com)
  • To preclude his emigration from Germany, he was appointed director of the Physics Institute of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Medical Research (KWImF) in Heidelberg. (wikipedia.org)
  • After research at other institutions, he joined the physics department at the University of California, Berkeley , where he became a full professor in 1936. (wikipedia.org)
  • He serves on the board of the National Society of Black Physicists, the research advisory board of the IBM-HBCU Quantum Center and the corporate affiliate boards at the Universities of California in Santa Barbara and San Diego. (umich.edu)
  • As a research physicist for the Signal Corps, Zahl worked on numerous projects involving acoustics, infrared, electron tubes, and radar. (hellenicaworld.com)
  • Apart from physics, he did some research in biotechnology and literature (Bengali and English). (mathisfunforum.com)
  • The gender gap in FMCE pre-scores could not be explained by differences in the number of physics courses taken in high school. (bvsalud.org)
  • Alum Dr. Donnell Walton (PhD Applied Physics) pens a tribute in the AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY for Dr. Willie Hobbs Moore, the first Black woman at Michigan to earn a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering ('58 and '61) and first in the country to earn a PhD in Physics (1972), in honor of the 50th anniversary of her doctorate degree. (umich.edu)
  • 11] The Japanese military stated that the mobile radar sets were a key factor in the American victory in the Pacific. (hellenicaworld.com)
  • This transcript may not be quoted, reproduced or redistributed in whole or in part by any means except with the written permission of the American Institute of Physics. (aip.org)
  • This transcript is based on a tape-recorded interview deposited at the Center for History of Physics of the American Institute of Physics. (aip.org)
  • Chester Floyd Carlson was an American physicist who invented xerography (22 Oct 1938), an electrostatic dry-copying process that found applications ranging from office copying to reproducing out-of-print books. (todayinsci.com)
  • Although chemistry and astronomy are clearly independent scientific disciplines, both use physics as a basis in the treatment of their respective problem areas, concepts and tools. (nobelprize.org)
  • A loner not particularly close to his colleagues, members of the Physics and Astronomy department were astounded and delighted when he willed his entire fortune of $1.5 million to it. (bigthink.com)
  • In 1946, in addition to his directorship of the Physics Institute at the KWImf, he was reinstated as a professor at the University of Heidelberg. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 1930 he became a full professor and director of the physics department at the University of Giessen. (wikipedia.org)
  • Prior to joining Corning, Walton was a physics professor at Howard University in Washington, D.C., where he won the National Science Foundation's Young Investigator (CAREER) Award. (umich.edu)
  • Prior to U-M, Walton graduated summa cum laude with bachelor's degrees in physics and electrical engineering from North Carolina State University. (umich.edu)
  • begingroup$ I teach them (university physics) to multiply by one. (stackexchange.com)
  • In this paper we study the impact that this initiative had on the modernisation of physics teaching at secondary and university level in Argentina. (bvsalud.org)
  • In 1988, Belgian physicist Pieter van Assche and US colleagues re-analysed the Noddacks' x-ray data and argued that they had detected technetium. (chemistryworld.com)
  • In 1930, he became an ordentlicher Professor and director of the physics department at the Justus Liebig-Universität Gießen. (wikipedia.org)
  • From 1939 to 1945, Tomaschek was an ordentlicher Professor (ordinarius professor) and director of the physics department at the Technische Hochschule München . (peoplepill.com)
  • Tula R. Paudel, Ph.D., assistant professor of physics at South Dakota Mines is among the researchers who helped discover new active materials for computer memory. (sdsmt.edu)
  • Discovery of 'x-ray' is one of the significant factors to enhance the quality of modern science and life. (adamasuniversity.ac.in)
  • In the first decade of the 20th century, the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, founded in 1905, created a modern and well-equipped Physics Institute. (bvsalud.org)
  • The vast majority of biological macromolecule structures are obtained by X-ray crystallography, going back to 1934, when John Desmond Bernal and Dorothy Hodgkin recorded the first X-ray diffraction pattern of a crystallized protein, the digestive enzyme pepsin. (adamasuniversity.ac.in)
  • 1638 In a letter to Fr Marin Mersenne, Descartes claimed to have a general rule to find number n with a sum of its factors S(n) given only the ratio of n:S(n) = p/q. (blogspot.com)
  • Therefore, instructors and researchers should take care in interpreting the results of such concept inventory scores and should re-think the way they assess understanding of physics concepts. (bvsalud.org)
  • South Dakota Mines physicists played an integral role in LZ by creating technology that reduced the amount of background radiation that could skew the experiment's results. (sdsmt.edu)
  • Born in England in 1934, Lovelace learned general relativity at the tender age of 16. (bigthink.com)
  • This effectively ended his access to the government's atomic secrets and thus his career as a nuclear physicist. (wikipedia.org)
  • In recognition of his distinguished career, Dr. Donnell Walton (PhD Applied Physics) has been awarded the 2021 ECE Willie Hobbs Moore Distinguished Lectureship. (umich.edu)
  • Three subparts were constructed in Part1: Classroom lecture, Clinical training, Education course accredited by Japanese Board of Medical Physicist Qualification. (bvsalud.org)
  • The take home message from this successful startup: "We're ready and everything's looking good," said Berkeley Lab Senior Physicist and past LZ Spokesperson Kevin Lesko. (sdsmt.edu)
  • From 1934, Tomaschek was the director of the physics department at the Technische Hochschule Dresden (today, the Technische Universität Dresden ). (peoplepill.com)
  • These works are a sample of the contribution of the Institute of Physics to the raising of the level of national education in the field of physical sciences in the first half of the 20th century. (bvsalud.org)
  • Image credit: Claude Lovelace with Parakeet (courtesy of Rutgers), via http://www.physics.rutgers.edu/people/images/Lovelace_H.jpg . (bigthink.com)
  • Probing the world of fission and fusion physics was a multi-million dollar, government funded, rather secretive venture, even if being done in an academic setting. (fusor.net)
  • That letter is credited as having been a major factor in Roosevelt's decision to go forward with the project. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • The theory of the bomb was worked out by physicists mobilized primarily under the authority of the US army. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • Some observers in the late 19th century actually expressed the view that, what remained for physicists to do was only to fill in minor gaps in this seemingly well-established body of knowledge. (nobelprize.org)
  • 2013) What factors influence training opportunities for older workers? (ijarp.org)
  • The turn of the century became a period of observations of phenomena that were completely unknown up to then, and radically new ideas on the theoretical basis of physics were formulated. (nobelprize.org)
  • But with the increasingly widespread and popular appeal of quantum physics, and the growing interest in how consciousness affects reality, we begin to consider that Time is not linear and, in fact, may not exist at all. (saralightwaller.com)