• Hans Albrecht Bethe was a German-American theoretical physicist who made major contributions to nuclear physics, astrophysics, quantum electrodynamics, and solid-state physics, and who won the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis. (academicinfluence.com)
  • 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)
  • In cooperation with Philip M. Morse , he wrote Quantum Mechanics , the first English-language text on the subject in 1929. (scihi.org)
  • Fermi, who won the Nobel Prize in 1938, also worked in quantum mechanics and particle physics, making him an ideal candidate for an elementary name. (nails-beauty.de)
  • Quantum mechanics holds that quantities like charge and mass are quantized-made up of discrete, countable units that cannot be subdivided-but that things like space, time, and wave equations are fundamentally continuous. (el-aji.com)
  • They often met to analyze and discuss groundbreaking papers based on quantum mechanics. (famousastronomers.org)
  • 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)
  • This mechanism, which is possible only in the atomic microcosm, is predictable by a quantum-mechanics model of a particle put in a closed box. (journal-of-nuclear-physics.com)
  • According to classical physics no one would expect to find a particle out of the box, but in quantum mechanics the probability of a particle to be found out of the box is not zero! (journal-of-nuclear-physics.com)
  • After Max Planck stumbled onto quantum physics, opportunity arose for Bohr s and Born s, Heisenberg s and Schrödinger s, Einstein s and de Broglie s, Dirac s and Feynman s. (nobelprize.org)
  • In 1953, scientists at the Nobel Institute in Stockholm had produced fermium 250 by bombarding uranium with oxygen nuclei.This distance is sometimes called a fermi and was so named in honour of Italian naturalized to American physicist Enrico Fermi, as it is a typical length-scale of nuclear physics. (nails-beauty.de)
  • One of the key principles of quantum physics is that our thoughts determine reality. (thehealersjournal.com)
  • In 1997-99, physicists of the establishment showed fierce disagreement with the fact that Marmet s research implied that the fundamental principles of physics were being questioned. (newtonphysics.on.ca)
  • Although the experimental work, which could determine the energy of numerous quantum stated was highly appreciated and even honored, the physics establishment required that the author should stop questioning the fundamental principles of physics. (newtonphysics.on.ca)
  • Quantum computing as we know it got its start 40 years ago this spring at the first Physics of Computation Conference, organized at MIT's Endicott House by MIT and IBM and attended by nearly 50 researchers from computing and physics-two groups that rarely rubbed shoulders. (el-aji.com)
  • There Minsky and Fredkin met with Richard Feynman '39, who would win the 1965 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on quantum electrodynamics. (el-aji.com)
  • The deal was that Fredkin would teach Feynman computing, and Feynman would teach Fredkin quantum physics. (el-aji.com)
  • Fredkin came to understand quantum physics, but he didn't believe it. (el-aji.com)
  • On July 4, 2012, physicists around the world celebrate the announcement of the discovery of the Higgs boson-the quantum excitation of the Higgs field that is the linchpin of the standard model of particle physics. (illinois.edu)
  • When an experiment to study quantum uncertainty goes spectacularly wrong, physics student Bill Rustad and his friends find that they have accidentally created an inter-dimensional portal. (audible.com)
  • This New York Times bestseller offers a tense, tightly wound thriller that explores the Many Worlds theory of quantum physics. (blogspot.com)
  • From Sci-News.com, March 19, 2021: Physicists from the TOTEM (TOTal cross section, Elastic scattering and diffraction dissociation Measurement) Collaboration at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and the DØ Collaboration at Fermilab have found strong new evidence for the odderon, an elusive three-gluon state predicted almost five decades ago. (nails-beauty.de)
  • Oskar Klein and Walter Gordon proposed the Klein-Gordon equation to describe quantum particles in the framework of relativity. (wikipedia.org)
  • They found that the determining factor of the behavior of energy ('particles') at the quantum level is the awareness of the observer. (thehealersjournal.com)
  • He discusses his work at National Bureau of Standards (NBS) and his involvement in neutron scattering and the quantum Hall effect. (aip.org)
  • With his students, he also made contributions to the theory of neutron stars and black holes , quantum field theory , and the interactions of cosmic rays . (wikipedia.org)
  • Nevertheless, it is an interesting and potentially fruitful heuristic principle for quantum gravity theory construction. (philpapers.org)
  • Holographic' relations between theories have become a main theme in quantum gravity research. (philpapers.org)
  • Theordep, Matvei Bronstein, quantum gravity and Stalin's purges. (sakharov-center.ru)
  • Another important contribution by Gordon was to the theory of the Dirac equation, where he introduced the Gordon decomposition of the current into its center of mass and spin contributions, and so helped explain the g = 2 {\displaystyle g=2} g-factor value in the electron's gyromagnetic ratio. (wikipedia.org)
  • From 1968 until today, physicists have been studying the superconducting properties related to hydrogen. (amazonaws.com)
  • On March 2 , 1902 , American nuclear physicist Edward Uhler Condon was born. (scihi.org)
  • George Gamow was a Ukrainian-American cosmologist and a theoretical physicist. (famousastronomers.org)
  • Brian DeMarco and his research group use ultracold Rb atoms trapped in an optical lattice as a " quantum simulator " to discover the effects of disorder on strongly correlated systems. (illinois.edu)
  • He made the discovery of the alpha decay through quantum tunneling theory and also worked on the radioactive decay of atomic nucleus, stellar nucleosynthesis, star formation and the Big Bang nucleosynthesis. (famousastronomers.org)
  • After getting his Ph.D. from Leningrad, Gamow started working at the University of Gottingen on quantum theory. (famousastronomers.org)
  • This was the first acknowledged explanation of the mannerism of radioactive components using quantum theory. (famousastronomers.org)
  • But it was as a young philosopher of quantum theory that he made a name for himself in the second half of the 1950s, virtually overnight, within academic circles on both sides of the Atlantic [ 6 ]. (collodel.org)
  • The most important result of ergodic theory was the proof by Sinai (1968,1970) of the basic theorem of gas dynamics for a hard sphere gas. (stackexchange.com)
  • The quantum world is waiting for us to make a decision so that it knows how to behave. (thehealersjournal.com)
  • That is why quantum physicists have such difficulties in dealing with, explaining, and defining the quantum world. (thehealersjournal.com)
  • You'll become acquainted with the physicists who defined the "Urbana spirit" while making seminal discoveries that changed the world. (illinois.edu)
  • For in this world, he is an award-winning quantum physicist at a secret research facility, where he has discovered a way to superimpose quantum states … and he wants desperately to return to his old life. (blogspot.com)
  • The analysis of Sakharov's plural works and deeds shows that his method in science, in designing nuclear weapons, in defending human rights, in manufacturing world security was one and the same: he always remained a man of exact sciences, a physicist, a construction engineer, an implementor. (sakharov-center.ru)
  • Sakharov not once repeated that nuclear balance of superpowers, menace of the guaranteed mutual suicide (so called Mutual Assured Destruction) was an important factor which prevented the Third World War. (sakharov-center.ru)
  • In Leningrad, George made friends with two other students who were also theoretical physicists - Dmitri Ivanenko and Lev Landau. (famousastronomers.org)
  • And, they go particularly intense when their impositions of question-begging materialistic a prioris on science are exposed , or when the linked issue that they are projecting into a deep and unobserved past and so cannot properly censor out any reasonable candidate causal factor is raised. (uncommondescent.com)
  • the two quantities are inextricably intertwined, related by the factor c2, the square of the velocity of light. (preterhuman.net)
  • The human energy field is interacting and influencing the quantum field all around us at all times, and the energy of our beliefs and intentions are infused into our energy field because they are defined by the energy of our thoughts and emotions. (thehealersjournal.com)
  • Thus the fusion of our thoughts, emotions, beliefs, and intentions, which I will call the human energy field for simplicities sake, is perpetually informing the quantum reality within us and around us at each moment of our existence. (thehealersjournal.com)
  • A past president of the Canadian Association of Physicists (1981-1982), he also served as a member of the executive committee of the Atomic Energy Control Board of Canada from 1979 to 1984. (newtonphysics.on.ca)
  • The energy of the electron beam gives the absolute energy of the quantum state. (newtonphysics.on.ca)
  • The chance factor of death often intervenes. (nobelprize.org)
  • Gamow developed an excessive drinking problem which precipitated his death in 1968 at age 64. (famousastronomers.org)
  • This type of problem is known as a Fermi Problem, named for physicist Enrico Fermi. (nails-beauty.de)
  • All the physicists already know that the n-body problem reveals chaos, so that the planets around the sun should undergo deterministic chaos with a Lyapunov exponent of the order of, say, $\frac{+1}{3.5\,\text{million years}}$, [1]. (stackexchange.com)
  • In the view we will present, Einstein's formula is even more significant than physicists have realized. (preterhuman.net)
  • This effectively ended his access to the government's atomic secrets and thus his career as a nuclear physicist. (wikipedia.org)
  • Since there was no political economy Nobel award before 1968, that could not have been an operative motive for my generation of economists. (nobelprize.org)
  • An fate between CR items and policy features can preserve formed by synanthropic co-moving factors, which choose to harass the book of the catalog at spacetime. (shotglass.org)
  • At the end of the interview, Girvin describes his work for the Nanoscience and Quantum Engineering Institute and explains what excites him most about future prospects in quantum information. (aip.org)
  • When promised that he could speak about whatever he wanted, though, Feynman changed his mind-and laid out his ideas for how to link the two fields in a detailed talk that proposed a way to perform computations using quantum effects themselves. (el-aji.com)
  • The thing is, the quantum level of reality isn't a local and insignificant aspect of creation. (thehealersjournal.com)
  • It was also interesting to measure different quantum states (and their half-life) of negative diatomic argon molecules and all other inert gases, which remain stable long enough to be measured in the mass-spectrometer. (newtonphysics.on.ca)