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Jul 12, 2024 · Albert Einstein (born March 14, 1879, Ulm, Württemberg, Germany—died April 18, 1955, Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.) was a German-born physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity and won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921 for his explanation of the photoelectric effect.
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Albert Einstein - Physics, Relativity, Nobel Prize: In some...
- Physics, Relativity, Teaching
Albert Einstein - Physics, Relativity, Teaching: At first...
- Physics, Nazi Backlash, America
Albert Einstein - Physics, Nazi Backlash, America:...
- Max Born
Max Born (born Dec. 11, 1882, Breslau, Ger. [now Wrocław,...
- Hermann Weyl
Hermann Weyl (born November 9, 1885, Elmshorn, near Hamburg,...
- Robert Millikan
In 1909 Millikan began a series of experiments to determine...
- Bernhard Riemann
Bernhard Riemann (born September 17, 1826, Breselenz,...
- Arthur Holly Compton
From 1923 to 1945 Compton was a professor of physics at the...
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Jun 25, 2024 · J. Robert Oppenheimer, the brilliant physicist behind the Manhattan Project, played a pivotal role in developing atomic weapons and forever changed the course of history with his contributions to nuclear science.
- Michel Rouzé
3 days ago · Sadako Sasaki (佐々木 禎子, Sasaki Sadako, January 7, 1943 – October 25, 1955) was a Japanese girl who became a victim of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States. She was two years of age when the bombs were dropped and was severely irradiated.
Jul 14, 2024 · The single most important characteristic of an atom is its atomic number (usually denoted by the letter Z ), which is defined as the number of units of positive charge (protons) in the nucleus. For example, if an atom has a Z of 6, it is carbon, while a Z of 92 corresponds to uranium.
- An atom is the basic building block of chemistry. It is the smallest unit into which matter can be divided without the release of electrically char...
- All atoms are roughly the same size, whether they have 3 or 90 electrons. Approximately 50 million atoms of solid matter lined up in a row would me...
- The mass of an atom consists of the mass of the nucleus plus that of the electrons. That means the atomic mass unit is not exactly the same as the...
Jun 23, 2024 · A Q&A with Jonathan Haidt on smartphones, kids today, and what the skeptics get wrong about his argument.
- Sean Illing
4 days ago · Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun ( US: / ˌvɜːrnər vɒn ˈbraʊn / VUR-nər von BROWN, German: [ˌvɛʁnheːɐ̯ fɔn ˈbʁaʊ̯n]; 23 March 1912 – 16 June 1977) was a German-American aerospace engineer [3] and space architect.
4 days ago · Empire of the Sun is a 1987 American epic coming-of-age war film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Tom Stoppard, based on J. G. Ballard 's semi-autobiographical 1984 novel of the same name.