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Pauli Effect
It was a standing joke among Wolfgang Pauli's colleagues that the famed theoreti...
Suicide Squad (long)
Shortly before 4 pm on December 2nd, 1942, physicists Enrico Fermi and Leo Szila...
Entropy
While musing upon the subject of thermodynamics one day, Lord Kelvin suddenly re...
Franck Admission
Physicist James Franck was among the professors who examined the twenty-three-ye...
Relativity Explained!
Albert Einstein was often asked to explain the general theory of relativity. "Pu...
GUT Reaction
Like many of his colleagues (among them Albert Einstein) Werner Heisenberg spent...
Beating the Drum
In 1966 the famed Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman, a passionate dr...
Playing God
Though Werner Heisenberg was awarded a Nobel Prize for his elucidation of the "u...
Relativity
In November 1919, shortly after Albert Einstein's theory of relativity was confi...
Reverse Psychology
"As physics professor at Adelaide University in Australia, Sir Kerr Grant used t...
Modest Einstein
One day in 1905, the prestigious Annalen der Physik (Annals of Physics) p...
Rump Roast?
In December 1931, the rather portly Winston Churchill was hit by a taxi on 5th A...
Albert Einstein: Scientific...
Albert Einstein was visited one day by one of his students. "The questions on th...
1+1=2
While lecturing on ideal gases one day, Ludwig Boltzmann casually mentioned a nu...
Simple Question?
One day during a speaking tour, Albert Einstein's driver, who often sat at the b...
Relative Weakness
Shortly after Albert Einstein fled from Germany (in 1932), one hundred Nazi prof...
1492?
In 1942, on a squash court beneath the stands at Stagg Field at the University o...
Particular Uncertainty
Despite Werner Heisenberg's Nobel Prize for its formulation, Albert Einstein nev...
Learned Professor
Max Planck was made a full professor at the University of Berlin at an unusually...
Neils Bohr: Secret Cargo
While being smuggled out of Denmark in a British Mosquito fighter-bomber at the ...
Crappy Physics? (long)
After a bout of heavy partying one night, physicist Joćo Magueijo awoke with a h...
Biggest Fool?
Shortly after assuming office in 1945, president Harry Truman attended a series ...
Uncertainty Principle
Famed physicist Werner Heisenberg won a Nobel Prize in 1932 for his formulation ...
Universal Levity
Elisabeth Jungmann once commented to Max Beerbohm how much she would like to hav...
Element 94
"How element 94 [plutonium] eventually got the name plutonium is an interesting ...
Theory of Relatives
Despite their joint ownership (with Albert and Sam) of Warner Brothers studios, ...
High Resistance
In 1827, Georg Simon Ohm discovered that the flow of electric current through a ...
Bahh!
In 2002, British writer Valerie Laws received a £2,000 grant to explore the rela...
Pure Science
Gustav Kirchhoff's work on spectrum analysis made it possible, for the first tim...
Moonshine
"The energy produced by the atom is a very poor kind of thing," Ernst Rutherford...
Heat of Romance
Though he came from a wealthy family (Joule's Stone Ales), the British physicist...
Planck
At the age of seventeen, Max Planck sought out the head of his university physic...
Questions for God
"When I meet God," the physicist Werner Heisenberg declared from his deathbed, "...
Arrogant Pauli
As a teenager, Wolfgang Pauli wrote an article on relativity (for a scientific e...
Einstein at Princeton
"At Princeton, Albert Einstein was more like a kindly uncle. When he arrived in ...
Einstein's Homework
Albert Einstein spent his last two decades trying to reconcile quantum physics w...
Donald Pettit: Astronaut Tr...
"[Future NASA astronaut Donald Pettit] filled up his garage after driving throug...
Strange Quarks?
Like every theoretical physicist, Wolfgang Pauli often found himself struggling ...
Fermi
As early as March 1939, Enrico Fermi tried to explain to Admiral Hooper (the Chi...
Albert Einstein: Vegas, Baby
While attending a physics symposium in Las Vegas one year, Albert Einstein, to t...
Niels Bohr: Barometer Quest...
During a physics exam one day, young Niels Bohr was asked to "describe how to de...
Neils, Bohr?
Niels Bohr had a propensity for thinking aloud, often using a student or colleag...
Love is Blind?
Beginning around the age of thirteen, Enrico Fermi discovered his passion for ma...
Planck's Principle
In his autobiography, Max Planck elucidated what has come to be known as Planck'...
Bubble Boy?
One day a nosy old widow was visited by a Fellow of the Royal Society, to whom s...
Entropy
Walter Nernst, famed for his formulation of the third law of thermodynamics - fr...
Black Hole
In 2003, Sir Martin Rees, Britain's astronomer royal, published a book ...
Relativity
Scientific American once ran a competition offering several thousand doll...
Simple Determination
Despite his extensive experimentation with electricity, the eccentric chemist an...
Aptly-Named
The event horizon of a black hole defines the range within which gravitational f...
Experimental Philosopher
As a young uneducated boy of sixteen, Joseph Henry one day decided to go back to...
String Theorist
The physicist Carlo Rovelli once found himself embroiled in an argument with a s...
Relativity
One day, one of Albert Einstein's assistants expressed his joy that experimental...
Stephen Hawking: Eureka Moment
Stephen Hawking, famed for his revolutionary cosmological theories, once gave a ...
Newton's Apple
At the age of 23, while relaxing on his mother's farm one day, Isaac Newton, by ...
Orville Wright: Principles ...
Tired of explaining the principles of flight to inquisitive observers, Orville W...
Pi in the Face?
In the early 1980s, Edward Fredkin proposed what he called a new theory of physi...
Truth by Candlelight
As professor at Cambridge, J.J. Thomson introduced laboratory demonstration work...
Rocket Science
In 1921, a curious editorial appeared in the New York Times critiquing th...
Young Stephen Hawking
One day, Stephen Hawking and his Oxford classmates were given a set of difficult...
Einstein's Wife
Albert Einstein's wife was once given a guided tour of the Mount Wilson Observat...
Making Waves
Ernest Rutherford's revolutionary work on atomic structure kept Cambridge Univer...
Key Discovery
In addition to his pioneering electrical experiments, Humphry Davy counted among...
Vic Tandy: Frequent Occurance?
The engineer Vic Tandy once sought to demystify a "haunting" in his Coventry lab...
Lord Kelvin's Bad Predictions
"Radio has no future," Lord Kelvin once declared. As bad as this prediction was,...
Rutherford's Transformation
One day in 1908 the famed physicist Ernest Rutherford was delighted to learn tha...
Bohr & Heisenberg
The Nobel Prize-winning physicist Niels Bohr once made a trip to Germany to atte...
Bohr's Paradox
The great Danish physicist Neils Bohr was once presented with a proposition by h...
Sloppy Thinking
While Wolfgang Pauli's advice was highly regarded, his legendary insensitivity o...
Pauli's Protege
Victor Weisskopf once recalled the day he was hired to serve as one of Wolfgang ...
Asymmetrical Speculation
Like many theoretical physicists, Wolfgang Pauli came to believe that the mathem...
Leverage
The great Greek mathematician and engineer Archimedes discovered the laws of lev...
Electric Moment
The physicist and Columbia University professor Janet Conrad met her husband (ph...
Schrodinger's Cat
"Schrodinger's cat is a famous illustration of the principle in quantum theory o...
Stephen Hawking: Preskill's...
In 1997, Stephen Hawking and John Preskill (of the California Institute of Techn...
Nuts?
Some time before the Manhattan Project was launched, Leo Szilard sent Isidor Rab...
Eureka Moment
The tyrant Hiero of Syracuse once approached Archimedes seeking a solution to an...
Dirac's Theorem
"Being a great theoretical physicist, Dirac liked to theorize about all the prob...
Physics Professor?
"I can accept the theory of relativity," Ernst Mach once declared, "as little as...
Bee Metric
The French physicist Rene-Antoine de Reaumur was so impressed by the geometrical...
Stellar Student?
At a dinner party one evening, Albert Einstein found himself conversing with a n...
Positively Absurd?
When mathematical equations are used to model physical reality, seemingly absurd...
Luminaries
Albert Einstein was among the luminaries invited by Charlie Chaplin to attend th...
Pauli's Particles
"Neutrinos have been eluding physicists ever since Wolfgang Pauli first hypothes...
Weird Science
While experimenting with radioactive substances one day, Wilhelm Roentgen discov...
Christian Doppler: Doppler ...
One day in 1845, the Austrian physicist Christian Doppler set out to test some e...
Nollet
During the 18th century wealthy Parisians became infatuated with experimental sc...
Hidden Joule
Though he came from a wealthy family (Joule's Stone Ales), the British physicist...
Big Bang
Though many astronomers endorsed George Gamow's theory that the universe had beg...
French Patriot
The French physicist Louis De Broglie was of the opinion that foreigners in Fran...
Particular Distinction?
In 1969 Robert Wilson, the first director of Fermilab (a large particle-physics ...
Sonic Weapons
The French robotics researcher Gavreau once traced some inexplicable bouts of na...
Feynman's Van
"Richard Feynman and I would sometimes go camping together," Al Seckel once reca...
Precision
Like every mathematician, Sir Arthur Eddington was a sucker for precision. "I be...
Young Fermi
After finding two antique volumes of elementary physics in the bookstalls in Rom...
Nikola Tesla: Dam Close
"There was a large flour mill with a dam across the river near the city where I ...
Speed of Light
"Olaus Roemer struggled with a puzzle in 1675. The satellites of Jupiter seemed ...
Aberration of Light
While observing Gamma Draconis in 1725, the English astronomer James Bradley was...
Relatively Irrelevant
The famed physicist Ernest Rutherford was once asked about Einstein's theory of ...
Fermilab Art
"Fermilab [the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory] was founded in 1967 by Rob...
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