W.R. Hamilton's 1820s mathematical framework linking light-ray paths to particle motion—originally a classical analogy—was later revealed by Schrödinger as the structural foundation of wave mechanics, underpinning modern quantum theory and its technologies.
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Antonio Ferreiro, José Navarro-Salas,Silvia Pla. The birth of gravitational particle creation: the enduring legacy of Leonard Parker’s 1966 thesis. EPJ H 51, 4 (2026). doi.org/10.1140/epjh... #OpenAccess #HistoryofPhysics #HistoryofScience
📷 German physicist Lucy Mensing, seated, facing the camera, circa 1928. AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Mensing Collection, Gift of Dr. Dorothea Roloff
🌟Women in Science Spotlight: Lucy Mensing 🌟
Lucy Mensing (1901-1996) was the first person to apply quantum mechanics to diatomic molecules.
Our new history guide offers an overview of her life and career. https://bit.ly/4tIdCSJ
#WomeninSTEM #WomensHistory #HistoryofPhysics #HistoryofScience
Victor Weisskopf (left) and Cécile DeWitt-Morette (right) sit outdoors conversing among students on a meadow at the Summer School in Les Houches, France. AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives
#DYK the Summer School at Les Houches in the French Alps has hosted 68 Nobel laureate since its inception by Cécile DeWitt-Morette (pictured here) in 1951? One of those noble students was Enrico Fermi, who took quite the field trip in 1954. https://bit.ly/3O73uTj
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'We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance.
As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.'
-John Archibald Wheeler
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We love a power pose book cover🤳
If you’re following us, you’re probably a bookworm, so take a #LibraryShelfie and tag us!
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On the concept of "atoms" as understood and developed by J.J. Thomson, Rutherford and its culmination under Niels Bohr.
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🎄🔬🎨 Advent calendar 2025—day 7: Goethe in Jena
From Fibonacci’s rabbit math to Goethe reshaping Jena’s university – can you guess where he stayed in Jena?
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Title of the paper with date
On this day 50 years ago, John Ellis, Mary K. Gaillard and Dimitri Nanopoulos submitted the paper "A Phenomenological Profile of the Higgs Boson" which was first to tell experimentalists how to find the Higgs boson.
#OTD #historyofphysics #physics ⚛️🧪
Scientist Connected Light And Matter Century Before Quantum Physics #Science #Physics #HistoryofPhysics #QuantumPhysics #ScienceHistory #LightAndMatter
Donald Salisbury & Daniel Kennefick. A contextual analysis of the early work of Andrzej Trautman and Ivor Robinson on equations of motion and gravitational radiation. Eur. Phys. J. H 50, 12 (2025). doi.org/10.1140/epjh... Free access: rdcu.be/etIub #HistoryOfPhysics
Good Will Hunting in reverse: the real-life story of Peter Putnam, promising physicist turned janitor.
HT @cdarwin
https://nautil.us/finding-peter-putnam-1218035/
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Really looking forward to this!!! #physics #historyofphysics #histstm
Cover of the book "A History of Physics: Phenomena, Ideas and Mechanisms. Essays in Honor of Salvo D'Agostino", edited by Raffaele Pisano and published by Springer.
📖 In a chapter of the book "A History of Physics", Quintino Lopes contributes to the #HistoryOfPhysics in between-wars, examining relations between the physics laboratories of the @cienciasulisboa.bsky.social and the @istecnico.bsky.social, among others.
👉 link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
Some colleagues visited the pop-up store in Oldenburg. Here, the Carl von Ossietzky University presented an insight into its collection of historical physics devices.
The photos were taken by Peter Heering.
#euf
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#oldenburg
On Tuesday, the NDR visited our institute. The report will be shown next week in the Schleswig-Holstein-Magazin on NDR
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#HistoryOfPhysics Albert Gockel measured the levels of ionizing radiation up to a height of 3000m. He concluded that it did not decrease with height and thus could not have a purely terrestrial origin. He introduced the term “kosmische Strahlung”....
Actually, this refers to Antoine Cesar Becquerel, grand-father of Henri Becquerel (1852-1908). He worked on electrochemistry and batteries. The father Antoine Edmond (1820-1891) was also physicist and invented colour photography in 1848. #historyOfPhysics
