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Oppenheimer: Science, Power and Moral Conflict
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Mulugeta Bekele endured imprisonment and torture under Ethiopia's Derg junta in the 1970s–80s, yet kept teaching physics and won the 2012 APS Sakharov Prize for defending human rights and scientific education.
#PhysicsHistory #ScienceHumanRights #News
How did lasers, transistors and atomic physics steer us toward the cosmic dawn? Read “The Final Frontier” — a 3-minute piece on the scientists who rewrote reality. wix.to/2htmvfJ #science #cosmology #history
#ArchitectsOfTheInvisible #PhysicsHistory #QuantumMechanics
From Newton’s clockwork to symmetry and statistics — The Symphony of Patterns spotlights Maxwell, Noether, Meitner and the thinkers who reframed modern reality. Short read: wix.to/gUnWF7M #SciComm #Physics #HistoryOfScience #ArchitectsOfTheInvisible #PhysicsHistory
New essay: The Giants of Certainty and the Architects of the Unknown — a concise exploration of the people and moments that reshaped science. Read it here: wix.to/rQrPD6I #SciComm #HistoryOfScience #Physics #ArchitectsOfTheInvisible #PhysicsHistory #QuantumRevolution
Who are the people behind the laws of nature? Discover their ambition, doubt, and curiosity in “Listening to the Silence” — a short read by Jeff Iverson. Read here: wix.to/zsn3SE3 #Physics #Science #HistoryOfScience #ArchitectsOfTheInvisible #PhysicsHistory
100 Years Before Quantum Mechanics, a Physicist Spotted Its Hidden Clue #Science #Physics #TheoreticalPhysics #QuantumMechanics #PhysicsHistory
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Long before spacetime curvature became mainstream #physics, a visionary 19th-century mathematician and his promoter were already chasing the same wild intuition — and one of them even sailed into a shipwreck trying to catch it in the act.
⚛️ 🧪 #GeneralRelativity #HistSci #PhysicsHistory
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Hedwig Kohn (back row, on left) possibly with family or on a school trip enjoying a sunny day at the beach with cliffs in the background. 1911
A historical black-and-white photo of a group of people, including Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg, and Hertha Sponer on the far right, standing in front of Göttingen Institute. Some are dressed in suits, while others are in more casual attire, and they display a range of expressions and poses.
Group photo of the physicists featuring Niels Bohr at a “Bonzenfreie Kolloquium” (which translates to “Colloquium Without Bigwigs”) organized for him by Lise Meitner in Dahlem near Berlin, Germany. Left to right: Otto Stern, Wilhelm Lenz, James Franck, Rudolph Ladenburg, Paul Knipping, Niels Bohr, Ernst Wagner, Otto von Baeyer, Otto Hahn, George de Hevesy, Lise Meitner (only woman), Wilhelm Westphal, Hans Geiger, Gustav Hertz and Peter Pringsheim.
Check out our blog to see even more photos of the amazing women in Olivia Campbell's recent book "Sisters in Science: How Four Women Physicists Escaped Nazi Germany and Made Scientific History." https://bit.ly/4rzo0uM
#WomeninSTEM #PhysicsHistory #Archives
The popular connection between Einstein, the equation E = mc2, and the atomic bomb was prominently indicated on the cover of Time magazine in July 1946.
The most influential ideas can emerge from brief and simple arguments. How many breakthroughs begin with a single question that pushes past what feels familiar?
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#AlbertEinstein #AnnalenDerPhysik #HistoryOfScience #Relativity #PhysicsHistory #ScientificMilestones
5/10: In physics, the paper traces paradigm shifts from Newtonian mechanics to quantum theory, highlighting their discursive nature. These shifts reflect power struggles over defining physical reality, not just empirical progress. #PhysicsHistory #ParadigmShift
An ultraviolet image from NASA GALEX space telescope, showing two companion galaxies surrounded by purple swirls of cool hydrogen gas.
#OTD in 1948, the now-famous “alpha-beta-gamma” paper explained how conditions after the #BigBang could explain the origin of hydrogen and helium.
Learn more about the paper, and how it got its tongue-in-cheek name: aps.org/apsnews/2008...
#PhysicsHistory
Did you know Nikolay Umov (pioneer of energy flow in physics) mentored Alexander Zinger? Umov’s work laid the foundation for vector representations of energy movement—an idea crucial to modern physics! (Q2996992) #PhysicsHistory #EnergyFlow
Hot physics take: Max Planck did more to advance physics than Albert Einstein.
#physics #hottake #science #quantumphysics #physicshistory #physicsdevelopment
Even failure leads to greatness in science! The Michelson-Morley experiment sought to detect the 'aether' but instead transformed our understanding of physics, paving the way for relativity. 🌌
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#ScientificDiscoveries #PhysicsHistory #MichelsonMorleyExperiment
Quantum mechanics turns 100, and it all started with a 23-year-old Heisenberg on a hay fever retreat! What inspires you most about this extraordinary revolution in physics?
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#OnThisDay in 1912, Alfred Wegener said all seven continents were once a single landmass.
He theorized that Pangaea slowly drifted apart over millions of years. His theory of continental drift confirmed by plate tectonics in the 1960s.
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OTD, Albert Einstein published his groundbreaking paper on the Quantum Theory of Light. This paper introduced the concept that light could be described as discrete packets of energy called quanta or photons, which he later won the Nobel Prize for🧪
#Physics #PhysicsHistory #Einstein #NobelPrize
🧵 The story of the discovery of the electron by J.J. Thomson in 1897. 🧪 #Physics #PhysicsHistory #History
The end of an era: the original ATLAS Small Wheels, ready for their final bow. Thank you for decades of discovery. 🌀🏆 #PhysicsHistory #ATLASdetector
In May of 1618, astronomer Johannes Kepler laid out a music of the spheres in his 1619 treatise, Harmonices Mundi, suggesting that the planets of the solar system produced tones as they orbited the sun. Discover more in #PhysicsHistory: go.aps.org/2WL4Tzm.
