Physics

Facts

On 27 November 1895, Alfred Nobel signed his last will and testament, giving the largest share of his fortune to a series of prizes, the Nobel Prizes. As described in Nobel’s will, one part was dedicated to “the person who shall have made the most important discovery or invention within the field of physics”. Learn…

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by Erik B. Karlsson What is physics? Physics is considered to be the most basic of the natural sciences. It deals with the fundamental constituents of matter and their interactions as well as the nature of atoms and the build-up of molecules and condensed matter. It tries to give unified descriptions of the behavior of…

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Biographical

Albert Einstein was born at Ulm, in Württemberg, Germany, on March 14, 1879. Six weeks later the family moved to Munich, where he later on began his schooling at the Luitpold Gymnasium. Later, they moved to Italy and Albert continued his education at Aarau, Switzerland and in 1896 he entered the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School…

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The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded **num_prize_phy** times to **num_award_phy** Nobel Prize laureates between 1901 and **last_awarded_year_phy**. John Bardeen is the only laureate who has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics twice, in 1956 and 1972. This means that a total of **num_laureate_phy** individuals have received the Nobel Prize in Physics. Click…

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Raymond Davis Jr’s experiments http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/history/neutrino.html http://chemfo.chm.bnl.gov/SciandTech/SN/default.htm Masatoshi Koshiba, Kamiokande, Super-Kamiokande http://www-sk.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp/index.html http://www-sk.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp/sk/index-e.html http://www.aip.org/png/html/super-k.htm Riccardo Giacconi, X-ray astronomy Associated Universities Inc. Introduction in English (pdf) Pictures from the Chandra Telescope NASA About the Satellite observatories “Exploring the Universe – A Festschrift in Honor of Riccardo Giacconi”. (H. Gursky & R. Ruffini, eds.) Rome, Italy,…

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