#historyofphysics — Public Fediverse posts

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/

#PeterPutnam #GoodWillHunting #NautilusMagazine #AmandaGefter #TheoreticalNeuroscience #ScienceMastodon #ScienceStories #JohnArchibaldWheeler #GayHistory #NeuralModels #LongReads #PrincetonUniversity #RobertFuller #HistoryOfPhysics #HistoryOfScience

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/

#PeterPutnam #GoodWillHunting #NautilusMagazine #AmandaGefter #TheoreticalNeuroscience #ScienceMastodon #ScienceStories #JohnArchibaldWheeler #GayHistory #NeuralModels #LongReads #PrincetonUniversity #RobertFuller #HistoryOfPhysics #HistoryOfScience

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/

#PeterPutnam #GoodWillHunting #NautilusMagazine #AmandaGefter #TheoreticalNeuroscience #ScienceMastodon #ScienceStories #JohnArchibaldWheeler #GayHistory #NeuralModels #LongReads #PrincetonUniversity #RobertFuller #HistoryOfPhysics #HistoryOfScience

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/

#PeterPutnam #GoodWillHunting #NautilusMagazine #AmandaGefter #TheoreticalNeuroscience #ScienceMastodon #ScienceStories #JohnArchibaldWheeler #GayHistory #NeuralModels #LongReads #PrincetonUniversity #RobertFuller #HistoryOfPhysics #HistoryOfScience

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/

#PeterPutnam #GoodWillHunting #NautilusMagazine #AmandaGefter #TheoreticalNeuroscience #ScienceMastodon #ScienceStories #JohnArchibaldWheeler #GayHistory #NeuralModels #LongReads #PrincetonUniversity #RobertFuller #HistoryOfPhysics #HistoryOfScience

📖 In a chapter of the book "A History of Physics", Quintino Lopes contributes to the #HistoryOfPhysics in the period between-wars, "examining relations between the physics laboratories of the Faculty of Sciences ogf teh University of Lisbon and the Instituto Superior Técnico on the one hand and the Laboratoire Curie, the @collegedefrance and other prestigious science institutions on the other hand".

👉 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-26174-9_24

@histodons

#Histodons #HistoryOfPhysics #SciHist #HistoryOfScience

History of Solar System formation and evolution hypotheses (Planetary science 🪐)

The history of scientific thought about the formation and evolution of the Solar System began with the Copernican Revolution. The first recorded use of the term "Solar System" dates f...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Solar_System_formation_and_evolution_hypotheses

#HistoryOfSolarSystemFormationAndEvolutionHypotheses #SolarSystem #HistoryOfPhysics #PlanetaryScience #StellarAstronomy #HistoryOfAstronomy

Sound experiments near Dover conducted by John Tyndall in the year of 1872.
#ChronoLink https://mprove.de/chrono?q=51.13868,1.37338&z=10.57&r=-15&t=17&m=WCuvg5t7bw-327,WCuvg5t7bw-320&o=0.8&c=m,H

#historyOfPhysics #foghorn

That time physicist John Wheeler left classified H-bomb documents on a train - Enlarge / In 1953, the eminent physicist and H-bomb advocate took an ill-fated overnight train from... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1732329 #atomicenergycommission #johnarchibaldwheeler #12daysofchristmas #historyofphysics #historyofscience #gaming&culture #hydrogenbomb #science #physics