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Happy birthday to Marie Skłodowska-Curie (1867 – 1934, Polish-born, naturalized-French #physicist & #chemist at work in her lab. The contents of her lab glassware appropriately glow-in-the-dark!
Marie Curie was the 1st woman to win a Nobel prize, the only woman to ever win TWO Nobel prizes, and the only person ever to win in two different sciences: #physics & #chemistry! She was also the 1st woman prof at the U of Paris, and in 1995 became 🧵1/
Happy birthday to #physicist Lise Meitner (1878-1968) who explained #nuclear #fission. She worked with chemists Hahn & Straßmann in 30s Berlin, investigating whether there were any stable elements beyond uranium. They discovered bombarding nucleus of U-235 with neutrons actually triggered it to fission, or break, into 2 nuclei of roughly half the size & some free neutrons! 🧵1/
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Our Sun’s Undiscovered Stellar Nemesis Is Still Out There, Says Physicist
https://atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug=our-suns-undiscovered-stellar-nemesis-is-still-out-there-says-physicist
<p>The decades old idea that our solar system’s Oort Cloud is continually perturbed by a heretofore
#undiscovered #physicist #stellar #nemesis
HackerTube is a collection of YouTube videos (why do we still use that term?) that have been recommended on HackerNews - "In total, we get 6,454 YouTube videos that have been recommended by a few people on HN from 2007-2026 across 150 topics."
Seems pretty cool. I liked:
#Physicist Angela Collier argues that #dark_matter is not a theory but a set of observations, covering rotation curves, the CMB and why modified gravity struggles to explain them.
“I believe that NSF has lost any semblance of independence.”
#Physicist Neal Lane, former director of the US National Science Foundation ( #NSF ), is among those who say that staff changes at the top of the agency are a sign of its de facto takeover by the administration of President #Trump.”
https://www.europesays.com/dk/181822/ Honorary Doctor Saulius Juodkazis: From Vilnius to Australia #Australia #HonoraryDoctor #Japan #Lithuania #nanotechnology #physicist #Research #SauliusJuodkazis #Science #Vilnius #VilniusUniversity
Happy birthday to Danish #physicist Niels Bohr (1885-1962). One of his most famous contributions to quantum mechanics was the Bohr-Rutherford model of the atom. Bohr is shown next to the Bohr model of the Hydrogen atom (all the concentric circles are actually at the appropriate spacing, proportional to the n squared). Bohr proposed that the orbits of electrons were somewhat like planetary orbits (though circular, and at specific quantized distances). 🧵1/
#linocut #sciart #printmaking #physics
#JWST won’t find the very first #Stars, but a new #Telescope can : Medium
#Sickle-cell #Disease linked to prematurely aged #StemCells in #Mice : Misc
#UAPs Are Out There. This #Physicist Is Convinced They’re Not #Human—And He’s Trying to Prove It. : Pop Mech
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She found 6 months mat leave post MSc very difficult being at home watching physicist husband going to work to pursue what he loved. He insisted she return to grad school. Admitted to Georgetown at 23, expecting 2nd child. Writing her thesis, advisor Heyden got her in contact with #physicist George Gamow, who worked at nearby APL & adjunct at George Washington U who took her on as a student (PhD ‘54).
While 4 kids were young, she taught at Georgetown before gaining a position at 🧵2/
Remembering Jim Choyke, Renowned Pitt Physicist
📰 Original title: A father of quantum mechanics, this centenarian still works at Pitt: 'I like doing physics. Why should I retire?'
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#OnThisDay Birth Anniversary of René Goscinny (1926) - creator of #Asterix.
Birth Anniversary of Danish #Physicist Hans Christian Ørsted (1777) - who discovered that electric currents create magnetic fields, which was the first connection found between electricity and magnetism. He is famous for Oersted's Law.
Happy Birthday Magic Johnson (1959).
Physicist Rigged His Pet Hamster's Wheel to Strava. It Runs Far Every Night
https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a73355106/hamster-wheel-strava-running/
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49189457
#HackerNews #physicist #hamster #wheel #Strava #running #science #fun
I asked an #AI model
If, in a hypothetical #universe, the speed of #light is not constant & #energy varies with 'c'
If we differentiate E=mc² twice with respect to c, what would be the consequences?
It said this would destroy the universal causal structure. Stars would collapse, & many other things would happen. No #physicist could explain these outcomes
Leaving hostility aside, AI is just a tool. It's up to you whether you use it for good or bad
What is the Rate of flow of Time?
Why does this question sound contradictory, and is it wrong in the first place? I'm asking this question to a physicist.
#time #physics #scicomm #science #stem #Question #AskFedi #knowledge #research #OpenScience #RateofFlow #physicist
She found 6 months mat leave post MSc very difficult being at home watching physicist husband going to work to pursue what he loved. He insisted she return to grad school. Admitted to Georgetown at 23, expecting 2nd child. Writing her thesis, advisor Heyden got her in contact with #physicist George Gamow, who worked at nearby APL & adjunct at George Washington U who took her on as a student (PhD ‘54).
While 4 kids were young, she taught at Georgetown before gaining a 🧵2/
Nobel physicist uses Claude AI to crack decade-old puzzle in jamming theory
https://1ban.news/nobel-physicist-claude-ai-jamming/
#1ban #nobel #physicist #claude #jamming #science
Meet Sabrina Pasterski: Stephen Hawking cited her, NASA wanted her, but she chose physics
Most children dream of flying a plane. Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski built one. By the time she was 14,…
#NewsBeep #News #Physics #AU #Australia #celestialholography #HarvardUniversity #JeffBezosBlueOrigin #MIT #NASAjoboffer #nextAlbertEinstein #PerimeterInstitute #physicist #QuantumGravity #SabrinaGonzalezPasterski #Science #spinmemoryeffect #StephenHawking
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/791457/
Meet Sabrina Pasterski: Stephen Hawking cited her, NASA wanted her, but she chose physics
Most children dream of flying a plane. Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski built one. By the time she was 14,…
#NewsBeep #News #Physics #celestialholography #HarvardUniversity #JeffBezosBlueOrigin #MIT #NASAjoboffer #nextAlbertEinstein #PerimeterInstitute #physicist #QuantumGravity #SabrinaGonzalezPasterski #Science #spinmemoryeffect #StephenHawking #UK #UnitedKingdom
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/578630/ Meet Sabrina Pasterski: Stephen Hawking cited her, NASA wanted her, but she chose physics #CelestialHolography #Éire #HarvardUniversity #IE #Ireland #JeffBezosBlueOrigin #MIT #NASAJobOffer #NextAlbertEinstein #PerimeterInstitute #physicist #Physics #QuantumGravity #SabrinaGonzalezPasterski #Science #SpinMemoryEffect #StephenHawking
Happy birthday to #physicist Harriet Brooks (1876 - 1933) who discovered atomic recoil, Radon & recognized radioactive elements could undergo chains of transmutations into a series of new elements. #nuclear #physics
She was Rutherford’s 1st grad student at McGill. After publishing her results in 1899 she completed her MSc in 1901 on “Damping of Electrical Oscillations,” before embarking on #radioactivity research.🧵
#OnThisDay Birth Anniversary of British #Physicist William Henry Bragg (1862). He uniquely shared a Nobel Prize with his son Lawrence Bragg - the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics: "for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays".
British-Italian engineer Guglielmo Marconi obtained a patent for #Radio in London (1897).
It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover. To know how to criticize is good, to know how to create is better.
—Henri Poincaré
Happy birthday to German-American theoretical #physicist Maria Goeppert Mayer (1906-1972), the 2nd woman to win the Nobel Prize for #physics. As the series of increasingly large atomic nuclei grows with additional nucleons (protons p & neutrons n) from hydrogen to transuranic elements, there are points where the binding energy of the next nucleon is a lot lower than the last. 🧵
I fear the day that technology surpasses human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.
—Albert Einstein
Ionic Bonds - The Dancing People (Link to the Making of Video Below)
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#physicist #physics #illustrator #artist #art #trending #engineering #commission #commissionart #illustrated #illustration #mastoart #mastoartist
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Happy birthday to #physicist James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879)! He dreamt up his demon to deal with the very odd 2nd Law of Thermodynamics (which is not a law like others, and can not be derived from first priciples). It states that two bodies of different temperature brought together in a closed system will reach thermal equilibrium; or, you cannot use a cold thing to 🧵
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#sciart #linocut #printmaker #MaxwellsDemon #ImaginaryFriends #thermodynamics #mastoArt
Physicist Allan MacDonald becomes first Canadian to win Kavli nanoscience prize
IVAN SEMENIUK SCIENCE REPORTER
The Globe and Mail (Ontario Edition)
Jun 11, 2026
Allan MacDonald, a #Canadian #physicist based in the United States who is best known for helping to usher in the field of “#Twistronics” has been named a winner of this year’s #Kavli Prize in #nanoscience
Gift link:
http://bit.ly/4odXFkQ
👆Real reasons behind #Physicist Raúl Rabadán's 🏃🐂 "espantá" from #scientific directorship of Spanish #Cancer research center #CNIO are beginning to emerge.
Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas reportedly refused to cover physicist's 🚚 moving expenses from 🇺🇸
#NewYork, #uSa, to🇪🇸 #Spain Rabadán had called for a tenure as director of a brand new research group at CNIO, which would require hiring six 🧑🔬 #scientists.
https://bit.ly/4dJc84B
👆In 2025 September Theoretical #Physicist Raúl Rabadán was announced by the Spanish government as new scientific director of #CNIO
Today it was revealed that he has resigned from the position
Leading #Cancer research center of
🇪🇸 #Spain is under investigation for an alleged corruption scheme that may have defrauded it of up to 30 million euros.
Happy birthday #physicist Chien-shiung Wu (1912-1997), who came up with a truly beautiful experiment to test whether the weak force conserves parity (whether beta decay would be the same if reflected in the mirror)! In my print on the left I show Wu in her lab & a schematic diagram of her experiment. On the right I show her reflection, as in the mirror, & the mirror reflection of 🧵
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#linocut #sciart #particlePhysics #womenInSTEM #histsci #quantum #mastoArt
https://www.europesays.com/people/80287/ SpaceX Is Hiring — and Elon Musk Says He’ll Read Your Application #AI #application #BulletPoint #company #ElonMusk #engineer #evidence #ExceptionalAbility #FormerAiDirector #History #Musk #physicist #ProspectiveCandidate #SpaceX #Tesla #xAI
Happy birthday to British #engineer, #mathematician, #physicist & #inventor Hertha Ayrton (1854-1923). I’ve shown her in my #linocut with a diagram of the dividers from her 1st of 26 (!) patents, one of her diagrams about the origin & growth of ripple marks & one of her diagrams of an electric arc lamp (a subject on which she literally wrote the textbook).
Born Phoebe Sarah Marks, she was the 3rd 🧵
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Born on this day: #physicist J. R. Oppenheimer (1904-1967). While best remembered for his role in the Manhattan Project, he was a giant of 20th century theoretical physics, nominated for a Nobel 3 times.
In 1927 he & Max Born greatly simplified how we predict electrons behaviour within atoms. The Born-Oppenheimer or adiabatic approximation is based on the observation that electrons are 1000s times lighter than 🧵
#OnThisDay Today is International Mother #EarthDay.
The #Paris #Agreement opened for signing (2016).
Birth Anniversary of Russian #Communist #Revolutionary Vladimir Lenin (1870), #Physicist Robert Oppenheimer (1904), #Philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724).
Happy Birthday #Actor Jack Nicholson (1937).