Physics In History
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Photos from the history of physics | © with mentioned Archives. Shared for educational purposes. Einstein portrait © Ullsteinbild. Subscribe for curated papers.
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Grigori Perelman, mathematician who proved the Poincaré Conjecture and who refused to accept a Fields Medal and the $1,000,000 Clay Prize, spotted at a traffic signal.
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Mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan discovered nearly 4,000 theorems and equations, unique and groundbreaking. Some of his results were so advanced that they were not proven until decades after his death. He also anticipated some concepts that later became part of modern
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Einstein slept nearly 10 hours a day. He valued the significance of quality sleep for maintaining his well-being. His sleep routine, though, was out of the ordinary. He regularly indulged in brief daytime naps, occasionally more than once a day. These quick naps, lasting just a
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Oppenheimer's famous phrase, "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds," is a reference to a verse from the Hindu scripture Bhagavad Gita. The verse in question is from Chapter 11, Verse 32, in which the deity Krishna reveals his divine form to the warrior Arjuna.
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"The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think." . -- A. Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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This is the most detailed model of a human cell to date, obtained using x-ray, NMR and cryoelectron microscopy datasets. ‘Cellular landscape cross-section through a eukaryotic cell.’ - by Evan Ingersoll and Gael McGill.
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“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”. – Niels Bohr
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This is an actual picture of a molecule taken by IBM created by using a technique called Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM). (Credit: IBM)
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The most beautiful equations in Physics and Mathematics. A visual thread 👇
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The science of global warming beautifully and simply explained by Dr. Carl Sagan, ca. 1985.
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The greatest Unsolved problems in Modern Physics. A Visual Thread 👇
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Brahmagupta was an ancient Indian mathematician and astronomer who lived in the 7th century CE. He made many important contributions to mathematics, especially in the fields of number theory, algebra, geometry, and trigonometry. He introduced the concept and computation methods
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"Absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence". -- Dr. Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
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The most important equations in Physics and Mathematics 🧠
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Ramanujan: It came to me in my dream. The dream:
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If the Universe is Expanding, What is it Expanding Into? ✍️
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"Any fool can know. The point is to understand.". -- A. Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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Shiva Nataraj Statue at CERN, Geneva Switzerland.
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Physics Photo Of the Day:. First ever drawings of the moon made by Galileo Galilei after observing it through his telescope in 1609.
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"Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.". -- Marie Curie (1867 - 1934)
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“The beauty of mathematics only shows itself to more patient followers.”. - Maryam Mirzakhani
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“Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists”. ― Nikola Tesla
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[Left]: Transportation of Nike-Apache sounding rocket to Thumba on bicycle, India, 1963:. [Right]: Launch of LVM3-M4, Chandrayaan-3 Mission, 2023.
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Physics Photo Of the Day:. First ever drawings of the moon made by Galileo Galilei after observing it through his telescope in 1609.
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Dr. Carl Sagan explains global warming in simple words in this 1985 video: .
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Physicist Peter Higgs passed away at the age of 94 at his home in Edinburgh. RIP.
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𝐍𝐢𝐤𝐨𝐥𝐚 𝐓𝐞𝐬𝐥𝐚 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 💭. The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. No big laboratory is needed in which to think. Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside
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"If you feel you are in a black hole, don't give up. There's a way out." . -- Stephen Hawking (1942 - 2018)
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The Feynman point is the name given to the position in the decimal expansion of π where a sequence of six consecutive nines first appears. It is named after the physicist Richard Feynman, who allegedly joked that he would like to memorize the digits of pi up to that point and
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Happy 136th Birthday to Srinivasa Ramanujan, a self-taught Indian mathematical genius. He discovered nearly 4,000 theorems and equations, unique and groundbreaking. Some of his results were so advanced that they were not proven until decades after his death. Today, India
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When Oppenheimer met Einstein:. "Einstein, who had witnessed the cataclysmic potential of this energy, was cautiously wary. He cautioned against the unbridled release of such power, fearing its devastating consequences. Oppenheimer, however, saw a glimmer of controlled potential
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The best opening line in any physics textbook: States of Matter by David L. Goodstein ✍️
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Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living. -- A. Einstein
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The Fibonacci sequence appears in nature more frequently than one might expect; the branching of trees, arrangement of leaves on a stem, the fruitlets of a pineapple, even the spiral galaxies all exhibit Fibonacci patterns.
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"Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.". -- Marie Curie (1867 - 1934)
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Dr. C.V Raman teaching Diffraction, circa 1960s.
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10 Solar eclipse facts that you probably didn't know about. A thread 🧵
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Stunning photograph of the total solar eclipse on July 11, 1991, taken by Antonio Turok in Chiapas, Mexico.
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"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.". — Marie Skłodowska-Curie (1867-1934)
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Physics Photo Of the Day:. The last photograph taken of Nikola Tesla, 1st Jan 1943.
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Richard Feynman's mother, Lucille Feynman, after Omni magazine named him the world's smartest man.
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In 1704, Sir Isaac Newton predicted that the world would end in 2060.
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Homi Bhabha, Robert Oppenheimer, Paul Dirac, Lise Meitner, and other scientists photographed together, dated unknown.
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"Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.". - Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642)
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Physics Photo Of the Day:. The last photograph taken of Nikola Tesla, 1st Jan 1943.
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Maryam Mirzakhani would turn 47 today. In 2014, she became the first woman to be awarded the Fields Medal for her groundbreaking discoveries in the dynamics and geometry of Riemann surfaces. She made significant contributions to the field of mathematics, particularly in the area
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"Only a few know, how much one must know to know how little one knows.". -- Werner Heisenberg (1901 - 1976)
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"Any fool can know. The point is to understand.". -- A. Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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Physics Photo Of the Day:. Albert Einstein and Marie Curie discussing near a lake, c. 1929
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"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.". -- Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
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One of the most brilliant minds of all time, best known for designing the AC, which is the predominant electrical system used all across the world and the "Tesla coil," still used in radio technology, along with several other inventions. Happy 165th Birthday to Nikola Tesla.
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Leonardo da Vinci's (1452–1519) drawing of the human spine.
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On this day in 1687, Sir Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy), one of the most significant works in the history of science. The Principia*states Newton's laws of motion, forming the foundation of
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Wanna Learn Mathematics for Free?. Here are some of the Best freely available playlists from Linear Algebra to Number theory that you can use to excel at Mathematics. A Thread 👇
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Physics Photo Of the Day:. First ever drawings of the moon made by Galileo Galilei after observing it through his telescope in 1609.
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"The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think." . -- A. Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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"Only a few know, how much one must know to know how little one knows.". -- Werner Heisenberg (1901 - 1976)
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Werner Von Braun standing next to the five F-1 engines of a Saturn V on display at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center. The Saturn V rocket was a type of rocket called a Heavy Lift Vehicle, meaning it was very powerful and could launch heavy payloads into orbit or beyond. It had three
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"We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it's forever.". - Carl Sagan, in Cosmos (1980)
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I, a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe. — Richard Feynman
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Physics Photo Of the Day:. The last photograph taken of Nikola Tesla, 1st Jan 1943.
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Although I am a typical loner in daily life, my consciousness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has preserved me from feeling isolated. - A. Einstein
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No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows. -- J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Physics Photo Of the Day:. Prof. Stephen Hawking in the 1970’s with his children Robert and Lucy.
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Schrödinger's cat made with Schrödinger's equation ✍️
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Hedy Lamarr was a famous Hollywood actress and a brilliant inventor who made significant contributions to the field of wireless communication. She co-invented a technique called frequency hopping, which is the basis of modern technologies such as WiFi, Bluetooth, and GPS.
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