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The PhET simulations differ from the Physics 2000 ones because users can interact with the simulation to change conditions whereas the Physics 2000 simulations are just videos. [8] In 2007, Wieman moved to Vancouver, British Columbia while retaining 20% faculty position at the University of Colorado Boulder. The current director of PhET is Dr ...
Herbert Kroemer (German: [ˈhɛʁbɛʁt ˈkʁøːmɐ] ⓘ; August 25, 1928 – March 8, 2024) was a German-American physicist who, along with Zhores Alferov, received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2000 for "developing semiconductor heterostructures used in high-speed- and opto-electronics".
1995–2000 – Econophysics and Kinetic exchange models of markets 1997 – Juan Maldacena proposed the AdS/CFT correspondence 1998 – Accelerating expansion of the universe discovered by the Supernova Cosmology Project and the High-Z Supernova Search Team
Conjunction of planets, Moon, and Sun on May 4, 2000. May 4 – A rare astronomical conjunction occurs on the new moon including all seven of the traditional celestial bodies known from ancient times until the discovery of Uranus in 1781; this conjunction consists of the Sun and Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.
In mathematics, the Simon problems (or Simon's problems) are a series of fifteen questions posed in the year 2000 by Barry Simon, an American mathematical physicist. [1] [2] Inspired by other collections of mathematical problems and open conjectures, such as the famous list by David Hilbert, the Simon problems concern quantum operators. [3]
George Irving Bell (August 4, 1926 – May 28, 2000) was an American physicist, [2] biologist and mountaineer, and a grandson of John Joseph Seerley. [3] He died in 2000 from complications of leukemia after surgery. [4]
Sir Andre Geim, who had been awarded an Ig Nobel Prize in 2000 for levitating a frog by magnetism, was awarded a Nobel Prize in physics in 2010 for his work with the electromagnetic properties of graphene. He is the only individual, as of 2024, to have received both a Nobel and an Ig Nobel. [7]
Fellow, Optical Society of America, Elected 2000; R. W. Wood Prize, Optical Society of America, 1999; Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics, 1999; Lorentz Medal, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1998; Fellow, The American Physical Society, Elected 1997; I. I. Rabi Prize in Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, American Physical ...