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John Robert Taylor is British-born emeritus professor of physics at the University of Colorado, Boulder. [ 1 ] He received his B.A. in mathematics at Cambridge University , and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1963 with thesis advisor Geoffrey Chew .
A leitmotif or Leitmotiv [1] (/ ˌ l aɪ t m oʊ ˈ t iː f /) is a "short, recurring musical phrase" [2] associated with a particular person, place, or idea. It is closely related to the musical concepts of idée fixe or motto-theme . [ 2 ]
On June 4, 1941, Wigner married his second wife, Mary Annette Wheeler, a professor of physics at Vassar College, who had completed her Ph.D. at Yale University in 1932. After the war she taught physics on the faculty of Rutgers University's Douglass College in New Jersey until her retirement in 1964. They remained married until her death in ...
It was invented in 1952 by Donald A. Glaser, [1] for which he was awarded the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physics. [2] Supposedly, Glaser was inspired by the bubbles in a glass of beer ; however, in a 2006 talk, he refuted this story, although saying that while beer was not the inspiration for the bubble chamber, he did experiments using beer to fill ...
— Douglas C. Giancoli Physics for Scientists and Engineers with Modern Physics, p. 155 In short, centrifugal force played a key early role in establishing the set of inertial frames of reference and the significance of fictitious forces, even aiding in the development of general relativity.
Josiah Willard Gibbs (/ ɡ ɪ b z /; [2] February 11, 1839 – April 28, 1903) was an American scientist who made significant theoretical contributions to physics, chemistry, and mathematics. His work on the applications of thermodynamics was instrumental in transforming physical chemistry into a rigorous deductive science.
Also sometimes known by his name is the diode bridge rectifier circuit that was invented by Polish electrotechnician Karol Pollak in 1896 [2] and that was independently invented and published by Leo Graetz in 1897. [3] In 1880 he confirmed the Stefan–Boltzmann law. [4] Graetz died in Munich at age 85.
His interest had been aroused by an amateur inventor named Alex Jones, who contacted Laithwaite about a reactionless propulsion drive he (Jones) had invented. After seeing a demonstration of Jones's small prototype (a small wagon with a swinging pendulum which advanced intermittently along a table top), Laithwaite became convinced that "he had ...