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Dianna Leilani Cowern (born May 4, 1989) is an American science communicator.She is a YouTuber; she uploads videos to her YouTube channel Physics Girl explaining various physical phenomena.
Tatiana L. Erukhimova (Татьяна Ерухимова) is a Russian-born American physicist. As a professor and The Marshall L’ 69 and Ralph F. Shilling ’68 Endowed Chair in the Department of Physics & Astronomy [1] at Texas A&M University, Erukhimova was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society "for developing and disseminating innovative physics education programs for college ...
Produced starting in 1982, the videos make heavy use of historical dramatizations and visual aids to explain physics concepts. The latter were state of the art at the time, incorporating almost eight hours of computer animation created by computer graphics pioneer Jim Blinn along with assistants Sylvie Rueff [3] and Tom Brown at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Andrew E. Lange (July 23, 1957 – January 22, 2010) [1] was an astrophysicist and Goldberger Professor of Physics at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California. Lange came to Caltech in 1993 and was most recently the chair of the Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy.
Robert Benjamin Leighton (/ ˈ l eɪ t ən / LAY-tən; September 10, 1919 – March 9, 1997) was a prominent American experimental physicist who spent his professional career at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). [1]
LeConte Hall is the former name of a building on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, [2] which is home to the physics department. LeConte Hall was one of the largest physics buildings in the world at the time it was opened in 1924, [3] and was also the site of the first atom collider, built by Ernest O. Lawrence in 1931.
David Paul Saltzberg is an experimental particle physicist and a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, who is known for his science consultancy work on various television shows and films, such as The Big Bang Theory, [1] Manhattan [2] and Oppenheimer. [3]
Caltech has a long history of off-campus pranks, which are sometimes referred to as "RFs". [5] RF is short for "ratfuck", referring to the shattering of a frozen dead rat in someone's room.) [ 6 ] The most notable of these pranks include the 1961 Great Rose Bowl Hoax , where a card stunt was altered to display "Caltech" rather than the name of ...