In my understanding, he had an electrifying effect on many; to others, Watson and Crick had already been thinking about what would be known as the genetic code. George Gamow (1904 − 1968, Fig. 8) was a most original physicist for whom disciplinary boundaries did not exist. His ...
Werner Heisenberg, a German physicist, determined that our observations have an effect on the behavior of quanta. Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle sounds difficult to understand -- even the name is kind of intimidating. But it's actually easy to comprehend, and once you do, you'll understand...
We want animations to be faster or slower, to be more bouncy, or to have less overshoot—all terms that would make a physics professor break down in tears. That gap can be described with a simple question: How do we slow down an animation? A physicist would tell us that we can ...
That’s the astrophysicistMargaret Geller, who in her everyday work pioneered the mapping of matter in the universe. GELLER: You go in the kitchen to make dinner. You put a different spice in the dish. That’s creative. You’re planting your garden, you make a new flower arrangement—it...
Philosophical principles were typically used as a means of overcoming an impasse, or as a last resort, and could be discarded when they were no longer useful. As Born would later note, the real value of philosophical principles for the working physicist can be judged “only according to their...
Nineteenth-century British physicist and chemist Michael Faraday paved the way for our modern electricity-driven world. The famed inventor created the first electric generator, called the dynamo, as well as the first electric motor. To learn more about the technology involved, read How Electric Moto...
That changed in 1801 when Thomas Young, an English physician and physicist, designed and ran one of the most famous experiments in the history of science. It's known today as the double-slit experiment and requires simple equipment -- a light source, a thin card with two holes cut side ...
so not something most people would willfully eat. the fact that we saw this strange interaction with the disco clam fascinated us from a behavioral point of view because there's just not much that will throw off the manta shrimp, especially to the point of going into a catatonic state and...
Using this principle, it would be possible -- if one wanted -- to pre-determine what image will be displayed when an object is reflected by an angled mirror. History of Kaleidoscopes David Brewster, a Scottish physicist, patented the kaleidoscope in 1817. Photos.com/Getty Images/Think...
to the adjacent mirror, and back through the gap. Another French physicist, Leon Foucault, used a rotating mirror rather than a wheel to perform essentially the same experiment. The two independent methods each came within about 1,000 miles per second (1,609 km/s) of the speed of light....