The whole point of inventing the arbirtrary term of a googol was to highlight the difference between unimaginably large numbers and infinity. That is why Kasner coined the term in “Mathematics and the Imagination.” http://books.google.com/books?id=Ad8hAx-6m9oC&lpg=PP1&dq=Mathematics%...
This work helped cement the big-bang theory of the universe. According to the Nobel Prize committee, "the COBE-project can also be regarded as the starting point for cosmology as a precision science."Mather is a senior astrophysicist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in ...
She won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Her achievements included the development of the theory of radioactivity (a term she coined), techniques for isolating radioactive isotopes, and the discovery of two elements, polonium and radium. Under her direction, the world's first studies were ...