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Author's Calendar: Czeslaw Milosz
Czeslaw Milosz, "Polish-American author, translator and critic, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature."
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Magnet Academy: Electrocardiograph 1903
If TV medical dramas have taught us anything, it's how to recognize the heart's characteristic peaks and valleys crawling across monitors in emergency rooms. These images represent the electrical activity of the beating heart as recorded...
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Magnet Academy: Paul Dirac
Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac was an outstanding twentieth century theoretical physicist whose work was fundamental to the development of quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics jointly with...
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Magnet Academy: Peter Debye
Peter Debye carried out pioneering studies of molecular dipole moments, formulated theories of magnetic cooling and of electrolytic dissociation, and developed an X-ray diffraction technique for use with powdered, rather than...
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Magnet Academy: Leon Cooper
Leon Cooper shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physics with John Bardeen and Robert Schrieffer, with whom he developed the first widely accepted theory of superconductivity. Termed the BCS theory, it is heavily based on a phenomenon known as...
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Magnet Academy: Murray Gell Mann
Murray Gell-Mann is a theoretical physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1969 for his contributions to elementary particle physics. He is particularly well known for his role in bringing organization into the world of subatomic...
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Magnet Academy: Lev Davidovich Landau
While growing up in the Soviet Union, Lev Landau was so far ahead of his classmates that he was ready to begin college at age 13. His parents noticed a particular gift for math in their young son, who was considered a prodigy. It came as...
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Magnet Academy: Jack Kilby
The integrated circuit fueled the rise of microelectronics in the latter half of the twentieth century and paved the way for the Information Age. An American engineer, Jack Kilby, invented the integrated circuit in 1958, shortly after he...
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Magnet Academy: Julian Schwinger
Theoretical physicist Julian Schwinger used the mathematical process of renormalization to rid the quantum field theory developed by Paul Dirac of serious incongruities with experimental observations that had nearly prompted the...
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Magnet Academy: John Robert Schrieffer
While still in graduate school, John Robert Schrieffer developed with John Bardeen and Leon Cooper a theoretical explanation of superconductivity that garnered the trio the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1972. The BCS theory (the acronym...
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Magnet Academy: Isidor Isaac Rabi
Isidor Isaac Rabi won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1944 for his development of a technique for measuring the magnetic characteristics of atomic nuclei. Rabi's technique was based on the resonance principle first described by Irish...
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Magnet Academy: Joseph John Thomson
Joseph John Thomson, better known as J. J. Thomson, was a British physicist who first theorized and offered experimental evidence that the atom was a divisible entity rather than the basic unit of matter, as was widely believed at the...
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Magnet Academy: Sin Itiro Tomonaga
Japanese theoretical physicist Sin-Itiro Tomonaga resolved key problems with the theory of quantum electrodynamics (QED) developed by Paul Dirac in the late 1920s through the use of a mathematical technique he referred to as...
Famous Scientists
Famous Scientists: Ahmed Zewail
Learn about Ahmed Zewail, the father of femtochemistry, and the first Arab scientist to win a Nobel Prize in a scientific field.
Famous Scientists
Famous Scientists: Gustav Ludwig Hertz
Find out about Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German experimental physicist and Nobel Prize winner.
Famous Scientists
Famous Scientists: Steven Chu
Find out about Steven Chu who is known for his research in cooling and trapping of atoms with laser light, which won him the Nobel Prize in Physics.
Famous Scientists
Famous Scientists: Wilhelm Ostwald
Learn about the life and work of Wilhelm Ostwald, the chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1909 for his work on catalysis, chemical equilibria, and reaction velocities.
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Wikipedia: Werner Heisenberg
In this Spanish-language entry, trace the life and accomplishments of Werner Heisenberg, the great physicist whose work with quantum mechanics resulted in earning the Nobel Prize.
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Harcourt: Biographies: Ernest Rutherford
This is an account of Nobel Prize winner Ernest Rutherford's life. It tells of his accomplishments in the field of chemistry and physics. There are additional links to supplemental material as well.
Energy for Sustainable Development
Esd Bulgaria: Kids & Energy: Energy Pioneers: Gertrude Elion (1918 1999)
A profile of Gertrude Belle Elion, an American biochemist and pharmacologist and a Nobel Prize winner. She struggled to find her place in the male-dominated scientific world, and went on to become the first woman to be inducted into the...
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Three Shots: Ernest Hemingway's Nick Adams
In this lesson plan, students will consider Three Shots: Ernest Hemingway's Nick Adams. Worksheets and other supporting materials can be found under the Resources tab. In this lesson, students study issues related to independence and...
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Wikipedia: Tsung Dao Lee
Wikipedia provides biographical information on Tsung-Dao Lee, a Chinese-American physicist who recieved the Nobel Prize at the age of thirty-one.
PBS
Pbs Online: Ernst Chain
Ernst Chain PBS entry details the professional and personal life of this Nobel Prize winning chemist. Page profiles his early life in Germany and family fortune and potential career as a pianist, to his breakthrough research in...
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President Woodrow Wilson House: President Wilson
An Overview of the 28th President of the US, Woodrow Wilson. This site includes information about Wilson the Educator, President, War Leader, World Statesman, Nobel Prize Winner, and 20th Century Icon.
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