Science & Technology

  • One hundred years ago yesterday, on November 25, 1915, Albert Einstein published his final equations on the topic of General Relativity. I’d like to share with you some of my favourite tributes posted this week!

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  • Paul Dirac was born in 1902 in Bristol, United Kingdom. He is credited with formulating a fully relativistic quantum theory, and won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in 1933, along with Erwin Schrödinger for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory.

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  • Science Hero: Max Planck

    Max Planck was a German physicist who is credited with finding the relationship between the energy and the frequency of electromagnetic radiation. His equation sparked the quantum revolution that took place at the beginning of the 20th century. The famous equation, where E is the energy…

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  • Erwin Schrödinger was an Austrian physicist who is known for his contribution to quantum mechanics. The quantum revolution began in the early 20th century, with contributions from physics giants like Max Planck, Albert Einstein, Ernest Rutherford, Neils Bohr, Louis de Broglie and Wolfgang Pauli.

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  • A physics blog would be incomplete without a profile on one of the most respected scientists of all time. Albert Einstein, born in Ulm, Germany in 1879. He took lessons in violin and piano as a child and often expressed his passion for music.

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  • Andrea Ghez is an appropriate choice for my first post about a Science Hero.  If you read my first blog post you know that I had a subscription to Discover magazine when I was in grade school and high school.  One of my favourite articles that I read and cut out for my wall was the Top

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