Particle physics

science and the Search for Meaning Marcelo Gleiser is a brilliant world-renowned physicist and astronomer who was born in Brazil in the year of 1959.He has received many awards for his position as a professor at Dartmouth College. He has taught physics, astronomy, and natural philosophy. In 2014 his great knowledge and thirst for the scientific answers to nature’s wonders led him to write a book called The Island of Knowledge: The Limits of Science and the search for meaning. To be human is to…

inspired Newton to think that the same force that was applied to the apple could also be applied to the moon as well. The Principia may be the greatest scientific book that has ever been written, because it changed how people viewed and understood physics…

tirelessly to get the experiment prefect. This gave him nothing but certainty once the paper explaining the theory was published. “Though no one could deny that light behaved as a wave, after Einstein's first paper, it was undeniable that it was also a particle” (Andrew Zimmerman). Einstein’s theories were so thorough that no one in that time period could go against his…

Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier are two great boxers who despised each other in the ring, and are part of the greatest rivalry in the sport of boxing. They are hostile when together, but extremely peaceful alone. Just like them, science and religion are very peaceful on their own, but when they are put together, they provoke thoughts that lead to arguments. Meanwhile, Peanut butter and jelly are two items that go extremely well together and are part of the lunch for many kids in their early years.…

dropping out of high school, Einstein applied to enter the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School. Since his math and science test scores were especially high, he made it in contingent upon him finishing his high school degree. He was trained to teach physics and math. Eventually he got his degree in 1901 (Grandin, 9/21/15). Throughout his years at the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School, he made friends with Milena Maric and eventually married her on January 6, 1903. They had two sons together before…

his influence. Beyond literature, Lomonosov had a great impact on science through his discoveries. He was a polymath and worked on many different areas including chemistry, physics, astronomy, meteorology, mineralogy, and metallurgy (Vernadsky 38). Most of his earlier career was focused physics and chemistry. His work in physics focused for a period on electricity where he did many experiments with Georg Wilhelm Richmann, a German at the Academy of Sciences. Their work lead Lomonosov to come to…

mathematician and scientist, lived from April 14, 1629 – July 8, 1695. He was one of the leading scientists of his time and is best known as an astronomer, physicist, proabablist, and horologist. His contributions to experimental and theoretical physics were most notably the discovery of Titan, invention of the first pendulum clock, and the earliest theory about the nature of light. His great contributions are of great significance and so he deserves to be chosen as one of the top 20 scientists…

to Kepler’s second law, it implies that ha planets obey the same laws of motion as bodies on earth. However unlike Galileo and Descartes, Kepler was not a ‘Mechanical Philosopher.’ Mechanical Philosophers believe that all objects were composed of particles, which interacted with accordance to natural…

the impact that he had on the scientific community. I changed my topic more than once because of a lack of information regarding the topics, this was primarily seen when I thought I should make my research topic the impact that Newton had on the physics community. Little did I know this topic was too concise and at this point I was unable to find much information that would relate to historical events or touch upon the same concepts that I had chosen. Some of the things which I would do…

Although he is credited with many scientific discoveries, Cavendish formally published only a few of his experiments. Most of his scientific work remained unknown until after his death in 1810. Through his personal manuscripts, breakthroughs in physics and chemistry were accomplished which are now the basis for today’s scientific research and development. The Life of Henry Cavendish…