Dr Court

Head of Science at Dartford Grammar School

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

Paul Dirac (center) with Director Robert Oppenheimer (left) and Abraham Pais (right), Professor in the School of Mathematics (1950–63), during afternoon tea at the Institute For Advanced Study, November 1947.

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

"Anytime you try to teach the subjects without teachers who love the subject, it is doomed to failure and is a foolish thing to do."

Remembering physicist and professor Richard Feynman who was famous for his easy-to-understand explanations of scientific concepts.

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

There is a type of quasiparticle, called a semi-Dirac fermion, that exists in a bizarre state where it has mass when moving in one direction but is massless when moving in a perpendicular direction.

First predicted 16 years ago, physicists finally observed this behaviour in 2024 within a crystal of zirconium silicon sulfide (ZrSiS).

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

Werner Heisenberg escaped to the island of Helgoland in 1925 to get relief from hay fever. There, in complete isolation, he developed matrix mechanics—the first version of quantum mechanics. Allergies changed physics.

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

A page from Einstein's 1912 notebook with his works on relativity.

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

The first and most important quality of all scientific ways of thinking must be the clear distinction between the outer object of observation and the subjective nature of the observer.

-- Max Planck

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

Understand. Don't memorize.
Learn principles, not formulas.

- R. Feynman

[Dr Court @DrCourtDGS]

@DartfordGS @drdavie_dgs @CraibMrs @HarrisScience_ The boys enjoying the grounds of Churchill College Cambridge after lunch today, before heading back for more engineering

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@DartfordGS @CraibMrs @drdavie_dgs @HarrisScience_ The boys building flood resistant houses at Churchill College, Cambridge University today.

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@DartfordGS @drdavie_dgs @HarrisScience_ The boys working hard at Cambridge University today to prevent flooding in a community.

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@DartfordGS @drdavie_dgs @CraibMrs @HarrisScience_ The fist activity at Cambridge University today is a game of engineering taboo. Great communication from the teams.

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@DartfordGS Year 9s and 10s visiting the engineering department of Churchill College Cambridge today.

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@DartfordGS Year 10s at Orpington cricket club today ready to face St Olaves

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@DartfordGS Year 10s warming up at Skinner's today.

[Miss Brehme @brehme_k]

Determining the diet from the dentition 🦷 🥩 🌱 @DartfordGS @DrCourtDGS

[MissHarris @HarrisScience_]

Year 12 have been working hard experimentally determining the order of reaction, it isn't an easy task! A few also recorded themselves to help prepare when it comes to carrying out their IAs, I feel an IB Chemistry vlog in the works...👩‍🔬 @DrCourtDGS

[MissHarris @HarrisScience_]

8A have been testing for different gases 🔥 last years record for the most times a splint would relight was smashed! A total of 17 times this year 🤯 @DrCourtDGS

[Mrs Craib @CraibMrs]

DGS gardeners in action...this week and last, the team were clearing leaves and other debris out of the school pond and surrounding area...@DartfordGS @DGSSciCollege @DrCourtDGS

[DrDavie @drdavie_dgs]

At the Apollo theatre for GCSE Science Live! ⁦@DartfordGS⁩ ⁦@DrCourtDGS⁩

[DrDavie @drdavie_dgs]

Lots of interesting lectures at GCSE Science Live including Jim Al-Khalili and Professor Robert Winston ⁦@DartfordGS⁩ . ⁦@DrCourtDGS⁩