Map of Quantum Physics.
Wizard Gandalf says "Put your finger on one of the subtopics in Quantum Foundations, Quantum Gravity, etc. You'll then become an instant genius on that topic."
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Meghnad Saha was an Indian astrophysicist who developed the Saha ionization equation, used to describe chemical and physical conditions in stars.
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Ernest Walton was an Anglo-Irish physicist and Nobel laureate for his work with John Cockcroft with "atom-smashing" experiments done at Cambridge University in the early 1930s, and so became the first person in history to split the atom.
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Every vision is a joke until the first man accomplishes it; once realized, it becomes commonplace.
— Robert Goddard
An American physicist, rocket engineer and inventor known as the “father of modern rocketry.”
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Reinhard Selten was a German mathematician who shared the 1994 Nobel Prize for Economics with John F. Nash and John C. Harsanyi for their development of game theory.
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10-4-1957
#OnThisDay#Sputnik1 , the first artificial earth satellite, was placed into orbit by the Soviets and the #SpaceAge began. It traveled at a speed of 18,000 mph and circled the earth about every 95 minutes.
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Science advances one funeral at a time.
― Max Planck
His discovery of energy quanta won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918.
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Leon Max Lederman was an American physicist who shared (with Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger) the 1988 Nobel Prize for Physics for their joint research and discovery (1960-62) of a new subatomic particle, the muon neutrino.
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That loyalty to the country comes ahead of all other loyalties. And this is an absolute loyalty, since one cannot weight it in terms of what one receives.
~ #LalBahadurShastri#ShastriJayanti