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Lord Rayleigh’s (#OTD 1842) work covered much of physics. In particular, Rayleigh Scattering, The Rayleigh-Jeans Equation, and his discovery of (the first noble gas) Argon, which won him the Nobel Prize in Physics (1904). #TheCosmicMachine
I'm excited to announce that #TheCosmicMachine has officially gone international with the introduction of the Russian version. https://t.co/9jzWvRyEQQ
How do Quantum Physics, Entropy, Energy, and Atoms govern our universe? What was the difficult path to their discovery? Who were the key players that struggled to shape our current understanding? Check out #TheCosmicMachine today! https://t.co/3By0WwqYVh
James Prescott Joule (1818–#OTD 1889) performed rigorous and painstaking experiments on the conversion between work and heat. In 1850, he obtained a “mechanical equivalent of heat” to within 1% of the modern value today of 778 foot-pounds #TheCosmicMachine
Convinced that X-rays passing through a crystal would show (the wave-like behavior of) diffraction, Max von Laue (born #OTD 1879) persuaded his colleagues to perform the experiment and prove his theory right. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1914 #TheCosmicMachine
The physicist Pieter Zeeman (born
1865–#OTD 1943) is best known for
discovering (1896) that the electronic energy levels of an atom or molecule are split into multiple levels by an external
magnetic field. He won the Nobel Prize for his work in 1902. #TheCosmicMachine
When a stress is applied to a system at equilibrium, the system will undergo a change in such a way as to relieve the stress. Happy Birthday Henry Louis Le Chatelier (born #OTD 1850) #TheCosmicMachine
“Perhaps I have found out a little about the structure of atoms.”--Niels Bohr (born #OTD 1885) on his quantum theory of the atom #TheCosmicMachine
Jean-Baptiste Perrin (born #OTD 1870) was a French physicist whose experiments verified Albert Einstein's theory of Brownian motion, thus ultimately confirming the the atomic nature of matter. He won the Noble Prize (Physics) in 1926 #TheCosmicMachine
Although best known for his work on electricity and magnetism, Michael Faraday (born #OTD 1791) started out as a chemist, where he discovered benzene (1825) & played a major role in the founding of electrochemistry. #TheCosmicMachine
Henry Louis Le Chatelier (1850-#OTD 1936) is best known for “Le Chatelier’s Principle” stating that when a stress is applied to a system at equilibrium, the system will undergo a change in such a way as to relieve the stress to achieve a new equilibrium state. #TheCosmicMachine
Arthur Compton (born #OTD 1892) won the Nobel Prize in Physics (1927) for his experiments showing that light "carries with it directed momentum as well as energy", which helped to establish Einstein's photon concept #TheCosmicMachine
Ludwig Boltzmann (1844–#OTD 1906) was a founder of statistical mechanics, unrelenting proponent of the atomic view of matter, exceptional educator to his students, and in his own words: “...a theoretician from head to toe." #TheCosmicMachine
In 1923, Louis de Broglie (born #OTD 1892) published three papers around the amazing concept that the wave-particle duality of light should be extended to material particles as well, in particular electrons. #TheCosmicMachine
The physicist & physical chemist Gerhard Herzberg was a pioneer in the electronic structure & geometry of molecules (particularly free radicals), and atomic & molecular spectroscopy. His efforts won him the Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1971) #TheCosmicMachine
#OTD 1687, Newton published “Principia”, one of the most important works in physics of all time. Here, he describes his three laws of motion, clarifies what a force is, & derives the conservation of momentum, further showing it's conserved universally. #TheCosmicMachine
The 5 Things You Wish You Better Understood About Quantum Mechanics... https://t.co/ZBAn4xK86c #TheCosmicMachine
Born #OTD 1736 Charles-Augustin de Coulomb is best known for “Coulomb’s Law” describing the force between electrical charges, which was the culmination of seven papers written between 1785 and 1791. He also won accolades for his work on torsional balances. #TheCosmicMachine
The physicist Thomas Young (born #OTD 1773) provided the first clear demonstration of the wave nature of light by showing that it exhibits the property of interference. #TheCosmicMachine
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