Marco Tavora

Physicist | Ph.D. at NYU (2015)| Top Writer on Medium | Amateur pianist | Patreon account:

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The American physicist and Nobelist Steven Weinberg (1933-2021) was "considered by many to be the preeminent theoretical physicist in the world."

However, as a young researcher, he was "bullied" by none other than Richard Feynman.

In an interview for th…https://t.co/QEC5wohk6P

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The renowned American mathematician Richard Hamming (1915-1998), who made extensive contributions to computer engineering and telecommunications, wrote and lectured extensively about how one might proceed to achieve greatness.

Here is a brief selection:…https://t.co/UrIPsBimf9

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@bigthink https://t.co/DSvraW1Zje

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Very interesting! https://t.co/PEQlsB6s8x

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Three of the founding fathers of quantum mechanics in one picture. From left to right:
Paul Dirac, Werner Heisenberg, and Erwin Schrödinger.

#physics #quantummechanics #founders #geniuses #revolution https://t.co/1OqWEEOAmJ

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Terence Tao is an Australian-American mathematician born in 1975. His research spans an unbelievable variety of topics: harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, algebraic, arithmetic, geometric combinatorics, probability theory, compressed sensi…https://t.co/cxLFKluTRQ

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The picture below shows the American chemist, chemical engineer, and Nobelist Linus Pauling calculating averages in quantum mechanics.

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If you REALLY want to learn physics, reading popular books such as "The Elegant Universe" or "A Brief History of Time " won't get you very far (though both books are great reads).

With that in mind, Nobel laureate Gerardus 't Hooft built a marvelous web…https://t.co/kiaM2yY6ya

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“Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.”

- Albert Einstein

#einstein https://t.co/5PMzb4VnUX

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The following quote by Einstein always inspires me, no matter how often I see it.

In a 1929 interview, he was asked:

"How did he get his ideas?"

His answer was:

"I'm enough of an artist to draw freely on my imagination.

Imagination is more important…https://t.co/o4Kng7Cw0I

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"When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general.

If you become a monk, you'll be the pope.'

Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

- Pablo Picasso

#art #picasso #genius https://t.co/drUlOuKxF7

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Alexander Grothendieck is considered by many to be the greatest mathematician of the 20th century.

Quoting Allyn Jackson, one of his biographers:

"[He] changed the landscape of mathematics with a viewpoint that is "cosmically general," in the words of H…https://t.co/fkblFd4peR

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Ettore Majorana was a brilliant physicist who mysteriously vanished in 1938.

According to the renowned physicist and Nobelist Enrico Fermi:

"There are [many] categories of scientists; those of 2nd or 3rd rank [...] never get very far. Then there is the…https://t.co/OaIInTWlqw

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In a Nature magazine article entitled "Dirac's hidden geometry," his biographer Graham Farmelo writes:

"Dirac often said that when he was developing quantum mechanics, he used his favorite branch of mathematics - projective geometry - which concerns the…https://t.co/5hyFBQFhCg

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I found this description of the thought process of the Iranian mathematician and Fields medalist (2014) Maryam Mirzakhani to be fascinating.

The description is by her thesis advisor at Harvard, the American mathematician and also Fields Medalist (1998)…https://t.co/M1Nkwdv4l7

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Einstein once remarked:

"After a certain high level of
technical skill is achieved,
science and art tend to coalesce
in esthetics, plasticity, and form.

The greatest scientists are
artists as well."

Source: Einstein Archives 33-257

#science #art https://t.co/6wOodzD667

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The English theoretical physicist Paul Dirac, one of the greatest physicists of the last century, once made the following fascinating remark (mentioned in the exceptional biography "The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac" by Graham Farmelo):

"I…https://t.co/AwaThjT8pT

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When the great Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan was 16 years old, he obtained a copy of the book "A Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics" (written by the British mathematician G. S. Carr) which he studied diligently (see…https://t.co/rndTeAXCFv

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The Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, computer scientist, and engineer John von Neumann "was generally regarded as the foremost mathematician of his time and said to be the last representative of the great mathematicians."

According to the ren…https://t.co/zXMa3SKynf