Italian-American physicist Enrico Fermi created the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction demonstration on December 2, 1942 Continue reading
Category: Physics
Eugene Wigner Founder of Quantum Mechanics
Eugene Paul Wigner, Hungarian-American physicist and nuclear engineer was a founder of quantum mechanics. Continue reading
Advanced Atomic Theory
Greek philosopher Leucippus of Miletus of Turkey, proposed the first atomic theory back in 500 BCE, Continue reading
Francis William Aston
Francis William Aston FRS (1 September 1877 – 20 November 1945) was an English chemist and physicist who won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery, by means of his mass spectrograph, of isotopes, in a large number of non-radioactive elements, and for his enunciation of the whole number rule. Continue reading
Invention of the Mass Spectrometer
Joseph John Thomson invented the mass spectrometer or parabola spectrograph in Cambridge, England in 1913. Continue reading
Galileo Galilei
Galileo Galilei (Italian: [ɡaliˈlɛːo ɡaliˈlɛi]; 15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642) was an Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer, Continue reading
Gravity Experiment Proves Different Masses Fall the Same
Simon Stevin, Dutch engineer, inventor, and mathematician published results from a gravity experiment in 1586, whereby proving that objects with different masses fall at the same speed. Continue reading
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
Kamerlingh Onnes was born in Groningen, Netherlands to father, Harm Kamerlingh Onnes a brickworks owner and mother, Anna Gerdina Coers from Arnhem. Continue reading
Mercury a Superconductor?
In 1911, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist and Director at the University of Leiden’s Cryogenic Laboratory, discovered that if you cool mercury Continue reading
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
Born to a German father and a Dutch mother, Röntgen attended high school in Utrecht, Netherlands. Continue reading