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coulomb
coulomb unit of electric quantity. XIX. f. name of C. A. de Coulomb (1736–1806). French physicist....
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William Weber Coblentz
William Weber Coblentz , 1873-1962, American physicist, b. North Lima, Ohio, grad. Case School of Applied Science (B.S., 1900) and Cornell (Ph.D., 1903). From 1905 to 1945 he was physicist with the National Bureau of Standards. He was the first to verify Planck's law, and he conducted valuable resea...
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Jean Baptiste Biot
Jean Baptiste Biot , 1774-1862, French physicist, grad. École Polytechnique (1797). He taught mathematics at Beauvais before becoming (1800) professor of mathematical physics at the Collège de France and later (1809-49) of astronomy at the Sorbonne. With French physicist Françoi...
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Eugene Paul Wigner
Eugene Paul Wigner , 1902-95, American physicist, b. Hungary, grad. Technische Hochschule, Berlin, 1925. He was a professor at Princeton Univ. from 1930 to 1936 and again from 1938 to 1971. In 1937 he became a U.S. citizen. During World War II he worked on the Manhattan Project , which resulted in ...
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becquerel
becquerel(Bq) The SI unit of radioactivity, being the activity of a nuclide that decays with an average of one spontaneous transition per second. The unit is named after the French physicist Antoine Henri Becquerel (1852–1908)....
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Evangelista Torricelli
Evangelista Torricelli , 1608-47, Italian physicist and mathematician. He was Galileo's secretary (1641-42) and his successor as professor of philosophy and mathematics at Florence. He invented the barometer (1643), called the Torricelli tube, and a microscope, and he improved the telescope.
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James Rainwater
James Rainwater 1917-86, American physicist, Ph.D. Columbia, 1946. After working on the Manhattan Project as a student during World War II, he became a professor of physics at Columbia in 1952. His theory that not all atomic nuclei are spherical was verified experimentally by Danish physicists Aa...
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Otto Stern
Otto Stern , 1888-1969, American physicist, b. Germany, Ph.D. Univ. of Breslau, 1912. After resigning from his post at the Univ. of Hamburg in 1933, he became professor of physics at the Carnegie Institute of Technology and later professor emeritus at the Univ. of California, Berkeley. Stern was an ...
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Amedeo Avogadro, conte di Quaregna
Amedeo Avogadro, conte di Quaregna , 1776-1856, Italian physicist, b. Turin. He became professor of physics at the Univ. of Turin in 1820. In 1811 he advanced the hypothesis, since known as Avogadro's law, that equal volumes of gases under identical conditions of pressure and temperature contain the...
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John Bardeen
John Bardeen , 1908-91, American physicist, b. Madison, Wis., grad. Univ. of Wisconsin (B.S. 1928, M.S. 1929), Ph.D. Princeton, 1936. He was a research physicist at the Bell Telephone Laboratories from 1945 to 1951. In 1951 he became professor of electrical engineering and physics at the Univ. of Il...
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