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Richard Phillips Feynman Richard Phillips Feynman
Richard Phillips Feynman , 1918-88, American physicist, b. New York City, B.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1939, Ph.D. Princeton, 1942. From 1942 to 1945 he worked on the development of the atomic bomb. He taught (1945-50) at Cornell Univ. and became professor of theoretical physics at... Read more
Sin-Itiro Tomonaga Sin-Itiro Tomonaga
TOMONAGA, SIN-ITIRO(b. Tokyo, Japan, 31 March 1906; d. Tokyo, 8 July 1979)physics.Sin-itiro Tomonaga, who shared the 1965 Nobel Prize with Richard P. Feynman and Julian Schwinger for “fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics,” was the son of Hide and Sanjuro Tomonaga. When Sin-itiro was born, his... Read more
parody parody
parody mocking imitation in verse or prose of a literary work. The following poem by Robert Southey was parodied by Lewis Carroll: "You are old, Father William," the young man cried; "The few locks which are left you are gray; You are hale, Father William—a hearty old man; Now tell... Read more
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck , 1892-1973, American author, b. Hillsboro, W.Va., grad. Randolph-Macon Women's College, 1914. Pearl Buck was awarded the 1938 Nobel Prize in Literature. Until 1924 she lived principally in China, where she, her parents, and her first husband, John Lossing Buck, were... Read more
Aage Niels Bohr Aage Niels Bohr
Aage Niels Bohr , 1922-, Danish physicist, Ph.D. Univ. of Copenhagen, 1954. He worked with his father Niels Bohr (who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922) in the 1940s on the development of the atomic bomb and succeeded (1963) him as director of the Niels Bohr Institute of Theoretical Physics.... Read more
Henry Way Kendall Henry Way Kendall
Henry Way Kendall 1926-99, American physicist. A professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Kendall won the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics with Jerome Friedman and Richard Taylor for a series of experiments (1967-73) that showed that the fundamental particles of matter are not protons... Read more
Isidor Isaac Rabi Isidor Isaac Rabi
RABI, ISIDOR ISAAC(b. Rymanow, Austria-Hungary [later Poland], 29 July 1898; d. New York, New York, 11 January 1988), physics, molecular beams, nuclear physics, physics statesman.When I. I. Rabi died at age eighty-nine, many of the world’s leading physicists called him the “dean of world physics.”... Read more
Challenger Challenger
Challenger U.S. space shuttle. It exploded (Jan. 28, 1986) 73 seconds into its tenth flight, killing all seven crew members, including the first civilian in space, schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe. The disaster was caused by the faulty design of a gasket (the O-ring seal). As dramatically... Read more
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Max Born Max Born
Max Born 1882-1970, British physicist, b. Germany, Ph.D. Univ. of Göttingen, 1907. He was head of the physics department at the Univ. of Göttingen from 1921 to 1933. When Nazi policies forced him to leave Germany, he went to England; he was a lecturer at Cambridge, then became (1936) a... Read more

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