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...ER AND MATHEMATICIAN 100 PIERRE DE FERMAT (1601 - 1665) - FRENCH MATHEMATICIAN. 102 SIR ISAAC NEWTON (1642 - 1727) - ENGLISH MATHEMATICIAN AND PHYSICIST 103 GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZ (1646 - 1716) - GERMAN MATHEMATICIAN AND PHILOSOPHER 105 LEONHARD EULER (1707 - 1783) - SWISS MATHEMATICIAN 106 DANIEL BERNOULLI (1700 - 1782) - SWISS MATHEMATICIAN 108 JEAN D’ALEMBER...

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...800 pages, depicted with some 300 pictures and illustrations. This history of the atom and chemistry discusses the lives of about 180 chemists and physicists, through the evolution of several stages of development, representing the most important scientific accomplishments. The most significant discoveries in chemistry and physics are presented chronologically to ill...

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...D GENERATION IN SCIENTIFIC DEVELOPMENT 53 IN THE PHYSICAL, CHEMICAL AND MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES 53 GALILEO GALILEI (1564-1642) Italian Astronomer and Physicist 53 One of the Founders of Modern Science and the Scientific Method. Proposed the Laws of Falling Bodies. Supporter of Copernicus’ Heliocentric Theory. JOHANN KEPLER (1571-1630) German Astronomer and Mathemat...

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... Chemist 24 JONS J. BERZELIUS (1779 - 1848) Swedish Chemist 25 HUMPHRY DAVY (1778 - 1829) English Chemist 25 AMEDEO AVOGADRO (1776 - 1856) Italian Physicist 26 DMITRI MENDELEEV (1834 - 1907) Russian Chemist 26 FRIEDRICH A. KEKULE (1829 - 1896) German Organic Chemist 27 JACOBUS VAN’T HOFF (1852 - 1911) Dutch Physical Chemist 28 WILLIAM H. WOLLASTON (1766 - 1828) Engl...

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...oned by the Air Force in 1968 in response to an unprecedented wave of UFO sightings in America. The Air Force selected Dr. Edward U. Condon, a plasma physicist of the University of Colorado, to chair the study. In this thesis, I answer four questions: (1) why the Air Force chose Edward Condon to chair the Committee which produced the report; (2) how the report was a produc...

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...irst obtained empirically). The Principia is "justly regarded as one of the most important works in the history of science". The French mathematical physicist Alexis Clairaut assessed it in 1747: "The famous book of mathematical Principles of natural Philosophy marked the epoch of a great revolution in physics. The method followed by its illustrious author Sir Newton, spr...

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...A physicist is someone who yearns to comprehend why the universe is for, but he is too absurd to comprehend it. Physics: The music of dancing atoms. ...

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...The famous physicist Sir Isaac Newton lectured on optics from 1670 - 1672. He worked on refraction of light into colored beams using prisms and discovered chromatic aberration. He also postulated the corpuscular form of light and an eth...

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...ut not like a human. A Martian Odyssey and its sequel are presented here as well as other Weinbaum gems including 3 stories featuring the egomaniacal physicist Haskel van Manderpootz and his former student, playboy Dixon Wells. (Summary by Gregg Margarite)...

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...“Security”, tells the story of a compartmentalized government physicist ordered by secret police to complete experiments aimed at developing a new weapon. He is brought to a hidden space station and put in charge of the project but there are many questions. In a world of spies watching ...

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...e galaxy. Nothing can contain or stop them despite the lensmen's best efforts until one destroys the home and family of Storm Cloud, brilliant atomic physicist. The tragedy triggers actions on his part that pit him one-on-one against the horrible vortices. Introducing storm Cloud as THE Vortex Blaster (Summary by book cover and Phil chenevert)...

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...nd, if you are looking for something more specific, you can search for it using the eBook finder tool. Today, lets search for the famous theoretical physicist, “Albert Einstein”. The eBook finder tool will help make author title and article suggestions based on the information entered If you see something of interest, feel free to select it, if not, continue with y...

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...Jules Henri Poincaré (1854 – 1912) was one of France's greatest mathematicians and theoretical physicists, and a philosopher of science. As a mathematician and physicist, he made many original fundamental contributions to pure and applied mathematics, mathematical physics and celestial mechanics. He was responsible for...

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...........223 1. Western Currents and Schools.......................................................227 2 . Physics of the Mind and the Mind of the Physicist: What Wins?......................................................................................229 3 . Neo-Berkeleyism, or Transcendental Consciousness..................235 4. The New Jersey Nihilists, Da...

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... “A Hitchhiker's Guide to Technology,” Ian Jamieson shows us how to make a subject—as abstract and difficult as physics—applicable and meaningful. A physicist at Punahou School, Ian teaches in unexpected ways and with unusual tools. Sierra Knight lets us visit with a home-schooling family in “Home Schooling: A Way of Life. ” She shows how “home schooling accomplishes...

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...Marie Curie, born in Warsaw in 1867, was a French physicist and chemist famous for her work on radioactivity. She was a pioneer in the field of radioactivity and the first person honored with two Nobel Prizes - in physics (1903) and chemistry (1911). The risks of working wit...

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...beginning of a unexpected and long voyage. There had been too many reports of errors in ship's flight positions from the Check Stations and brilliant physicist Dr. Percival (“Steve”) Stevens is aboard the Arcturus on a fact-finding mission to find out what's really happening, and hopefully save the honor of the brave pilots of the space-liner Arcturus from the desk-jockeys...

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...A former mathematical physicist, who is both experienced in theory and experimental science--working for both the U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force--provides a scathing investigation into the fundamental premise supporting belief in Climate Change. Ana...

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...ansformation equations. We also state that there is no need to postulate the isotropy of space. Our article is the accumulation of all efforts from physicists to fix the Lorentz transformation equations and build correct and more general transformation equations of relativity, which obey the rules of logic and fundamental group laws, without internal philosophical and ph...

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...l components. To consider these paradoxes, one needs be as much logician as physicist. The American Heritage Dictionary defines the paradox as: "1.... ...esting the possibility of their presence in its composition. c.) Particle physicists describe the tauon τ, (like the muon), as "electron-like". [6]... ...ions, c) unravellings, are the principle methods used by mathematicians and physicists today. He also describes Hinton's search for evidence of the ... ...ourth-dimensional nucleus, which is 'even smaller than an atom,' and that, "physicists today adopt essentially the same philosophy as Hinton." [26] ... ...by Bohr and Heisenberg, has generally come to prevail among the majority of physicists … The theory is complete: anything it does not tell us may be...