Nobel Prizes
Often known as the father of atomic physics, Ernest Rutherford claimed he was a bit “startled” at receiving the 1908 Nobel Prize not for physics, but for this discipline.
Chemistry
THIS PHYSICIST DISCOVERED TWO ELEMENTS, FOUNDED TWO MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTERS, WON TWO NOBEL PRIZES AND DISCOVERED RADIOACTIVITY
MARIE CURIE
During the recitation for fluid mechanics, a video was shown that identified both stream-lined and turbulent flow around an airfoil (cross-section of airplane wing). This video was based on the study conducted by this organization:
NASA
The element discovered at ORNL
Tennessine
The following device "makes time travel possible" for the Delorean in the 'Back to the Future' Series
Flux Capacitor
This parody of the Nobel Prizes, are presented by Nobel laureates in a ceremony at the Sanders Theater, Harvard University,
Ig Nobel Prize
This famous physicist was a firm believer in alchemy. One of his greatest ambitions was to find the philosopher’s stone: the secret to turning common metals into gold.
Issac Newton
Majority of the videos shown in class are from this YouTube channel
CGPGrey
This particle discovered earlier this decade is often called the 'God particle'
Higgs Boson
42, the "Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything", calculated by an enormous supercomputer named Deep Thought over a period of 7.5 million years is in this book.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The number of people who have one more than 1 Nobel Prize in physics
1 ( John Bardeen)
A finger of this famous physicist is allegedly on display in the History of Science Museum in Florence, Italy
Galileo
This supercomputer, currently the fastest in the world, is housed at Oak Ridge National Lab
Summit
In 1921, Einstein received the Nobel prize, not for the theory of relativity, but “for his services to theoretical physics, and especially his discovery of”… this.
Photo Electric Effect
In this 1994 romantic comedy, an auto mechanic chasing Einstein’s intelligent niece pretends to have invented a fusion-powered spacecraft
IQ
This Nobel Laureate received the award for work on quantum electrodynamics in 1965, but is also known for playing the bongos.
Richard Feynman
Although tall, handsome, and impeccably dressed, this prolific physicist and inventor was not known to have any romantic relationships in life. He did, however die with an unusual devotion to… pigeons.
Nikola Tesla
This agency(under the Department of Interior) is responsible for managing the majority of the US Federal Lands
The Bureau of Land Management
This ancient Greek Philosopher, credited with major contributions in geometry and astronomy is also credited for identifying the morning and evening star to be the same (which was later discovered to be planet Venus).
Pythagoras
Edward Lorenz' idea of linking this creature to changes in the weather became the basis of chaos theory.
Butterfly
The only UTK alumni to have won the nobel prize (Name and Field)
James M Buchanan for economic sciences (1986)
This 16th-century Danish astronomer was a nobleman known for his eccentric life and death. He lost his nose in a duel in college and wore a prosthetic metal one ever after
Tycho Brahe
In the Tedx video I showed, James Veitch responds to a scam email that wants to ship him a container of this
Gold
THESE WERE DETECTED BY
LIGO AFTER
TWO BLACK HOLES COLLIDED ONE BILLION LIGHT-YEARS AGO
Gravitational Waves
In "The Martian" Matt Damon attempts to contact earth thru this rover that landed in Mars.
Pathfinder