History of Physics
Vera Rubin confirmed the existence of this invisible matter in 1974.
What is dark matter?
This woman won two Nobel Prizes in these disciplines.
Who is Marie Curie, and what are Chemistry and Physics?
Rosalind Franklin photographed this double helix complex molecule with X rays in 1953.
What is DNA?
This is the only dwarf planet that shares its name with a famous dog.
What is Pluto?
This is the property of matter that causes its motion to remain unchanged unless acted on by an external force.
What is inertia?
In 1650, Maria Cunitz published a work that improved on the three planetary laws of motion found by this astronomer.
Who is Johannes Kepler?
She won the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the center of our galaxy.
Who is Andrea Ghez?
Fabiola Gianotti leads this laboratory where the Higgs particle was discovered in 2012.
What is CERN?
This is the strongest fundamental force in the universe.
What is the strong nuclear force?
This is the reason why spinning tops stay upright and why planets rotate about their axes.
What is the conservation of angular momentum?
The heliocentric model of the Solar System became widely accepted in this century.
What is the 16th century (1500s)?
She was a physicist who theorized and proved the nuclear fission of uranium with her nephew, Otto Robert Frisch.
Who is Lise Meitner?
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Gravitational waves were first directly observed by these detectors in 2015, 100 years after Einstein's prediction.
What are LIGO and Virgo?
This fruit should be avoided by those who fear radiation.
What are bananas?
This principle asserts that the position and momentum of a particle cannot be simultaneously known with perfect accuracy.
What is Heisenberg's uncertainty principle?
Which year was Einstein's annus mirabilis, i.e. miracle year, when he published four seminal papers that became the foundation of modern physics?
What is 1905?
Known as a "human computer," this woman was one of the first African-American women to work as a NASA scientist and was imperative to the calculation of trajectories for spaceflight missions.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
Anne L'Huillier was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Ferenc Krausz and Pierre Agostini for experimental methods that generate this.
What are attosecond pulses of light?
This word fills in the blank: Velocity, _____, Jerk, Snap, Crackle, Pop.
What is acceleration?
This principle states that a body immersed in a fluid experiences an upward force equal to the weight of the fluid displaced.
What is Archimedes' principle?
William and Caroline Herschel discovered this planet in 1781.
What is Uranus?
She was an American physicist known as the "Queen of Carbon Science."
Who is Mildred Dresselhaus?
This 20th century experiment famously demonstrated parity violation.
What is the Wu experiment?
The word "laser" originated as an acronym for this.
What is light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation?
Boltzmann formulated that the entropy of a macroscopic state is proportional to this.
What is the number of configurations of equiprobable microscopic states?