Women in Physics
Polish-French physicist and chemist that shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 for groundbreaking research in radioactivity and won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of elements radium and polonium.
Marie Curie
freshmen lab course #
33104
"I'm Italian, so imagine a spaghetti made of charges"
Riccardo Penco
Summer Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship
common ingredient for ice cream (in phys department)
liquid nitrogen
American astronomer who uncovered the discrepancy between the predicted and observed angular motion of galaxies by studying galactic rotation curves, which is one of the main pieces of evidence for dark matter.
Vera Rubin
token for participating Deserno Phys 3 game challenges
Mug
"for cultural value"
Roy Briere
NIST
National Institute of Standards and Technology
natural units
c=hbar=kb=1
French atomic physicist who shared the 2023 Nobel Prize in physics for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light.
Anne L'Huillier
name of the back room in Phlounge
"Classically forbidden region"
"If Bob-- poor Bob-- is on the surface of a star"
Markus Deserno
LASER
Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
travels at the same speed in all inertial reference frames
light/photon
Chinese-American experimental particle physicist who conducted an experiment named after herself that proved that parity is not conserved under weak nuclear interactions.
Chien-Shiung Wu
Teaches General Relativity
Tiziana Di Matteo
"it's where the magic happens" (la prima)
Morningstar
LSST
Legacy Survey of Space and Time
describes statistical properties of a system in thermal equilibrium
Partition function
German-American theoretical physicist that shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics for her research on nuclear shell structure. Hint: she has a unit named after her.
Maria Goeppert-Mayer
Kozii's office #
6418
“Stress-energy tensor: At CMU, the stress component is high and energy is low”
Croft
CERN
Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire
-Half points:
Organisation européenne pour la recherche nucléaire
European Organization for Nuclear Research
subatomic particles with half integer spin
fermions