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This gravitational wave physicist was elected the spokesperson for a Nobel prize winning scientific collaboration.
Who is Gabriela González?
9.8 m/s²
What is the acceleration due to gravity on Earth?
This physicist, who's most famous discovery is on T-Shirts all over the globe, was offered the presidency of Israel.
Who is Albert Einstein?
NASA
What is the National Aeronautic & Space Administration?
Applying this to an object causes it to rotate.
What is torque?
This professor is the department's Associate Chair and someone you see a lot your first year.
Who is Dana Browne?
299792458 m/s
What is the speed of light?
The author of physics' 3 most famous laws, and who predicted 2060 as the end of the modern world.
Who is Issac Newton?
NSF
What is the National Science Foundation?
The movement of these causes magnetic fields.
What are charges?
You'll get a ton of Department-Wide emails from her.
Who is Mimi LaValle?
6.626 * 10-³⁴ Js
What is Planck's Constant?
This Astronomer has 4 moons of Jupiter named after him, and was sentenced to house arrest by the Roman Inquisition.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
JWST
What is the James Webb Space Telescope?
This elementary particle is the basic unit of electromagnetic radiation (such as light).
What is a photon?
This astronomer is in the small list of people who have a star named after them (and have it be widely recognized).
Who is Tabetha Boyajian?
1.673*10-²⁷ kg
What is the mass of a proton?
This Danish nobleman is most notable for losing his nose in a sword fight, and observing the first "New Star".
Who is Tycho Brahe?
LSUA&MC
What is the Louisiana State University and Agriculture & Mechanical College?
This phenomenon occurs around massive celestial objects and magnifies distant objects.
What is Gravitational Lensing?
This condensed matter physicist has published 3 textbook editions, a general guide for physics students, as well as a 4 part series of sci-fi books.
Who is Shane Stadler?
8.85 * 10-¹² F/m
What is the permittivity of free space?
This physicist was a member of the Manhattan project, namesake of an astronomical quandary, and escaped Fascist Italy by winning a Nobel Prize.
Who is Enrico Fermi?
LASER
What is Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
This principle states that the position and momentum of a particle cannot both be precisely known at the same time.
What is the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?