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Fact |
Category |
Date |
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16 |
Walter Houser Brattain won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956. |
Science > Physics |
07/06/09 |
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17 |
Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2003. |
Science > Physics |
07/13/09 |
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18 |
Victor Grignard and Paul Sabatier both won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1912. |
Science > Physics |
07/07/09 |
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19 |
Victor Francis Hess and Carl David Anderson were awarded equal shares of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1936. |
Science > Physics |
07/06/09 |
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20 |
Val Logsdon Fitch won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1980. |
Science > Physics |
07/10/09 |
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21 |
Tsung-Dao Lee won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1957. |
Science > Physics |
07/06/09 |
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22 |
Toshihide Maskawa won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2008. |
Science > Physics |
07/13/09 |
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23 |
Theodor W. Hänsch won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2005. |
Science > Physics |
07/13/09 |
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24 |
The type of electricity delivered to businesses and residences is alternating current. |
Science > Physics |
02/02/09 |
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25 |
The term "battery", coined by Benjamin Franklin, was named after a battery of cannon. |
Science > Physics |
02/02/09 |
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26 |
The Planck constant is a physical constant used to describe the sizes of quanta. It relates the energy of a photon to the frequency of that photon. |
Science > Physics |
11/14/08 |
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27 |
The Hückel method was first proposed by Erich Hückel. |
Science > Physics |
05/30/08 |
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28 |
The first electric battery was the voltaic pile, invented by Alessandro Volta in 1800. |
Science > Physics |
02/04/09 |
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29 |
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1983. |
Science > Physics |
07/10/09 |
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30 |
Steven Weinberg won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979. |
Science > Physics |
07/10/09 |
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