Werner Karl Heisenberg was a German theoretical physicist and one of the key pioneers of quantum mechanics. He published his work in 1925 in a breakthrough paper. In the subsequent series of papers with Max Born and Pascual Jordan, during the same year, this matrix formulation of quantum mechanics was substantially elaborated. Take a look…
30 Inspiring And Interesting Facts About Stephen Hawking
Stephen William Hawking was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author, who was the director of research at the Center for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge at the time of his death. Take a look below for 30 more inspiring and interesting facts about Stephen Hawking. 1. He was the Lucasian Professor of…
27 Interesting And Fascinating Facts About Wernher Von Braun
Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun was a German, and later American, aerospace engineer and space architect. He was the leading figure in the development of rocket technology in Germany and the father of rocket technology and space science in the United States. Take a look below for 27 more interesting and fascinating facts about…
27 Fascinating And Interesting Facts About Alexander Fleming
Sir Alexander Fleming was a Scottish physician, microbiologist, and pharmacologist. His best known discoveries are the enzyme lysozyme in 1923 and the world’s first antibiotic substance benzylpenicillin from the mould Penicillium notatum in 1928, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Howard Florey and Ernest Boris Chain. Take…
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Gregor Johann Mendel was a scientist, Augustinian friar and abbot of St. Thomas’ Abbey in Brno, Margraviate of Moravia. Mendel was born in a German-speaking family in the Silesian part of the Austrian Empire and gained posthumous recognition as the founder of the modern science of genetics. Take a look below for 30 more interesting…
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Marie Sklodowska Curie was a Polish and naturalized French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person and only woman to win twice, the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different sciences and was part of the Curie…
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Galileo Galilei was an Italian polymath. Galileo is a central figure in the transition from natural philosophy to modern science and in the transformation of the scientific Renaissance into a scientific revolution. Take a look below for 30 more interesting and fun facts about Galileo Galilei. 1. Galileo’s push of heliocentrism and Copernicanism was controversial…