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Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.
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Italian-born physicist Dr. Enrico Fermi draws a diagram at a blackboard with mathematical equations. circa 1950.
Physics and Natural Law
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Light refraction image with a cube. Prism
How Is Light Both a Particle and a Wave?
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The Castillo, a Toltec-style pyramid, rises 79 feet (24 meters) above the plaza at Chichen Itza in Yucatan state, Mexico. The pyramid was built after invaders conquered the ancient Maya city in the tenth century.
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Marriage. A couple getting married during a church wedding ceremony. (religion, ceremony, bride, groom)
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earthquake. Heavily damaged school in the town of Yingxiu after a major earthquake struck China's Sichuan Province on May 12, 2008.
The 6 Deadliest Earthquakes Since 1950
The Colosseum, Rome, Italy. Giant amphitheatre built in Rome under the Flavian emperors. (ancient architecture; architectural ruins)
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Aphrodite. Greek mythology. Sculpture. Aphrodite is the Greek goddess of love and beauty.
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Gills of three old specimens of webcap fungus (Cortinarius) in Gloucestershire, South West England. toxic, fungi, poisonous mushroom
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Born December 17, 1894 • Rotterdam • Netherlands
Died April 24, 1952 (aged 57) • Netherlands
Subjects Of Study X-ray • dispersion • light • quantum electrodynamics • scattering
Understanding Newton's theory of universal gravitation
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Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
German-American physicist
James Clerk Maxwell
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish mathematician and physicist
Richard Feynman
Richard Feynman
American physicist
Marie Curie
Marie Curie
Polish-born French physicist
Fresnel, detail of an engraving by Ambroise Tardieu after a contemporary portrait, 1825
Augustin-Jean Fresnel
French physicist
Pascual Jordan
German physicist
Edwin Herbert Land
American inventor and physicist
Arthur Holly Compton
Arthur Holly Compton
American physicist
Norman Robert Campbell
British physicist and philosopher
Thomas Young, engraving
Thomas Young
British physician and physicist
illustration of Robert Hooke's law of elasticity of materials
Robert Hooke
British scientist
Gödel, Kurt; Schwinger, Julian; Einstein, Albert
Julian Seymour Schwinger
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Arago, François
François Arago
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John Tyndall.
John Tyndall
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Giacconi, Riccardo
Riccardo Giacconi
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Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
German physicist
Johann Lambert, detail of a lithograph by Gottfried Englemann, after a portrait by Pierre-Roch Vigneron
Johann Heinrich Lambert
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Nikolay Basov
Nikolay Basov
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Maurice Goldhaber
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Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.
Faces of Science
Italian-born physicist Dr. Enrico Fermi draws a diagram at a blackboard with mathematical equations. circa 1950.
Physics and Natural Law