Physics
Pieter Zeeman – Biographical
Biographical
Pieter Zeeman was born on May 25, 1865, at Zonnemaire, a small village in the isle of Schouwen, Zeeland, The Netherlands, as the son of the local clergyman Catharinus Forandinus Zeeman and his wife, née Wilhelmina Worst. After having finished his secondary school education at Zierikzee, the main town of the island, he went to…
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William Bragg – Biographical
Biographical
William Henry Bragg was born at Westward, Cumberland, on July 2, 1862. He was educated at Market Harborough Grammar School and afterwards at King William’s College, Isle of Man. Elected a minor scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1881, he studied mathematics under the well-known teacher, Dr. E. J. Routh. He was Third Wrangler in…
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Georges Charpak – Biographical
Biographical
(Translation) Born August 1 1924 in Dabrovica, PolandNaturalized French citizen in 1946 Studies Lycée Saint Louis in Paris Lycée de Montpellier 1945-1947 Ecole des Mines (Mining school) in Paris Degrees 1948 Bachelor of Science. Mining engineer. 1954 Ph. D. Physics. Experimental research inNuclear Physics at…
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Igor Y. Tamm – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Prize lecture
Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1958 General Characteristics of Radiation Emitted by Systems Moving with Super-Light Velocities with Some Applications to Plasma Physics Pdf 312 kB
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