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Is Oppenheimer Worth Watching If You Are Physics Student?
Oppenheimer by Christopher Nolan is dedicated to one of the greatest scientists of all time, J. Robert Oppenheimer [1904-1967] American physicist who is more famous as the director of Los Alamos...
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How Rutherford Became Father of Nuclear Physics
"It is JUST AS surprising - as if a gunner fired a shell at a single sheet of paper and for some reason or other, the projectile BOUNCED BACK."This is how New Zealand physicist Ernest Rutherford...
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5 Biopics Like Oppenheimer Everyone Should Watch
Did you enjoy the performances by Cillian Murphy and Benny Safdie as Robert Oppenheimer and Edward Teller, respectively? The depiction by Christopher Nolan has won praises from audiences and critics...
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Who Was Nobel Laureate Irène Joliot-Curie?
"One must work seriously, be independent and not spend life just having fun; that is what our mother - Marie Curie - always told us, but never that science was the only career worth pursuing."Irène...
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5 Amazing Inventions By Physicists We Use Every Day
Did you know that one of the first video games was invented by a physicist? Why do you have to put your bags through a machine when you enter airport? In this post, we will look at five simple or...
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Anne L'Huillier Becomes Fifth Woman To Win Physics Nobel Prize
After Madame Curie (1903), Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1963), Donna Strickland (2018), Andrea Ghez (2020), now Anne L'Huillier has become the fifth woman to win a Nobel Prize in physics (2023). She shared...
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5 Quotes By CV Raman, India's Nobel Laureate
CV Raman was an Indian physicist who won the Nobel Prize in 1930. His discovery of the "Raman Effect" has extensive use in chemistry to provide a structural fingerprint by which strange molecules can...
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5 Motivational Quotes By Madame Curie
Marie Curie (1867-1934) is the only person in history who has won two Nobel Prizes in two different sciences, physics and chemistry. Curie was prohibited from higher education in her native country...
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Who Was Eugene Wigner?
Eugene Wigner was a Hungarian American physicist who made important contributions to the physics of elementary particles. He was a Nobel laureate who was nicknamed "a silent genius" by his...
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Why Astronomer Carl Sagan Was An Agnostic?
Carl Sagan was a renowned American astronomer who is best known for his show, Cosmos: a personal voyage. Sagan, an expert in the field of exobiology, persuaded NASA for Mars missions and to search for...
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5 Amazing Quotes By Max Planck On Science
Max Planck [1858-1947] was a German physicist who discovered energy quanta and laid the foundations of quantum mechanics in 1900. This won him the Nobel Prize in physics in 1918.Best known for Planck's...
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Why Edwin Hubble Never Won A Nobel Prize?
Edwin Hubble [1889-1953] was the first person to discover that the universe was expanding. He also found that Milky Way is just one of many galaxies in the universe. Thus, Hubble emerged as a pivotal...
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10 Less Known Facts About Physicist S.N. Bose
Satyendra Nath Bose was an Indian physicist who is best known for his contributions to statistical mechanics. Together with Albert Einstein, Bose is famous for the theory of Bosons and Bose Einstein...
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5 Quotes By Isaac Newton To Inspire Students
Isaac Newton was an English physicist who is credited for the invention of calculus. He is best known for the discovery of the laws of motion and the universal law of gravitation.Newton laid the...
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5 Quotes By Stephen Hawking On Black Holes
Stephen Hawking [1942-2018] was an English cosmologist and author who is most well known for his theory of black holes. Hawking is known for postulating the black hole thermal radiation. Hawking also...
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Why Light Bends Because of Gravity If It Has No Mass?
Gravity affects light not because light has mass or not, but because gravity disturbs the fabric of spacetime itself. According to Einstein's theory of general relativity, massive objects like stars or...
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10 Examples of Physics In Daily Life
Physics is not just about solving the problems and finding the right answer. From atoms to galaxies, everything is governed by physical laws. Not only is physics responsible for modern technology but...
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Which Physicist Had The Highest IQ?
While the score of IQ does not determine or justify the genius of a physicist, it is still a good measure to keep. The IQ of a person is always an estimate of their intelligence, but might not be...
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Physicist Who Coined Black hole & Wormhole
John Wheeler is best known as a physicist who popularized the term black hole. He was called the hero of black hole story by Stephen Hawking. Wheeler also coined the word wormhole for a hypothetical...
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5 Quotes By James Maxwell To Inspire Students
James Clerk Maxwell [1831-1879] was a Scottish physicist and mathematician who is best known for equations which unified electricity, magnetism and light into one coherent subject of electromagnetism....
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Feynman's Letter To Deceased Wife Breaks Stereotype
It is said that men cannot express themselves well enough. Building upon this notion, often times TV shows tend to portray that male scientists [or as they say geeks] cannot convey feelings of love and...
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10 Motivational Quotes By Albert Einstein
Everyone would agree that Albert Einstein was the greatest physicist of all time. Einstein won the Nobel Prize for explaining the photoelectric effect thereby paving a way for quantum mechanics to...
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Paul Dirac versus Richard Feynman
Feynman and Dirac, two great physicists who made invaluable contribution to quantum mechanics and Nobel prize winners, were poles apart.While Richard Feynman idolized Paul Dirac, they disagreed on many...
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5 Predictions of Nikola Tesla That Came True (And 5 That Didn't)
Nikola Tesla was a genius Serbian American inventor who laid the foundations of alternate current power system. Tesla was an advocate of modern technology and made many convincing predictions about the...
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No Contradiction Between Physics And Religion: Max Planck
Max Planck was a German theoretical physicist who is regarded as the father of quantum mechanics. Planck won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1918, for the discovery of energy quanta.While solving for...
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