How to become a physicist like Isaac Newton?
Did you know that Isaac Newton 's mother wanted him to become a farmer? He was 16 at the time and busied himself by building model windm...
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This is how Carl Anderson discovered antimatter
British physicist Paul Dirac showed in 1928 that every particle in the universe should have an antiparticle with the same mass as its twin,...
Steven Weinberg's four tips for aspiring scientists
Steven Weinberg (1933-2021) was an American physicist who worked alongside Pakistani physicist Abdus Salam to unify electromagnetic and wea...
All science is either physics or stamp collecting
What is science? In one simple sentence, science is the study of nature. However, different sciences like: astronomy, chemistry, biology, ge...
What motivated them to become physicists?
While several physicists like James Clerk Maxwell , John von Neumann and Lev Landau were child prodigies, most of the scientific greats dev...
8 times when Nikola Tesla was wrong
Nikola Tesla was a great Serbian-American engineer who played the major role in perfecting and promoting alternate current. He was also a v...
What did Feynman learn from his father?
When Richard Feynman was asked in an interview whether anybody could become a physicist like him, he candidly replied: Of course. I was an o...
10 Nobel Prize Winning Families In Science
The Nobel Prize is the most prestigious award given for intellectual achievement in the world. While there have been several controversial s...
Brilliant Physicist Who Died Too Young
James Clerk Maxwell was a renowned Scottish mathematician who built upon the works of English scientist Michael Faraday and revolutionized ...
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