#Physicists

Robert McNees

mcnees

The Dutch physicist Hendrik Antoon Lorentz was born #OTD in 1853. Here he is on the right next to an unidentified German scientist, probably one of his many admirers.Photo: Paul

J Emory Parker 🌈 Wear Masks | Stay Home

jaspar

Let me try out an analogy: Physicists know what the coldest possible temperature is. It's about -273.15ºC. In degrees Kelvin, it is 0. Maybe you've heard this called absolute zero.

Yardley Yeadon

MichaelYeadon3

There is no necessity to do this at all. There is nothing remarkable about this virus. Yes, it’s probably of a lethality equal to the more severe influenza seasons. No

Hannalore Gerling-Dunsmore

JoyofPhysics

Seriously y’all, this would be like getting a PhD in physics and publicly INSISTING gravity acts at a distance instantaneously due to the Newtonian description, rather than at the speed

John Carlos Baez

johncarlosbaez

Physicists measure spin in units of 1/2, but if you double these you get natural numbers. A particle of spin j and one of spin k can turn into one

BHR RT Physics

BHR_RTPhysics

Thread - 1/Hello! it’s International Day of Medical Physics #idmp2017 @ipemnews @IntDayofMedPhys @IOMP_Official @BHR_hospitals 2/It was founded by the International Organization for Medical Physics: Marie Curie’s anniversary, born 150 y

Kaleigh Moore

kaleighf

Want to know how mathematicians, philosophers, and Nobel prize-winning physicists agree on mastering writing through an unexpected approach?Hint: It's simple. THREAD! 1/The titles within my stack of books have been

Dr. Tim 'Stick' Szczykutowicz

Prof_TimStick

1/11 #UnsolicitedArticleReview Authors link radiology leadership prioritizing CT protocol teams with dose reduction amounts. Awesome paper! https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacr.2020.01.044@JACRJournal @aapmHQ @ctisus @CtSpectral @SABImaging @EFOM

India Wants To Know - Panel Quiz Show

IWTKQuiz

Today is International day of women and girls in science. And here is the supremely talented @bertyashleyto talk about some amazing Indian women and their contributions to science. #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM

IrishWomenInHistory

IrishWomenin

Ottilie Patterson (born 1932) grew up in Northern Ireland. In the early 1950s she moved to London to become a professional jazz singer. Muddy Waters, then at the peak of

Adam Becker

FreelanceAstro

Ask and ye shall receive. Let’s talk about Werner Heisenberg, Nazi collaborator, and how he tried to cover it up after the war. (1/n)https://twitter.com/waltshaub/status/1338539672981671936 Werner Heisenberg was unquestionably brilliant.

Sean Carroll

seanmcarroll

Roger Penrose won the Nobel Prize for showing that black holes are an almost-unavoidable prediction of classical general relativity. Let's take a peek into what that entailed. 1/n Einstein wrote

Duncan J Campbell

Maven1967

What is going on at SWANSEA UNIVERSITY in Wales?1.https://www.unilad.co.uk/news/british-scientists-developing-worlds-first-covid-19-vaccine-smart-patch/?fbclid=IwAR0yj_QNOjxug2T_9mVNvLOv9L562gXHj1u1iKqZTeJIJ9_NFcgl34c6E1sSounds as if its co

Adam Becker

FreelanceAstro

(One of the other physicists there actually asked Heisenberg if he thought the house was bugged. "Microphones installed?" Heisenberg laughed. "Oh no, they're not as cute as all that. I

Simon DeDeo

SimonDeDeo

Feynman wisdom is that you don’t truly understand something until you can explain it to a newcomer. This gets confused with two seemingly similar claims, however, both of which are

ויקאס פנדיטה

TORUKH_MAKTO

Does harvard make you smarter?No. Only people who happen to be smart get into harvard. Period! #NidhiRazdan The hardest part of getting a Harvard education is getting in.How can you

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