#Physicists

Amit Schandillia

Schandillia

[QT: PANDEMIC VALENTINE]1/55This Valentine's Day is probably the first of its kind in generations. Love in the thick of a raging global pandemic has a strange post-apocalyptic yet romantic ring

Robert McNees

mcnees

Albert Michelson, pioneer of optical interferometry, was born #OTD in 1852. He refined measurements of the speed of light, failed to find evidence of the aether, and developed a method

Sophia Gad-Nasr

Astropartigirl

Most of you know I study particle dark matter. I find this stuff so interesting that I wanted to write a thread, all about this weird stuff, to tell you

Jaki Noronha-Hostler

jnoronhahostler

Today I want to talk about some awesome women in my field (high-energy nuclear physics) who don't get nearly the attention that they deserve. #InternationalDayOfWomenInScience #WomenInScience #WomenInScience #WomenScienceDay #WomenAndGi

🇧🇧 Ethereal Bisexual Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

IBJIYONGI

The Librarians at the Library of Congress have miscategorized my book, which is quite the thing to have happen given my love note to librarians at the start of the

Robert McNees

mcnees

Stephen Hawking was born #OTD in 1942. He developed theorems with Penrose that determine when general relativity produces singularities, established classical laws of black hole mechanics, and hypothesized that quantum

Robert McNees

mcnees

The physicist Maria Goeppert Mayer was born #OTD in 1906. She developed the nuclear shell model of the nucleus, for which she was awarded the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics.Image:

Dr Zoë Ayres

ZJAyres

So unbelievably (to me), I've woken up today to having over 20,000 followers on here, which is just mind-blowing. When I started advocating for #AcademicMentalHealth I could never have foreseen

Laurens Gunnarsen

MathPrinceps

Believe me, @graciegcunning, you sounded smart (indeed, brilliant) before, and you sound even smarter here. Your questions are ancient, deep, and fascinating. And it's vastly more important to ask good

Agustin Lebron

AgustinLebron3

1/ Options 101 (a thread):When you teach options, they put you in jail if you don't start with this:A call/put is the right (but not the obligation) to buy/sell a

The Cosmist Insurrection, Inc. ™

yungneocon

Thread on why Rainer is full of shit, on the fall in living standards, and how most elements of the Holocaust were independent of capitalism—please read to the end for

Dr. Steve Easterbrook

SMEasterbrook

1/ As it’s the 75th anniversary of ENIAC today, I thought I would share an extract from my forthcoming book, Computing the Climate. Because ENIAC played a crucial role in

Natasha Loder

natashaloder

As the end of the year drew near I wondered: what *else* happened in science besides covid-19? So I got in touch with @ScienceMagazine, @nature, @CellCellPress, @ElsevierNews and asked: what

Paul Musgrave

profmusgrave

1 like, 1 opinion about college teaching and learning, until I get bored 1. Professors can be more rigorous in teaching review and evaluation 2. Student evals are more like

James Baird

james_d_baird

You should read The Art of Doing Science and Engineering by Richard Hamming.But you probably don’t have time.So here is a with a running summary as I read and

Nick Hinton

NickHintonn

A Conspiracy Thread: The Saturn Stargate According to some researchers, our solar system may have looked much different in the ancient past. Author and scholar Immanuel Velikovsky claimed that the

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