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  2. Golden age of physics - Wikipedia

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    Solvay Conference of 1927, with prominent physicists such as Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Erwin Schrödinger and Paul Dirac.. A golden age of physics appears to have been delineated for certain periods of progress in the physics sciences, and this includes the previous and current developments of cosmology and astronomy.

  3. Frederick McKinley Jones - Wikipedia

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    Frederick McKinley Jones (May 17, 1893 – February 21, 1961) was an American inventor, entrepreneur, engineer, winner of the National Medal of Technology, and an inductee of the National Inventors Hall of Fame. [1]

  4. N-ray - Wikipedia

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    The N-ray affair occurred shortly after a series of major breakthroughs in experimental physics. Victor Schumann discovered vacuum ultraviolet radiation in 1893, Wilhelm Röntgen discovered X-rays in 1895, Henri Becquerel discovered radioactivity in 1896, and, in 1897, J. J. Thomson discovered electrons, showing that they were the constituents of cathode rays. [1]

  5. List of Indian inventions and discoveries - Wikipedia

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    Cholera toxin – Cholera toxin was discovered in 1959 by Indian microbiologist Sambhu Nath De. [254] In vitro fertilisation – the second successful birth of a 'test tube baby' occurred in India just 67 days after Louise Brown was born.

  6. Leonardo Torres Quevedo - Wikipedia

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    From 26 April to 23 September 1990, an exposition called De la Machine à Calculer de Pascal à l'Ordinateur. 350 annes d'Informatique was held at the Musée des Arts et Métiers in Paris, [132] where Torres' invention would be recognized as one of the first digital calculation systems: "In 1920, the Spaniard Leonardo Torres Quevedo built a ...

  7. Ray (optics) - Wikipedia

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    This plane is called sagittal plane. Sagittal rays intersect the pupil along a line that is perpendicular to the meridional plane for the ray's object point and passes through the optical axis. If the axis direction is defined to be the z axis, and the meridional plane is the y-z plane, sagittal rays intersect the pupil at y p = 0.

  8. X-ray optics - Wikipedia

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    X-ray optics is the branch of optics dealing with X-rays, rather than visible light.It deals with focusing and other ways of manipulating the X-ray beams for research techniques such as X-ray diffraction, X-ray crystallography, X-ray fluorescence, small-angle X-ray scattering, X-ray microscopy, X-ray phase-contrast imaging, and X-ray astronomy.

  9. Delta ray - Wikipedia

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    A delta ray is a secondary electron with enough energy to escape a significant distance away from the primary radiation beam and produce further ionization. [1]: 25 The term is sometimes used to describe any recoil particle caused by secondary ionization.