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The 1970s witnessed an explosion in the understanding of solid-state physics, driven by the development of the integrated circuit and the laser. The evolution of the computer produced an interesting duality in the physical sciences at this period — analogue recording technology had reached its peak and was incredibly sophisticated.
1959–60 – Role of topology in quantum physics predicted and confirmed [citation needed] 1962 – SU(3) theory of strong interactions; 1962 – Muon neutrino discovered; 1963 – Chien-Shiung Wu confirms the conserved vector current theory for weak interactions; 1963 – Murray Gell-Mann and George Zweig: Quarks predicted
Robert Lin was the son of Tung Hua Lin. [citation needed] He was born in Guangxi, China on January 24, 1942, and moved to London as a child and then to Michigan.He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1962 and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1967.
A golden age of physics began with the simultaneous discovery of the principle of the conservation of energy in the mid-19th century. [7] [8] A golden age of physics was the years 1925 to 1927. [9] The golden age of nonlinear physics was the period from 1950 to 1970, encompassing the Fermi–Pasta–Ulam–Tsingou problem and others. [10]
LED desk clocks were the epitome of futuristic design in the ‘70s and beyond. With their glowing red numbers, they looked like something straight out of a sci-fi movie. Sleek, modern, and ...
1882), German physicist and recipient of the 1954 Nobel Prize in physics. [17] January 27 – Marietta Blau (b. 1894), Austrian physicist. [18] April 27 – Orii Hyōjirō (b. 1883), Japanese animal specimen collector. May 1 – Ralph Hartley (b. 1888), American electrical engineer. July 20 – Margaret Reed Lewis (b. 1881), American cell ...
The ’60s had the counterculture. Ten years later, rebellion was a little sillier. Sold like baseball cards, Wacky Packs applied gross-out humor to parodies of consumer products, as in Gulp Oil ...
April 24 – Max von Laue (born 1879), German physicist, winner of the 1914 Nobel Prize in Physics. May 8 – J. H. C. Whitehead (born 1904), British mathematician. June 17 – Sir Harold Gillies (born 1882), New Zealand-born plastic surgeon. August 10 – Oswald Veblen (born 1880), American mathematician, geometer and topologist.