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  2. List of Nobel laureates in Physics - Wikipedia

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    The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to 224 individuals as of 2023. [5] The first prize in physics was awarded in 1901 to Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, of Germany, who received 150,782 SEK. John Bardeen is the only laureate to win the prize twice—in 1956 and 1972. William Lawrence Bragg was the youngest Nobel laureate in physics; he won the ...

  3. Crossword abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    Cryptic crosswords often use abbreviations to clue individual letters or short fragments of the overall solution. These include: Any conventional abbreviations found in a standard dictionary, such as: "current": AC (for "alternating current"); less commonly, DC (for "direct current"); or even I (the symbol used in physics and electronics)

  4. Hannes Alfvén - Wikipedia

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    Hannes Alfvén. Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén (Swedish: [alˈveːn]; 30 May 1908 – 2 April 1995 [1]) was a Swedish electrical engineer, plasma physicist and winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). He described the class of MHD waves now known as Alfvén waves. He was originally trained as an ...

  5. James Chadwick - Wikipedia

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    James Chadwick. Sir James Chadwick, CH, FRS (20 October 1891 – 24 July 1974) was an English physicist who was awarded the 1935 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the neutron in 1932. In 1941, he wrote the final draft of the MAUD Report, which inspired the U.S. government to begin serious atom bomb research efforts.

  6. Erwin Schrödinger - Wikipedia

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    Bust of Schrödinger, in the courtyard arcade of the main building, University of Vienna, Austria Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger ForMemRS [2] (UK: / ˈ ʃ r ɜː d ɪ ŋ ə, ˈ ʃ r oʊ d ɪ ŋ ə /, US: / ˈ ʃ r oʊ d ɪ ŋ ər /; [3] German: [ˈɛɐ̯vɪn ˈʃʁøːdɪŋɐ]; 12 August 1887 – 4 January 1961), sometimes written as Schroedinger or Schrodinger, was a Nobel Prize ...

  7. Timeline of fundamental physics discoveries - Wikipedia

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    1610 – Galileo Galilei: discovered the Galilean moons of Jupiter. 1613 – Galileo Galilei: Inertia. 1621 – Willebrord Snellius: Snell's law. 1632 – Galileo Galilei: The Galilean principle (the laws of motion are the same in all inertial frames) 1660 – Blaise Pascal: Pascal's law. 1660 – Robert Hooke: Hooke's law.

  8. Max Planck - Wikipedia

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    Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck ForMemRS [ 1 ] (/ ˈplæŋk /; [ 2 ]German: [maks ˈplaŋk] ⓘ; [ 3 ] 23 April 1858 – 4 October 1947) was a German theoretical physicist whose discovery of energy quanta won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918.

  9. Crossword - Wikipedia

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    A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one letter, while the black squares are used to ...