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Herbert Kroemer – Germany (1928–2024) Nobel laureate; August Krönig – Germany (1822–1879) Ralph Kronig – Germany, United States (1904–1995) Nikolay Sergeevich Krylov – Soviet Union (1917–1947) Ryogo Kubo – Japan (1920–1995) Daya Shankar Kulshreshtha – India (born 1951) Shaiwatna Kupratakul – Thailand (born 1940)
1894 – Paul Drude introduces the symbol c for speed of light in vacuum. 1895 – Hendrik Lorentz corrects his 1892 model, proposing a contraction by the Lorentz factor (γ). 1895 – Albert Einstein probably makes his thought experiment about chasing a light beam, later relevant to his work on special relativity.
100: Israeli-American electrical engineer [11] Paddy Bassett: 1918–2019: 101: New Zealand agricultural scientist [12] Preston Bassett: 1892–1992: 100: American inventor and aeronautics pioneer [13] Henry Beachell: 1906–2006: 100: American developer of "miracle rice" [14] Wilfried de Beauclair: 1912–2020: 108: Swiss-born German engineer ...
2008 – 16-year study of stellar orbits around Sagittarius A* provides strong evidence for a supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy; 2009 – Planck begins observations of cosmic microwave background; 2012 – Higgs boson found by the Compact Muon Solenoid [12] and ATLAS [13] experiments at the Large Hadron Collider
As an example of its accuracy, 18th century scientist Guillaume Le Gentil, during a visit to Pondicherry, India, found the Indian computations (based on Aryabhata's computational paradigm) of the duration of the lunar eclipse of 30 August 1765 to be short by 41 seconds, whereas his charts (by Tobias Mayer, 1752) were long by 68 seconds. [89]
The calendar’s preoccupation with day, night, and seasonal changes may have sparked anew with a world-changing comet strike, one that experts believed occurred in roughly 10,850 B.C. and helped ...
The Mayan calendar’s 819-day cycle has confounded scholars for decades, but new research shows how it matches up to planetary cycles over a 45-year span Scientists Finally Solved the Mystery of ...
1920: 1988 Zu Chongzhi: China: 429: 500 Fritz Zwicky: Switzerland/United States: 1898: 1974: Zwicky was the first to use the virial theorem to discover the existence of a gravitational anomaly, which he termed dark matter. Hong-Yee Chiu: Taiwan/United States: 1932: Coined the term "Quasar" for the light emitted from the area around Supermassive ...