Graphene
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2004
André Geim
Forget complicated machines, graphene was made using a much simpler installation.
The Pendulum
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1602
Galileo Galilei
Can a swinging chandelier change the way we do science? Apparently so.
Black Body Radiation
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1900
Max Planck
This discovery started with a revolution of how we think of light, to a revolution of how we think of the world around us.
Cosmic Microwave Background
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1964
Arno Pienzas
Robert W. Wilson
Sound, coming from space, in all directions... Where is it from, and what could it mean?
Electromagnetism
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1861
James Maxwell
Light, electricity, magnetism: all related?
Quantum Superposition
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1926
Erwin Schrödinger
Could something be dead and alive? Yes and no, opposites don’t exist, in the realm of super quantum.
Loies Fondamentales
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1687
Isaac Newton
The story of how an apple became an icon of science, gravity, and intellect.
Atoms
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1913
Jean Perrin
Sometimes, it takes a simple observation to come up with a revolutionary theory. Scientists and mathematicians, then, only have to find proofs.
Blue LED
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1989
Isamu Akasaki
Red, green, blue… Why does only one of these colors deserve a Nobel Prize?
Superfluidity
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1937
Pyotr Kapitsa
When it gets too cold even for atoms to vibrate, that doesn't mean the fluid will stay in place.
Soft Matter
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1991
Pierre Gilles Degennes
From pasta to computer screens, this stuff is everywhere.
X-ray
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1895
Wilhelm Röntgen
When an electrical cathode, put away inside a cardboard box, makes a chemical glow across the room? That’s funny…
Speed of Light
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1849
Hippolyte Fizeau
Measuring the fastest thing in the world is not impossible, not even in 19th century Paris.
Chute des Corps
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1602
Galileo Galilei
From the moon, centuries later, astronauts thought back on this man’s first discovery.
Photoelectric Effect
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1905
Albert Einstein
Einstein: sustainability hero.