#Physicists

Robert McNees

mcnees

“Dear Radioactive Ladies and Gentlemen”Wolfgang Pauli sent a letter to a group of nuclear physicists #OTD in 1930, proposing a new and hard-to-detect particle to explain energy that went missing

Robert McNees

mcnees

Who first obtained the field equations of general relativity: Einstein or Hilbert? For many years this was the subject of debate! Hilbert's paper on the subject was published after Einstein's

Deeply Credentialed Yuga

MelancholyYuga

One thing I've never really gotten over about industry is just how much of the economy is about unfucking other parts of the economy.Not in any grand political sense. I

Eric Weinstein

EricRWeinstein

I’d like to start a 2nd thread here about gender, science and the equality dividend.Prominent female physicists are still too rare. When you are dealing with a critic at Sabine’s

Dr. Danielle Lupton

ProfLupton

Here's a running list of PhDs in fictional films who are referred to correctly as Dr. and their specialities. 1. Dr. Indiana Jones; PhD Archaeology2. Dr. Jack Ryan; PhD Economics

FYI Science Policy

FYIscipolicy

[1/6] President-elect Biden announced top picks for his "science team" today, including geneticist Eric Lander (@eric_lander) as director of @WHOSTP and his science adviser:https://buildbackbetter.gov/press-releases/president-elec

"Shoot him again, his soul is still dancing"

Aelkus

Smithee, A. (2059). "They Never Should Have Hurt That Gorilla: The Surprising Origins of American Imperial Collapse." Oxford University Press.https://twitter.com/Sharon_Kuruvila/status/1296949366478053376 Smithee, A. (2049). "

Robert McNees

mcnees

Mathematician Irene Stegun was born #OTD in 1919. A major contributor to the Works Progress Administration’s Mathematical Tables Project, she’s probably best known as co-author of the classic “A Handbook

⭐Nereide🪐

Nereide

1/#MaxBorn also made contributions to solid-state physics and optics and supervised the work of a number of notable physicists in the 1920s and 1930s.In 1921, the year he became Professor

Dr Fiona H. Panther

FiPanther

I was gonna make a tiktok to narrate this but I figured I'd put it here too:RATING PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES BASED OFF MY TWITTER OBSERVATIONS OF THEIR USERBASE: python: attracts mansplainers

Dr. Héloïse Stevance 🖤✨(she)

Sydonahi

If the Sun peaks in the green, then why do plants REFLECT the green away?That's a question I often get when I tell people that the sun is "green". A

Eve Keneinan 𝛗☦️ن

EveKeneinan

Let’s talk about moral relativism, by way of philosopher James Rachels. Point 1: The main argument FOR moral relativism, and usually the ONLY argument for moral relativism, is INVALID and

Mike White

genologos

How unstable is science? People often claim that“Just as the theories of Ptolemy and Newton seemed perfectly satisfactory for centuries, so too our most cherished theories will one day be

Eric Roston

eroston

If you could see dimly into the future—which you can!—and calculate in dollars the benefits of actions preventing utter destruction and chaos, what would you call this price? You might

Danielle Osterman (She/Her, They/Them)

ostermad

So @kazumiochin and @udernation asked about imaginary numbers. As a BS in Mathematics, I am stupendously-qualified to carry forth on the subject.Thread: Let's talk about square roots. If @*@=#, where

Helen Chamberlain

ThatPhysicsGirl

Happy #IDMP2020 everyone! It's been a funny old year, but I thought it might be nice to summarise what I do day to day as a health professional in medical

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