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#physicist

Ele Willoughby, PhD
20 hours ago

being at home watching physicist husband going to work to pursue what he loved. He insisted she return to grad school. Admitted to Georgetown at 23, expecting 2nd child. Writing her thesis, advisor Heyden got her in contact with #physicist George Gamow, who worked at nearby APL & adjunct at George Washington U who took her on as a student (PhD ‘54).

While 4 kids were young, she taught at Georgetown before gaining a position at Carnegie’s Dept of Terrestrial Magnetism. 🧵2/n

Ele Willoughby, PhD
3 days ago

She was a #physicist, #crystallographer, #pacifist & prison reformer. She was the 1st to employ Fourier spectral methods & used them to solve the structure of hexachlorobenzene in ‘31. In ‘45 she was one of the 1st 2 women elected Fellow of the Royal Society & was the 1st woman: tenured professor at UC London, president of the International Union of Crystallography & president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. 

🧵2/n

Rasta
6 days ago

Is it too long? I am listening to music now, but I watched this earlier, 30 min #listen

"The World From Another Point Of View" ~ Richard Feynman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNhlNSLQAFE 34m #Interview
#Physicist #RichardFeynman #NobelLaureate #PointOfView #Learning #Physics

RealScientists Nano
1 week ago

So, who am I? My name is Sofia Ferreira Teixeira, and I am originally from Portugal. I am a #physicist, besides being a crazy cat lady and loving music a bit too much. So, how did I end up here? A🧵

Knowledge Zone
2 weeks ago

#OnThisDay Edwin Hubble's discovery, that the #Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island #Galaxy, is published (1924).

The first #Smartphone, the IBM #Simon, is introduced at COMDEX in Las Vegas (1992).

Birth Anniversary of #Physicist Johannes Diderik van der Waals (1837) - famous for van der Waals #Equation of state.

https://knowledgezone.co.in/news

Of three arrested for attempted murder of 78 yo Spanish #Physicist and politician Vidal-Quadras,man from #Granada would be linked to Shiite circles there. Detainee in #Malaga lent BMW bike.
Shooter would be a Tunisian,possibly with French nationality,involved in prior murder and would have fleed #Spain
http://bit.ly/40QWNXr

Detainees in Vidal Quadras assasination plot. Headlines Onda Cero 2023 Nov.21

Two men arrested by Spanish #Police in #Granada and #Malaga for their connection to attempted murder of 78 yo Spanish #Physicist and politician Vidal Quadras would be Spaniards
The woman,romantic partner of the detainee in Granada, would be British
http://bit.ly/3ung3js
Footage of surveillance cameras suggest that the hitman who fired the shot would be a Frenchman born in some #Maghreb country who fleed #Spain

Hitman involved in Vidal-Quadras assasination plot would have fleed Spain
Headines OKDiario 2023 Nov.21

A poorly parked rental car in the village of #Lanjarón,#Granada would have led Spanish #Police to catch the ideologue and financier of the attempted murder of 78-yo Spanish #Physicist and politician Vidal-Quadras
http://bit.ly/3uq2ZcW
More on this topic soon.

Poorly parked car in Lanjaron solves Vidal-Quadras assasination plot.
Headlines Ideal 2023 Nov.21

One of those detained in #Granada - the second would be his romantic partner - would be the ideologist of the attempted murder of 78 yo Spanish #Physicist and politician Vidal-Quadras
http://bit.ly/46qIvOL
Detainee would have hired the #Hitman who shot and the driver of the BMW motorcycle
More arrests by Spanish #Police in progress.
More on this topic soon.

Detainee in Granada hired hitmen in Vidal-Quadras assasination plot
Headlines ABC de Sevilla 2023 Nov.21

https://bit.ly/49MsPbh
Three persons in #Granada and #Malaga - one of them a romantic partner of one of them - have been arrested in relation to attempted murder of 78 yo Spanish #Physicist and politician Vidal-Quadras,.
BMW bike used in assassination attempt that appeared burned would be property of a citizen in Fuengirola -Málaga-
Detainees were neither shooter nor driver but related to that bike.
#Police operation continues and new arrests or a counter-#terrorist op are not ruled out.

Detainees in Vidal-Quadras murder plot.
Headlines ABC de Sevilla 2023 Nov.21
Knowledge Zone
2 weeks ago

#OnThisDay Birth Anniversary of George Gallup (1901) - American pioneer of #Survey sampling techniques and #Inventor of the Gallup poll.

Birth Anniversary of #Physicist and Nobel Prize winner Patrick Blackett (1897). He was the first person to prove that #Radioactivity could cause the nuclear transmutation.

https://knowledgezone.co.in/news

In 2006,#Physicist Vidal-Quadras became involved with National Council of Resistance of #Iran
It is a group of fanatics that aspires to see monarchy in the form of one of Shah's descendants restored in #Iran that includes MEK that has been labeled #Terrorist organization by several Middle Eastern countries
http://bit.ly/3uhNymU
In 2013 money -euR one million- used to fund Spanish #neoNAZI party #Vox would have supposedly come from Iranian exile.
More on this soon

Spanish neoNAZI party funded by Iranian exile. Headlines El País 2019 Jan.21

On Thursday,a commando of two gunmen carried out an assassination attempt against the 78 yo #Physicist Vidal-Quadras.
Mr. Vidal-Quadras was president of #Catalunya of #PartidoPopular (1991-1996),MEP of #EuropeanParliament (1999-2014) and founder of Spanish #neoNAZI party #VoX (2014)
http://bit.ly/3sB9CbL
#Homicide Task Force of the Spanish Police suspects that they were two #HitMen trying to carry out a contract #Murder. A motorcycle possibly used to escape by the commando has appeared burned

Vidal-Quadras assasination attempt 
Headlines El País 2023 Nov.09
Ele Willoughby, PhD
1 month ago

Happy birthday to Marie Skłodowska-Curie (1867 – 1934, Polish-born, naturalized-French #physicist & #chemist. The contents of her lab glassware in my print appropriately glow-in-the-dark!

Marie Curie was the 1st woman to win a Nobel prize, the only woman to ever win 2 Nobel prizes, and the only person ever to win in two different sciences: #physics & #chemistry. She was also the 1st woman prof at the U of Paris, … 🧵1/n

#linocut #printmaking #sciart #WomenInSTEM #histstm #MastoArt

My linocut print of Marie Curie in teal, holding glassware with radiating straight arrows and wiggly lines (to represent particles and photons respectively) in glow in the dark ink
Ele Willoughby, PhD
1 month ago

Happy birthday to #physicist Lise Meitner (1878-1968) who explained #nuclear #fission. She worked with chemists Hahn & Straßmann in 30s Berlin, seeking any stable elements beyond uranium. They discovered bombarding nucleus of U-235 with neutrons actually triggered it to fission, or break, into 2 nuclei of roughly half the size & some free neutrons! Hahn's chemistry lead to startling discovery of barium, but no explanation 🧵1/n

#MastoArt
#linocut #printmaking #sciart #histstm #womenInSTEM

My linocut print of Lise Meitner holding her glasses in one hand, while leaning on the other, in silver ink. In red ink is a nuclear fission chain reaction shown with a single neutron (white ball with motion lines) emanating from her head towards a nucleus (conglomerate of red proton and white neutron balls) then an arrow to it fissioning (becoming split into two adjacent then two separate halves with extra free neutrons). These neutrons in turn all begin the same process with other nuclei and the chain reaction takes up the left side of the print next to Meitner.
SHUT Breaking News
1 month ago

Loki season 2 episode 5 review and ending explained: Loki races against time to save his new home and all of time in the penultimate episode of season 2, delivering moments of self-reflection. https://shut.net/2023/11/03/news-loki-season-2-episode-5-review-and-ending-explained?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Spoilermedia #MarvelCinematicUniverse #MarvelStudios #Physicist

Ricardo Harvin
1 month ago

My thread on #PBS's #AncientEarth series has me thinking that #PHD #physicist #RebeccaSmethurst may be overly optimistic in her calculations regarding the possibility of there being life as we know it existing elsewhere in the #universe.

Learning how many flukes of #geology it's taken for life on #Earth to survive may leave only thousands of planets with life at all, fewer with beings with whom we might communicate.

https://youtu.be/fihVzPl7Dys?si=GyoQ-uh92ru3m3ar

From: @ricardoharvin
https://mstdn.social/@ricardoharvin/111179761709023421

Ele Willoughby, PhD
2 months ago

Happy birthday to Danish #physicist Niels Bohr (1885-1962). One of his most famous contributions to quantum mechanics was the Bohr-Rutherford model of the atom. Bohr is shown next to the Bohr model of the Hydrogen atom (all the concentric circles are actually at the appropriate spacing, proportional to the n squared).

🧵1/n

#linocut #sciart #printmaking #physics #Bohr #quantum #histsci #quantumMechanics #quantumPhysics #spectroscopy #atom #atomicPhysics #MastoArt

My linocut of Niels Bohr with the Bohr model of the hydrogen atom and Balmer series of spectral lines. Bohr is printed in blue-grey and wearing a suit. Concentric rings of silver represent energy levels in hydrogen and overlap his head.  Squiggly lines go between pairs of silver orbits and match the colours of the line spectra printed below him (left to right: red, cyan, blue and violet. H-alpha is red and caused by a jump from the 3rd to 2nd orbit; H-beta is cyan and caused by a jump from the 4th to 2nd orbit; H-gamma is indigo and caused by a jump from the 5th to 2nd orbit; and H-delta is violet and caused by a jump from the 6th to 2nd orbit.
Ricardo Harvin
2 months ago

"...the #neuroscience of #memory is an incredibly deep and sophisticated field, and in the style of any good #physicist, we're going to ignore all of the subtlety and assume the #brain is a perfect sphere." 😂

The #PBS #SpaceTime #YouTube #videos routinely break my often rock-like brain, but I do sometimes understand the jokes.

https://youtu.be/F0b8b_ykPQk?si=VOOzyWqsou_wVeLb

http://bit.ly/3LKpdMA
On 2023 Sept.22, Evelyn Fox Keller died.She pursued #MolecularBiology after completing her bachelor's-1957-, master's-1959-, and Ph.D. in Theoretical #Physics probably because of his #Genecist brother.
As a theoretical #Physicist she was mediocre but she attended a talk entitled "#Women and the Scientific Profession" and that determined her attitudes.
She was best known for her #Genre #Books and at the end of her career she even taught rhetoric classes.

Evelyn Fox Keller died.
Headlines The New York Times 2023 Sept.30
Mr. P. M. Secular
2 months ago

"I had been taught in Switzerland that the cardinal sin of a physicist is to restate the obvious, a tenet to which I now no longer subscribe"

---Gregory H. Wannier (1962) Rev. Mod. Phys. Vol. 34, No. 4

#physics #communication #science #education #scicomm #quotation #physicist #scientist #STEM

Ele Willoughby, PhD
2 months ago

She found 6 months mat leave post MSc very difficult being at home watching physicist husband going to work to pursue what he loved. He insisted she return to grad school. Admitted to Georgetown at 23, expecting 2nd child. Writing her thesis, advisor Heyden got her in contact with #physicist George Gamow, at nearby APL & adjunct at George Washington U who took her on as a student (PhD ‘54).

🧵2/n

heberle
2 months ago

I‘m an environmental #physicist by training, but after three years of parental leave I started a new job as a consulting software #developer. I work(ed) with a lot of different technologies: #swiftlang, #java, #csharp, #cplusplus, #angular, #perl, … My preferred computing platform is the #Mac.

In my spare time I love to play #tabletopgames of all kinds: #boardgames, #cardgames, #miniature games and #rpg’s. When I‘m by myself I also enjoy #sologames or (mostly) older #videogames.

#introduction

For years I have been observing the continuous lies of deniers of climate change due to anthropogenic causes
A #Physicist who has received a #NobelPrize is that... a guy who has received a prize for her/his contributions to a specific field of knowledge
Arguments are always the same ones that have been repeated since 90s,then turn out of fashion and five yrs later same ones are raised again and people accept them even though they have been refuted decades ago
I'm going to refer to carbon dioxide

Climate change denialists
Headlines VozPopuli 2023 Sept.02
Knowledge Zone
4 months ago

#OnThisDay Birth Anniversary of René Goscinny (1926) - creator of #Asterix.

Birth Anniversary of Danish #Physicist Hans Christian Ørsted (1777) - who discovered that electric currents create magnetic fields, which was the first connection found between electricity and magnetism. He is famous for Oersted's Law.

Happy Birthday Magic Johnson (1959).

https://knowledgezone.co.in/news

Happy birthday, Erwin Schrödinger! #physics #physicist #cat #caturday #DigitalArt

Ele Willoughby, PhD
4 months ago

Another of my prints related to Water Docs Film Festival #WaterDocsARTivism prompt: water and climate.

I printed my ‘Cloud Classification’ Lino block on beautiful ‘cloud unryu’ Japanese paper and painted the quotation, from renown Irish #physicist John Tyndall (1820-1893), “We live in the sky, not under it.”

American scientist & suffragette Eunice Foote (1819-1888) discovered the greenhouse effect,
that certain gases…

🧵 1/n
#linocut #printmaking #clouds #sciArt #climate

#Artivism

As described: I printed my ‘Cloud Classification’ Lino block on beautiful dark blue’cloud unryu’ Japanese paper with swirling visible fibres and painted the quotation, from renown Irish #physicist John Tyndall (1820-1893), “We live in the sky, not under it,” in white.
Ele Willoughby, PhD
4 months ago

This is another of my prints related to @waterdocsfilmfestival #WaterDocsARTivism prompt: water and climate.

I printed my ‘Cloud Classification’ Lino block on beautiful ‘cloud unryu’ Japanese paper and painted the quotation, from renown Irish #physicist John Tyndall (1820-1893), “We live in the sky, not under it.”

American scientist & suffragette Eunice Foote (1819-1888) discovered the greenhouse effect,

🧵 1/n

#linocut #printmaking #clouds #sciArt #climate #MastoArt

#Artivism

As described: I printed my ‘Cloud Classification’ Lino block on beautiful dark blue’cloud unryu’ Japanese paper with swirling visible fibres and painted the quotation, from renown Irish #physicist John Tyndall (1820-1893), “We live in the sky, not under it,” in white.
Lucienne Loutranger
4 months ago

Whole new migration done, time for me to redo the #introduction post yet again.

Howdy y'all! I'm Lucienne Loutranger! I am a #physicist turned #softwaredeveloper by day, and #vtuber #streamer by night who wants to get into teaching. I'm #nonbinary #trans, #pan, #furry, a #polyglot, an #artist working in 2D and 3D, a folk #musician, and a #VRChat enjoyer. If any of that sounds interesting to you, feel free to drop a follow!

SLCW💥
4 months ago

#Elon isn't a #physicist, or a #scientist of any sort, but he plays one on his shitty #hate platform. He's got a bad habit of confidently pretending to be the leading #expert in literally every subject, but 99.9% of the time he's just talking out of his silly South African ass. The only thing he's really an expert in is convincing others that he's an expert. That, and operating a secret #emerald mine.

https://www.benzinga.com/amp/content/33511888

Manuel Alonso
4 months ago

@Hashtags Hi! Solid-state #Physicist here, doing outreach in Mastodon as a more friendly alternative to the X site.

Philippe Smet
4 months ago

@Hashtags @freyablekman 
One more #physicist here! 👋 Now running a thread #SummerOfPhysics on everyday #physics observations and experiments. In case you’re interested ;)

Stop That
4 months ago

Controversial #Physicist Faces Mounting Accusations of Scientific Misconduct
Allegations of data fabrication have sparked the retraction of multiple papers from Ranga Dias, a researcher who claimed discovery of a room-temperature #superconductor

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/controversial-physicist-faces-mounting-accusations-of-scientific-misconduct/

Alex Chaffee
4 months ago

As usual ScienceClic has beautiful visualizations and calm explanations of wacky #physics concepts — in this case, the Minkowski/Lorentz transformations that underly Special Relativity.

https://youtu.be/qdycfWfAtsM

I’d love to get a reality check (so to speak :-)) from an actual #physicist on some of his speculative concluding remarks though; specifically that “the electric field is the time version of the magnetic field, and energy is the time version of momentum”. 1/2

Dave
4 months ago

@taxyovio I am a #physicist and I enjoyed it. I had read the book it was based on, American Prometheus, and I feel it did a pretty good job capturing the essence of it. You obviously get a lot more information and backstory from the book. The movie is told in a non-linear manner, which I think was done very well. The cinematography was good. If you are familiar with a lot of the Manhattan Project names, a lot of them are there, but not much is done to fill in their biographies than is needed for the story. From that standpoint it added another layer of enjoyment for me knowing who these secondary characters were and their importance in the grander scheme. You don't have to know anything about the science or the scientists to enjoy the movie, but if you do know a bit, it was nice to see that they got that stuff correct without beating you over the head about it. You get a lot more insight into Oppenheimer's personality and personal demons from the book that helps explain certain events, but that is a limitation imposed by the movie format.

Ele Willoughby, PhD
4 months ago

at home watching physicist husband going to work to pursue what he loved. He insisted she return to grad school. Admitted to Georgetown at 23, expecting 2nd child. Writing her thesis, advisor Heyden got her in contact with #physicist George Gamow, who worked at nearby APL & adjunct at George Washington U who took her on as a student (PhD ‘54).

While 4 kids were young, she taught at Georgetown before gaining a position at Carnegie’s Dept of Terrestrial Magnetism.

Knowledge Zone
4 months ago

#Hollywood movie aside, just how good a #Physicist was #Oppenheimer? : Science

#Aspartame and #Cancer: What to Know About the #WHO’s Advice : NY Times

#Climate #Connections : Misc

Check our latest #KnowledgeLinks

https://knowledgezone.co.in/resources/bookmarks

I'm not a #Physicist but I do know #SchrodingersCat 😂 if you're a #BBT fan them you'd know it too😂😂😂

#nerdyjoke #schrodinger 😂

Sebastian Deffner
5 months ago

Are you an experimental #physicist working in #QIS? Do you want to become an assistant #professor? Apply now and join UMBC.

https://apply.interfolio.com/127322

Ele Willoughby, PhD
5 months ago

Happy birthday to #physicist Harriet Brooks (1876 - 1933) who discovered atomic recoil, Radon & recognized radioactive elements could undergo chains of transmutations into a series of new elements. #nuclear #physics

She was Rutherford’s 1st grad student at McGill. After publishing her results in 1899 she completed her MSc in 1901 on "Damping of Electrical Oscillations," before embarking on #radioactivity research.⁠

1/n

#linocut #printmaking #sciart #womenInSTEM #histstm #MastoArt

My 9.25" x 12.5" linocut portrait of physicist Harriet Brooks (1876 - 1933) in a gradient of turquoise to green, shows her and her discovery of atomic recoil in gold (Radon gives off an alpha particle and daughter nucleus goes in opposite direction). 

A series of diagrams at the bottom shows how the Rutherford research group understood chains of radioactive active transmutations at the time.
Knowledge Zone
5 months ago

#OnThisDay Birth Anniversary of British #Physicist William Henry Bragg (1862). He uniquely shared a Nobel Prize with his son Lawrence Bragg – the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics: "for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays".

British-Italian engineer Guglielmo Marconi obtained a patent for #Radio in London (1897).

https://knowledgezone.co.in/news

Ele Willoughby, PhD
6 months ago

Happy birthday to #physicist James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879)! He dreamt up his demon to deal with the very odd 2nd Law of Thermodynamics (which is not a law like others, and can not be derived from first priciples).

1/n

#sciart #linocut #printmaker #MaxwellsDemon #ImaginaryFriends #thermodynamics #MastoArt

Linocut print, 8”x10” on white washi paper, showing Maxwell’s demon in blue in a circle in the centre surrounded by red with the words “Maxwell’s” above and “Demon” below, arcing around the circle.

My nimble-fingered demon resembles Maxwell, but with horns, extra-long fingers and enormous eyes to see and track particles and is using the cold blue region to warm the hot red region. In the blue region there are random slow moving particles denoted by dots with two tails. Carved into the red area are fast moving particles denoted by dots with three longer tail lines.
Jeroen Habets
6 months ago

@CassandraZeroCovid as a #physicist that doesn't get me worried: #Fusion has been remaining 30 years in the future so far.

Dallman Ross
6 months ago

What do folks think of #physicist/#science influencer Sabine Hossenfelder? I don't blame her for it, but I've sure noticed: Over a few years, she's undergone a full-scale media makeover. Last decade, she was a stone-washed-jeans-and-T-sporting post-grad lecturer with the usual other gorpy-trail-mix accouterments. Now she's a primped 40-something über-Professor-in-cocktail-dress. Targeting those YouTube followers, for sure! I presume her publicist had much to do with it. I don't condemn it, but—…

Ele Willoughby, PhD
6 months ago

Happy birthday #physicist Chien-shiung Wu (1912-1997), who came up with a truly beautiful experiment to test whether the weak force conserves parity (whether beta decay would be the same if reflected in the mirror)! In my print on the left I show Wu in her lab & a schematic diagram of her experiment; On the right her reflection, as in the mirror, & the shocking result, that the reaction is not the mirror opposite.⁠
⁠1/n

#linocut #sciart #physicist #womenInSTEM #histstm #quantum #MastoArt

Linocut print of Chien-shiung Wu in indigo wearing a lab coat and holding a schematic diagram of her famous violation of parity experiment (in blue and indigo) on the left side. The right side shows the mirror image except in the schematic diagram. The left side schematic shows a C shaped electromagnet open to the left. The top is labeled S, the bottom is labeled N and the middle is wrapped in wire drawn as a circuit diagram schematic with parallel lines to indicate a power source and left arrow on top wire, right arrow on bottom. Between the poles of the magnet is a big blue dot to designate Cobalt-60 with many tiny dots as beta-decay electrons, the majority going downwards to N pole. On the right, everything is flipping except most electrons go upwards (and and N and S poles are flipped).

#VirginiaNorwood passed away earlier this year at the age of 96, and #NASA’s farewell to this influential pioneer is a worth a read. Virginia was a brilliant #physicist and #engineer, and among her other accomplishments, we have her to thank for the ongoing success of the #Landsat program, which continues to this day. The goal of the program was to image land from #space for the purpose of resource management.
https://hackaday.com/2023/05/13/remembering-virginia-norwood-mother-of-nasas-landsat-success/

Why #champagne has stable “bubble chains” and other carbonated #drinks do not
Surfactants give champagne its signature stable rising column of #bubbles.
Brown University #physicist Roberto Zenit found that this is because surfactant molecules coat the champagne bubbles and encourage more swirling, thereby disrupting the wake, according to a paper published in the journal Physical Review Fluids.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/05/physicists-unlock-secret-of-why-champagne-bubbles-form-straight-chain-as-they-rise/

David Ruffner
7 months ago

#introduction Hi I'm David (he/him), and I've been enjoying this network for a little while now, and slowly getting the hang of it. I'm married and a dad. We have two boys, 5 and 2. I'm a #physicist into #software and #machinelearning. I work at a early stage company, Spheryx, developing new ways to do #particlecharacterization. Recently I've been interested in #unschooling, #ecology, #permaculture, #connection, #economics, #opensource, #foss, #selfdirectededucation, #elixir, and, #puns. 😀 🦕 🌳

I unsubscribd to #SabineHossenfelder's channel. Not out of spite, but because if she's being so anti-science on one video, then I can't trust any of her videos.

Watch "Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder Screws up on Trans Kids' Care" on YouTube
https://youtu.be/r6Kau7bO3Fw

#trans #physicist #misinformation #BadScience

Originalbarbas
7 months ago

Hello! This is my #introduction post and so I will say a couple of things about myself and then list some interests that may or may not be in my bio.

I am a
#physicist by trade and I work with #quantum stuff. But, more interestingly, I really enjoy #boardgames , #ttrpgs, #videogames and books (my #bookwyrm profile is @originalbarbas@ramblingreaders.org). I also #toot as @originalbarbas@dice.camp!

Expect boosts about
#anarchism , #sciencefiction #sciencecommunication, #fgc, #ttrpgs, #linux, #spanishpolitics (I am #español after all, from #galicia) and many more! ​:akko_excited:​
Ah, and all things
#studiotrigger!

Ele Willoughby, PhD
7 months ago

Happy birthday to British #engineer, #mathematician, #physicist & #inventor Hertha Ayrton (1854-1923). I’ve shown her in my #linocut with a diagram of the dividers from her 1st of 26 (!) patents, one of her diagrams about the origin & growth of ripple marks & one of her diagrams of an electric arc lamp (a subject on which she literally wrote the textbook).⁠

1/n

#linocut #printmaking #sciart #WomenInSTEM #histstm #suffragette

Linocut portrait of Hertha Ayrton, surrounded by her diagrams and some of her inventions, printed in a gradient of red to purple. Ayrton, a middle age woman with a lot of curly hair, stands with her fingertips on a tabletop, looking right, in a loose dress. Her dress is red and colours change radially out to purple. To her left and above her are a series of horizontal sections showing the formation of ripples on a beach. Above her to the right is a diagram of her dividers from her patent. To the lower right is a cross-section of an arc-lamp.
Payal Dhar (she/they)
7 months ago

Any physicists here who could explain the (possible) science behind human teleportation to me?

Or anyone who could recommend a source?

#JournoRequest
#SciComm
#ScienceJournalism
#Physics
#Physicist

Ele Willoughby, PhD
7 months ago

Born on this day: #physicist J. R. Oppenheimer (1904-1967). While best remembered for his role in the Manhattan Project, he was a giant of 20th century theoretical physics, nominated for a Nobel 3 times. ⁠

In 1927 he & Max Born greatly simplified how we predict electrons behaviour within atoms. The Born-Oppenheimer or adiabatic approximation is based on the observation that electrons are 1000s times lighter than nuclei, …

#sciart #linocut #printmaking #histstm #quantum

Linocut portrait of Oppenheimer in a suit leaning on his hand, in purple ink on white paper. Above to the right is a spacetime diagram for a Blackhole in turquoise. Above to the left is a schematic for the adiabatic approximation in gold.
Knowledge Zone
7 months ago

#OnThisDay Today is International Mother #EarthDay.

The #Paris #Agreement opened for signing (2016).

Birth Anniversary of Russian #Communist #Revolutionary Vladimir Lenin (1870), #Physicist Robert Oppenheimer (1904), #Philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724).

Happy Birthday #Actor Jack Nicholson (1937).

https://knowledgezone.co.in/news

Angela Miller
8 months ago

My latest video is a continuation of the life story of James Clerk Maxwell.
https://youtu.be/e80_ZueOiGM
#stem #history #physics #physicist #science #Scotland #Galloway

Ele Willoughby, PhD
8 months ago

Happy birthday to French mathematician, physicist and philosopher Marie-Sophie Germain (1776 – 1831), known as Sophie. She taught herself mathematics using books in her father's library and by corresponding with leading mathematicians of her day, including Lagrange, Legendre and Gauss, …

#linocut #printmaking #sciart #mathart #SophieGermain #ChladniFigures #mathematician #Fermat #womenInSTEM #physicist #elasticity #Gauss #histstm #printmaker #ReliefPrint #WomensHistoryMonth

Linocut of Sophie Germain (a young woman in with a collar with bow, under a dark dress, with a ribbon tied around her neck, long hair with centre part, half tied up with a ribbon in her hair). She is printed in dark blue with her own words about Fermat's Last Theorem in her own script carved into her hair and dress). Behind her in lavender is a grid of Chladni figures.
Angela Miller
8 months ago

'For the sound of a chorus of voices

Came gathering up from below, 

And I heard how all Nature rejoices

And moves with a musical flow.

I would barter the world and its glory

That vision of joy to prolong, 

Or to hear and remember the story

 That lies in the heart of their song.'

#research #poem #physicist #JamesClerkMaxwell
#history #stem #Scotland #physics

Angela Miller
8 months ago

Doing some #research and came across this #poem by #physicist #JamesClerkMaxwell
#history #stem #Scotland #physics

'Alone on a hillside of heather,

I lay with dark thoughts in my mind; 

In the midst of the beautiful weather 

I was deaf, I was dumb, I was blind.

I knew not the glories around me,

I counted the world as it seems, 

Till a spirit of melody found me,

 And taught me in visions and dreams.'

1/2

Ele Willoughby, PhD
8 months ago

Happy birthday to #physicist Wilhelm Röntgen (1845-1923) who discovered x-rays & earned the Nobel Prize for #physics in 1901. I've depicted him at work, studying this mysterious, newly discovered, invisible form of light, based on a photo of him, using a Crookes tube to produce x-rays. The form of the print mimics the nature of his discovery - much as x-rays reveal the skeleton within, …

#sciart #printmaking #histstm #Röntgen #Roentgen #xrays #radiography #thermochromic

Linocut print of Röntgen in thermochromic indigo ink over his skeleton in white with a blue Crookes tube, table and papers
Ele Willoughby, PhD
9 months ago

Peseshet
Hypatia
Queen Seondeok
Margaret Cavendish
#Entomologist Maria Sibylla Merian
#Physicist Émilie du Châtelet
Astronomer Caroline Herschel
#Chemist Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier
#Paleontologist Mary Anning
Astronomer Mary Somerville
Marine #biologist Jeanne Villepreux-Power
#botanist Anna Atkins
Nurse & statistician Florence Nightingale
Mathematician Sophia Kovalevski
Physicist Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt
#biochemist & medical research Maude Menten

WESCentenary
9 months ago

Joan Curran #Welsh #physicist #engineer with "scientific equivalent of gardening green fingers". Studied @newnhamcollege #WWII invented Chaff radar countermeasure & worked on #ManhattanProject. Campaigner for disability rights #DisHist b. #OTD 26 Feb 1916 bit.ly/3bpzeM7

#WomenInEngineering #INWED #WomensHistoryMonth#WomenInSTEM #STEM #engineering #WomenEngineers #WomenInHistory #ExtraordinaryWomen #WomenInCulture #STEAM #HistSTM #WikiWomenInRed #Wikipedia #WomenInHistoryShouldntBeAMystery

Joan Curran in black and white head and shoulders photo taken at Strathclyde University in 1970s. Middle aged white woman wearing a glasses and white top with braid pattern down front centre. Short dark hair smiling at camera. Sat in front of a landscape painting
Ele Willoughby, PhD
10 months ago

She was a #physicist, #crystallographer, #pacifist & prison reformer. She was the 1st to employ Fourier spectral methods & used them to solve the structure of hexachlorobenzene in ‘31. In ‘45 she was one of the 1st 2 women elected Fellow of the Royal Society & was the 1st woman: tenured professor at UC London, president of the International Union of Crystallography & president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. 



Ele Willoughby, PhD
10 months ago

She found 6 months mat leave post MSc very difficult being at home watching physicist husband going to work to pursue what he loved. He insisted she return to grad school. Admitted to Georgetown at 23, expecting 2nd child. Writing her thesis, advisor Heyden got her in contact with #physicist George Gamow, who worked at nearby APL & adjunct at George Washington U who took her on as a student (PhD ‘54).

WESCentenary
11 months ago

Edith Anne Stoney #physicist from #Dublin scientific family. Considered to be 1st woman medical physicist, she lectured in physics then set up medical & X-Ray services on front line in #WWI. 1 of womensengsoc earliest & oldest members. b. #OTD 6 January 1869 bit.ly/2UbhWNS

#WomenInEngineering #INWED #WomensHistoryMonth#WomenInSTEM #STEM #engineering #WomenEngineers #WomenInHistory #ExtraordinaryWomen #WomenInCulture #STEAM #HistSTM #WikiWomenInRed #Wikipedia #WomenInHistoryShouldntBeAMystery

Edith Anne Stoney when young, looking to photo right wearing pale top with puffed sleeves and a ruffled collar with bow and flowers at neck, hair drawn back into a bun. Black and white photo later nineteenth century.
Serge Dumoulin
1 year ago

We are #hiring! MR #physicist 7T MRI for clinical and industrial applications at
Spinoza Centre for Neuroimaging in close collaboration with Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Vrije University Amsterdam and Amsterdam UMC -locations AMC & VUmc. Come join us!

https://www.academictransfer.com/en/320184/mr-physicist-7t-mri-for-clinical-and-industrial-applications/

#MRI #neuroimaging #job

Ele Willoughby, PhD
1 year ago

For #ArtAdventCalendar day 17 - Happy birthday to Émilie du Châtelet (1706-1749), natural philosopher, #mathematician & #physicist, in my #linocut portrait with diagrams from her 'Principes Mathématiques de la Philosophie Naturelle', a 2-volume translation & commentary of Newton’s 'Principia', in 1759.⠀

Linocut portrait of Émilie du Châtelet in a peach and blue dress with ribbons holding a compass on an open manuscript with a diagram. There’s a pile of books in font of her in blue. Behind her are math and physics diagrams in pink from her publications.
Nikolaus Weiskopf
1 year ago

#introduction

Hi,

I am a #physicist and #neuroscientist who tries to bring both fields together in #neuroimaging.

I direct the Dept of Neurophysics at the #MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (https://www.cbs.mpg.de/en). Our main tools are #MRI, #histology and #biophysical #modeling for in-vivo histology (#hMRI) and ultra-high resolution #fMRI.

Excited to see #MastodonScience growing so quickly 😀

This is my personal account and my posts/toots are just my personal views.

Dr. Alexandre Santerne 🌍
1 year ago

For this #followFriday, I will suggest you all to #follow a few colleagues who are active on #Mastodon and discuss #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange and their #sustainable solutions:

@jknodlseder - #astronomer
@lalifou - #climate #scientist
@leo - #astronomer
@wolfgangcramer - #Climate and #biodiversity scientist
@FabienMalbet - #astronomer
@ed_hawkins - climate scientist
@aymeric_spiga - astronomer & #planet / climate scientist
@martinturbet - astronomer & climate #physicist

Walter Jessen
1 year ago

An occasional #introduction: #Physicist turned #Molecular #Biologist turned #Bioinformatician turned #AI / #ML (#MachineLearning) #DataScientist. Very interested in the molecular mechanisms of #disease development, progression and response to treatment. Drawn to #complexity. Other interests: #consciousness #reality #graphs / #networks #mathematics #sustainability #philosophy #WorldHistory Posts sporadically, typically sharing science-based content.

msleigh
1 year ago

Re-posting my #introduction after moving servers. I'm Michael, I'm the Head of Integrated Forecast Systems at ECMWF, and a #physicist by background. Interested in #SoftwareEngineering, #hpc, #OpenSource, #technology, #computing, #climate. Personal interests: #guitar (mainly #ClassicalGuitar), #music, #hiking, #coding, #gardening.

Kathy Reid
1 year ago

Good evening #Mastodon! In tonight's #connectionlist #connection #introduction, I'd like to introduce you to the following good folks of :fediverse:

@cheryanne runs Great Australian Pods and is part of the #AusPods #AusPodSquad. She's into #digitalhumanities and #podcasts. (Oh, @ZenaAssaad and @eltwilliams you should say hello, the Algorithmic Futures podcast has been featured by Chery previously, from memory) 🇦🇺

@omicron_glyph is a #mathematics #student who loves #worldofwarcraft and #freesoftware #opensource #foss Hi there!

@dneary is based in 🇺🇸 by way of 🇫🇷 and 🇮🇪 Dia dhuit! He's into #devrel and #linux.

@is_googling is Sharon and she is based in 🇨🇦 and is into #data and #devsecops. She's a new #compsci #biosci grad, so say hello 👋

@mattcen is an incredible voice for diversity and inclusivity, and someone I've learned an enormous amount from. They are a #linux #sysadmin and part of the #poly community.

@OcreJulia is new to #Mastodon so say hello! 👋 They (not assuming pronouns) trained as a #hydrologist and are interested in the #environment.

@matthewlandauer does incredible things for #OpenAustralia Foundation. Originally a #physicist (hello @eltwilliams) and film #VFX, now working in areas like #opendata.

That's all for this evening, follow the #connectionlist hashtag or create your own list of folks we should follow ✨

Mattia Walschaers
1 year ago

Since I migrated server, my #introduction vanished, so I'll write another one.

Hi #ScienceMastodon, I'm Mattia, a theoretical #quantum #physicist at the Laboratoire Kastler Brossel in #Paris. My field of research is #QuantumOptics and I specialise in the theory of #QuantumCorrelations in non-Gaussian quantum states. My favourite tools are #WignerFunctions and phase space representations in general. I recently also ventured in superresolution #Imaging and #QuantumMetrology.

I also like #coffee

Jarvist Moore Frost
1 year ago

#Introduction

I’m a #Physicist working in a #Chemistry department, mostly #CompChem. I try and understand functional materials (particularly #semiconductor s) with #QuantumMechanics and #StatisticalMechanics, with a sprinkling of #MachineLearning. I particularly like #PathIntegral approaches. All my work is orientated towards #RenewableEnergy materials.

My favourite programming languages are #C and #JuliaLang. #Unix #CommandLine #HackThePlanet

#AcademicParent to a ~2 and ~4 year old.

Florian Marquardt
1 year ago

#introduction Hello world! I am a theoretical #physicist and this will be the account of my research group. We are interested in #machinelearning for #physics, physics for machine learning (neuromorphic computing), more general artificial scientific discovery, #quantum optics, #quantumcomputing, and topics like optomechanics and topological transport. I am director at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Erlangen, Germany, and professor at the university in Erlangen.

B W Bush
1 year ago

#introduction

I am a #physicist who has focused much of my career on the #modeling, #simulation, #visualization, and #analysis of #complexSystems (especially #infrastructure and #renewableEnergy), and who is currently working on the #Cardano #blockchain. I love #functionalProgramming, #Haskell, #formalMethods, #categoryTheory, #datavis, #infovis, #XR, #statistics, and teaching.

I have passion for art, music, language, and #meditation; I occasionally create #painting, #sculpture, and #poetry.

#ITeachPhysics at Carleton College. A condensed matter #physicist, now doing some #SoTL and #EdDev research. Working to make #STEMEducation more accessible and equitable. Also engaged with #HigherEd #FacDev.

Dr. Abbie ⛄️
1 year ago

#introduction Hi all! I was a #physicist turned #astronomer and #data science person (BA, Bard College 2011; MSc, U Alberta 2013; PhD, U Amsterdam 2018), and since June I've been working in #art + #STEM + culture #outreach programs at the #MSU #Museum (a Smithsonian affiliate)! I love having a more people- and community-focused job now, and I think making a new home on this instance is the right move for me! #science #physics #astronomy #space #tech #WomenInSTEM #BiInSci #Michigan

TJ Radcliffe
1 year ago

Myself in a Handful of Hashtags

#poetry #poet
#science #scientist #physicist
(that last one's unique)
#physics #biology
#writing #writer
#reading #reader (just 1 per week)
#acting #actor (the only one here?)
#improv #improvisor
#musical #theatre
#husband #father
#sailing #sailor
#kayaking #kayaker
#tinkerer tailor?
#anglo #canadian (once married a Scot)
live on an #island
someplace where you're not
no party
no faction
#freethinker
you see
that's all the hashtags
I can think of for me

Geoff Cureton
2 years ago

#introduction Hi, I'm Geoff and I'm a #physicist working as a #python application developer and data engineer in a #satellite #meteorology institute at a large public university in the midwest US. Longtime #linux user, #vim maniac, mech. #keyboard enthusiast and mouse hater. I'm not a hero, but I am a #union man!

#physics #space #arch #scipy #neovim #terminal #tui #windowmanager

#introduction [1/2]
Hi #fediverse, I'm a particle #physicist looking for #darkmatter and investigating #neutrinos. This involves simulating millions of radioactive decays on top500.org clusters. Our detectors often use liquefied noble gases and #highvoltage, which can lead to (undesired, but) amazing phenomena such as the attached arc in liquid argon.