Patrick Blackett

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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

Commemorative medal of Nobel Prize winner, Johannes Diderik Van Der Waals

7 Nobel Prize Scandals

Highway Night Traffic Portland, drive, driving, car, automobile.

What's the Difference Between Speed and Velocity?

Alfred Nobel on a large reproduction of the obverse side of the Nobel Prize medal for Peace on the exterior of Nobel Peace Center opened in Oslo, Norway June 11, 2005 to learn about Nobel Peace Prize Laureates and the history of Alfred Bernhard Nobel.

How Do You Get a Nobel Prize?

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King Cobra snake in Malaysia. (reptile)

9 of the World’s Deadliest Snakes

Lusitania sinking, illustration from The War of the Nations (New York), December 31, 1919. World War I, WWI. This image is one of three on the page. (See source file for the other two.)

7 of the World’s Deadliest Shipwrecks

Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) standing on rock, side view, Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya

The Fastest Animals on Earth

Shah Jahan. Taj Mahal. Mughal architecture. Emperor Shah Jahan fifth Mughal Emperor (reigned 1628-1658) India, Himachal Pradesh, Basohli or Jammu and Kashmir, Mankot, circa 1690 Drawings; Opaque watercolor, gold, and ink on paper (see notes)

6 Important Mughal Emperors

Nazi Germany, Nazi SS troops marching with victory standards at the Party Day rally in Nuremberg, Germany, 1933. (Schutzstaffel, Nazi Party, Nurnberg)

Why Was Nazi Germany Called the Third Reich?

pg 229Nazi parade features a banner proclaiming, "Death to Marxism."The possibility of a peaceful Germany after World War I was precluded entirely by the terms of the Versailles Treaty and theintransigent hostility of France and England. Stripped of indu

Were the Nazis Socialists?

Illustration for Demystified "How Dangerous is Quicksand"

How Deadly Is Quicksand?

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Also Known As	Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Baron Blackett of Chelsea
Born	November 18, 1897 • London • England
Died	July 13, 1974 (aged 76) • London • England
Awards And Honors	Copley Medal (1956) • Nobel Prize (1948)
Subjects Of Study	cloud chamber

Sir Martin Ryle.

Sir Martin Ryle

British astronomer

P.A.M. Dirac

P.A.M. Dirac

English physicist

Lord Rayleigh, engraving by R. Cottot.

Lord Rayleigh

British scientist

Sir William Bragg

Sir William Bragg

British physicist

C.T.R. Wilson, 1927

C.T.R. Wilson

British physicist

Ernest Rutherford

Ernest Rutherford

British physicist

Josephson, Brian D.

Brian D. Josephson

British physicist

Charles Kao

British-American physicist

Lord Florey.

Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey

Australian pathologist

Cockcroft

Sir John Douglas Cockcroft

British physicist

Powell, Cecil Frank

Cecil Frank Powell

British physicist

Dennis Gabor

British engineer

J.J. Thomson

J.J. Thomson

British physicist

Bragg, Sir Lawrence

Sir Lawrence Bragg

British physicist

James Chadwick

James Chadwick

British physicist

Sir Nevill F. Mott at the ceremony with his Nobel Prize for Physics, 1977.

Sir Nevill F. Mott

British physicist

Werner Heisenberg

Werner Heisenberg

German physicist and philosopher

Guglielmo Marconi

Guglielmo Marconi

Italian physicist

Marie Curie

Marie Curie

Polish-born French physicist

Pierre Curie

Pierre Curie

French chemist

Quiz

Italian-born physicist Dr. Enrico Fermi draws a diagram at a blackboard with mathematical equations. circa 1950.

Physics and Natural Law

Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.

Faces of Science