Are You Sure (October 16): Difference between revisions
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 6: | Line 6: | ||
• ... that physicist '''[[Gustav Kirchhoff (nonfiction)|Gustav Kirchhoff]]''' (12 March 1824 – 17 October 1887) contributed to the fundamental understanding of electrical circuits, spectroscopy, and the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects; that Kirchhoff coined the term "black body" radiation in 1862; and that two different sets of concepts (one in circuit theory, and one in spectroscopy) are named "Kirchhoff's laws" after him? | • ... that physicist '''[[Gustav Kirchhoff (nonfiction)|Gustav Kirchhoff]]''' (12 March 1824 – 17 October 1887) contributed to the fundamental understanding of electrical circuits, spectroscopy, and the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects; that Kirchhoff coined the term "black body" radiation in 1862; and that two different sets of concepts (one in circuit theory, and one in spectroscopy) are named "Kirchhoff's laws" after him? | ||
• ... that physicist '''[[Nicholas Metropolis (nonfiction)|Nicholas Metropolis]]''' (11 June 1915 – 17 October | • ... that physicist '''[[Nicholas Metropolis (nonfiction)|Nicholas Metropolis]]''' (11 June 1915 – 17 October 1999) led a group of researchers (including [[John von Neumann (nonfiction)|John von Neumann]] and [[Stanislaw Ulam (nonfiction)|Stanislaw Ulam]]) who developed the [[Monte Carlo method (nonfiction)|Monte Carlo method]], a statistical approach to deterministic many-body problems? | ||
<div style="float:right;text-align:right"> | <div style="float:right;text-align:right"> | ||
<div style="padding-bottom:5px;color:#333">—October 16, 2020</div> | <div style="padding-bottom:5px;color:#333">—October 16, 2020</div> | ||
<div style="letter-spacing:.4rem;color:#555555">gnomonchronicles.com</div> | <div style="letter-spacing:.4rem;color:#555555">gnomonchronicles.com</div> | ||
</div> | </div> | ||
Latest revision as of 06:26, 17 October 2020
Are You Sure ...
• ... that rabbi, physician, and mathematician Joseph Solomon Delmedigo (16 June 1591 – 16 October 1655) followed lectures by Galileo Galilei during the academic year 1609–1610, and was accorded the rare privilege of using Galileo's own telescope; and that, in the following years, Delmedigo often refers to Galilei as "rabbi Galileo," an ambiguous phrase which may simply mean "my master, Galileo"?
• ... that physicist Gustav Kirchhoff (12 March 1824 – 17 October 1887) contributed to the fundamental understanding of electrical circuits, spectroscopy, and the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects; that Kirchhoff coined the term "black body" radiation in 1862; and that two different sets of concepts (one in circuit theory, and one in spectroscopy) are named "Kirchhoff's laws" after him?
• ... that physicist Nicholas Metropolis (11 June 1915 – 17 October 1999) led a group of researchers (including John von Neumann and Stanislaw Ulam) who developed the Monte Carlo method, a statistical approach to deterministic many-body problems?