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EHS Leadership—Only as Good as the Team Around Us

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Though probably originally coined by theoretical physicist, Richard Feynman, this quote has had many variations and been attributed to many leaders over the years. “If you’re the smartest person in the room, you are in the wrong room.”

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A quiz on the life of Stephen Hawking – how much do you know about the famous physicist?

Physics World

Richard Feynman. Q: Hawking was apparently quite reckless with his wheelchair, and allegedly used it as a weapon against people he didn’t like. Richard Feynman. Some coxes can be very steady people, you see. Who was this scientist? Fred Hoyle. Murray Gell-Mann. Paul Dirac. Which scientist was it?

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How Stephen Hawking became the world’s most famous physicist

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To describe “Hawking the human”, Seife draws on many sources, including the warts-and-all memoirs of his first wife Jane, interviews with people who knew him, and other books written about him such as Hawking Incorporated: Stephen Hawking and the Anthropology of the Knowing Subject by philosopher and anthropologist Hélène Mialet.

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Encountering infinity: the aspects of reality we cannot comprehend

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Throughout more than a dozen pages on biology, Lightman includes thoughts from rabbis, Buddhist monks and bioethicists, as well as his own musings on the ideas of Richard Feynman (who spent much of his career at Caltech , where Lightman did his PhD) and the android character Commander Data from Star Trek: the Next Generation.

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Surprising physics that we depend on for existence

Physics World

While Richard Feynman famously said that if there was only one piece of knowledge we could pass on to future generations, it would be “that all things are made of atoms”, some of Gribbin’s pillars remind us it’s a good thing that we can pass on more. Stars are suns and we know what they are made of. There is, also, no life force.

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What does physics look like, and does it matter?

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Indeed, it can give us a pictorial sense of how other people perceive something, beyond our own frames of reference. So given that the visual detail won’t mean much to most people, it’s fascinating that the low-tech, equation-filled chalkboard is so prominent as a visualization of physics in the public sphere.

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The 10 quirkiest stories from the world of physics in 2021

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Wu now follows in the footsteps of Albert Einstein, Enrico Fermi, Richard Feynman and Maria Goeppert Mayer with a commemorative stamp. m above a toilet or urinal (face height for many people) and found that the droplets persisted at that height for more than 20 seconds after the flush. Just a shame it was never a Nobel too.

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