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Holiday hotspots for physicists

Physics World

Werner Heisenberg revolutionized quantum mechanics not in a university, but on a North Sea retreat. While the sites in his book are remarkable and far flung, that is exactly why more people shouldn’t visit them, he says. moment to strike. She says instances like this are key to understanding the science.

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Thinking outside of the box – but not too far from it

Physics World

But as Time magazine’s book critic Paul Gray wrote in 2001, “Of every 100 people who bought A Brief History of Time , three finished it”, not least because Hawking likewise took no prisoners when it came to describing core aspects of his research field to the non-physicist.

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Physics: The Science of the Universe and Everything In It

Environmental Science

Its earliest pioneers included Paul Dirac, Werner Heisenberg and Erwin Schrödinger and it remains a complex science today. One of the worst seismological disasters of the modern age happened at Christmas 2004 when an earthquake under the ocean causes a massive tsunami, killing around 250,000 people. Electronics.