This Week in Physics History: Sept. 17 - 23
Monday September 17, 2007
- Sept. 20, 1633 - Galileo Galilei is tried before the inquisition of the Catholic Church on charges of heresy for teaching that the Earth orbits around the sun.
- Sept. 23, 1915 - American physicist Clifford Shull is born. Shull's work with neutron scattering techniques eventually earned him the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physics, although he also holds the record as longest wait between accomplishing the work and receiving the Nobel.
- Sept. 19, 1926 - Japanese physicist Masatoshi Koshiba is born. Koshiba earned the 2002 Nobel Prize in physics for the detection of cosmic neutrinos and other work in astrophysics.
- Sept. 18, 1967 - British physicist Sir John Douglas Cockroft dies. Cockroft was instrumental in the development of nuclear power, specifically receiving the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in "splitting the atom" (i.e. nuclear fission).
Comments
please tell me about “capillarity”.
how much water run up in tub?
if a 80cm tube is 8cm in water, we have 12cm water in tube on the otherhand 12+8 = 20cm water in tube.
if 83cm tube be 10 cm in water, 10 +? = ?