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2 days ago · Albert Einstein (born March 14, 1879, Ulm, Württemberg, Germany—died April 18, 1955, Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.) was a German-born physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity and won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921 for his explanation of the photoelectric effect.
Sep 20, 2019 · John Robert (“Bob”) Schrieffer, one of the leading theoretical physicists of the past century, passed away on 27 July. He was 88. His seminal work with physicists John Bardeen and Leon Cooper earned them the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1972 and is now the accepted the theory of superconductivity. The Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) theory ...
Apr 30, 2024 · Alexander the Great (born 356 bce, Pella, Macedonia [northwest of Thessaloníki, Greece]—died June 13, 323 bce, Babylon [near Al-Ḥillah, Iraq]) was the king of Macedonia (336–323 bce ), who overthrew the Persian empire, carried Macedonian arms to India, and laid the foundations for the Hellenistic world of territorial kingdoms.
Aug 6, 2019 · John Robert Schrieffer was born on May 31, 1931, in Oak Park, Ill., to John H. and Louise (Anderson) Schrieffer. His father was a pharmaceutical salesman who became a citrus grower in Florida.
He asserted that he cared for common Americans too much to destroy the country’s foundations with deficits and socialist institutions. He was soundly defeated by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932. Roosevelt promised Americans a "New Deal" when he took office, and during his first "Hundred Days" as president, he signed a number of groundbreaking ...
Curriculum Vitae. Born: Madison, Wisconsin, May 23, 1908. Son of Dr. Charles R. and Althea Harmer Bardeen, both deceased. Dr. Bardeen was Professor of Anatomy and Dean of the Medical School at the University of Wisconsin. Stepmother, Mrs. Kenelm McCauley, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Aug 23, 2002 · Wehmanen admitted last month that he ran over Schrieffer and hid his body in the St. Louis River. Wehmanen pleaded guilty to second-degree murder charges in exchange for disclosing where he hid ...
