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O. Hahn and F. Strassmann have discovered a new type of nuclear reaction, the splitting into two smaller nuclei of the nuclei of uranium and thorium under neutron bombardment. Thus they demonstrated the production of nuclei of barium, lanthanum, strontium, yttrium, and, more recently, of xenon and caesium. It can be shown by simple considerations that this type of nuclear reaction may be described in an essentially classical way like the fission of a liquid drop, and that the fission products must fly apart with kinetic energies of the order of hundred million electron-volts each.

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Emmy Noether

A genius German mathematician who discovered Noether's theorem. Albert Einstein described her as ...

Irène Joliot-Curie

A French chemist, physicist, and politician who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935 ...

Samuel Reshevsky

Samuel Reshevsky

A Polish chess prodigy and later a leading American chess grandmaster.

Otto Weininger

An Austrian thinker who lived in the Austro-Hungarian Empire whose writings were adapted for use ...

Ettore Majorana

Ettore Majorana

An Italian theoretical physicist who worked on neutrino masses. The Majorana equation and Majoran...

Hendrik Lorentz

Hendrik Lorentz

A Dutch physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery and theoretical ex...

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Igor Stravinsky: On Assessing the Greatness of a Composer

Igor Stravinsky: On Assessing the Greatness of a Composer

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At the time of [Igor] Stravinsky’s death on April 6, 1971, at the age of 88, the speculation among critics centered quite naturally on his legacy. Would his music survive into the next century and perhaps well beyond that? Looking back, what had been the substance and scale of his influence? Had he been, perhaps, in Western art music, the last of the “great composers”?Stravinsky was certainly the most celebrated composer of the 20th century and possibly the greatest as well, if by “greatest” we mean “deepest,” as in the depth of the feelings or emotions stirred by his music. Fame arrived early with the three ballets—The Firebird (1910), Petrushka (1911), and The Rite of Spring (1913). The popular success of these ballet scores, overshadowing that of all other classical music of the past century, brought the composer international stardom at the age of 28. And this early success has proved lasting: to this day, the early ballets, along with other Stravinsky music, is performed in concert halls, opera houses, and ballet theaters the world over. Stravinsky and his music are still in vogue, in other words, still very much a part of the contemporary scene.At the same ti...

Shevchenko Wins June 15 Titled Tuesday

Shevchenko Wins June 15 Titled Tuesday

GM Kirill Shevchenko, the 18-year-old grandmaster from Ukraine, won Titled Tuesday on June 15 for his first-ever win in the event. His 10/11 score took the tournament outright. In second with 9.5/11 was GM Alexander Zubov on tiebreaks over third-place GM Brandon Jacobson. GM Sergei Zhigalko took fourth on tiebreaks over four other players with 9/11.583 titled players participated in this week's Titled Tuesday. The tournament was the usual 11-round Swiss with a 3+1 time control....

Novalis’ Poetic Uncertainty: A Bildung with the Absolute

Novalis’ Poetic Uncertainty: A Bildung with the Absolute

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Novalis, the Early German Romantic poet and philosopher, had at the core of his work a mysterious depiction of the ‘absolute’. The absolute is Novalis’ name for a substance that defies precise knowledge yet calls for a tentative and sensitive speculation. How one asserts a truth, represents an object, and sets about encountering things in the world, is in the first instance the domain of the absolute, which diffuses through all things in the world. In this article, I begin by describing the absolute in general and I outline its importance in Novalis’ works. I then speculate on its natural t...

Five Things to Know About Bob Dylan

Five Things to Know About Bob Dylan

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This morning, the Nobel Prize committee announced the winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature: Bob Dylan. It’s the first time a musician has ever won the award, and the announcement was a shock to the bookies and betters who predict prize winners each year (Dylan's odds were 50/1 according to the British betting firm Ladbrokes). But how did the 75-year-old go from humble Minnesotan singer-songwriter to a literary giant with the reputation of what one Nobel committee member called “the greatest living poet”? Here are five things to know:Dylan isn’t his only name ...

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If Alfred Russel Wallace Were Alive Today

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If Alfred Russel Wallace Were Alive Today

the fascinating question, among others, of what Darwin’s colleague Alfred Russel Wallace would say today about the theory of intelligent design as a competitor to Darwinian evolution.

The impact of Al-Battani on European Astronomy

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The impact of Al-Battani on European Astronomy

Astronomical observation in Islamic times reached beyond what much of scholarship gives it credit for. Many aspects of it were pioneering as can be observed from few extracts on the life and works of al-Battani by Carra de Vaux. The merit of al-Battani, the De Vaux points out, is to pioneer the u...

A Bridge for Ireland’s Nobel Physicist

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A Bridge for Ireland’s Nobel Physicist

A number of Irishmen have been recognized as Nobel Prize winners: Yeats, Shaw, Beckett and Heaney for Literature, Sean MacBride and John Hume for Peace. But only one Irishman has ever received the Nobel Prize for Physics. In 1951, Irish physicist Ernest Walton and partner John Cockcroft won the N...