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Ernest Rutherford

A genius New Zealand physicist who came to be known as the father of nuclear physics. He is consi...

Louis de Broglie

A French physicist and aristocrat who made groundbreaking contributions to quantum theory.

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David Livingstone

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Victor Cousin

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Heat, work and subtle fluids: a commentary on Joule

Heat, work and subtle fluids: a commentary on Joule

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James Joule played the major role in establishing the conservation of energy, or the first law of thermodynamics, as a universal, all-pervasive principle of physics. He was an experimentalist par excellence and his place in the development of thermodynamics is unarguable. This article discusses Joule's life and scientific work culminating in the 1850 paper, where he presented his detailed measurements of the mechanical equivalent of heat using his famous paddle-wheel apparatus. Joule's long series of experiments in the 1840s leading to his realisation that the conservation of en...

Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics

Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics

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The Riemann hypothesis is widely regarded as the most important unsolved problem in mathematics. Put forward by Bernhard Riemann in 1859, it concerns the positions of the zeros of a certain function, the Riemann zeta function, in the complex plane. The hypothesis is that, apart from some trivial exceptions, all of the zeros of this complex function (which is defined by an infinite series with nth term n −z) lie on a straight line, known as the critical line, corresponding to points with real part 1/2.Proving this hypothesis is of central importance in mathematics because the Riemann zeta function encodes information about the prime numbers—the atoms of arithmetic. The nontrivial zeros play a pivotal role in an exact formula, first written down by Riemann, for the number of primes less than a given size. Individual zeros determine correlations between the positions of the primes. Finding a proof has been the main goal of most number theorists since Riemann published his hypothesis. In 1900, David Hilbert listed proving the Riemann hypothesis as one of his 23 mathematical challenges for the 20th century. In 2000, the Clay Mathematics Institute listed it as one of its seven ...

Theodore Beza: A Reassessment

Theodore Beza: A Reassessment

The claim in recent years of a radical disjunction between the theologies of Calvin and the Calvinists has frequently come to focus on the seminal influence of Calvin's successor at Geneva, Theodore Beza. Scholars who have suggested Beza as the main culprit behind an increasing trend in sixteenth century Reformed theology to a rationalistic, scholastic, predestinarian rigidity include Ernst Bizer, Walter Kickel, Basil Hall, Brian G. Armstrong, Johannes Dantine, Edward A. Dowey Jun., John W. Beardslee III, and R. T. Kendall. Indeed, in order to appreciate Beza's significance we a...

Thomas Young, the Man Who Knew Too Much

Thomas Young, the Man Who Knew Too Much

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The character of the British physician Thomas Young (13 June 1773 – 10 May 1829) can almost be summed up in a couple of anecdotes that open and close respectively the career of one of the most prolific polymaths in history. When in his youth he began taking dance classes, his classmates found him tracing with a ruler and compass a mathematical diagram of the movements of the minuet, in order to improve them. And three years before his death, after having been hired as an expert by the insurance company Palladium, he sent a study to the Royal Society in which he explained a very complicated ...

Heat, work and subtle fluids: a commentary on Joule

Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics

Theodore Beza: A Reassessment

Thomas Young, the Man Who Knew Too Much

Camille Saint-Saëns

Big Thinker: John Locke

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Big Thinker: John Locke

He was especially known for his liberal, anti-authoritarian theory of the state, his empirical theory of knowledge and his advocacy of religious toleration. Much of Locke’s work is characterised by an opposition to authoritarianism, both at the level of the individual and within institutions such...

Jung’s “Psychology with the Psyche” and the Behavioral Sciences

Psychology

Jung’s “Psychology with the Psyche” and the Behavioral Sciences

To say that there is no place for analytical psychology in the behavioral sciences, does not mean that Jung’s work has no intrinsic value or relevance elsewhere. Insofar as “behavioral sciences” denotes traditional modern psychology, analytical psychology may provide at best an Archimedean vantag...

Jan Baptist van Helmont – The Founder of Pneumatic Chemistry

Chemistry

Jan Baptist van Helmont – The Founder of Pneumatic Chemistry

On January 12, 1580, Flemish chemist, physiologist, and physician Jan Baptist van Helmont was born. Can Helmont worked during the years just after Paracelsus and is sometimes considered to be “the founder of pneumatic chemistry“. Van Helmont is remembered today largely...