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The Matter Of Everything

Suzie Sheehy 2023 West Slope Library 539.7 SHEEHY

1984 born Mildura, Victoria, Australia 2006 BS University of Melbourne 2010 PhD University of Oxford 2015 Royal Society University Research Fellow, Oxford

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• 011 1895 Röntgen experiment generates X-rays across laboratory from cathode ray tube

• 014 images wife's hand

• 016 1897 J. J. Thompson

• 019 electron

• 020 Original experiment in Science Museum, London

• 021 Lewis Latimer carbon filament for Edison bulb

• 022 John Ambrose Fleming Fleming Valve

• 024 Brain X-Ray, injected air bubble 1919 until 1960s Godfrey Hounsfield X-ray computed tomography

• 029 physicist Ernest Rutherford

• 029 chemist Frederick Soddy

• 030 Rutherford gold foil experiment

  • 039-40 large angle scattering of alphas by gold foil, dense small nucleus

• 032 Harriet Brooks, grad student from Ontario, discovers nuclei

• 037 Ernest Marsden and Hans Geiger

• 043 Shroud of Turin medieval forgery

• 043 14300yo remains in Oregon cabe

• 047 Photoelectric effect

  • 051 Independent of temperature, not classical
• 054 Planck quantum "act of desperation" to explain high frequency falloff of black body radiation

• 055-7 Robert Millikan tries and fails to disprove Einstein, paper 1916

• 058 Nobel Prizes 1921 Einstein, 1923 Millikan

• 061 Louis de Broglie wave properties of particles, Nobel Prize 1929

• 063 Davisson and Germer 1925 experiment, electrons on nickel form nanometer-wavelength interference patterns

• 063 Sandra Eibenberger 2013 10000 amu molecules form 500 femtometer-wavelength interference patterns

• 071 Griffith Observatory Cloud chamber, 1936 Alexander Langsdorf design

• 074 Victor Hess Cosmic Rays 1936 Nobel

• 075 Charles Wilson glass blower, cloud chamber, 1927 Nobel

• 079 Magnets, curve measures charge and energy

• 079 Dmitri Skobeltsyn 5 GeV cosmic rays

• 080 Carl Anderson Caltech cloud chamber, noisy expansion piston, 425 kW magnet

• 081 observed positrons predicted by Dirac

• 082 Pauli, Bohr, Heisenberg considered Dirac's antimatter nonsense

• 083 Blackett and Occhialini observe electron/positron pair production

• 083 "Anderson youngest physics Nobel" in 1936 at age 33 ... nope, William Lawrence Bragg in 1915 at age 25.

• 084 1935 Anderson and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth_Neddermeyer observe muons on Pike's Peak

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