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in addition to ballistics, the ballistic pendulum (pictured) was also used by physicists to evaluate the elasticity and flight of golf balls?
the astronomical observatory at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica is named after physicist Martin A. Pomerantz?
the Nobel laureate physicist Theodor W. Hänsch works at the faculty of the Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics?
the equipment designed by the physicist Gwyn Jones to liquefy small amounts of helium for work at temperatures near absolute zero was made from parts of a motorcycle engine?
William T. Kane, a physicist with Corning Incorporated, held three patents in crystallography important to the development of fiber optics?
American physicist Hugh Bradner developed the first neoprene wetsuit but was unable to patent it?
Bulgarian physicist Stefan Marinov claimed to have created a perpetual motion machine using only two ballraces and a car battery?
German physicist Walter Gerlach helped prove the fact that electrons spin?
Norwegian physicist Gabriel Gabrielsen Holtsmark had two brothers who were Norwegian Parliament members?
physicists Herbert Anderson, Eugene Booth, G. N. Glasoe, John Dunning, Francis Slack and Enrico Fermi worked on splitting atoms in the basement of Pupin Hall, Columbia University in 1939?
Australian physicist, Sir Kerr Grant studied with Nobel Prize winning chemist and physicist, Irving Langmuir at the University of Göttingen?