by Nicola Bonardi Rivard There’s only one thing that remains universal in every science classroom around the world: the sometimes-tattered canvas with the 118 elements in their ordered squares. The periodic table is a universal symbol of scientific ingenuity and complexity, but its founder is often left in the shadows. This month, we’ve decided to …
Background: Who was Heisenberg? Werner Karl Heisenberg was a German physicist born on December 5, 1901. He was well-known for his formulation of quantum mechanics and was hugely involved in its inception during the twentieth century. Heisenberg went on to win the Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions. He is best known for the …
Niels Henrik David Bohr was a Danish physicist, born in Copenhagen on October 7, 1885. He made notable contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. Bohr established the distinct energy levels of electrons and that electrons rotate in stable orbits around the …
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Charles Robert Darwin was born on February 12, 1809, in Shrewsbury, England. Credited with developing the scientific theory of evolution by natural selection, Darwin was deemed the father of modern evolutionary studies.
