Leonard Mandel, an extraordinary magnate optical scientist of his time, was a powerful voice on behalf of physics. He was the Lee DuBridge Professor of Physics and Optics at the University of Rochester: a masterful scientist, exemplary teacher, generous colleague, and beloved family man. He is perhaps one of the most amazing founding fathers of what we call; quantum optics, evolving into the revolution of so called “most exciting areas in science.” He trained society’s understanding of quantum mechanics and lasting ways through ingenious experiments that provided convincing demonstrations and precise tests of many of the most counterintuitive aspects of the quantum nature of light. Rarely has any one individual so intimately investigated and so dramatically advanced our understanding of the quantum mechanical nature of light. Mandel’s original interest did not involve light mechanics whatsoever, but in the late 1940’s he decided to switch, in which extraordinary findings came about. He wanted to know how light was measured, how light worked, how light bypassed all of our minds through the years. He wanted to know the light field of study by the measurements through a camera, and the spectacle mirrors. The optical side of science, which interested him like no other science. …show more content…
He was a strict follower of the Optical Society of America. In return, he earned the Max Born Award & Prize, being the first of many to receive such an honorable achievement. Leonard also receive a major medal in the society of physics called the Frederic Ives Medal, which distinguished his overall distinction in the impenetrable optics. His immense loyal brain to the field of optics rewarded our society to get a better understanding of the functions of complex
Adam Lind Leslie played a small but important part in the gold mining industry in NSW, during the 19th century. Without his efforts to comfort the miners, Australia’s gold industry would never of been so successful.
James McFadden biologically a male announced to his employer (East Coast Airlines) he a transsexual. While in preparation for his surgical sex reassignment, he announces he intends to dress and act as a woman. McFadden had been fired from his pilot’s job for refusing to dressing as a male in compliance to when he was hired as a male.
Renodel Ferzale Thomas was born on June 11th, 1964 in Detroit, Michigan to Clarence and Altie Thomas. "Reno," as he was affectionately known by his family and friends, was the fifth of eight children. He completed his primary education in the Detroit Public school system. He started as a child at Keating Elementary School followed by Lessenger Middle School and finally graduating from Frank Cody high school where he studied culinary and creative arts. Reno was a gifted artist, tumbler, and violin player earlier on in his life. Reno was an entrepreneur who dedicated time to starting and operating R&F flooring, a partnership with his cousin Frank.
The hero, or quester, in the novel Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel is the shakespearean actress Kirsten Raymonde who is about 28 years old and a member of the Traveling Symphony: a performance group dedicated to preserving human culture after the collapse of civilization 20 years prior due to the highly infectious and deadly Georgia Flu. The destination of her personal quest, and the quest of the symphony at large, is a small post-apocalyptic settlement called St. Deborah by the Water. The simple reason they are going there is because it is one of the dozens of towns that they routinely visit as they travel a repeating, established circuit performing Shakespeare’s plays and classical music. The main problem en-route to St. Deborah by the Water is the interpersonal grudges that occur within people
Galileo’s findings from his telescopic observations were revolutionary because he showed that the heavens were not perfect.
He started to gather manuscripts from the House of Scholars very secretly. He then experimented in the tunnel that was secret, only his friend and himself knew. The experiments that he did in the tunnel lead to the discovery of the light bulb. He wanted to present his idea to the Council of Scholars but they didn’t like the idea for multiple reasons. He did not belong the the House Scholars, ideas that that are individually created don’t exist, and many other scholars came up with ideas that were also
“She saw ghosts of herself everywhere here. A twenty-three-year-old Miranda with the wrong clothes and her hair sticking up, washing her hands and peering anxiously at herself in the ladies room mirror; a twenty-seven-year-old recently divorced Miranda slouching across the lobby with her sunglasses in place, wishing she could disappear, in tears because she’d seen herself on a gossip website that morning and the headline was agonizing: IS ARTHUR SECRETLY CALLING MIRANDA? (Answer: no.) Those previous versions of herself were so distant now that remembering them was almost like remembering other people, acquaintances, young women who she known a long time ago, and she felt such compassion for them.” -Station Eleven, pgs. 205-206
Imagining life without technology is a scary thought. What if all of technology disappeared taking people along with it? In the book Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel a lot of the characters do not remember life with technology or never experienced it at all due to the outbreak of the flu. Some may say that today’s society is driven by the use of technology and some may disagree. When the pandemic broke out humanity began to crumble due to the lack of technology, technology is needed to survive.
In summer of 1609, Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) pointed his revolutionary astronomical telescope to the heavens under the starry Venetian sky; his greatly important observations unveiled the mysteries of universe and would end up changing the course of scientific thought forever. Galileo lived in an age where there was much status quo, when scientists and philosophers would accept scientific and religious doctrine that had stood for hundreds, if not thousands, of years instead of challenging the accepted knowledge in favor of intellectual progress. Galileo’s scientific methods lead to significant discoveries explaining key scientific laws, such as the
It is common knowledge that one of our natural instincts as humans is to find purpose in our lives. Without a purpose in our lives, we often lack a reason to continue living and in extreme circumstances, take our own lives because of this lack of purpose. In the novel “Station Eleven” by Emily St. John Mandel, the author goes back and forth between a world similar to our own and that same world post-apocalypse. In the novel, the apocalypse occurs when the Georgia flu outbreak occurs.
Newton and optics, in 1968 Newton made the first reflecting telescope, following the reflecting telescope in 1971 he discovered the spectrum, he finalized all his discoveries of optics in 1776.He wrote books on these discoveries defining optics,
Leonard was born in July 1881 in Lambeth, Camberwell, central London to Sarah Jane Pindar. On December, the 25th 1888 his mother married William Hann at St Giles Church Camberwell. The couple lived at 8 Badsworth Road Camberwell with Leonard and his two step brothers - Henry and William and three step sisters -Mary Emily and Pamela.
He discovered the electron and experimented by testing the electric discharge in a high vacuum cathode ray tube. (Nobel Lectures.1967)
As a result of Huygens’ early light theories, his pendulum clocks, his mathematical insights, and his astronomical discoveries, experimental and theoretical physics, even science itself, would not be as advanced as it is today. Even though some of his theories may be incorrect, these errors helped future scientists to be successful. Perhaps Huygens is not the greatest or best scientist of all time; he is however, definitely one of the best. He deserves to be on the top 20 list of greatest scientists of all time.
B. Sir Isaac Newton used prisms to show that sunlight was made up of all the colors of the rainbow. This proved that the ancient Greeks ideas about light were wrong.