Tag Archives: Isaac Newton

The molecule that was also a wave

Posted on December 12, 2019 by

According to the principles of quantum mechanics, you’re a wave – just like light is both a particle and a wave. It’s just that your wavelength is so small that your wave nature doesn’t matter, and you’re treated like a … Continue reading →

Posted in Scicomm | Tagged Christiaan Huygens, classical mechanics, diffraction grating, double-slit experiment, Ibn al-Haytham, interferometer, Isaac Newton, laser diffraction, matter-wave, matter-wave interference, oligoporphyrins, Quantum mechanics, Thomas Young, wave-particle duality | Comments Off

Why JC Bose isn’t Isaac Newton

Posted on February 2, 2015 by

David Beerling, a botanist at the University of Sheffield, writes in Nature Plants this week that Isaac Newton knew in the 17th century how water moved up from the soil through a plant and onto a leaf centuries before modern botanists discovered … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Alexander Stepanovich Popov, capillary action, Guglielmo Marconi, Isaac Newton, Jagdish Chandra Bose, Syndics of the Cambridge University Library | Comments Off