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Wishing you a very happy #Diwali2026 🪔
Meaning of Diwali — The spiritual victory of -
- Dharma over Adharma,
- Light over darkness,
- Good over evil, and
- Knowledge over ignorance.
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Today is November 7. It marks the 148th birthday of Elise Lise Meitner, who is best known for her foundational role in the discovery and theoretical explanation of nuclear fission.
The chemical element "meitnerium", atomic number 109, is named after her.
Today marks the 159th birthday of the "most inspirational woman in science", Maria Salomea Skłodowska Curie ( #mariecurie ), who changed the course of science by her pioneering research on radioactivity (a term she coined)
She received the Nobel Prize twice - 1903 phy, 1911 Chem
Today marks the 138th birthday of "Bharat Ratna", Sir Chandrashekhara Venkata Raman, who won the 1930 #NobelPrize in physics for the ground-breaking discovery of the phenomenon of change of wavelength of light when a beam is scattered in a medium ( #RamanEffect ).
Sir #CVRaman
Today marks the 388th birthday of #JamesGregory who made many important discoveries and contributions to the field of mathematics but he is best known for describing his design for a reflecting telescope, the "Gregorian telescope".
He solved the famous "Keplerian problem".
One of the most profound moments in the history of science.
When #JamesClerkMaxwell unified electricity, magnetism & light into these four differential equations, #LudwigBoltzmann reaction: "Was it a god who wrote these signs?"
Today marks 147th death anniversary of the genius #JamesClerkMaxwell who provided the foundations for our modern society
His 1st scientific paper appeared when he was just 14
His discoveries helped usher in the era of modern physics, laying the foundations for relativity & QM.
#OTD in 1845, #MichaelFaraday , working in his lab at the Royal Institution, discovered #diamagnetism . With his experiment, he showed that magnetism was inherent within matter & concluded that every material responded (diamagnetic or paramagnetic) to an applied magnetic field.
Today marks the 97th birthday of the human computer #ShakuntalaDevi an Indian genius who earned her place in the "Guinness Book of World Records".
A child prodigy, she has many stories (testing of her skills) with the world's famous people like #AlbertEinstein & etc..
#OTD in 1664, English polymath #RobertHooke showed an advanced copy of his classic book #Micrographia to the Royal Society. It was published in 1665 & became the 1st scientific best-seller & inspired a wide public interest in microscopy. The book also originated the term "cell"
According to current theories of physics, dark energy now dominates as the largest source of energy of the universe, in contrast to earlier epochs when it was insignificant.
At present, roughly 68% of the universe is #DarkEnergy . #darkmatter makes up about 27%.
The great #physics foursome :-
From left to right, Albert Einstein, Hideki Yukawa, John Wheeler, and Homi Jehangir Bhabha in a conversation as they walk through Marquand Park in Princeton, New Jersey (1954).
#AlbertEinstein
#HidekiYukawa
#JohnWheeler
#HomiJehangirBhabha
One of the greatest scientists, #richardfeynman did criticize rote memorization, dry schooling & bad teaching methods. In those talks, he lamented how schools often taught names & definitions instead of genuine understanding.
Feynman received the 1965 #NobelPrize in physics.
Today is November 01.
It's the birthday of #DonaldWilliamKerst , who invented the Betatron, which became operational on July 15, 1940, & Kerst became the first person to accelerate electrons using electromagnetic induction, reaching energies of 2.3 MeV.
Today marks the 179th birthday of #GalileoFerraris , who is best known as a pioneer of AC power systems and the independent discovery of the rotating magnetic field and the induction motor.
True to his scientific values, he did not patent.
Later, #NikolaTesla patented it.
Today is October 30. On this day in 1975, Gustav Ludwig Hertz was died.
He is best known for the Frank-Hertz experiment.
He received the 1925 Nobel Prize in Physics with James Franck "for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom."
Today is October 30. #OTD in 1909, father of the Indian nuclear programme, professor #HomiJehangirBhabha was born.
He held a PhD in nuclear physics. His teachers included #PaulDirac & #NielsBohr
He gained international prominence for his Bhabha scattering.
Today is October 29.
#OTD in 1783, Jean le Rond d'Alembert , a towering figure in science history, was died.
His most famous achievements include the wave equation ( d'Alembert's equation ), and D'Alembert's formula for solving this wave equation.
On October 22, 2026, Stockholm University and the Nobel Committee for Physics of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, awarded this year's Oskar Klein Medal to professor #AshokeSen , for his pioneering contributions to string theory, string field theory, and black hole entropy.
