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March 1, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Astronomer Clyde Tombaugh was born #OTD in 1906. He discovered Pluto in 1930, then traveled there in 2015 when NASA's New Horizons mission made its flyby with some of his ashes onboard. 🧪 🔭

Images: Lowell Observatory Archive; NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
February 4, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Some reliefs at Göbekli Tepe have a narrative character. Here, a lurking leopard is shown apparently ready to jump towards its prey, a boar. Pillar 27, Building C, 10th/9th millennium BC. #archaeology
January 12, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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Paul Dirac's paper "The Quantum Theory of the Electron," in which he derived the relativistic equation for spin 1/2 particles like the electron, was submitted #OTD in 1928.

It’s one of the most important results of 20th century physics, taking the deceptively simple form:
i ℏ γ.∂ψ - m c ψ = 0
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January 2, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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A team led by physicist Chien-Shiung Wu obtained the first experimental confirmation of “parity violation,” in the decay of Cobalt-60, #OTD in 1956.

Her theory colleagues received a Nobel for the prediction, but she was left off the prize. 🧪 ⚛️ 👩‍🔬

Image: Smithsonian Institution Archives
December 27, 2024 at 3:56 PM