My course, “Physics 110: The Physics of Light”, has been approved for travel in January of 2018. I will be traveling with Dr. Cedar Riener,
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Lise’s birth home
Last night I gave a public lecture at Randolph-Macon on the life of Lise Meitner, one of the great nuclear physicists who discovered fission and
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January 2018: Physics of Light- Travels to England
The Physics of Light travel course will satisfy a Natural Science Lab AOK. We will spend two weeks at R-MC on laboratory work, and then
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Rutherford’s crocodile
Rutherford’s crocodile on the Mond building of the old Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge. The Russian physicist Peter Kapitza called him the crocodile, because “in Russia
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