 Interesting Insights 
Neat Stuff
- a pre-Pong video game (Tennis for Two) [Video game]
- why dinosaurs are extinct [Alvarez]
- 'optical tweezers' [Chu]
- the molecule named Buckminsterfullerene (Buckyball) [Smalley]
- an anti-jet-lag diet [Snapshots]
It's in the Genes
- three DNA chromosomes (5, 16, and 19) [Human Genome]
- explanation of how DNA's genetic blueprint is read and used [Kornberg]
- transposition ('jumping genes') [McClintock]
- the third branch of life [Archaea]
Energy Wow
- battery that powered the lunar lander module and other spacecraft [RTG]
- advancement and use of solar energy [Solar Energy]
- leadership in the development of nuclear energy [Wigner]
- peaceful uses of nuclear energy [Seaborg]
- peaceful uses of fusion [Teller]
It's Out There
- secrets powering the stars [Bethe]
- Synthesis of the Elements in the Stars [Fowler]
- blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation [Smoot]
- the first binary pulsar [Hulse]
Making It Happen
- developed the Eightfold Way, a theory of Strong Interaction Symmetry [Gell-Mann]
- established an international computer communication in 1970 [AEC Experiment]
- developed the 'electroweak' theory [Glashow]
- invented the cyclotron (an early accelerator) [Lawrence]
- developed the nuclear shell model [Goeppert-Mayer]
- invented the bubble chamber [Glaser]
- developed the neutron diffraction technique [Shull]
- developed Ultra Violet Waterworks (UVW)
- invented the calutron (an isotope separator) [Lawrence]
- discovered the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry [Nambu]
- discovered how conductive polymers can impact the charge in batteries [MacDiarmid]
- developed the hydrogen maser and the cesium atomic clock [Ramsey]
Science in Action
- created the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction [Fermi]
- contributed to the science that won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize [climate change]
- formulated the process for adenosine triphosphate (ATP) [Boyer]
- discovered asymptotic freedom in the theory of strong interaction [Politzer, Wilczek]
- first proposed the concept of 'type-II superconductors' [Abrikosov]
- contributed to the theory of electron transfer reactions [Marcus]
- developed metathesis method in organic synthesis [Schrock/Grubbs]
- provided the theoretical explanation of the fractional quantum Hall effect [Laughlin]
- developed the Source Theory [Schwinger]
It's Named After
- the Lamb Shift phenomenon [Lamb]
- the concept of the Cooper pairs [Cooper]
- the Bloch Equations [Bloch]
- the Feynman Diagrams [Feynman]
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