Marie Curie, Polish-born French physicist, was born #OTD in 1867. She was the 1st woman to win a Nobel Prize, the 1st person and only woman to win twice and the only person to win a Nobel Prize in different scientific fields, the Nobel Prize in Physics 1903 and Chemistry in 1911.
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- #OnThisDay in 1900, Nikola Tesla received a patent for the wireless transmission of electric power. The famous inventor and physicist was also a writer for @sciam. Read his work here: bit.ly/2GKhhIl
- Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, born #OTD in 1845, was a physicist who received the first Nobel Prize for Physics, in 1901, for his discovery of X-rays, which heralded the age of modern physics and revolutionized diagnostic medicine.
- Springer Nature is launching an inclusive author name change policy which will enable transgender authors and those authors at risk to retroactively update their name on the version of record and associated metadata. Learn more: bit.ly/3y3T3Cr
- Paul Dirac, theoretical physicist, was born #OTD in 1902. One of the most significant physicists of the 20th century, he made fundamental contributions to the development of quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics. He shared the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics with Schrödinger.
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- Nikola Tesla, Serbian American inventor and engineer, was born #OnThisDay in 1856. He discovered and patented the rotating magnetic field and designed and built the first alternating current induction motor.
- Charles Darwin, the renowned naturalist and biologist who introduced the theory of #evolution through natural selection, was born #OnThisDay in 1809. Read more about his lasting impact on the world at @sciam. bit.ly/2BUtj2A
- From today, primary research from authors from 70+ countries classified by the World Bank as low-income or lower-middle-income economies accepted for publication in @Nature or Nature research journals can be published Gold OA at no cost: bit.ly/3GOMvPd @NaturePortfolio
- Galileo Galilei, considered the "father of observational #astronomy" and an essential figure in the scientific revolution for his advocacy of heliocentrism, was born #OnThisDay in 1564. Read more about his life at @sciam. bit.ly/2nYfZSc
- Alan Turing, British mathematician and logician, died #OnThisDay in 1954. He made major contributions to mathematics, cryptanalysis, logic, etc. and also to the new areas later named computer science, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and artificial life.
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- Lev Davidovich Landau, born #OTD in 1908, was a Soviet theoretical physicist. He was one of the founders of the quantum theory of condensed matter whose pioneering research in this field was recognized with the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physics.















