It’s a great way to learn about different topics, build literacy skills and have some fun!Īfter a break in December for the holidays we are back with a new Poppins Book Nook! The theme for January’s Poppins Book Nook is “To the Laboratory!”. Each month participants will read a book based on that month’s theme and share crafts and activities that go along with the book on the last Monday of every month. Michael Green, a particle theorist at Cambridge University, said: "There is something attractive about a subject that is still in a relatively primitive state.I am so excited to be joining the Enchanted Homeschooling Mom and many other wonderful bloggers in the 2014-2015 Poppins Book Nook! The Poppins Book Nook is a monthly themed virtual book club for kids ages preschool and up. However, asked for the biggest problem in physics, one respondent joked "getting tenure or quantum gravity".Īs is traditional, the physicists had a high opinion of their subject, calling it "the most grandiose science", "the most fascinating activity for our brain" and "still the most fundamental of all sciences".īut the biological sciences did appeal to some. But 17% said they would not, with one Japanese researcher commenting: "I worked too hard. Over 70% of respondents said they would study physics if they were starting university this year. Quantum computation pioneer David Deutsch of Oxford University said: "In each of these three cases, the discovery in question not only revolutionised the branch of physics that it nominally addressed, but also provided a framework so deep and universal that all subsequent theories in physics have been formulated within it."Īsked about their careers, the physicists said they were mostly happy. The three most important discoveries in physics are quantum mechanics, Einstein's theory of general relativity and Newton's mechanics and gravitation. Rutherford's lab in particular had a number of students who were awarded Nobel prizes at a later date." "Both these physicists had a dramatic impact not only on scientific achievements but in the students they taught and drew into physics. Paul Guinnessy, editor of PhysicsWeb, said: "My two biggest surprises were the inclusion of Stephen Hawking, as I think more time is needed to see whether his scientific contributions will last, and the low number of votes for Marie Curie and Ernest Rutherford. Neither list included any living scientist, but Stephen Hawking was rated at 16 by PhysicsWeb users, just behind Archimedes. Hawking: 'Discovered' that black holes are not always black New Zealander Ernest Rutherford, who did much of his work in the UK, also makes the list, at 10.Ī parallel survey of rank-and-file physicists by the site PhysicsWeb gave the top spot to Newton and also included Michael Faraday. The top 10 includes three British scientists: Newton, James Clerk Maxwell and Paul Dirac. Peter Rodgers, Editor of Physics World, said: "Einstein and Newton were always going to be one and two but what was surprising about the top 10 was that there were seven out and out theorists." "Einstein's special and general theories of relativity completely overturned previous conceptions of a universal, immutable space and time, and replaced them with a startling new framework in which space and time are fluid and malleable," said physicist Brian Greene from Columbia University, US, who participated in the poll for Physics World magazine. The survey was conducted among 100 of today's leading physicists. BBC News | SCI/TECH | Einstein the greatestĪlbert Einstein has been voted the greatest physicist of all time in an end of the millennium poll, pushing Sir Isaac Newton into second place.
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