What causes a rainbow? Although light looks colorless, it’s made up of many colors-red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. These colors are known as the spectrum. When light shines…
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(Encyclopedia) body language, nonverbal communication by means of facial expessions, eye behavior, gestures, posture, and the like. Body language expresses emotions, feelings, and attitudes,…
(Encyclopedia) Wilkins, Maurice Hugh Frederick, 1916–2004, British biophysicist, b. New Zealand, Ph.D. Univ. of Birmingham, 1940. He conducted research at the Univ. of St. Andrews, Scotland, and at…
The Question: Who is the youngest Nobel prize winner? The Answer: The youngest person to receive a Nobel prize was Sir William Lawrence Bragg (Physics…
(Encyclopedia) Jones, Casey, 1864–1900, American locomotive engineer celebrated in ballad and song, probably b. Jordan, Fulton co., Ky. His real name was John Luther Jones, but at the age of 17 he…
(Encyclopedia) Barkla, Charles GloverBarkla, Charles Gloverglŭˈvər bärˈklə [key], 1877–1944, English physicist. He was professor of natural philosophy at Edinburgh from 1913. For his discovery of the…
(Encyclopedia) Siegbahn, Karl Manne Georg, 1886–1978, Swedish physicist. In 1913, he began a series of experiments that led to the discovery of the M series of X rays and demonstrated the shell…
astrophysicistBorn: 10/19/1910Birthplace: Lahore, India (now Pakistan) Chandrasekhar was one of ten children born to a civil servant and an intellectual mother who translated Ibsen's A Doll House…
