Fusion is great. In music. In food. One of my favourite New York restaurants was a place that offered a Cuban-Chinese fusion menu. This piece however is not about grub or jazz, but about one of the holy grails of physics, and that is nuclear fusion… as an energy source. […]

Year awarded: 1896 Year Discovered: 1893 Jonas Ferdinand Gabriel Lippmann Seeing as this website is so monochrome,(what’s that all about anyway?) it’s kind of ironic that this piece deals with the advent of colour photography. Professor Lippmann made numerous valuable fundamental contributions to many different branches of physics; especially in […]

Shake the hand that shook the hand of P.T. Barnum and Charlie Chan. – Garcia / Hunter Year Awarded: 1907 Year of Discovery: Various Albert Abraham Michelson Alright… raise your hands if you haven’t heard of the Michelson – Morley experiment. Right? Everybody’s heard of this one. It’s not what […]

Year awarded: 1906 Year of discovery: 1897 Joseph John Thomson: 1856 – 1940 Basically Thomson discovered the electron; the first sub-atomic particle… kind of a big deal I guess. (And along the way the discovery of isotopes and the invention of the mass spectrometer) He also put forward one of […]

Deep inside of a parallel universeIt’s getting harder and harder to tell what came first – Red Hot Chili Peppers Where and when exactly did this favourite notion of science fiction writers first come into our zeitgeist? You gotta admit it’s a pretty handy tool to invoke in fiction, but […]

Year Awarded: 1905 Year of Discovery: 1893+ Phillip Eduard Anton von Lenard: 1862 – 1947 Lenard was born in what was then Hungary but he was a staunch German nationalist, anti-Semite, and a supporter of Nazi ideology and Hitler. As such he was skeptical of the theories of relativity and […]