Mom dropped her physics major for pure math in college b/c one prof told her that she would never get an A in his class ("how would that make the men feel?"). Also, there was no women's room in the PhysSci building. 4-hr labs & she was expected to go across the street to BioSci if she needed to pee.

Today would have been the 99th birthday of physicist Fay Ajzenberg-Selove, who throughout the mid 20th century served as the world’s nexus for information on the energies of the light elements. Here is her story!

tinyurl.com/2c47dnn9

#WomenInSTEM #HistSci #PhysSci

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As part of that prep, school districts have been told that ALL HS students have to be tested once that includes all DCI’s (ESS, PhysSci, LifeSci, Engineering/Tech), Environmental Principles, Science Practices, and Cross Cutting Concepts (see below).

my.nsta.org/ngss/Crosscu...

Sometimes a little quick practice is helpful to start class. (IPS or Intro to PhysSci)

Even most SocSci/Hum fac teach this badly - personal reform rather than social change - but the whole point is outside the disciplinary boundaries and pedagogical training of Bus., NatSci, PhysSci, Tech, Ed & professional program educators - much less parents, teachers, coaches, & religious leaders

No, you're full of it. Our natsci/physsci/engin/math faculty - our ROTC program and business school - have all been part of efforts to increase the number of women and minority students in their majors. Our Bio, Psych, and Medicine faculty teach and research things you seem to consider woke.

We are delighted to welcome Hanno Rein of the University of Toronto at Scarborough to our Editorial Board. Prof. Rein's research interests include numerical methods for planetary systems, planet formation, planet migration, and Saturn’s rings.

www.utsc.utoronto.ca/physsci/hann...

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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1918 was awarded to Max Planck
"in recognition of the services he rendered to the advancement of Physics by his discovery of energy quanta".

He received his Nobel Prize one year later.

➡️ www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physi...

🧪 ⚛️ #HistSci #PhysSci #MaxPlanck

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Planck made many contributions to theoretical physics, but his renown stands mainly on his role as originator of quantum theory (1900).

A biography➡️ www.cosmos.esa.int/web/planck/m...

Book suggestion➡️ 'Where Is Science Going?' by Max Planck.

🧪 ⚛️ #HistSci #PhysSci #MaxPlanck

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23 April 1858: the great theoretical physicist Max K. E. L. Planck was born.

"An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature, and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer."

— Max Planck

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"The Higgs boson "

Go to: home.cern/science/phys...

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Peter Higgs and François Englert shared the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics

"for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles,..."

Image credit: Bengt Nyman, CC BY 2.0

🧪⚛️ #HistSci #PhysSci

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On 8 April 2024, Peter Higgs passed away.

“When you look at a vacuum in a quantum theory of fields, it isn’t exactly nothing.”

— Peter Higgs

A biography➡️ nobelprize.org/prizes/physi...

Image credit: Bengt Nyman, CC BY 2.0

🧪 ⚛️ #HistSci #PhysSci

Proposed cuts within NSF, Bio-9.68%, ComSci-10.36%, Engineering-8.95%, Math&PhysSci-10.43%, SocialScis-10.29%, Geoscience-40.68%.