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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2014

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2014 to Isamu Akasaki, Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan and Nagoya University, Japan; Hiroshi Amano, Nagoya University, Japan & Shuji Nakamura, University of…

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Prof. NicoleMoreau is an eminent scientist in today’s chemistry. She became the first women president of International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC). She was born in France and gained her MS, Physical Chemistry, at…

Why are Golf Balls Dimpled?

The dimples, paradoxically, do increase drag slightly.  But they also increase "Magnus lift", that peculiar lifting force experienced by rotating bodies travelling through a medium.  Magnus lift is present because a driven golf ball has backspin.  The same Magnus…