Tag: biography
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Happy Birthday Madame Chien-Shiung Wu!
Today is Madame Chien-Shiung Wu’s 113th birthday! Some interesting facts about Madame Wu: She is probably most famous for conceiving and carrying out the first experiment published that indicated that parity was violated in the weak interaction. This experiment has a fascinating history that is recounted in Chapter 9 in…
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The MSU Cyclotron Lab’s Own Hidden Figure: Prof. Thelma Irene Arnette and “The Bomb”
Professor Thelma Irene Arnette (1920-2017) was the third person hired (the first two were Prof. Henry Blosser and Prof. Morton Gordon) to design the first cyclotron (the “K50”) at Michigan State University around 1960. She would go on to become an Assistant Professor of Physics in 1962 and earned tenure…
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Adam, Brian, Fry, and Steve Graduate!
Congratulations to Adam, Brian, Fry, and Steve! They are all graduating this semester and participated in the graduation ceremony on December 16, 2017 in Breslin Center. Adam Powers joined the group in April 2016 and has contributed to all aspects of the high voltage electrode development for the Ra EDM…
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Claude Shannon’s 1952 Lecture on Creative Thinking
A lecture by Claude Shannon on Creative Thinking is buried deep inside of his Miscellaneous Writings edited by N. J. A. Sloane & Aaron D. Wyner in 1990. It has been rediscovered in some sense by the authors Jimmy Soni & Rob Goodman who have just recently published a biography…
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