The science family
Anne Diamond
Just heard a wonderful science fact. Honestly, I don’t know why we in this country still seem to have so much trouble recruiting youngsters into the study of physics! So here it is - a wonderful Nobel fact. In 1906, he won the Nobel Prize for Physics for discovering that electrons were particles. Then just thirty years later, his son George won the Nobel prize for Physics, too, - for proving that electrons were waves! How amazing is that? Two Nobel prizes for father and son separately, one for electrons as particles and the other for the opposite? Next question is huh? How come? Did one disprove the other or are both right? And THAT’S how you draw young people into physics – teach them the humanity of it, the history as well as the equations. And get them to watch The Imitation Game and The Theory of Everything. With a box of tissues for the last.
