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Black-Body Radiation: The Ultraviolet Catastrophe and Fall of Classical Physics

By: Feature Writer Isaac M. McPhee

Early Particle Accelerators: A History ol Deciphering the Reality of the Subatomic World

By: Feature Writer Isaac M. McPhee

Physicist, Hubert Mack Thaxton: An Early Black American Scientist in Nuclear Physics

By: Feature Writer Paul A. Heckert

Tour the Secret City of Oak Ridge: VIsit the First Nuclear Reactor; See Where Atomic Bomb Fuel Was Made

By: Holly Bigelow Martin

The Secret Science of World War II: The Manhattan Project Created Atomic Bomb Fuel in Oak Ridge, Tenn.

By: Holly Bigelow Martin

The Origins of the Calendar: Measuring Earth Time

By: Katharine M. J. Osborne

Galileo's Thermometer: How Does a Galileo Thermometer Tell the Temperature?

By: Feature Writer Paul A. Heckert

Galileo's Telescope Discoveries: Galileo Observed the Sun, Moon, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, and Stars

By: Feature Writer Paul A. Heckert

Galileo and the Pendulum: Pendulums, Clocks, Longitude, and Navigation

By: Feature Writer Paul A. Heckert

Physics in the 21st Century: Predictions on the future of physics

By: Katharine M. J. Osborne

Phlogiston and Aether: When Good Theories Go Bad

By: Katharine M. J. Osborne

The Trinity Test Site: Important Places in Physics

By: Katharine M. J. Osborne

Physics Through the Ages: Part 4: Physics in the Early Industrial Age

By: Katharine M. J. Osborne

Physics Through the Ages: Part 3: The Age of Enlightenment

By: Katharine M. J. Osborne

Physics Through the Ages: Part 2: The Caliphate

By: Katharine M. J. Osborne

Physics Through the Ages: Part 1: Physics in Antiquity

By: Katharine M. J. Osborne

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