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What DNA Actually Looks Like
An electron microscope has successfully imaged a single strand of DNA.
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Positron Emission Tomography
A page explaining the basics of PET scanning of the brain. Graphics and PET scan images can be seen.
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Leo Esaki
Leo Esaki (1915 - ) received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1973 along with Ivar Giaever for their discoveries of tunneling phenomena in semiconductors and superconductors.
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PhET - Physics Education Technology
65 fun and interactive physics simulations available for free download, illustrating everything from quantum tunneling to projectile motion. Includes lessons plans and ideas for classroom activities.
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Ivar Giaever
Ivar Giaever (1919 - ) received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1973 along with Leo Esaki for their discoveries of tunneling phenomena in semiconductors and superconductors.
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Leo Szilard
Leo Szilard (1898 - 1964) ideas included the linear accelerator, cyclotron, electron microscope, and nuclear chain reaction. Equally important was his insistence that scientists accept moral ...
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John Logie Baird
A good biography of John Logie Baird. a scottish inventor who pioneered early television with the mechanical scanning system he developed from 1923 to the late 1930s.
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Dennis Gabor
Dennis Gabor (1900 - 1971) work led to the development of a number of devices including: a holographic microscope, an analogue computer, a flat thin colour television tube, and a new type of ...
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Autobiography of Ernst Ruska
Ernst Ruska (1906 - 1988) received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1986 for his fundamental work in electron optics, and for the design of the first electron microscope.
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How Nuclear Medicine Works
A brief description of how Nuclear Medicine works. The pages address broad areas of medical use of radiation: PET, MRI scanners, SPECT, cardiovascular and bone scanning, treatment, radiation therapy.
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