Leon Foucault: celebrated for his pendulum experiment in 1851, Foucault also produced decisive evidence against the particle theory of light, invented the gyroscope, perfected the reflecting telescope and measured the sun's distance

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The true genius of Leon Foucault as a scientist and inventor lies in his great curiosity and his exacting standards in experimental precision. Foucault's curiosity can be stimulated by the most mundane of things, such as the workings of a lathe in proving the principles of his 'pendulum'.

Foucault, Leon

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The top-secret life of Lev Landau

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Lev Davidovich Landau, a Noble Prize Winner for his contribution in condensed-matter physics, secretly took part in a collaboration to publish an anti-Stalin manifesto. Landau also figured the dynamics of the first Soviet thermonuclear bomb that contained lithium diutheride.

Russia, Landau, Lev Davidovich

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The odd couple and the bomb

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Physicists Enrico Fermi and Leo Szilard were involved in a contentious partnership which led to the development of the atom bomb. They agreed to put their worldview differences aside for sake of the collaboration.

United States, History, Atomic bomb, Atomic bombs, Fermi, Enrico, Szilard, Leo

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