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For semiconductors and GPS, thank C V Raman, Satyendra Nath Bose, Einstein — and hay fever in 1925
December 31, 2025 11:41 am
One century after the Helgoland breakthrough, quantum principles have entered popular culture through the mythical Schrödinger cat. So profound was this work that every reigning doctrine — from communism and Buddhism to Vedanta — took positions on what quantum science means for its worldview
Did Isaac Newton use beer to write his theory of gravity? What new study says
March 01, 2025 9:44 pm
Isaac Newton's beer-based ink would 'endure many years,' and scientists believe this homemade formula may have been widely used in his work.
Christie's to sell Isaac Newton's notes for greatest work
June 01, 2021 12:36 pm
Pages containing Isaac Newton's jotted revisions to his masterwork, the "Principia," are expected to sell next month for between 600,000 pounds and 900,000 pounds (USD 850,000 and USD 1.3 million), auctioneer Christie's said Tuesday.
Christie's to sell Isaac Newton's notes for greatest work
June 01, 2021 10:34 am
Pages containing Isaac Newton's jotted revisions to his masterwork, the "Principia," are expected to sell next month for between 600,000 pounds and 900,000 pounds (USD 850,000 and USD 1.3 million), auctioneer Christie's said Tuesday
Einstein, Newton 'misled' the world: Unaware of controversial remarks by two speakers, say organisers
January 06, 2019 6:11 am
The two speakers were Dr Kannan Jegathala Krishnan, whose designation in the conference manual is mentioned as ‘senior research scientist and coordinator’ at World Community Service Centre at Aliyar in Tamil Nadu, and Prof G Nageswara Rao, Vice-Chancellor, Andhra University.
Stephen Hawking rests between Newton, Darwin at Westminster Abbey
June 16, 2018 5:03 pm
Over the course of his adult life, Hawking suffered from a motor-neuron condition linked to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), diagnosed in 1963.
Brahmagupta II came up with gravitation law 1000 years before Newton, says Rajasthan Education Minister
January 09, 2018 7:33 am
"A few days ago, I was reading about Newton...who came up with the law of gravitation? Newton did, this is what I read, you read. If you delve deeper, Bramhagupta the second had given us this rule a thousand years before Newton."
Graffiti sketched by young Isaac Newton discovered
December 11, 2017 8:28 pm
A new light-based analysis system has found graffiti in the childhood home of Isaac Newton, expected to have been drawn by the discoverer of gravity.
‘Akbar is not The Great, just a ruler from outside’
April 10, 2015 2:21 am
Rajasthan minister Vasudev Devnani, who wants textbooks redone, compares Akbar & Rana Pratap, Newton & Aryabhatta.
Laws of motion's original manuscript now available online
December 12, 2011 5:52 pm
Library include scientist's own annotated copy of Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
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