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The chronology of the universe describes the history and future of the universe according to Big Bang cosmology. Research published in 2015 estimates the...

In particle physics, the Dirac equation is a relativistic wave equation derived by British physicist Paul Dirac in 1928. In its free form, or including...

Vapor pressure or equilibrium vapor pressure is the pressure exerted by a vapor in thermodynamic equilibrium with its condensed phases (solid or liquid)...

The SI base units are the standard units of measurement defined by the International System of Units (SI) for the seven base quantities of what is now...

Percy Williams Bridgman (April 21, 1882 – August 20, 1961) was an American physicist who received the 1946 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the physics...

Edward Arthur Milne FRS (/mɪln/; 14 February 1896 – 21 September 1950) was a British astrophysicist and mathematician. Milne was born in Hull, Yorkshire...

A fiber laser (or fibre laser in Commonwealth English) is a laser in which the active gain medium is an optical fiber doped with rare-earth elements such...

A glory is an optical phenomenon, resembling an iconic saint's halo around the shadow of the observer's head, caused by sunlight or (more rarely) moonlight...

William (Bill) Cochran FRS FRSE (30 July 1922 – 28 August 2003) was a Scottish physicist. He is best known for "pioneering contributions to the science...

A Schottky defect is an excitation of the site occupations in a crystal lattice leading to point defects named after Walter H. Schottky. In ionic crystals...

A single-electron transistor (SET) is a sensitive electronic device based on the Coulomb blockade effect. In this device the electrons flow through a tunnel...

Kameshwar C. Wali (October 15, 1927 – January 14, 2022) was an Indian-born American theoretical physicist who was the Distinguished Research Professor...

The EMC effect is the surprising observation that the cross section for deep inelastic scattering from an atomic nucleus is different from that of the...

Electrophoretic light scattering (also known as laser Doppler electrophoresis and phase analysis light scattering ) is based on dynamic light scattering...

Semiconductor saturable-absorber mirrors (SESAMs) are a type of saturable absorber used in mode locking lasers. Semiconductor saturable absorbers were...

Barbara M. Terhal (born 1969) is a theoretical physicist working in quantum information and quantum computing. She is a professor in the Delft Institute...

This is a list of things named for James Clerk Maxwell. Maxwell–Betti reciprocal work theorem Maxwell–Bloch equations Maxwell–Huber–Hencky–von Mises theory...