Physics: Decade By Decade
Across
- 3. who discovered alpha rays and beta rays
- 6. who developed a new theory of the strong interaction based on the observed SU symmetry.
- 8. which had can has the rule of electromagnetism
- 9. a Jewish-born woman who explained the nuclear fission
- 10. who found X-rays
- 13. a meson that is exchanged between nucleons, creating the strong nuclear force
- 14. which direction the right hand rule thumb pointing at
- 16. a middle-weight subatomic particle that consists of a quark and an antiquark
- 17. Leon Lederman was honored with what Nobel Prize on the 1988 Nobel Prize ceremony
- 20. who found corpuscles(electrons)
- 23. a fundamental property of subatomic particles, represented by a quantum number designed s, that corresponds to their inherent magnetism
- 24. who won the Noble Prize in physics in 1935
- 26. a quantum or packet of vibrational energy
- 27. John Bardeen valued nothing more than what
- 28. the property of a quark that interacts with the strong nuclear force, equivalent to positive or negative charge for the electromagnetic force
- 30. a chemical substance made up of only one kind of atom
- 32. particles that Thomson found(electrons)
- 34. where was John Bardeen born
- 35. where Stephen Hawking was born
- 37. a subatomic particle that is the second-generation equivalent of the electron in the standard model
- 38. the particle that determines an atom’s behavior
- 39. who and Kilby invented the semiconductor integrated circuit
Down
- 1. where is near to Rutherford’s birth place
- 2. 1931 and 1934 Nobel Prize winners
- 4. a person who is blamed for the wrongdoings, mistakes, or faults of others, especially for reasons of expediency.
- 5. who first had the idea of neutrons are part of the nucleus
- 7. who was born in New York City on July 15, 1922
- 11. the gauge boson exchanged between quarks thereby acting as the carrier of the strong nuclear force
- 12. and electronic device that permits an electric current to pass through in only one direction
- 13. the fissionable material used in the atomic bomb that dropped on Nagasaki
- 15. a region in a semiconductor in which an electron is missing and behaves as if it is a mobile, positive charge
- 18. January 8 was the 300th anniversary of the death of who
- 19. where was Wolfgang Pauli burned
- 21. 1952 what bomb was made
- 22. the creation of electrically charged atoms
- 25. how many marriages did Feynman had
- 27. who was born near New York City
- 29. who had his student provided the first hint that Rutherford might be right
- 31. who detected neutral pion
- 33. a subatomic particle having one unit of positive elective charge and one unit of atomic mass
- 36. “a shock effect that’s bizarre, a twist to a story that you tell, and that’s the way it is in research.”