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Who is Ettore Majorana
This physicist disappeared while going by ship to Napoli from Palermo.
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What is the Winter solstice
This celebration was replaced by Christmas
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Who is Jens Paaske Jørgensen
This CMT professor co-authored the paper "Nonequilibrium transport through a Kondo dot in a magnetic field: Perturbation theory"
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Who is Charles Kittel
This historical physicist died in May 2019 at the age of 102.
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What is World War I
In this war, an unofficial ceasefire took place on Christmas Day. Later it was known as the Christmas truce.
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Who is Karsten Flensberg
This CMT professor co-authored the paper "Towards single-electron metrology"
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Who is Robert Hooke
Isaac Newton had all paintings of this physicist destroyed due to a beef between the two.
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Who is Isaac Newton
This famous physicist was born on Christmas day, "an hour or two after midnight [source:astro.com]".
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Who is Mark Rudner
This CMT professor co-authored the paper "Spin relaxation due to deflection coupling in nanotube quantum dots"
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Who is Democrit
This natural philosopher is generally accepted as the first person to describe the atom.
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What is Iceland
This country has either 9 or 13 Santa clauses (depending on whom you ask).
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Who is Per Hedegård
This CMT professor co-authored the paper "Semi-classical generalized Langevin equation for equilibrium and nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulation"
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What is matrix mechanics
This ground breaking theory was developed on a barren island due to its inventor's bad case of hay fever.
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Jingle Bells
This well-known Christmas song was originally written for Thanksgiving.
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Who is Jens Paaske Jørgensen
This CMT professor co-authored the paper "Incipient nodal pairing in planar d-wave superconductors"
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