Historical Facts Christmas Authors
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Who is Ettore Majorana
This physicist disappeared while going by ship to Napoli from Palermo.
100
What is the Winter solstice
This celebration was replaced by Christmas
100
Who is Jens Paaske Jørgensen
This CMT professor co-authored the paper "Nonequilibrium transport through a Kondo dot in a magnetic field: Perturbation theory"
200
Who is Charles Kittel
This historical physicist died in May 2019 at the age of 102.
200
What is World War I
In this war, an unofficial ceasefire took place on Christmas Day. Later it was known as the Christmas truce.
200
Who is Karsten Flensberg
This CMT professor co-authored the paper "Towards single-electron metrology"
300
Who is Robert Hooke
Isaac Newton had all paintings of this physicist destroyed due to a beef between the two.
300
Who is Isaac Newton
This famous physicist was born on Christmas day, "an hour or two after midnight [source:astro.com]".
300
Who is Mark Rudner
This CMT professor co-authored the paper "Spin relaxation due to deflection coupling in nanotube quantum dots"
400
Who is Democrit
This natural philosopher is generally accepted as the first person to describe the atom.
400
What is Iceland
This country has either 9 or 13 Santa clauses (depending on whom you ask).
400
Who is Per Hedegård
This CMT professor co-authored the paper "Semi-classical generalized Langevin equation for equilibrium and nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulation"
500
What is matrix mechanics
This ground breaking theory was developed on a barren island due to its inventor's bad case of hay fever.
500
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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