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Who is Ettore Majorana
This physicist disappeared while travelling by ship from Naples to 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 physicist died in May 2019 at the age of 102.
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What is World War 1
In this war an unofficial ceasefire set in on Christmas Day. It was later known as the Christmas truce.
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Who is Brian Møller Andersen
This CMT professor co-authored the paper "Measuring spin correlations in optical lattices using superlattice potentials"
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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 physicist was born on Christmas Day, "an hour or two" after midnight (source: astro.com)
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Who is Michele Burello
This CMT professor co-authored the paper "Topological blockade and measurement of topological charge"
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Who is Democrit
This natural philosopher is generally accepted as the first to describe the atom.
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What is Iceland
This country has 13 or 9 Santa clauses (depending on whom you ask).
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Who is Mark Rudner
"Exploring Topological Phases With Quantum Walks"
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What is matrix mechanics
This ground breaking theory was developed on a barren island due to its inventors bad case of hay fever.
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What is Jingle Bells
This well-known, international Christmas carol 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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