Historical Facts Authors
100
Who is Ettore Majorana
This physicist disappeared while travelling by ship from Naples to 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 physicist died in May 2019 at the age of 102.
200
What is World War 1
In this war an unofficial ceasefire set in on Christmas Day. It was later known as the Christmas truce.
200
Who is Brian Møller Andersen
This CMT professor co-authored the paper "Measuring spin correlations in optical lattices using superlattice potentials"
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 physicist was born on Christmas Day, "an hour or two" after midnight (source: astro.com)
300
Who is Michele Burello
This CMT professor co-authored the paper "Topological blockade and measurement of topological charge"
400
Who is Democrit
This natural philosopher is generally accepted as the first to describe the atom.
400
What is Iceland
This country has 13 or 9 Santa clauses (depending on whom you ask).
400
Who is Mark Rudner
"Exploring Topological Phases With Quantum Walks"
500
What is matrix mechanics
This ground breaking theory was developed on a barren island due to its inventors bad case of hay fever.
500
What is Jingle Bells
This well-known, international Christmas carol was originally written for Thanksgiving.
500
Who is Jens Paaske Jørgensen
This CMT professor co-authored the paper "Incipient nodal pairing in planar d-wave superconductors"






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