History of the day ✓

[image] #OnThisDay February 20, 1972, Nobel laureate Maria Goeppert Mayer, the physicist who explained the structure of atomic nuclei through the nuclear shell model, passed away. She was the second woman ever to win the Nobel Prize in Physics, after Marie Curie. Born on June 28, 1906,

[image] #OnThisDay February 22, 1857, Heinrich Hertz was born in Hamburg, Germany — the physicist who first proved the existence of electromagnetic waves, confirming James Clerk Maxwell’s revolutionary theory. In the late 1880s, Hertz generated and detected radio waves in his laboratory

[image] #OnThisDay 31 March, 1727, we remember Sir Isaac Newton — the man who transformed our understanding of motion, gravity, and the universe. A true giant of science. Born in 1642 in Woolsthorpe, England, Newton showed early brilliance in mathematics and physics. He would go on to

[image] #OnThisDay March 11, 1811, French mathematician Urbain Le Verrier was born. He achieved one of the most astonishing feats in science: discovering a planet using only mathematics — before anyone had seen it. In the early 1800s, astronomers noticed something strange. The orbit of