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THE TUESDAY TOAST - S02E02

 We are back with This week's Tuesday Toast. Get ready physics enthusiasts to answer some of the interesting questions from this spectacular field of science!!!

We present you episode 2 of Season 2:


  1. Marie Curie was accused of having an affair with this Physicist who is the assistant of her late husband. The man is known for his works in paramagnetism and diamagnetism. Curie was in danger of losing her second Nobel prize after rumours of their affair were circulated. Identify the man. 


  1. __ is a book written by a former chemical engineer at Solvay. In this book, the author writes about the encounter of Curie and Einstein at the famous Solvay Conference of 1911. The book narrates the story of Curie and how she overcame the gender prejudices during that era. It also mentions how the contribution of Mileva ( Einstein's first wife) to the theory of relativity was often overlooked and disregarded. Identify the book.



  1. The weight of an object is measured using a ________ while the mass of an object is measured using a ________. If you were on another planet or in space, the ______ is affected by the change in gravity but the ______ is not. The mass of the ______ object determines the resulting direction of the gravitational pull.

 


  1. Identify the scientist?

This famous scientist(physicist) died from abdominal aortic aneurysm and  after his death pathologists removed his brain during autopsy and kept it with him in hopes of unlocking the reason behind his intelligence .Upon the consent of his son , his brain was cut into pieces and distributed among scientists for research. One more clue , He offered his Nobel Prize to his wife as part of divorce settlement.



  1. "There’s a tradition of scientists approaching senility to come up with grand, improbable theories, X is unusual in that he’s doing this in his 40s.” Late physicist Y said this for the physicist turned software entrepreneur X. Identify X and Y

X and his team have been working on a supposedly breakthrough computational approach of thinking about the  fundamental laws of physics that is being viewed skeptically by the physicist community.

Y is generally popular with the term “Y sphere” , a hypothetical concept given by him. He did pioneering work in a wide variety of fields but didn’t win the Nobel Prize.





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  1. Physics SocietyAugust 31, 2021 at 8:05 AM

    Answers to The Tuesday Toast S02E02

    1. Paul Langevin
    2. The Soul of Genius by Jeffrey Orens
    3. (i)-(d) ; (ii)-(b) ;(iii)-(a) ;(iv)-(e) ;(v)-(c)
    4. Albert Einstein
    5. X-Stephen Wolfram, Y-Freeman Dyson

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