Physicist Julius Robert Oppenheimer, best known for directing scientific work at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project, was born #OTD in 1904. He also made important contributions to quantum mechanics, astrophysics, and relativity that are not as well known!
Image: Ed Westcott

Please, let someone else have a turn as handsomest dad.

It’s a cult.

People that are down on golden doodles are ridiculous. Get over yourself.

“Albert Einstein Lived Here”

Herb Block's cartoon memorializing Einstein appeared in the The Washington Post #OTD in 1955, the day after Einstein’s death.

Image: Herb Block / Library of Congress

Albert Einstein passed away #OTD in 1955. Complications from a ruptured abdominal aneurysm. Doctors recommended surgical intervention but Einstein declined. “I have done my share; it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.'

Here is his office as he left it.

Image: R. Morse/LIFE

The Future of Humanity Institute has shutdown 🙁 (2005-2024): futureofhumanityinstitute.org

“Pinna’s Scintillating Lustre” sounds like a second level illusionist spell.

'the jokes right themselves' qualifies you for a bachelor's degree in spelling from NC State.

“A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians” and “A Radical Act of Free Magic” were two of my favorite reads this past year. Wasted no time in pre-ordering this one.

Robert R. Wilson, first director of Fermilab, famously testified in front of the Congressional Joint Committee on Atomic Energy #OTD in 1969. In making the case for building Fermilab he delivered a lovely justification for a national commitment to basic science.
Image: Fermilab

Richard MaVache As per my pinned post, you can either browse #PhysicsFactlet or go to commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?ti… to see the ones I thought interesting enough to be worth being released into the #PublicDomain

What we need is a movie where Keanu, or Jason Statham, or whoever, just John Wicks every person who ever sold your email address to a political campaign so they could send you fundraising emails. Everyone would love it and it would have a 70 billion dollar opening weekend.

'After dinner, the weather being warm, we went into the garden and drank thea, under the shade of some apple trees.'

Isaac Newton met with the writer William Stukeley #OTD in 1726, recounting a story of a falling apple that Stukeley would later publish.
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Look at that sky localization! The first #GravitationalWave candidate of O4b #S240413p

If real, the source is probably a binary black hole

False alarm rate 1 in 100 yr
GraceDB gracedb.ligo.org/superevents/S2…
GCN gcn.nasa.gov/circulars/36075
Rating 3⃣🍨🖤

#O4IsHere

Chemist Reatha Clark King was born #OTD in 1938. Her calorimetry work on gaseous fluorine compounds at the National Bureau of Standards contributed to NASA's investigations of various rocket fuels for the space program. She was the first Black woman to work as a chemist at NIST.

I hope she plays Elizabeth Magie.

“I am fourteen years old.”