George P. Thomson
Sir George Paget Thomson was born into the very heart of British science – the son of Sir J. J. Thomson, the Cavendish Professor who discovered the electron. Following in his father’s footsteps, the young Thomson studied mathematics and physics at Trinity College, Cambridge, even beginning undergraduate research under his father’s guidance. World War I […]
Lyman Spitzer Jr.
Lyman Spitzer Jr.: Pioneer of the Stars and Fusion Lyman Spitzer Jr. was born in 1914 in Ohio and from a young age combined classical scholarship with cosmic curiosity. He excelled at Yale University and spent a formative year at Cambridge University in England under luminaries Arthur Eddington and Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar – experiences that greatly expanded his scientific horizons. During World War II, Spitzer applied his talents to developing advanced sonar for […]