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We also look back to two early Nobel prizes, which were given for very puzzling reasons. One was awarded in 1908 to Gabriel Lippmann for an impractical colour-photography technique that was quickly ...

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In 2019, gravitational wave observatories identified an event known as GW190521 that baffled astronomers. It was initially interpreted as evidence of two black holes merging. But its characteristics ...

The Irish mathematician and physicist William Rowan Hamilton, who was born 220 years ago last month, is famous for carving some mathematical graffiti into Dublin's Broome Bridge in 1843.

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