Enrico Fermi
Inking Science Day 15 – Enrico Fermi and the weak force.
Richard Feynman
Inking Science Day 14 – Richard Feynman and that time the clock stopped.
Tim Berners-Lee
Inking Science Day 13 – Tim Barners-Lee guarding the internet
Charles Darwin
Inking Science Day 12 – Charles Darwin advocating against animal cruelty.
Carl Sagan
Inking Science Day 11 – Carl Sagan and outer space whale songs.
Carlo Rovelli
Inking Science day 10 – Carlo Rovelli and the nothingness of time.
Andre Geim
October 9th: Precious If someone gives you a diamond proclaiming it symbolises how their love will last forever, be ready to reply: “Liar!” The precious diamonds are a material made exclusively of carbon. There is another material with the same exact composition: graphite (i.e. the lead in pencils). The only …
Hedy Lamarr
October 8th: Star Movie star Hedy Lamarr was regarded as the most beautiful woman in the world. But she was more than that. She was creative and curious. She invented an improved traffic stoplight, helped aviator Howard Hughes to speed aeroplanes by inspiring their design on fast fishes and birds, devised …
Ettore Majorana
October 7th: Exhausted “There are several categories of scientists in the world; those of second or third rank do their best but never get very far. Then there is the first rank, those who make important discoveries, fundamental to scientific progress. But then there are the geniuses, like Galilei and …
Arthur Ashkin
October 6th: Drooling Did you know that you can push stuff with light? More than that, you can use light to trap objects and move them around. Ok, the stuff has to be small, micrometric small. And the light better be a laser. And you need a lens. But this …