1952 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Updated 2025-07-16
1955 Nobel Prize in Physics Updated 2025-07-16
The key initial quantum electrodynamics experiments:
108 Stars of Destiny Updated 2025-07-16
The very first chapter opens with Grand Commander Hou disrespecting spirits by opening up a sealed tomb and unintentionally releasing 108 demons who presumably reincarnate as humans, a backstory to the events that follow years later.
This is well shown in the Japanese The Water Margin, but is skipped in the Chinese The Water Margin unfortunately.
Actually, now that Ciro Santilli thinks about it, these were already likely meant as a "collectible" element by the author of the original book, as is strongly suggested by all the little illustrations of each character present on the Wikipedia page. Just like e.g. Catholic saints. It's Pokemon, but 2000 years earlier.
Ciro would notably feel many years later, that as he met random people online who were interested in improving eduction, or was otherwise networking to reach his goals, as if he were actually building up his 108 stars of destiny.
A central part, and perhaps the most interesting part of the novel, is how each character has been motivated by injustice to join the rebellion. This reminds Ciro of Final Fantasy VI
108 Stars of Destiny women Updated 2025-07-16
As mentioned at hero108.fandom.com/wiki/The_108_Heroes there are only 3 women amongst the 108:
- 59 Hu Sanniang
- 101 Gu Dasao
- 103 Sun Erniang. She's the human flesh mantou lady!
16S ribosomal RNA Updated 2025-07-16
18.783 MIT course Updated 2025-07-16
math.mit.edu/classes/18.783, Wow, good slides! Well organized site! This is a good professor! And brutal course. 25 lectures, and lecture one ends in BSD conjecture!
Some points from math.mit.edu/classes/18.783/2022/LectureSlides1.pdf:
1902 Nobel Prize in Physics Updated 2025-07-16
Pieter Zeeman for the Zeeman effect.
1908 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Updated 2025-07-16
1914 Nobel Prize in Physics Updated 2025-07-16
Not only did this open the way for X-ray crystallography, it more fundamentally clarified the nature of X-rays as being electromagnetic radiation, and helped further establish the atomic theory.
1918 Nobel Prize in Physics Updated 2025-07-16
1921 Nobel Prize in Physics Updated 2025-07-16
Einstein for the theoretical explanation of the photoelectric effect from 1905, notably published as on a Heuristic Viewpoint Concerning the Production and Transformation of Light by Einstein (1905).
1922 Nobel Prize in Physics Updated 2025-07-16
Niels Bohr for the Bohr model.
1926 Nobel Prize in Physics Updated 2025-07-16
1927 Nobel Prize in Physics Updated 2025-07-16
1932 Nobel Prize in Physics Updated 2025-07-16
To Ernest Lawrence for the cyclotron.
1936 Nobel Prize in Physics Updated 2025-07-16
Discovery of:
- the positron by Carl David Anderson
- he cosmic rays by Victor Francis Hess
1937 Nobel Prize in Physics Updated 2025-07-16
Early electron diffraction experiment from 1927 that drastically confirmed the matter wave hypothesis.
1978 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Updated 2025-07-16
To Peter D. Mitchell for the discovery of the mechanism of ATP synthesis in the mitochondria, a central part of cellular respiration.
1978 Nobel Prize in Physics Updated 2025-07-16
1987 Nobel Prize in Physics Updated 2025-07-16
This was so hot (no pun intended) and reproducible that the prize was awarded one year after discovery. Quite rare in those days already.
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