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Notable chemists and physicists ~

Fritjof Capra
Henry Cavendish
James Chadwick
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Jacques Alexandre Cesar Charles
Emilie du Chatelet-Lomont
Michel-Eugene Chevreul

The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism
The Tao of Physics:
An Exploration of the Parallels between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism

Fritjof Capra
b. 2-1-1939; Vienna, Austria

Physicist, systems theorist, and author of five international bestsellers, Fritjof Capra is a founding director of the Center for Ecoliteracy in Berkeley, California. He is also on the faculty of Schumacher College, named after E.F. Schumacher, which is an international center on sustainable living and holistic education courses.

The 1990 movie Mindwalk, starring Liv Ullman, Sam Waterston, and John Heard, is loosely based on Capra's book, The Turning Point.


Henry Cavendish, F.R.S., 19th Century, Giclee Print
Henry Cavendish,
Giclee Print

Henry Cavendish
b. 10-10-1731; Nice, France
d. 2-24-1810; London, England

Henry Cavendish, FRS (Fellow of the Royal Society) was a 19th century scientist whose eccentric behaviour hid his important discoveries for years. It was only when James Clerk Maxwell published Cavendish's papers in 1879 that it was revealed that Cavendish had made numersous discoveries before other scientists. For instance Cavendish discovered oxygen before Lavoisier and calculated the mass of the Earth that was only 1% off today's measurement.

Henry Cavendish & The Discovery of Hydrogen


Sir James Chadwick, Physicist, Photographic Print
Sir James Chadwick, Physicist,
Photographic Print

Sir James Chadwick
b. 10-20-1891; Bollington, Cheshire, England
d. 7-24-1974; Cambridge

Physicist Sir James Chadwick was awarded the 1935 Nobel Prize in physics for his discovery of the neutron (1932).

Chadwick was the head of the British scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II, and was knighted in 1945 for achievements in physics.


The Final Stages of the Life of a Massive Star, Which Will Go Supernova, Photographic Print
The Final Stages of the Life of a Massive Star, Which Will Go Supernova, Photographic Print

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
b. 10-19-1910; Lahore, Punjab, India
d. 8-21-1995; Chicago, IL

Astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, with William A. Fowler, won the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics “for his key discoveries that led to the currently accepted theory on the later evolutionary stages of massive stars”.

The Chandrasekhar limit, named after him, describes the maximum mass of a “white dwarf star, ~1.44 solar masses, or equivalently, the minimum mass which must be exceeded for a star to ultimately collapse into a neutron star or black hole (following a supernova)”.

NASA also named one of its four Great Observatories (satellites) after Chandrasekhar, the Chandra X-ray Observatory (Hubble Telescope, Compton Gamma Ray Observatory and the Spitzer Space Telescope).

FYI - “Chandra” means “moon” in Sanskrit; Chandrasekhar was the nephew of C. V. Raman, winner of the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics.


Jacques Alexandre Cesar Charles, Giclee Print
Jacques Alexandre Cesar Charles,
Giclee Print

Jacques Alexandre Cesar Charles
b. 11-12-1746; Beaugency, France
d. 4-7-1823

Jacques Alexandre Cesar Charles, an inventor, mathematician, professor of physics, and balloonist, discovered Charles’s Law (1787): Under constant pressure, an ideal gas' volume is proportional to its absolute temperature. The volume of a gas at constant pressure increases linearly with the absolute temperature of the gas.


Madame Émilie du Chatelet-Lomont, Giclee Print
Madame Emilie du Chatelet-Lomont,
Giclee Print

Madame Émilie du Chatelet-Lomont
b. 12-17-1706; Paris, France
d. 9-10-1749; complications of childbirth

Madame Émilie du Chatelet-Lomont was a mathematician, physicist and author.

Einstein's famous equation for the energy of matter E=mc2 fits neatly with a principle recognized by Madame de Chatelet 150 years before Einstein. She explained the idea in her book Institutions de Physique (“Lessons in Physics”), which she had prepared for her 13 year old son as a “Cliff Notes” study of the newest ideas of the time.

In addition to being a home schooler she was also great friends with Voltaire, (with her husband's blessing) and translated Newton's Principia into French.


Portrait of Michel-Eugene Chevreul, Giclee Print
Michel-Eugene Chevreul,
Giclee Print

Michel-Eugene Chevreul
b. 8-31-1786; Angers, France
d. 4-9-1889; Paris

Chemist and professor Michel Eugene Chevreul work with fatty acids proved important in the soap, food and arts.

He is credited with discovering margaric acid (margarine), and as director of dye works at the Gobelins Manufactory in Paris determined that the yarn's perceived color was influenced by other surrounding yarns, leading to a concept known as simultaneous contrast.


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