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August issue of Physics World looks at friendships and rivalries between sibling scientists
1 August 2017
Who inspired you to study physics? Perhaps you had a great teacher or a supportive parent. But how might it feel if you’ve got a sibling who’s also into the subject? Would they be your rival or would the two of you support and nurture each other?
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- 1675 Construction of the Royal Greenwich Observatory begins
- 1990 The spaceprobe Magellan arrives at Venus and begins mapping the surface using radar
- 1839 Birth of Aleksandr Stoletov, known for his work on ferromagnetism and electrical engineering and for his studies of the photoelectric effect
- 1913 Birth of Wolfgang Paul, whose work led to the development of the ion trap, for which he and Hans Georg Dehmelt shared half of the 1989 Nobel Prize
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