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| Irving Langmuir's examples of pathological science, "Allison effect" |
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| In its "inverse" version the spin of certain particles can be converted into angular momentum. |
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| t causes an amount of circular birefringence dependent on the Verdet constant of the medium, and its direction is caused by the direction of the magnetic field producing it. |
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| Rotation of a light beam's plane of polarization, |
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| discovered by a British scientist who is also the namesake of the unit of capacitance |
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| An optical illusion that evens-out brightness gradients is this person's namesake band |
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| Prandtl-Meyer fans consist of superpositions of this scientist's namesake waves, sonic pressures which occur due to pressure gradients in compressible flows |
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| An influential philosopher of science, this thinker's principle states that inertia is relational and relative and his Society is also known as the Vienna Circle. |
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| His best-known namesake is a quantity measuring compressibility and equal to an object's speed divided by the speed of sound. |
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| Austrian scientist whose "number," when equal to one, quantifies the sound barrier |
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| One use of this term in computer science refers to a device used to decouple processes so that the reader and writer may operate at different speeds or on different amounts of data. |
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| A major problem concerns dealing with the overflow problems of another device of this name, a part of RAM used for temporary storage of data that is waiting to be sent to a device. |
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| In chemistry, their functional range is described in the Henderson-Hasselbach equation, while an example of their use is the addition of limestone to a lake affected by acid rain. |
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| term describing a mixture of a weak acid and its conjugate base that serves to moderate the pH of a solution |
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| In 1889, this scientist began issuing "Classics of Exact Science," a series of reprints of important papers on topics in physics and chemistry. |
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| Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald |
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| In 1888, he proposed a dilution law that relates the degree of disassociation of an electrolyte to its total concentration. |
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| Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald |
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| he first director of Leipzig's Physiochemical Institute, he gave the first modern definition of a catalyst. |
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| Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald |
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| chemist who devised a process for producing ammonia from nitric acid |
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| Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald |
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| winner of the 1909 Nobel Prize in Chemistr |
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| Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald |
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| The Gross-Pitaevskii equation is used to model it |
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| in a 2002 Science paper, semiconductor quantum wells were used to study it in exciton-polaritons |
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| Observing the second-order coherence properties can give optical evidence of it |
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| when placed in an optical lattice, it can show a superfluid to Mott-insulator phase transition |
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| Electro-magnetically induced transparency, atom lasing, and ultra-slow light have been observed in it |
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| n the first demonstration of it, rubidium atoms were loaded in a magneto-optical trap and laser cooled to just above absolute zero |
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| distinct form of matter, named for an Indian and a German physicist |
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