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Emmy Noether

Wie is de mens achter de wetenschapper: "Emmy Noether", onze scientist in the spotlight voor deze week.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."

Carl F. Gauss

"Mathematicians stand on each others shoulders"

Alan Turing

“Father of Computer Science, Mathematician, Logician, Wartime Codebreaker, Victim of Prejudice”

Albert A. Michelson

"It appears, from all that precedes, reasonably certain that if there be any relative motion between the earth and the luminiferous ether, it must be small."

Richard P. Feynman

“You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It’s their mistake, not my failing.”

John Bardeen

"Science is a field which grows continuously with ever expanding frontiers."

Ernest Solvay

"There are no limits to what science can explore."

Kip S. Thorne

“The right answer is seldom as important as the right question.”

Luis W. Alvarez

"I’m convinced that a controlled disrespect for authority is essential to a scientist."

John A. Wheeler

"Space tells matter how to move. Matter tells space how to curve"

Rosalind Franklin

"Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated."