Nobel Media AB
The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1938
At this site from The Nobel Foundation, read about the life and scientific discoveries of physicist Enrico Fermi (1901-1954), whose work with radiation and "discovery of nuclear reactions brought about by slow neutrons" earned him the...
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Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory: Fusion Basics
A wealth of background information on nuclear fusion and its potential use as a commercial energy resource. The advantages of nuclear fusion over other resources, the conditions required for its successful implementation and the future...
Walter Fendt
Walter Fendt: Apps Zur Physik
This site, in German, offers numerous apps that illustrate common physics principles. Apps are organized into categories: mechanics, oscillations and waves, electrodynamics, optics, thermodynamics, the theory of relativity, physics of...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Physical Science: Nuclear Chemistry
A complete learning module with interactive activities as well as informational text to help students distinguish the characteristics and components of radioactivity.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Career Profile: Physicist
Physicist as a career is a very broad spectrum. This site from Science Buddies relates the general requirements and education needed to be a physicist and lists the many sub-fields in which physicists can specialize. Included is a video...
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Magnet Academy: Low Temperature Physics
Why do physicists want to study things at temperatures so cold atomic motion almost comes to a halt? And how do they create such frigid environments, anyway? Read on for the what, how and why of low temperature physics.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Nuclear Fission and Fusion Reactions
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This lesson explains the processes of nuclear fission and nuclear fusion. Includes simulations on nuclear fission and on isotope decay.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Nuclear Stability and Binding Energy
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this lesson, students learn how scientists study the properties of stable nuclei in order to draw generalizations about what makes a nucleus stable. They look at...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Weak Nuclear Force and the Standard Model
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes the development of the model of particle physics called the Standard Model.
Nobel Media AB
The Nobel Prize: Niels Bohr Biographical
The Nobel Foundation provides this site about Niels Bohr's contributions to the world of physics, specifically his "investigation of the structure of atoms and of the radiation emanating from them." This biography includes information on...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Nuclear Fusion
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] What nuclear fusion is and how and where it occurs. Using nuclear fusion to produce energy and its pros and cons.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Physics for Kids: Nuclear Energy and Fission
Kids learn about nuclear energy and fission in the science of physics including E=mc2, power plants, uses of nuclear power, and fusion.
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Lancaster University: Particle Physics Package: Higgs
A look at where the Higgs boson exists within the Standard Model of particle physics. Explains forces in the Model (electromagnetism, strong nuclear force, and weak nuclear force) and offers thoughts on how the Higgs particle might be...
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Berkeley Lab: Phases of Nuclear Matter
A brief explanation of determining the temperature and density at which the critical point of nuclear matter is located.
US Department of Energy
Fermilab: Questions About Physics: Big Bang & Bosons
What are serious scientists are saying about bosons? This site provides text correspondence between two scientists in question-answer format. Shows why bosons are so important in particle physics.
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Maria Goeppert Mayer, Nobelist in Physics
The Supercomputer Center of the University of California at San Diego offers details of the life of Maria Goeppert-Mayer, third woman ever to be awarded the Nobel Prize for physics. Instructive in the obstacles to being a woman in a...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Potential Energy
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Definition of potential energy, gravitational potential energy, elastic potential energy and other forms of potential energy.
University of California
Ucla: Irene Joliot Curie (1897 1956 )
Site includes the titles of publications authored by nuclear physicist Irene Joliot-Curie, as well as her complete resume.
Texas A&M University
The Cyclotron Institute
What is a cyclotron and what does it have to do with atomic physics. Go to this site and find the answers to all your questions.
Physics4kids
Physics4 Kids: Modern Physics: Creating Usable Energy
Explains basic information about creating nuclear power. This site includes a video which gives a tour of an advanced reactor.
Physics4kids
Physics 4 Kids: Modern Physics Quiz
Take this ten question multiple choice quiz on modern physics
University of California
Ucla: Maria Goeppert Mayer
UCLA Physics presents three documents here on Maria Goeppert Mayer, including a brief biography, a longer biography, and a physics meeting address on Mayer and the specifics of her work in nuclear physics.
Nobel Media AB
The Nobel Prize: Hans Bethe Biographical
A biography of Hans Bethe (1906-2005 CE), concentrating on his scientific research in nuclear physics.
Georgia State University
Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Proton Proton Fusion
A look at the reaction that fuels the Sun with this diagram of the nuclear fusion process.