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Index of physics articles (W)

Index Index of physics articles (W)

The index of physics articles is split into multiple pages due to its size. [1]

445 relations: Aspect ratio (aeronautics), Bong, CMB cold spot, Diffraction, Electric power, Kibble balance, Lawrence Bragg, Light, Linearized gravity, Magnetic domain, Navier–Stokes equations, Ni Wei-Tou, Open-pool Australian lightwater reactor, Velocity factor, Vitello, W and Z bosons, W band, W state, W. G. Unruh, W. Jason Morgan, W. Lewis Hyde, W. W. Hansen, Wade Allison, Wafer (electronics), Wagner model, Wake, Wake turbulence, Waldo K. Lyon, Wall-plug efficiency, Wallace Clement Sabine, Wallace Hampton Tucker, Wallace Smith Broecker, Walter A. Rosenblith, Walter de Heer, Walter Dieminger, Walter Dornberger, Walter Dröscher, Walter Eric Spear, Walter Franz, Walter Gear, Walter Gerlach, Walter Gilbert, Walter Gordon (physicist), Walter Grotrian, Walter Guyton Cady, Walter H. Schottky, Walter Heitler, Walter Herrmann (physicist), Walter Hoppe, Walter Houser Brattain, ..., Walter Kaufmann (physicist), Walter Kistler, Walter Kohn, Walter Lewin Lectures on Physics, Walter M. Elsasser, Walter Mauderli, Walter Oelert, Walter Rogowski, Walter Rotman, Walter Schottky Prize, Walter Selke, Walter Thirring, Walter Tollmien, Walter Zürn, Walter Zinn, Walther Bothe, Walther Kossel, Walther Müller, Walther Meissner, Walther Nernst, Walther Ritz, WAMIT, Wander Johannes de Haas, Wang Ganchang, Wang Zhuxi, Wannier function, Ward Plummer, Ward–Takahashi identity, Wardenclyffe Tower, Warm dark matter, Warm–hot intergalactic medium, Warp drive, Warped geometry, Warped Passages, Warren J. Smith, Warren Siegel, WASH-1400, WASH-740, Washburn's equation, Washington Large Area Time Coincidence Array, Washout (aeronautics), WAsP, Water content, Water cycle, Water hole (radio), Water metering, Water potential, Water retention curve, Water thread experiment, Water vapor, Water window, Watercraft, Waterfall plot, Waterspout, Watson interferometer, Watt, Watt steam engine, Watt W. Webb, Wave, Wave action (continuum mechanics), Wave base, Wave drag, Wave equation, Wave field synthesis, Wave function, Wave function collapse, Wave function renormalization, Wave height, Wave impedance, Wave loading, Wave Motion (journal), Wave packet, Wave power, Wave propagation, Wave radar, Wave setup, Wave shoaling, Wave tank, Wave turbulence, Wave vector, Wave-making resistance, Wave-piercing hull, Wave–current interaction, Wave–particle duality, Waveguide, Waveguide (acoustics), Waveguide (electromagnetism), Waveguide (optics), Wavelength, Wavenumber, Wavenumber–frequency diagram, Waveplate, Waverider, Waves and shallow water, W′ and Z′ bosons, Władysław Natanson, Władysław Turowicz, Włodzimierz Trzebiatowski, Włodzimierz Trzebiatowski Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research, Weak focusing, Weak hypercharge, Weak interaction, Weak isospin, Weak localization, Weakless Universe, Weakly guiding fiber, Weakly interacting massive particles, Weapons-grade nuclear material, Web of Science, Weber (unit), Weber bar, Weber electrodynamics, Weber number, Wedge, Wedge filter, Wehnelt cylinder, Wei Shyy, Weibel instability, Weight, Weighted Voronoi diagram, Weighting curve, Weightlessness, Weinberg angle, Weinberg–Witten theorem, Weinstein conjecture, Weir, Weiss magneton, Weissenberg effect, Weissenberg number, Welteislehre, Wendell H. Furry, Wendelstein 7-X, Werner Hartmann (physicist), Werner Heisenberg, Werner Israel, Werner Kolhörster, Werner Kuhn, Werner Meyer-Eppler, Werner Rolfinck, Werner state, Wernher von Braun, Werthamer–Helfand–Hohenberg theory, Wesley Huntress, Wess–Zumino gauge, Wess–Zumino model, Wess–Zumino–Witten model, West number, Wet-bulb temperature, Wetting, Wetting transition, Weyl curvature hypothesis, Weyl equation, Weyl scalar, Weyl tensor, Weyl transformation, Weyl's postulate, What Do You Care What Other People Think?, What Is Life?, What the Bleep Do We Know!?, Wheatstone bridge, Wheel and axle, Wheeler's delayed choice experiment, Wheeler–DeWitt equation, Wheeler–Feynman absorber theory, Whirlpool, Whirlwind, Whispering gallery, Whispering-gallery wave, White dwarf, White hole, White noise, Whitehead's theory of gravitation, Whitham equation, Whole number rule, Wick Haxton, Wick rotation, Wick's theorem, Wide-angle X-ray scattering, Wide-bandgap semiconductor, Wideband materials, Widom scaling, Wiedemann–Franz law, Wien approximation, Wien effect, Wien filter, Wien's displacement law, Wiggler (synchrotron), Wightman axioms, Wigner crystal, Wigner effect, Wigner quasiprobability distribution, Wigner's classification, Wigner's friend, Wigner's theorem, Wigner–Eckart theorem, Wigner–Seitz cell, Wigner–Seitz radius, Wilbur B. Rayton, Wilfrid Basil Mann, Wilhelm Anderson, Wilhelm Eduard Weber, Wilhelm Hallwachs, Wilhelm Hanle, Wilhelm Holtz, Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, Wilhelm Lenz, Wilhelm Nusselt, Wilhelm Orthmann, Wilhelm Röntgen, Wilhelm Walcher, Wilhelm Westphal, Wilhelm Wien, Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, Willard Boyle, Willard Harrison Bennett, Willebrord Snellius, Willem 's Gravesande, Willem de Sitter, Willem Hendrik Keesom, Willem Vos, Willi A. Kalender, William A. Bardeen, William Alfred Fowler, William Allen Zajc, William Allis, William Andrew Goddard III, William Arnold Anthony, William Astbury, William B. Bridges, William B. McLean, William Bassichis, William C. Schwartz, William Coblentz, William Cochran (physicist), William Crookes, William Curry (oceanographer), William D. Coolidge, William Daniel Phillips, William Duane (physicist), William E. Caswell, William E. Forsythe, William E. Gordon, William Eccles, William Edward Ayrton, William F. Barrett, William Francis Gray Swann, William Francis Magie, William Frederick Meggers, William Froude, William Fuller Brown Jr., William G. Tifft, William Gilbert (astronomer), William Grylls Adams, William Hallock, William Henry Bragg, William Higinbotham, William Hyde Wollaston, William J. Thaler, William Jackson Humphreys, William John Macquorn Rankine, William Jones (optician), William Justin Kroll, William L. Burke, William M. Hartmann, William McFadden Orr, William Mitchell (physicist), William Mitchinson Hicks, William Morris Kinnersley, William Nicol (geologist), William Nierenberg, William P. Winfree, William Penney, Baron Penney, William Prager, William R. Bennett Jr., William R. Kanne, William Rarita, William Reginald Dean, William Richard Peltier, William Ritchie (physicist), William Rowan Hamilton, William Shockley, William Stanley Jr., William Sturgeon, William Sutherland (physicist), William T. Kane, William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, William V. Houston, William Watson (scientist), William Wootters, William Zisman, Willibald Jentschke, Willis Lamb, Williwaw, Willy Fischler, Willy Ley, Wilson loop, WIMP Argon Programme, Wimshurst machine, Wind, Wind chill, Wind energy software, Wind farm, Wind gradient, Wind power, Wind power forecasting, Wind resource assessment, Wind shear, Wind speed, Wind stress, Wind tunnel, Wind turbine, Wind wave, Wind wave model, Wind-turbine aerodynamics, Windage, Windbelt, Windhexe, Windrow, WindShear, Windward and leeward, Winfried Otto Schumann, Wing, Wing configuration, Wing fence, Wing loading, Wing twist, Wing warping, Wing-shape optimization, Wingspan, Wingsuit flying, Wingtip device, Wingtip vortices, Winston E. Kock, Winston H. Bostick, Wire chamber, Wireless power transfer, Wireless telegraphy, Wiswesser's rule, WITCH experiment, Witold Milewski (mathematician), Witold Nazarewicz, Witten index, WKB approximation, Wlodzimierz Klonowski, Wojciech Świętosławski, Wojciech H. Zurek, Wojciech Rubinowicz, Woldemar Voigt, Wolf effect, Wolf Prize in Physics, Wolf summation, Wolff algorithm, Wolfgang Demtröder, Wolfgang Eisenmenger, Wolfgang Finkelnburg, Wolfgang Gentner, Wolfgang Haack, Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky, Wolfgang Ketterle, Wolfgang Ludwig Krafft, Wolfgang Paul, Wolfgang Pauli, Wolfgang Rindler, Wolfgang Smith, Wollaston landscape lens, Wollaston prism, Wolter telescope, Womersley number, Woo Chia-wei, Woodruff T. Sullivan III, Woods–Saxon potential, Woodstock of physics, Work (electrical), Work (physics), Work (thermodynamics), Work function, Work output, Working Group on Women in Physics, World crystal, World Data Center, World line, World Magnetic Model, World Year of Physics 2005, Worldsheet, Worm-like chain, Wormhole, Wow! signal, Wright brothers, Wrinkles in Time, Wu Youxun, Wu–Yang monopole, Wubbo Ockels, Wurtzite crystal structure, Wyckoff positions, 3-j symbol. Expand index (395 more) »

Aspect ratio (aeronautics)

In aeronautics, the aspect ratio of a wing is the ratio of its span to its mean chord.

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Bong

A bong (also water pipe, billy, bing, or moof) is a filtration device generally used for smoking cannabis, tobacco, or other herbal substances.

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CMB cold spot

The CMB Cold Spot or WMAP Cold Spot is a region of the sky seen in microwaves that has been found to be unusually large and cold relative to the expected properties of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR).

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Diffraction

--> Diffraction refers to various phenomena that occur when a wave encounters an obstacle or a slit.

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Electric power

Electric power is the rate, per unit time, at which electrical energy is transferred by an electric circuit.

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Kibble balance

A Kibble balance (previously watt balance) is an electromechanical weight measuring instrument that measures the weight of a test object very precisely by the strength of an electric current and a voltage.

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Lawrence Bragg

Sir William Lawrence Bragg, (31 March 1890 – 1 July 1971) was an Australian-born British physicist and X-ray crystallographer, discoverer (1912) of Bragg's law of X-ray diffraction, which is basic for the determination of crystal structure.

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Light

Light is electromagnetic radiation within a certain portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.

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Linearized gravity

Linearized gravity is an approximation scheme in general relativity in which the nonlinear contributions from the spacetime metric are ignored, simplifying the study of many problems while still producing useful approximate results.

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Magnetic domain

A magnetic domain is a region within a magnetic material in which the magnetization is in a uniform direction.

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Navier–Stokes equations

In physics, the Navier–Stokes equations, named after Claude-Louis Navier and George Gabriel Stokes, describe the motion of viscous fluid substances.

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Ni Wei-Tou

Ni Wei-Tou (born 1944 in Zhenhai, Ningbo, Zhejiang) is a Taiwanese physicist, who graduated from the Department of Physics of National Taiwan University (NTU), and got his PhD of Physics & Mathematics from California Institute of Technology.

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Open-pool Australian lightwater reactor

The Open-pool Australian lightwater reactor (OPAL) is a 20 megawatt (MW) pool-type nuclear research reactor.

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Velocity factor

The velocity factor (VF), also called wave propagation speed or velocity of propagation (VoP or of a transmission medium is the ratio of the speed at which a wavefront (of an electromagnetic signal, a radio signal, a light pulse in an optical fibre or a change of the electrical voltage on a copper wire) passes through the medium, to the speed of light in a vacuum.

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Vitello

Witelo (also Erazmus Ciołek Witelo; Witelon; Vitellio; Vitello; Vitello Thuringopolonis; Vitulon; Erazm Ciołek); born ca.

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W and Z bosons

The W and Z bosons are together known as the weak or more generally as the intermediate vector bosons. These elementary particles mediate the weak interaction; the respective symbols are,, and.

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W band

The W band of the microwave part of the electromagnetic spectrum ranges from 75 to 110 GHz, wavelength ≈2.7–4 mm.

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W state

The W state is an entangled quantum state of three qubits which has the following shape and which is remarkable for representing a specific type of multipartite entanglement and for occurring in several applications in quantum information theory.

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W. G. Unruh

William George "Bill" Unruh (born August 28, 1945) is a Canadian physicist at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver who described the hypothetical Unruh effect in 1976.

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W. Jason Morgan

William Jason Morgan (born October 10, 1935) is an American geophysicist who has made seminal contributions to the theory of plate tectonics and geodynamics.

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W. Lewis Hyde

Walter Lewis Hyde (1919-2003) was an American physicist, an early contributor to the field of fiber optics.

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W. W. Hansen

William Webster Hansen (May 27, 1909 – May 23, 1949) was an American physicist and professor.

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Wade Allison

Wade Allison (born 1941) is Emeritus professor of Physics and Fellow of Keble College at Oxford University.

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Wafer (electronics)

A wafer, also called a slice or substrate, is a thin slice of semiconductor material, such as a crystalline silicon, used in electronics for the fabrication of integrated circuits and in photovoltaics for conventional, wafer-based solar cells.

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Wagner model

Wagner model is a rheological model developed for the prediction of the viscoelastic properties of polymers.

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Wake

In fluid dynamics, a wake may either be.

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Wake turbulence

Wake turbulence is a disturbance in the atmosphere that forms behind an aircraft as it passes through the air.

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Waldo K. Lyon

Waldo Kampmeier Lyon (May 19, 1914 – May 5, 1998) was the founder and chief research scientist for the U.S. Navy of the Arctic Submarine Laboratory at the Naval Electronics Laboratory.

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Wall-plug efficiency

In optics, wall-plug efficiency or radiant efficiency is the energy conversion efficiency with which the system converts electrical power into optical power.

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Wallace Clement Sabine

Wallace Clement Sabine (June 13, 1868 – January 10, 1919) was an American physicist who founded the field of architectural acoustics.

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Wallace Hampton Tucker

Wallace Hampton Tucker is an astrophysicist who specializes in high-energy astrophysics, an award-winning playwright, and an active environmentalist.

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Wallace Smith Broecker

Wallace Smith Broecker (born November 29, 1931 in Chicago) is the Newberry Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University, a scientist at Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and a sustainability fellow at Arizona State University.

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Walter A. Rosenblith

Walter A. Rosenblith (September 21, 1913 – May 1, 2002) was a biophysicist and Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Walter de Heer

Walter Alexander "Walt" de Heer (born November 1949) is a Dutch physicist and nanoscience researcher known for discoveries in the electronic shell structure of metal clusters, magnetism in transition metal clusters, field emission and ballistic conduction in carbon nanotubes, and graphene-based electronics.

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Walter Dieminger

Walter Dieminger, (July 7, 1907 – September 29, 2000) was a German space scientist and director of Germany's Max Planck Institute for Aeronomy from 1955 to 1975.

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Walter Dornberger

Major-General Dr.

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Walter Dröscher

Walter Dröscher is a physicist who worked at the Austrian Patent office (Österreichisches Patentamt).

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Walter Eric Spear

Walter Eric Spear FRSE PhD FRS FInstP (20 January 1921 – 21 February 2008) was a German physicist noted for his pioneering work to help develop large area electronics and thin film displays.

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Walter Franz

Walter Franz (8 April 1911 in Munich – 16 February 1992 in Münster) was a theoretical physicist who independently discovered the Franz–Keldysh effect.

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Walter Gear

Walter K Gear is an astrophysicist, Professor of Physics and Head of the School of Physics and Astronomy at Cardiff University.

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Walter Gerlach

Walther Gerlach (1 August 1889 – 10 August 1979) was a German physicist who co-discovered spin quantization in a magnetic field, the Stern–Gerlach effect.

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Walter Gilbert

Walter Gilbert (born March 21, 1932) is an American biochemist, physicist, molecular biology pioneer, and Nobel laureate.

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Walter Gordon (physicist)

Walter Gordon (13 August 1893 – 24 December 1939) was a German theoretical physicist.

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Walter Grotrian

Walter Robert Wilhelm Grotrian (21 April 1890 in Aachen; † 3 March 1954 in Potsdam) was a German astronomer and astrophysicist.

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Walter Guyton Cady

Dr.

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Walter H. Schottky

Walter Hans Schottky (23 July 1886 – 4 March 1976) was a German physicist who played a major early role in developing the theory of electron and ion emission phenomena, invented the screen-grid vacuum tube in 1915 and the pentode in 1919 while working at Siemens, co-invented the ribbon microphone and ribbon loudspeaker along with Dr.

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Walter Heitler

Walter Heinrich Heitler (2 January 1904 – 15 November 1981) was a German physicist who made contributions to quantum electrodynamics and quantum field theory.

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Walter Herrmann (physicist)

Walter Herrmann (20 September 1910 – 11 August 1987)Pavel V.Oleynikov: German Scientists in the Soviet Atomic Project, The Nonproliferation Review Volume 7, Number 2, 1–30 (2000) was a German nuclear physicist and mechanical engineer who worked on the German nuclear energy project during World War II.

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Walter Hoppe

Walter Hoppe (March 21, 1917 – November 3, 1986) was a German physicist and electron microscopist.

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Walter Houser Brattain

Walter Houser Brattain (February 10, 1902 – October 13, 1987) was an American physicist at Bell Labs who, along with fellow scientists John Bardeen and William Shockley, invented the point-contact transistor in December 1947.

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Walter Kaufmann (physicist)

Walter Kaufmann (June 5, 1871 – January 1, 1947) was a German physicist.

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Walter Kistler

Walter P. Kistler (1918 – November 2, 2015) was a physicist, inventor, and philanthropist, born in Biel, Switzerland. Kistler is a life member of the Swiss Physical Society and a member of AIAA and ISA, which presented him the Life Achievement Award in 2000. He held patents on more than 50 inventions in the scientific and industrial instrumentation fields, and had published a number of papers in scientific and trade journals.

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Walter Kohn

Walter Kohn (March 9, 1923 – April 19, 2016) was an Austrian-born American theoretical physicist and theoretical chemist.

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Walter Lewin Lectures on Physics

The Walter Lewin Lectures on Physics are a set of three courses including video lectures on physics by former MIT Physics Professor Walter Lewin.

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Walter M. Elsasser

Walter Maurice Elsasser (March 20, 1904 – October 14, 1991) was a German-born American physicist considered a "father" of the presently accepted dynamo theory as an explanation of the Earth's magnetism.

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Walter Mauderli

Walter Mauderli DSc (March 8, 1924 – March 27, 2005) was a pioneer in the development of the field of medical physics.

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Walter Oelert

Walter Oelert (July 14, 1942) is a Professor at the Juelich Research Center in Germany.

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Walter Rogowski

Walter Rogowski (May 7, 1881 – March 10, 1947) was a German physicist who bridged the gap between theoretical physics and applied technology in numerous areas of electronics.

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Walter Rotman

Walter Rotman (August 24, 1922 – May 19, 2007) was an American scientist known for his work in radar and antenna design.

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Walter Schottky Prize

The Walter Schottky Prize is a scientific prize awarded by the German Physical Society for outstanding research work of young academics in the field of solid-state physics.

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Walter Selke

Walter Selke (born 1947) is a German retired professor for Theoretical Physics at the RWTH Aachen.

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Walter Thirring

Walter Thirring (29 April 1927 – 19 August 2014) was an Austrian physicist after whom the Thirring model in quantum field theory is named.

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Walter Tollmien

Walter Tollmien (13 October 1900 in Berlin – 25 November 1968 in Göttingen) was a German fluid dynamics engineer.

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Walter Zürn

Walter Zürn (born August 21, 1937) is a German physicist and seismologist.

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Walter Zinn

Walter Henry Zinn (December 10, 1906 – February 14, 2000) was a nuclear physicist who was the first director of the Argonne National Laboratory from 1946 to 1956.

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Walther Bothe

Walther Wilhelm Georg Bothe (8 January 1891 – 8 February 1957) was a German nuclear physicist, who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1954 with Max Born.

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Walther Kossel

Walther Ludwig Julius Kossel (4 January 1888 in Berlin, Germany – 22 May 1956 in Tübingen, Germany) was a German physicist known for his theory of the chemical bond (ionic bond/octet rule), Sommerfeld–Kossel displacement law of atomic spectra, the Kossel-Stranski model for crystal growth, and the Kossel effect.

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Walther Müller

Walther Müller (6 September 1905 in Hanover – 4 December 1979 in Walnut Creek, California), was a German physicist, most well known for his improvement of Hans Geiger's counter for ionizing radiation, now known as the Geiger-Müller tube.

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Walther Meissner

Fritz Walther Meissner (German: Meißner) (December 16, 1882 – November 16, 1974) was a German technical physicist.

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Walther Nernst

Walther Hermann Nernst, (25 June 1864 – 18 November 1941) was a German chemist who is known for his work in thermodynamics; his formulation of the Nernst heat theorem helped pave the way for the third law of thermodynamics, for which he won the 1920 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

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Walther Ritz

Walther Ritz (22 February 1878 – 7 July 1909) was a Swiss theoretical physicist.

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WAMIT

WAMIT is a computer program for computing wave loads and motions of offshore structures in waves.

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Wander Johannes de Haas

Wander Johannes de Haas (2 March 1878 – 26 April 1960) was a Dutch physicist and mathematician.

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Wang Ganchang

Wang Ganchang (May 28, 1907 – December 10, 1998) was a Chinese nuclear physicist.

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Wang Zhuxi

Wang Zhuxi (Chinese: 王竹溪; Pinyin: Wáng Zhúxī; June 7, 1911 - January 30, 1983), who had the given name Zhuqi (治淇) and the sobriquet Zhuxi, was a renowned Chinese physicist, educator, and philologist.

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Wannier function

The Wannier functions are a complete set of orthogonal functions used in solid-state physics.

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Ward Plummer

E.

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Ward–Takahashi identity

In quantum field theory, a Ward–Takahashi identity is an identity between correlation functions that follows from the global or gauge symmetries of the theory, and which remains valid after renormalization.

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Wardenclyffe Tower

Wardenclyffe Tower (1901–1917), also known as the Tesla Tower, was an early experimental wireless transmission station designed and built by Nikola Tesla in Shoreham, New York in 1901-1902.

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Warm dark matter

Warm dark matter (WDM) is a hypothesized form of dark matter that has properties intermediate between those of hot dark matter and cold dark matter, causing structure formation to occur bottom-up from above their free-streaming scale, and top-down below their free streaming scale.

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Warm–hot intergalactic medium

The warm–hot intergalactic medium (WHIM) refers to a sparse, warm-to-hot (105 to 107 K) plasma that cosmologists believe to exist in the spaces between galaxies and to contain 40–50% of the baryons (that is, 'normal matter' which exists as plasma or as atoms and molecules, in contrast to dark matter) in the universe at the current epoch.

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Warp drive

A warp drive is a fictitious faster-than-light (FTL) spacecraft propulsion system in many science fiction works, most notably Star Trek.

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Warped geometry

In mathematics and physics, in particular differential geometry and general relativity, a warped geometry is a Riemannian or Lorentzian manifold whose metric tensor can be written in form The geometry almost decomposes into a Cartesian product of the y geometry and the x geometry – except that the x part is warped, i.e. it is rescaled by a scalar function of the other coordinates y. For this reason, the metric of a warped geometry is often called a warped product metric.

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Warped Passages

Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions is the debut non-fiction book by Lisa Randall, published in 2005, about particle physics in general and additional dimensions of space (cf. Kaluza–Klein theory) in particular.

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Warren J. Smith

Warren J. Smith was president of the Optical Society of America in 1980.

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Warren Siegel

Warren Siegel is a theoretical physicist specializing in supersymmetric quantum field theory and string theory.

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WASH-1400

WASH-1400, 'The Reactor Safety Study', was a report produced in 1975 for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission by a committee of specialists under Professor Norman Rasmussen.

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WASH-740

WASH-740 was a report published by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (USAEC) in 1957.

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Washburn's equation

In physics, Washburn's equation describes capillary flow in a bundle of parallel cylindrical tubes; it is extended with some issues also to imbibition into porous materials.

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Washington Large Area Time Coincidence Array

The Washington Area Large-scale Time-coincidence Array (WALTA) is a cosmic ray physics experiment run by the University of Washington to investigate ultra high energy cosmic rays (>1019eV).

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Washout (aeronautics)

Washout is a characteristic of aircraft wing design which deliberately reduces the lift distribution across the span of an aircraft’s wing.

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WAsP

WAsP (Wind Atlas Analysis and Application Program) is a Windows program for predicting wind climates, wind resources, and energy yields from wind turbines and wind farms.

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Water content

Water content or moisture content is the quantity of water contained in a material, such as soil (called soil moisture), rock, ceramics, crops, or wood.

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Water cycle

The water cycle, also known as the hydrological cycle or the hydrologic cycle, describes the continuous movement of water on, above and below the surface of the Earth.

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Water hole (radio)

The waterhole, or water hole, is an especially quiet band of the electromagnetic spectrum between 1,420 and 1,666 megahertz, corresponding to wavelengths of 21 and 18 centimeters respectively.

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Water metering

Water metering is the process of measuring water use.

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Water potential

Water potential is the potential energy of water per unit volume relative to pure water in reference conditions.

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Water retention curve

Water retention curve is the relationship between the water content, θ, and the soil water potential, ψ. This curve is characteristic for different types of soil, and is also called the soil moisture characteristic.

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Water thread experiment

The water thread experiment is a phenomenon that occurs when two containers of deionized water, placed on an insulator, are connected by a thread, then a high-voltage positive electric charge is applied to one container, and a negative charge to the other.

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Water vapor

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Water window

The water window is a region of the electromagnetic spectrum in which water is transparent to soft x-rays.

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Watercraft

Watercraft or marine vessel are water-borne vehicles including ships, boats, hovercraft and submarines.

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Waterfall plot

A waterfall plot is a three-dimensional plot in which multiple curves of data, typically spectra, are displayed simultaneously.

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Waterspout

A waterspout is an intense columnar vortex (usually appearing as a funnel-shaped cloud) that occurs over a body of water.

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Watson interferometer

The Watson interferometer is a vintage microscope accessory (for use only in reflected light microscopy) which was manufactured by the Watson Company in Great Britain.

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Watt

The watt (symbol: W) is a unit of power.

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Watt steam engine

The Watt steam engine (alternatively known as the Boulton and Watt steam engine) was the first type of steam engine to make use of a separate condenser.

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Watt W. Webb

Watt W. Webb is known for his co-invention (with Winfried Denk and Jim Strickler) of Multiphoton microscopy in 1990.

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Wave

In physics, a wave is a disturbance that transfers energy through matter or space, with little or no associated mass transport.

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Wave action (continuum mechanics)

In continuum mechanics, wave action refers to a conservable measure of the wave part of a motion.

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Wave base

The wave base, in physical oceanography, is the maximum depth at which a water wave's passage causes significant water motion.

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Wave drag

In aeronautics, wave drag is a component of the aerodynamic drag on aircraft wings and fuselage, propeller blade tips and projectiles moving at transonic and supersonic speeds, due to the presence of shock waves.

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Wave equation

The wave equation is an important second-order linear partial differential equation for the description of waves—as they occur in classical physics—such as mechanical waves (e.g. water waves, sound waves and seismic waves) or light waves.

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Wave field synthesis

Wave field synthesis (WFS) is a spatial audio rendering technique, characterized by creation of virtual acoustic environments.

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Wave function

A wave function in quantum physics is a mathematical description of the quantum state of an isolated quantum system.

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Wave function collapse

In quantum mechanics, wave function collapse is said to occur when a wave function—initially in a superposition of several eigenstates—appears to reduce to a single eigenstate (by "observation").

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Wave function renormalization

In quantum field theory wave function renormalization is a rescaling (or renormalization) of quantum fields to take into account the effects of interactions.

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Wave height

In fluid dynamics, the wave height of a surface wave is the difference between the elevations of a crest and a neighbouring trough.

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Wave impedance

The wave impedance of an electromagnetic wave is the ratio of the transverse components of the electric and magnetic fields (the transverse components being those at right angles to the direction of propagation).

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Wave loading

Wave loading is most commonly the application of a pulsed or wavelike load to a material or object.

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Wave Motion (journal)

Wave Motion is a peer-reviewed scientific journal publishing papers on the physics of waves – with emphasis on the areas of acoustics, optics, geophysics, seismology, electromagnetic theory, solid and fluid mechanics.

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Wave packet

In physics, a wave packet (or wave train) is a short "burst" or "envelope" of localized wave action that travels as a unit.

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Wave power

Wave power is the capture of energy of wind waves to do useful work – for example, electricity generation, water desalination, or pumping water.

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Wave propagation

Wave propagation is any of the ways in which waves travel.

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Wave radar

Wind waves can be measured by several radar remote sensing techniques.

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Wave setup

In fluid dynamics, wave setup is the increase in mean water level due to the presence of breaking waves.

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Wave shoaling

In fluid dynamics, wave shoaling is the effect by which surface waves entering shallower water change in wave height.

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Wave tank

A wave tank is a laboratory setup for observing the behavior of surface waves.

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Wave turbulence

In continuum mechanics, wave turbulence is a set of nonlinear waves deviated far from thermal equilibrium.

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Wave vector

In physics, a wave vector (also spelled wavevector) is a vector which helps describe a wave.

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Wave-making resistance

Wave-making resistance is a form of drag that affects surface watercraft, such as boats and ships, and reflects the energy required to push the water out of the way of the hull.

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Wave-piercing hull

A wave-piercing boat hull has a very fine bow, with reduced buoyancy in the forward portions.

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Wave–current interaction

In fluid dynamics, wave–current interaction is the interaction between surface gravity waves and a mean flow.

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Wave–particle duality

Wave–particle duality is the concept in quantum mechanics that every particle or quantic entity may be partly described in terms not only of particles, but also of waves.

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Waveguide

A waveguide is a structure that guides waves, such as electromagnetic waves or sound, with minimal loss of energy by restricting expansion to one dimension or two.

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Waveguide (acoustics)

An acoustic waveguide is a physical structure for guiding sound waves.

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Waveguide (electromagnetism)

In electromagnetics and communications engineering, the term waveguide may refer to any linear structure that conveys electromagnetic waves between its endpoints.

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Waveguide (optics)

An optical waveguide is a physical structure that guides electromagnetic waves in the optical spectrum.

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Wavelength

In physics, the wavelength is the spatial period of a periodic wave—the distance over which the wave's shape repeats.

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Wavenumber

In the physical sciences, the wavenumber (also wave number or repetency) is the spatial frequency of a wave, measured in cycles per unit distance or radians per unit distance.

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Wavenumber–frequency diagram

A wavenumber–frequency diagram is a plot displaying the relationship between the wavenumber (spatial frequency) and the frequency (temporal frequency) of certain phenomena.

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Waveplate

A waveplate or retarder is an optical device that alters the polarization state of a light wave travelling through it.

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Waverider

A waverider is a hypersonic aircraft design that improves its supersonic lift-to-drag ratio by using the shock waves being generated by its own flight as a lifting surface, a phenomenon known as compression lift.

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Waves and shallow water

When waves travel into areas of shallow water, they begin to be affected by the ocean bottom.

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W′ and Z′ bosons

In particle physics, W′ and Z′ bosons (or W-prime and Z-prime bosons) refer to hypothetical gauge bosons that arise from extensions of the electroweak symmetry of the Standard Model.

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Władysław Natanson

Władysław Natanson (1864–1937) was a Polish physicist.

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Władysław Turowicz

Air Commodore Władysław Józef Marian Turowicz (ولوادیسیوف دورووچ) (23 April 1908 – 8 January 1980), usually referred to as W. J. M. Turowicz, was a Polish-Pakistani aviator, military scientist and aeronautical engineer.

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Włodzimierz Trzebiatowski

Włodzimierz Trzebiatowski (February 25, 1906 in Grodzisk Wielkopolski – November 13, 1982) was a Polish chemist, physicist and mathematician.

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Włodzimierz Trzebiatowski Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research

The Włodzimierz Trzebiatowski Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research is a scientific institute in Wrocław, Poland.

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Weak focusing

Weak focusing occurs in particle accelerators when charged particles are passing through uniform magnetic fields, causing them to move in circular paths due to the Lorentz force.

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Weak hypercharge

In the Standard Model of electroweak interactions of particle physics, the weak hypercharge is a quantum number relating the electric charge and the third component of weak isospin.

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Weak interaction

In particle physics, the weak interaction (the weak force or weak nuclear force) is the mechanism of interaction between sub-atomic particles that causes radioactive decay and thus plays an essential role in nuclear fission.

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Weak isospin

In particle physics, weak isospin is a quantum number relating to the weak interaction, and parallels the idea of isospin under the strong interaction.

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Weak localization

Weak localization is a physical effect which occurs in disordered electronic systems at very low temperatures.

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Weakless Universe

A weakless universe is a hypothetical universe that contains no weak interactions, but is otherwise very similar to our own universe.

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Weakly guiding fiber

In fiber optics, a weakly guiding fiber is one where the difference between the refractive indexes of the core and the cladding is very small (typically less than 1%).

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Weakly interacting massive particles

Weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) are hypothetical particles that are thought to constitute dark matter.

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Weapons-grade nuclear material

Weapons-grade nuclear material is any fissionable nuclear material that is pure enough to be used to make a nuclear weapon or has properties that make it particularly suitable for nuclear weapons use.

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Web of Science

Web of Science (previously known as Web of Knowledge) is an online subscription-based scientific citation indexing service originally produced by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), now maintained by Clarivate Analytics (previously the Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters), that provides a comprehensive citation search.

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Weber (unit)

In physics, the weber (symbol: Wb) is the SI unit of magnetic flux.

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Weber bar

A Weber bar is a device used in the detection of gravitational waves first devised and constructed by physicist Joseph Weber at the University of Maryland.

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Weber electrodynamics

Weber electrodynamics is an alternative to Maxwell electrodynamics developed by Wilhelm Eduard Weber.

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Weber number

The Weber number (We) is a dimensionless number in fluid mechanics that is often useful in analysing fluid flows where there is an interface between two different fluids, especially for multiphase flows with strongly curved surfaces.

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Wedge

A wedge is a triangular shaped tool, and is a portable inclined plane, and one of the six classical simple machines.

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Wedge filter

A wedge filter is an optical filter so constructed that its thickness varies continuously or in steps in the shape of a wedge.

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Wehnelt cylinder

A Wehnelt cylinder (also known as Wehnelt cap, grid cap or simply Wehnelt) is an electrode in the electron gun assembly of some thermionic devices, used for focusing and control of the electron beam.

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Wei Shyy

Professor Wei SHYY is serving as the Acting President of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) starting from 1 February 2018, with concurrent appointment as the Executive Vice-President and Provost cum Chair Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering.

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Weibel instability

The Weibel instability is a plasma instability present in homogeneous or nearly homogeneous electromagnetic plasmas which possess an anisotropy in momentum (velocity) space.

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Weight

In science and engineering, the weight of an object is related to the amount of force acting on the object, either due to gravity or to a reaction force that holds it in place.

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Weighted Voronoi diagram

In mathematics, a weighted Voronoi diagram in n dimensions is a special case of a Voronoi diagram.

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Weighting curve

A weighting curve is a graph of a set of factors, that are used to 'weight' measured values of a variable according to their importance in relation to some outcome.

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Weightlessness

Weightlessness, or an absence of weight, is an absence of stress and strain resulting from externally applied mechanical contact-forces, typically normal forces (from floors, seats, beds, scales, etc.). Counterintuitively, a uniform gravitational field does not by itself cause stress or strain, and a body in free fall in such an environment experiences no g-force acceleration and feels weightless.

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Weinberg angle

The Weinberg angle or weak mixing angle is a parameter in the Weinberg–Salam theory of the electroweak interaction, part of the Standard Model of particle physics, and is usually denoted as.

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Weinberg–Witten theorem

In theoretical physics, the Weinberg–Witten (WW) theorem, proved by Steven Weinberg and Edward Witten, states that massless particles (either composite or elementary) with spin j > 1/2 cannot carry a Lorentz-covariant current, while massless particles with spin j > 1 cannot carry a Lorentz-covariant stress-energy.

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Weinstein conjecture

In mathematics, the Weinstein conjecture refers to a general existence problem for periodic orbits of Hamiltonian or Reeb vector flows.

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Weir

A weir or low head dam is a barrier across the horizontal width of a river that alters the flow characteristics of water and usually results in a change in the height of the river level.

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Weiss magneton

The Weiss magneton was an experimentally derived unit of magnetic moment equal to joules per tesla, which is about 20% of the Bohr magneton.

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Weissenberg effect

The Weissenberg effect is a phenomenon that occurs when a spinning rod is inserted into a solution of elastic liquid.

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Weissenberg number

The Weissenberg number (Wi) is a dimensionless number used in the study of viscoelastic flows.

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Welteislehre

Welteislehre (WEL; "World Ice Theory" or "World Ice Doctrine"), also known as Glazial-Kosmogonie (Glacial Cosmogony), is a discredited cosmological concept proposed by Hanns Hörbiger, an Austrian engineer and inventor.

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Wendell H. Furry

Wendell Hinkle Furry (February 18. 1907 – December 1984) was a professor of physics at Harvard University, and made notable contributions to theoretical and particle physics.

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Wendelstein 7-X

The Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) reactor is an experimental stellarator (nuclear fusion reactor) built in Greifswald, Germany, by the Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics (IPP), and completed in October 2015.

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Werner Hartmann (physicist)

Werner Hartmann (30 January 1912 in Berlin-Friedenau – 8 March 1988 in Dresden) was a German physicist who introduced microelectronics into East Germany.

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Werner Heisenberg

Werner Karl Heisenberg (5 December 1901 – 1 February 1976) was a German theoretical physicist and one of the key pioneers of quantum mechanics.

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Werner Israel

Werner Israel, (born October 4, 1931) is a physicist, author, researcher, and professor at the University of Victoria.

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Werner Kolhörster

Werner Heinrich Gustav Kolhörster (28 December 1887 – 5 August 1946) was a German physicist and a pioneer of research into cosmic rays.

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Werner Kuhn

Werner Kuhn (February 6, 1899 – August 27, 1963) was a Swiss physical chemist who developed the first model of the viscosity of polymer solutions using statistical mechanics.

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Werner Meyer-Eppler

Werner Meyer-Eppler (30 April 1913 – 8 July 1960), was a Belgian-born German physicist, experimental acoustician, phoneticist and information theorist.

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Werner Rolfinck

Werner Rolfink (15 November 1599 – 6 May 1673) was a German physician, scientist and botanist.

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Werner state

A Werner state is a -dimensional bipartite quantum state density matrix that is invariant under all unitary operators of the form U \otimes U. That is, it is a quantum state ρ that satisfies for all unitary operators U acting on d-dimensional Hilbert space.

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Wernher von Braun

Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun (March 23, 1912 – June 16, 1977) was a German (and, later, American) aerospace engineer and space architect.

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Werthamer–Helfand–Hohenberg theory

This theory was proposed in 1966 to go beyond BCS theory of superconductivity and it provides predictions of upper critical field (Hc2) in type-II superconductors.

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Wesley Huntress

Wesley T. Huntress, Jr. is an American space scientist.

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Wess–Zumino gauge

In particle physics, the Wess–Zumino gauge is a particular choice of a gauge transformation in a gauge theory with supersymmetry.

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Wess–Zumino model

In theoretical physics, the Wess–Zumino model has become the first known example of an interacting four-dimensional quantum field theory with linearly realised supersymmetry.

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Wess–Zumino–Witten model

In theoretical physics and mathematics, a Wess–Zumino–Witten (WZW) model, also called a Wess–Zumino–Novikov–Witten model, is a type of two-dimensional conformal field theory named after Julius Wess, Bruno Zumino, Sergei Novikov and Edward Witten.

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West number

The West number is an empirical parameter used to characterize the performance of Stirling engines and other Stirling systems.

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Wet-bulb temperature

The wet-bulb temperature is the temperature read by a thermometer covered in water-soaked cloth (wet-bulb thermometer) over which air is passed.

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Wetting

Wetting is the ability of a liquid to maintain contact with a solid surface, resulting from intermolecular interactions when the two are brought together.

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Wetting transition

A wetting transition (Cassie–Wenzel transition) may occur during the process of wetting of a solid (or liquid) surface with a liquid.

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Weyl curvature hypothesis

The Weyl curvature hypothesis, which arises in the application of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity to physical cosmology, was introduced by the British mathematician and theoretical physicist Sir Roger Penrose in an article in 1979 in an attempt to provide explanations for two of the most fundamental issues in physics.

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Weyl equation

In physics, particularly quantum field theory, the Weyl equation is a relativistic wave equation for describing massless spin-1/2 particles called Weyl fermions.

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Weyl scalar

In the Newman–Penrose (NP) formalism of general relativity, Weyl scalars refer to a set of five complex scalars \ which encode the ten independent components of the Weyl tensors of a four-dimensional spacetime.

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Weyl tensor

In differential geometry, the Weyl curvature tensor, named after Hermann Weyl, is a measure of the curvature of spacetime or, more generally, a pseudo-Riemannian manifold.

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Weyl transformation

In theoretical physics, the Weyl transformation, named after Hermann Weyl, is a local rescaling of the metric tensor: which produces another metric in the same conformal class.

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Weyl's postulate

In relativistic cosmology, Weyl's postulate stipulates that in a fluid cosmological model, the world lines of the fluid particles, which act as the source of the gravitational field and which are often taken to model galaxies, should be hypersurface orthogonal.

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What Do You Care What Other People Think?

"What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character (1988) is the second of two books consisting of transcribed and edited, oral reminiscences from American physicist Richard Feynman.

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What Is Life?

What Is Life? The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell is a 1944 science book written for the lay reader by physicist Erwin Schrödinger.

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What the Bleep Do We Know!?

What the Bleep Do We Know!? (stylized as What tнē #$*! D̄ө ωΣ (k)πow!? and What the #$*! Do We Know!?, with Bleep being a pronounceable placeholder for a grawlix) is a 2004 American film that combines documentary-style interviews, computer-animated graphics, and a narrative that posits a spiritual connection between quantum physics and consciousness.

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Wheatstone bridge

A Wheatstone bridge is an electrical circuit used to measure an unknown electrical resistance by balancing two legs of a bridge circuit, one leg of which includes the unknown component.

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Wheel and axle

The wheel and axle are one of six simple machines identified by Renaissance scientists drawing from Greek texts on technology.

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Wheeler's delayed choice experiment

Wheeler's delayed choice experiment is actually several thought experiments in quantum physics, proposed by John Archibald Wheeler, with the most prominent among them appearing in 1978 and 1984.

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Wheeler–DeWitt equation

The Wheeler–DeWitt equation is a field equation.

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Wheeler–Feynman absorber theory

The Wheeler–Feynman absorber theory (also called the Wheeler–Feynman time-symmetric theory), named after its originators, the physicists Richard Feynman and John Archibald Wheeler, is an interpretation of electrodynamics derived from the assumption that the solutions of the electromagnetic field equations must be invariant under time-reversal transformation, as are the field equations themselves.

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Whirlpool

A whirlpool is a body of swirling water produced by the meeting of opposing currents.

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Whirlwind

A whirlwind is a weather phenomenon in which a vortex of wind (a vertically oriented rotating column of air) forms due to instabilities and turbulence created by heating and flow (current) gradients.

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Whispering gallery

The Whispering Gallery of St Paul's Cathedral A whispering gallery is usually a circular, hemispherical, elliptical or ellipsoidal enclosure, often beneath a dome or a vault, in which whispers can be heard clearly in other parts of the gallery.

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Whispering-gallery wave

Whispering-gallery waves, or whispering-gallery modes, are a type of wave that can travel around a concave surface.

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White dwarf

A white dwarf, also called a degenerate dwarf, is a stellar core remnant composed mostly of electron-degenerate matter.

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White hole

In general relativity, a white hole is a hypothetical region of spacetime which cannot be entered from the outside, although matter and light can escape from it.

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White noise

In signal processing, white noise is a random signal having equal intensity at different frequencies, giving it a constant power spectral density.

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Whitehead's theory of gravitation

In theoretical physics, Whitehead's theory of gravitation was introduced by the mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead in 1922.

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Whitham equation

In mathematical physics, the Whitham equation is a non-local model for non-linear dispersive waves.

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Whole number rule

The whole number rule states that the masses of the isotopes are whole number multiples of the mass of the hydrogen atom.

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Wick Haxton

Wick C. Haxton (August 21, 1949 in Santa Cruz, California) is an American theoretical nuclear physicist and astrophysicist.

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Wick rotation

In physics, Wick rotation, named after Gian Carlo Wick, is a method of finding a solution to a mathematical problem in Minkowski space from a solution to a related problem in Euclidean space by means of a transformation that substitutes an imaginary-number variable for a real-number variable.

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Wick's theorem

Wick's theorem is a method of reducing high-order derivatives to a combinatorics problem.

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Wide-angle X-ray scattering

Wide-angle X-ray scattering (WAXS) or wide-angle X-ray diffraction (WAXD) is an X-ray-diffraction technique that is often used to determine the crystalline structure of polymers.

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Wide-bandgap semiconductor

Wide-bandgap semiconductors (WBG or WBGS) are semiconductor materials which have a relatively large band gap compared to typical semiconductors.

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Wideband materials

Wideband material refers to material that can convey Microwave signals (light/sound) over a variety of wavelengths.

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Widom scaling

Widom scaling (after Benjamin Widom) is a hypothesis in statistical mechanics regarding the free energy of a magnetic system near its critical point which leads to the critical exponents becoming no longer independent so that they can be parameterized in terms of two values.

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Wiedemann–Franz law

In physics, the Wiedemann–Franz law states that the ratio of the electronic contribution of the thermal conductivity (&kappa) to the electrical conductivity (&sigma) of a metal is proportional to the temperature (T).

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Wien approximation

Wien's approximation (also sometimes called Wien's law or the Wien distribution law) is a law of physics used to describe the spectrum of thermal radiation (frequently called the blackbody function).

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Wien effect

The Wien effect is the experimentally-observed increase in ionic mobility or conductivity of electrolytes at very high gradient of electrical potential.

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Wien filter

A Wien filter also known as velocity selector is a device consisting of perpendicular electric and magnetic fields that can be used as a velocity filter for charged particles, for example in electron microscopes and spectrometers.

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Wien's displacement law

Wien's displacement law states that the black body radiation curve for different temperatures peaks at a wavelength inversely proportional to the temperature.

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Wiggler (synchrotron)

A wiggler is an insertion device in a synchrotron.

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Wightman axioms

In physics, the Wightman axioms (also called Gårding–Wightman axioms), named after Lars Gårding and Arthur Wightman, are an attempt at a mathematically rigorous formulation of quantum field theory.

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Wigner crystal

A Wigner crystal is the solid (crystalline) phase of electrons first predicted by Eugene Wigner in 1934.

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Wigner effect

The Wigner effect (named for its discoverer, Eugene Wigner), also known as the discomposition effect or Wigner's Disease, is the dislocation of atoms in a solid caused by neutron radiation.

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Wigner quasiprobability distribution

The Wigner quasiprobability distribution (also called the Wigner function or the Wigner–Ville distribution after Eugene Wigner and Jean-André Ville) is a quasiprobability distribution.

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Wigner's classification

In mathematics and theoretical physics, Wigner's classification is a classification of the nonnegative (E ≥ 0) energy irreducible unitary representations of the Poincaré group which have sharp mass eigenvalues.

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Wigner's friend

Wigner's friend is a thought experiment proposed by the physicist Eugene Wigner; it is a variation of the Schrödinger's cat thought experiment in which, from the point of view of a human observer, a second observer is in a state of quantum superposition.

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Wigner's theorem

Wigner's theorem, proved by Eugene Wigner in 1931, is a cornerstone of the mathematical formulation of quantum mechanics.

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Wigner–Eckart theorem

The Wigner–Eckart theorem is a theorem of representation theory and quantum mechanics.

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Wigner–Seitz cell

The Wigner–Seitz cell, named after Eugene Wigner and Frederick Seitz, is a type of Voronoi cell used in the study of crystalline material in solid-state physics.

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Wigner–Seitz radius

The Wigner–Seitz radius r_s, named after Eugene Wigner and Frederick Seitz, is the radius of a sphere whose volume is equal to the mean volume per atom in a solid (for first group metals).

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Wilbur B. Rayton

Wilbur B. Rayton was president of the Optical Society of America from 1933–34.

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Wilfrid Basil Mann

Wilfrid Basil Mann (4 August 1908 – 29 March 2001) was a radionuclide metrologist.

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Wilhelm Anderson

Wilhelm Robert Karl Anderson (Вільгельм Роберт Карл Андэрсан; – 26 March 1940) was a German-Estonian astrophysicist who studied the physical structure of the stars.

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Wilhelm Eduard Weber

Wilhelm Eduard Weber (24 October 1804 – 23 June 1891) was a German physicist and, together with Carl Friedrich Gauss, inventor of the first electromagnetic telegraph.

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Wilhelm Hallwachs

Wilhelm Ludwig Franz Hallwachs (9 July 1859 – 20 June 1922) was a German physicist.

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Wilhelm Hanle

Wilhelm Hanle (13 January 1901 – 29 April 1993, Gießen) was a German experimental physicist.

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Wilhelm Holtz

Wilhelm Holtz (15 October 1836 – 27 September 1913) was a German physicist who was a native of Saatel bei Barth, Mecklenburg.

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Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger

Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger (or Wilhelm von Haidinger, or most often Wilhelm Haidinger) (5 February 1795 – 19 March 1871) was an Austrian mineralogist.

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Wilhelm Lenz

Wilhelm Lenz (February 8, 1888 in Frankfurt am Main – April 30, 1957 in Hamburg) was a German physicist, most notable for his invention of the Ising model and for his application of the Laplace–Runge–Lenz vector to the old quantum mechanical treatment of hydrogen-like atoms.

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Wilhelm Nusselt

Ernst Kraft Wilhelm Nußelt (Nusselt in English; born November 25, 1882 in Nuremberg – died September 1, 1957 in München) was a German engineer.

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Wilhelm Orthmann

Wilhelm Orthmann (1 May 1901 – 6 July 1945) was a German physicist.

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Wilhelm Röntgen

Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (27 March 1845 – 10 February 1923) was a German mechanical engineer and physicist, who, on 8 November 1895, produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range known as X-rays or Röntgen rays, an achievement that earned him the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901.

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Wilhelm Walcher

Wilhelm Walcher (7 July 1910 in Kaufbeuren – 9 November 2005 in Marburg) was a German experimental physicist.

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Wilhelm Westphal

Wilhelm Heinrich Westphal (3 March 1882, in Hamburg – 5 June 1978, in Berlin) was a German physicist.

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Wilhelm Wien

Wilhelm Carl Werner Otto Fritz Franz Wien (13 January 1864 – 30 August 1928) was a German physicist who, in 1893, used theories about heat and electromagnetism to deduce Wien's displacement law, which calculates the emission of a blackbody at any temperature from the emission at any one reference temperature.

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Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe

The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), originally known as the Microwave Anisotropy Probe (MAP), was a spacecraft operating from 2001 to 2010 which measured temperature differences across the sky in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) – the radiant heat remaining from the Big Bang.

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Willard Boyle

Willard Sterling Boyle, (August 19, 1924May 7, 2011) was a Canadian physicist, pioneer in the field of laser technology and co-inventor of the charge-coupled device.

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Willard Harrison Bennett

Willard Harrison Bennett (June 13, 1903 – September 28, 1987) was an American scientist and inventor, born in Findlay, Ohio.

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Willebrord Snellius

Willebrord Snellius (born Willebrord Snel van Royen) (13 June 158030 October 1626) was a Dutch astronomer and mathematician, known in the English-speaking world as Snell.

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Willem 's Gravesande

Willem Jacob 's Gravesande (26 September 1688 – 28 February 1742) was a Dutch mathematician and natural philosopher, chiefly remembered for developing experimental demonstrations of the laws of classical mechanics.

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Willem de Sitter

Willem de Sitter (6 May 1872 – 20 November 1934) was a Dutch mathematician, physicist, and astronomer.

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Willem Hendrik Keesom

He also developed the first mathematical description of dipole-dipole interactions in 1921.

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Willem Vos

Willem Lambertus Vos (born August 30, 1964, Amstelveen) is a Dutch scientist.

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Willi A. Kalender

Willi A. Kalender (born August 1, 1949) is a German Medical Physicist and Professor and Chairman of the Institute of Medical Physics of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.

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William A. Bardeen

William Allan Bardeen (born September 15, 1941 in Washington, Pennsylvania) is an American theoretical physicist at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.

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William Alfred Fowler

William Alfred "Willy" Fowler (August 9, 1911 – March 14, 1995) was an American nuclear physicist, later astrophysicist, who, with Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar won the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics.

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William Allen Zajc

William Allen Zajc is a U.S. physicist and the I.I. Rabi Professor of Physics at Columbia University in New York, USA, where he has worked since 1987.

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William Allis

William Phelps Allis (November 15, 1901 in Menton, France – March 5, 1999 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) was an American theoretical physicist specializing in electrical discharges in gases.

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William Andrew Goddard III

William Andrew Goddard III (born March 29, 1937 in El Centro, California, U.S.) is the Charles and Mary Ferkel Professor of Chemistry and Applied Physics, and Director, Materials and Process Simulation Center at the California Institute of Technology.

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William Arnold Anthony

William Arnold Anthony (November 17, 1835 – May 29, 1908) was a U.S. physicist.

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William Astbury

William Thomas Astbury FRS (also Bill Astbury; 25 February 1898, Longton – 4 June 1961, Leeds) was an English physicist and molecular biologist who made pioneering X-ray diffraction studies of biological molecules.

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William B. Bridges

William B. Bridges (born 1934) is the Carl F Braun Professor of Engineering, Emeritus, and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics in the Engineering and Applied Science division at the California Institute of Technology.

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William B. McLean

William Burdette McLean (1914–1976) was a United States Navy physicist, who conceived and developed the heat-seeking Sidewinder missile.

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William Bassichis

William H. Bassichis is an American physicist.

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William C. Schwartz

William C. Schwartz (March 25, 1927 – July 23, 2000) was a civic leader in Central Florida and a pioneer in the laser industry.

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William Coblentz

William Weber Coblentz (November 20, 1873 – September 15, 1962) was an American physicist notable for his contributions to infrared radiometry and spectroscopy.

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William Cochran (physicist)

William (Bill) Cochran (30 July 1922 – 28 August 2003) was a prominent Scottish physicist.

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William Crookes

Sir William Crookes (17 June 1832 – 4 April 1919) was a British chemist and physicist who attended the Royal College of Chemistry in London, and worked on spectroscopy.

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William Curry (oceanographer)

William Curry, Ph.D., Director, Ocean and Climate Change Institute at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Geology and Geophysics Department.

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William D. Coolidge

William David Coolidge (October 23, 1873 – February 3, 1975) was an American physicist and engineer, who made major contributions to X-ray machines.

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William Daniel Phillips

William Daniel Phillips (born November 5, 1948) is an American physicist.

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William Duane (physicist)

William Duane (February 17, 1872 – March 7, 1935) was an American physicist.

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William E. Caswell

William Edward Caswell (June 22, 1947 – September 11, 2001) was a physicist who died during the September 11 attacks, as a passenger aboard American Airlines Flight 77, which was crashed into the Pentagon.

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William E. Forsythe

William Elmer Forsythe (born 22 August 1881 in Muskington County, Ohio) received his bachelor's degree from Denison University and went on to do his masters and PhD at the University of Wisconsin.

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William E. Gordon

William Edwin Gordon (January 8, 1918 – February 16, 2010) was a physicist and astronomer.

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William Eccles

William Henry Eccles FRS (23 August 1875 – 29 April 1966) was a British physicist and a pioneer in the development of radio communication.

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William Edward Ayrton

William Edward Ayrton, FRS (14 September 18478 November 1908) was an English physicist and electrical engineer.

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William F. Barrett

Sir William Fletcher Barrett (10 February 1844 in Kingston, Jamaica – 26 May 1925) was an English physicist and parapsychologist.

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William Francis Gray Swann

William Francis Gray Swann (August 29, 1884 – January 29, 1962) was an Anglo-American physicist.

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William Francis Magie

William Francis Magie (1858–1943) was an American physicist, a founder of the American Physical Society (president from 1910–12) and the first professor of physics at Princeton University, where he had graduated (class valedictorian, 1879) and where he served for two decades as dean of the faculty.

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William Frederick Meggers

William Frederick Meggers (July 13, 1888 – November 19, 1966) was an American physicist specialising in spectroscopy.

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William Froude

William Froude (28 November 1810 in Devon – 4 May 1879 in Simonstown, South Africa) was an English engineer, hydrodynamicist and naval architect.

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William Fuller Brown Jr.

William Fuller Brown Jr. (21 October 1904–1983) was an American physicist who developed the theory of micromagnetics, a continuum theory of ferromagnetism that has had numerous applications in physics and engineering.

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William G. Tifft

William G. Tifft is Emeritus Professor/Astronomer at the University of Arizona.

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William Gilbert (astronomer)

William Gilbert (24 May 1544 – 30 November 1603), also known as Gilberd, was an English physician, physicist and natural philosopher.

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William Grylls Adams

William Grylls Adams FRS (18 February 1836 in Laneast, Cornwall – 10 April 1915) was professor of Natural Philosophy at King's College, London.

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William Hallock

William Hallock, Ph.

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William Henry Bragg

Sir William Henry Bragg (2 July 1862 – 12 March 1942) was a British physicist, chemist, mathematician and active sportsman who uniquelyThis is still a unique accomplishment, because no other parent-child combination has yet shared a Nobel Prize (in any field).

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William Higinbotham

William Higinbotham (October 22, 1910 – November 10, 1994) was an American physicist.

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William Hyde Wollaston

William Hyde Wollaston (6 August 1766 – 22 December 1828) was an English chemist and physicist who is famous for discovering the chemical elements palladium and rhodium.

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William J. Thaler

William J. Thaler, Ph.D. (December 4, 1925 – June 5, 2005) was an American experimental physicist.

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William Jackson Humphreys

William Jackson Humphreys (February 3, 1862 – November 10, 1949) was an American physicist and atmospheric researcher.

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William John Macquorn Rankine

Prof William John Macquorn Rankine LLD (5 July 1820 – 24 December 1872) was a Scottish mechanical engineer who also contributed to civil engineering, physics and mathematics.

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William Jones (optician)

William Jones (1763–1831) was an English maker of optical and other scientific instruments, who had Thomas Jefferson among his customers in London.

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William Justin Kroll

William Justin Kroll (born Guillaume Justin Kroll; November 24, 1889 – March 30, 1973) was a Luxembourgish metallurgist.

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William L. Burke

William Lionel Burke (July 1941 – July 1996) was an astronomy, astrophysics, and physics professor at UC Santa Cruz.

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William M. Hartmann

William M. Hartmann (born July 28, 1939) is a noted physicist, psychoacoustician, author, and former president of the Acoustical Society of America.

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William McFadden Orr

William McFadden Orr, FRS (2 May 1866 – 14 August 1934) was a British and Irish mathematician.

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William Mitchell (physicist)

Sir Edgar William John Mitchell, CBE, FRS (September 25, 1925 – October 30, 2002) was a British physicist, professor of physics at Reading and Oxford, and he helped pioneer the field of neutron scattering.

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William Mitchinson Hicks

William Mitchinson Hicks, FRS (23 September 1850, Launceston, Cornwall – 17 August 1934, Crowhurst, Sussex) was a British mathematician and physicist.

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William Morris Kinnersley

William Morris Kinnersley is an American physicist who is well known for his contributions to general relativity.

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William Nicol (geologist)

Dr William Nicol FRSE FCS (18 April 1770 – 2 September 1851) was a Scottish geologist and physicist who invented the Nicol prism, the first device for obtaining plane-polarized light, in 1828.

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William Nierenberg

William Aaron Nierenberg (February 13, 1919 – September 10, 2000) was an American physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project and was director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography from 1965 through 1986.

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William P. Winfree

William Paul Winfree (born 9 March 1951) is an American experimental physicist who is known for his contributions to the field of nondestructive evaluation.

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William Penney, Baron Penney

William George Penney, Baron Penney (24 June 1909 – 3 March 1991), was an English mathematician and professor of mathematical physics at the Imperial College London and later the rector of Imperial College.

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William Prager

William Prager (May 23, 1903 in Karlsruhe – March 16, 1980 in Zurich) was a German-born US applied mathematician.

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William R. Bennett Jr.

William Ralph Bennett Jr. (January 30, 1930 – June 29, 2008) was an American physicist known for his pioneering work on gas lasers.

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William R. Kanne

William R. Kanne worked on Chicago Pile One along with Enrico Fermi and Leó Szilárd.

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William Rarita

William Rarità (March 21, 1907 – July 8, 1999) was an American theoretical physicist who mainly worked on nuclear physics, particle physics and relativistic quantum mechanics.

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William Reginald Dean

William Reginald Dean (1896–1973) was a British applied mathematician and fluid dynamicist.

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William Richard Peltier

William Richard Peltier, Ph.D., D.Sc. (hc) (born 1943), is University Professor of Physics at the University of Toronto.

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William Ritchie (physicist)

William Ritchie (1790?–1837) was a Scottish physicist.

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William Rowan Hamilton

Sir William Rowan Hamilton MRIA (4 August 1805 – 2 September 1865) was an Irish mathematician who made important contributions to classical mechanics, optics, and algebra.

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William Shockley

William Bradford Shockley Jr. (February 13, 1910 – August 12, 1989) was an American physicist and inventor.

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William Stanley Jr.

William Stanley Jr. (November 28, 1858 – May 14, 1916) was an American physicist born in Brooklyn, New York.

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William Sturgeon

William Sturgeon (22 May 1783 – 4 December 1850) was an English physicist and inventor who made the first electromagnets, and invented the first practical English electric motor.

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William Sutherland (physicist)

William Sutherland (24 August 1859 – 5 October 1911) was a Scottish-born Australian theoretical physicist, physical chemist and writer for The Age (Melbourne) newspaper.

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William T. Kane

William T. Kane (September 8, 1932 – September 23, 2008) was a physicist for Corning Incorporated, formerly Corning Glass Works, Inc., in Corning, New York, who held patents in crystallography and heat-sensing technology—developments which contributed to the early processing and manufacture of fiber optics.

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William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin

William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, (26 June 1824 – 17 December 1907) was a Scots-Irish mathematical physicist and engineer who was born in Belfast in 1824.

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William V. Houston

William Vermillion Houston (January 19, 1900 – August 22, 1968) was an American physicist who made contributions to spectroscopy, quantum mechanics, and solid-state physics as well as being a teacher and administrator.

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William Watson (scientist)

Sir William Watson, FRS (3 April 1715 – 10 May 1787) was a British physician and scientist who was born and died in London.

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William Wootters

William "Bill" Kent Wootters is an American theoretical physicist, and one of the founders of the field of quantum information theory.

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William Zisman

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Willibald Jentschke

Willibald Jentschke (Vienna, Austria-Hungary, 6 December 1911 – Göttingen, Germany, 11 March 2002) was an Austrian-German experimental nuclear physicist.

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Willis Lamb

Willis Eugene Lamb Jr. (July 12, 1913 – May 15, 2008) was an American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1955 "for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum." The Nobel Committee that year awarded half the prize to Lamb and the other half to Polykarp Kusch, who won "for his precision determination of the magnetic moment of the electron." Lamb was able to determine precisely a surprising shift in electron energies in a hydrogen atom (see Lamb shift).

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Williwaw

In meteorology, a williwaw is a sudden blast of wind descending from a mountainous coast to the sea.

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Willy Fischler

Willy Fischler (born 1949 in Antwerpen, Belgium) is a theoretical physicist.

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Willy Ley

Willy Otto Oskar Ley (October 2, 1906 – June 24, 1969) was a German-American science writer, spaceflight advocate, and historian of science who helped to popularize rocketry, spaceflight, and natural history in both Germany and the United States.

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Wilson loop

In gauge theory, a Wilson loop (named after Kenneth G. Wilson) is a gauge-invariant observable obtained from the holonomy of the gauge connection around a given loop.

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WIMP Argon Programme

The WIMP Argon Programme (WARP) is an experiment at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Italy, for the research of cold dark matter.

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Wimshurst machine

The Wimshurst influence machine is an electrostatic generator, a machine for generating high voltages developed between 1880 and 1883 by British inventor James Wimshurst (1832–1903).

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Wind

Wind is the flow of gases on a large scale.

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Wind chill

Wind-chill or windchill, (popularly wind chill factor) is the lowering of body temperature due to the passing-flow of lower-temperature air.

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Wind energy software

Specialized wind energy software applications aid in the development and operation of wind farms.

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Wind farm

A wind farm is a group of wind turbines in the same location used to produce electricity.

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Wind gradient

In common usage, wind gradient, more specifically wind speed gradient or wind velocity gradient, or alternatively shear wind, is the vertical gradient of the mean horizontal wind speed in the lower atmosphere.

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Wind power

Wind power is the use of air flow through wind turbines to mechanically power generators for electricity.

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Wind power forecasting

A wind power forecast corresponds to an estimate of the expected production of one or more wind turbines (referred to as a wind farm) in the near future.

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Wind resource assessment

Wind resource assessment is the process by which wind power developers estimate the future energy production of a wind farm.

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Wind shear

Wind shear (or windshear), sometimes referred to as wind gradient, is a difference in wind speed and/or direction over a relatively short distance in the atmosphere.

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Wind speed

Wind speed, or wind flow velocity, is a fundamental atmospheric quantity.

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Wind stress

In physical oceanography and fluid dynamics, the wind stress is the shear stress exerted by the wind on the surface of large bodies of water – such as oceans, seas, estuaries and lakes.

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Wind tunnel

A wind tunnel is a tool used in aerodynamic research to study the effects of air moving past solid objects.

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Wind turbine

A wind turbine is a device that converts the wind's kinetic energy into electrical energy.

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Wind wave

In fluid dynamics, wind waves, or wind-generated waves, are surface waves that occur on the free surface of bodies of water (like oceans, seas, lakes, rivers, canals, puddles or ponds).

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Wind wave model

In fluid dynamics, wind wave modeling describes the effort to depict the sea state and predict the evolution of the energy of wind waves using numerical techniques.

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Wind-turbine aerodynamics

The primary application of wind turbines is to generate energy using the wind.

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Windage

Windage is a force created on an object by friction when there is relative movement between air and the object.

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Windbelt

The Windbelt is a wind power harvesting device invented by Shawn Frayn in 2004 for converting wind power to electricity.

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Windhexe

Windhexe (German, literally: "wind witch") is a grinding and dehydrating apparatus operated with compressed air typically used in waste reduction and food processing.

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Windrow

A windrow is a row of cut (mown) hay or small grain crop.

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WindShear

The Windshear Full Scale Rolling Road Wind Tunnel is an automotive wind tunnel in Concord, North Carolina.

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Windward and leeward

Windward is the direction upwind from the point of reference, alternatively the direction from which the wind is coming.

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Winfried Otto Schumann

Winfried Otto Schumann (May 20, 1888 – September 22, 1974) was a German physicist who predicted the Schumann resonances, a series of low-frequency resonances caused by lightning discharges in the atmosphere.

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Wing

A wing is a type of fin that produces lift, while moving through air or some other fluid.

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Wing configuration

The wing configuration of a fixed-wing aircraft (including both gliders and powered aeroplanes or airplanes) is its arrangement of lifting and related surfaces.

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Wing fence

Wing fences, also known as boundary layer fences and potential fences are fixed aerodynamic devices attached to aircraft wings.

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Wing loading

In aerodynamics, wing loading is the total weight of an aircraft divided by the area of its wing.

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Wing twist

Wing twist is an aerodynamic feature added to aircraft wings to adjust lift distribution along the wing.

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Wing warping

Wing warping was an early system for lateral (roll) control of a fixed-wing aircraft.

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Wing-shape optimization

Wing-shape optimization is a software implementation of shape optimization primarily used for aircraft design.

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Wingspan

The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip.

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Wingsuit flying

Wingsuit flying (or wingsuiting) is the sport of flying through the air using a wingsuit which adds surface area to the human body to enable a significant increase in lift.

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Wingtip device

Wingtip devices are intended to improve the efficiency of fixed-wing aircraft by reducing drag.

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Wingtip vortices

Wingtip vortices are circular patterns of rotating air left behind a wing as it generates lift.

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Winston E. Kock

Winston Kock (1909–1982) was the first Director of NASA Electronics Research Center (NASA ERC) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, from September 1, 1964, to October 1, 1966.

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Winston H. Bostick

Winston H. Bostick (March 5, 1916 – January 19, 1991) was an American physicist who discovered plasmoids, plasma focus, and plasma vortex phenomena.

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Wire chamber

A multi-wire proportional chamber is a type of proportional counter that detects charged particles and photons and can give positional information on their trajectory, by tracking the trails of gaseous ionization.

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Wireless power transfer

Wireless power transfer (WPT), wireless power transmission, wireless energy transmission, or electromagnetic power transfer is the transmission of electrical energy without wires as a physical link.

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Wireless telegraphy

Wireless telegraphy is the transmission of telegraphy signals from one point to another by means of an electromagnetic, electrostatic or magnetic field, or by electrical current through the earth or water.

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Wiswesser's rule

The Wiswesser rule gives a simple method to determine the energetic sequence of the atomic subshells (n,l).

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WITCH experiment

WITCH (standing for "Weak Interaction Trap for Charged particles"), or experiment IS433, is a double Penning trap experiment to measure the recoil energy of decaying nuclei.

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Witold Milewski (mathematician)

Witold Milewski (1817–1889) was a Polish mathematician, physicist, and pedagogue.

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Witold Nazarewicz

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Witten index

In quantum field theory and statistical mechanics, the Witten index at the inverse temperature β is defined as a modification of the standard partition function: Note the (-1)F operator, where F is the fermion number operator.

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WKB approximation

In mathematical physics, the WKB approximation or WKB method is a method for finding approximate solutions to linear differential equations with spatially varying coefficients.

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Wlodzimierz Klonowski

Włodzimierz Klonowski (born 1945) is a Polish biomedical physicist who works in the field of biological engineering.

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Wojciech Świętosławski

Wojciech Swiętosławski (1881 – 1968) was a Polish chemist and physicist.

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Wojciech H. Zurek

Wojciech Hubert Żurek (born 1951) is a Polish-born naturalized American theoretical physicist and a leading authority on quantum theory, especially decoherence and non-equilibrium dynamics of symmetry breaking and resulting defect generation (known as the Kibble-Zurek mechanism).

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Wojciech Rubinowicz

Wojciech Sylwester Piotr Rubinowicz (February 22, 1889 – October 13, 1974) was a Polish theoretical physicist who made contributions in quantum mechanics, mathematical physics, and the theory of radiation.

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Woldemar Voigt

Woldemar Voigt (2 September 1850 – 13 December 1919) was a German physicist, who taught at the Georg August University of Göttingen.

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Wolf effect

The Wolf Effect (sometimes Wolf shift) is a frequency shift in the electromagnetic spectrum.

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Wolf Prize in Physics

The Wolf Prize in Physics is awarded once a year by the Wolf Foundation in Israel.

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Wolf summation

The Wolf summation is a method for computing the electrostatic interactions of systems (e.g. crystals).

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Wolff algorithm

The Wolff algorithm, named after Ulli Wolff, is an algorithm for Monte Carlo simulation of the Ising model in which the unit to be flipped is not a single spin, as in the heat bath or Metropolis algorithms, but a cluster of them.

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Wolfgang Demtröder

Wolfgang Demtröder (b. 5 September 1931 in Attendorn) is a German physicist and spectroscopist.

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Wolfgang Eisenmenger

Wolfgang Eisenmenger (11 February 1930 – 10 December 2016) was a German physicist.

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Wolfgang Finkelnburg

Wolfgang Karl Ernst Finkelnburg (5 June 1905 – 7 November 1967) was a German physicist who made contributions to spectroscopy, atomic physics, the structure of matter, and high-temperature arc discharges.

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Wolfgang Gentner

Wolfgang Gentner (23 July 1906 in Frankfurt am Main – 4 September 1980 in Heidelberg) was a German experimental nuclear physicist.

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Wolfgang Haack

Wolfgang Siegfried Haack (April 24, 1902 – November 28, 1994) was a German mathematician and aerodynamicist.

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Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky

Wolfgang Kurt Hermann "Pief" Panofsky (April 24, 1919 – September 24, 2007), was a German-American physicist who won many awards including the National Medal of Science.

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Wolfgang Ketterle

Wolfgang Ketterle (born 21 October 1957) is a German physicist and professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

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Wolfgang Ludwig Krafft

Wolfgang Ludwig Krafft (25 August 1743 – 20 November 1814) was a German astronomer and physicist.

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Wolfgang Paul

Wolfgang Paul (10 August 1913 – 7 December 1993) was a German physicist, who co-developed the non-magnetic quadrupole mass filter which laid the foundation for what is now called an ion trap.

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Wolfgang Pauli

Wolfgang Ernst Pauli (25 April 1900 – 15 December 1958) was an Austrian-born Swiss and American theoretical physicist and one of the pioneers of quantum physics.

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Wolfgang Rindler

Wolfgang Rindler (born 18 May 1924, Vienna) is a physicist working in the field of General Relativity where he is known for introducing the term "event horizon", Rindler coordinates, and (in collaboration with Roger Penrose) for popularizing the use of spinors in general relativity.

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Wolfgang Smith

Wolfgang Smith (born 1930) is a mathematician, physicist, philosopher of science, metaphysician, Roman Catholic and member of the Traditionalist School.

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Wollaston landscape lens

The Wollaston landscape lens, named for William Hyde Wollaston, was a meniscus lens with a small aperture stop in front of the concave side of the lens, providing some improvement of aberrations.

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Wollaston prism

A Wollaston prism is an optical device, invented by William Hyde Wollaston, that manipulates polarized light.

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Wolter telescope

A Wolter telescope is a telescope for X-rays that only uses grazing incidence optics – mirrors that reflect X-rays at very shallow angles.

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Womersley number

The Womersley number (α or \text) is a dimensionless number in biofluid mechanics and biofluid dynamics.

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Woo Chia-wei

Chia-Wei Woo, CBE, GBS, was the Founding President of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

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Woodruff T. Sullivan III

Woodruff T. Sullivan III ("Woody" Sullivan) (born 1944) is a U.S. physicist and astronomer, known primarily for his work in astrobiology, galactic astronomy and extragalactic astronomy, history of astronomy, gnomonics, and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI).

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Woods–Saxon potential

The Woods–Saxon potential is a mean field potential for the nucleons (protons and neutrons) inside the atomic nucleus, which is used to describe approximately the forces applied on each nucleon, in the nuclear shell model for the structure of the nucleus.

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Woodstock of physics

The term "Woodstock of physics" is often used by physicists to refer to the marathon session of the American Physical Society’s meeting on March 18, 1987, which featured 51 presentations concerning the science of high-temperature superconductors.

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Work (electrical)

Electrical work is the work done on a charged particle by an electric field.

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Work (physics)

In physics, a force is said to do work if, when acting, there is a displacement of the point of application in the direction of the force.

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Work (thermodynamics)

In thermodynamics, work performed by a system is the energy transferred by the system to its surroundings, that is fully accounted for solely by macroscopic forces exerted on the system by factors external to it, that is to say, factors in its surroundings.

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Work function

In solid-state physics, the work setting (sometimes spelled workfunction) is the minimum thermodynamic work (i.e. energy) needed to remove an electron from a solid to a point in the vacuum immediately outside the solid surface.

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Work output

In physics, work output is the work done by a simple machine, compound machine, or any type of engine model.

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Working Group on Women in Physics

The Working Group on Women in Physics of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) was formed by resolution of the Atlanta IUPAP General Assembly in 1999.

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World crystal

The world crystal is a theoretical model in cosmology which provides an alternative understanding of gravity proposed by Hagen Kleinert.

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World Data Center

The World Data Centre (WDC) system was created to archive and distribute data collected from the observational programmes of the 1957-1958 International Geophysical Year by the International Council of Science (ICSU).

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World line

The world line (or worldline) of an object is the path that object traces in -dimensional spacetime.

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World Magnetic Model

The World Magnetic Model (WMM) is a large spatial-scale representation of the Earth's magnetic field.

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World Year of Physics 2005

The year 2005 was named the World Year of Physics, also known as Einstein Year, in recognition of the 100th anniversary of Albert Einstein's "Miracle Year", in which he published four landmark papers, and the subsequent advances in the field of physics.

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Worldsheet

In string theory, a worldsheet is a two-dimensional manifold which describes the embedding of a string in spacetime.

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Worm-like chain

The worm-like chain (WLC) model in polymer physics is used to describe the behavior of polymers that are semi-flexible: fairly stiff with successive segments pointing in roughly the same direction, and with persistence length within a few orders of magnitude of the polymer length.

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Wormhole

A wormhole is a concept that represents a solution of the Einstein field equations: a non-trivial resolution of the Ehrenfest paradox structure linking separate points in spacetime.

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Wow! signal

The Wow! signal was a strong narrowband radio signal received on August 15, 1977, by Ohio State University's Big Ear radio telescope in the United States, then used to support the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.

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Wright brothers

The Wright brothers, Orville (August 19, 1871 – January 30, 1948) and Wilbur (April 16, 1867 – May 30, 1912), were two American aviators, engineers, inventors, and aviation pioneers who are generally credited with inventing, building, and flying the world's first successful airplane.

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Wrinkles in Time

Wrinkles in Time is a book on cosmology by the Nobel laureate physicist George Smoot and Keay Davidson, a science writer for the San Francisco Examiner.

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Wu Youxun

Wu Youxun or Y. H. Woo (26 February 1897 – 30 November 1977) was a physical scientist.

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Wu–Yang monopole

The Wu–Yang monopole was the first solution (found in 1968 by Tai Tsun Wu and Chen Ning Yang) to the Yang-Mills field equations.

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Wubbo Ockels

Dr Wubbo Johannes Ockels (28 March 1946 – 18 May 2014) was a Dutch physicist and an astronaut of the European Space Agency (ESA).

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Wurtzite crystal structure

General hexagonal crystal structure The wurtzite crystal structure, named after the mineral wurtzite, is a crystal structure for various binary compounds.

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Wyckoff positions

In crystallography, a Wyckoff position is a point belonging to a set of points for which site symmetry groups are conjugate subgroups of the space group.

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3-j symbol

In quantum mechanics, the Wigner 3-j symbols, also called 3-jm symbols, are an alternative to Clebsch–Gordan coefficients for the purpose of adding angular momenta.

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