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Biography [r]: A narrative account of a person's life. ^[e]
Physics [r]: The study of forces and energies in space and time. ^[e]
Scientist [r]: A person employing the scientific method to gather information about a system of interest; often used in the narrow sense of people engaged with natural sciences. ^[e]

Copenhagen [r]: Capital and largest city of Denmark. ^[e]
Quantum mechanics [r]: An important branch of physics dealing with the behavior of matter and energy at very small scales. ^[e]
Atom (science) [r]: The defining unit of chemical elements. ^[e]
Ernest Rutherford [r]: (August 30, 1871 - October 19, 1937)The first person to split an atom. ^[e]
University of Manchester [r]: Largest single higher education institution in the United Kingdom. ^[e]
Nobel Prize in Physics [r]: The most highly regarded award in the field of physics; named after Alfred Nobel who instituted it. ^[e]
Bohr radius [r]: Radius of the first Bohr orbit in the hydrogen atom. ^[e]
Principal quantum number [r]: Atomic quantum number labeling atomic shells; usually denoted by the non-zero natural number n. ^[e]

Bohrium [r]: A synthetic element, having the chemical symbol Bh, and atomic number (the number of protons) 107. ^[e]
Albert Einstein [r]: 20th-century physicist who formulated the theories of relativity. ^[e]
Logical positivism [r]: A school of philosophy that combines positivism—which states that the only authentic knowledge is scientific knowledge—with some kind of logical analysis, which is similar, but not the same as logicism. ^[e]
Philosophy of science [r]: Philosophical study of the assumptions, foundations, and implications of science. ^[e]
Edward Teller [r]: (January 15, 1908 - September 9, 2003) One of the most controversial scientists of the 20th century because of his role as the main developer of the hydrogen bomb, his outspoken defense of an unassailable nuclear arsenal, and support for President Reagan's Strategic Defensive Initiative. ^[e]
Vienna Circle [r]: Group of philosophers, scientists, and mathematicians formed in the 1920s that met regularly in Vienna to investigate scientific language and scientific method. ^[e]
Enrico Fermi [r]: (1901-1954) Italian born nuclear physicist; designer of the first nuclear reactor. ^[e]
Nobel Prize [r]: A prestigious annual prize awarded according to the will of Swedish chemist and entrepreneur Alfred Nobel in the categories Peace, Literature, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Physics. ^[e]
Dmitri Mendeleev [r]: Russian chemist (1834–1907) who devised the periodic table of elements in 1869. ^[e]