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A Carnot heat engine is a theoretical heat engine that operates on the Carnot cycle. The basic model for this engine was developed by Nicolas Léonard Sadi...

Wheeler's delayed-choice experiment describes a family of thought experiments in quantum physics proposed by John Archibald Wheeler, with the most prominent...

In physics, absorption cross section is a measure for the probability of an absorption process. More generally, the term cross section is used in physics...

In the history of quantum mechanics, the Bohr–Kramers–Slater (BKS) theory was perhaps the final attempt at understanding the interaction of matter and...

William James Orville-Thomas (13 October 1921 – 23 November 2009) was a British physical chemist. He was born at Llanelli, near Swansea. In 1966, he was...