Physics experiments that changed the world – with Suzie Sheehy

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Twentieth-century physics has changed the world - and some of the most important discoveries happened right here at the Royal Institution. Watch the Q&A here: https://youtu.be/gEHXJEFSftE Suzie's books 'The Matter of Everything' is out now: https://geni.us/Qi5U Subscribe for regular science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibe Join Suzie as she brings physics down to earth, and explains how scientists can walk into a lab and discover ground-breaking things about our universe. She uses stories, demonstrations, and a bit of Ri history, to explore how physics experiments have impacted our lives. From the discovery of X-Rays, to the history of women in physics, to the race to split open the atomic nucleus. This talk was recorded at the Royal Institution on 3 May 2022. 0:32 Introduction 0:52 Physics at the turn of the 20th century 4:35 Predicting the future in 1900 7:57 Wilhelm Röntgen and the discovery of X-rays 14:22 J.J. Thomson and the discovery of the electron 24:09 Harriet Brooks and understanding radioactivity 29:51 Victor Hess and discovering cosmic rays 33:30 C.T.R. Wilson's cloud chamber 41:10 The women who pioneered particle photography 45:55 The first particle accelerator 54:32 The emergence of big science after WW2 57:40 Helen Edwards and the superconductor 1:03:27 Hope for the future Suzie Sheehy is a physicist, academic and science communicator who divides her time between her research groups at the University of Oxford (where she is a Royal Society University R

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