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Are there anonymous contributions to physics with large impact?

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Did quantum mechanics solve any open problems related to the optical properties of solids?

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Did the medieval Islamic scholar al-Tusi state the principle of conservation of mass?

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Did the French ever use the decimal time in science?

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Are there any good books on the history of condensed matter?

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Were Feynman diagrams motivated by the cosmological constant problem?

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Who postulated the first Lagrangian for electrodynamics?

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Do gravitational waves hold the record of longest delay between prediction and confirmation under the same theory?

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Why aren't Nobel nomination archives updated more often?

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Did Isaac Newton boil his watch?

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Did Wheeler and Feynman said that vacuum zero point energy could boil the oceans?

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Who was the first to understand that there is not a net flux of energy between Sun and Earth, but of entropy?

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What are some early examples of large international scientific collaborations?

Which physicists died very young or in a tragic way?

Can we estimate the first appearance of popular science books?

Who were some physicists with musical background?

What are some famous mathematicians that disappeared?

Who coined the term "degenerate star"?

What is the largest academic genealogy tree that we know of?

Were there any contributions to thermodynamics and electromagnetism from Medieval Islamic science?

Are there anonymous contributions to physics with large impact?

Who was the first to write a cosmological constant/vacuum energy discrepancy by 120 orders of magnitude?

Who was the first woman to complete the physics and mathematics program in Zürich?

What are some famous named groups of scientists?

Who proposed terminating decimals as a major set and why are them important in France?

Did quantum mechanics solve any open problems related to the optical properties of solids?

What are some outdated concepts in general relativity?

What is the evidence for the existence of Geber?

Did the medieval Islamic scholar al-Tusi state the principle of conservation of mass?

Did the French ever use the decimal time in science?

Are there any good books on the history of condensed matter?

On early US patriotism to choose quark color charge labels

Who were some of the scientists in the post-war French nuclear weapon project?

Were Feynman diagrams motivated by the cosmological constant problem?

Who postulated the first Lagrangian for electrodynamics?

What are some physicists that wrote literary works?

Do gravitational waves hold the record of longest delay between prediction and confirmation under the same theory?

Why aren't Nobel nomination archives updated more often?

Did Isaac Newton boil his watch?

Did Wheeler and Feynman said that vacuum zero point energy could boil the oceans?

Who was the first to understand that there is not a net flux of energy between Sun and Earth, but of entropy?

Is there any theorem/physical law with different names in more than two different languages/regions?