Richard Chace Tolman (March 4, 1881 – September 5, 1948) was an American mathematical physicist and physical chemist who made many contributions to statistical...

of the Manhattan Project. Tolman was born in Washington, Indiana on October 9, 1893 to Lillie Belle (née Graham) and Warren C. Sherman. She had an older...

the "Tolman Hall", was named after him. Born in West Newton, Massachusetts, brother of Caltech physicist Richard Chace Tolman, Edward C. Tolman studied...

illustrator of children's literature Richard C. Tolman (1881–1948), American mathematical physicist and physical chemist Russ Tolman (born 1956), American guitarist...

in an electrical conductor. It is named after T. Dale Stewart and Richard C. Tolman, two American physicists who carried out their experimental work in...

(measured as z). Such a comparison was first proposed in 1930 by Richard C. Tolman as a test of whether the universe is expanding or static. It is a...

computing and introducing the concept of nanotechnology. He held the Richard C. Tolman professorship in theoretical physics at the California Institute of...

mathematician Georg Helm in 1898, and by American physicist and chemist Richard C. Tolman in 1917. According to International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry...

For a solution to the Tolman–Oppenheimer–Volkoff equation, this metric will take the form d s 2 = e ν c 2 d t 2 − ( 1 − 2 G m r c 2 ) − 1 d r 2 − r 2 (...

general relativity, the Ehrenfest–Tolman effect (also known as the Tolman–Ehrenfest effect), created by Richard C. Tolman and Paul Ehrenfest, argues that...

different way from Albert Einstein's derivation. In 1909, he and Richard C. Tolman combined his methods with special relativity. In 1912 Lewis and Edwin...

Bell Telephone Laboratories; Brigadier General George V. Strong; and Richard C. Tolman, Professor of Physical Chemistry and Mathematical Physics at California...

Friedmann introduced the Oscillating Universe Theory. However, work by Richard C. Tolman in 1934 showed that these early attempts failed because of the cyclic...

Southern California. The Medal is named for physicist and chemist Richard C. Tolman. Source: SCALACS 1960 William Gould Young 1961 Anton Burg 1962 Ernest...

other members of the Technical Committee were Richard C. Tolman, who was Groves's scientific advisor, and C. J. Mackenzie, the president of the Canadian...

store of energy." American physical chemists Gilbert N. Lewis and Richard C. Tolman used two variations of the formula in 1909: m = ⁠E/c2⁠ and m0 = ⁠E0/c2⁠...

way the core is assembled, such as the implosion method invented by Richard C. Tolman, Robert Serber, and other scientists at the University of California...

observable as radiation, but his candidate was cosmic rays.: 140  Richard C. Tolman showed in 1934 that expansion of the universe would cool blackbody...

Quantum Computation and Quantum Information Nielsen's theorem Awards Richard C. Tolman Prize Fellow at Caltech, Fulbright Scholar Scientific career Fields...

Lewis and Richard C. Tolman in 1909. They defined the total energy and mass of a body as m rel = E c 2 , {\displaystyle m_{\text{rel}}={\frac {E}{c^{2}}}...

masses would be brought together by firing a "bullet" into a "target". Richard C. Tolman suggested an implosion-type nuclear weapon, but the proposal attracted...

Robert H. Kohn Benton MacKaye Leland Olds Charles P. Steinmetz Richard C. Tolman John C. Vaughan Thorstein Veblen Charles H. Whitaker Burris 1993, p. 28...

involving spheroids, a primitive form of "implosion" suggested by Richard C. Tolman, and the possibility of autocatalytic methods to increase the efficiency...

(originally suggested by Friedmann, but advocated by Albert Einstein and Richard C. Tolman) and Fritz Zwicky's tired light hypothesis. After World War II, two...

Leipzig University. In 1930, he returned to Caltech, working with Richard C. Tolman for one year. He then went to the Ukrainian Institute of Physics and...

Oppenheimer during the development of the atomic bomb. Tom Jenkins as Richard C. Tolman, Ruth's husband and General Groves' chief scientific adviser on the...

Project Alberta, and the Manhattan Project's scientific advisor, Richard C. Tolman. The Target Committee nominated five targets: Kokura (now Kitakyushu)...

These ideas of Boltzmann were analyzed in detail and generalized by Richard C. Tolman. In chemistry, J. H. van't Hoff (1884) came up with the idea that...

the plane and complex numbers", pp 195–219, Academic Press, N.Y. Richard C. Tolman (2004) Theory of Relativity of Motion, page 194, §180 Non-Euclidean...

Einstein and other physicists including Max Planck, Gilbert N. Lewis, Richard C. Tolman, Max von Laue (who in 1911 gave a comprehensive proof of M0 = E0/c2...