G V Pavan Kumar
@Pavan_KumarGV
Professor of Physics @IISERPune| Optics, Soft-matter, History & Philosophy of Physics| Scientist+Writer+Podcaster| HUMANIZING SCIENCE + OPEN SOURCE| On my own
All the essays are open-source CC license. You are free to use it for educational & non-commercial use with attribution. Please cite as: Kumar, G. V. Pavan. “A Global History of Physics.” History & Philosophy of Science (blog), March 25, 2025. historyofscience.in/2025/03/25/a-g….
Ep 104: Conversation with Shiva Patil Shivprasad Patil is a Professor in the Department of Physics at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Pune: nmlab220.wixsite.com/my-site-1 His main academic interests include nanotechnology, atomic force microscopy, and…
youtube.com/playlist?list=… The first two weeks' videos are now out for my Evolutionary Biology course. Comments are welcome.
Fascinating....has a rare translation of Fermi's speech in Italian... arxiv.org/abs/2507.16928
Btw, Andreas wrote and self-published this good book on complex numbers, that you can find on Amazon.
So glad to see this.... it is a dream of many to go to the space... but it gets even better if one could do science experiments in space.... and below are snapshots of an Indian astronaut conducting experiments onboard in space.. Young people : here is something to look up…
Science from space - one of the highlights of this mission was conducting science in microgravity. Simple experiments become complex due to the environment of microgravity. Since everything floats, nothing would break if you leave it but would surely float away and you may end up…
VISMAYA – History & Philosophy of Science Humanizing Science - People, Ideas, Tools & Wonder This is what excites us sir! To learn. To wonder. To turn it into comics. Because making science engaging is our passion. few topics we choose from your blog. please have a look.😁
I have expanded the name of my blog : "VISMAYA – History & Philosophy of Science" In Sanskrit, the word ‘विस्मय' (vismaya) means wonder, which is the essence of science, and perhaps the essence of human beings. Welcome to Vismaya! historyofscience.in/about/
Ideas in philosophy of science, especially in the 1800s and early 1900s, had their origin in physics. Two philosophers who were deeply influenced by physics were Karl Popper and Thomas Kuhn. Below is a cartoon depiction of the same. Of course, the origins of ideas in philosophy…
On July 16th, 1945, The Trinity test lit up the New Mexico desert. To mark the anniversary, here’s a (non-technical) thread about how the legendary physicist Enrico Fermi estimated its strength using nothing but scraps of paper.🧵1/5
Over time I have evolved from a pure theorist and computational modeler to working at the intersection of theory, modelling, and observationsand data analysis. I am convinced verifiable predictions are the true tests of any theory. This path is challenging but deeply fulfilling…
A Short Note on Experimental Physics: Experimental physics is one of the crucial ingredients of physics. There are at least two major tasks within its realm. The first is to examine nature through observation. These observations can then be extrapolated into systematic…
A Short Note on Experimental Physics: Experimental physics is one of the crucial ingredients of physics. There are at least two major tasks within its realm. The first is to examine nature through observation. These observations can then be extrapolated into systematic…