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Facts

Also Known As	universal constant • fundamental constant

Topics

Thomson cross section spring constant Curie constant time constant nuclear magneton Michaelis constant fine-structure constant Lamé constant gravitational constant dielectric constant Celebrating the Birth of a Genius quantum radiation time antimatter molecular beam dark matter vector mole chemical bonding

Key People

Arthur Stanley Eddington.

Arthur Eddington

British scientist

Italian-born physicist Dr. Enrico Fermi draws a diagram at a blackboard with mathematical equations. circa 1950.

Physics and Natural Law