{"id":3931,"date":"2009-07-29T11:25:02","date_gmt":"2009-07-29T11:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/07\/29\/historical-physicist-smackdown-1\/"},"modified":"2009-07-29T11:25:02","modified_gmt":"2009-07-29T11:25:02","slug":"historical-physicist-smackdown-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/07\/29\/historical-physicist-smackdown-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Historical Physicist Smackdown: Optics Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the same basic vein as <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/07\/historical_physicist_smackdown.php\">yesterday&#8217;s post about thermodynamics<\/a>, the following poll contains a list of physicists who are not household names, but who made significant contributions to the science of optics. Which of them is the best?<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"http:\/\/static.polldaddy.com\/p\/1818535.js\"><\/script><noscript><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/answers.polldaddy.com\/poll\/1818535\/\">Which of these physicists from the field of optics was the best?<\/a><span style=\"font-size:9px;\">(<a href=\"http:\/\/answers.polldaddy.com\">polls<\/a>)<\/span><br \/>\n<\/noscript><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the same basic vein as yesterday&#8217;s post about thermodynamics, the following poll contains a list of physicists who are not household names, but who made significant contributions to the science of optics. Which of them is the best? Which of these physicists from the field of optics was the best?(polls)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,7,137,11,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history_of_science","category-physics","category-polls","category-science","category-silliness","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}