{"id":3933,"date":"2009-07-30T11:29:05","date_gmt":"2009-07-30T11:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/07\/30\/historical-physicist-smackdown-2\/"},"modified":"2009-07-30T11:29:05","modified_gmt":"2009-07-30T11:29:05","slug":"historical-physicist-smackdown-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/07\/30\/historical-physicist-smackdown-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Historical Physicist Smackdown: Precision Measurement Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Keeping up the string of poll questions about less-well-known physicists (started <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/07\/historical_physicist_smackdown.php\">here<\/a>), here&#8217;s a list of physicists who are known for having made very precise measurements of physical quanitites. Which of them is the best?<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"http:\/\/static.polldaddy.com\/p\/1819042.js\"><\/script><noscript><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/answers.polldaddy.com\/poll\/1819042\/\">Which of these physicists who made precision measurements is the best?<\/a><span style=\"font-size:9px;\">(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.polldaddy.com\">poll<\/a>)<\/span><br \/>\n<\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>(Note: I have deliberately limited this to physicists who are no longer alive, which is why some recent names are missing.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keeping up the string of poll questions about less-well-known physicists (started here), here&#8217;s a list of physicists who are known for having made very precise measurements of physical quanitites. Which of them is the best? Which of these physicists who made precision measurements is the best?(poll) (Note: I have deliberately limited this to physicists who&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/07\/30\/historical-physicist-smackdown-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Historical Physicist Smackdown: Precision Measurement Edition<\/span><\/a><\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history_of_science","category-physics","category-polls","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3933","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=3933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}