Three Dimensional Gallery

Albert Einstein, artwork

Albert Einstein. Cartoon of the Swiss-German physicist Albert Einstein (1879-1955). Einstein is best known for his paper on the special theory of relativity, which resulted in the famous equation E=mc2. Einstein was invited to the University of Oxford, UK, in May 1931 to give a series of lectures on relativity. The blackboard from the second lecture, on which he demonstrated his theory, was preserved. It is now displayed in the University's Museum of the History of Science

© FRIEDRICH SAURER/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY

Density in a Bose-Einstein Condensate

Bose-Einstein Condensate: a new state of matter. Graph of the density of low-velocity rubidium atoms forming a Bose-Einstein Condensate (BEC). The blue and white peak shows the BEC, a cloud of a few thousand atoms some 10 microns (millionths of a metre) across. A cloud of rubidium atoms was confined by a laser trap system, then cooled to 180 nK (nanoKelvin, billionths of a degree above absolute zero). At this temperature, atoms move so slowly that the quantum wave function for each one spreads out until all the atoms are in the same quantum state. This first BEC was created at the NIST and University of Colorado on 5 June 1995

© NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY (NIST)/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY

3D rendering of planet Earth centered on Atlantic Ocean

3D rendering of planet Earth with clouds, centered on the Atlantic Ocean, with North America, South America, Africa and Europe partially visible

© Leonello Calvetti/Stocktrek Images

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