This year is the centennial of Albert Einstein's annus mirabilis, during which he explained Brownian motion and the quantum nature of light, discovered special relativity and, as an afterthought, showed the equivalence of mass and energy.
One example of a Lucent patent that is seen as important involves amplification by Raman scattering, a subtle dissipation of light discovered in 1928 that Bell Labs is harnessing to new ends.
Christiaan Huygens, also spelled Christian Huyghens (born April 14 , 1629 The Hague died July 8, 1695, The Hague) Dutch mathematician, astronomer, and physicist, who founded the wave theory of light, discovered the true shape of the rings of Saturn, and made original contributions to the science of dynamics the study of the action of forces on bodies.
The original Italian version has recently come to light, discovered in an autograph manuscript held in the Vatican Library.
Commissioning his own surveys, Light discovered that McDonald's was pitching well to little kids but alienating teenagers and young adults.
Another method is to use the aberration of light, discovered and explained by James Bradley in the 18th century.
As she investigates her father's history first, Light discovers surprises, though: a more freeing role that her paternal grandmother played during the First World War as part of the Forage Corps.
The light we discover in our own depths is a speck of the original star, a spark of life that connects us to each other and to the Soul of the World.
As the technique to analyse light to discover information about a planet's atmosphere only first showed results in 2001, this was the first opportunity to gain conclusive results in this way on the atmosphere of Venus since observation of solar transits began.
Recent advances in proteomics have shed light to discover serum proteins or peptides as biomarkers for tracking the progression of diabetes as well as understanding molecular mechanisms of the disease.
And, in a blinding flash of light, I discovered the answer to something that's always bothered me.
