Hank GreenThe space of time between Mendeleev’s first stab at a periodic table and Einstein’s paper on special relativity was smaller than the time between the release of Goonies and today.
Noah Liebman@hankgreen something I hadn’t fully realized until reading The Making of the Atomic Bomb last year was that they went from figuring out what atoms are to realizing neutrons exist to a working “gadget” in like 50 years. Meitner’s theoretical explanation of fission wasn’t until 1938/1939.