SCC STEM Club

If you've ever wondered:
"Who do we have to thank for the invention of solar panels?"
Here's your answer:
Albert Einstein!
Today marks the anniversary of his paper (on the photoelectric effect) being published, in 1905.
That earned him a Nobel Prize!
(Not General Relativity...😆)

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Einstein's paper "On a Heuristic Viewpoint Concerning the Production and Transformation of Light" on photoelectric effect was published in 1905, his ‘Annus Mirabilis’. This is the paper that won him his

We had a private tour at the worlds most important observatory in history! This is where humanity literally "discovered the universe," when Edwin Hubble figured out that our galaxy ISN'T the entire universe, but just one out of many (Billions!).
Here at Mt Wilson is also where Harlow Shapley discovered our location in the Milky Way galaxy: To the side, not in the center as we previously believed.