A short history of diffraction: Part 1
What connects a celebrated polymath, scientist and physician at the turn of the 18th century with a brilliant (though at the time, undervalued) young researcher in the 1950s? It is probably fair to say that a working knowledge of physics, at its broadest, requires some awareness of the history of the subject to better contextualise our collective understanding of its progress. So, with that in mind, let's try to...