How a physicist solved one of the greatest baseball mysteries of the early 20th century
Jul 12, 2016, 21:44 IST
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During the first half of the 20th century, baseball fans thought that curve balls were an optical illusion. After all, how could a ball physically curve through air? Physicist Lyman Briggs at the National Institute of Standards and Technology answered this mystery once and for all in the 1950s.
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