Sentences with phrase «american nuclear physicists»
To whip up a batch of ununoctium, a team of Russian and American nuclear physicists shot calcium atoms (element 20) at a target of radioactive californium (element 98) in a particle accelerator at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia.
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Crack the code and you can read the messages, but as a hint, Venter revealed the quotations: «To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life,» from James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; «See things not as they are but as they might be,» which comes from American Prometheus, a biography of nuclear physicist Robert Oppenheimer; and Richard Feynman's famous words: «What I can not build I can not understand.»
Besides being the first African - American woman to earn a doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Shirley Ann Jackson headed the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission during the Clinton administration and was a physicist at Bell Laboratories and other notable research institutions.
«If the United States, the strongest nation in the world, concludes that it can not protect its vital interests without relying on new nuclear weapons for new military missions, it would be a clear signal to other nations that nuclear weapons are valuable, if not necessary, for their security purposes, too,» Sidney Drell, arms control expert and physicist at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center said at the American Physical Society Conference in Denver this past March.
The concept of an ADS is almost as old as nuclear power itself: American physicist Ernest O. Lawrence, the inventor of the cyclotron accelerator, suggested the use of particle beams in conjunction with a reactor during the 1950s.
The game's creator, William Higinbotham, was a physicist who lobbied for nuclear nonproliferation as the first chair of the Federation of American Scientists.
It was later famously quoted by the American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer to describe the first nuclear bomb test on July 16, 1945.