Sentences with phrase «as young physicists»

As young physicists in the early 1960s, they independently set out to tackle a perplexing problem.

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With Heisenberg's uncertainty article, 1927 (I read it as it reached the Harvard Library, thanks to a young physicist friend I had), many physicists began to get the message.

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.»

Of respondents to the Snowmass Young Physicists survey, 60 % said they planned to pursue an academic job, says Jonathan Asaadi, 32, a postdoc at Syracuse University in New York and a Snowmass YPM co-convener — even though just as many expect funding for particle physics to continue to decline in coming years.

Long before educators and policymakers fretted publicly about how to get more young women into science, a little girl in rural Minnesota used her physicist father's laboratory as her playground.

Physicists have calculated that the centre of the Earth is two - and - a-half years younger than its surface, thanks to the effects of gravity as described by general relativity.

I'm as much a fan of Mr. E = mc2 as anybody, but consider this: I'd be willing to bet that, when viewed from centuries hence, Einstein's most significant contribution to civilization will not be as arguably the greatest physicist of the modern world but rather as an inspirational role model whose life and work ignited the lives of countless other great young thinkers.

That young physicist was Saul Perlmutter, who last month picked up a Nobel prize — not for proving Krauss wrong, as it turns out, but for proving him right.

Now a young Portuguese physicist is challenging the underpinnings of that theory, as Einstein challenged Newton before him.

Postol is a young physicist who teaches at a university, and has a reputation for criticising projects such as Star Wars.

For much of that time, he had worked in isolation, a younger generation of physicists regarding his obsession as just that, treating him with reverence, of course, but a form of reverence in which the first faint curl of contempt might be seen.

Younger physicists around the Tokyo area continued their studies when they could; professors from the University of Tokyo, as well as Tomonaga, held special courses for them on Sundays.

From the early 1950s, younger physicists also began to visit the U.S.. Some, such as Nambu, stayed on.

Except for his background as a physicist, the young, straight - talking conservative who served President Ronald Reagan was a far cry from the seasoned, blend - into - the - background men (there's never been a woman in the job) who held the portfolio for Democratic Presidents Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama.

Three celestial guides, Mrs. Which (two - time Academy Award ® nominee Oprah Winfrey), Mrs. Whatsit (Oscar ®, Golden Globe ® and Emmy ® winner Reese Witherspoon) and Mrs.. Who (Emmy nominee Mindy Kaling), come to Earth to share their wisdom and love with struggling eighth - grader Meg Murry (Storm Reid) as she journeys across dimensions with classmate Calvin (Levi Miller) and younger brother Charles Wallace (Deric McCabe) in search of her father (Chris Pine), a world - renowned physicist who mysteriously disappeared four years ago.

The daughter of two world - renowned physicists, she is intelligent and uniquely gifted, as is Meg's younger brother, Charles Wallace, but she has yet to realize it for herself.

Thorne started off as a playwright, and after some time with the Royal Court Theatre's Young Writers Programme, debuted his breakthrough play «When You Cure Me» at the Bush Theatre in London in 2005 (other ones have followed, including «Fanny and Faggot,» «Bunny,» «2 May 1997» and, most recently, a new version of «The Physicists «-RRB-.

As the daughter of two world - renowned physicists, she is intelligent and uniquely gifted, as is Meg's younger brother Charles Wallace (Deric McCabe), but she has yet to realize it for herselAs the daughter of two world - renowned physicists, she is intelligent and uniquely gifted, as is Meg's younger brother Charles Wallace (Deric McCabe), but she has yet to realize it for herselas is Meg's younger brother Charles Wallace (Deric McCabe), but she has yet to realize it for herself.

Eli trained as a physicist and wandered into chemistry as a young and clueless postdoc.

I never felt that APS represented me as a young (then) physicist, and I never felt it did anything for me or for physics.

As a relativity young physicists, it is good to see that not everyone has forgotten the basis set for science in the first place.