Sentences with phrase «developed by physics»

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Cardinal Mercier not only began the revival of the study of St. Thomas in the late 19th century, with the gratitude and encouragement of Leo XIII, but it was he who noticed the mathematical precocity of a young seminarian, and fellow Belgian, whom he encouraged to study the then revolutionary new branch of physics developed by Albert Einstein.

The growth of astronomy was influenced by astrology and navigation; work on the properties of gases was stimulated by the need for better pumps; and more recently electronics and atomic physics have been developed in large measure for military purposes.

Looking at our universe, we observe the stable laws of physics, the scientifically measurable and predictable qualities of matter, the ordered relationships of organisms to their environment and the process we call «evolution» by which living things develop.

However, I do not believe that the view represented by the neurosciences has absorbed the implications of the revolutionary developments of the twentieth century in physics, in particular the physical theory of quantum mechanics, developed originally to account for atomic phenomena, where the Newtonian theory breaks down.

«The laws of physics, in whatever mathematical formulation we come to express them, do not suddenly start up randomly out of absolute emptiness and then bring in stability and directionality everywhere... At all times in the history of the universe we are in the presence of an equational harmony of being, and of mutual control and direction within that «Equation» by which the developing cosmos is held in stable order.

He looks for guidance to the seventeenth century, specifically to Descartes, whose philosophy was meant as a handmaid of science and whose physics — developed much more fully by Newton — became the foundation of the new cosmology.

«Quantum cryptography is a fundamentally new way to give us unconditional security ensured by the laws of quantum physics,» says Chao - Yang Lu, a physicist at the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei, and a member of the team that developed the satellite.

Working in a Harvard Physics Department lab, a team of researchers led by Harvard Professors Mikhail Lukin and Markus Greiner and MIT Professor Vladan Vuletic has developed a special type of quantum computer, known as a quantum simulator, which is programmed by capturing super-cooled rubidium atoms with lasers and arranging them in a specific order, then allowing quantum mechanics to do the necessary calculations.

Developed by artist Jonathon Keats, quantum entanglement marriage is as «non-denominational and nonpartisan as the laws of physics.»

Currently ideas of gravity, developed by Einstein and Newton, explain how physics operates on a very large scale, but do not work at the sub-atomic level.

Data previously collected by Tarduno and Rory Cottrell, an EES research scientist, together with theoretical models developed by Eric Blackman, a professor of physics and astronomy at Rochester, suggest the core region beneath southern Africa may be the birthplace of recent and future pole reversals.

Their model, which employs concepts from the physics of complex atomic systems, was developed by Didier Sornette of the Financial Crisis Observatory in Zurich, Switzerland, and Wei - Xing Zhou of the East China University of Science and Technology in Shanghai.

«The frontiers of fundamental physics have traditionally been studied with particle colliders, such as the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, by smashing together subatomic particles at great energies,» says UCSD physicist George Fuller, who collaborated with Paris and other staff scientists at Los Alamos to develop the novel theoretical model.

Recording these temperatures continuously can help scientists develop a detailed picture of the physics by which the ocean melts the ice shelves from below, says oceanographer Laurence Padman of Earth & Space Research in Corvallis, Oregon.

The new capability, developed by physicist Mario Podestà at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), outfits the code known as TRANSP with a subprogram that simulates the motion that leads to the loss of energetic ions caused by instabilities in the plasma that fuels fusion reactions.

By comparing these complex signatures with powerful computer codes developed at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Dr. Chen and her colleagues are able to understand with unprecedented detail, the underlying physics inPhysics Laboratory, Dr. Chen and her colleagues are able to understand with unprecedented detail, the underlying physics inphysics involved.

This is evidenced by the fact that the detector physicists are part of the author lists of the final physics papers and certainly by the fact that Charpak got the Nobel Prize in physics for developing a detector.

For the study, published in the journal Nature Physics, the Kaiserslautern team around Professor Widera (Department of Physics and State Research Center OPTIMAS) developed a novel model system: A single atom is cooled by lasers near to absolute zero temperature and trapped by light within a near - perfect vacuum.

Lee Smolin, professor of physics at the Center for Gravitational Physics and Geometry at the Pennsylvania State University, is a leading proponent of this idea, which also takes on board notions about baby universes developed by Andrei Linde of the Lebedev Physics Institute in Moscow and Stephen Hawking of the University of Camphysics at the Center for Gravitational Physics and Geometry at the Pennsylvania State University, is a leading proponent of this idea, which also takes on board notions about baby universes developed by Andrei Linde of the Lebedev Physics Institute in Moscow and Stephen Hawking of the University of CamPhysics and Geometry at the Pennsylvania State University, is a leading proponent of this idea, which also takes on board notions about baby universes developed by Andrei Linde of the Lebedev Physics Institute in Moscow and Stephen Hawking of the University of CamPhysics Institute in Moscow and Stephen Hawking of the University of Cambridge.

A new imaging technology to grade tumour biopsies has been developed by a team of scientists led by the Department of Physics and the Department of Surgery and Cancer at Imperial College London.

MAIUS is part of the QUANTUS mission funded by DLR in which new technologies involving quantum physics will be developed for cooling, entangling, and manipulating atoms.

The researchers used a technique developed by Durian with Penn Ph.D. graduate Samuel Schoenholz, and Harvard University Ph.D. graduate Ekin Dogus Cubuk, both currently at Google Brain; Andrea Liu, Hepburn Professor of Physics in Penn's School of Arts and Sciences; and Efthimios Kaxiras, John Hasbrouck Van Vleck Professor of Pure and Applied Physics, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Developed by Greg Kopp of the University of Colorado's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, the imager collected radiance data for nearly half of its eight - and - a-half hour flight, demonstrating improved techniques for future space - based radiance tests.

Using a new model of dusty galaxies developed by Richard Tuffs of the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Driver then recalculated how much energy the dust blocks for 10,000 galaxies.

This is a cross-section of the quantum dots developed, constructed and tested by the Institute of Experimental Physics at the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw.

This unique approach, developed by Dr Gavin Bell and Dr Yorck Ramachers from Warwick's Department of Physics, uses gas — rather than vacuum — to transport electrical energy,

The mathematical model developed for the latest work determines how termite mounds affect plant growth by applying various tools from physics and mathematical and numerical analysis to understand a biological phenomenon, said first author Juan Bonachela, a former postdoctoral researcher in the research group of co-author Simon Levin, Princeton's George M. Moffett Professor of Biology.

A Columbia Engineering team led by Pierre Gentine, professor of earth and environmental engineering, and Adam Sobel, professor of applied physics and applied mathematics and of earth and environmental sciences, has developed a new approach, opposite to climate models, to correct climate model inaccuracies using a high - resolution atmospheric model that more precisely resolves clouds and convection (precipitation) and parameterizes the feedback between convection and atmospheric circulation.

«A warning message from our magnetometer network developed by Trinity and the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies notified me of the onset of a large geomagnetic storm as I watched the Saint Patrick's Day parade with my family,» according to Professor Peter Gallagher, head of solar physics and space weather at Trinity.

Inspired by his teachers, he decided to specialize in physics and spent 3 months at the physics department of Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, working in the group of atomic physicist Steven Chu, one of the three scientists who jointly received the 1997 physics Nobel Prize for methods they developed to cool and trap atoms with laser light.

The theory reconciled the physics of moving bodies developed by Galileo Galilei and Newton with the laws of electromagnetic radiation.

The variety of physical situations described by statistical physics and the power of the methods developed and used over the past 50 years make the field particularly exciting.

The Fermi - Hubbard model was developed by Philip Anderson, Princeton's Joseph Henry Professor of Physics, Emeritus, who won a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1977 for his work on theoretical investigations of electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems.

To speed things up, UK Sport will soon begin testing the nanoparticle - based scanner, developed by Argento Diagnostics, a spin - out from the UK's National Physics Laboratory in Teddington.

These measurements may also shed light on the proportion of radioactive elements like uranium and thorium inside the Moon, since their decay produces heat and should increase the amount of heat radiated by the Moon, says Paul Spudis of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, US, who is developing radar instruments to fly on LRO and Chandrayaan - 1.

To carry out the test, the patients and control group were asked to provide breath samples, which were collected using a breath sampling protocol developed by Ms. Raquel Fernandez del Rio, a Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher in the Molecular Physics Group.

A newly developed laser technology has enabled physicists in the Laboratory for Attosecond Physics (jointly run by LMU Munich and the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics) to generate attosecond bursts of high - energy photons of unprecedented intensity.

The consortium will oversee the development and delivery of the cameras, and take the lead in supporting the UK solar physics community in their use of DKIST by providing a set of processing tools for DKIST data, synthetic observations to validate diagnostic approaches, and support for developing observing proposals.

OCT was jointly developed by the Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Technology and the Ophthalmology Department of MedUni Vienna and is constantly being refined by Viennese physicists and ophthalmologists.

The new approach was developed by Assistant Professor of Mathematics Marcelo Disconzi in collaboration with physics professors Thomas Kephart and Robert Scherrer and is described in a paper published earlier this year in the journal Physical Review D.

The technique, developed by two separate research groups, one at Princeton led by Thomas Gregor, associate professor of physics and the Lewis - Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, and the other led by Nathalie Dostatni at the Curie Institute in Paris, involves placing fluorescent tags on RNA molecules to make them visible under the microscope.

Physicists at the Laboratory for Attosecond Physics (LAP), which is run jointly by LMU Munich and the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ), has developed a novel light source that brings the age of optoelectronics closer.

This ensemble was «confined» in an ion trap known as CryPTEx, which was developed by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics (see Background).

The study, published in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, forecast that rising HFC use in the developing world would push global temperatures up by 0.35 °C to 0.5 °C by 2100.

A set of references was developed by the IOMP Science Committee covering the medical physics aspect of radiation therapy, medical imaging, nuclear medicine, and radiation safety.

Weeks before the actual events, students learned about the mission, its science theme, and space - related careers through classroom activities and videos developed by the Applied Physics Laboratory and Discovery Education.

Led by Andrei Faraon, assistant professor of applied physics and materials science in the Division of Engineering and Applied Science and a member of the Kavli Nanoscience Institute, the team developed silicon oxide and aluminum surfaces studded with tens of millions of tiny silicon posts, each just hundreds of nanometers tall.

Osmotic pressure, the pressure that develops in a solution separated from a solvent by a membrane permeable only to solvent, was first described by Abbé J.A. Nollet, who became professor of experimental physics at the College of Navarre.

The MoU will provide a structured framework for cooperation across a broad range of issues of common interest, with emphasis on consolidating and further developing the European Research Area and facilitating the implementation of the European Strategy for Particle Physics, as defined by the CERN Council.

Finally, in a collaboration with Frank Jülicher's group at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, we are using these data to develop physical models that will help us understand how local cellular adhesive, elastic and contractile properties are influenced by PCP proteins and other molecules, and how they combine to produce specific packing geometries at a global level.