Sentences with phrase «as a physicist at»

As a physicist at the University of Colorado in the 1970s and 1980s, he taught a popular course called The Physics of Snow, and in 1996 he co-authored The Physics of Skiing with his son - in - law, Scott Sanders.

OSLO — In her long career as a physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Mildred «Millie» Dresselhaus, who is now 83, has researched the electronic structure of carbon in its myriad forms, from bulk graphite to nanotubes.

In her career as a physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Mildred «Millie» Dresselhaus, who is now 83, has researched the electronic structure of carbon in its myriad forms.

Cuthbert was trained as a physicist at Glasgow University and Imperial College in London, where he earned a PhD in high - temperature superconductivity.

Roger Angel trained as a physicist at Oxford University and the California Institute of Technology in the 1960s and, while working at Columbia University in New York, flitted between astrophysics and high - energy physics.

As a physicist at Sandia, he studies what happens to matter and radiation under extreme conditions.

As a physicist at Argonne National Lab said on a recent show about the hunt for the Higgs Boson said «I get paid to try and understand things we don't understand.

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«The good news is the «get inside, stay inside, stay tuned» phrase works for both for the threat of a potential nuclear detonation as well as a nuclear detonation that has occurred,» Brooke Buddemeier, a health physicist and expert on radiation and emergency preparedness at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, told Business Insider.

Chief among them is Dr. Michel Laberge who, upon turning 40 in 2001, quit his job as a senior physicist and principal engineer at Creo Inc., a printing technology company.

Professionals with MBAs and corporate experience are attempting to strike out on their own as never before: Michael Lutz, for example, is a physicist and Stanford MBA who worked at Hughes Aircraft and Raychem for 15 years before he joined up with a Silicon Valley guru to launch a new venture.

Piotr Malecki, Karol Wojtyla's altar boy at St. Florian's parish and the self - described «enfant terrible» of that network of Wojtyla's friends known as Srodowisko, is a distinguished physicist.

In other words, there is a complete paradox if we attempt to look at the ordinary physicist's view of time as anything more than an abstraction.

Whitehead, another mathematician - physicist - philosopher, had a similar view Thus our theological scheme is no longer as seriously at odds with science or the philosophy of science as it was in the days of classical or Newtonian physics.

John Ellis, a British theoretical physicist who works at CERN as well as at King's College, London, explains the Higgs boson as the fundamental quantum of the Higgs field, a sort of «snow» (http://cdsweb.

On the purely materialistic side, physicists have been arguong for quite sometime whether the laws of physics existed before or came into existence at the same time as «stuff» (new drinking game: take a drink everytime the word «stuff appears on the board»).

The physicist Moore predicted way back in 1970 that this should happen if the virtual photons are allowed to bounce off a mirror that is moving at a speed that is almost as high as the speed of light.

Here, as Rabkin summarizes the physicist Niels Bohr, twentieth - century physicists «forced to live with apparently irresolvable paradoxes and contrarieties are, distressing though it may seem at first, in the mainstream of human experience.»

The physicist who at one time spoke of electrons as particles, existing in independence of any relations they have to their environment, was guilty of substance thinking.

Bohm's paper indicates that, whether or not biologists are ready to take account of internality in their theoretical formulations, there is at least one physicist who sees this as the way ahead in quantum theory.

Finally another physicist, F. W. Astor, working in the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge in England, discovered that even the same element might assume two or more distinct forms, termed isotopes, and that the law of the constancy of averages atomic weight holds for each of these forms, but as between the different isotopes differs slightly.

A flamboyant Lebanese - born physicist known as Dr. K, Dr. Kaloyeros was also at the center of a separate complaint brought by the state attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman.

[40] Leading nuclear physicists at the Federal Institute of Technology Zürich such as Paul Scherrer made this a realistic possibility.

The prospective candidates include former Suffolk County Legislator Kate Browning of Shirley; Elaine DiMasi of Ronkonkoma, a former physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory; businessman Perry Gershon of East Hampton, who has worked in commercial real estate finance; Westhampton native Brendon Henry of Center Moriches, a bartender who also works in ordering and pricing for a plumbing contractor; David Pechefsky, a former New York City Council staffer from Port Jefferson; and Vivian Viloria Fisher of Setauket, who served as a county legislator until she reached her term limit in 2011.

In 2012, four physicists at the University of California, Santa Barbara — Ahmed Almheiri, Donald Marolf, Joseph Polchinski and James Sully, known collectively by physicists as AMPS — shocked the physics community with the results of a thought experiment.

«Our research shows for the first time that classical systems such as artificial spin ice can be designed to demonstrate topological ordered phases, which previously have been found only in quantum conditions,» said Los Alamos National Laboratory physicist Cristiano Nisoli, leader of the theoretical group that collaborated with an experimental group at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, led by Peter Schiffer (now at Yale University).

The National Eclipse Ballooning Project, led by Angela Des Jardins, a solar physicist at Montana State University in Bozeman, will launch over 100 weather balloons at various times along the path of totality and measure changes in such parameters as temperature and wind speed.

Newly analyzed observations from NASA's STEREO spacecraft show that the sun's outer corona is just as complicated as the highly structured inner corona, solar physicists reported December 12 at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union.

Although the chat was not completely secure from hacking, it was about a million times as secure as what's possible with standard, or classical types of encryption, says Rupert Ursin, a physicist at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information in Vienna and a member of the Austrian team.

Takato, a physicist at AGC Asahi Glass and former postdoctoral scholar at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology in Japan, completed much of the study as a doctoral candidate in physics at UB.

When deciding where to do your postdoc, pick a PI who will support you as an aspiring academic rather than treat you like «cheap labor at the service of a great project,» says physicist Pedro Miguel Echenique.

For nearly a century, physicists have explained the peculiarities of their quantum properties — such as wave - particle duality and indeterminism — by invoking an entity called the wave function, which exists in a superposition of all possible states at once right up until someone observes it, at which point it is said to «collapse» into a single state.

Adán Cabello, a physicist at the University of Seville in Spain, recently summed up the confusing, incompatible gaggle of viewpoints as «a map of madness.»

Amazingly, physicist Serge Haroche and his team at École Normale Supérieure in Paris reported in August that they were able to watch the process of this collapse as it happened in a photon, one of the most difficult — and most useful — particles to work with in experimental physics.

It's a mistake to think of the multiverse as a theory, invented by desperate physicists at the end of their imaginative ropes.

Paul Ewart, an atomic and optical physicist at Oxford, describes himself as «pessimistic» about finding God hidden within the uncertainty principle, with or without chaos to lend a helping hand.

After earning her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1989, she joined the accelerator theory group as a visiting physicist at Stanford's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, California.

While teaching physics at École Polytechnique in France, physicist Jean - Baptiste Masson used hair fibers as an example of a complex system that could be modeled simply.

In fact, a particle with some properties opposite to those of physicists» current favorite dark matter candidate — the weakly interacting massive particle, or WIMP — would do just as good a job at explaining the stuff, a quartet of theorists says.

If my life as a physicist has taught me anything at all, it's that Plato was right: Modern physics has made abundantly clear that the ultimate nature of reality isn't what it seems.

Theoretical physicist Peter Woit of Columbia University in New York wrote on his blog that the LHC's two main experiments are seeing the same signal as in December — hinting at a Higgs with an energy of 125 gigaelectronvolts — but this time with greater statistical significance.

Enthusiastic physicists filled the room and huddled at the doorways, straining to hear as she spoke.

Atmospheric physicist John Latham of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., and a host of British colleagues propose that a such a battalion — total tab at least $ 2.6 billion — would ply the world's oceans thickening clouds as they went.

Fortunately, in June, physicists at Germany's Saarland University reported in Physical Review Letters that they had devised a way to boot up experimental quantum chips within minutes, almost as quickly as a desktop computer.

Teaching, says Wenham, «is not an easy option»; but she realised along the way that she was «passionate about education,» something she can not claim about her days as a theoretical physicist at Imperial College London.

Now, Jeffrey Hangst, an experimental physicist at Aarhus University in Denmark, and his 48 colleagues at the ALPHA collaboration at CERN have precisely measured the energy difference between antihydrogen's lowest energy state, called the 1S, and a higher energy state known as the 2S, by far the most precisely measured transition in ordinary hydrogen.

«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.

As you read this, physicists around the world are slamming millions of subatomic particles together at nearly the speed of light, creating conditions that mimic the universe shortly after the Big Bang.

At first most physicists regarded the Casimir force as a quantum oddity, something of no practical value.

Based on models of the Big Bang, physicists have inferred that the cosmos began as a ball of energetic, ephemeral particles, all moving at light speed.

About 75 % of recent RAMS participants from Fisk University, an HBCU in Nashville, Tennessee, went on to graduate school in computational sciences and engineering related fields, according to Stephen Egarievwe, a computer scientist and nuclear physicist who serves as the main RAMS connection at Fisk.