Sentences with phrase «as a physicist who»

Jason Segel and Rooney Mara play the man and woman, while Robert Redford co-stars as the physicist who confirms the existence of the afterlife.

As a physicist who has extensively studied bistable open systems, this empirical result clearly visible in the data has profound implications.

The problem that I have met on several occasions is that he presents directly or implies claims of errors in main stream science while the only error is that he is missing some essential points well known to every competent atmospheric scientists and often obvious also to me as a physicist who has learned about atmosphere of own interest after retiring.

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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.

What originally began as a show about three California Institute of Technology physicists (and one engineer, Howard, who has his master's from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and a quirky «actress» neighbor, has progressed into a full cast surrounding a love of science and odd friendship.

He discovered the work of Geoffrey West, a theoretical physicist who has observed that cities, unlike animals and corporations, get more productive as they grow.

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.

Meanwhile, to Hawking's supporters who suggest that I am not owning up to his scientific «proofs,» I believe airwx has already said it best for me — he's a THEORETICAL physicist, and having read some of his work, I'm smart enough to know that much of what he says about God is an exercise in jumping to conclusions, even as sound as much of his scientific work is.

Peter Higgs, the physicist who first deduced and proposed the existence of the theoretical field now known as the Higgs boson, does not believe in God.

«Sir Isaac Newton PRS MP (25 December 1642 — 20 March 1727) was an English physicist and mathematician who is widely regarded as one of the most influential scientists of all time and as a key figure in the scientific revolution.

They are much like the physicists of the past who refused to see life as the direction toward which physical, mechanical and chemical transformations were tending, or again like the biologists of old who refused to see in consciousness the direction that life was tending.

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.

During the late nineteenth century the Kant - Laplace hypothesis was severely criticized by the British physicist Clerk Maxwell, who argued that the forces of differential rotation between parts of the solar nebula would break up any such condensation as soon as it began to form.

This puts the problem of the boundary conditions, which have to be maintained all the time in both simple and complex examples of biological mechanisms, as it appeared to one of the most able physicists of his time who had given particular thought to these problems.

As someone who has spent half a lifetime working as a theoretical physicist, I.As someone who has spent half a lifetime working as a theoretical physicist, I.as a theoretical physicist, I...

We have four philosopher - scientists in the Dialogues: Margaret Masterman, developing a new theory of language; Christopher Clarke, a mathematical physicist working out a theory of space; Rupert Sheldrake, who has a hypothesis of «formative causation» as supplementing energetic causation; and Jonathan Westphal, who is working on the philosophical psychology of colour perception.

Physicist David Bohm, who dares to speculate on what he considers to be the philosophical implications of modern physics, asks whether thought itself might not be part of reality as a whole.

Miller's remark that the triumph of theory «is evident in the violence and irrationality» of attacks on it repeats the scornful confidence with which Haeckel refers to those (distinguished contemporary physicists and biologists among them) who refused to abandon the «faith of our fathers» as they attacked his new monistic religion.

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.

Long was the list of those — not only of popularizers, but philosophers as well, and even some physicists — who interpreted Minkowski's four - dimensional continuum not as the four - dimensional process, essentially incomplete, but as a sort of a four - dimensional hyperspace, whose fourth dimension exists in its completeness as much as the three spatial dimensions.

■ Bishop Nicholas of Oresme (1323 - 1382), Bishop of Lisieux who as a mathematician discovered how to combine exponents and developed graphs of mathematical functions and as a physicist explained the motion of the Sun by the rotation of the Earth and developed a more rigorous understanding of acceleration and inertia.

His rise to fame and relationship with his first wife, Jane, who was a Christian, was dramatised in a 2014 film, The Theory Of Everything, in which Eddie Redmayne put in an Oscar - winning performance as the physicist battling with a devastating illness.

Political considerations are undermining the effort as Cuomo seeks to shift the blame for possible corruption to Dr. Alain Kaloyeros, a physicist who is the creative force behind the entire effort, a source close to many of the projects told The Post.

To understand «the real Cameron» she interviews his biographer, Francis Elliott, who argues that Cameron could have been a captain of industry, or a leading physicist but was always going to be motivated to go as far as he can in his chosen field.

The prospective candidates are Suffolk County Legislator Kate Browning of Shirley; Elaine DiMasi of Ronkonkoma, who worked as a Brookhaven National Laboratory physicist; Perry Gershon, a businessman who has worked in commercial real estate finance and lives in East Hampton; Brendon Henry, a bartender, Westhampton native and Center Moriches resident; David Pechefsky a New York City Council staffer, who hails from Patchogue, but lives in Brooklyn, and Vivian Viloria - Fisher of Setauket, who served as a county legislator until she reached her term limit in 2011.

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.

ER stands for Einstein and Rosen, the two physicists who wrote the seminal paper describing wormholes (otherwise known as Einstein - Rosen bridges).

Holt, who represented New Jersey's 12th District for eight terms in the House after a career as a physicist, also encouraged scientists to consider running for office.

Put simply, the funding model «did not work out as planned,» Rush Holt, who is the CEO of AAAS (which publishes Science Careers), a former member of Congress, and a physicist who served as assistant director of a national laboratory, told the gathering.

During his student days, he had studied the work of James Clerk Maxwell, a Scottish physicist who recognized the speed of light — 300,000 kilometers or 186,000 miles per second — as a fundamental property of electromagnetic fields.

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.

British physicist Tony Skyrme, who lends his name to the knots, suggested about 60 years ago that particles such as neutrons and protons could be thought of as a kind of knot.

The planetary physicist is well - known to fans of Syfy's Defiance and Battlestar Galactica, and TNT's Falling Skies, as the science adviser who helps give authenticity to sci - fi adventure.

The early inventors studied the work of Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell, who had formulated a set of equations — «Maxwell's equations» — that expressed the basic laws of electricity and magnetism, but as a purely theoretical exercise in understanding how nature works.

According to the calculations of Caltech physicist Kip Thorne, who served as scientific consultant for Interstellar, the movie's black hole, known as Gargantua, must...

The interactions between neighbouring particles try to align them either in the same or in the opposite direction, which is known as the Ising model, after the physicist Ernst Ising who studied it in his 1924 PhD thesis.

«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.

But physicist Eugene Gregoryanz of the University of Edinburgh, who works on similar experiments, decries the study's publication as a failure of the journal's review process.

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.

Here was a physicist who had served in the Obama administration apparently writing that climate science is uncertain on The Wall Street Journal editorial pages, which some say have served as a Bible for climate deniers.

So I said to myself as a child that when I become a theoretical physicist, and I do research, I want to be able to answer these questions for children who ask these questions and get no answer.

Clauser would later write with great passion that in those years, physicists who showed any interest in the foundations of quantum mechanics labored under a «stigma,» as powerful and keenly felt as any wars of religion or McCarthy - like political purges.

Students of human pathos may one day cherish the 16 - minute recording of me, with my 100 percent positive - feedback rating as an eBay purchaser, failing to make renowned physicist Steven Weinberg, who won a Nobel for unifying electromagnetism with the so - called weak force, admit that he can't explain how a magnet holds a dry - cleaning ticket to the door of a refrigerator.

According to the calculations of Caltech physicist Kip Thorne, who served as scientific consultant for Interstellar, the movie's black hole, known as Gargantua, must have had a mass 100 million times that of the sun and whirled about its own axis at breakneck speeds.

Representing the 6,000 physicists who work on two separate detectors at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), called CMS and ATLAS, two spokespersons said that both experiments seemed to agree, as both their data sets suggested that the Higgs has a mass close to that of about 125 hydrogen atoms.

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.

Sonia Contera, a Spanish physicist who co-directs the Oxford Martin School's Institute of Nanoscience for Medicine, sees Horizon 2020 as a potential game - changer in the discipline.

The idea that the universe was made just for us — known as the anthropic principle — debuted in 1973 when Brandon Carter, then a physicist at Cambridge University, spoke at a conference in Poland honoring Copernicus, the 16th - century astronomer who said that the sun, not Earth, was the hub of the universe.

In particular, he says, the initiative will support a new breed of neuroscientist, one trained not as a classical brain researcher but as a physicist or mathematician, computer scientist or engineer — researchers who may never have received NIH funding before.