Sentences with phrase «books by physicists»

There are a bunch of books by physicists like Hawking or Lawrence Krauss that explain this phenomena.

Highlights include Festo AirPenguins and AirJelly, and the premiere of the opera Icarus at the Edge of Time by Philip Glass, based on the book by physicist Brian Greene.

A column about the «art of the free kick,» published during last summer's European soccer championship in the newspaper La Croix, seems to have borrowed heavily from a 1986 book by physicists Gilles Cohen - Tannoudji and Michel Spiro.

(Books by the physicist have also disappeared from TÜBİTAK's catalog.)

(Of course, I also identified several unattributed passages from Wegman et al in a text book by physicist turned climate change gadfly Donald Rapp, who has provided endless entertainment ever since.

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So when physicist Lawrence Krauss begins his new book by suggesting that to ask «Who created the creator?»

(ENTIRE BOOK) A collection of essays by prominent physicists, biologists, geneticists, zoologists, philosophers and other thinkers about the relationship between science and philosophy, particularly the teleological versus the mechanistic explanation of the universe.

Leon Lederman, the well - know physicist in his book on the history of particle physics, The God Particle, (GP 175) expresses the unavoidable finitude as a limit of knowledge expressed by what Max Planck called the «quantum of action,» now known as Planck's Constant: «Heisenberg announced that our simultaneous knowledge of a particle's location and its motion is limited and the combined uncertainty of these two properties must exceed... nothing other than Planck's constant, b...

The Way the World Is by John Polkinghorne, Westminster John Knox Press (distributed by Alban Books), 130pp, # 9.99 Leaving behind twenty - five years as a theoretical physicist and Cambridge professor of mathematical physics for Christian ministry was bound to raise a few eyebrows.

Project Blue Book was shut down in 1969 after a rigorous study led by the physicist Edward Condon concluded that UFO sightings all had mundane, nonthreatening explanations.

Delbrück concluded by grudgingly accepting that the book «will have an inspiring influence by acting as a focus of attention for both physicists and biologists.»

Next month, in Part 2, we will consider how randomness rules our lives through the metaphor of «the drunkard's walk,» well elucidated by physicist Leonard Mlodinow of the California Institute of Technology in his new book of the same title.

The late Yale University physicist William Bennett — co-inventor of the first gas laser — dedicated a considerable amount of time prior to his 2008 death studying some of Kimura's techniques, writing in his 2006 book The Science of Musical Sound about what he termed «subtones» produced by her violin.

Each of these books is superb in its own way, but reading them together is especially rewarding, as subtle tensions emerge that illustrate the dilemmas faced by theoretical physicists today.

Madhusree Mukerjee distinguished herself at Scientific American for the depth of her knowledge about string and related theory as well as the elegance of her news and feature writing.After she left, the trained physicist applied her writing prowess to a book on the Andaman Islanders and recently to Churchill's Secret War, a scathing investigation from a raft of primary sources that revealed how direct decision - making by Winston Churchill led to massive famine on the Indian subcontinent.Meet Madhusree in this recent interview in Harper's, in which she parries gracefully a series of sharp questions from interviewer Scott Horton.

Much impetus for biophysical investigation following World War II came from the desire of physicists to move away from physics and into biology; this drive was strengthened by the publication in 1944 of Erwin Schrödinger's book What Is Life?

about New books by PPPL physicists Hutch Neilson and Amitava Bhattacharjee highlight magnetic fusion energy and plasma physics

Riverhead recently published a short book on physics written in Italian by a physicist, translated by two poets.

Sustainable Energy — Without the Hot Air by David MacKay (free): If you're confused by all the conflicting claims about global warming and alternative energy sources, this book, by a Cambridge physicist, will, um, clear the air.

The thought bubbles of Arthur Kantrowitz in the 1960s and 1970s were picked up by the Ehrlichs and John Holdren in their 1977 book [Ecoscience]--[One suggestion for opening up the process of ethical decision - making in science has been put forward by physicist Arthur Kantrowitz.

Australian mathematical physicist Ian Enting, author of the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute book Twisted: The distorted mathematics of greenhouse denial, has analysed the book, describing it as being characterised by «half - truths and slanted misrepresentation» and «appalling hypocrisy.»

~ One of the many distinguished scientists quoted in my book is Freeman Dyson, the remarkable physicist who was given a lifetime appointment at the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton by Robert Oppenheimer «for proving me wrong».

The 430 - page report was coauthored and edited by three climate science researchers: Craig D. Idso, Ph.D., editor of the online magazine CO2 Science and author of several books and scholarly articles on the effects of carbon dioxide on plant and animal life; Robert M. Carter, Ph.D., a marine geologist and research professor at James Cook University in Queensland, Australia; and S. Fred Singer, Ph.D., a distinguished atmospheric physicist and first director of the U.S. Weather Satellite Service.

If this book actually had gone through a decent peer review by actual physicists they would have caught the error and the B - E passage wouldn't have been included.

When eminent physicist Freeman Dyson suggested in The New York Review of Books in 2008 that we could deal with global warming by creating carbon - eating trees, he was widely ridiculed.

Alleyne replies: The books I have read were written by physicists and chemists who were well versed in, and worked with, these principles.