Sentences with phrase «built atomic»

A major milestone along this path was achieved in 2014 when the science team performed what could be considered a «heart transplant» on the telescope by installing a custom - built atomic clock powered by a hydrogen maser.

So precise is their rotation that millisecond pulsars can measure time more accurately than human - built atomic clocks — that is why when first discovered, in 1967, it was thought that they could be the product of some extraterrestrial civilization.

To achieve this focusing feat, Ray uses a massive, custom - built atomic deposition device, an array of computers, and a trusty Xbox controller.

The body of men and women who built the atomic bomb was vast, diverse, talented and multitudinous.

The organization's early years chronicled the dawn of the nuclear age and the birth of the scientists» movement, as told by the men and women who built the atomic bomb and then lobbied with both technical and humanist arguments for its abolition,» states the organization's Web site.

65 years ago men with slide rules built atomic weapons to level two cities.

Area residents who helped build the atomic weapons of the Cold War may now qualify for compensation.

As part of the Manhattan Project effort to build an atomic bomb during World War II, Szilard worked together with physicist Enrico Fermi and other colleagues at the University of Chicago to create the world's first experimental nuclear reactor.

Such discussions might have seemed innocuous during ordinary times, but investigators from the Military Intelligence Division thought otherwise once the United States entered World War II, and Bohm and his discussion buddies started working on the earliest phases of the Manhattan Project to build an atomic bomb.

Then, in 1942, it was selected as the headquarters for the Manhattan Project, the American effort to build an atomic bomb.

These and other technical elements of the action plan on Iran's nuclear program announced yesterday seek a delicate balance: preventing Iran from building an atomic arsenal while allowing it to retain significant nuclear R&D.

In 1939 he wrote a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, urging a U.S. effort to build an atomic bomb before the Germans could do so.

And, oh, yeah, he was a top - secret spy for the OSS who helped the U.S. win the race against Germany to build the atomic bomb during WWII.

Starring Paul Rudd, Jeff Daniels, Paul Giamatti and Mark Strong — among other actors in an A-list ensemble — The Catcher Was a Spy tells the remarkable, little - known true story of Moe Berg (Rudd), a professional baseball player who became a spy in service of the Office of Strategic Services, the precursor to the CIA, during World War II, sent out to stop German scientist Werner Heisenberg (Strong) from building an atomic bomb for the Nazis.

«The Catcher Was a Spy,» tells the true story of Morris «Moe» Berg (Paul Rudd), the Major League Baseball player, Ivy League graduate, attorney and top - secret spy who helped the U.S. defeat Nazi Germany in the race to build the atomic bomb.

But once Moe ascertains exactly how close Heisenberg is to building an atomic bomb for the Nazi enemy, he is to make a life - or - death decision that will impact the very future of humanity.

PREMIERE The Catcher Was a Spy (Director: Ben Lewin, Screenwriter: Robert Rodat, Producers: Kevin Frakes, Tatiana Kelly, Buddy Patrick, Jim Young)-- The true story of Moe Berg — professional baseball player, Ivy League graduate, attorney who spoke nine languages — and a top - secret spy for the OSS who helped the U.S. win the race against Germany to build the atomic bomb.

The Sundance entry stars Paul Rudd as an American All - Star baseball athlete who worked on a side job — clandestinely spying for the U.S. government and who helped the U.S. defeat Nazi Germany in the race to build the atomic bomb.

The Catcher Was a Spy tells the story of Morris «Moe» Berg, played by Paul Rudd, the Major League Baseball player, Ivy League graduate, attorney and top - secret spy who helped the US defeat Nazi Germany in the race to build the atomic bomb.

The Catcher Was a Spy / U.S.A. (Director: Ben Lewin, Screenwriter: Robert Rodat, Producers: Kevin Frakes, Tatiana Kelly, Buddy Patrick, Jim Young)-- The true story of Moe Berg — professional baseball player, Ivy League graduate, attorney who spoke nine languages — and a top - secret spy for the OSS who helped the U.S. win the race against Germany to build the atomic bomb.

The novice spy — is a Jewish Ivy League graduate who speaks nine languages — is quickly trained and sent into the field to stop German scientist Werner Heisenberg before he can build an atomic bomb for the Nazis.

Whether it is the decision to build an atomic bomb or to enact policies to curb ozone depletion, we are increasingly confronted with science - based public policy decisions that have wide - ranging effects on the social and political landscape.

All atomic Power Stations need Coal - Fired Power Stations to make the electricity to manufacture the atomic energy to build the atomic piles to run these Godforsaken energy plants.

Not exact matches

Kim told a ruling party meeting in Pyongyang on Friday his regime would suspend tests of atomic bombs and intercontinental ballistic missiles after achieving its goal of building a nuclear arsenal, the official Korean Central News Agency reported.

Ontario has already wasted billions on natural gas - fired power plants that were never built and could potentially squander billions more refurbishing aging nuclear stations in a bid to prop up the province's atomic industry.

But his gaze seems dominatively informed by «microorganic» and cosmological interests, by concern with the creative advance of the universe and its atomic building blocks, actual occasions.

In the past physics has tended to build up the object from its atomic bits.

and reverses and colapses and the force of the colapsing Universe combined with the immense temperatures and forces of gravity and atomic forces all building to a single point in space... for a huge collision..

These strings began to attract each other and became sub atomic particles and the particles were influenced by an energy level expressed as the Higgs Boson that attracted the particles to form quarks and the quarks had different properties and joined together to create protons and led to mass, the building blocks of everything we have now.

An atomic build - up can not be risked, because of the ease with which a nuclear war could be initiated by accident if not by design.

The lawyer, who handled much of Glenwood's political work, said the company hoped to obstruct the passage of campaign finance reform laws, see the controversial 421a tax abatement renewed, obtain a favorable tax cap on revenue from apartment buildings and to prevent Democrats from taking control of the State Senate and giving control of the New York City rent laws from Albany to the City Council — which Mr. Dorego compared to «an atomic bomb.»

But for the US, it might be too expensive even to build links that run from NIST's atomic clocks in Colorado to the financial hub in New York City.

Plastics were even essential to the building of the atomic bomb: Manhattan Project scientists relied on Teflon's supreme resistance to corrosion to make containers for the volatile gases they used.

The atomic model was built and refined to a crystallographic R factor of 22.1 percent.

Nevertheless, quantum teleportation is a giant step toward one of physicists» most ambitious goals: building a quantum computer — an ultrafast, supersecure, huge - memory number - crunching device that uses atomic particles instead of transistors to retain and process information.

They used this novel simulation approach to build a model of a sperm cell that demonstrates cellular movement from individual dynein protein molecules in the tail all the way up to the whole cell, allowing them to observe how changes at the atomic level are reflected in larger - scale structures.

Their method, published in the most recent issue of Nature journal Computational Materials, provides a technique to produce a «dictionary» of the atomic building blocks found in metals, alloys, semiconductors and other materials.

Does anybody honestly think that whether Tehran or Pyongyang produces atomic bombs depends on how many reactors the United States decides to build in the next 10 to 20 years?

Steve Capps wondered if gravity could affect atomic clocks: «Since time slows in a gravitational field, are atomic clocks so sensitive that perhaps moving them from the ground floor to the second or third floor of a building would have a measurable effect, given that gravity would be less on the higher floors?»

That's what is driving a team that is trying to build the first nuclear clock, with a tick based on the antics of an atomic nucleus.

From a quaint foundation built on vacuum tubes and X-rays to 2011's catastrophic meltdown at Fukushima, Nelson deftly weaves together science and history as he spans the Atomic Age.

In atomic force microscopy (AFM), a silicon probe scans across a surface and builds a 3D image of the cells it encounters, much like someone reading a relief map with their fingers.

Engineers are using the same technology to build crude, atomic - scale machines, inventing a new field as they go called nanotechnology.

Building the quantum crystal was something of a tour de force in atomic manipulation.

Maybe we should, now that we have a new class of chemical building blocks called superatoms — atomic clusters that behave like individual atoms.

At present, attempts are being made to build quantum computers using, among others, trapped ions, electron spins in diamond, quantum dots, superconducting electric circuits, and atomic clouds.

Eom is a world expert in material growth, using techniques that allow him to meticulously build, or «grow,» each layer of a material with atomic precision.

Using a specially built microscope capable of imaging matter at the atomic scale, the researchers were able to visualize traps, which can adversely affect the flow of electrons and elementary energy packets called excitons.

«This roadmap is a vital part of ensuring the UK can deliver its nuclear new build programme,» said Steven Cowley, CEO of the U.K. Atomic Energy Authority, in a statement.

Housed in a boxy building some 30 meters tall on the banks of the Ottawa River, NRU is owned by the Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. (AECL), the corporation created by the Canadian government to develop commercial nuclear technologies.