Sentences with phrase «by physicist paul»

Last year, a group led by physicist Paul McEuen at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, created complex cuts and folds in graphene, a process which they likened to kirigami, the Japanese art of paper cutting.

For instance, the possibility of negative signs in a mathematical model created by physicist Paul Dirac predicted the existence of antimatter — and the astonishing stuff turned out truly to exist.

In a 2012 paper with Tufts graduate student Audrey Mithani, Vilenkin examined the «cyclic» universe investigated by physicists Paul Steinhardt of Princeton University and Neil Turok, now at the Perimeter Institute.

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-- Physicist Paul Davies, the winner of the 2001 Kelvin Medal issued by the Inst..

I want to know if they think physicist Paul Davie is right about the obvious creation of universe governing physical laws, if Einstein was right in a God presence and what they think about quantum mechanics that goes back to von Neumann, where one is led by its logic (as Wigner and Peierls were) to the conclusion that not everything is just matter in motion.

A fascinating article by the polymath British theoretical physicist Professor Paul Davies considers the evolutionary characteristics of cancer cells.

For treatments of the subject along with the new developments by physicists see Bohm, David, Wholeness and the Implicate Order (Boston: ARK Paperbacks, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1983) and Prigogine, Ilya, From Being to Becoming (San Francisco: W.H. Freeman, 1980).

STEP began in 1971 as a thesis project by then - graduate student Paul Worden, with Stanford physicist Francis Everitt serving on the thesis committee and then as the project's chief scientist soon afterward.

The renowned British physicist Paul Dirac first posited the existence of antimatter in 1928, and four years later researchers at Caltech detected the first documented antiparticles — positrons produced by the impact of cosmic rays on the atmosphere.

Rice University particle physicist Paul Padley, shown at the Compact Muon Spectrometer, is a co-author of a paper by CERN scientists detailing measurements of B - sub-s meson decay at the Large Hadron Collider.

Yesterday, a team led by Iowa State University physicist Paul Canfield reported on the Los Alamos site that they've already made superconducting MgB2 wires.

The father of antimatter was the remarkable English physicist Paul Dirac (1902 - 1984), considered by many to be the greatest British theorist since Sir Isaac Newton.

Like earlier efforts, the scheme, designed by Paul Townsend of the British Telephone Laboratories in Ipswich, U.K., relies on Heisenberg's uncertainty principle — the German physicist's famous insistence that any measurement of a system changes its state.

He also says it is «completely wrong» to describe, as the research teams do, the chain of magnetism within spin ices as a Dirac string, a hypothetical invisible tether with a monopole at its end that was envisioned in the 1930s by English physicist Paul Dirac.

He also asserts that it is «completely wrong» to describe, as the researchers do, the chain of magnetism within spin ices as a Dirac string, a hypothetical invisible tether with a monopole at its end that was envisioned in the 1930s by English physicist Paul Dirac.

So cool in fact that much the same idea was suggested in Spiral, a science - fiction thriller published earlier this year by Cornell University physicist Paul McEuen.

The 1977 work showed a stabilizing effect that appeared to override the impact of a later effect by French physicist Paul - Henri Rebut that attempted to demonstrate runaway growth of the islands.

Backed by U.S. military specialist Robert Furman (Guy Pearce) and renowned Dutch - American physicist Samuel Goudsmit (Paul Giamatti), Moe traverses the embattled villages of Italy and the upper echelons of Swiss academia on the hunt for the elusive Heisenberg.

According to the company's website, its authors include economists Paul Krugman and Joseph Stiglitz, paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, physicist Richard Feynman, and historians Peter Gay, Jonathan Spence, Christopher Lasch, and George F. Kennan as welll as Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry; Jared Diamond's Pulitzer Prize - winning best - seller Guns, Germs, and Steel; Judy Rogers's The Zuni Café Cookbook; Patrick O'Brian's naval adventures and others.

Players assume the role of Jack Joyce, an orphan with a troubled past who has returned to his hometown of Riverport after a long stint overseas at the behest of his childhood friend Paul Serene (played by Game of Thrones «Aidan Gillen), who has become something of a rock star businessman and wannabe quantum physicist working alongside Jack's brother Will.

The Crystal Land is divided into three sections: a series of wall reliefs (Crystal Landscape Paintings) inspired by the artist Robert Smithson; a film, including a «glass cinema» and movie posters (The Light Club of Vizcaya: A Women's Picture) inspired by the writer Paul Scheerbart; and a large - sacle installation (Island Universe) inspired by the physicist Andrei Linde.

The exhibition is divided into three distinct sections, each of which is inspired by an individual: the artist Robert Smithson, the writer Paul Scheerbart and the physicist Andrei Linde.

In a letter to physicist Paul Ehrenfest, Einstein wryly wrote: «It is a pity that we do not live on Mars and just observe man's nasty antics by telescope.