Sentences with phrase «by physicists who»

I worked for several years as an editor at a Physics magazine, and countless times, I ran into such prejudices — usually expressed by physicists who worked in nice, clean laboratories and contended that geophysics, oceanography, atmospheric science... (insert your favorite subfield to diss).

No, I spend more time telling people that explanations by physicists who should know better are nonsense.

They felt the climate statement was too important to be written by physicists who had little or no training in climate science before receiving a one - day crash course from a mixed bag of instructors.

Incidentally, Chance, the Big Bang theory was first proposed by a physicist who was also a Catholic priest.

I would never have recognized Weizsacker's mistake myself, if Kuroda had not explicitly pointed out the error in discussing Aston's visit to the Imperial University of Japan on 13 June 1936 and the embarrassing question asked by a physicist who failed to understand Aston's nuclear packing fraction.

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Meitner's work in elucidating the process of nuclear fission in 1938 is well accepted by her fellow physicists — but Otto Hahn, who won the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry «for his discovery of the fission of heavy nuclei,» barely acknowledged her contribution.

This notion was studied extensively by Eliyahu Goldratt, an Israeli physicist turned management guru who defined the Theory of Constraints, which can be summed up by the ancient adage that no chain is stronger than its weakest link.

First isolated in 2004 by physicists Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, who won a Nobel Prize for their efforts, graphene is essentially a crystalline carbon allotrope with two - dimensional properties.

Website made by a physicist originally from Denmark, who also «retired» in his 30s.

I mean if the quantum physics proposed by so many Physicist are correct, string theory, who knows right.

Chad, please get busy with the empirical evidence of any god's existence which is supported by a 2/3 majority of physicists (the dudes who best understand the rules governing our reality).

I am also very open to learning from you of contemporary physicists in Japan who are engaged in reconstructing physics on the lines suggested by Buddhism.

(this ad is supported by a believer who is not a religious «crazy», who does not go to church every Sunday, but also does not believe in «non-belief» and is also not a scientific physicist or whatever kind of scientist who dreams of mimicking creation of man someday).

Also, this «Big Bang confirms Jewdeo - Christian genesis» claim has been made before... the first time by the Pope when Big Bang was first proposed by a Belgian physicist and a catholic priest named Georges Lemaître, who actually came up with the name Big Bang.

This article by Richard John Neuhaus, who passed away January 8, 2009, was published in the February 1999 issue of First Things, and is reprinted below in honor of the feast day of Mother Teresa.A couple of years ago physicist Alan Sokal published an article in Social Text arguing in the most abstruse postmodernistic jargon that gravity, among other things, is a social construct.

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.

A number of outstanding scientists, including the Russian physicist Kapitsa who was for years kept under house arrest by Stalin, have refused to work on anything connected with atomic weapons.

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

No pope in history had been so universally acclaimed by Jewish leaders throughout the world: the renowned Nobel Prize - winning physicist Albert Einstein; Chaim Weizmann, who would become Israel's first President; Moshe Sharett, who would become Israel's first Foreign Minister and second Prime Minister; Rabbi Isaac Herzog, the Chief Rabbi of Israel» all of these figures showered Pius with praise for his actions in defense of the Jews.

Chopra, who might have been a good physician once, is no physicist - in the summer of 2000 he used to believe that it is possible to levitate from the ground and be transported from one place to another by dint of the earth's rotation (by defying momentum)-- an impossibility that I and another friend had tried to teach him when he had publicly professed this belief.

■ 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.

Fact of the matter is that my mom is a brilliant physicist and an incredibly compassionate and loving person who was formula fed from day one... by my grandmother's choice.

Kaloyeros was hired by the University at Albany in 1988 under recruitment programs created by then Gov. Mario Cuomo, who personally interviewed the physicist.

The strong sense of social responsibility shown by Einstein is an illustrious role model for Chinese intellectuals, especially for physicists, who advocate the universal principle of human rights.

Trends in macroeconomics are the sum of microeconomic decisions, but attempts to extrapolate from the one to the other are by necessity grossly oversimplified, says Eric Weinstein, a physicist who works for the Natron Group, a hedge fund in New York City.

In the 1860s, physicist James Clerk Maxwell floated the idea of a hypothetical «neat - fingered demon» who could break the law by sorting hot and cold gas particles without expending energy, effortlessly flicking open a door between two compartments in a box.

That is why, on this 100th anniversary of Einstein's miraculous year, Science's Next Wave has chosen to focus attention on a few young physicists — young by today's academic standards anyway — and some institutions and individuals who promote their fortunes.

E8 is also the basis for another «theory of everything» proposed by physicist Garrett Lisi, who called E8 «perhaps the most beautiful structure in mathematics».

That first acid trip sparked an explosion in experimentation by psychiatrists, intellectuals, artists, spiritual seekers, and even Nobel Prize — winning scientists including physicist Richard Feynman and Francis Crick, who reportedly admitted before he died in 2004 that he had visualized the double - helix structure of DNA while under the influence of LSD.

«Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it,» physicist Niels Bohr once said.

«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.

«Scientific discovery without potential economic return or job creation potential is therefore not being considered by SFI or the Irish government at the moment,» notes physicist Peter Gallagher of Trinity College Dublin, who adds that Ireland remains one of the few European countries not in CERN, the European laboratory for particle physics.

SN 10 scientist Kerwyn Casey Huang of Stanford University is a physicist by training who uses that knowledge to explore the challenges that bacterial cells face.

But 2008 saw an influx of submissions of unpublished manuscripts, or preprints, by condensed - matter physicists who wanted to stake claims to the fast - moving subject of iron - based superconductors called pnictides.

The discovery was made by two University of New Hampshire space physicists, who published their findings in the online journal Nature Communications Monday, May 11, 2015.

Another passenger on Virgin's waiting list is the wheelchair - bound physicist Stephen Hawking, who underwent weightlessness tests in a modified Boeing 727 owned by the Zero Gravity Corporation in 2007.

It's a name that has caused considerable embarrassment to Peter Higgs, the physicist (and atheist) who postulated its existence — and by any reckoning the derogatory label might have been more appropriate, given the billions of dollars that have been spent chasing the elusive Higgs particle.

A paper published in Nature in 1976 by Lord Robert May, a British physicist who has made notable contributions to theoretical biology, introduced some new ideas for changing the game and teasing out those mechanisms.

Physicist Ferenc Krausz, who led the project, plans to go further: «We believe that we should get down to 100 attoseconds by the end of the year.»

A bad textbook is «one of the reasons that students get turned off by science,» says physicist John Hubisz of North Carolina State University in Raleigh, who headed the study.

His theories were dismissed as «world - bluffing Jewish physics» by some prominent German physicists, who claimed to practice «true» German science based on observations of the natural world and hypotheses that could be tested in a laboratory.

The phenomenon was first discovered by Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, who in 1911 saw mercury's resistance drop to zero at 4.2 degrees above absolute zero.

Leary's was one of 24 ash samples on the maiden launch — he was accompanied by Gene Roddenberry, creator of Star Trek, and Gerard K. O'Neill, a Princeton physicist and the author of High Frontier — but Leary was the only one who had asked to be on board.

Robert Dynes, a physicist who previously served as chancellor of UC San Diego (UCSD) and took over as president 4 years ago, gave notice to California's Board of Regents on Monday that he would leave by June 2008.

Sonoluminescence was discovered in 1934 by two German physicists who immersed powerful ultrasound generators in a vessel of water, creating a cloud of tiny bubbles that gave off a glow.

The mission didn't seem worth its $ 700 million cost to some physicists, who felt that during its 40 - year gestation Gravity Probe B had been overtaken by other research.

There are by now only a small minority of physicists who think Einstein was right to reject quantum theory as the foundation of our scientific description of nature.

The outgoing energy secretary, Ernest Moniz, is a Massachusetts Institute of Technology physicist, who replaced a Stanford University physicist, who was appointed by Obama to succeed an MIT chemical engineer.

Mark Rosin, a physicist who has directly reached more than 15,000 members of the public through his playful and inventive public engagement events, has been chosen by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) to receive the 2015 Early Career Award for Public Engagement with...

The meeting was called to order at noon by William B. Rogers, a geologist and physicist who later went on to found the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.