Sentences with phrase «elementary particle physics»
They behaved in strange ways, disregarding our current understanding of elementary particle physics and shooting out in almost opposite directions.
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DiChristina: He is the author of more than 300 articles on elementary particle physics and his research has been honored with many awards including the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics and a National Medal of Science.
With a Ph.D. in theoretical elementary particle physics, Dr. Jackson was the first African - American woman to receive a doctorate from MIT in any field.
It is «very, very challenging to try to explain concepts like mass - energy equivalence... to students who are not physics students,» says Schwarz, who also teaches elementary particle physics to Vassar nonmajors.
«Much of today's research in elementary particle physics focuses on the search for a particle called the Higgs boson.
Unidentified: And the Higgs particle has been said to be the last piece of the standard model puzzle for elementary particle physics.
Jerry Nelson started out studying physics at the Calfornia Insititute of Technology before moving to the University of California Berkeley to complete a PhD in elementary particle physics.
In elementary particle physics, the Standard Model — the theory that best describes phenomena in this field — has been well and truly tried and tested, yet the researchers know that the puzzle is not complete.
The authors then go on to describe the wave - particle duality of light, Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism, and quantum mechanics, before settling down to a fascinating historical survey of nuclear and elementary particle physics.
A strange, elusive phenomenon called supersymmetry was conceived for elementary particle physics — but has come to light in nuclei of platinum and gold
After high school, Dr. Gates attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he earned two baccalaureates in math and physics (1973) and later his Ph.D. (1977) in elementary particle physics and quantum field theory.
Special emphasis is given to research in the areas of integrative neuro - sciences, medical imaging, translational immunology and cancer research, microbiology and infection research, biochemistry and pharmaceutical research, plant molecular biology, geo - and environmental research, astro - and elementary particle physics, quantum physics and nanotechnology, archeology and prehistory, historical science, religion and cultures, language and cognition, media and educational research.