Sentences with phrase «experience as a physicist»

The author brings to this inquiry training and experience as a physicist, as well as study in theology.

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Professionals with MBAs and corporate experience are attempting to strike out on their own as never before: Michael Lutz, for example, is a physicist and Stanford MBA who worked at Hughes Aircraft and Raychem for 15 years before he joined up with a Silicon Valley guru to launch a new venture.

As his mind turned increasingly to philosophy, the physicist in him sought to understand the whole of reality and not only man, whilst the aesthete in him interpreted all reality by extrapolation from human experience, thus finding aesthetic value in all actuality.

He also comments on the speculations of cosmologists, physicists, mathematicians and philosophers, and evaluates the role of religious experience as evidence of a non-physical reality.

In dialogue with physicists such as David Bohm and Ilya Prigogine, process thought maintains that its view of time is more adequate, does not violate the fundamental tenets of physics, and upholds the concept and experience of freedom.

Here, as Rabkin summarizes the physicist Niels Bohr, twentieth - century physicists «forced to live with apparently irresolvable paradoxes and contrarieties are, distressing though it may seem at first, in the mainstream of human experience.»

Second, physicists had accumulated decades of experience building real machines that could manipulate and measure particles» spin; as far as thought experiments went, this one could be grounded on some well - earned confidence.

But, as physicists look for cheaper ways to test fundamental questions, cyclotrons could experience a renaissance.

My top marks go to an extract from the Dutch physicist Samuel Goudsmit's Aslos, in which he superbly and hilariously recorded his experiences as a member of the Second World War mission to determine how far the Germans had progressed in atomic weapons.

I realize that your «Working Group On Review Of Bioengineering And Technology And Instrumentation Development Research», defined «bioengineering and technology» as encompassing areas such as biotechnology, functional genomics, informatics, chemistry and physics, nevertheless they did not discuss the problems experienced by physicists engaged in basic research on the frontier of physics and biology from the present system of study sections.

More than 130 years ago, British physicist and engineer Osborne Reynolds described fluid flowing at low speeds as «laminar,» meaning it flows smoothly in a single direction, and fluid flowing at high speeds as «turbulent,» meaning it experiences chaotic changes in pressure and energy.

Carla Schaffer / AAAS Sixteen percent of physicists between the ages of 18 and 26 identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender, and many have experienced or observed harassment on...

Holt, who has experience in both the scientific and political realm as a Ph.D. physicist and former House member who represented New Jersey's 12th Congressional District for 16 years, advises scientists to take a stand.

As a physicist whose career is divided between universities in Pakistan and the US, Pervez Hoodbhoy's personal experiences have given him a unique insight into a number of urgent questions at the very heart of this crisis.

These analogies are as much a product of our cultural experiences and beliefs as they are an indication of an underlying reality that exists independently of the probing of physicists.

When MIT physicist and Harvard overseer Mildred Dresselhaus visited the University of Texas, Austin, in September to discuss research matters, she was ushered into an auditorium of 250 people eager to hear about the MIT report and her experiences as a woman scientist.

gallery hours at The Athenaeum, 201 S. Prince St. Kit Keung Kan is a Hong Kong ‐ American artist and physicist who interprets traditional Chinese landscape paintings with his passion for the art form as well as his experience in scientific study and research such as relational concepts and objective abstraction.

As a professional scientist, a physicist with 40 years experience in aerospace and extensive knowledge of atmospheric physics, I can tell you that, indeed, the science is settled, but not the way the AGW extremists would have you believe.

My perspective on this is that I trained as a physicist and have some experience of modeling two - phase fluid dynamics.

Not just understand it well enough to say lots of nifty words about it — well enough to start from the basic empirical laws and principles and derive and demonstrate nearly the whole thing through the introductory classical level at the blackboard, without notes, as I do several times a year in front of several hundred very bright students a year, working with a team of Ph.D. physicists who are my co-instructors (with perhaps a century of teaching experience between us who, one would think, would correct my errors if I made any egregious ones along the way).

* SUMMARY An Earth's physicist by education, I work as software Engineer over 30 + year with experience ranging from main computer frames to modern Windows / Linux PCs and embedded devices.