Sentences with phrase «for young physicists»

«These are inspiring working conditions for young physicists, perhaps only comparable to the computer branch in the 1970s.»
In this pensive setting, he looks back on the events that convinced him that quantum theory has serious problems, a view that would be heresy for a young physicist entering academia today.

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This alphabetical installment of the Baby University series is the perfect introduction for even the youngest physicists!
This perspective wouldn't exist if not for a gung ho young physicist named Riccardo Giacconi, who in 1962 talked the Air Force into letting him launch a Geiger counter into space.
Young particle physicists are driven by a passion for the science, so such admonitions may fall on deaf ears, says Elizabeth Worcester, 37, a postdoc at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York.
For young particle physicists who won't stay in the field — and that's most of them — the Snowmass Young Physicists survey has some good young particle physicists who won't stay in the field — and that's most of them — the Snowmass Young Physicists survey has some physicists who won't stay in the field — and that's most of them — the Snowmass Young Physicists survey has some good Young Physicists survey has some Physicists survey has some good news.
Of respondents to the Snowmass Young Physicists survey, 60 % said they planned to pursue an academic job, says Jonathan Asaadi, 32, a postdoc at Syracuse University in New York and a Snowmass YPM co-convener — even though just as many expect funding for particle physics to continue to decline in coming years.
«For young particle physicists the issues are jobs, jobs, jobs,» says Bjoern Penning, 34, a postdoc at the University of Chicago and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Illinois, and a co-convener of the Snowmass YPM.
To satisfy both the need for data to analyze and the desire to work on the next big thing, many young physicists are moonlighting.
That finding should make it easier for older physicists to talk turkey to younger ones.
For young particle physicists hoping to stay in the field — and that's most of them — the evolution of the field has forced them to be more strategic in their approach to their work.
When the post-Sputnik boom produced a glut of young physicists, he saw limited opportunity for an academic career in that field.
It is named after the particle physicist Bernard Gregory, former director - general of both CERN and the French National Centre for Scientific Research, who set up the working group on career opportunities for young scientists which became ABG just before his death in 1977.
To a young German physicist named Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, the cold - blooded Rømer scale seemed to cry out for a sister scale, if not an outright replacement, usable by the general public.
That young physicist was Saul Perlmutter, who last month picked up a Nobel prize — not for proving Krauss wrong, as it turns out, but for proving him right.
Events for the younger set included a tour of «the fourth dimension» — a room full of hypercubes and other higher dimensional objects that gave me a touch of vertigo; a chamber of robots that you could teach to play football; a demonstration of forensic science involving (real) guns and a (fake) cadaver in a staged crime scene; a live cooking show in which physicists, chemists, and anthropologists explained the science and origins of food; and a walking tour through the natural history of excrement featuring — you guessed it — a dizzying array of animal feces.
Postol is a young physicist who teaches at a university, and has a reputation for criticising projects such as Star Wars.
Harvey, a theoretical physicist at the University of Chicago, wrote the lyrics to honor Juan Maldacena, a young Argentine string theorist now at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
For much of that time, he had worked in isolation, a younger generation of physicists regarding his obsession as just that, treating him with reverence, of course, but a form of reverence in which the first faint curl of contempt might be seen.
Younger physicists around the Tokyo area continued their studies when they could; professors from the University of Tokyo, as well as Tomonaga, held special courses for them on Sundays.
Except for his background as a physicist, the young, straight - talking conservative who served President Ronald Reagan was a far cry from the seasoned, blend - into - the - background men (there's never been a woman in the job) who held the portfolio for Democratic Presidents Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama.
Physicist Athene Donald of the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom opined in The Guardian: «It is not encouraging for young female scientists to see that parliament apparently cares so little about their futures that they couldn't even come up with even that long - derided sole token woman.»
Moreover, he is 1st prize winner of the «8th European Union Contest for Young Scientists» in 1996 and is listed in the 2015 Thomson Reuters List of 1 % most cited Physicists in 2014 - 2017.
For solar physics, for which most of the major facilities are national facilities, it is important to ensure vigorous university programs so that young solar physicists can be trainFor solar physics, for which most of the major facilities are national facilities, it is important to ensure vigorous university programs so that young solar physicists can be trainfor which most of the major facilities are national facilities, it is important to ensure vigorous university programs so that young solar physicists can be trained.
It's important for young scientists work overseas and return home if possible, says the influential Brazilian physicist.
The daughter of two world - renowned physicists, she is intelligent and uniquely gifted, as is Meg's younger brother, Charles Wallace, but she has yet to realize it for herself.
As the daughter of two world - renowned physicists, she is intelligent and uniquely gifted, as is Meg's younger brother Charles Wallace (Deric McCabe), but she has yet to realize it for herself.
He meets Rufus Tyler, an old man everyone calls Charcoal Joe, who tells Easy about a young physicist, Dr. Seymour Braithwaite, who's been arrested for murder — and asks Easy to clear his name.
I never felt that APS represented me as a young (then) physicist, and I never felt it did anything for me or for physics.
As a relativity young physicists, it is good to see that not everyone has forgotten the basis set for science in the first place.
And physicists — Freeman Dyson and Nigel Calder et al are silly old men, what you need for your climatological entertainments is that inimitably silly young physicist and anti-commie crusader Lubos Motl.
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