Sentences with phrase «late 1960s»

By the late 1960s, several studies had confirmed the connections between continuously elevated pulse rates and heart attacks or sudden cardiac death.

In the late 1960s, Rowley and his graduate student Donald Mosier were the first to describe the function of a previously unrecognized cell type, a component of the adaptive immune system they labeled the «A cell,» for its «adherent, accessory or antigen - presenting capacity.»

Although neutron stars were predicted in the 1930s, it was not until the late 1960s that observers accidentally discovered a radio source emitting weak pulses, each lasting about 0.3 second with a remarkably constant period of approximately 1.337 seconds.

During the late 1960s and the 1970s, teachers asked nearly 5,000 children to draw a scientist.

The Space Launch System is NASA's first exploration - class vehicle since the Saturn V took American astronauts to the moon in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

The result is the culmination of years of investigation by the team searching for water and other volatiles in volcanic glasses returned by NASA Apollo missions in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

But it didn't keep him off the basketball court in the late 1960s, when environmentalism was leaping skyward and his sneakers squeaked as a freshman player at Brown University.

In the late 1960s, the Vietnam war was straining US finances.

The particular particle being sought at the LHC is the one that first appeared in these papers in the late 1960s.

Astronomers have known about the existence of quasar winds since the late 1960s.

In fact, the authors cite a paper from 1940 and others from the late 1960s that discuss this.

But he found his calling in the late 1960s as he began to identify and build bridges between the world of satellites and the world of medical devices.

Not until the late 1960s did black holes emerge as general relativity's most prominent advertisement, stimulating both science and the popular imagination.

CWD, first diagnosed in mule deer in Colorado in the late 1960s, has spread across the country into 22 states, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), including the counties of El Paso and Hudspeth in Texas.

«The Merelani district has been famous since the late 1960s for the blue gem variety of zoisite known as tanzanite, but this is really a mineral collector's paradise and an exciting place to look for new minerals,» says John Jaszczak, a physics professor at Michigan Tech and the lead author on a new study published in Minerals that describes the new mineral.

In the late 1960s that connection remained tenuous, however.

Since their introduction to the game in the late 1960s, the Canadian Hockey Association and Canadian Hockey League have made helmets mandatory for minor leaguers, and helmets also must be certified by the Canadian Safety Council.

When I graduated in the late 1960s, nobody was an «environmentalist» — the concept didn't then exist.

One of the first times scientists used muon imaging was to search for hidden chambers in Khafre's pyramid at Giza in the late 1960s.

Marc Smith - Evans says that when he graduated in the late 1960s, nobody was an environmentalist since «the concept didn't exist»...

Once known as gnostic cells, after the Greek word for knowledge, they were dubbed grandmother cells in the late 1960s by neuroscientist Jerome Lettvin of MIT.

In the late 1960s, the MIT physics department asked him to teach a graduate course on general relativity.

«Rules to allow cellular phones began in the late 1960s and weren't completed until the 1980s - and no one was objecting to cellular radio,» says Stagg Newman, a former chief technologist for the FCC.

If the safer thorium - fuelled molten salt reactor developed in the late 1960s had been adopted for electric power, no one would have heard of Three Mile Island, Chernobyl or Fukushima Daiichi.

Growing up in China in the late 1960s, Wang remembers that diseases had digits.

In the late 1960s sleep researcher M. Barry Sterman learned something interesting while tracking the EEGs of cats.

Indeed, that was the only time in the late 1960s that «do more» and «do less» responses were essentially even, at about 30 percent.

In the late 1960s, after about half a century of trying, they finally got their first real look at atoms.

In the late 1960s I was taught by Henry Miller, then professor of neurology at Newcastle University.

Coded messages apparently sent by a San Francisco serial killer in the late 1960s have baffled cryptanalysts ever since, but Ravi and Knight's translation model could help crack the cipher.

And on a trip to Brazil in the late 1960s, Went discovered that Amazon forest soil was riddled with a network of fungi, which he proposed digest the tree litter and pass nutrients to intertwined tree roots.

AS A 42 - year - old man born in the UK in the late 1960s, I can expect to live for about another 38 years.

In the late 1960s, new fossils from Montana and Mongolia provided Robert Bakker, a palaeontologist at the University of Colorado at Boulder, with evidence for his controversial claims that dinosaurs were warm - blooded.

Late 1960s In a series of experiments, psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky demonstrate the downside of the way humans make decisions, identifying several unconscious, systemic biases that consistently distort human judgment.

At the beginning of his career, in the late 1960s, Hawking proved that the universe must have started from a singularity, a point of infinite density.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, tens of thousands of parakeets were imported to the United States as pets.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, France detonated four nuclear bombs on the Fangataufa atoll — a ring - shaped island of coral in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

Capitalizing on the staggered roll - out of Medicaid across US states, largely in the late 1960s Dr. Boudreaux and his colleagues were able to isolate Medicaid's impact during early childhood on the midlife health and economic status of low - income children.

Famous for peace, love, and tie - dye, San Francisco in the late 1960s was also the setting for one of the creepiest real - life murder mysteries in American history.

In the tumultuous late 1960s and early 1970s, Mao Zedong sent urban youth to the countryside to learn from farmers.

Large flows of material that circulate heat from the sun's interior to its surface, theorized since the late 1960s but never seen directly, have finally been spotted.

During excavations there in the late 1960s, Melvin Fowler of the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee uncovered the remains of more than 250 people.

Since the late 1960s American astronauts and Russian cosmonauts have used Fisher's pens.

In the late 1960s, astrophysicists calculated that because of this phenomenon, stars could grow no larger than about 20 times the mass of our sun.

Satellites designed to detect nuclear bomb blasts first noticed them in the late 1960s and the Swift satellite was launched in 2004 to study them in greater detail.

But in the late 1960s, Australia introduced some from Europe and Africa.

In the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s, Hercules aircraft with downward - looking radars flew thousands of miles of survey lines across the continent to map the subglacial landscape.

Australia had barbed - wire telephone lines that served many farms up to the late 1960s, just like those you describe in...

But a facility in Windhoek, Namibia, has processed domestic sewage into potable water for human consumption since the late 1960s «with no obvious adverse health effects among the population of several hundred thousand,» the authors state.

By the late 1960s, however, astrophysicists knew of much denser concentrations of mass.