Sentences with phrase «lead physicist for»

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Apart from him, the work of the Center for Process Studies with leading biologists and physicists would have been very difficult to initiate.

«Our research shows for the first time that classical systems such as artificial spin ice can be designed to demonstrate topological ordered phases, which previously have been found only in quantum conditions,» said Los Alamos National Laboratory physicist Cristiano Nisoli, leader of the theoretical group that collaborated with an experimental group at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, led by Peter Schiffer (now at Yale University).

«There's been no other report like this for space weather,» says lead study author Daniel Baker, a space physicist at the University of Colorado at Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP).

In the 1950s, David Bohm, a leading American physicist, did some additional work with de Broglie's idea, but for the most part pilot wave theory languished until the early 1990s when it hooked Valentini as a grad student.

Titanium is the leading material for artificial knee and hip joints because it's strong, wear - resistant and nontoxic, but an unexpected discovery by Rice University physicists shows that the gold standard for artificial joints can be improved with the addition of some actual gold.

A group of LMU physicists led by Professor Erwin Frey, in collaboration with Professor Stefan Diez (Technical University of Dresden and Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden), has now developed a model in which the motor proteins that are responsible for the transport of cargo along protofilaments also serve to regulate microtubule lengths.

Now, an international collaboration of physicists led by Dr. Eleftherios Goulielmakis, head of the research group «Attoelectronics» at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, researchers from Texas A&M University, USA, and the Lomonosov Moscow State University, have been able to track the effect of this delay for the first time.

ARPA — E also gave $ 4.4 million in October 2009 to a group led by physicist George Hadjipanayis of the University of Delaware to create a nanostructured version of the neodymium iron boron magnet that eliminates the need for as much neodymium.

«Although theoretically ideal for energy transfer or storage, metallic hydrogen is extremely challenging to produce experimentally,» said Ho - kwang «Dave» Mao, who led a team of physicists in researching the effect of the noble gas argon on pressurized hydrogen.

This will help physicists and device engineers to design better quantum capacitors, an array of subatomic power storage components capable to keep high energy densities, for instance, in batteries, and vertical transistors, leading to next - generation optoelectronics with lower power consumption and dissipation of heat (cold devices), and better performance.

This is good news for lead character Amanda (Marlee Matlin), but sadly, it's not what quantum physicists say.

This is both harming the UK's research base and causing recruitment and retention difficulties for universities,» according to the report led by Sir Gareth Roberts, a Welsh physicist.

Peter Gehring, a physicist for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), researches «smart» materials such as lead - oxide ferroelectric relaxors and highly magnetostrictive compounds.

A team led by atomic physicist Lene Vestergaard Hau of the Rowland Institute for Science and Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, found that light moved 20 million times more sluggishly through the tiny condensate than it does through a vacuum.

Although the CVX - 2 results may not change anyone's life, Robert «Bobby» Berg, the lead investigator for CVX - 2 and a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Md., says the publication caps a 20 - year research project that has occupied his thoughts daily since 2003.

«Currently, mechanisms for this conversion are not completely understood, nor how long it takes the molecules to transform from one spin isomer to the other,» said Salvatore Mamone, a post-doctoral physicist at the University of Southampton and lead author on the JCP paper.

David Deutsch, a theoretical physicist at Oxford University's Centre for Quantum Computation, is a leading proponent of the many worlds theory.

For a decade, Canadian physicist David Keith has led the effort to explore the controversial idea of geoengineering, the deliberate tinkering of the planet to curb the effects of climate change.

A team led by City College physicist Hern» an A. Makse was legally granted access to two massive big datasets: all the phone calls of the entire population of Mexico for three months and the banking information of a subset of people.

A team of scientists led by research physicist Dan Lubin at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego has created for the first time an estimate of how much dimmer the Sun should be when the next minimum takes place.

Physicist Lise Meitner, who made the calculations that led to the discovery of nuclear fission, was reportedly nominated for the Nobel Prize 13 times but never won it.

Last year, along with researchers led by Brookhaven / Columbia University School of Engineering physicist Simon Billinge, the team established the first firm link between the disappearance of the density wave within the pseudogap phase and the emergence, as stated by Davis, of «universally free - flowing electrons needed for unrestricted superconductivity» [see: https://www.bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=11637].

«This is the first time an experiment has directly linked the disappearance of the density waves and their associated nanoscale crystal distortions with the emergence of universally free - flowing electrons needed for unrestricted superconductivity,» said lead author J.C. Séamus Davis, a senior physicist and Director of DOE's Center for Emergent Superconductivity at Brookhaven Lab and also a professor at both Cornell University and the St. Andrews University in Scotland.

This had been predicted as a relic from when hot ionized plasma of the early universe first cooled sufficiently to form neutral hydrogen and allow space to become transparent to light, and its discovery led to general acceptance among physicists that the Big Bang is the best model for the origin and evolution of the universe.

Dr Sánchez - Corrales» search for an adequate mathematical representation for cell shape led the group to discover there were inherent errors in quantifying shape properties through a traditional method named the Elliptic Fourier Analysis, named after Joseph Fourier the French mathematician and physicist.

«If we want to take advantage of the promising properties of nanoparticles, we need to be able to reliably incorporate them into larger - scale composite materials for real - world applications,» explained Brookhaven physicist Oleg Gang, who led the research at Brookhaven's Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN), a DOE Office of Science User Facility.

A passion for music led physicist Sebastián Grinschpun to his new gig as a science communicator on the popular Spanish TV programme REDES.

«TRF2 can compact DNA, which is important for T - loop formation,» says NC State physicist Hong Wang, lead author of a paper describing the research.

Basic research in the 1920s laid the foundation for the microelectronics industry of the 1950s; physicists» discoveries in the 1950s led to the nanotechnology of the 1990s.

Many leading physicists are searching for a single theory that explains all aspects of how the universe works.

For several years, the «Molecular Imaging» research group at the FMP led by physicist Leif Schröder has been developing new MRI methods that rely on just such a «flux compensator» and has demonstrated the impressive potential of this method.

LMU physicists led by Professor Erwin Frey, in collaboration with the team of Professor Petra Schwille (Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Munich) have now explored how this kind of stability is achieved.

Nevertheless, it suggests that the new government, which came to power in a general election last August and is led by the Democratic Party of Japan, is enthusiastic for the project, say Peter Krizan, a physicist at the Jožef Stefan Institute and University of Ljubljana in Slovenia.

Led by Bertram Brockhouse, a physicist who would go on to win a share of the 1994 Nobel prize in physics for his development of neutron scattering techniques, NRU became the national center for neutron beam research.

Feng Wang, a condensed matter physicist with Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division and UC Berkeley's Physics Department, as well as an investigator for the Kavli Energy NanoSciences Institute at Berkeley, led a study in which photo - induced doping of GBN heterostructures was used to create p - n junctions and other useful doping profiles while preserving the material's remarkably high electron mobility.

This idyll has now been heavily shaken up by a team of physicists led by Matthias Kling, the leader of the Ultrafast Nanophotonics group in the Department of Physics at Ludwig - Maximilians - Universitaet (LMU) in Munich, and various research institutions, including the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ), the Institute of Photonics and Nanotechnologies (IFN - CNR) in Milan, the Institute of Physics at the University of Rostock, the Max Born Institute (MBI), the Center for Free - Electron Laser Science (CFEL) and the University of Hamburg.

Read on for a sampling of our reports, some by leading physicists of their times

Yet today, antimatter is rare in the universe, leading physicists to search for minute violations of the known laws of physics that could explain the asymmetry.

Still, he established himself as a leading physicist and worked for more than 40 years on LIGO, one of the most audacious experiments ever attempted.

Currently, a group of physicists from the Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, led by Prof. Jerzy Lewandowski, has formulated a general mechanism responsible for the emergence of such a spacetime rainbow.

In 1942, Swedish physicist and engineer Hannes Alfvén predicted the existence of a new type of wave due to magnetism acting on a plasma, which led him to obtain the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1970.

The material's secret is its molecular structure, which resembles a plate of spaghetti, says physicist Ludwik Leibler of the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris, who led the research team.

«It is not unusual for particle physicists to go hunting for low - radioactivity lead,» he says.

In exchange, a proportion of the recovered lead would become available for physicists.

«These arrays of nanoparticles with predictable geometric configurations are somewhat analogous to molecules made of atoms,» said Brookhaven physicist Oleg Gang, who led the project at the Lab's Center for Functional Nanomaterials, a DOE Office of Science User Facility.

Technically that's called crumpling, and a team at the University of Chicago led by physicist Tom Witten has been studying the process for years.

«Our experiments have verified the two main predictions for superionic ice: very high protonic / ionic conductivity within the solid and high melting point,» said lead author Marius Millot, a physicist at LLNL.

Madhusree Mukerjee distinguished herself at Scientific American for the depth of her knowledge about string and related theory as well as the elegance of her news and feature writing.After she left, the trained physicist applied her writing prowess to a book on the Andaman Islanders and recently to Churchill's Secret War, a scathing investigation from a raft of primary sources that revealed how direct decision - making by Winston Churchill led to massive famine on the Indian subcontinent.Meet Madhusree in this recent interview in Harper's, in which she parries gracefully a series of sharp questions from interviewer Scott Horton.

A team of scientists working at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and led by Northern Illinois University physicist and Argonne materials scientist Zhili Xiao has created a new material, called «rewritable magnetic charge ice,» that permits an unprecedented degree of control over local magnetic fields and could pave the way for new computing technologies.

Researchers at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Center for Computational Materials Science, working with an international team of physicists, have revealed that nanocrystals made of cesium lead halide perovskites (CsPbX3), is the first discovered material which the ground exciton state is «bright,» making it an attractive candidate for more efficient solid - state lasers and light emitting diodes (LEDs).