Sentences with phrase «leading physicists in»

To the alarm and consternation of leading physicists in Edinburgh and Glasgow, the SHEFC seems to have indicated that it attaches a lower priority to research at the frontiers of knowledge than do its counterparts south of the border.

Not exact matches

In these lean, early days, Other Lab has only three full - time employees: Griffith, the mechanical engineer and so - called lead scientist; Jim McBride, a fellow MIT postdoc and the house physicist (who happens to be on vacation during my visit); and Jonathan (Jach) Bachrach, yet another MIT guy who is technically a software engineer but like the other two has a far broader purview.

«If an unfortunate human were ever to descend through Uranus's clouds, they would be met with very unpleasant and odiferous conditions,» Patrick Irwin, a physicist at the University of Oxford who led the new study, said in the press release.

I'm sorry that you believe one of the world's leading physicists would refuse to seek answers about the universe simply because his collaborators believe in a God (see my point about Harvard if you've already forgotten).

Sir Rudolf Peierls, another leading twentieth «century physicist, said, on the basis of quantum theory, «The premise that you can describe in terms of physics the whole function of a human being... including its knowledge, and its consciousness, is untenable.

I want to know if they think physicist Paul Davie is right about the obvious creation of universe governing physical laws, if Einstein was right in a God presence and what they think about quantum mechanics that goes back to von Neumann, where one is led by its logic (as Wigner and Peierls were) to the conclusion that not everything is just matter in motion.

Laughing — First of all, i'm not the only one that Knows the Big Bang theory does not hold weight and has many holes in it, many leading physicists do not believe in it, it's a Theory like you said moron... I don't have to be the one to try and disprove it to you, Do your own research, the folks that work the most with the theory haven't staked their entire faith or belief in it, because they know it's not proven and it can not be proven.

As a leading physicist has put it, «Belief in the «simplicity» of the microscopic belongs to the past» (BB xv).

To understand «the real Cameron» she interviews his biographer, Francis Elliott, who argues that Cameron could have been a captain of industry, or a leading physicist but was always going to be motivated to go as far as he can in his chosen field.

«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).

The National Eclipse Ballooning Project, led by Angela Des Jardins, a solar physicist at Montana State University in Bozeman, will launch over 100 weather balloons at various times along the path of totality and measure changes in such parameters as temperature and wind speed.

The research leading to the recent publication in Nature Physics was performed by a team of researchers from Dresden and Mainz around the theoretical physicist Dr. Binghai Yan and the experimental chemists Professor Martin Jansen and Professor Claudia Felser.

Rogue tea leaves have led physicists to the discovery of a counterintuitive phenomenon: Particles can float upstream in moving water.

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.

A team of physicists led by Rockefeller University fellow Tyler Shendruk recently detected a telling mathematical signature inscribed in that disintegration from order to chaos.

They were led by Chris Wehrenberg, a physicist at the DOE's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and described in a recent paper in Nature.

According to a recent study led by Gábor Horváth, a biological physicist at Eötvös University in Hungary, cave painters understood — better than many artists of the modern age — the laws governing animal motion.

«This study is an incremental step toward a fuller understanding of turbulence,» said physicist Stewart Zweben, lead author of the research published in the journal Physics of Plasmas.

Project Blue Book was shut down in 1969 after a rigorous study led by the physicist Edward Condon concluded that UFO sightings all had mundane, nonthreatening explanations.

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.

After analyzing reams of publicly available data on casualties from Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and decades of terrorist attacks, the scientists conclude that «insurgents pretty much seemed to be following a progress curve — or a learning curve — that's very common in the manufacturing literature,» says physicist Neil Johnson of the University of Miami in Florida and lead author of the study.

Now a team led by physicist Andre Clairon of the Paris Observatory in France has stretched out the interaction time drastically by using a trick with two laser beams to launch a single «ball» of 600,000 cesium atoms into a vacuum.

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.

The HUST team has received advice from outsiders like Jerry Nelson of the Lick Observatory at the University of California, Santa Cruz, an applied physicist who led the design of the 10 - meter Keck telescopes in Hawaii and was the TMT project scientist.

«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.

«I think the evidence is very encouraging, though it's still too early to be sure,» comments Steven Weinberg, a leading theoretical physicist at the University of Texas at Austin and a winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics.

The new capability, developed by physicist Mario Podestà at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), outfits the code known as TRANSP with a subprogram that simulates the motion that leads to the loss of energetic ions caused by instabilities in the plasma that fuels fusion reactions.

Led by physicist Roberto Serra of the Federal University of ABC in Santo André, Brazil, the experimenters manipulated molecules of chloroform, which are made of carbon, hydrogen and chlorine atoms.

Cao Zexian, a researcher at CAS's Institute of Physics here, contends that Chinese high - energy physicists lack the ability to steer or lead research in the field.

And the supply of jobs isn't likely to increase, says John Finley, an astrophysicist at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, who is leading a search to replace two senior particle physicists.

Led by University of Glasgow physicist Patrick Spradlin, the LHCb team found evidence of more than 300 of the new particles in data collected last year by the experiment, teasing out their signals from a dense forest of more common particles produced by high - energy proton collisions at the LHC.

Dark matter is the dominant form of substance in the universe, which leads physicists to devise theories and experiments to explore its properties and understand how it originated.

The UK also has a leading role in data analysis and production of physics results, with Birmingham physicists driving all of the NA62 publications so far.

In 1927, when he was 48, the world's leading physicists gathered at a conference in Brussels to debate an issue that remains contentious to this day: What does quantum mechanics have to say about realitIn 1927, when he was 48, the world's leading physicists gathered at a conference in Brussels to debate an issue that remains contentious to this day: What does quantum mechanics have to say about realitin Brussels to debate an issue that remains contentious to this day: What does quantum mechanics have to say about reality?

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.

Now, a team led by Jens Gundlach, a physicist at the University of Washington, Seattle, reports today in Nature Biotechnology that it has incorporated Akeson's phi29 protein into its nanopore setup, which uses a different pore protein that's more adept at quickly identifying all four chemical bases.

In 2013, a group led by statistical physicist Albert - László Barabási of Northeastern University in Boston found that they could predict the future citation rate of any given paper by calculating the trajectory of its existing citationIn 2013, a group led by statistical physicist Albert - László Barabási of Northeastern University in Boston found that they could predict the future citation rate of any given paper by calculating the trajectory of its existing citationin Boston found that they could predict the future citation rate of any given paper by calculating the trajectory of its existing citations.

Lander, head of the Harvard - MIT Broad Institute, teamed with physicist James Gates Jr. of the University of Maryland, College Park, to lead a 19 - member panel that spent more than a year examining ways to improve science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education in U.S. elementary and secondary schools.

The Bell team, led by physicists Ananth Dodabalapur and Zhenan Bao, report in APL that they made a similar transistor but then crafted an organic LED along side.

Jacob Sherson, the physicist at Aarhus University in Denmark who led the team that developed the game, says he expected people would fail miserably at the task.

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.

«Pyrroloquinoline quinone, or PQQ, is a natural antioxidant found in soil and many foods and enriched in human breast milk,» said the study's lead author Karen Jonscher, PhD, an associate professor of anesthesiology and a physicist at CU Anschutz.

Even before chaos theory was developed in the 20th century, it was clear to historians and physicists that small causes could lead to large effects.

Recently physicists led by Per Delsing of the Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden created such a mechanical ear, which could soon tune in on the phonon's minuscule notes.

«I am both glad and relieved that we pulled this off,» says physicist Francis Everitt of Stanford University in California, who has led the effort since the beginning.

Researchers led by space physicist Chuanfei Dong of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and Princeton University have recently raised doubts about water on — and thus potential habitability of — frequently cited exoplanets that orbit red dwarfs, the most common stars in the Milky Way.

«The key to this result is the sensitivity in hard X-ray measurements,» said Shin - nosuke Ishikawa, a solar physicist at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, and lead author on the study.

Now, a team of physicists led by Efim Gluskin of Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois has pushed its x-ray laser to «saturation,» at which the amplification of light intensity hits its theoretical maximum.

That success led to the establishment of the secret laboratory in Los Alamos, N.M., where physicists built the bombs that brought World War II to an end in 1945.