Sentences with phrase «leading physicists who»

The KITP hosts the world's leading physicists who come to Santa Barbara for special conferences and other programs dedicated to exploring some of the most challenging scientific questions of our time.

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«We are starting to get a glimpse of the kind of new astrophysical information that can only come from gravitational wave detectors,» said physicist David Shoemaker, who led the construction of LIGO.

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.

Both William Olaf Stapledon, early twentieth century philosopher and science fiction author, and Professor Sir David Weatherall, distinguished medical scientist, have strong ties to Liverpool; and Birmingham has historically been home to a wide range of humanist thinkers like John Baskerville, nineteenth century avowed atheist and renown printer, Harold Blackham, first director of the BHA; George Holyoake, nineteenth century writer who coined the term «secularism», sex education pioneer Martin Cole, leading international humanist and philosopher - physicist Sir Harry Stopes - Roe; and writer and comedian Natalie Haynes.

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.

Physicist Ernest Moniz, the US energy secretary who is the nation's lead scientific negotiator on the agreement, has mentioned the possibility of installing a particle accelerator there.

We found that the layers spontaneously rearrange to reach a lower energy, preferred configuration — but not necessarily the configuration we intended,» said John Freeland, the Argonne physicist who led the team.

Onyisi edged out 85 other candidates, says Gerald Hoffmann, the physicist at UT who led the job search.

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.

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.

Physicists had to design computer simulations, tested against those mid-century analyses, to «predict what would happen if a weapon went off,» says Greg Spriggs, a nuclear weapon physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, who is leading the project to scan and declassify the films.

Physicist Ferenc Krausz, who led the project, plans to go further: «We believe that we should get down to 100 attoseconds by the end of the year.»

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.

«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.

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.

This NASA video describes the project in a bit more detail, and interviews Babak Saif, a physicist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center who is leading the effort.

Qiugang Zong, of the University of Massachusetts Lowell, led a team of physicists who analyzed data from the European Space Agency and NASA's Cluster spacecraft, four satellites situated at the edge of Earth's magnetic field.

Ronald Drever, the mercurial Scottish physicist who played a leading role in developing the world's first successful gravitational wave detectors — the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - wave Observatory (LIGO)-- died yesterday.

«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.

It is cited by a leading theoretical physicist who proposes that evolution helped shape the laws governing the cosmos.

«Some scientists did not think silicene could exist,» says physicist Guy Le Lay of the University of Provence, in Marseille, France, who led one of two teams that forged the material in the lab.

The United States used science and technology to great economic benefit after World War II and can continue to «master the innovation cycle» by drawing on the collaborative nature of millennials who started to come of age as the century turned, a leading physicist told a AAAS gathering recently.

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.

Rita Bernabei, a physicist at the University of Rome Tor Vergata who has led DAMA since its early days, presented the latest results on 26 March at a meeting at central Italy's Gran Sasso National Laboratory, where the experiment sits in a cavern under a mountain.

The quantum behavior in this new class of materials has led them to be called «topological Dirac semi-metals» in reference to English quantum physicist and 1933 Nobel Prize winner Paul Dirac, who noted that electrons could behave like light.

This more detailed and accurate model could help scientists better predict the motion of dunes or manage coastal land threatened by erosion, says physicist Hans Jürgen Herrmann, also of ETH Zürich, who led the research team.

John Wheeler, scientist and dreamer, colleague of Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr, mentor to many of today's leading physicists, and the man who chose the name «black hole» to describe the unimaginably dense, light - trapping objects now thought to be common throughout the universe, turned 90 last July.

«SRI INTERNATIONAL began work on artificial muscles in 1992 under contract to the Japanese micromachine program,» says Ron Pelrine, the physicist - turned - mechanical engineer who leads the SRI team.

Jerry Chow, a physicist who leads IBM's quantum computing team at the company's Yorktown Heights, New York, lab, acknowledges that connectivity is important.

«Greenhouse gas emissions due to human activity have affected the odds of floods in England and Wales,» says physicist Pardeep Pall of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), who led the research published February 17 in Nature.

Christopher Monroe, a physicist who heads a leading quantum information group at the University of Maryland, College Park, believes that the speed of practical quantum systems will obviate most ESD concerns.

The researchers — led by physicist Francesco Bonaccorso, who is based at the Graphene Labs of the Italian Institute of Technology in Genova, and is a Royal Society Newton Fellow at the Cambridge Graphene Centre — note the substantial progress made in material preparation at the laboratory level.

At least that's the view of a team of physicists led by Jose Luis Aragon of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, who analysed several of Van Gogh's later paintings, including Starry Night, Road with Cypress and Star (see below) and Wheat Field with Crows.

The day before, Kevin Lesko, a physicist at the University of California, Berkeley, who leads the DUSEL design team, explained how it would work.

«The amount of visible radiation entering the lower atmosphere was increasing, which implies warming at the surface,» says atmospheric physicist Joanna Haigh of Imperial College London, who led the research, published in Nature on October 7.

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 provides a window into the physics of the particle without having the particle itself in front of you,» says David Hall, the physicist at Amherst College in Massachusetts who led the research.

«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.

A long - awaited official analysis by the Fermi team itself, presented in October 2014 and yet to be published, left the matter undecided, says Simona Murgia, a physicist at the University of California, Irvine, who led the analysis.

The nanodiamond thermometers also have potential uses in chemistry to monitor how heat flows affect chemical reactions, especially at the interface between two substances, says David Awschalom, a physicist at the University of California in Santa Barbara, who led one of the earlier studies demonstrating diamond - based thermometry.

«We figured we needed a weak oxidizer that will not damage the carbon nanotubes,» says Kenji Hata, a physicist at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Tsukuba, who led the current study, reported in the 19 November issue of Science.

It's almost a feeling, at the threshold of imagination,» says Alipasha Vaziri, a physicist at the Rockefeller University in New York City, who led the work and tried out the experience himself.

«We've pulled all the components together for the first time,» says Jonathan Home, a physicist at NIST who leads the project.

The Los Alamos project aims to develop an artificial intelligence system that will help banks decide on the authenticity of a purchase, says Steve Coggeshall, the Los Alamos physicist who is leading the project.

«We solved a 25 - year challenge in building diamond lattices in a rational way via self - assembly,» said Oleg Gang, a physicist who led this research at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN) at Brookhaven Lab in collaboration with scientists from Stony Brook University, Wesleyan University, and Nagoya University in Japan.

«Scientists have thought that because the starting point for superconductivity in these two classes of materials is so different, you need different theoretical approaches to describe them,» said J.C. Séamus Davis, a physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and Cornell University, who led the team of experimental scientists.

«The fields in the reactions are intense and can have dramatic effects on the electronic states inside the system,» said Dr. Shawn Kathmann, the chemical physicist who led the study.

Natalie Portman «s Lena, a professor of cellular biology at Johns Hopkins University who has also served seven years in the Army, is recruited into a team led by Dr. Ventress (Jennifer Jason Leigh), a psychologist, and comprised of paramedics (Gina Rodriguez), physicists (Tessa Thompson) and geologists (Tuva Novotny).