Sentences with phrase «many young physicists»

With Heisenberg's uncertainty article, 1927 (I read it as it reached the Harvard Library, thanks to a young physicist friend I had), many physicists began to get the message.

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If you were a young physicist just starting out today, what would you study?

That is why, on this 100th anniversary of Einstein's miraculous year, Science's Next Wave has chosen to focus attention on a few young physicists — young by today's academic standards anyway — and some institutions and individuals who promote their fortunes.

The grassroots Snowmass Young Physicist Movement (YPM) conducted an online poll and held more than a dozen town hall meetings to find out what graduate students, postdocs, and untenured faculty members are thinking.

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.

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 news.

In fact, the results of the Snowmass Young Physicists survey suggest that young researchers prefer smaller experiments to larger ones, says Fermilab's Penning.

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.

Most of his listeners sat in stunned (or perhaps just bored) silence: why was this young physicist wasting their time on such philosophical drivel?

To satisfy both the need for data to analyze and the desire to work on the next big thing, many young physicists are moonlighting.

But what most young physicists seem to want is help with personal connections and networking.

There she completed her physics education with honors and met and married another young physicist, Pierre Curie.

When the post-Sputnik boom produced a glut of young physicists, he saw limited opportunity for an academic career in that field.

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.

At a meeting in Western Canada between the directors of the NSERC and some 170 researchers and graduate students, a young physicist asked members of the audience to give their opinion about collaborative grants by a show of hands.

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.

The young physicists conclude, «Given the right vehicle, the vertically banked race track would be feasible.

Postol is a young physicist who teaches at a university, and has a reputation for criticising projects such as Star Wars.

«These are inspiring working conditions for young physicists, perhaps only comparable to the computer branch in the 1970s.»

First, Harold Agnew who was a young physicist during the war and went on to become the director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1970 to 1979.

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.

This philosophy came to influence many of the younger physicists, including one of us (Nambu).

From the early 1950s, younger physicists also began to visit the U.S.. Some, such as Nambu, stayed on.

At this year's Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau, Germany, scientist Francoise Barre - Sinoussi shared insights with a young physicist.

«But the work should be performed by younger physicists.»

As young physicists in the early 1960s, they independently set out to tackle a perplexing problem.

Frontiers of Physics: Feature Index Jim Austin, 11 February 2005 Next Wave profiles several young physicists.

And, finding myself amongst so many scientists — 30 Nobel Laureates and 400 young physicists from 80 countries — I felt like a kid in a candy store.

In 1971 she received the Prize «Young Physicist of the Year» from the Italian Physical Society, she is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (since 2001) and Professor honoris causa of the University of St. Petersburg (since 2004).

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.

On the TV show The Big Bang theory, one of the young physicists says something like, «Let's go down to the Apple store and make fun of the guys at the «Genius Bar».

One night a young physicist called Lester decides to run an experiment on a particle accelerator.

I hope we have a lot of young physicists in the world's education systme or even better pipeline.

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.

Not exact matches

While in Seoul, South Korea this summer, I had the opportunity to attend Saturday evening Mass at Myongdong Cathedral with a young French physicist friend.

Bergson's philosophy sprang, he tells us, from an analysis of Herbert Spencer's First Principles, undertaken to update and clarify Spencer's physics — particularly his concepts of space and time.5 The young philosopher was astonished to discover, through this analysis, that there is a yawning chasm between the time physicists use and the time human beings (including physicists) experience.

Chief among them was a young Indian physicist named Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.

Crack the code and you can read the messages, but as a hint, Venter revealed the quotations: «To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life,» from James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; «See things not as they are but as they might be,» which comes from American Prometheus, a biography of nuclear physicist Robert Oppenheimer; and Richard Feynman's famous words: «What I can not build I can not understand.»

Most annoying to young, ambitious scientists like me, a whole generation of physicists seemed determined to keel over at the bench at 80 or 90 rather than retire the way the elderly were supposed to, and the U.S. Supreme Court had ruled, not too long before, that colleges and universities couldn't force them out.

Youthful but no longer young by Einstein standards, Gates is a rare bird: an African - American theoretical physicist.

Some young particle physicists say that they would like to have greater exposure to the job opportunities beyond physics.

Two young plasma physicists at Chalmers University of Technology have now taken us one step closer to a functional fusion reactor.

How would young particle physicists like to see the community respond to the discouraging job prospects?

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 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.

Long before educators and policymakers fretted publicly about how to get more young women into science, a little girl in rural Minnesota used her physicist father's laboratory as her playground.

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.