Sentences with phrase «nuclear physicists with»

The ability to accurately determine the rate of this H - 17O fusion reaction provides nuclear physicists with another key puzzle piece, alongside direct observations of oxygen elemental and isotopic abundances in stellar atmospheres and in primitive meteorites, to zero in on complete and accurate models of stars.

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Greg Spriggs, a nuclear - weapons physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, said a 50 - megaton weapon «could possibly induce a tsunami» and hit a shoreline with the energy equivalent to a 650 - kiloton blast.

I recently spoke with an M.I.T. nuclear physicist, Andrew Kadak, who said the engineering challenges were so great and the costs so high that it would be more practical to pursue conventional power sources.

I am a nuclear physicist and do not believe in God, which was a slow process in my life to conclude that a few billion years of trial and error along with some incredible sets of «rules» make what happened on Earth inevitable, and is happening on any planet with the near same conditions that are found here.

But apparently when Carter was working in a nuclear submarine, some nuclear physicists pronounced it as «nuculear» along with him.

Eighteen top German physicists, including four Nobel prize winners, stated in 1957 that they would not work on projects having any connection with nuclear weapons.

Early last summer, physicists Dr. Peter Thirolf, Lars von der Wense and Benedict Seiferle at LMU's Chair of Medical Physics, in collaboration with colleagues in Mainz and Darmstadt, achieved a notable breakthrough in the quest to develop a functioning nuclear clock.

Other physicists, including Nobel laureate Sheldon Glashow of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, calculated that strange quark particles would dash through Earth with dramatic effect: a 1 - ton fleck would unleash the energy of a 50 - kiloton nuclear bomb, spread along its entire threadlike path.

As part of the Manhattan Project effort to build an atomic bomb during World War II, Szilard worked together with physicist Enrico Fermi and other colleagues at the University of Chicago to create the world's first experimental nuclear reactor.

The remaining 5 % of medical physicists work with nuclear materials that are frequently used in medicine, Physics Today states.

The behavior of high - speed particles — whether the result of physicists» colliders or the sun's nuclear furnace — only makes sense with special relativity.

Japanese officials initially rated the incident a level 4, an «accident with local consequences,» on the seven - tier International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale (INES), but Princeton University physicist Frank von Hippel told The New York Times that the Fukushima Daiichi situation is «way past Three Mile Island already.»

Going Nuclear: The Manhattan Project built the B Reactor in just over a year, coming online in 1944 with the help of Nobel Prize - winning physicist Enrico Fermi.

But it is still not compatible with the measurements taken by non-muonic techniques, says John Arrington, a nuclear physicist at Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont, Illinois.

According to theoretical physicist Robert Fleischer of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva, Switzerland, the simplest explanation would be a massive, photonlike particle similar to known members of the standard model and capable of interacting directly with bottom quarks and strange antiquarks.

Shi developed the paper with assistance from co-authors Nat Fisch, director of the Program in Plasma Physics and professor and associate chair of astrophysical sciences at Princeton University, and Hong Qin, a physicist at PPPL and executive dean of the School of Nuclear Science and Technology at the University of Science and Technology of China.

The physicist Steven Weinberg of the University of Texas, Austin, received his Nobel Prize in 1979 for a major breakthrough in that quest — showing how electromagnetism and the weak nuclear force are manifestations of the same underlying theory (he shared the prize with Abdus Salam and Sheldon Glashow).

People have been investigating the effects of nuclear weapons for decades, but Remo offered a novel twist, says R. Jeffery Lawrence, a physicist who recently retired from Sandia: «He initiated studies of how X-rays interact with the stuff that asteroids are made of.»

So you know, naturally occurring neutrinos, byproducts of nuclear plants, and then specifically created neutrinos to be able to study them, are all being chased and hunted down by these physicists to solve the mysteries associated with them.

And one of the founders of that company, who used to be a nuclear physicist working on weapons, and now makes cartoons, actually took his doctorate with Louis de Broglie, and if that name means something to you, then you'll know how knocked out of my socks I was when I heard that.

The numbers 20 and 28 are what nuclear physicists call «magic numbers,» and nuclei with this many protons or neutrons get an extra measure of stability.

An international team of physicists working at the Institute of Nuclear Physics at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) in Germany has measured the mass of a «strange» atomic nucleus with the aid of an innovative technique that is capable of significantly greater precision than that of previous methods.

But many nuclear physicists and engineers are not on board with nuclear airplanes, especially in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, attacks during which terrorists plowed jumbo jets into the World Trade Center and Pentagon.

The concept of an ADS is almost as old as nuclear power itself: American physicist Ernest O. Lawrence, the inventor of the cyclotron accelerator, suggested the use of particle beams in conjunction with a reactor during the 1950s.

Now, however, physicists with Daya Bay report data that support a much simpler explanation: Scientists are merely overestimating the number of neutrinos born from the various radioactive nuclei produced in the fission of one component of standard nuclear fuel.

Now, the 240 physicists working with the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment at the Daya Bay Nuclear Power Plant and two neighboring plants in Da Peng, China, have measured the last of the three mixing angles, known as θ13.

With the demise of the NSF this spring, high - energy nuclear physicists in Europe face an uncertain future.

Nuclear physicist Laurie Waters speaks on «Lace with Date: Come See the New Piece of Old Lace.»

Marvin Adams, a nuclear physicist at Texas A&M who has been a consultant to Los Alamos's work with warhead pits, said that «If they continue on their path to get everything back up and running, I am pretty comfortable.»

McMillan, a nuclear physicist and weapons designer with government - funded compensation exceeding a million dollars a year, responded that he had believed the problems could be solved while that lab kept operating.

Two of Collar's former graduate students are co-authors of the Science paper: Phillip Barbeau, AB» 01, SB» 01, PhD» 09, now an assistant professor of physics at Duke University; and Nicole Fields, PhD» 15, now a health physicist with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission in Chicago.

Thirty years ago, nuclear physicist Amory Lovins sparked national and international discussion and action regarding energy alternatives with Soft Energy Paths: Toward a Durable Peace.

«So, the question was whether lithium will have the same effect on tungsten walls as it does with carbon walls,» said PPPL physicist Rajesh Maingi, lead author with Jiansheng Hu of the Institute of Plasma Physics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (ASIPP) of a paper describing the results in the journal Nuclear Fusion.

Last year, a team of nuclear physicists in Hungary observed an anomaly in the decays of excited beryllium - 8 atoms — an unexpected preference for spitting out pairs of particles with a particular angle of separation.

The world's nuclear enrichment programs should be under international control to prevent the development of nuclear weapons after the new arms deal with Iran expires in 10 to 15 years, said Frank von Hippel, a senior Princeton University research physicist and a former security advisor during the Clinton Administration.

We teased out the details of decertification and what the Iran nuclear deal means in terms of a broader U.S. strategy with two physicists at Princeton's...

Last Time We Left 007...: Bond (Pierce Brosnan) was in bed with improbable nuclear physicist Christmas Jones (the awful Denise Richards) and uttered a particularly ribald one - liner, which, along with a killer opening and a deliciously villainous turn by Sophie Marceau, was one of the very few memorable aspects of 1999's otherwise messy and disappointing The World Is Not Enough.

Compared with public school teachers, airplane pilots earn 186 % more; physicians, 80 % more; lawyers, 49 % more; nuclear engineers, 17 % more; actuaries, 9 % more; and physicists, 3 % more.

She was raised in a household where she never lacked anything, with non-materialistic parents where the father earned a lot as a nuclear physicist.

He was recently one of the invited artists working in collaboration with particle and theoretical physicists at CERN European Organisation for Nuclear Research.

Being of broad interests he pursued the study of physics wanting to unite his devotion to art with the fascination of science that was ignited during his visits, from the early age of five, to the lab, where his aunt was assistant to the leading nuclear physicist in the country.

If we had a debate on the moon, with an astrophysicist, an astronomer, a nuclear physicist, and an astronaut, we might learn something about the moon even if none of them agreed on a thing.

Guys; today I had the good fortune to meet a real nuclear physicist now retired (fiber and laser optics) so I pumped him with a handful of questions frequently raised on skeptical blogs eg «backradiation» rather than downward radiation.

New tools often upend pre-existing hierarchies, because they empower folks (think archers versus knights at Agincourt, or nuclear physicists versus battleship commanders in World War II) who create and use the new tools at the expense of those who were on top with the previous generation of tools.

The global recognizability and value of Slovenian blockchain companies are steadily increasing; projects with clearly defined goals also inspire world - renowned experts such as Bitcoin pioneer, Charlie Shrem, Stanford University Professor and Development Manager at Pinterest, Jure Leskovec, and globally renowned nuclear physicist Dr. Mark Pleško.

Work Individually Worked in close cooperation with engineers and nuclear physicists.