Sentences with phrase «nuclear physicists working»
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.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/ Not exact matches
Meitner's work in elucidating the process of nuclear fission in 1938 is well accepted by her fellow physicists — but Otto Hahn, who won the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry «for his discovery of the fission of heavy nuclei,» barely acknowledged her contribution.
«The good news is the «get inside, stay inside, stay tuned» phrase works for both for the threat of a potential nuclear detonation as well as a nuclear detonation that has occurred,» Brooke Buddemeier, a health physicist and expert on radiation and emergency preparedness at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, told Business Insider.
The article was about an Albert Einstein letter; it would be just as valuable if it contained his thoughts on other physicist's work on quantum physics, or his view on nuclear weapons, etc..
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.
The work of the Orthodox Jewish nuclear physicist Gerald Schroeder had been influential in Flew's new belief, but Flew told Carrier that he had not read any of the critiques of Schroeder that Carrier referred him to.
Famous for: Physicist and Nobel Prize laureate who worked on the Manhattan Project and other nuclear research.
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.
Louis Lanzerotti, a physicist at New Jersey Institute of Technology who spent many years at Bell Labs and worked on space missions such as Voyager, Ulysses and Galileo, was a graduate student in nuclear physics at Harvard University when Telstar 1 went into orbit.
When Albert Einstein died in 1955, he had spent decades on a lonely, quixotic quest: to derive a theory of everything that would unify gravity and electromagnetism — even though physicists discovered new nuclear forces as he worked.
In the field of nuclear medicine, particle physicists and medical doctors are working together to create better ways to produce and observe these particles inside the body.
«Almost immediately it occurred to many people around the world that this could be used to make power and that it could be used for nuclear explosives,» another immigrant who worked on the Manhattan Project, the German physicist Hans Bethe, told me during an interview in 1997.
He works at the National Laboratories at Gran Sasso, though he's been variously identified as a seismologist, physicist, and technician at Italy's National Institute of Nuclear Physics, not Gran Sasso's National Institute of Nuclear Physics.
Sigurd Hofmann, a nuclear physicist at the GSI research center in Darmstadt, Germany, calls the new work on element 117 «convincing.»
Ironically, this year's winners of the Einstein Peace Prize are both physicists who worked on the Manhattan Project to build a nuclear bomb in the Second World War.
Much of what people do here is really very dirty work like getting down on your knees, pulling cables,... working long hours, just sitting around waiting for the beam to come back on,» says Michael Doser, a physicist at the European Organization for Nuclear Research near Geneva, Switzerland, who helps run a Summer Student Programme there.
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.
In Alfred Hitchcock's 1966 thriller Torn Curtain, Paul Newman plays physicist Michael Armstrong, who is working on Gamma 5, an antimissile project that «will produce a defensive weapon that will make all nuclear weapons obsolete and abolish the terror of anuclear war.»
The new theoretical work of Brookhaven physicist Swagato Mukherjee, Venugopalan, and former postdoc Yi Yin (now at MIT)-- part of a newly funded Beam Energy Scan Theory (BEST) Topical Collaboration in Nuclear Theory — will provide a roadmap to guide the experimental researchers.
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.
Now, physicists working at a nuclear power plant in China have made the last measurement needed to describe those «neutrino oscillations.»
The Not New Thing Physicist Sidney Drell and former secretaries of state Henry Kissinger and George P. Shultz have all endorsed a «world free of nuclear weapons» and urged governments to work «energetically on the actions required to achieve that goal» [see «A Need for New Warheads?»
As a result, many European nuclear physicists will have no machine to work on when the Nuclear Structure Facility (NSF) at the Daresbury Laboratory in Cheshire closes this nuclear physicists will have no machine to work on when the Nuclear Structure Facility (NSF) at the Daresbury Laboratory in Cheshire closes this Nuclear Structure Facility (NSF) at the Daresbury Laboratory in Cheshire closes this spring.
Despite the problems, nuclear and particle physicists continue to express broad support for the neutron EDM studies, which they say are a unique complement to the LHC work.
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.»
The physicists who invented the nuclear bomb worked out of Los Alamos in New Mexico, but the people who did the dirty work of making the bombs were in Hanford, Washington.
The majority of CAMP members are involved in clinical radiotherapy, than in nuclear medicine, and there is also a constantly growing (but still minor) family of medical physicists working in diagnostic and interventional radiology.
In a study published March 26 in Physical Review Letters, nuclear physicists from the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and other institutions working on the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR experiment have shown that they can shield a sensitive, scalable, 44 - kilogram germanium detector array from background radioactivity.
His father, Alfredo Cuarón, was a nuclear physicist who, according to Wikipedia, «worked for the United Nations» International Atomic Energy Agency.»
The narrators are a member of a doomsday cult who releases poison gas in a subway in Tokyo, and details his retreat to Okinawa and a small nearby island, Kume - jima; a jazz aficionado who works as a sales clerk in a Tokyo music store; a lawyer in a financial institution in Hong Kong who has been moving large sums of money from a certain account; a woman who owns a Tea Shack on China's Holy Mountain and speaks to a tree; a non-corporeal sentient entity which is searching for who or what it is; a gallery attendant in Petersburg who is involved in an art theft scam; a ghostwriter / drummer living in London who saves a woman from being run over by a taxi; an Irish nuclear physicist who quits her job when she finds her research is being used for military purposes; and a late night radio talkback DJ who finds himself fielding calls from an intriguing caller referring to himself as the zookeeper.
In 1956, female nuclear physicist Chien - Shiung Wu worked alongside two male colleagues to disprove a commonly accepted physics principle.
He was recently one of the invited artists working in collaboration with particle and theoretical physicists at CERN European Organisation for Nuclear Research.
The Tata Institute of Fundamental Research showed great interest in his work, and its founding director — the esteemed nuclear physicist Dr. Homi Bhabha — bought his very first painting.
While nuclear technicians typically work under the supervision of physicists and engineers, these workers still take on a lot of responsibility.
The early years of Cover's life are impressive; he was a nuclear physicist and worked in the fields of defense and aerospace, even helping his agency become one of the major contributors to NASA's Apollo space program.
Work Individually Worked in close cooperation with engineers and nuclear physicists.