Sentences with phrase «of leading physicists»

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

«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.

«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).

Apart from him, the work of the Center for Process Studies with leading biologists and physicists would have been very difficult to initiate.

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.

This has led some eminent physicists to say that quantum theory is inconsistent with a materialistic view of the human mind.

Whitehead, like many quantum physicists, draws a distinction between those quantum events that lead to successors constituting particles, and those quantum events that are independent of particles, those of empty space.

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.

I do not envision that such changes would lead to talk of God among physicists or biologists or psychologists.

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).

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.

[40] Leading nuclear physicists at the Federal Institute of Technology Zürich such as Paul Scherrer made this a realistic possibility.

«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).

«There's been no other report like this for space weather,» says lead study author Daniel Baker, a space physicist at the University of Colorado at Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP).

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.

Some of the world's greatest physicists couldn't tell you why our leading theory of everything is labelled «M».

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.

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.

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.

Federico Capasso, a physicist at Harvard, leads a small team that is trying to create a repulsive Casimir force by tinkering with the shapes of plates or with the coatings used to cover them.

As an upgraded LHC begins collecting data from high - speed proton collisions on June 3 after a two - plus - year hiatus, physicists are anxiously wondering whether the machine's second act will lead to discoveries of new particles and forces that add pages to the catalog.

Titanium is the leading material for artificial knee and hip joints because it's strong, wear - resistant and nontoxic, but an unexpected discovery by Rice University physicists shows that the gold standard for artificial joints can be improved with the addition of some actual gold.

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.

However, he was an unlikely choice as leader of the team assembled to build the first nuclear weapons since he was not an experimental physicist, nor had he led any kind of project before.

Now, an international collaboration of physicists led by Dr. Eleftherios Goulielmakis, head of the research group «Attoelectronics» at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, researchers from Texas A&M University, USA, and the Lomonosov Moscow State University, have been able to track the effect of this delay for the first time.

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 new atom counter, named Atom Trap Trace Analysis, or ATTA, was developed by a team of nuclear physicists led by Zheng - Tian Lu at Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago.

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.

Peter Gehring, a physicist for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), researches «smart» materials such as lead - oxide ferroelectric relaxors and highly magnetostrictive compounds.

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.»

Co-author and collaborator Chuanwei Zhang, a former WSU physicist now at the University of Texas at Dallas, led the theoretical aspects of the work.

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.