Sentences with phrase «of nuclear physicists»

Designed and developed by a team of nuclear physicists led by senior scientist Howard Wieman at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, now retired, the HFT is the first silicon detector at a collider that uses a technology found in digital cameras called monolithic active pixel sensor technology.

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.

It's time to set yet another place at the periodic table: In 2013, an international team of nuclear physicists and chemists found new and confirming evidence that establishes another new chemical element — one of the growing family of superheavy substances.

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.

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.»

Element 118 has been named oganesson in honour of nuclear physicist Yuri Oganessian.

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 «cosmic ray test» was developed by Silas Beane, a nuclear physicist at the University of Washington, and involves scientists building up a simulation of space using a lattice or grid.

If flown on a standard trajectory, instead of Wednesday's lofted angle, the missile would have a range of more than 13,000 kilometers (8,100 miles), said U.S. scientist David Wright, a physicist who closely tracks North Korea's missile and nuclear programs.

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.

Anti-falling physicists have been theorizing for decades about the «electromagnetic force,» the «weak nuclear force,» the «strong nuclear force,» and so - called «force of gravity and they tilt their findings toward trying to unite them into one force.

There are nuclear physicists who believe it, and they would make hash out of all of you BTW.

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.

We want the baseball equivalent of Dr. Christmas Jones, the brilliant nuclear physicist who also happens to be one of the most beautiful women in the world.

Well, to the nuclear physicists who keep sprouting that one: please direct me to another team or bunch of players who DO like it — how dumb can anyone be?

And this was mostly a coincidence: a nuclear physicist happened to be watching a newscast, and recognized the data that was mentioned as being a signature of Polonium - 210.

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

Famous for: Physicist who received Nobel Prize for suggesting the nuclear shell model of the atomic nucleus.

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.

The radii and structure of neutron stars are of particular interest not only to astrophysicists, but also to nuclear and particle physicists because the inner structure of these stars reflects the properties of high - density nuclear mat - ter found in every atomic nucleus.

James Clerk Maxwell combined electricity, magnetism and light into a single theory of electromagnetism; a century later physicists added the weak nuclear force to form a unified «electroweak» theory.

Besides being the first African - American woman to earn a doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Shirley Ann Jackson headed the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission during the Clinton administration and was a physicist at Bell Laboratories and other notable research institutions.

Robert Bussard, a nuclear physicist who has spent most of his career investigating fusion for both the government and private companies, applauds Olson's ambition.

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.

«I think that this is primarily a way to bridge over the Ayatollah's requirement that no Iranian nuclear facility be shut down and the US requirement that enrichment of uranium stop there,» says Frank von Hippel, a nuclear - weapons and non-proliferation physicist at Princeton University in New Jersey.

From these scanty glimpses nuclear physicists are attempting to identify the particles and the forces at play in the dark, violent world of the nucleus of the atom.

About 75 % of recent RAMS participants from Fisk University, an HBCU in Nashville, Tennessee, went on to graduate school in computational sciences and engineering related fields, according to Stephen Egarievwe, a computer scientist and nuclear physicist who serves as the main RAMS connection at Fisk.

In a separate case, Shahram Amiri, another Iranian physicist allegedly related to the Iranian nuclear programme and accused of espionage, was executed earlier this month in Iran.

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.

Although there are no naturally occurring antimatter atoms, in 1995 physicists at the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva cobbled together a few atoms of antihydrogen by linking a positron to an antiproton and have since made tens of thousands more.

Whatever Martin and Stan had found and made public was not a cold version of «hot fusion», the kind familiar to nuclear physicists.

Many of the scientists who signed the letter are well - regarded physicists and have advised federal policy - makers on nuclear weapons issues at various points in their careers.

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.

«Little did I know that the first time I went fossil hunting I would stumble on a new species,» explains Shipp, a retired nuclear physicist who became a fossil enthusiast after moving to his dinosaur rich area of Montana.

A collaboration of 174 physicists fired bursts of neutrinos from the headquarters of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, in Geneva, Switzerland, to a detector in Gran Sasso, Italy.

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

Nuclear physicist Evangeline Downie hadn't planned to study one of the thorniest puzzles of the proton.

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.

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

Its recommendations include «mount [ing] a massive experiment to search for a hypothesized type of nuclear decay that is possible only if an elusive, nearly massless particle called the neutrino is — weirdly — its own antiparticle,» «building a new collider,» and «fully exploit [ing] the three major facilities U.S. nuclear physicists already have.»

Nuclear physicists have long thought that those elements are generated in r - process, but haven't known where in the cosmos that happens — whether in the collapse of single stars or in merging neutron stars.

LLNL nuclear weapon physicist Gregg Spriggs is leading a team of film experts, code developers and interns on a mission to hunt down, scan and reanalyze what they estimate to be 10,000 films of the 210 atmospheric tests conducted by the U.S. between 1945 and 1962.

In one instance, journalists used the images to document the construction of the Soviet Krasnoyarsk radar, an alleged violation of the antiballistic missile treaty, explains nuclear physicist Peter D. Zimmerman, former science adviser for arms control in the U.S. State Department.

Archival mid-century footage could help physicists certify the safety and effectiveness of modern U.S. nuclear weapons

Kharzeev had explored similar behavior of subatomic particles in the magnetic fields created in collisions at the Lab's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC, https://www.bnl.gov/rhic/), a DOE Office of Science User Facility where nuclear physicists explore the fundamental building blocks of matter.

«This research illustrates a deep connection between two seemingly unrelated fields, and required contributions from an interdisciplinary team of condensed matter and nuclear physicists,» said James Misewich, the Associate Laboratory Director for Energy Science at Brookhaven Lab and a professor of physics at Stony Brook University, who played the central role of introducing the members of this research team to one another.

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.

Nuclear physicists have extended the solid state physics results to the limit of a single Cooper pair and studied Cooper pair tunneling to individual quantum states — something which is not possible in solid state physics.