Sentences with phrase «position as a physicist»

If you are simply giving your opinion, please do so without inferring that your position as a physicist somehow gives you insight into the matter that the rest of us do not have.

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However, those of us concerned to find such relationships between distinct fields should heed the cautious word of Cambridge physicist Sir Brian Pippard when he says that each field thrives by virtue of its own methods and not by aping those of others: «The fabric of knowledge has not been woven as a seamless robe but pieced together like a patchwork quilt, and we are still in the position of being able to appreciate the design in individual pieces much more clearly than the way they are put together» (Pippard, 95 - 96).

The world's largest organization of physicists clarified its position on climate change last week, and it no longer believes, as it did in 2007, that the evidence for global warming is «incontrovertible.»

To make their measurements as sensitive as possible, LIGO physicists have to ensure that the positions of the peaks and troughs in each light wave — its so - called phase — remain steady and stable.

University of Washington physicists Leslie Rosenberg (right) and Gray Rybka examine the experiment package as it is positioned above the bore of a large superconducting magnet, two primary components of the detector being used in the Axion Dark Matter Experiment.

«They should follow their own basic interests, whether in biochemistry, microbiology, or training as a physicist, but really think about getting extra training through a degree - granting program in clinical and translational research because this is going to position them to be more forward thinking,» says NCRR's Alving.

You'll recall that he's the Princeton nonclimatologist physicist who's one of the leaders of American Physical Society opponents of APS's position on climate change, and that he served as director of energy research at the Department of Energy from 1990 to 1993.

I retired from my position as a Research Physicist at the U.S. Water Conservation Laboratory in late 2001 and have not written any new reports of new original research.

Having trained as a physicist, my suspicions about the AGW position were raised when I read of the fielding of the term «concensus» as if it somehow clinched the argument.