Sentences with phrase «year physics lab»

I'm helping out in a 1st year physics lab at uni, where the students do an experiment called Melde's experiment.

«My real education came in a second year physics lab,» he recalls.

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After finishing a postdoc in Barabási's lab this year, González, a statistical physicist, got four job offers, only one of which came from a physics department.

After 3 years at Nottingham studying physics, I'd come to the conclusion that, though the general gist of my course amazed and fascinated me, the nitty gritty of the mathematics and the hours sitting in a lab twiddling dials were really not for me.

The eight - year - old accelerator has at least 10 years of research ahead of it, says Steven Vigdor, Brookhaven's associate lab director for nuclear and particle physics.

Our Career Doctor answers a final - year biochemistry undergraduate's query on how to find a lab abroad to work as a research assistant and tackles a physics Ph.D. student's concerns about the need to go abroad.

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.

«We now have an isolated, small planet that is showing activity after 4.5 billion years,» Stern told the crowd at the Applied Physics Lab.

The institution has long been regarded highly for its studies in physics, computer sciences and chemistry, though years of underfunding had left the university short of lab and classroom space.

The winners were much heralded following last year's discovery of the Higgs by physicists at the CERN particle physics lab near Geneva, Switzerland, using its Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

«This means if we look back to the universe when it was less than a quarter of its present age, we'd see that a pair of galaxies separated by a million light years would be drifting apart at a velocity of 68 kilometers a second as the universe expands,» says Font - Ribera, a postdoctoral fellow in Berkeley Lab's Physics Division.

After 14 years, CERN, the European particle physics lab near Geneva, is getting ready to switch on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), designed to seek out new particles including the long - awaited Higgs boson and the possible source of dark matter as well as study the differences between matter and antimatter.

«During Pier's 8 years as director, Fermilab has made remarkable contributions to the world's understanding of particle physics,» said Robert J. Zimmer, president of the University of Chicago and chair of the Fermi Research Alliance's board, which manages and operates the lab.

Kruskal, now 70, founded and chaired Princeton's applied mathematics program and worked in the Princeton plasma physics lab for years before moving to Rutgers.

Physicists at the European particle physics lab CERN on the French - Swiss border had hoped to begin circulating particles in Large Hadron Collider (LHC) this week, after 2 years of downtime to prepare the machine to run at higher energy.

«We have one group of beryllium - 10 measurements, which is 14,000 years old, and another group, which is 11,500 years old, and the difference in these ages is statistically significant,» said Marc Caffee, a professor of physics in Purdue's College of Science and director of PRIME Lab.

For the past 20 years, Zlotnick's lab has conducted research to stop viral infections by studying the physics of viruses, focusing on how capsids are formed.

As the first of several national laboratories that China intends to launch in the coming years — others will be devoted to brain research, physics, and environmental science — the Qingdao lab will also be a bellwether for efforts to persuade scientists to accept greater government scrutiny and direction in exchange for ample resources.

Later this month, scientists at the European particle physics lab, CERN, near Geneva, Switzerland, will reawaken their slumbering giant, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), after 2 years of repairs.

«Charlie was a cornerstone of the Space Sciences Laboratory for almost 50 years,» said Stuart Bale, director of the lab and a UC Berkeley professor of physics.

(Alcatel - Lucent, the current owner of Bell Labs, said earlier this year that it was cutting back basic science, material physics and semiconductor research.)

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He enjoyed learning to use an AFM in third year labs and has studied various imaging methods in his physics course, and is excited to take this knowledge further working with a team of experts in the field.

The same year, he started college at Harvard University with a scholarship, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in chemistry and physics, followed by a PhD in physiology from the University of Cambridge — and a productive career in the lab discovering and applying fluorescent dyes.

The idea for a spinoff medical technology company originated several years ago when Medlin and his adviser, Endre Takacs, were working in Clemson's Atomic and Medical Physics lab on an experiment with bioengineers to systematically study the effects of low - dose radiation on living cell cultures.

This year, her overall victory in the competition will secure for her school a Fabrication / Physics / Design / Innovation Lab.

Sheltzer was astonished when a friend at Princeton University told him she was the first female graduate student at her PI's physics lab in his 20 - plus years as an academic.

Each year local primary schools are invited to send teams of Year 5 pupils to take part in our Y5 Physics Challenge, hosted in our own Science lyear local primary schools are invited to send teams of Year 5 pupils to take part in our Y5 Physics Challenge, hosted in our own Science lYear 5 pupils to take part in our Y5 Physics Challenge, hosted in our own Science labs.

All second - year engineering students enroll in Physics II: Electromagnetic Phenomena, Introductory Physics Lab, and Physics III: Optics and Modern Physics.

Bell spent a year working as a lab technician at Queens University Belfast before beginning his physics degree there.

I also have a more than passing interest in physics and many years ago spent a couple of years as a research assistant in a solid state lab automating experiments.

My qualifications are that I have a BA (Physics) from Cavendish Labs Cambridge, which I earned nearly 70 years ago, plus a lifetime spent in scientific research.

And let's look at what Clive Best [Bsc in Physics, PhD in High Energy Physics, research fellow at CERN for 3 years, Rutherford Lab for 2 years, JET Nuclear Fusion experiment for 5 years, and The joint Research Centre in Italy] has to say: