Sentences with phrase «years as a physicist»

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Professionals with MBAs and corporate experience are attempting to strike out on their own as never before: Michael Lutz, for example, is a physicist and Stanford MBA who worked at Hughes Aircraft and Raychem for 15 years before he joined up with a Silicon Valley guru to launch a new venture.

All the better that I felt similarly about another task which I was given (again without asking), in the same year (1925 - 26) to help A. N. Whitehead grade papers, hence listen to him lecture, and read what he wrote as a philosopher, rather than just a logician, mathematician, and physicist.

This result went against all his instincts as a physicist, and he tried for years to get round it, but without success.

If physicists assume the constancy of the laws of nature since the big bang, then these laws, if we get them right, will have been true for as long as physics seems to feel a need to talk about, say 15 billion years, and will remain true (by hypothesis) for as long as physics wants to talk about them.

The Way the World Is by John Polkinghorne, Westminster John Knox Press (distributed by Alban Books), 130pp, # 9.99 Leaving behind twenty - five years as a theoretical physicist and Cambridge professor of mathematical physics for Christian ministry was bound to raise a few eyebrows.

Physicists had only recently completed a 5 - year, $ 205 million upgrade of the machines, and several systems — including the injection system — were still offline as the team wound up a preliminary «engineering run.»

Physicists working with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory (LIGO), which has twin instruments in Livingston, Louisiana, and Hanford, Washington, spotted a burst of gravitational waves from black holes 29 and 36 times as massive as the sun that spiraled into each other 1.3 billion light - years away.

Though nanotubes were first discovered in 1991, and were hailed almost immediately as a technology of the future for sensing devices, it is only in the last couple years that physicists such as Hongjie Dai, of Stanford University, have achieved enough control over the tubes» assembly to make them behave reliably.

British physicist Tony Skyrme, who lends his name to the knots, suggested about 60 years ago that particles such as neutrons and protons could be thought of as a kind of knot.

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.

While physicists may not have stumbled upon the ultimate theory of everything 30 - some years ago, he sees string theory as «a starting point» from which such a theory might still emerge.

The garish pink capitals in which the lecturer chalked those words up on the blackboard remain etched in my mind, an indelible memory from my first year as an undergraduate physicist.

Now, as physicists edge closer to a «theory of everything», they are catching glimpses of what might have been more than 14 billion years ago.

Clauser would later write with great passion that in those years, physicists who showed any interest in the foundations of quantum mechanics labored under a «stigma,» as powerful and keenly felt as any wars of religion or McCarthy - like political purges.

«You have to go back 99 years to find another minimum as long,» says Mausumi Dikpati, a physicist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado.

Of respondents to the Snowmass Young Physicists survey, 60 % said they planned to pursue an academic job, says Jonathan Asaadi, 32, a postdoc at Syracuse University in New York and a Snowmass YPM co-convener — even though just as many expect funding for particle physics to continue to decline in coming years.

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.

Certification as a medical physicist requires at least a master's degree from a specialized 2 - year graduate program covering physics, biology, and medicine; several dozen such programs have been accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Medical Physics Education Programs (CAMPEP).

Trained as a physicist, he spent several years studying fiber optics.

The move would radically transform the 289 - year - old RAS less than a month after it elected a reform - minded physicist, Vladimir Fortov, as president.

The case seemed stronger still last year when Kevork Abazajian at the University of California, Irvine, and colleagues found signs that the remnants of annihilated dark matter particles were scattering off dust in the Milky Way, just as physicists predicted they should.

Later that year, Sean played in an informal poker tournament in Chicago (organized as a fund - raiser for presidential candidate John Kerry) and found that there were three other physicists among the participants.

Robert Dynes, a physicist who previously served as chancellor of UC San Diego (UCSD) and took over as president 4 years ago, gave notice to California's Board of Regents on Monday that he would leave by June 2008.

Physicists have calculated that the centre of the Earth is two - and - a-half years younger than its surface, thanks to the effects of gravity as described by general relativity.

As for our chances of making anything more complex, Frank Close, a particle physicist at the University of Oxford, is pessimistic, saying it will take a billion years, give or take.

Ever since physicists invented particle accelerators, nearly 80 years ago, they have used them for such exotic tasks as splitting atoms, transmuting elements, producing antimatter and creating particles not previously observed in nature.

21 SOLAR SHUTDOWN Back in the 1970s, when it seemed that the sun was not emitting the expected number of particles known as neutrinos, some solar physicists proposed that our star might go through million - year stretches of reduced activity, during which time its brightness could drop by perhaps 40 percent.

In recent years, particle physicists have made strenuous efforts to distance themselves from the Higgs boson's embarrassing «God particle» soubriquet, even as the public has embraced it.

More than 130 years ago, British physicist and engineer Osborne Reynolds described fluid flowing at low speeds as «laminar,» meaning it flows smoothly in a single direction, and fluid flowing at high speeds as «turbulent,» meaning it experiences chaotic changes in pressure and energy.

Last year, along with researchers led by Brookhaven / Columbia University School of Engineering physicist Simon Billinge, the team established the first firm link between the disappearance of the density wave within the pseudogap phase and the emergence, as stated by Davis, of «universally free - flowing electrons needed for unrestricted superconductivity» [see: https://www.bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=11637].

His voice trembles as 79 - year - old retired Russian physicist Viktor Zhuravlyov tells me this rather unorthodox theory of what happened that day at Tunguska.

On 11 February, physicists working with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory (LIGO)-- twin instruments in Hanford, Washington, and Livingston, Louisiana — announced that they had seen just what Einstein predicted: a burst of waves created as two black holes spiraled into each other 1.3 billion light - years away.

And in the following years, while at the University of Paris Dauphine, he acted as the hub of a network of mathematicians, engineers, physicists and computer scientists who seemed to make new discoveries every week, Morel recalls.

These physicists say that if neutrinos were really as fast as the Gran Sasso data indicate, the neutrinos from the supernova, 168,000 light - years away, should have arrived on Earth some years before the photons from the supernova.

James Gates, a physicist at the University of Maryland, College Park, and the report's other co-chair, says that it's just as important to help students at 2 - year colleges and those seeking technical training as it is to address the challenges at a large research university like his.

It was written 70 years before a team of physicists produced the first empirical evidence of this phenomenon, known as the Bose - Einstein condensate, and earned the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics for providing proof of Einstein's remarkable prescience.

In recent years, as start - up of the LHC was repeatedly delayed, they steadily improved the Tevatron's efficiency, hurriedly searching for the Higgs in an effort to beat LHC physicists to the prize.

Last week famed physicist Stephen Hawking caused an uproar with his assertion that black holes do not exist — at least not as we've defined them for the past 40 years.

The particle's existence was first predicted 50 years ago by several physicists working independently, including Peter Higgs at the University of Edinburgh, as a solution to what had been one of the most vexing mysteries in physics: How do particles acquire mass?

Built of wire and sealing wax in 1930 by a 29 - year - old physicist named Ernest Lawrence, the cyclotron, as it came to be called, had an accelerating chamber measuring just 4 inches across — about the size of a saucer.

«Microbiologists have rarely taken into account fluid flow as an ecological parameter, whereas physicists have just recently started to pay attention to microbes,» he says, adding: «The ability to directly watch microbes under the controlled flow conditions afforded by microfluidic technology — which is only about 15 years old — has made all the difference in allowing us to discover and understand this effect of flow on microbes.»

So it comes as a shock to learn that physicists have been dealing with antimatter for more than 60 years.

Holt, who has experience in both the scientific and political realm as a Ph.D. physicist and former House member who represented New Jersey's 12th Congressional District for 16 years, advises scientists to take a stand.

Archaeologists have assumed it developed gradually from the pastoral communities that preceded it, but physicist Mike Dee from the University of Oxford and his colleagues now suggest that the transition could have taken as little as 600 years.

Modified jets spewing sulfuric acid could haze the skies over the Arctic in a few years «for the price of a Hollywood blockbuster,» as physicist David Keith of Harvard University likes to say.

So for years, physicists have chased an elusive dream: replacing the physical kilogram with a standard inherent in properties of nature such as the speed of light, the wavelength of photons and the Planck constant (also called h - bar), which links the energy a wave carries with its frequency of oscillation.

In about 100 billion years, as future humans are enjoying an extended stay near Proxima Centauri, some physicists like Starkman believe that dark energy will drastically stretch out the vast amounts of empty space between the Milky Way and other galaxies, creating an impassable gulf between them.

The Universe is 20 billion years old, roughly twice as old as commonly estimated, say a group of American physicists.

«If there is a Higgs boson whose mass is less than that of the Z particle, physicists will discover it over the next two years at the large accelerator in Geneva known as LEP (the Large Electron Positron collider).

«He built up his expertise very systematically as he attacked different pieces of the puzzle,» says physicist Thomas Baumgarte of Bowdoin College, who has known Janka for about 20 years.