Group theory is one of a number of branches of mathematics that have proven useful to chemists and physicists in their work. |
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For this reason physicists sought the quantum theory of electromagnetism or quantum electrodynamics. |
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However there were concepts in the new quantum theory which gave major worries to many leading physicists. |
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Most of these physicists, after all, were not exactly quarterbacking the football team in high school. |
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To study subatomic particles, physicists build giant accelerators that smash the particles together. |
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Not only do condensed matter physicists use accelerators, but particle physicists use superconductors and solid-state detectors. |
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There are two types of quasiparticles, Bose and Fermi, and physicists around the globe are exploring the properties of each type. |
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It was 20 years ago this month that particle physicists caught their first glimpse of the W boson. |
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Cosmologists and particle physicists have therefore joined forces in the study of the early history of the Universe. |
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There is a mystery about the Aeolian Harp that still has physicists arguing. |
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Nineteenth-century physicists postulated the existence of an elastic solid, the aether, to account for the propagation of light. |
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A moving particle will carry with it the energy of its motion, which the physicists call kinetic energy. |
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Quantum mechanics has not been reconciled with general relativity, but physicists don't say the universe contains contradictions. |
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The core of any marketing strategy for new physicists is to bring alumnae and alumni into direct contact with students and faculty. |
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And physicists enjoy careers in engineering, chemistry, life sciences, and Earth sciences. |
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However, it only took a few widely reported examples of misconduct in the life sciences for physicists to think that it was not their problem. |
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Of what possible use in this fight are all those people trained as rocket scientists and particle physicists and such? |
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And the Berkeley name for element 104, rutherfordium, was surely an honour due to one of the century's greatest nuclear physicists. |
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When the atom's potential was realized, physicists and nuclear engineers became a kind of protected species. |
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However, physicists soon built devices called particle accelerators, or atom smashers. |
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Once upon a time, it was chiefly the tool of physicists who used beams of charged particles to explore the things that make atoms. |
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He was particularly famous for his optical instruments, such as the lenses used in telescopes, that were highly valued among European physicists. |
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Must we geneticists become bacteriologists, physiological chemists and physicists, simultaneously with being zoologists and botanists? |
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Oskar Klein died in Stockholm, one of the finest theoretical physicists of the twentieth century. |
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Will there be no work left for theoretical physicists to do in the twenty-first century? |
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The PR guy said she was tipped as one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists of her generation. |
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Most physicists probably learned about the laws of thermodynamics at high school, but few of us will have been told the whole story. |
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Plasma physicists recently reported key advances towards sustained thermonuclear fusion in the laboratory. |
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However, the commonplace judgement of physicists is that microphysical processes are causal and temporally asymmetric in character. |
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Thus we are pursuing a variety of projects in computational biology and bioinformatics, with physicists often playing a starring role. |
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After all, electrostatic units were devised by the early physicists presumably because they were convenient for the results they obtained. |
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Do you honestly think physicists study waves and simple harmonic motion and two body problems because we care about the universe? |
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This multiplication of entities is certainly seen by many physicists to be an unattractive feature of the theory. |
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Mechanics is mathematicians trying to be physicists, but not quite managing it and just muddling me. |
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If that situation is to change, physicists must have an unflagging commitment to education. |
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Does the same evolutionary predilection lead physicists and mathematicians to see beauty in the unobserved, or unobservable? |
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With a super-duper particle smasher, physicists might be able to simulate the earliest moments of the cosmos. |
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They weren't physicists and chemists in those days, they were natural philosophers, and natural philosophy included mathematics. |
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Attempts to unify all four forces of nature have eluded physicists from Einstein to the current day. |
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For 70 years, physicists have puzzled over sonoluminescence, a process where sound waves create thousands of hot, luminous bubbles in water. |
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Over the years this conundrum has niggled and niggled, and some pretty heavyweight theoretical physicists tried to prove Stephen wrong. |
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This was important to physicists because all the basic building blocks of matter are fermions. |
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During our stay guests included nuclear physicists attending a conference and a sports college staff reunion. |
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It will argue that the network of nuclear physicists which operated inside Iraq prior to the 1990 Gulf war is still in place. |
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The failure to blow up suggests that physicists are missing something essential about neutrinos and nuclear physics, says Janka. |
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It functions as what physicists call a calorimeter, measuring the total energy of the deposited gamma rays. |
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Since then, the question of whether or not the particle exists has obsessed physicists across the world. |
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And that was just hard cheese for particle physicists, and for many years the best people worked on quantum gravity to no avail. |
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All the same, these conditions have long proved impossible to sustain in physicists attempts to harness nuclear fusion for energy generation. |
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This is probably not a serious problem for banana salesmen, but could impact subatomic physicists, for example. |
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Light and chalkboards are perhaps the two most important things for physicists. |
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They are simplified versions of the very difficult problems that physicists encounter. |
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Only in recent years, with the advent of ultrashort-pulsed lasers, have physicists and chemists observed chemical reactions as they unfold. |
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Why certain ceramic compounds become superconductors at relatively high temperatures still baffles the world's physicists. |
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More than half a century later, perceptibility remains an issue with physicists. |
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There are also people who call themselves physicists and engineers who promote perpetual motion machines. |
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Few physicists say they are looking for ways to falsify superstring theory. |
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Life scientists have more money, less oversight, and much more tolerance for imprecision than physicists. |
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Biologists used to believe in the inheritance of acquired characteristics, chemists in phlogiston, physicists in absolute time. |
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Until now, physicists have only been able to entangle photons, electrons and atoms, using different methods in each case. |
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Feynman's work is filled with the sort of raw physical insight that physicists love and admire. |
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However, the fascination of physicists with the natural world shows no sign of ending. |
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The idea of counting as physicists all students who obtain any degree in physics is a bit of a stretch. |
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Little wonder that these machines are proving to be so popular with physicists. |
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Even physicists concede that quantum physics is mostly irrelevant to large scale phenomena. |
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Maybe the end is in sight for theoretical physicists, if not for theoretical physics. |
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Now physicists have spotted the equivalent result in photons flying near an atom. |
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In fact, mathematicians and physicists were among the last to latch on to the importance of symmetry. |
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In doing so, he educated several generations of physicists in statistical mechanics in a style rare in this century. |
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For years physicists have wondered how a crumpled sheet can be so extraordinarily rigid. |
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Unfortunately, a quick straw poll revealed two engineering students, two physicists and a maths graduate. |
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This is another reason why physicists have become so impressed by string theory. |
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Materials that conduct electricity without resistance continue to surprise physicists. |
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That often frustrating and occasionally rewarding process taught us the many possible roles for physicists in fighting terrorism. |
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But it is being increasingly discussed by other eminent physicists and cosmologists. |
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After fascinating physicists for over a decade, fluorescent semiconductor nanocrystals are finally fulfilling their promise in the biology lab. |
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The method was developed as a wide cross-disciplinary collaboration between chemists, physicists and biologists. |
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Now, physicists in England have demonstrated a topsy-turvy Doppler shift in which a radio wave's frequency rises as the source recedes. |
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An environment without people is even more abstract and meaningless than the ideal frictionless surface beloved of physicists. |
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It is most likely that particle physicists will find dark matter, if indeed it exists in particle form. |
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Those distortions guide the moving masses along straight-line geodesics, which look like the curved trajectories that physicists call orbits. |
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Indeed, many physicists did not even believe that geology and biology were sciences at all. |
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The questions won't change and the physicists will never discover the God particle. |
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Theoretical physicists say that the derivate, or the beta function, is positive. |
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Eighteen nuclear physicists, electrochemists and materials scientists reviewed research submitted by Hagelstein and his colleagues. |
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Until the 1940's, similar problems appeared when physicists attempted to reconcile electromagnetism and quantum mechanics. |
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Other physicists have explored the electronic properties of DNA and its use as a scaffold for solid-state dye lasers. |
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Many physicists assumed that a more exotic underlying mechanism was responsible for superconductivity in magnesium diboride. |
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I can tell you of Ph.D. physicists who believe that they can dowse, and who endorse dowsing rods and free-energy machines. |
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The fact is, many physicists can be overbearingly macho about their field. |
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In other words, these are not your run-of-the-mill, mid-level nuclear physicists. |
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As early as the 1930s, a number of physicists had considered the possibility that nuclear fusion reactions might be the mechanism by which energy is generated in the stars. |
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Now nuclear physicists in Japan, Russia and the US have discovered a particle that contains two up quarks, two down quarks and a strange antiquark. |
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Now physicists in Vienna and Germany have managed to do just that, allowing the carrier-envelope phase of a high-power ultrashort pulsed laser to be altered at will. |
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Tritium was discovered by physicists Ernest Rutherford, M.L. Oliphant, and Paul Harteck, in 1934, when they bombarded deuterium with high-energy deuterons. |
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The current great excitement amongst theoretical physicists for superstrings has arisen because this idea provides the first good candidate for a Theory of Everything. |
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I'm sure physicists don't want us muscling in on their territory. |
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The mathematical beauty and experimental success of this idea have led physicists to extend it to higher energies and possible higher symmetries, as will be described below. |
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Particle physicists measure energy in units of electron volts. |
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It must nevertheless be recorded that a minority of physicists have found themselves unable to accept this view of Quantum Mechanics, so strongly advocated by Bohr. |
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The physicists had X-rayed the box, looked for magnets, weighed the box to within one micron and analysed the chemical composition of the matches. |
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Many of the theoretical physicists who are alive today may not live to see how the real Nature compares with her mathematical description in their work. |
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Some physicists like to use angstroms for wavelengths, while others use the strict metric system, so you will also find wavelengths given in nanometers. |
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In experiments over the past 2 years, physicists have been slowing laser light to a crawl, sometimes even stopping it cold within certain frigid gasses and solids. |
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This sort of stuff must be great fun for rocket scientists, cosmic physicists and nerds in white coats, but it's likely to leave the average reader bewildered. |
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How do these misconceptions about particle physics come about, and what can particle physicists do about them? |
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Yet physicists hope to learn something about memory by studying simplified computer models called neural networks, which have some properties in common with real brains. |
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Now physicists at Northwestern University show that, using the fact that electrons carry heat as well as charge, the conduction of heat may be similarly tuned. |
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The reason physicists haven't yet observed sparticles might be because they are so much heavier than their normal sister particles, so they decay far too quickly. |
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Rather it is the social milieu of the physicists of the Weimar period with its Spenglerian hostility to science and causality that is the cause of their beliefs. |
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Since the days of Rutherford, physicists and chemists have theorized that atoms of matter contain even smaller particles than electrons, protons, and neutrons. |
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Some philosophers and philosophically-minded physicists may have been misled on this score by their allegiance to an excessively positivistic epistemology of science. |
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Particle physicists have suggested that other types of particle than baryonic ones might have been produced in the seething cauldron of the early Universe. |
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Similar fun is had in other fields of science, as for instance by physicists who have named a class of elementary particles quarks, of which charm is one of the flavors. |
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There must surely be ways of, for example, employing undergraduates during vacations to enthuse these would-be physicists in labs that would otherwise be lying empty. |
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This was a conference bringing together mostly physicists involved with making very precise measurements of quantities like mass, time, frequency, resistance, capacitance etc. |
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This is a weird multi-threaded story in which physicists at the Vatican conduct experiments that may have turned a Trappist monk into the reincarnation of God. |
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The travelling salesman problem is of fundamental interest to mathematicians and physicists, and has a number of practical applications, such as computer design. |
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This study involves biologists, economists, physicists, ecologists, sociologists, and other ists, all concerned with what happens when autonomous agents interact. |
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In quantum mechanics the idea of entanglement gave physicists insight into the interconnected nature of microphysical reality. |
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Although the Raman effect is well known to physicists it has not been involved in laser action. |
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Other notable Irish physicists include Ernest Walton, winner of the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics. |
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Most health physicists have at least a master's degree, but not all jobs in professional health physics require one. |
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This reference is for materials scientists, spectroscopists, chemists, physicists, and medicinal chemists. |
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He says pentaquarks will help physicists better understand the strong nuclear force. |
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It needs physicists, structural dynamists, engineers, communications experts and other allied support. |
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With the Higgs field, physicists completed the standard model, which accurately describes the behaviors of all known particles and forces. |
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In the May Health Physics, the physicists describe exposing compact disks made from polycarbonate plastic to known quantities of radon. |
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About 100 specialists, including chemists, physicists, biotechnologists and biologists will be hired in the expansion. |
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He interviews physicists, geologists, firefighters and instructors who teach firewalking at corporate team-building seminars. |
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The Network will involve physicists, mathematicians, statisticians, probabilists, biologists, immunologists and engineers. |
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He is among the last living physicists who helped usher in the nuclear age. |
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In 1925, the concept of spin had allowed physicists to explain the Zeeman effect, but it also created unexplained anomalies. |
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In 1819, Babbage and Herschel visited Paris and the Society of Arcueil, meeting leading French mathematicians and physicists. |
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He is regarded as one of the most significant physicists of the 20th century. |
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The influence and importance of his work has increased with the decades, and physicists daily use the concepts and equations that he developed. |
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Immediately after his death, two organisations of professional physicists established annual awards in Dirac's memory. |
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By 2003, consensus among physicists was growing that Hawking was wrong about the loss of information in a black hole. |
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As most physicists of the time, Maxwell had a strong interest in psychology. |
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However, in the past decade, physicists have realized that evidence for quantum gravitational effects can guide the development of the theory. |
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Researchers include biologists, geologists, oceanographers, physicists, astronomers, glaciologists, and meteorologists. |
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Experimental physicists, for example Galileo and Newton, found that there are indefinitely many empirical temperature scales. |
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They were preceded by such key physicists as Hermann von Helmholtz, Joseph von Fraunhofer, and Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit, among others. |
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The lightest supersymmetric partner would be stable, making it an ideal candidate for the WIMP that physicists propose. |
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Some stars may contain wormholes, throatlike tunnels connecting distant points in spacetime, a team of physicists proposes. |
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But this year two top physicists repeated this, and on BBC2 there was a more in-depth explanation of quantum mechanics. |
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This led most physicists interested in the problem to consider alternative models for quasicrystalline materials. |
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Chown devotes this exciting book to crazy ideas currently brewing in the minds of theoretical physicists. |
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The oddities of quantum mechanics can boggle the minds of students and experienced physicists alike. |
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The dropleton is a quasiparticle, a theoretical construct that helps physicists make sense of the jungle of particles and forces within the materials we use every day. |
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Over the last 75 years, physicists have been making sense of incomprehensible things by identifying and exploiting more than a dozen quasiparticles. |
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However, later physicists favoured a purely wavelike explanation of light to account for the interference patterns and the general phenomenon of diffraction. |
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The most likely explanation, physicists say, is that muon neutrinos, the type produced on high, were changing into tau neutrinos, which the detector can't pick up. |
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A series that never lets you down, this clever comedy is a celebration of geekdom as Johnny Galecki's and Jim Parsons' physicists discover life is not scientific. |
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Mechanical engineers and physicists cover optical properties and fabrication of carbon nanotubes and graphene, laser applications, and carbon-based optoelectronics. |
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By using electrons and their antiparticles rather than protons, as the LHC does, physicists hope to gain a different perspective on the underlying physics. |
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The annual event involves students sitting a test paper set by the British Physics Olympiad, organisation to recognise excellence in future physicists. |
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The book is intended as a reference for students, house staff, fellows, clinicians, medical physicists, cancer biologists, radiobiologists, and others in oncology. |
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Jozef Stefan was one of the most prominent physicists of the 19th century. |
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In past experiments, physicists have measured the change of muon neutrinos to tau neutrinos and electron neutrinos to muon neutrinos or tau neutrinos. |
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A new particle accelerator due to start operations next year at the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva should finally find the Higgs, physicists say. |
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In addition to physicists, Austria was the birthplace of two of the most noteworthy philosophers of the 20th century, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Popper. |
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Between 1870 and 1890 a theory purporting that an atom was a vortex in the ether was immensely popular among British physicists and mathematicians. |
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There are many alternate quantities used by physicists and engineers to describe how damped an oscillator is that are closely related to its quality factor. |
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Most physicists say that these working rules are, therefore, correct. |
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Quantum physics, despite having been with us now for over a century, continues to mystify and challenge physicists, philosophers, and the general public alike. |
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He succeeded in making an engineering and commercial success of radio by innovating and building on the work of previous experimenters and physicists. |
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Engineers and physicists, including Byrnes, are already considering new types of diodes that can handle lower voltages, such as tunnel diodes and ballistic diodes. |
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This migration was made possible by the newly won influence of physicists such as Sir John Randall, who had helped win the war with inventions such as radar. |
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The field of science which studies subatomic particles is particle physics, and it is in this field that physicists hope to discover the true fundamental nature of matter. |
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Some physicists interpret Newton's second law of motion as a definition of force and mass, while others consider it a fundamental postulate, a law of nature. |
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Introductory fluid mechanics for physicists and mathematicians. |
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If everything goes really well, physicists hope they'll get some hints about the world of supersymmetry, the realm that lies beyond the Standard Model. |
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General relativity unifies special relativity with Newton's law of universal gravitation, allowing physicists to handle gravitation at a deeper level. |
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Some physicists feel uncomfortable about the theory that a particle has no single history, a theory that is crucial to the concept of multiverses as presently formulated. |
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Kwiat, however, says that the spin Hall effect could help physicists test the micro scopic components of future computers that use photons instead of electronic circuits. |
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Notable German physicists before the 20th century include Hermann von Helmholtz, Joseph von Fraunhofer and Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit, among others. |
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