| 单词 | physicist |
| 例句 | The two physicists received less hospitable treatment when they circled back to the AEC to see David Lilienthal, its chairman. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The British government agreed to send Oppenheimer a team of top physicists. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The Soviets had no way of knowing that Oppenheimer had just been named the scientific director of the American atomic bomb project, but they knew he was a top American physicist. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z News of the discovery spread quickly within the small world of theoretical physicists. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The precise timing of the Hiroshima mission was known only to a few physicists on the bomb team. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Particle physicists look at the subatomic realm with particle accelerators: they use magnetic fields or other means to get tiny particles moving very fast; when these particles collide with one another, they spit off fragments. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Real gravitons make up what classical physicists would call gravitational waves, which are very weak—and so difficult to detect that they have not yet been observed. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z When Fuchs’s report reached Laboratory Number 2 near Moscow, it was read eagerly by Igor Kurchatov, lead physicist of Stalin’s atomic bomb program. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z In a perfect world, an economist could run a controlled experiment just as a physicist or a biologist does: setting up two samples, randomly manipulating one of them, and measuring the effect. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The last scientist who worked in the Library was a mathematician, astronomer, physicist and the head of the Neoplatonic school of philosophy—an extraordinary range of accomplishments for any individual in any age. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Compounded by Lawrence’s campaign for the Super, a project that many physicists considered technically and morally dubious, this record undermined his reputation as a scientist s scientist driven by the quest for knowledge alone. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Many others earned the esteem of their fellow chemists and physicists even if they fell short of the ultimate honor—a Nobel Prize. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Probably, German physicists were already working on an atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z But many physicists believe that a voyage into the past is impossible. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Kamen soon was drafted by the physicist Jackson Laslett to help with the chemical separation of sodium isotopes, and the chemist Glenn Seaborg was absorbed into a team working with uranium. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The electron that scientists see in the laboratory—the electron that physicists, chemists, and engineers have known and loved for decades—is an impostor. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z While physicists in the middle decades of the twentieth-century were looking perplexedly into the world of the very small, astronomers were finding no less arresting an incompleteness of understanding in the universe at large. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z This is the reason for string theory, which was created in the 1970s when physicists began to see the advantages of treating every particle as a vibrating string rather than as a dot. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z How could physicists not know something that has been measured? Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Actually, theoretical physicists were about to become more powerful than Oppenheimer had ever imagined. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Did he happen on the article by the Norwegian physicist Rolf Wideroe while “glancing over current periodicals in the University library,” as he related in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech? Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z K. Fuchs, Lamphere learned, was Klaus Fuchs, a German-born British physicist who joined the Manhattan Project with a team from Great Britain. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z There were other people who suffered from ALS, Morrie knew, some of them famous, such as Stephen Hawking, the brilliant physicist and author of A Brief History of Time. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z This was now pre-empted by Hugh Huxley, who argued that muscle fibers were living and hence not subject to rules for physicists. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z When the physicist Robert Marshank got a similar letter, he announced to his wife that they were leaving immediately. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Newton’s laws of motion and gravitation gave physicists an explanation for the way planets and objects move through the universe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Aware that Compton’s background as a physicist would give his opinion special weight, Loomis invited him to spend a week at his private retreat on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Discovered in the mid-1920s by German physicist Wolfgang Pauli, the exclusion principle states, roughly, that no two things can be in the same place at the same time. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z A more complicated case, though one that unfolded outside the AEC’s security process, involved Frank Oppenheimer, a talented physicist who had received his PhD from Caltech but lacked his older brother’s theoretical profundity. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In an attempt to draw everything together, physicists have come up with something called superstring theory. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Gold glanced over at the 16 8 physicist. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Some physicists thought that atoms might be cube shaped, because cubes can be packed together so neatly without any wasted space. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z What drove the new program forward was the return of Lawrence’s gifted team of physicists from their wartime assignments. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z At the same time, at the ranch house, the physicist Robert Bacher supervised the assembly of the bomb’s plutonium core. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z This expressly decreed that nothing could outrace the speed of light and yet here were physicists insisting that, somehow, at the subatomic level, information could. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish,” he declared, “the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z As unappealing as the idea of a finite universe was, physicists gradually accepted the big bang and agreed that the universe had a beginning. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z They all continued on the general’s plane to Albuquerque, where Groves was infuriated to discover eminent physicists gathered in clumps at the main hotel. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z For physicists, however, zero and infinity seemed utterly irrelevant to the workings of the universe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Born in Polish-Ukrainian Galicia, Rabi was the levelheaded physicist who had tartly denounced Strauss’s vendetta against Oppenheimer and had attempted, if fruitlessly, to talk Lawrence and Alvarez down from their starry-eyed pursuit of the Super. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z To detect the predicted solar neutrino flux, you need an immense amount of chlorine, so American physicists have poured a huge quantity of cleaning fluid into the Homestake Mine in Lead, South Dakota. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Both were Hungarian-born physicists, both about forty, both Jews who had fled from Europe as Adolf Hitler rose to power. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “He’s all ears and no mouth,” a fellow Los Alamos physicist complained. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z A physicist named George Weil stood on the floor, holding the rope that lifted it. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Though they didn’t know if it would actually happen, physicists had a name ready for this process: chain reaction. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The younger Cooksey was a competent physicist then investigating the elusive qualities of X-rays, but he knew he was no match for the newcomer. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z When he heard that Hitler was harassing Jewish physicists, Oppenheimer dedicated a portion of his salary to help them escape Nazi Germany. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z This phenomenon, causing sparks with a beam of light, was very puzzling to classical physicists. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z A young physicist named Herb Anderson walked in, yawning, and helped do a few last-minute checks. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Swann was unhappy anywhere he could not be the prima donna,” recalled the Berkeley physicist Leonard B. Loeb, who was a faculty colleague of Swann’s at Chicago. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He was a chemist, not a physicist, with an intellectual temperament much closer to Oppenheimer’s than to Lawrence’s. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z At the AEC, they met first with Commissioner Lewis Strauss and research director Kenneth Pitzer, a Berkeley physicist who had taken a temporary leave for government service. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z A gifted physicist, Fuchs was well liked by his fellow scientists, though they found him difficult to get to know. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Oddly for someone who had been rubbing shoulders with physicists for nearly twenty years, Weaver mistakenly described the beam in his diary as comprising 5-million-volt “electrons”—particles that were not in the cyclotrons inventory. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “The very strange situation was that by coming nearer and nearer to the solution,” reflected the promising young German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg, “the paradoxes became worse and worse.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The biggest danger, Groves figured, came from world-class German physicists. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z A few weeks before Greenhouse, Bradbury had tried to mollify the willful physicist by creating a semiautonomous thermonuclear division at Los Alamos, giving Teller authority over 25 scientists. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Most of the top physicists in the country were from Europe. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Wilson didn’t explain to Poulsson why German physicists needed heavy water. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z But Cockcroft was a thoughtful physicist in the style treasured by Rutherford, especially in his resourcefulness with equipment, the Cavendish’s hallmark. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Harvey Cushing was one medical expert who understood the value for physicians of the discoveries of radiation physicists, but in this, as in so many other ways, his foresight was uncommon. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The discovery thrilled physicists around the world, not least Marie Curie, to whose deathbed the Joliots brought a test tube of the first artificially produced radioelement. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “If there is one chance in ten that he’ll be one of the top physicists in the country, I’ll take that chance,” he declared in approving Lawrence’s promotion. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z By early 1937, the lab was regularly producing material for “two dozen physicists, half a dozen biologists, and several chemists,” as an early chronicle reported. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z To understand the big bang, physicists must marry quantum theory with relativity. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Nor did Oppenheimer share the hauteur that other theoretical physicists displayed toward Lawrence and his crew of preoccupied tinkers. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The so-called Rayleigh-Jeans law, named after the physicists Lord Rayleigh and Sir James Jeans, worked fairly well. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Max thus asked the physicist Denis Wilkinson, then a fellow of Jesus, whether an opening might exist in his college. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z That’s how the physicist Otto Frisch described the first instant of the explosion. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Bethe brooded with another friend, physicist Victor Weisskopf, over the inevitable outcome of a thermonuclear war. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Now, after years of agonizing frustration, Fitin could boast of having a physicist not just inside the Manhattan Project, but inside Los Alamos itself. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z This letter signifies the start of a crucial new phase in Lawrences transformation from hands-on physicist to fund-raising impresario. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z And as physicists and mathematicians all over the world were beginning to use calculus to explain nature, cries of protest emanated from the church. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Without Lawrence, there would be no Rad Lab—none of the teamwork that combined the disparate knowledge and skills of physicists, chemists, biologists, physicians, and engineers into a new paradigm of science. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Remarkably, the phenomenon was proved in 1997 when physicists at the University of Geneva sent photons seven miles in opposite directions and demonstrated that interfering with one provoked an instantaneous response in the other. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Reginald James, the physicist, declared that once he got back to Cambridge University he never wanted to see another scrap of ice for the rest of his life. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z On the evening of April 15, 1943 , about forty physicists gathered in what used to be the library reading room of the Los Alamos Ranch School. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Bush and Conant had been skeptical about an atomic weapon in part because of the reluctance of eminent physicists to commit themselves to the work not only in word but deed. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Einstein urged the government to start working closely with physicists to explore the possibilities of building atomic bombs. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z At almost the same time the German physicist Werner Heisenberg came up with a competing theory called matrix mechanics. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Cockcroft was thirty-four, a man with the mild eccentricities that American physicists had come to expect in their cross-oceanic colleagues. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In 1887 the American physicists Albert Michelson and Edward Morley tried to measure this effect. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Since the supercollider debacle particle physicists have set their sights a little lower, but even comparatively modest projects can be quite breathtakingly costly when compared with, well, almost anything. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z American physicists emerged from the war torn between two contradictory sensations. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Rutherford’s discovery revolutionized physicists’ model of the atom. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z And both the physicist and the father are blown away with the results. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z At Loomis’s urging, Weaver also asked several prominent physicists for “a considered statement of your opinion and advice” on whether to press for immediate funding for the 184-inch. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z A physicist named Sam Allison sat in the corner of the bunker, a telephone in his hand. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Teller’s obsessive personality created a managerial dilemma for Norris Bradbury, the able Berkeley-trained physicist who had succeeded Oppenheimer as Los Alamos director. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Even though physicists quickly realized that Planck’s equation was right, they did not accept the quantum hypothesis. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z At Bell Laboratories in New Jersey, he described the machine’s capabilities for Karl Darrow, the lab’s eminent physicist and a writer of popular science articles. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “E. O. Lawrence personally never quite demobilized after the end of World War II,” the Rad Lab physicist Wolfgang “Pief” Panofsky would observe many years later. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z This law was discovered in 1787 by Jacques-Alexandre Charles, a French physicist already famous for being the first to fly aboard a hydrogen balloon. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Prominent among them was H. J. Muller, who was impressed that several well-known theoretical physicists, especially Pascual Jordan, thought forces existed by which like attracted like. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z It's a battle between the physicist and the father. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z No instrument currently imaginable will give scientists the power to observe strings directly; nobody can think of an experiment that will give physicists evidence about whether black holes and particles are, indeed, strings. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Charles, like many physicists of his time, was fascinated with the very different properties of gases. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z They started with physicists they knew personally: “We just got our good cyclotron friends together,” DuBridge would recall. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Even physicists began to grow a little uncomfortable. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “We halted our efforts in order not to damage the pieces,” remembered one of the physicists. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z "I'm not the cat, actually. The cat is us. I am a physicist. You are a physicist. The cat is us." Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z For the physicists of the atomic bomb program, Germany’s surrender on May 7, 1945, complicated the moral and ethical issues connected with the device they had invented. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z On the afternoon of December 18, 1944, in Zurich, Switzerland, Berg was a Swiss student, curious to hear a lecture by the great German physicist Werner Heisenberg. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Its structure was the second great mystery vexing physicists in the twenties. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Teller saw the lab as a reflection of his own brimming self-esteem—as a huge laboratory staffed with name physicists working in lockstep according to his handcrafted research strategy. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z By shining X-rays at a crystal, a physicist can decipher its structure in three-dimensional space. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z After spending a few days studying atomic bomb physics, Hall went to work with a team led by the Italian-born physicist Bruno Rossi. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z It would give physicists the first direct evidence that the big bang was correct and that steady state was wrong. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z In part this new skepticism reflected the superior technical knowledge of his official overseers, who now included trained physicists with knowledge of nuclear physics that equaled or even exceeded his own. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z This hasn’t stopped some believers—physicists included—from picketing high-energy laboratories like Fermilab; they believe that a high-energy collision could cause a spontaneous collapse of the vacuum. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The physicist is angry about me taking this step with "such an incomplete assessment of the variables and the risk factors." Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z To the physicists, the separation and purification of radioisotopes seemed a black art; but it was well within the capabilities of a graduate chemist. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The obstacle was galling; physicists could peer over the wall at a murky landscape on the far side, shrouded seductively in mist. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It really was no help to receive encouragement from a fellow physicist. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z The wife of an Italian physicist used to watch him march slowly past their window, his pale, owlish face turned down toward the muddy path. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z For this brief moment, the two physicists’ ambitions and skills fell into perfect accord. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Electrons and black holes are real things; physicists can’t simply will them away. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z This method derived from the theories of the Russian physicist George Gamow, who deduced from quantum mechanics that the occasional particle from even a moderately energetic beam could penetrate the nucleus. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z One of them, David Saxon, an MIT- trained physicist, would become president of the University of California in 1975. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In October 1948, as Frank was preparing to accompany physicist John Williams to Berkeley to discuss the construction of an accelerator at Minnesota, Lawrence abrupdy informed Williams that Frank would not be welcome. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z They talked over an idea proposed by the great Danish physicist Niels Bohr. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z His chosen instrument was the Tesla coil, a high-voltage transformer invented by the visionary physicist Nikola Tesla in the 1890s. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “If only we could get hold of a German atomic physicist,” said Samuel Goudsmit, “we could soon find out what the rest of them were up to.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The German-born physicist Hans Bethe even had an idea of what to do about it. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The words of eminent physicists of the era bristle with intellectual despair. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He instituted a regime of “compartmentalization” in which physicists working on one aspect of fission were denied access to research on different aspects, even if they might be relevant to their own. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “He had, after all, no experience in directing a large group of people,” said the German-born physicist Hans Bethe. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Not all the physicists were quite so confident. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z His mother, a hippie by orientation, worked as a legal secretary; his stepfather was a physicist and engineer who designed machines that made silicon wafers, which computer microprocessors are built on. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z After the war, Serber had become a valued member of the Berkeley faculty, recruited by Lawrence to succeed Oppie as its chief theoretical physicist. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z That news, which broke in January 1939, launched physicists upon flights of learned speculation about the enormous energy released when the uranium nucleus split following its absorption of a stray neutron. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z If it was obvious to him that an atomic bomb might be possible, it was also obvious to everyone else in the global community of top physicists. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Robert Oppenheimer’s younger brother, Frank, also a physicist, helped prepare for the test at Trinity. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z But how was a theoretical physicist supposed to save the world? Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z If both Lawrence and Oppenheimer resigned, there would be little to keep McMillan, Alvarez, and other promising young physicists in Berkeley. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He was the archetypal theoretical physicist: it was said of him that even his presence in the same town would make experiments go wrong! A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “If it looks anything like the artist’s conception,” physicist Robert Cornog told a friend, “it will be the eighth, ninth, tenth, and eleventh wonder of the world.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The refugee Hungarian physicist had placed the very notion of atomic weaponry on the federal government’s radar in 1939, when he prompted Albert Einstein to alert Franklin Roosevelt to the military potential of nuclear fission. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z As physicists began to delve into this subatomic realm, they realized that it wasn’t merely different from anything we knew, but different from anything ever imagined. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z With Leibniz’s calculus, these dys and dxs can be manipulated just like ordinary numbers, which is why modern mathematicians and physicists usually use Leibniz’s notation rather than Newton’s. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z On July 5, Oppenheimer sent a telegram to top Manhattan Project physicists in Berkeley and Chicago: “Any time after the fifteenth would be a good time for our fishing trip.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z "Maybe the physicist likes that the cat has a boyfriend." Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z Ayoung physicist named Max Planck looked at the new data and within hours came up with a new equation that replaced the Rayleigh-Jeans formula. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z As mathematicians were uncovering the connection between zero and infinity, physicists began to encounter zeros in the natural world; zero crossed over from mathematics to physics. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “He regarded me as potentially a very good physicist. . . But in a certain sense, not worldly, not experienced, and not very sensible.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z By the time the controversy ended, six physicists had departed the lab, including all four of its theorists. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “In how many ways does the U come apart?” he wrote a fellow physicist. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Again, physicists tend to look down on evolutionary biology and history, because those fields appear to fail this test. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In the past few years physicists realized that the many competing varieties of string theory are actually, in a sense, the same thing. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z In contrast, for any of the physicist’s elementary particles and isotopes and of the chemist’s molecules, all individuals of the entity are identical to each other. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But other physicists propose that two alternative histories, two equally valid realities, could exist side by side—the one you know and the one in which you were never born. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z To Soviet physicists like Flerov, this made it vitally important that the Soviet Union develop its own atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Atomic physicists were particularly interested in biology; it was the unexplored frontier of scientific inquiry. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Famous physicists were given code names—Enrico Fermi, for example, was supposed to tell people his name was Henry Farmer. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Even though he was a physicist, he knew that important biological objects come in pairs. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Gerald Black had taken his degree in etheric physics the year before and, in common with his entire generation of physicists, found himself engaged in the problem of the Drive. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z “I knew that I would never be a great physicist,” he acknowledged many years later. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z As the physicist and writer James Trefil has put it, "It would be hard to believe that the continuous movement of tectonic plates has no effect on the development of life on earth." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Berkeley’s physicists, whether in the department or the Rad Lab, ended up divided into two camps. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Each weekday he went to his office near Wall Street, where he worked with a team of British physicists. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Most particle physicists feel, as Leon Lederman remarked in a 1985 PBS documentary, that the Standard Model lacks elegance and simplicity. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The great Caltech physicist Richard Feynman once observed that if you had to reduce scientific history to one important statement it would be "All things are made of atoms." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z His efforts succeeded: in December Eisenhower ordered that a “blank wall” be placed between the physicist and all classified or sensitive government information, pending further investigation. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z For the first time, Lawrence heard a physicist with a solid grasp of subatomic behavior express support for his idea rather than smothering it in quibbles. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z By looking at the collective motion of groups of atoms, physicists could predict the way matter behaves. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Crowded into the bunker were other top Soviet physicists, along with the head of Stalin’s secret police, Lavrenti Beria. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z At the turn of the century, two British physicists tried to use the wiggle theory to solve a simple problem. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Like most other major universities, Berkeley tended to think of chemists, biologists, physicists, and engineers all as inhabitants of discrete sandboxes. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z As a result, German schools lost some of the best minds, including physicists and Nobel prizewinners such as Albert Einstein. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z So it was still necessary, reasoned Donovan, to target German physicists, especially Heisenberg. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The significance of Tuve’s claim was not lost on any physicist who recalled Marie Curie’s 1921 voyage to the United States for her single gram of radium, valued at $100,000. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z DuBridge went on to build a cyclotron at the University of Rochester, which brought the two physicists closer. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “The only way we could lose the war,” said physicist Philip Morrison, “was if we failed in our jobs.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Rømer was born at Århus on 25 September 1644, and after studying at the University of Copenhagen he stayed on there as assistant to the physicist and astronomer Erasmus Bartholin. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Walking alongside Woods, hunched against the cold, was the world-famous Italian physicist Enrico Fermi. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z It was 1895, a fortuitous moment when physicists were pondering a host of strange new physical forces manifested in their apparatuses. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Ernest’s appearance would be only the eighth by a US physicist since the inception. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It has some of the greatest Nobel Prize winners of this last century, nuclear physicists that almost cracked the atom—but kids around here don’t even know it’s there. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z By 1939, nearly a score of physicists who had been trained on Lawrence’s machines were building cyclotrons at a dozen American universities. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z If this seems confusing, you may take some comfort in knowing that it was confusing to physicists, too. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Staff physicist Don Gow, summoned groggily to the telephone with the message “Ernest wants to see you,” thought instantly, “My God, what have I done?” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z One was the conviction of the stocky, beetle-browed Hungarian physicist that the lethargic pace of thermonuclear research had placed the United States at the mercy of the Soviet Union. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Their existence had been predicted in 1934 by Japanese physicist Hideki Yukawa, who speculated that they carried the force that binds the atomic nucleus together, counteracting the mutual electromagnetic repulsion of its positively charged protons. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Early in 1942, a young Soviet physicist named Georgi Flerov sat in the library of a military base in southwestern Russia, flipping through a tall stack of physics journals from the United States. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z But on returning to England, Wilkins—following the trend among many physicists—had edged away from physics toward biology. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z One man who took such apocalyptic speculation seriously was Leo Szilard, the energetic and resourceful Hungarian physicist who had tried to patent a prototypical cyclotron just before Lawrence’s practical invention. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Once again physicists are talking about the cosmological constant—the mysterious term that Einstein added to his equations to balance the push of gravity. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z It had taken Joseph Stalin’s physicists just four years to reach nuclear parity with the United States—about the time frame predicted by Robert Oppenheimer. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Finally, they had a high- level physicist inside the Manhattan Project. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z A few calculations later, the Princeton physicists realized that this light had to be in the microwave region of the spectrum, and had to be coming from all directions. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Mesons had been found only in cosmic rays, which made them the natural quarry of high-energy physicists. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z These particles were named quarks by the Caltech physicist Murray Gell-Mann, who won the Nobel Prize in 1969 for his work on them. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Show this to any physicist,” Hall said, pointing to the papers. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He found out the next day at a meeting at the Ritz Hotel with Samuel Goudsmit, a physicist who was the scientific head of the Alsos mission. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The device was not a hydrogen bomb, exactly, but it was “the first thermonuclear test explosion on earth,” in the words of one witness, the young Berkeley physicist Herbert York. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Because of its oddities, many physicists disliked quantum theory, or at least certain aspects of it, and none more so than Einstein. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z To a physicist, mass and weight are two quite different things. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z When Theodore Hall graduated high school at the age of thirteen, he listed his three top career options: comedian, journalist, physicist. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Talking of which, the physicist Nelson is my closest buddy now—kids me along, drops hints to imply that he knows that I know that he knows, etc. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z In the 1980s physicists suggested that the zero-point energy in the early universe was greater than it is today. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z They were under orders to grab important papers from German labs and capture top German physicists. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Once, late at night, a fellow physicist came into Hall’s office to look for some papers. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z That was surely a factor in his becoming perhaps the most accomplished American physicist not to receive a Nobel Prize, but it does not mean he failed to do pioneering research. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z To physicists, vacuum has all particles and forces latent in it. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “Don’t do anything until you hear the regents’ side,” Ernest told him, and scheduled a meeting for the physicist with Neylan. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In French, physicien had never been a term used for doctors, so the word was conveniently available to mean a natural scientist, and then to evolve to become the French equivalent for ‘physicist’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Just a few weeks after Pearl Harbor, I received a phone call from Oppie,” recalled a young physicist named Robert Serber. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Here was a chance for a physicist to solve the most seductive mystery of biology. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z When an equation has an infinity in it, physicists usually assume that there is something wrong; the infinity has no physical meaning. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “Robert Oppenheimer was a brilliant physicist. He ran the Manhattan Project, which developed the atomic bomb. Oppenheimer tested the atomic bomb in the middle of a desert in New Mexico.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z Space cannot even properly be said to be expanding because, as the physicist and Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg notes, "solar systems and galaxies are not expanding, and space itself is not expanding." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Bush said he thought it odd that he should be chairman, since he was not a physicist; Oppenheimer, the best choice, already had been named to the committee. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Liverpool was soon the happy recipient of Lawrence’s blueprints and two English-born, Rad Lab—trained physicists, dispatched to help Chad wick build his machine. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Among the early converts to the religion of DNA was a young physicist from New Zealand, Maurice Wilkins. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “He had a remarkable ability to absorb things so rapidly,” said the physicist Lee Dubridge. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “How does this happen, that all the other physicists except the group here in Berkeley are defending Oppie?” he asked. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z They used equations that physicists thought were valid, manipulated them in an accepted way, and came out with an answer that didn’t reflect the way the world works. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Future engineers, physicists, doctors, all sat around me while we waited for the beginning of the annual “Beat Clinton” rally. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z He and other physicists had spent a few years studying fission. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Before Newton, generations of physicists had thought about phenomena such as force, acceleration, mass, and velocity. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Almost at once the Bogdanov paper excited debate among physicists as to whether it was twaddle, a work of genius, or a hoax. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z He's this very funny physicist— which are not words that usually go together. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1998 two physicists from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem showed that even a spinning or charged black hole—with a nice, ring-shaped singularity—will kill an astronaut, thanks to mass inflation. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Queried at long distance by Sproul, the loyal Swann declared that his protege was destined to become one of the world’s ten leading physicists before the end of the decade. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Even before Strauss’s appointment was made public, he began moving against Oppenheimer, impelled by the physicist’s increasingly outspoken campaign for a public debate on nuclear policy. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z "I think their band name is a reference to, like, this physicist guy," I say. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z Biologists might have blanched at trying to describe the “gene molecule” on purely hypothetical grounds—but what physicist could resist taking a ramble in weird, risky territory? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The physicists are another species, whiter-skinned, towel-draped against the sun, unearthly, the soles of their feet so sensitive that they limp on sand. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Particle physicists have tended to favor the particle explanation of WIMPs, astrophysicists the stellar explanation of MACHOs. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Then again, in 1928, physicist and Nobel Prize winner Max Born told a group of visitors to Gottingen University, “Physics, as we know it, will be over in six months.” A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The young physicist reddened, “We didn’t really want to do without the robots, sir, and besides we weren’t certain exactly how such...uh...minor complaints might be received.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z In the 1850s, however, William Thomson, a British physicist, noticed something odd about Charles’ law: the specter of zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z For there was one other factor: Ernest had forged a partnership with an outstanding young scientist who was building his own international reputation as a theoretical physicist. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The catalyst was his friendship with Robert W. Wood, a Johns Hopkins physicist whom Loomis had met at Aberdeen. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Hence physicists and chemists can formulate universal deterministic laws at the macroscopic level, but biologists and historians can formulate only statistical trends. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Do you think that history professors chat about the reasons for World War One when they meet for lunch, or that nuclear physicists spend their coffee breaks at scientific conferences talking about quarks? Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z They then appear to us as what a classical physicist would call waves, such as waves of light or gravitational waves. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z There are no antiprotons or antineutrons, made up from antiquarks, except for a few that physicists produce in large particle accelerators. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z A major factor in his leaving physics and developing an interest in biology had been the reading in 1946 of What Is Life? by the noted theoretical physicist Erwin Schrodinger. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Eifler had spent the past few months perfecting his plan to kidnap the German physicist Werner Heisenberg and putting together his team for the job. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Only a few years hence, MIT president Karl Compton, himself a physicist with a cyclotron at his command, would issue his lament about the introduction of “an abnormal competitive element” into academic science. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z On October 21 Briggs presided over the so-called Uranium Committee’s first meeting, with Szilard, Teller, and Eugene Wigner, another emigre Hungarian physicist, on hand as technical advisors. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Szilard and Wigner were not the only physicists feeling frustrated. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He took the news to a physics conference in Washington, D.C., where it leaped from one physicist to another. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z There was more to Rad Lab science than the identification of new radioisotopes, due in part to the recruitment of world-class physicists such as McMillan and Alvarez. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The willingness of the two universities to share Robert Oppenheimer attested to the scarcity of qualified theoretical physicists in American academia, especially theoreticians of Oppenheimer’s distinction. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “I am a physicist,” he snapped, “and I have no knowledge to lose in which physics has caused me to know sin.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Ernest’s colleagues observed his “obvious distress” all weekend long; Compton suggested that he was excessively swayed by the friendships he had forged with Japanese physicists who had worked on the cyclotron. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Then there was the presence at the lab of James Franck, a German physicist of unassailable reputation who had devoted a great deal of careful thought to the social and political implications of atomic energy. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z An astronomer, a physicist, and a mathematician set off for Scotland on the train. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Frustrated by the slow pace of progress, physicist and U-Committee member Ernest Lawrence urged the committee to bring in some fresh talent. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He had no hesitation about wading into battle over some aspect of nanotechnology with an esteemed physicist. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I need somebody who on the one hand can work with the mechanics, who talks their language, and, on the other hand, won’t be run over by the physicists and the engineers,” he explained. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Elsewhere in his essay, Greene does not hide the fact that many of his fellow physicists think that string theory and the multiverse are extravagant and unproven. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Theoretical physicists were the explorers of their day, using imagination and mind-bending math to dig deeper and deeper into the surprising inner workings of atoms. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z W. Sterling Cole, a Republican from New York, took the initiative of arranging a meeting for the three physicists with President Eisenhower for the following Monday. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z When the wife of the great Austrian physicist Wolfgang Pauli left him for a chemist, he was staggered with disbelief. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The first was a conversation with the distinguished German quantum physicist Otto Stern, a future Nobel laureate who was stopping at Berkeley during the holiday. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z At the White House, he dismissed Byrnes’s concerns by pointing out that the scientific team behind the bomb included Ernest Lawrence and three other Nobel laureates, along with “practically every physicist of standing.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z On the other hand, Kelvin’s discovery of absolute zero told physicists what they couldn’t do. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z You can get very close; thanks to laser cooling, physicists can chill atoms to a few millionths of a degree above the ultimate coldness. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z He turned to his former partner, Lise Meitner, a Jewish physicist who’d been forced out of Germany by Hitler. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z By this point physicists could be excused for thinking that they had just about conquered the atom. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z And then: “On top of the tower an unbearably bright light blazed up,” one of the Soviet physicists recalled. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The very notion of “clean” thermonuclear weapons was mercilessly demolished in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists by Ralph Lapp, a distinguished antinuclear physicist. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Roentgen’s report prompted the Parisian physicist Henri Becquerel to look for other signs of X-rays. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Kurnakov listened, asking himself: Can this pimply kid really be a physicist? Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Born in 1871 to a handyman and his wife in New Zealand when it was a remote outpost of the British Empire, Rutherford became an intuitive theorist and the preeminent experimental physicist of his age. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Oh ...she’s a physicist. She studies dark matter,” said Lyra, still not quite in control. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He did so by inventing a serviceable method for artificially driving subatomic particles into the nucleus with enough energy to give physicists a clear picture of what it was made of. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Worse yet, as physicists discovered the intricacies of quantum mechanics, stranger and stranger things began to appear. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z This assumption challenged everything physicists had assumed about the motion of objects. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Ultimately, most physicists hope to find a unified theory that will explain all four forces as different aspects of a single force. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, meeting Lawrence in person for the first time, he found himself agreeing with Loomis that the Berkeley physicist should be part of the effort. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The “true” electron is a bit heavier and carries a greater charge than the electron that physicists observe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z He went over Bradbury’s head to Gordon Dean to propose instead an independent new lab in Boulder, Colorado, where some 130 physicists would report to him alone. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The problem was, he was going to have to rely on physicists to figure out how to build the bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z By 1923, the tenth anniversary of Bohr’s atomic model, physicists were questioning its general applicability. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In 1965 two American physicists at the Bell Telephone Laboratories in New Jersey, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, were testing a very sensitive microwave detector. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z While some physicists are trying to eliminate zero from their equations, others are showing that zero may have the last laugh. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Groves wanted to know the names of the most brilliant German physicists—the ones most likely to succeed in giving Hitler an atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z At this point, said Furman, the most dangerous tool the Germans had was between the ears of a physicist named Werner Heisenberg. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z When Feynman made that comment, physicists had had half a century to adjust to the strangeness of atomic behavior. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Perhaps the idea’s most persistent foe was physicists’ intuition. Black and light 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z “What strikes me about stunts like this is their fundamental meanness,” Sean Carroll, a physicist at the California Institute of Technology, wrote on Twitter. Hoaxers Slip Breastaurants and Dog-Park Sex Into Journals 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z Radioactive fallout plumed over the area but the public was never warned, according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a publication founded in 1945 by nuclear physicists concerned about the dangers of atomic weapons. The Day the Sun Rose Twice: A Tour of Atomic New Mexico 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z “The Beautiful Miscellaneous,” a 1980s period piece about an accidental savant with a demanding physicist father, is an outlier from Smith’s more distantly historical works. Review | An irresistible tale of early cinema makes for perfect summer reading 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z In 2010, Israeli physicist Ira Hammerman set out to look at records in 82 different sports, ranging from running to speed skating, to see if there was a pattern to the resultant “performance gap”. Faster, higher, longer: how female ultra-athletes started to beat men 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z He meets with leading physicists, theologians and philosophers. Q. & A.: Jim Holt on Why the World Exists 2012-07-18T14:09:41Z Britain’s wartime prime minister Winston Churchill and German-born physicist Albert Einstein, who both spoke at the Hall at different times, were also honored. Clapton, Churchill among those honored by Royal Albert Hall 'Walk... 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z Einstein Is a Dummy Family-friendly musical comedy imagines the legendary physicist’s days as a young schoolboy. L.A. theater openings, March 1-8: 'Circles' and more 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z The air of magical contrivance was sustained by encasing this friendship in the expositions of a narrator physicist – played by Bhattacharjee – and a Hardy disciple many years later. Paul Bhattacharjee obituary 2013-07-18T14:53:53Z He most certainly did not pioneer a “Theory of Everything,” as was often reported, nor did practicing physicists hang onto his every pronouncement. Revisiting the Unusual Celebrity of Stephen Hawking 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z I have always been interested in space, but I didn't want to be an astronaut because you had to be a fighter pilot first, or a double Ph.D. physicist. Netflix's "Return to Space" filmmakers on why people follow Elon Musk: "He always sees the problem" 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z His father, a physicist, was director of research at Corning Glass Works and a developer of Pyrex. Glass pioneer Harvey Littleton dies at 91 2014-01-06T06:32:28Z Translated from Spanish by Adrian Nathan West, the novel imagines the lives of renowned scientists like the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Erwin Schrödinger. Finalists Announced for This Year’s National Book Awards 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z Today, physicists are starting to see previously unseen realities, as I am about to summarize. Our godless brains: Emerging science reveals mind-blowing alternatives to a higher power 2014-04-26T20:00:00Z Their Austrian Jewish physicist colleague Lise Meitner was then in Sweden, having escaped Nazi Germany the previous July. Letters to the Editor 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z In my classes for the Wide Open School we're going to look at concepts of space as understood by mathematicians and physicists. Making space: where art meets physics 2012-06-13T17:07:50Z The physicists found that these very fast particles do some fascinating things. Listen up, Marco Rubio!: Science lessons for the tea party 2012-11-25T19:00:00Z She took after her father, Albert, a pioneering physicist born in Puebla, Mexico. Listening to her older records, Joan Baez hears perfection in an ‘unsurpassable’ voice 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z Redmayne said he would be emailing Hawking in England that night and might visit the University of Cambridge physicist in the near future. Oscars 2015: Eddie Redmayne says he was 'weirdly not that nervous' 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z This new offering stars Martin Fowler, a mathematical physicist turned analyst who tracks foreign currencies. When the Au Pair Helps With the Care of the Children and the Sex Life of the Parents 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z James B. Hartle, an American physicist, introduced Mr. Hawking, perhaps protesting too much that he’s “just one of us” despite his genius and his physical limitations. Music Review: World Science Festival Opens at Alice Tully Hall 2010-06-03T22:59:00Z “Is that allowed?” the actor asked, 33 to the day, a recent Golden Globe winner and Academy Award nominee as best actor for his portrayal of the physicist Stephen Hawking in “The Theory of Everything.” Eddie Redmayne and Emma Stone on Acting, Fame and Protecting Their Privacy 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z I’m primarily trained as a physicist, and I also did a degree in mathematics. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: ‘Why,’ About the Science of Curiosity 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z Usually histories of the nuclear project at Los Alamos, N.M., during World War II dwell on tensions between the military officers overseeing the project and the physicists doing the necessary research. Experiencing War Far From the Battlefield 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z She profiles the physicists who showed, despite widespread skepticism, an early and unwavering belief in gravitational waves, collaborating across institutions and nations to build the equipment that would ultimately prove their existence. Review: ‘Black Hole Blues’ Recounts the Quest to Find the Cosmic Kazoo 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z One of the first physicists to realize that the big bang could not have made any elements heavier than lithium was Italian Nobel-Prize winning scientist Enrico Fermi. "The Big Bang Theory" and real science, from Leonard's wedding vows to the "Time Machine" prop 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z The physicist said there was tension with his producersabout whether to keep in the difficult stuff, and it showed. Is this a golden age for science on TV? 2013-07-25T12:50:51Z One bombmaker with a conscience was J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American physicist who directed the Manhattan Project during World War II, which created the first atom bomb. Countdown to Zero: Valerie Plame at the End of the World 2010-08-02T16:30:00Z This is disturbing to philosophers as well as physicists. What Does Quantum Physics Actually Tell Us About the World? 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z The growing movement forms the subject of “Colliding Worlds,” by Arthur I. Miller, a former physicist and an emeritus professor of philosophy and history of science. ‘COLLIDING WORLDS: How Cutting-Edge Science Is Redefining Contemporary Art’ After the end of the Second World War, particle physicists continued to accelerate atoms and then particles in increasingly more powerful particle accelerators. Listen up, Marco Rubio!: Science lessons for the tea party 2012-11-25T19:00:00Z Just a few months after the core meltdown, Rose and the two other characters, also physicists involved in the plant’s creation, remain blasé about that. Review: In ‘The Children,’ the Waters Rise and a Reckoning Comes Due 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z Suddenly, screens begin showing nuclear explosions, and the giant, troubled face of J Robert Oppenheimer – the physicist who worked on the atomic bomb, then agonised over what he had created. Linkin Park: 'We're famous, but we're not celebrities' 2011-07-07T22:30:00Z How could Suzman not have thought about her physicist son as she read this? The Saturday interview: Janet Suzman 2011-08-19T23:10:48Z One of the earliest known physicists, the Greek mathematician and physicist laid down the foundations of hydrostatics. Readers suggest the 10 best ... physicists 2013-05-15T11:30:00Z Which theoretical physicist claimed: "I never expected this to happen in my lifetime and shall be asking my family to put some champagne in the fridge." The Observer science quiz 2012: part 2 2012-12-22T17:00:02Z Are an anthropologist and an art historian intrinsically more likely to get together than, say, and English major and a physicist? How Your College Major Predicts Who You Will Marry 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z Karl employs the help of Lena, an emotionally scarred physicist, to help him get his friend back and soon falls in love with her. Best science fiction and fantasy for February 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z Other work in the show is by photographers, scientists and a planetary physicist. Magical Reality in 3D From Issey Miyake 2010-11-22T12:30:00Z In the piece Ms. Mir explores the relationship between science and faith in a dialogue with the 17th-century Italian physicist and philosopher and documents a gravitational experiment. The Week Ahead: Oct. 30 ? Nov. 5 2011-10-27T18:15:00Z But that didn't deter the physicist from making a second ascent the following year, in which he broke the 10-mile mark. and The physicist made 25 further balloon flights. Auguste Piccard: the physicist who went stratospheric 2011-03-27T00:05:20Z Like them, Time Reborn tries not only to convey an understanding of the difficulties faced by contemporary physicists, but also to advance novel solutions to those problems. Time Reborn by Lee Smolin – review 2013-06-06T06:30:01Z So she decided to leave them be, and instead spent years tracking down the physicist who invented the Departure machine, to get him to send her back. ‘The Leftovers’ Series Finale Recap: Over There 2017-06-04T04:00:00Z Stephen Hawking, the great physicist who probably knows more than anyone about the tricky ways of space and time, was born in Oxford and did his undergraduate work here. Oxford: Where time is fluid, Latin is far from dead and every stone tells a story 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z Fortunately, I'm not a physicist so I don't have the knowledge to write even an abbreviated history of time that no one will understand or read. The Serpent's Promise by Steve Jones – digested read 2013-05-05T17:29:01Z Many physicists have described the quantum state — how electrons, for instance, take different positions in a way that prevents them from having material properties until they’re measured — as something similar to a coin-flip. Perspective | Playboi Carti made the album of the year. Playboi Carti made the album of the year. Playboi Carti made the 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z Lawrence was one of the foremost physicists of the 20th century, a Nobel laureate in the same league as Ernest Rutherford and Marie Curie. The man who invented 'Big Science,' Ernest Lawrence 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z And from that explosion, which a physicist patiently describes as a “catastrophe” in a voice-over, new stars — new life — are born. Dana Tai Soon Burgess dancers cosmically intertwine art and science 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z The stories are full of the musings of these scientist-philosophers as they navigate relationships, grief and the space-time continuum — fitting, as Singh herself is a physicist. Review | Best new science fiction and fantasy this month 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z Alicia and Bobby share a cursed inheritance; their father was a physicist on the Manhattan Project. Cormac McCarthy’s Unsettling Dream of a Novel 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z In the new special "Hubble's Cosmic Journey," physicist Stephen Hawking and others mark the 25th anniversary of the launching of the space-based telescope. TV This Week for April 19- 25: 'Boyhood' on Showtime 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z That December, black-tied physicists from the Cavendish gathered to celebrate Burke’s astonishing achievement. What Does It Mean to Be a Living Thing? 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z Hear the popular physicist, author and commentator discuss his new book, "Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100." 13 of the week's top entertainment events 2012-02-15T22:44:04Z In real life, the German physicist and spy Klaus Fuchs worked at Los Alamos for part of the war and only confessed in 1950 to leaking atomic secrets to Moscow. ‘Manh(a)ttan,’ Atomic Bomb Drama, on WGN 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z “Copenhagen,” a cerebral drama about a pair of physicists on opposite sides of the race to develop nuclear weapons during World War II, is hardly the stuff of lighthearted fun. 7 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z The physicist Richard Feynman marveled at how nature’s beauty is hidden in her details. When the Dinosaurs Reigned 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z After the performance, at New York University’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, the physicist Brian Greene, one of the festival’s founders, will join Mr. Alda for an onstage discussion of Einstein’s work. Paul Rudd to Play Einstein at World Science Festival 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z I was gobsmacked when a 12-year-old home-schooler friend to whom I was describing the fruits of our Comic Con haul asked, "Ooh, what physicist?" Motherlode Blog: Home-Schooling, Comic Con Style (Part 2) 2012-10-17T15:35:51Z The most important scientific book ever written is Newton's Principia, but even physicists find it nearly unreadable. Steven Weinberg: 'I wanted to be on the in – privy to all the secrets of physics' 2013-03-03T00:05:05Z Good thing the 73-year-old mathematician and physicist is, of course, no stranger to pop culture. Stephen Hawking has a theory on Zayn Malik leaving One Direction 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z As recounted in “How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival” by David Kaiser, he helped sponsor a group of young bohemian physicists in successfully proving the practical value of quantum theory. Some Favorite Things Not Hanging on a Wall 2011-12-30T00:11:48Z The new one used transistors and semiconductors instead of the vacuum tubes and neon bulb of the original, invented in the 1920s by the Dutch physicist Balthasar van der Pol. Possessed: There?s No Quiet Without Noise 2011-07-08T19:39:07Z American Genius The rivalries between physicists Werner Heisenberg and Robert Oppenheimer and inventors Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison are revisited in back-to-back new episodes. Monday's TV highlights: Christopher Lee tribute and more 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z “It went on for several decades, crops failed, the Thames froze over,” explains Professor Jim Wild, space physicist at Lancaster University. Encyclopaedia Westerosa: the biggest Game of Thrones mysteries, solved 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z That monumental discovery sparked decades of epic debates about the vastness and origins of the universe, and they involved a clash of titans, the Russian-American nuclear physicist George Gamow and the British astrophysicist Fred Hoyle. When the Big Bang Was Just a Theory 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z I asked a physicist friend to help me visualize this, and he said, “Think of sliced bread.” Was That Really Me? A Novelist Discovers Her Younger Self 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z I've only met the loons at the moment, but now I'm meeting the physicists, the scientists, the military – that's what I'm really looking forward to. Shaun Ryder: 'Peppa Pig World was really good. We went on the teacup ride' 2012-07-26T11:39:24Z All matter is a product of universal history, and physicists account for the way things are because they were as they were at the very beginning. "The Big Bang Theory" and real science, from Leonard's wedding vows to the "Time Machine" prop 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z The siblings, Bobby and Alicia Western, are tormented by the legacy of their father, a physicist who helped develop the atom bomb, and by their love for and obsession with one another. Sixteen Years After ‘The Road,’ Cormac McCarthy Is Publishing Two New Novels 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z And after the apples comes a room of hi-tech devices, working experiments devised by quantum physicist Anton Zeilinger and the physics faculty at the University of Vienna. Documenta 13: Mysteries in the mountain of mud 2012-06-11T17:53:51Z The youngest is Danielle S. Bassett, 32, a physicist at the University of Pennsylvania, who analyzes neuron interactions in the brain as people perform various tasks. MacArthur Awards Go to 21 Diverse Fellows 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z It must have seemed that way to the former owner, J. Robert Oppenheimer, the famed physicist who helped produce the first atomic bomb and who later lost his security clearance in a political witch hunt. In the U.S. Virgin Islands, returning to a changed but resilient St. John 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z One possibility, entertained by a number of leading physicists, is that there are lots of universes, the so-called multiverse, with very different properties and initial conditions. Benedict Cumberbatch Meets Albert Einstein in Carlo Rovelli’s New Audiobook 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z They moved often, to follow the career of his European-born father, a theoretical physicist who trained under Einstein and Schrödinger, and a professor of history and philosophy of science. A Hoarder’s Tale of Redemption 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z He was a techie with an eye for detail more typical of a physicist than a folkie. Indie-Label Folkie to Rock Patriarch 2011-03-06T01:45:27Z Their sequel discovery stokes physicists’ hopes that they will soon collect enough findings to study the frequency of black hole fender benders and how they originate. Black holes are colliding: Scientists confirm more ripples in spacetime 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z Early on, Wilczek quotes the 17th-century French physicist and philosopher Blaise Pascal’s lament, “The universe grasps me and swallows me up like a speck.” Electrons, Photons, Gluons, Quarks: A Nobel-Winning Physicist Explains It All 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z “Hawking Hawking,” by the accomplished science journalist and historian Charles Seife, is a tough-minded portrait of the theoretical physicist. Revisiting the Unusual Celebrity of Stephen Hawking 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z There is only one genuinely superpowered being in the story: Doctor Manhattan, a physicist who gains godlike powers as the result of a nuclear accident. Auteurs assemble! What caused the superhero backlash? 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z At Berkeley in the 1930s he built up a distinctively American school of physicists and made contributions to astrophysics that, Monk argues, would have won him the Nobel prize had he lived longer. Inside the Centre: The Life of J Robert Oppenheimer by Ray Monk – review 2012-12-16T00:05:05Z The Magisterium wants her, and so does a disgraced and possibly deranged physicist with a hideously deformed hyena dæmon. With ‘La Belle Sauvage,’ Philip Pullman Begins a New Trilogy 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z The latest book from Stephen Hawking, the British theoretical physicist and author of the runaway bestseller, “A Brief History of Time,” will be released Sept. New Stephen Hawking Book Is Coming in a Finite Amount of Time 2010-06-25T16:31:00Z With regard to this issue, it is interesting to note that quantum physicists increasingly recognize the mental nature of the universe. Is aggression genetic? 2012-05-28T22:00:00Z He reminds us that the word “quark” was plucked, by the American physicist Murray Gell-Mann, from a seemingly meaningless word in a nonsensical phrase in “Finnegans Wake”: “Three quarks for Muster Mark!” Review: ‘Seven Brief Lessons on Physics’ Is Long on Knowledge 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z If you had told me I’d marry a physicist ten years my senior, I would have laughed. Abortion, a love story 2012-08-25T01:00:00Z An abstract puppet representing the physicist Stephen Hawking marvels over the universe. A Puppet Theater Response to Ionesco in ‘The Chairs’ 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z Van Norden and Rickaby embody the synergy that made the two physicists such a formidable team — Bohrs the imaginative visionary, Heisenberg the practical engineer — with Purl serving as both nurturing peacemaker and ironic commentator. Piecing together a mysterious wartime meeting in Rubicon's 'Copenhagen' 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z What if you want to be a nuclear physicist?’ They Have No Reservations (About Each Other) 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z When speaking to lay audiences, the American physicist Michio Kaku, uses a musical metaphor to explain string theory, which argues that vibrating strings are the basis of all matter in the universe. Tom Service on the sound the universe makes 2012-06-24T19:00:07Z He takes us back to Cambridge, where a daydreaming physicist meets a voluble biologist: Watson bumps into Crick. What Does It Mean to Be a Living Thing? 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z The play, with a title in reference to physicist Werner Heisenberg’s “uncertainty principle,” follows its own uncertain trajectory. An overnight sensation after 45 years in the biz: Denis Arndt, Mary-Louise Parker's co-star in 'Heisenberg' 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z His admiration for Star Trek’s Captain Picard is well known, but he was more influenced by physicist Gerard O’Neill, who foresaw space stations orbiting Earth to house humans as life on Earth becomes untenable. Billionaires in space: The launch of a dream or just out-of-this-world ego? 2021-07-18T04:00:00Z Using actors reading from historical records, Dr. Greene will be recreating the debates and arguments that ensued when physicists first encountered these puzzles. The World Science Festival Arrives in New York 2012-05-24T22:01:03Z Klein is a physicist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory that sits high on the hills overlooking the University of California's Berkeley campus and beyond to San Francisco Bay. The hunt for neutrinos in the Antarctic 2011-01-23T00:05:49Z It packs so much story into so little space that physicists will quail. Review: ‘Rags Parkland’ Plays the Interplanetary Homesick Blues 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z His most explicit reference to gender relations comes in the form of an extended riff about his new girlfriend, an unnamed and decidedly apolitical Danish physicist. Aziz Ansari’s New Standup Tour Is a Cry Against Extreme Wokeness 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z The novels tell the tragic story of Bobby and Alicia Western, siblings who are haunted by their physicist father’s role in the development of the atom bomb, and by their romantic longing for each other. In His New Books, Cormac McCarthy Gets Real 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z The French physicist and chemist Georges Claude developed the first neon tube in 1912, presenting it at the Paris World Fair. In Transit Blog: Seeing Neon, in All Its Brilliance, in Paris Exhibition 2012-02-22T12:29:06Z But when a physicist goes into the laboratory and performs an experiment, there is a definite outcome. What Does Quantum Physics Actually Tell Us About the World? 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z They are both energetic, kindhearted and intelligent, none of which prevents them from getting into much more trouble than they — or Sal’s physicist father — could have imagined. KidsPost Summer Book Club: ‘Sal & Gabi Break the Universe’ 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z Much of the background is explained by David Kaplan, a physicist and producer of the film. ‘Particle Fever’: Scientific endeavor is no small matter 2014-03-13T20:15:13Z The bride’s father, a theoretical physicist, is the emeritus Howard A. Prior Professor of Molecular Biology at Princeton. Jessica Hopfield, James Cleary 2019-12-29T05:00:00Z The physicist’s voice will also be sent into space by the European Space Agency. Stephen Hawking's voice to be beamed into space at final send-off 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z The exhibit "Forbidden Art" at the Sakharov Museum, a human rights center named after celebrated dissident physicist Andrei Sakharov, featured several paintings with images of Jesus Christ. Moscow curators face 3 years in prison 2010-07-07T12:28:00Z "Every discovery made with a cyclotron opened new vistas for physicists to explore; solving every new riddle demanded machines of even greater power." The man who invented 'Big Science,' Ernest Lawrence 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z A physicist with a passion for flying, one November day he was piloting a twin-engine plane from Texas to his home in Virginia, and was never seen alive again. Review | A decade ago, her brother disappeared. In a new novel, she turns her loss into art. 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z Gianotti is the physicist in charge of the experiment at the Large Hadron Collider where this unveiling was made. Ignorance by Stuart Firestein; It's Not Rocket Science by Ben Miller – review 2012-07-19T10:00:04Z The band consider the idea for a moment, before recalling that, at the behest of Martin, they had asked the physicist Professor Brian Cox to be on the album cover, but he was too busy. Love, Belle and Sebastian-style: Laura Barton interviews the indie heroes 2010-09-30T21:45:00Z The cake, from a recipe by Edith Warner, the Los Alamos teahouse owner who served the physicists during the Manhattan Project, was rather uninspiring. Dance Review: After Science Meets Art, Everyone Gets Some Cake 2011-03-29T21:47:54Z Joan Stanley is a young, naive physicist who is part of Britain’s race to build a nuclear bomb. Crime fiction: Richard Jury’s return; an unsuspected spy 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z The Story Collider is a nonprofit group founded by two physicists who wanted to amplify personal stories that “spark emotional connections to science,” a mission encapsulated by its podcast. 7 Podcasts About the Wonders of Science 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z Frank is one of the leading physicists at Los Alamos heading a small team of young scientists trying to come up with a better way to produce plutonium. ‘Manh(a)ttan,’ Atomic Bomb Drama, on WGN 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z In The Theory of Everything, Redmayne plays famous physicist Hawking while Jones plays his first wife, Jane Wilde, on whose book the screenplay is based. British stars up for SAG awards 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z He was mathematician, physicist, engineer, philosopher, musician and social and political activist, and he had a highly developed visual artistic sense. Peter Forbes: rereading Einstein's collected papers 2013-06-21T09:00:02Z Woetzel attempted to preface their performance by showing a garbled black-and-white clip of Balanchine and Stravinsky discussing time signatures, but technical difficulties prompted him to ask if there was “a physicist in the house.” ‘DEMO’ at Kennedy Center celebrates artist collaboration 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z It is time to face reality, California Institute of Technology theoretical physicist Sean Carroll says: There is just no such thing as God, or ghosts, or human souls that reside outside of the body. “There is just no such thing as God”: A physicist searches for meaning in the natural world 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Their project quickly drew comparisons to a famous 1996 hoax in which the physicist Alan Sokal got a paper mixing postmodern philosophy with the theory of quantum gravity into a prestigious cultural studies journal. Hoaxers Slip Breastaurants and Dog-Park Sex Into Journals 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z The physicist and cosmologist is known for many important theories including those on black holes and the birth of our universe. Creationist Ray Comfort attacks Stephen Hawking: “The Bible says he’s a fool” 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z My dad, a mathematical physicist, a man with an active mind, but one of few words, was a gentle guide, letting me think through things on my own. The Myth and Magic of Generating New Ideas 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z As Smolin shows, Einstein was not being whimsical here; the view that the passing of time is an illusion is now the orthodoxy among theoretical physicists. Time Reborn by Lee Smolin – review 2013-06-06T06:30:01Z It also evokes the view among some physicists that the structures of spider webs hold clues to the origins of the universe, further evidence of the interdisciplinary usefulness of his pieces. Art Review: Tomás Saraceno’s ‘Cloud City,’ on the Met’s Roof 2012-05-25T23:00:40Z The greatest physicists in the world were assembled at Los Alamos, and their egos were immense, but they were lavish in their praise of Oppie's personal contribution: "He was very close to being indispensable." Inside the Centre: The Life of J Robert Oppenheimer by Ray Monk – review 2012-11-16T10:06:01Z As with Higashino's earlier novel, The Devotion of Suspect X, the plot revolves around the unravelling of an apparently watertight alibi by Tokyo detective Kusanagi and his sometime consultant, physicist Yukawa. Laura Wilson's crime fiction roundup – reviews 2013-03-22T12:00:02Z In his introduction, Logan says that the pairings are connected by “theme or subject, linked by the ‘spooky action at a distance’ quantum physicists adore.” Poetry’s Hanging Judge Tries On a Detective Hat 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z Other best picture nominees were "Selma," a slice of Martin Luther King Jr.'s civil rights work, and "The Theory of Everything," a portrait of the marriage of physicist Stephen Hawking. Offbeat films 'Birdman,' 'Budapest Hotel' capture Oscar's eye 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z And Cern's physicists are keen to tell us it is the biggest, most important experiment on Earth. Humans – the real threat to life on Earth 2013-06-29T23:05:50Z The British physicist, now 71, was diagnosed with the condition in 1962 at the age of 21 and given just two years to live by doctors. Eddie Redmayne set to play Stephen Hawking in biopic 2013-06-13T10:16:37Z If being logical and rational were all that mattered, we wouldn’t need actual physicists. What Role Do Emotions Play in the Way Our Brains Work? 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z Such “steady states of a non-equilibrium system”, as physicists call them, are legion. Multiplier effects 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Here the best-selling physicist takes on our deepest mysteries: consciousness, creativity and the end of time. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z Icarus at the Edge of Time is the brainchild of the New York physicist Brian Greene, who has written a children's book of the same name. Of the spheres 2010-07-02T23:05:00Z Hawking: watch the world exclusive trailer of the film about the celebrated scientist - video Hawking is the new documentary about the celebrated physicist Stephen Hawking, author of A Brief History of Time. Hawking: world exclusive trailer 2013-07-01T15:09:00Z He brings off the set pieces, such as the Trinity test, but he also explores Oppenheimer the physicist with a thoroughness some readers may find arduous. Inside the Centre: The Life of J Robert Oppenheimer by Ray Monk – review 2012-12-16T00:05:05Z That book, billed as “the first full-scale biography” of Oppenheimer, the theoretical physicist, gave Mr. Monk good reason to worry. Books of The Times: ‘Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center,’ by Ray Monk 2013-05-27T21:46:27Z He’s now 72 and one of the foremost physicists alive — a professor at the University of Cambridge, an investigator of black holes, and the author of the bestselling book, A Brief History of Time. 12 Quotes That Perfectly Sum Up Stephen Hawking’s Life Philosophy 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z His overall concept, showing Faust as a physicist disgusted by the nuclear destruction of Hiroshima, and returning to his own youth at the time of the first world war, works well enough. Faust 2010-09-20T21:00:00Z Dr. Hawking, the physicist, leads ordinary folks through extraordinary experiments in molecular biology and, in the season finale at 10, helps them pinpoint our place in the cosmos. What’s on TV Wednesday 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z Well, says Kelly Herbst, a physicist and astronomy curator at the Virginia Living Museum in Newport News, it’s a little complicated. What are gravitational waves? Ripples across the universe. 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z “For curators, climate scientists and atmospheric physicists, I think, it’s a huge new field for research,” he said. Observatory: On Canvas, Clues About Air Pollution 2014-03-31T18:04:34Z To understand why this unexceptional, common sense assertion is regarded as revolutionary, one must, to some extent at least, understand how the world looks to modern physicists. Time Reborn by Lee Smolin – review 2013-06-06T06:30:01Z He lauded the flex performers for their brilliance, likening them to “the first generation of nuclear physicists” but attached more importance to their humility and vulnerability. Street Dancers Tackle a Ballet Project and the Armory Stage 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z Although these are harder to evaluate, physicists at the Crocker Nuclear Laboratory have concluded through ink analysis that “with high probability, Bach was also responsible for the underlinings and marginal marks.” Bach Was Far More Religious Than You Might Think 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z For much of the 20th century, when quantum physicists were making giant leaps in solid-state and high-energy physics, few of them bothered much about foundations. What Does Quantum Physics Actually Tell Us About the World? 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z Earlier this week, theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking reiterated his major fears that artificial intelligence will bring about the decline of humanity in a speech at London’s Zeitgeist 2015 conference. Stephen Hawking is still terrified of artificial intelligence 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z OAKLAND, Calif. — Growing up in Beijing as the daughter of a physicist, the writer Yiyun Li seemed destined for a career in science. Yiyun Li’s ‘Kinder Than Solitude’ Echoes a Beijing Childhood 2014-02-24T22:58:48Z As the German theoretical physicist Albert Einstein famously said, “Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.” "1917" has one major flaw - it's irresponsibly nationalistic 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z It’s a variant of the same argument I railed against last week– that science is an unnatural and recent development– and I don’t like it any better from a Nobel-winning physicist. Recommended Science Books For Non-Scientists 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z The physicists’ intention, they claimed, was to create a balance of power with the United States overseen by scientists rather than by governments. Jerrold Schechter, Who Procured Khrushchev’s Memoirs, Dies at 90 2023-02-18T05:00:00Z I had always assumed the origins of the AGA stove were uniquely British, but this stalwart appliance was actually created about a century ago by blind Swedish physicist Gustaf Dalén, a Nobel Laureate. The legendary allure of Britain's AGA stove 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z This, perhaps, is akin to physicists discovering the God particle and deciding not to tell us – on account of the God particle actually being a murderous old bigot. The Birth of a Nation: a gripping masterpiece … and a stain on history 2013-07-29T14:31:08Z Split-second timing, once the exclusive domain of physicists and technicians, was now available to all, and there was no better symbol of the seismic shift from the mechanical to the electronic world. Still ticking: The improbable survival of the luxury watch business | Simon Garfield 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z Most of the lots are what you might expect from renowned physicists and biologists: scientific papers, friendly correspondences and portraits. Stephen Hawking Auction: Bid on an Invitation to a Party for Time Travelers 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z This takes the family to Norway, where they discover that the therapy is to be administered by a troupe of radical physicist puppeteers. Reif Larsen's 'I Am Radar' transmits narrative magic 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z Here, University of Southampton physicist Dr Helen Czerski bigs up the humble bubble, demonstrating the little air-filled blighter's importance in matters as diverse as maintaining our oceans and making champagne taste absolutely delicious. Catch-up TV guide: from The Village to Youngers 2013-04-13T05:00:04Z Here in Santa Fe, the costumes are contemporary street clothes, with the youthful physicists looking like engineers at a Silicon Valley start-up; just a handful of dancers thrust and wriggle to Emily Johnson’s choreography. Review: ‘Doctor Atomic’ Brings the Bomb Home to New Mexico 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z Landau worked with pioneering quantum physicists such as Niels Bohr, had a hand in the Soviet atomic weapons programme, and won a Nobel prize in 1962. Inside Dau, the 'Stalinist Truman Show': 'I had absolute freedom – until the KGB grabbed me' 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z In the field of science, there was a knighthood for physicist Thomas Kibble, whose work contributed to the discovery of the Higgs boson - the so-called “God particle.” Angelina Jolie honored by Queen Elizabeth II 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z Forty years ago, when much of this science was new, the physicist Freeman Dyson complained that some of his colleagues felt it was “disreputable” to study our universe’s destiny. This Is How It All Ends 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z His Heisenberg pseudonym was borrowed from the physicist whose uncertainty principle is popularly understood to express the idea that the presence of an observer changes the nature of what is observed. Cross Cuts: How Walter White Found His Inner Sociopath 2013-07-24T14:48:26Z Type designers have all the attractions of superheroes or particle physicists. Edinburgh international book festival: writers' picks 2011-08-12T21:55:15Z In 1944, the physicist Erwin Schrödinger spoke about these ideas in a lecture in Dublin, and eventually distilled his radical thoughts in a book, “What Is Life?” What Does It Mean to Be a Living Thing? 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z But designing such a garden is complicated — so complicated that Ginsberg partnered with a string-theory physicist in Poland, Przemek Witaszczyk, to create an algorithm that would help her figure out what to plant. At the Serpentine, a Show of Nature’s Healing Power 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z Giuseppe and Jürgen, an engineer and a physicist who apply their science knowledge to their baking skills and yield genius, are the uncles everyone wishes they could invite to holiday dinner. "Great British Baking Show" was a showstopper, redeemed this season by fantastic contestants 2021-11-27T05:00:00Z Old Coast hand Michio Kaku, the theoretical physicist, will be his first guest, and Ross Mitchell, the old Coast announcer, will do Bell’s intro and bumpers. Art Bell, Radio’s Most Popular Weirdo, Returns 2013-09-16T20:42:50Z The way I found was to turn her into a physicist. The Dark Energy of a Theoretical Physicist 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z Hawking, the much-honored theoretical physicist, is almost completely paralyzed due to the effects of a motor neuron disease related to ALS. Stephen Hawking displays great comic timing with John Oliver 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z Mr. Parsons won the Emmy for best actor in a comedy both this year and in 2010 for his portrayal of Sheldon Cooper, a theoretical physicist with myriad social anxieties. ArtsBeat Blog: Rabbit, Runs: 'Harvey,' With Jim Parsons, Sets Broadway Opening Date 2011-11-29T16:00:26Z Gamow was a colourful Russian-born physicist who went to America in the early 1930s. Listen up, Marco Rubio!: Science lessons for the tea party 2012-11-25T19:00:00Z In fact, for two decades after it was put forward in 1948, physicists hardly concerned themselves with the origins of the universe. Listen up, Marco Rubio!: Science lessons for the tea party 2012-11-25T19:00:00Z For physicists, the smallest particles hold the greatest secrets of the workings of the universe. 'Steel Hammer' bangs out a spectacularly inventive social message at UCLA's Royce Hall 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z They know you cannot pin him down any more than quantum physicists can pin down the location of an electron. 'Steel Hammer' bangs out a spectacularly inventive social message at UCLA's Royce Hall 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z Many physicists doubt the find, especially because its results conflict with the null findings of other detectors. Study: Dark matter near Earth peaks every March 2014-01-08T13:15:00Z Like his parents, future theoretical physicist Maxwell Moreau has a wandering soul, keeps one eye on the sky. 7 must-read novels to transport you in February 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z Gilder provides a creative rendering of the newer material with a series of portraits based on physicists' published writings, unpublished correspondence and interviews. David Kaiser's top 10 books about quantum theory 2012-09-26T12:02:55Z Albert received two doctorates in physics, and he enjoyed a long career as a research physicist, eventually settling in the United States. My House in Cairo 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z Junger said that his father, a theoretical physicist, opened his mind to science and the idea that the physical and human worlds "can be understood and should be understood." Sebastian Junger reflects on friendship, war and peace 2011-06-09T22:27:00Z "It was amazing, a completely different experience," says physicist Pauline Gagnon. Dancing in the Cern library – let's get physical 2012-07-16T18:31:00Z Thinkers no less great than the physicist Stephen Hawking have warned of the latter possibility. Why Aliens Are So Important to 'Star Trek' 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z Indeed, what is billed as the world's largest philosophy festival is as much frequented by physicists and scientists as by philosophers. Editorial 2012-06-04T20:30:01Z This look at many of the New Yorkers who played noteworthy roles in the war weaves in songwriters, bureaucrats, physicists who worked on the atom bomb and politicos, including, of course, Franklin Roosevelt. New in Paperback: ‘The Source of Self-Regard’ and ‘Horizon’ 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z The dawn of quantum mechanics revolutionised physicists’ understanding of the very small, but the theory’s conclusions were so counterintuitive that Einstein was never able to reconcile himself with them. The uncanny physics of empty space 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z Add to that list Redmayne as Hawking, arguably the world’s most beloved theoretical physicist and best-known person with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig’s disease. Actor Eddie Redmayne explodes into Oscar contention with ‘The Theory of Everything’ He studied drama at Manchester University before training at The London Academy of Dramatic Art, and first received acclaim for his portrayal of theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking in the 2004 BBC drama Hawking. Cumberbatch to receive film honour 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z Redmayne and Jones co-starred in “The Theory of Everything,” for which Redmayne won an Oscar for his portrayal of physicist Stephen Hawking. Amazon's 'The Aeronauts' premieres in Toronto amid concerns about... 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z String theory is not accepted by all physicists. Our godless brains: Emerging science reveals mind-blowing alternatives to a higher power 2014-04-26T20:00:00Z While this might be a chore for some physicists, Randall clearly delights in it. The Dark Energy of a Theoretical Physicist 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z But to the physicists who had staked their reputations on this moment, that kazoo was about as celestial as it got. Review: ‘Black Hole Blues’ Recounts the Quest to Find the Cosmic Kazoo 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z Such scientism is rightly undermined by theoretical physicist Lee Smolin in Time Reborn, which shows that the scientific view of time is up for grabs more than ever before. Time Reborn by Lee Smolin; Farewell to Reality by Jim Baggott – review 2013-06-10T08:00:01Z In the late 1950s, Fred led a group of anti-big bang physicists who finally showed how the heavier elements originate in stars. "The Big Bang Theory" and real science, from Leonard's wedding vows to the "Time Machine" prop 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z It also offered fans of the physicist known for his electronic voice synthesizer a chance to buy some of his possessions. Stephen Hawking's thesis and wheelchair sell for $1 million 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z A self-described “lifelong space nerd,” Weir grew up in the Bay Area, where his father worked as a particle physicist. Andy Weir’s New Space Odyssey 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z Most of Audible’s theatrical enterprises are solo efforts, but to tell the story of an episode from the life of the physicist and chemist Marie Curie, it takes two. 13 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z Act II presents Hoffmann’s tale about the wondrous mechanical doll Olympia, the invention of Spalanzani, an eccentric physicist, who presents the doll as his daughter. Music Review: San Francisco Offers Stravinsky and Offenbach 2013-06-24T21:37:07Z Together with his father, a physicist and mathematician, Penrose went on to design a staircase that simultaneously loops up and down. Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe by Roger Penrose ? review 2010-10-15T23:14:00Z My Tony vote, however, would go to Ruth Wilson, nominated for her portrayal of a Cambridge University theoretical physicist who receives some very bad medical news in Nick Payne's "Constellations." Tony Awards 2015: Yet another British invasion of America 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z Brown’s play imagines an encounter between President Truman and physicist Albert Einstein, as Truman was deliberating over the atomic-bomb attack on Japan that ended World War II. What’s opening, what’s ending on Seattle stages soon 2013-09-13T14:16:08Z “We’re colliding the knowledge that dancers possess with the knowledge that physicists create.” Reviews: Colliding Particles, a Grim Duet and Channeling Martha Graham 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z But if you think the many-worlds idea is easily dismissed, plenty of physicists will beg to differ. What Does Quantum Physics Actually Tell Us About the World? 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z This collection derives from a series of radio interviews with leading physicists. David Kaiser's top 10 books about quantum theory 2012-09-26T12:02:55Z I am on the phone with Nobel laureate Arthur B. McDonald, one of the most renowned physicists in the world. Perspective | The physics of ‘On Top of Spaghetti’ has bedeviled him for years. So he asked experts. 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z In introducing Hawking, friend and fellow physicist James B. Hartle told the audience that the public's image of the nearly paralyzed Hawking as a lone figure trapped by physical limitations is false. Stephen Hawking honored at NYC science, arts gala 2010-06-03T01:15:00Z Banks is a wonderful character for Adams, who naturally projects sweetness and resilience; she’s bolder than her physicist partner, as well as the military blowhards directing the operations at all twelve sites. Watching “Arrival” After the Election 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z For Wide Open School Margaret Wertheim will lead three workshops on the history of Western scientific thinking about space from Descartes to string theory, asking how do mathematicians and physicists conceive of space? Making space: where art meets physics 2012-06-13T17:07:50Z The physicists soon found that the mass of an atom consists mostly of the protons and neutrons in its nucleus. "The Big Bang Theory" and real science, from Leonard's wedding vows to the "Time Machine" prop 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z But then the author goes on to say that the great physicist was addressing his letter not to scientists or philosophers, but to a bereft family. Benedict Cumberbatch Meets Albert Einstein in Carlo Rovelli’s New Audiobook 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z In 1989, a self-proclaimed physicist named Bob Lazar made news after telling a Las Vegas TV station that he had been involved with a government program at Area 51. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Nico, 1988’ and ‘Blockers’ 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z She then relays an extended anecdote about the genius physicist Richard Feynman and the death of his young wife in 1945. Maria Popova Weaves Together Stories of Human Ingenuity 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z Although the word “scientist” was not coined until 1833, many amateurs of means and leisure like Llewelyn — chemists, physicists, astronomers — contributed to the advancement of science in the early 19th century. Daguerreotypes Spur Book on John Dillwyn Llewelyn 2014-02-06T15:00:01Z Polluted skies result in redder sunsets, and artists captured this redness on the canvas, said Andreas Kazantzidis, an atmospheric physicist at the University of Patras in Greece who was involved in the research. Observatory: On Canvas, Clues About Air Pollution 2014-03-31T18:04:34Z TV physicist Brian Cox and the visual effects team behind the film Gravity will tell the story of the universe using cutting-edge augmented reality technology in a live show next year. Brian Cox creates pioneering 3D show 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z Q. Do most physicists and biologists report having too little sex? Style Invitational Week 1387: Movie clips 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z Instead, her most indelible scenes are as Oppenheimer's sex object or in death, a way to humanize the physicist. That "Oppenheimer" sex scene speaks to a larger problem with Christopher Nolan's storytelling 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z British film The Theory of Everything tells the story of the romance between physicist Stephen Hawking and his first wife Jane, and how his developing illness impacted on their relationship. In pictures: Bafta-nominated films 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z Germany became a hub for intellectualism, nurturing physicists like Einstein and the critical theorists of the Frankfurt School. Bad times make great art. Worlds of light and shadow: The reproduction of liberalism in Weimar Germany 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z Advertisement Advertisement The narrator, a theoretical physicist, is fretful, introverted, a paragon of rationality; his wife, Nora, is exuberant, ethereal, a dervish of chaos. Review: In Paolo Giordano’s ‘Like Family,’ the Nanny Departs and Cracks Emerge 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z At its peak, the club claimed 60 members, many of whom were still working as mathematicians, physicists, stockbrokers and the like. This checkers club is competing against the Internet and gentrification. Can it stay alive? 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z Most eminent physicists during the 1920s agreed that accounting for the spectral lines emitted by an atom was a pressing problem deserving inquiry. Science doesn’t know everything 2013-06-02T18:00:00Z Luminaries from the fields of physics, opera, poetry, theater, music and dance gathered to pay tribute to British physicist Stephen Hawking on Wednesday, with performances and speeches at a gala in his honor. Stephen Hawking honored at NYC science, arts gala 2010-06-03T01:15:00Z The world famous physicist Professor Stephen Hawking got the red carpet treatment on Tuesday at the premiere of a film about his life. Eddie Redmayne: 'Fear galvanizes me' 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z But the strange new rash of vanishings draws Zeiger’s mind back decades earlier to a physicist who was suspected of mastering teleportation. Review | ‘The Standardization of Demoralization Procedures’ is a story that John le Carré might have written for ‘The Twilight Zone’ 2020-08-02T04:00:00Z In his latest novel, “Solar,” Mr. McEwan’s protagonist — a fat, middle-aged Nobel Prize-winning physicist named Michael Beard — joins this gallery of distasteful antiheroes. Books of The Times: Ian McEwan?s ?Solar? Features a Boorish Physicist 2010-03-29T21:45:00Z This is believed to be a reference to the physics paradox Schrödinger's Cat, a thought experiment created by physicist Erwin Schrödinger. 'Rick and Morty:' All the Easter Eggs You Missed 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z He’s not even taken seriously by other real estate developers, who aren’t exactly theoretical physicists. Bill Maher and Fran Lebowitz: When Comedy Cuts Deep 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z It’s the brainchild of Samuel Peralta, a semiretired physicist and author in Canada with a love of the arts and sciences. A Time Capsule of Human Creativity, Stored in the Sky 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z One of the scriptwriters was a physicist, and he helped me build the world that Ikenna would inhabit. Netflix's existential "Shine Your Eyes" searches for a man who "inhabits the world of fiction" 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z But it is possible to get the gist of what a physicist means when they speak of a beautiful theory without the hard work. The beauty of the Higgs boson 2012-08-04T23:05:33Z Davies is a physicist, and is more worried about the first step than the second. The Eerie Silence by Paul Davies | Book review 2010-03-28T00:15:00Z “This is the original stuff,” said Andrew Westphal, a physicist at the University of California at Berkeley’s Space Sciences Laboratory and lead author of a new report in the journal Science. NASA’s space dust may be from another solar system An American physicist, David Bohm, devised a radical alternative at midcentury, visualizing “pilot waves” that guide every particle, an attempt to eliminate the wave-particle duality. What Does Quantum Physics Actually Tell Us About the World? 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z In this digital twist on the Astro Cat book series by the quantum device physicist Dominic Walliman, players explore outer space through fun facts, animation and quizzes. Travel Apps and Games for Children on the Go 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z A comment made by Scott at a recent junket about the ongoing travails of quantum physicists perhaps offers a frustrating clue. Can you solve the Prometheus puzzle? 2012-06-13T15:44:05Z After the experimental vindication of Relativity in 1919, science itself had become a battleground, with some German physicists, led by Philipp Lenard, rejecting Relativity in favour of "sound German spirit". Peter Forbes: rereading Einstein's collected papers 2013-06-21T09:00:02Z I just hate it when physicists write about biology. Our godless brains: Emerging science reveals mind-blowing alternatives to a higher power 2014-04-26T20:00:00Z It’s a phrase physicists use, not laymen, and she doesn’t stop to illuminate it. Review: ‘Black Hole Blues’ Recounts the Quest to Find the Cosmic Kazoo 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z In the days since, the retired physicist said he’s been inundated with phone calls and emails from the U.S., Lonely widower flooded with thousands of messages following plea for friendship 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z Ms. Coates continues her collaboration with the particle physicist Sarah Demers in “Incarnations,” a series of études exploring the meeting of dance and science. Dance in NYC This Week 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z There are physicists and philosophers who would correct me. Marilynne Robinson: Can science solve life's mysteries? 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z She’s approaching the possible Final Days in desperation, hoping to find — and most likely use — the physicists’ Departure Machine before it’s too late. ‘The Leftovers’ Season 3, Episode 6: The End Is Near 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z This two-hour documentary looks back at the development, detonation and aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, featuring the perspectives of leaders, physicists, soldiers and survivors who witnessed its catastrophic destruction. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Connected’ and the SpaceX Landing 2020-08-02T04:00:00Z Although physicists are indeed tenacious in their attempts to rescue theories they admire, the tendency to modify a theory fades to the degree that the alterations become artificial or cumbersome, and therefore "inelegant." Book Excerpt: Stephen Hawking's 'The Grand Design' 2010-09-15T18:45:00Z Projected text explained some of the physicist Niels Bohr’s epochal discoveries about the fixed orbits of electrons, and then Cheng came onstage and collapsed. Review: Reveling in Live Dance at Japan Society 2022-01-16T05:00:00Z But I'm also unhappy with the way the physicist Lawrence Krauss has tried to answer the ultimate "why" question in his book "A Universe from Nothing." Q. & A.: Jim Holt on Why the World Exists 2012-07-18T14:09:41Z Sometimes I think physicists get too enamored with math. Our godless brains: Emerging science reveals mind-blowing alternatives to a higher power 2014-04-26T20:00:00Z Norton Townshend Dodge was born on June 15, 1927, in Oklahoma City; his father, Homer Levi Dodge, a physicist, was a dean of the graduate school at the University of Oklahoma in Norman. Norton Dodge, 84, Economics Professor and Art Collector, Dies 2011-11-12T06:23:51Z Pierce, a physicist who grew up in Texas, was radicalized in the 1960s, and he joined the American Nazi Party. How ‘The Turner Diaries’ Inspires White Supremacists 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z The life of celebrated physicist Stephen Hawking is told in The Theory of Everything, based on the memoir by his wife Jane. Toronto Film Festival 2014: British films set to screen 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z Galileo gave an empirical basis to the strange idea proposed by Copernicus – just as, four centuries later, the LHC experiments have given an empirical basis to the strange idea of Higgs and his fellow physicists. Higgs boson: the human urge to visualise the particle is irresistible 2012-07-06T13:00:02Z The pilots, which included an interview with a leading quantum physicist and academics debating the ethics of WikiLeaks, suggest an inspired mix of Question Time, Game For A Laugh and Think Of A Number. Channel 4's 10 O'Clock Live: where satire becomes serious, and politicians can keep their credibility 2011-01-17T07:00:05Z I don't mean time in the sense that, say, physicists speak of it: the fourth dimension, the independent variable, the quantity that compresses when you approach the speed of light. Book Excerpt: Joshua Foer's 'Moonwalking with Einstein' 2011-03-13T05:45:00Z Mr. Kaufmann is scheduled to take the title role here as — in Des McAnuff’s production, shared with the English National Opera — an aging nuclear physicist in the aftermath of Hiroshima. The New Season: Tchaikovsky, Dress Codes, And 3-D Opera 2011-09-16T19:50:18Z As The New York Times reported this year, physicists and metrologists at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures have been redefining the measurement of the unit of time known as the second. Punctuality Is Having a Moment 2022-06-06T04:00:00Z "I enjoy being told off about that by physicists – that's a science fiction writer's proper place." M John Harrison: a life in writing 2012-07-20T21:55:12Z I recently read a book called The Trouble With Physics, by physicist Lee Smolin. The exciting absence of certainty 2011-01-20T17:52:41Z By then, Ms. Hancock’s mother, Maria Berenguer Hancock, was long estranged from her biological father, a nuclear physicist who was last known to be living in Germany. The Long Road to Recovery, and Then the Altar 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z A prominent physicist, he was friends with Albert Einstein. Colorful Stories for Children, With the Darkest History as Backdrop 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z No. As a theoretical physicist, I don't need much in the way of logistical support. Steven Weinberg: 'I wanted to be on the in – privy to all the secrets of physics' 2013-03-03T00:05:05Z “But after Einstein came along, the physicist had to go back, hat in hand, and ask, ‘What was that you were saying about four dimensions, again?’” Is Physics on the Wrong Track? And Other Letters to the Editor 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z The new book is called “The Grand Design,” and is written with Leonard Mlodinow, a physicist at the California Institute of Technology. New Stephen Hawking Book Is Coming in a Finite Amount of Time 2010-06-25T16:31:00Z In 2001, he quit his physicist day job working on lasers and semiconductors to focus solely on origami and hasn’t looked back. Art by the Numbers 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z There’s more potential in a coda scene in which the Manhattan Project physicists share a bottle of red and mull the moral complexities of their legacy. ‘Atomic,’ a Musical About the Making of the Bomb 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z Before beginning his studies at Columbia, Dr. Stern consulted the physicist Albert Einstein, a family acquaintance, who advised him to study medicine instead of history. Fritz Stern, refugee and leading historian of Germany, dies at 90 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z The physicist says that he’s not talking about the world. Review: Woody Allen’s ‘Irrational Man’ Explores Life’s Randomness 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z Two of Clay's "customers" are Tyndall, the name of a famous 19th-century physicist, and Lapin, a skittery woman who lives in a redoubt high on a San Francisco hill. 'Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore': down the rabbit hole to magical technology 2012-10-28T14:01:04Z In a forthcoming interview set to air on the BBC, theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking disclosed that he would consider aid in dying, as keeping “someone alive against their wishes is the ultimate indignity.” Stephen Hawking: “I would consider assisted suicide” in certain circumstances 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z The scenario: A young literature student and brilliant physicist marry and raise a family after he is diagnosed with ALS and given two years to live. From page to soundstage: Award-contending films based on books 2015-01-17T05:00:00Z Fifteen years after the discovery of holography by the physicist Dennis Gabor in 1947 actual holograms were made possible with the development of laser technology in 1962. Art Review: Holography in ‘Pictures From the Moon’ at New Museum 2012-08-24T05:10:05Z There he guided a new generation of physicists and cosmologists in directions that built on his earlier and ongoing work. Revisiting the Unusual Celebrity of Stephen Hawking 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z It didn’t help that many physicists thought the project was too quixotic to deserve funding. Review: ‘Black Hole Blues’ Recounts the Quest to Find the Cosmic Kazoo 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z An ethnic enclave, say, or hedge funders living in Greenwich, or the population of Cell Block E,/ or physicists in Los Alamos. Charles Yu Loves Reading With His Children. Don’t Tell Them. 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z One-way is cheaper, according to the entrepreneur, physicist and physician masterminding the Mars One project. Would you leave your family behind to be the first human to set foot on Mars? 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z "I wouldn't care if he was a gardener or plumber or physicist, he wouldn't be in second place in our household." Patti Smith: punk poet queen 2013-05-25T08:00:00Z She has arrived uninvited to visit Hazel and her husband, Robin, the other two physicists, now retired. Review: In ‘The Children,’ the Waters Rise and a Reckoning Comes Due 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z The physicist’s ashes were buried last year; an abbey spokesman said that burials of people, such as Hawking, who are not connected to the abbey are highly unusual. Centuries of history come to life on a verger tour of Westminster Abbey 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z As the eminent physicist Enrico Fermi once put it, "Where is everybody?" The Eerie Silence by Paul Davies | Book review 2010-03-28T00:15:00Z For his piece, Kaino pored over various theoretical models for wormholes, which he turned into a sculptural work with some assistance from physicist and origami master Robert Lang. Object Lesson: A space-time wormhole by Glenn Kaino at Honor Fraser 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z Mason joked about why the physicist returned to perform on the new release. Nick Mason shares insight on Pink Floyd legacy 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z But according to one author, someone else predicted the mass of the Higgs boson particle years before physicists identified it: Homer Simpson. Apparently 'The Simpsons' Discovered the Higgs Boson Particle Before Everyone Else 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z The point, we are told a little more explicitly than you might expect, lies in Marianne’s work as a theoretical physicist. Cold Weather, Hot Shows: 'Honeymoon in Vegas' and 'Constellations' 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z Graphic Books Best Sellers: A Justice League of Scientists In all my years of reading comics, I never thought that one of my favorite characters would be the real-life physicist Richard P. Feynman. ArtsBeat: Graphic Books Best Sellers: A Justice League of Scientists 2012-09-28T17:30:17Z Consider some of the things that particle physicists believe. Is computing speed set to make a quantum leap? 2013-05-18T21:00:03Z Although Mr. Somerstein sold a few photographs to the news media and collectors — he ultimately became a physicist — none were exhibited until a 2010 civil rights exhibition at the San Francisco Art Exchange. 54 Miles And 5 Cameras 2015-01-17T05:00:00Z “I liked the way their work looked from that perspective,” recounted the physicist at Moscow State University. Dronestagram contest winners and the art of the drone-based selfie 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z Possibly like a physicist friend who, after being congratulated by a sculptor on “really being an artist,” said: “Thank you, but I’m happy being a scientist.” Design: Can Anybody Be a Designer? 2011-10-02T12:45:08Z The stage is like a petri dish in which the audience observes the variables unfolding between a beekeeper named Roland and a theoretical physicist named Marianne. Boy meets girl with endless possibilities in brainy ‘Constellations’ 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z And its central premise, that physicists are murderers, simply becomes more and more baldly stated. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Seeing Patterns in a Nuclear Cloud 2012-06-19T17:57:24Z The rest of our list is a little eclectic, in a good way — a debut novel about Hawaii, a physicist’s argument for empirical science, an anthology of feminist manifestos. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z But the world of Los Alamos isn’t, and neither are legendary physicists like Robert Oppenheimer and Niels Bohr, who are both secondary characters in the first season. Ahmed’s clock in Los Alamos: “Manhattan” shows America’s long history of alienating its most brilliant minds 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z Here, his path crossed with that of Russ Targ, a physicist who took a keen interest in studying whether extrasensory perception was possible. Best of 2018: Aliens at the dinner table 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z This black hole is the central menace in “Icarus at the Edge of Time,” a new musical work by based on a story by Brian Greene, the physicist and festival co-founder. At World Science Festival, Cosmos and Culture Converge 2010-05-30T21:16:00Z Or Eddie Redmayne, also winning for drama, mirroring the profound difficulties of the neuromuscular disease that attacked theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking in "The Theory of Everything," breaking everything but his mind and will. Golden Globes 2015: Sweet wins for audacious filmaking 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z Physicists, and the widows of physicists, were still angry for the casual neglect Oppenheimer had shown to his family. Behind ‘Oppenheimer,’ a Prizewinning Biography 25 Years in the Making 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z Call the exchange, and it will put you in touch with Sean Carroll, a physicist at the California Institute of Technology. Hollywood teams up with scientists to make sci-fi more believable 2012-06-09T04:32:03Z More difficult to understand is the book’s failure to mention the work of any female physicists in its pages. The uncanny physics of empty space 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z Daddy cool: Bekirovic says her romantic image of science goes back to her dad: a trained physicist and backyard inventor. Artist of the week 94: Sem? Bekirovic 2010-07-02T14:42:00Z Deceased artists, celebrities and rumpled physicists can generate substantial revenue for their heirs through merchandising and endorsement deals. From Icon to Lifestyle, the Marketing of Bruce Lee 2009-12-12T08:51:00Z This method of photographing the invisible was discovered by two physicists in the same year, 1896; both won Nobel Prizes. Review: Japanese Photographers Reflect on the Fukushima Catastrophe 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z Back in the 1940s and 1950s, physicists made the same mistake as the Barenaked Ladies and tried to explain the cosmic presence of all the chemical elements from the big bang theory alone. "The Big Bang Theory" and real science, from Leonard's wedding vows to the "Time Machine" prop 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z Garland, though, disagrees with the renowned theoretical physicist. Two men, one robot, many questions 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z If a movie isn’t trying to get the physics right at all, no one bothers to ask physicists about it. Chris Hadfield meets Randall Munroe: ‘Are we alone in the universe?' 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z Also on display are scientific projects by a quantum physicist and a geneticist, and an anger-management workshop, courtesy of an Australian artist, that you can sign up for. Art Review: Documenta 13 in Kassel, Germany 2012-06-14T21:44:01Z The play revolves around an ambiguous relationship between a beekeeper and a physicist. Jake Gyllenhaal following sister Maggie to Broadway 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z “If you put a UX designer, a physicist, a biologist and a micro-engineer all together in a room, the tension between their ideas creates really cool things.” L’Oréal’s Technology Incubator: Creating the Future of Beauty 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z The book’s official narrator, who is nameless, was born into money and entitlement: he is the grandson of a former Pakistani Ambassador to the United States, and the son of an Oxford physicist. James Wood: Zia Haider Rahman’s Dazzling “In the Light of What We Know” 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z Unlike other atomic isotopes, this one — developed by a neighborhood nuclear physicist — absorbs energy, doubling in size every 12 hours. Alchemy Amok in ‘Gold’ and Its Offspring, ‘The Magnetic Monster’ 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z On the drive from Manhattan to the physicist’s home in Princeton, she was handed a 35 millimeter camera and was informed she would be the “stills lady.” From Einstein to Couture, This 96-Year-Old Captured It All 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z Others, like physicist Jeff Gore, head of the advocacy group Citizens to Retire the Penny, are simply annoyed that we carry around pocketfuls of low-value coins, calling it “a big, horrible waste of time.” The penny may be worthless, but let’s keep it anyway 2017-09-02T04:00:00Z I am pretty sure physicists would be more likely to say something about untestable hypotheses, but Dr. Alexander is determined to cast mainstream scientists as villains. Dr. Eben Alexander’s so-called after-life 2012-11-26T16:00:00Z It follows a more limited 2010 tour, all much more than was originally planned for the group, named by Yorke - whose father was a nuclear physicist - after a 1953 speech by President Dwight Eisenhower. Thom Yorke readies tour with Atoms For Peace 2013-05-31T12:27:07Z The physicist Enrico Fermi and others likened the furiously rising cloud in the New Mexico desert to a mushroom, and that became the shape now inextricably associated with nuclear explosions. How the Mushroom Cloud Boomed and Bloomed Across American Pop Culture 2023-07-31T04:00:00Z The small town of Waterloo, Ontario, which is home to the Perimeter Institute, funded by the founder of BlackBerry, currently houses the largest collection of theoretical physicists in the world. 20 predictions for the next 25 years 2011-01-02T00:05:22Z Yet the subject still manages to fascinate - and occasionally befuddle - physicists and nonspecialists alike. David Kaiser's top 10 books about quantum theory 2012-09-26T12:02:55Z He combines his raffish erudition with accounts of traveling to tap the minds of cosmologists, theologians, particle physicists, philosophers, mystics and others. Books of The Times: ‘Why Does the World Exist?’ by Jim Holt 2012-08-02T18:37:46Z A good friend of mine is a world-class physicist, Leonard Mlodinow. "Silly is healthy": "Animaniacs" star on laughing through throat cancer & finding a whole new fandom 2021-04-03T04:00:00Z But in the 19th and 20th centuries, physicists and mathematicians started to think beyond Euclid and his regular universe. Beno?t B Mandelbrot: the man who made geometry an art 2010-10-19T12:12:00Z The boys’ parents, a physicist and a lawyer, are suspected enemies of the military government that has just seized power in Argentina. Newly Released Books 2011-05-18T22:35:53Z When I visited several years ago, a psychic was taking readings as was a physicist — the genesis for the cult-like Séance & Science Brigade in my Southern Reach novels. Jeff VanderMeer on the beauty and weirdness of Florida 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z Lipska and her family members — her daughter is a physician; her son, a neuroscientist; her husband, a mathematician and computer software engineer; her sister, a physicist working in radiation oncology — researched every possible treatment avenue. She made a career out of studying the brain. Then hers veered off course. 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z PALMA, Majorca — A provocative theory in vogue among physicists and philosophers suggests that we humans are not experiencing, and have not ever experienced, reality. The Reality Behind ‘Below Deck’ 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z Film critics are touting British actor Eddie Redmayne as a favourite to win an Oscar nest year for his portrayal of the British physicist Stephen Hawking. Early Oscar buzz around Eddie Redmayne 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z His father was a physicist, his mother a secretary for the International Labor Organization. Christopher Hogwood, Early-Music Devotee, Dies at 73 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z In 1988, along with 10 million others, I spent several days trying to decipher, decode and demystify "A Brief History of Time" by professor Stephen Hawking, the world-renowned physicist. A brief history of the making of 'Everything' 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z Lectures include “Quantum Whispers,” a talk with the physicist Lev Vaidman on the possibility of teleportation, and a lecture from the British Labour Party politician Chi Onwurah on “Democracy and Digitalization.” Major Lazer in Nuremberg, Germany, and Ai Weiwei in Athens: Global Arts Guide 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z Actually proving that it existed gave physicists confidence that the standard model, the theory underpinning their discipline, was sound. Colliders, Sundials and Wonder: When Science Is Your Destination 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z In the documentary, Manhattan Project physicists recount wandering the wrecked Japanese city. ‘Oppenheimer’ Fans Are Rediscovering a 40-Year-Old Documentary 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z By 9, Zohra was convinced: She wanted to be a professional musician — and a ballerina, a mathematician and a physicist. Far From Kabul, Building a New Life, With Music and Hope 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z One guide offers itself to those of us who are not physicists: modern art. Want to imagine what the Higgs boson might look like? Embrace modern art 2011-07-27T15:31:36Z The evening also featured the premiere of "Icarus at the Edge of Time," an orchestral work composed by Philip Glass and based on the children's book by celebrity physicist and festival co-founder Brian Greene. Stephen Hawking honored at NYC science, arts gala 2010-06-03T01:15:00Z Gamow was an accomplished theoretical physicist who helped invent the big-bang model of the universe. David Kaiser's top 10 books about quantum theory 2012-09-26T12:02:55Z Sakharov was a Soviet nuclear physicist, and was one of the developers of the Soviet atomic bomb. Eight areligious scientists who changed the world 2012-08-21T13:40:00Z With its talk of wormholes, black holes, the fifth dimension and the puzzles of space and time, "Interstellar's" script makes full use of the services of one of its executive producers, theoretical physicist Kip Thorne. 'Interstellar' explores outer and inner spaces 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z A biologist and physicist describes how our bodily systems decline over time and examines the emerging therapies attempting to slow that process. New in Paperback: ‘Of Women and Salt’ and ‘Drug Use for Grown-Ups’ 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z Carl Haber, a physicist at the lab, said he admired Mr. Parry’s methodical documentation of South Slavic traditions. The Arcane Charms of Mangle Boards 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z There’s Arthurian legend and a sound loop of the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer’s famous quote of the Mahabharata: “Now I am become death.” ‘Remnant’ Review: A Digital Fog of War, and Its Aftermath 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z He is driven by competition with an arrogant rival physicist and also a haunting deadline: In those days, scientists felt they were working on a weapon that would end the war more quickly. ‘Manh(a)ttan,’ Atomic Bomb Drama, on WGN 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z The double white flower was first planted in the New World in the garden of its namesake, Dr. Alexander Garden, a Scottish physicist and naturalist who moved to Charleston in 1752. Iconic Charleston Plants 2010-02-24T15:31:00Z One section dealt with the body language of physicists attempting to explain the Higgs boson particle. Reviews: Colliding Particles, a Grim Duet and Channeling Martha Graham 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z "I am a writer, a doctor, a nuclear physicist and a theoretical philosopher," Dodd explains in the film's official trailer. The Master trailer: will Paul Thomas Anderson's film inspire devotion? 2012-07-20T14:10:48Z It was an early experiment in artificial intelligence, funded by the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, or DARPA—the technological research arm of the Pentagon—and conceived by the Canadian applied physicist Charles Rosen. Two Paths Toward Our Robot Future 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z The idea that her younger self is visible, but never completely, also speaks to her eclectic heritage as the daughter of an African-American physicist and a Jewish emigrant from Morocco. Review: ‘Narcissister Organ Player’ (Partly) Unveils an Artist 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z The "M" is for his husband, physicist Monte Lapka, the man he married last year after 12 years of dating. Cheyenne Jackson strips down in 'The Performers' 2012-11-12T12:27:08Z I have been lucky enough to play an astounding range of interesting and challenging character: astronaut, spy, madam, physicist, biologist, author, detective. Olivia Williams on Hollywood inequality: 'Nobody, until now, gave a damn' 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z As part of Spill Festival, Kings of England will be documenting the life of eccentric physicist Paul Dirac. Stage chemistry: the marriage of science and theatre is going strong 2011-03-09T14:13:20Z Oliver Lodge, distinguished physicist and frequent lecturer at the Royal Institution – no crackpot outfit, but the very seat of British scientific research – thought so. Technology and the novel, from Blake to Ballard 2010-07-23T23:06:00Z But other physicists took this view to an extreme. Has Physics Lost Its Way? 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z Fred Bortz is a physicist and author of 19 books for young readers including "Mind Tools: The Science of Artificial Intelligence." Sherry Turkle's 'Alone Together': lonely in a world with 1,000 virtual distractions 2011-01-20T22:21:04Z Photograph: Tristram Kenton You don't need to be a theoretical physicist to go to the opera but it helps. I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky; Icarus at the Edge of Time; Don Giovanni 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z We were a diverse group, among us a theoretical physicist, an online marketer and a pop culture blog editor, ages 29 to 34. Explorer: Outer Banks Perfect for Learning to Surf 2010-08-06T15:19:00Z The most recent high-profile boycott success was the refusal of physicist Stephen Hawking to attend a conference in Jerusalem in June. Mira Nair boycotts Haifa film festival 2013-07-20T23:06:06Z For a long time, the world looked upon quantum physicists with a kind of bemused affection. Is computing speed set to make a quantum leap? 2013-05-18T21:00:03Z Enraptured by it, he decides to track down Maxwell — a fairly well-known physicist in hiding — and deliver the lost book of Adana Moreau in person. Review | Bibliophiles love the mystery of a missing manuscript. ‘The Lost Book of Adana Moreau’ is just what they’re looking for. 2020-02-02T05:00:00Z With great trepidation, as a biologist suggesting to physicists how to study this matter, I would advise focusing on the wave function aspects of QM. Our godless brains: Emerging science reveals mind-blowing alternatives to a higher power 2014-04-26T20:00:00Z Social scientists might take note of the fact that physicists regularly request and receive large amounts of money to study a feature of the material universe. Science doesn’t know everything 2013-06-02T18:00:00Z She narrates the final letter a mother, doomed to be murdered shortly by Nazis, sends to her physicist son. The Saturday interview: Janet Suzman 2011-08-19T23:10:48Z Eddie Redmayne has won the Screen Actors Guild Award for male actor in a leading role for his transformative performance as theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking in the biographical drama "The Theory of Everything." SAG Awards 2015: Eddie Redmayne wins lead actor honor for 'Theory' 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z Earlier this month, theoretical physicist and prominent atheist Lawrence Krauss accepted the American Humanist Association’s “Humanist of the Year” award. Physicist Lawrence Krauss argues science (and society) outgrew religion 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z The Icelandic composer didn't get to meet Stephen Hawking when scoring the film about the youthful romance between the renowned physicist and his eventual wife, Jane Wilde. Hans Zimmer's 'Interstellar' music and other scores vie for Oscar 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z "This man is the greatest physicist of our time," the pope says to the inquisitor. Galileo reaches for the stars 2012-09-26T15:02:28Z A vivid image of dislocation isn’t unexpected in a work about the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, often called “the father of the atomic bomb.” The Life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Imagined Through His Collisions With Others 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z Diane, a physicist, says about her husband: “Max doesn’t stop watching. He becomes a consumer who had no intention of buying something. One hundred commercials in the next three or four hours.” Don DeLillo, an Old Hand at Paranoia and Dread, Meets Us Where We Are 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z But then he created interdisciplinary teams, something unheard of at the time, so that physicists worked with chemists who worked with engineers. 'The Idea Factory': Bell Labs, the fountainhead of innovation 2012-03-22T20:07:04Z "I'm no physicist, but I think quantum physics sort of supports that," Gordon-Levitt said. Toronto film fest opens with time-travel action 2012-09-06T15:35:08Z Jones, 33, is best known for her Oscar-nominated role as the wife of physicist Stephen Hawking in "The Theory of Everything" and as Tom Hanks' sidekick in the 2016 adventure "Inferno." A Minute With: Felicity Jones finding the Force for 'Rogue One' 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z She's very, very clever and wants to be a particle physicist. Carol Vorderman: My family values 2011-08-19T23:05:51Z But, alas, there were no theoretical physicists in the house. 'Interstellar' makes some noise at Hollywood coming-out party 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z A startling and illustrative distillation of centuries of science by an Italian theoretical physicist. Shelf life 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Mr Close, a physicist himself, also explains the science that made him so valuable. Splitting atoms, sharing secrets 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z There are accepted protocols to certify that a physicist’s research has broken new ground and has advanced understanding. Critic's Notebook: Classical Music?s ?Genius? Grant Recipients Pause to Reflect 2011-10-03T15:54:59Z "Nostalgia" states his case so beautifully that even skeptical physicists will be thoroughly convinced. 'Nostalgia for the Light': Looking at the cosmos ? and Chile's haunted past 2011-03-31T20:36:09Z The Niels Bohr Library & Archives at the American Institute of Physics tweeted a photograph of the physicist Tsung-Dao Lee cutting into a backward cake decorated with a mirror-written “Happy Birthday.” The Record Keepers’ Rave 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z But there were “boy” comics in the house: her brother, who’s a physicist, was a fan. Seven Secrets of The Amazing Spider-Man 2012-07-03T12:00:34Z Goddard, a physicist and pioneer in the field of rocketry, was at the time sponsored by the Smithsonian. Facts change, people don’t 2012-09-25T15:42:00Z Mr. Ballin’s mural, “The Apotheosis of Power,” features the English physicist William Gilbert, a pioneer in the research of magnetism and electrical attraction, and Benjamin Franklin. Art Deco Los Angeles 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z Awards contenders Wild, starring Reece Witherspoon, and The Theory of Everything, about physicist Stephen Hawking, both took spots in the top 10. Muted opening weekend for epic Moses 2014-12-14T05:00:00Z The physicist was well placed to share the uranium and reactor blueprints that mysteriously ended up in Soviet hands. Splitting atoms, sharing secrets 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z “It allows us to explore literally the dark side of the universe,” says Arizona State University theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss, who is not involved in LIGO. Black holes are colliding: Scientists confirm more ripples in spacetime 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z There were physicists and mathematicians, a cluster of coders, an engineer, a neuroscience major. Hacking the Humanities 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z It is superficially a mystery, with a mismatched pair, the reserved physicist Wang Miao and the Rabelaisian cop Shi Qiang, investigating a rash of suicides among high-level scientists. ‘Three-Body’ Review: A Chinese Series Beats Netflix to the Screen 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z Even particle physicists have to watch their mass. Brian Cox: Physics is better than rock'n'roll 2011-03-24T08:01:00Z Just last week, in Europhysics Letters, two physicists published an analysis of Beowulf, The Iliad, the Harry Potter books and The Lord of the Rings. Can an equation find out whether a subject is suitable for risk-free levity? 2012-07-28T23:06:06Z World famous physicist Professor Stephen Hawking is to attend the premiere of a new film about his life. Hawking film premieres in London 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z He profiles and retro-diagnoses likely autists from history, such as Henry Cavendish, who discovered hydrogen, and the quantum physicist Paul Dirac. The man who wants us to embrace autism 2015-08-29T04:00:00Z One of the most fundamental in all of physics, it simply says that the amount of disorder, something that physicists label "entropy", increases with the passage of time. Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe by Roger Penrose ? review 2010-10-15T23:14:00Z What did you gain from working with the theoretical physicist Kip Thorne, who was an executive producer on this movie? Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain on ‘Interstellar’ 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z The physicist Ernest Rutherford once wrote that it is only a highbrow in the worst sense of the word who doesn't appreciate the real swells. Literary giants at play 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z What would you say was your greatest achievement as a physicist? and what would you say the most detrimental thing the LHC has found out? Brian Cox digested: A summary of Thursday's live Q&A session 2011-03-25T17:58:00Z Mr. Braithwaite was a World War II veteran and trained as a physicist at the University of Cambridge. E.R. Braithwaite, author of ‘To Sir, With Love,’ dies at 104 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z Her father was a physicist at the University of Bern in Switzerland, her mother a computer specialist at the Universal Postal Union in Bern. Irina Manta, Carlos Farini 2018-05-06T04:00:00Z His difficulties with his editors were over the civilian chapters—and, above all, passages relating to the novel’s central figure, the Jewish nuclear physicist Viktor Shtrum. How the Soviet Literary Establishment Censored Vasily Grossman 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z Like the physicists in the film, he is a pioneer, hungry for discovery, worrying at the limits. Walter Murch: searching for the sound of the God particle 2013-06-20T16:00:02Z Particle physicists capture antimatter; assassins steal it; the pope wants it to reach God. Dan Brown still can't write, but he deserves some respect 2013-05-16T11:45:00Z Richard Cooper, a retired physicist from Los Alamos National Laboratory, where the bomb was invented, said he felt “mixed emotions” at the obelisk. The Day the Sun Rose Twice: A Tour of Atomic New Mexico 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z His father, a research physicist, and his mother, a music teacher, still live in the house they bought in 1956. A life in writing: Jonathan Coe 2010-05-28T23:06:00Z As a physicist, you say it is ultimately with reference to the physical laws of our universe. In this global crisis, there’s one consolation: the beauty of the universe 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z And Jim Parsons landed his fourth award for the best comedy actor as a socially awkward physicist in CBS’s “The Big Bang Theory.” Explaining Status Quo at Emmy Awards 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z Such is almost but not quite the case with “The Theory of Everything,” a sweet, restrained and overstretched film about the unusual relationship between physicist Stephen Hawking and his former wife, Jane. “The Theory of Everything”: This sepia-toned Oscar bait could have been so much more powerful 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z Characters on the show often sing it to the character Sheldon Cooper, a neurotic physicist, when he's ill or upset. Lawsuit says 'The Big Bang Theory' stole 'Soft Kitty' song from late poet 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z Actual physicists, however, were a bit less celebratory. ArtsBeat: A Supernova of Bad Sex? Manil Suri Wins Uncoveted Award 2013-12-04T19:45:31Z The Great Filter Way back, about a century ago, physicist Enrico Fermi and his colleagues, taking a lunchbreak from the Manhattan Project, found themselves discussing life in the cosmos. How will the world end? 2012-06-17T19:00:00Z Theoretical physicist and amateur violinist Albert Einstein once played with the group, astonishingly enough. Juilliard String Quartet balances tradition with change 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z As a teenage art student, she fell in love with a charismatic young physicist, Ernst Rie. Antiques: Classic Vehicle Auctions and a Lucie Rie Biography 2012-07-26T21:17:22Z Among the lively cast of characters Green meets in his wide-ranging meditation on sound and human memory is the Princeton physicist Edgar Choueiri, who experiments with recordings that mimic three-dimensional sound. ‘32 Sounds,’ a Film Performed Live, Probes the Power of Listening 2022-03-27T04:00:00Z Only, please, nobody tell Pixar that Aristotle added a fifth element, ether, which physicists interpret as dark matter or the void. ‘Elemental’ Review: Sparks Fly 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Ryan, who held a bachelor’s degree in physics and a master’s in atmospheric science, had previously worked as a cloud physicist. Willard Scott, TV’s Clown Prince of Sun and Showers, Is Dead at 87 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z There's talk of the theory of gravity and a "unified field theory": basically, the physicists' vision of a grand design for the universe. A physicist's view on The Physicists 2012-06-17T18:30:01Z Her father, Surain Sidhu, an Indian immigrant, was a physicist who directed the X-ray laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh and later worked on top secret research at the Argonne National Laboratory. Marion Meade, Biographer of Dorothy Parker, Dies at 88 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z If you are a particle physicist or professional potter, you may be an "expert". If you want my opinion, what we need are experts, not windbags 2013-02-24T00:05:40Z Mr. Blackwood also made films about subjects who were not artists, like the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Hans Bethe and the diplomat George F. Kennan, and several about Germany and German Americans. Michael Blackwood, Who Captured 20th-Century Artists on Film, Dies at 88 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z Rationality, reason and logic have been heralded as the foundation of a clear mind, but Mlodinow, a physicist, argues that taking our feelings into account can help us make better decisions. 16 New Books Coming in January 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z Research took her to a physicist and experts in cybersecurity and electromagnetism. Nic Stone’s ‘Clean Getaway’ explores a mixed-race family and a travel adventure 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z Finally, Doerr is reading physicist and mathematician Brian Greene’s “Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe” — another book best taken in small doses. Great reads for the armchair traveler 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z Stephen Hawking's Universe8pm, Channel 4 Debut of a new series by the esteemed physicist. Spitfire Women 2010-09-18T05:45:00Z “There is a very, very good chance that our understanding of gravity will not be the same in 500 years,” says theoretical physicist Brian Greene. Moby Dick and gravity: how our understanding of truth evolves 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z As a Nobel prize-winning physicist of course, also as the key component of the investigating commission into the Challenger space shuttle disaster. The Suspicions of Mr Whicher; The Fantastic Mr Feynman – TV review 2013-05-13T06:00:25Z Until, that is, along came British physicist Fred Hoyle. "The Big Bang Theory" and real science, from Leonard's wedding vows to the "Time Machine" prop 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z She speaks to biologists, engineers, physicists and others whose projects — sometimes bizarre — offer hope. 10 books to read in February 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z “He’s a physicist,” Hoang said, as if being a scientist is code for clueless. A romance novelist struggled with Asperger’s. Now she writes about love on the spectrum. 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z The new film, titled Interstellar, is said to be based on scientific theories developed by Kip Thorne, a theoretical physicist, gravitational physicist and astrophysicist at Caltech, the California Institute of Technology. Christopher Nolan's next film mission to go Interstellar 2013-01-10T10:40:48Z McCarthy, 89, is famously private, but he’s hardly a recluse: He spends much of his time speaking to philosophers and physicists at the Santa Fe Institute, a research center where he serves as a trustee. In His New Books, Cormac McCarthy Gets Real 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z "We see through the eyes of theory," writes the physicist David Deutsch, quoting Karl Popper. Caspar Henderson's top 10 natural histories 2012-10-10T10:33:31Z The lead actor prize for Eddie Redmayne as physicist Stephen Hawking in "The Theory of Everything" was also an expected turn. At the Oscars, it's the night of the 'Birdman' 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z I wanted to be a theoretical physicist when I was young, until I met math. Why Michael Eric Dyson Would Demote ‘Heart of Darkness’ From the Canon 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z A retired physicist, Dickey invokes the interstellar with “Cephei,” named for a star system. In the galleries: Scenes of nature with allusions to religious art 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z From Archimedes and Leonardo to the physicists of the Manhattan project, Vietnam's electronic battlefield and the computer-controlled drones over Afghanistan, the lineage is well known. Mind Wars by Jonathan D Moreno – review 2012-06-01T21:55:07Z Variety called him the “darling of the eggheads,” and Bob Hope once teased him as “the favorite comedian of nuclear physicists everywhere.” There’s No Dave Chappelle or Hannah Gadsby Without Mort Sahl 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z If its success can be traced to one thing, it's that the cast are so likable, particularly Sheldon, the theoretical physicist from Texas with an IQ of 187. Your next box set: The Big Bang Theory 2012-08-02T15:30:02Z She was a physicist from humble beginnings who went on to be an executive at General Electric, where she faced skepticism, hostility and the loneliness of often being the only woman in the room. My Voice Got Deeper. Suddenly, People Listened. 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z I wish I could go back in time and remind myself to become a physicist instead of a writer. Dancing with the Stars Results Watch: Who Is the New Winner? 2012-11-28T13:30:05Z Often physicists listen with detached bemusement because biologists can’t explain life with mathematics. Our godless brains: Emerging science reveals mind-blowing alternatives to a higher power 2014-04-26T20:00:00Z Fellow physicists proclaim, “It’s brilliant!” or “It’s rubbish!” In ‘The Theory of Everything,’ Stephen Hawking’s Home Life 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z When I was very young and just beginning to get what feminism was about and why it was necessary, I had a boyfriend whose uncle was a nuclear physicist. The problem with “mansplaining” 2012-08-20T16:38:00Z The hosts are Erin Barker, a producer of the podcast, and Ben Lillie, a high-energy particle physicist. Spare Times for Feb. 12-18 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z My crystal ball is cloudy on this point, but I am sure that we physicists will have an exciting time trying to find out. 20 predictions for the next 25 years 2011-01-02T00:05:22Z The German-born Jewish scientist was known not just as a brilliant physicist, but as an advocate for human rights. Albert Einstein was known for speaking out against racism, his travel diaries reveal racist views 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z The trail leads to the New Mexico desert, where a billionaire and a particle physicist are trying to recreate the Big Bang in an underground complex. A Director Is Born With ?The Big Bang? 2011-05-11T22:03:05Z It’s written by a Black physicist who talks about the language of science with respect to the theory of the universe. The Many Layers of Lorna Simpson 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z The limits of math become more troublesome when physicists try to explain the origin of the universe. Our godless brains: Emerging science reveals mind-blowing alternatives to a higher power 2014-04-26T20:00:00Z She writes of her experience of being a grad student through to becoming a physicist. The Many Layers of Lorna Simpson 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z A brilliant mathematician and physicist, Johnson calculated the trajectory, launch windows and emergency backup plans for several U.S. spaceflights and was critical to their success. Top STEM toys are hands-on fun 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z Hulk is the emotional and impulsive alter ego of the withdrawn and reserved physicist Dr. Bruce Banner. Happy Birthday Hulk: Celebrating 50 Years of the Big Green Monster 2012-05-10T10:45:37Z In this futuristic version, adapted from the children’s book of the same title by the physicist Brian Greene, the hero is a 14-year-old boy on a spacecraft who decides to explore a black hole. Spare Times — For Children for May 25-31 2012-05-24T22:25:26Z The biopic focuses on the early career of the famous physicist and his relationship with his first wife Jane, played by Felicity Jones. Redmayne to receive Palm Springs award 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z It’s only sweet, reserved Benedict, an affable update of Mr. Darcy, who knows what he wants: to become a particle physicist and to be with Eva. ‘Invincible Summer’: A book-club friendly novel for the season 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z They were not detached physicists or passive observers. Freedom fighter 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Scientists also differ per discipline: Biologists are less prone to believe in God and the hereafter than physicists. This is your brain on religion: Uncovering the science of belief 2014-01-04T19:00:00Z Patrice, it turns out, has another lover as well: Tom Aldous, a young physicist at the government research center where Beard works. Books of The Times: Ian McEwan?s ?Solar? Features a Boorish Physicist 2010-03-29T21:45:00Z They can seem overlong, and at times in this part of the film it feels as if Nolan is becoming too swept up in the trials that America’s most famous physicist experienced. ‘Oppenheimer’ Review: A Man for Our Time 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z There’s a traditional thing that physicists do when they watch science fiction-y shows, which is roll their eyes at the implausibility. ‘Westworld’ and ‘Devs’ Asked Big Questions. A Physicist Responds. 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z Drawing from real-life accounts of the era, Cleverly develops a surprising subplot concerning the university’s renowned Cavendish Laboratory, which may be harboring nuclear physicists a bit too sympathetic to Stalin. ‘Diana’s Altar’ by Barbara Cleverly beckons fans of P.D. James 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z “It was a one in 10 million years fault sequence,” says Rose, a physicist who helped build the play’s fictional plant on the crumbling east coast of England. Review: In ‘The Children,’ the Waters Rise and a Reckoning Comes Due 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z The curators were convicted for their 2007 exhibit entitled "Forbidden Art" at the Sakharov Museum, a human rights center named after celebrated dissident physicist and Nobel peace prize laureate Andrei Sakharov. Russian curators sentenced but not imprisoned 2010-07-12T14:44:00Z Clearly, even then the quantum physicist harbored literary ambitions. Freeman Dyson’s Life, Through His Letters 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z Only half a century ago, black holes were considered, in the words of Italian physicist Carlo Rovelli, “the barely credible predictions of an esoteric theory.” Perspective | The black hole image is beautiful and profound. It’s also very blurry. 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z Find the identity of dark matter and you illuminate a new path forward to a deeper understanding of the universe — at least, that is what physicists hope. Physics confronts its heart of darkness: Cracks showing in dominant explanation for dark matter 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z As Niels Bohr, a Danish physicist, said: “If quantum physics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.” Circle in a circle 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z The premise of “Oppenheimer,” Christopher Nolan’s biopic, is straightforward: tell the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist known as the “father of the atomic bomb.” Who’s Who in ‘Oppenheimer’: A Guide to the Real People and Events 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z “There were physicists everywhere. Guys whose ties don’t match their suits. Passive nerds. Guys who build bridges.” Michael Lewis Wonders Who’s Really Running the Government 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z "I suspect that win, lose or draw, this will be how I'm remembered, unless I win the Nobel prize for physics, which is not likely because I'm not a physicist." Fair Game: Free agents 2011-03-06T22:30:01Z Lee Smolin is a theoretical physicist, but explains in “an angry email” that for a scientist, his interest in the arts is above-average. What You Can Learn By Reading Lena Dunham’s Email 2013-11-11T10:45:24Z He was born in Chelyabinsk, Russia, but moved to Slavutych, Ukraine, two years later when his father, a physicist, was sent to work on the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. A Pop Star Tried to Reconcile Russia and Ukraine. War Ruined That. 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z The theoretical physicist eventually lent props from his office to the film, including his thesis and a medal he was given by the Queen. 'Theory of Everything': Stephen Hawking's 'rock star entrance' on set 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z Fellow Golden Globe winner, Eddie Redmayne, is a strong contender for best actor for his role as physicist Stephen Hawking in "The Theory of Everything." Offbeat films 'Birdman,' 'Budapest Hotel' capture Oscar's eye 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z One of the greatest physicists of the last century, Paul Dirac, had no use for emotions. What Role Do Emotions Play in the Way Our Brains Work? 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z The largest group of recipients this year were in the sciences, with nine awards going to range of people from a pediatric neurosurgeon to a physicist/astronomer. How to win one of the MacArthur Foundation's 'genius grants' 2012-10-02T15:35:54Z Just before Cox's cab drops me off and he heads to his publisher where he must sign copies of his new book, Cox tells me one of his heroes is physicist Richard Feynman. Brian Cox: Physics is better than rock'n'roll 2011-03-24T08:01:00Z In his new collection of essays and articles, Carlo Rovelli, one of the world’s most renowned physicists, broadens his writing to include questions of politics, justice and how we live now. Searching for What Connects Us, Carlo Rovelli Explores Beyond Physics 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z In 2014, when Jim Parsons won a fourth Emmy for his role as the physicist Dr. Sheldon Cooper on “The Big Bang Theory,” he turned to his boyfriend and seemed to mouth, “Oh, my God.” How “The Big Bang Theory” Normalized Nerd Culture 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z The images were taken by Bob Beck, an award-winning research physicist and inventor who died in 2002 and left a huge archive of photographs and slides in his Hollywood home. Beatles colour photos from 1964 up for auction 2013-01-06T17:43:30Z Mr. Rovelli is a theoretical physicist, one of the founders of loop quantum gravity theory, and he possesses a welcoming prose style. Review: ‘Seven Brief Lessons on Physics’ Is Long on Knowledge 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z Sam, played by Scott Bakula, was an earnest everyman, not to mention a brilliant physicist, and he was trapped in a time-travel loop. Is it better to leave our favorite childhood shows and movies in the past? 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Oddly, it took a physicist to challenge and in time shatter this orthodoxy. The World Until Yesterday by Jared Diamond – review 2013-01-09T10:22:31Z And, as Sheldon and Leonard are physicists who study matter in motion, all potential roads of inquiry lead back to the big bang. "The Big Bang Theory" and real science, from Leonard's wedding vows to the "Time Machine" prop 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z Mr. Feig, a self-proclaimed “hardware geek,” and Mr. Sage consulted a particle physicist from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology about ideas for the pack, which helps contain and capture ghosts. ‘Ghostbusters’: Then and Now 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z The resulting portrait shows the wizened physicist in a spectral blur — a foggy ghostliness caused by the technical imprecision of a novice, but nevertheless possessing the unmistakable aesthetic that defines a Stafford photograph. 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