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...trailed television cables and long locks of campaign photographers scrambling to keep up the pace of the dazzlingly efficient smiler and handshaker. Beginning at 2:47 p.m., the Nuclear Peanut blurred through all levels of the three-story factory like an overheated molecule going into the terminal phases of Brownian motion...
...veneer of tradition and reputation that "Harvard" has from the outside is either forgotten by the end of freshman year or reaches the stature of low farce. Harvard seems to be the Brownian motion of 25,000 very isolated, talented and not infrequently neurotic individuals...
...builds well-wrought wooden sculptures concealing tiny electric motors that twitch in a random, nearly subliminal manner. At first glance, his sculptures seem static; then by degrees the spectator becomes aware that they are gently trembling and jittering with insectile gestures. Like molecules jostling to the ceaseless rhythms of Brownian movement, they express physical uncertainty and ambiguous motion. "Watch a plane in the sky," says Bury. "It barely seems to be moving. The eye is no longer able to trace the action, although it can easily follow a horse galloping along a country road...
Jean Baptiste Perrin has studied the atom all his long life. Born at Lille during the Franco-Prussian War, he became a professor of physical chemistry at the University of Paris in 1910, became an expert on molecular oscillations and the Brownian movement (movement of visible particles in liquids because of impacts from flying molecules). In 1926 he was awarded a Nobel Prize. Today he is president of the French Academy of Sciences. Last week he announced the discovery of naturally occurring ekarhenium-element...
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