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Yet, at high altitudes and with the aid of sophisticated computer techniques, which have been developed only recently, the six telescopes will be able to examine the "last unexplained bank of the electromagnetic spectrum," Shapiro said.
What makes the views from IRAS so unusual is that they provide the first look at a hitherto invisible world. Before IRAS, telescopes placed aboard spacecraft gathered either conventional "visible" light, in the range of the human eye, or higher-frequency ultraviolet radiation, X rays and gamma rays. IRAS, by...
The 10 research projects at Harvard are in four different areas, including electronics, electrodynamics, robotics, and electromagnetic theory.
DIED. Felix Bloch, 77, Swiss-born U.S. physicist who shared the 1952 Nobel Prize with American Edward Purcell for the study of nuclear magnetic resonance, a method of measuring the frequencies of signals emitted by atomic nuclei under the influence of radio waves in an electromagnetic field; of a heart...
Einstein spent the last years of his life trying to show that the gravitational and electromagnetic forces were different aspects of the same phenomenon. Although he failed in his attempt at unification, theoretical physicists have now begun to glimpse an underlying oneness in the four basic forces. With their customary...