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...late 1920s, only three decades after physicists had learned that atoms are built of subatomic particles, when Ernst Ruska first thought to use one such particle -- the electron -- to discern objects too small to see with conventional light microscopes. By 1931 he had built the first working electron microscope. Ruska, now retired from the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in West Berlin, has at long last won the Nobel Prize for his invention, which was cited by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences as "one of the most important of the century." Said Ruska, 79, who learned...
...particle physics research are hoping for a new particle accelerator so that we can explore the energy range of 1 trillion electron volts," said former Higgins Professor of Physics Steven Weinberg. The new accelerator would cost $3 to $4 billion, Weinberg said...
...place on the factory floor but, rather, in the Shaving Research Room. The Research Room is the practical, populist alternative to the cold technology of the Development Room in the New Products Division (also classified as a sensitive area and closed to reporters). No pointy-headed scientists or threatening electron microscopes here, just a humble row of five sinks, hot and cold running water, and a comprehensive assortment of all the shaving products available in the United States today. Through this room between two and three hundred employees of the company, all volunteers, pass to be shaved. They come...
...payoff from the SSC should be even greater. As it is now conceived, the accelerator would generate energies of 40 trillion electron volts, in contrast to the 640 billion electron volts produced by CERN's SPPS accelerator. More impressive still, it would produce collisions 20 times as powerful as the generation of big machines now under construction at CERN, Fermilab and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. Whizzing past each other, the SSC's two opposing beams, consisting of closely packed bunches of about 10 billion protons each, would complete about 3,000 laps a second. In four to six places...
...their frustratingly slow effort to conquer the common cold, medical scientists decades ago learned that the world's most prevalent disorder is usually caused by any of a hundred or so different kinds of viruses. Under an electron microscope, they all look like simple fuzzy balls, but the precise architecture of these so-called rhinoviruses has remained obscure. Last week teams of scientists from Purdue and the University of Wisconsin, Madison, reported in the journal Nature that they had mapped in exquisite atomic detail the structure of a human cold virus called HRV14. Their achievement marked the first time that...