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Another essay co-authored by Herschbach and Bretislav Friedrich, senior research fellow in the department of chemistry and chemical biology, titled "Space Quantization: Otto Stern's Lucky Star," discusses the saga of the discovery of electron spin and its impact on modern chemistry...
...reacts accordingly. Maybe it is as simple a phenomenon as jealousy of the success of others. Maybe the brief half-life of celebrity is due to our much-maligned disposable MTV culture, which tailors advertisements and events to viewers who are assumed to have the attention span of an electron...
...There have been some amusing examples" of mistakes on the part of the prize-awarding committees, Glashow said. He cited the 1906 and 1937 Nobel prizes in physics which recognized J.J. Thomson for discovering the electron as a particle, and subsequently his son for discovering it as a wave...
...string theory you only have one thing; that's the string. [When it] rotates and vibrates in different ways, it can take on the guise of an electron or a quark or a photon," he says. "Everything, in principle, can come out of the string...
...torn Niger, electron-positron colliders and astral planes helped some of Harvard's most talented thesis writers win Thomas Temple Hoopes Prizes this year...